Linwood Gehris Rejoins the Sights for Hope Board of Directors

By Sights for Hope Team |
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Former Sights for Hope Board President Linwood Gehris rejoined the organization’s Board of Directors on January 1 as the representative of the Sights for Hope Foundation.

Gehris – who served on board from 2014-2023 and as President from 2017-2021 – will represent the foundation on the Sights for Hope board during the 2025 calendar year. Martin Lang, the foundation’s Board President, had been its representative since 2011.

During his tenure as the Sights for Hope Board President, Gehris led the organization through an executive leadership transition, the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the change of its name to Sights for Hope in 2021. After stepping down from the Sights for Hope board due to term limits, Gehris was elected to the foundation board as of July 2023.

Gehris is a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor with Affiliated Financial Planners, for whom he has worked for 11 years. Prior to becoming a financial planner, Gehris was a Project Manager for Morris Black & Sons, Inc. Gehris is a Past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K. He remains active in several roles with Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K and has served as a Board Member for the Lions of Pennsylvania Foundation.

Sights for Hope’s Board of Directors represents the American people as stewards of the organization. It holds fiduciary responsibility and provides strategic direction to ensure the fulfillment of its mission and vision.

Formally named the Sights for Hope Endowment Foundation and founded in 1980, the foundation is a separate nonprofit organization from Sights for Hope with its own IRS 501(c)(3) status and Board of Directors. Its purpose is to apply investment best practices to promote Sights for Hope’s long-term sustainability. In accordance with its bylaws, it also provides Sights for Hope an annual allocation toward its operating budget.

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