After four years as CEO of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, Beth Folcarelli this week announced her planned departure from the organization.
Her relocation comes as Community Services, a nonprofit that runs an array of services for families, seniors, veterans, domestic violence victims and people suffering from substance use disorder, works on its capital campaign to demolish and rebuild its facilities. The organization hopes to break ground as early as next year.
In an interview Friday, Ms. Folcarelli said she plans to stay with the organization until the transition to new leadership is complete, which she expects to be in December 2024.
“I feel very bonded to our mission, to the community and mostly to our staff and the people we serve,” she told the Gazette. “We’ve got an incredible team that will sustain the organization moving forward, and we’re on the cusp of doing a lot of new and exciting things…. I look forward to doing whatever I can in my remaining months to support that effort.”
Ms. Folcarelli will be relocating to Westchester County, N.Y., where she will resume her consulting work from prior to her start at Community Services in 2020. Her consultancy will be geared toward helping nonprofits realize their missions.
The reason for the move, Ms. Folcarelli said, is an exciting development in her personal life.
“I met somebody pretty special,” she shared.
Community Services’ Board Chair Larkin Stallings was on the selection committee that hired Ms. Folcarelli and he has worked with her for her entire tenure. He credits her with being a force of change for Community Services, from expanding services to leading the push for a new facility.
“When you take a look at what has transpired in her tenure at Community Services [and] the expansion of services, what she’s done an incredible job of is building a bench for us,” he said. “She’s diligent, she works extremely hard.”
The organization has assembled a transition team to handle permanent rehiring and appoint an interim CEO ahead of Ms. Folcarelli’s departure.
Though he said Ms. Folcarelli will be difficult to replace, he is optimistic that Community Services will continue its upward trajectory, thanks in part to her sustained leadership.
“We’re actually really poised well to move forward,” Mr. Stallings said. “She’s leaving us in … the best shape we’ve been in in 46 years.”
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