Bringing Our Community Home, an organization dedicated to ending chronic homelessness in Santa Barbara County, appointed John Buttny as interim executive director.
Buttny previously served as the organization’s project coordinator and brings more than 30 years of community leadership and public service experience to the job. He received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of New Hampshire and attended the graduate philosophy program at the University of Colorado.
“The Governing Board is looking to John’s leadership as we move closer to our goal of eradicating homelessness in Santa Barbara County by 2018,” said Jeanette Duncan, the group’s governing board chair and executive director of People’s Self-Help Housing.
For more on the organization, visit brings bcohome.com.
This article appears in Apr 23-30, 2009.
