What’s the common thread between neighborhood development, international development, curriculum, and green book-keeping? What/who else but Eileen Kraus-Dobratz, our jack-of-all trades and new grandparent, whose mother (in heaven) still wonders what the heck she is up to.
Besides working at evolve, she is Treasurer of Building New Hope, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization that runs schools, a library and a veterinary clinic in Nicaragua, and sells gourmet organic Nicaragua coffee from a worker-owned cooperative. She also is Finance Manager of Friendship Development Associates, a local development organization responsible for gallery-crawl “Unblurred” on Penn Avenue and the new Glass Lofts condominium complex. Co-founder of the former Global Connections Pittsburgh, she has continuing interests in international education and greatly enjoys international visitors.