|
Committees: Volunteer Services: Grants/AmeriCorps
 Maureen Sullivan-Hartung is an active volunteer in the Naples area where she has resided for the past 26 years. During that time she has served as both board member and volunteer to numerous charitable organizations. Her past volunteer efforts have included the American Red Cross (as a youth leader); Girl Scouts (as a leader); Literacy Volunteers of America (as a tutor) and she recently co-chaired her church’s three-day 50th Anniversary celebration. She has served on the Friends of the Library Board, 1992-1997 and again presently beginning in 2005. She has also served on the Immokalee Child Care Center Board as well as the local NAACP Board. Ms. Sullivan-Hartung has also volunteered over the years in several service organizations that included the Naples Junior Woman’s Club – Publicity Chairman; Zonta Club of Naples – Education Chairman (programs); and the Naples Woman’s Club where she created their first marketing brochure in 2001.
Ms. Sullivan-Hartung is currently involved with the Collier County Coalition against Human Trafficking and serves as both secretary and newsletter editor. She also developed their initial marketing brochure and assists with the organization’s speakers’ bureau. She is a contributing writer to the Naples Press Club’s Web site where she is a founding member of the 10-year-old club. Additionally, she serves as Membership Chair of the local DOVIA (Directors of Volunteers in Agencies) program; and she is once again choreographing the annual seasonal Author Lecture Series with the Friends of the Library for next spring, Jan-April 2008. Due to her personal involvement and many contacts she was recently appointed by the Naples Daily News to a five-member panel to judge nominees for the Jefferson Awards program. This program honors individuals who have voluntarily given of themselves to bettering our local community. She is also serving on a task force committee researching the viability of a faith-based volunteer center in Naples.
Ms. Sullivan-Hartung received the American Association of University Women’s “Women on the Go” Award in 1996 for her previous efforts benefiting the library. And in 1997 she was honored with the “New Member Life Blood Award” by the NAACP board.
In March of 2007, Sullivan-Hartung was selected as one of 10 ladies from over 100 nominations for the annual “Women of Style” award on behalf of her volunteer efforts over the years throughout Naples; sponsored in part by the local Community Foundation.
Ms. Sullivan-Hartung is a successful freelance writer who has published articles in numerous magazines and newspapers state-wide, including n-the magazine of naples; Lee Magazine; Florida Monthly; EcoFlorida; Real Florida; Gulfshore Life; Concierge’s Image; and the Naples Daily News, to name a few. Her published work, on alligators; was also featured as a lesson in a previous statewide FCAT test for high school students.
Ms. Sullivan-Hartung was appointed to the Commission by Governor Jeb Bush on December 15, 2005.
|
