we are excited and privileged to have patrick covington with us today. mmunities. ever since he began his career as it case manager, worker with migrant farm workers, patrick is a recognized expert on non profit sector leadership, bird and volunteerism. prior to joining the corporation he served as the anti 80 foundation as a senior associate foundation focused on issues related to a leadership development and capacity. he served as executive director of the innovation network, and nonprofit devoted to building evaluation capacity of the non-profit sector and as a policy researcher at the urban institute. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome patrick covington. [applause] >> thank you. good morning lead to civil everyone. good morning, everyone. is great to be here. i want to give a special thanks to marguerite kondracke and the powells. this is one of the most important pieces of work that we do. ensuring that every student has the opportunity to finish high-school is critical to this nation's success and critical for us to win the future. we also know th

we are excited and privileged to have patrick covington with us today. ecame the ceo in february of last year but his whole professional life has been devoted to serving others and empowering communities. ever since he began his career as it case manager, worker with migrant farm workers, patrick is a recognized expert on non profit sector leadership, bird and volunteerism. prior to joining the corporation he served as the anti 80 foundation as a senior associate foundation focused on issues related to a leadership development and capacity. he served as executive director of the innovation network, and nonprofit devoted to building evaluation capacity of the non-profit sector and as a policy researcher at the urban institute. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome patrick covington. [applause] >> thank you. good morning lead to civil everyone. good morning, everyone. is great to be here. i want to give a special thanks to marguerite kondracke and the powells. this is one of the most important pieces of work that we do. ensuring that every student has the op