We welcome Maureen M. DiFrancesca as the new Chief Professional Officer of the United Way of the North Shore. Maureen brings to the position more than twenty years of United Way experience, first with Chicago and then as Executive Director or the United Way of Skokie Valley until 2006. Following the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago mergers, Maureen left to pursue a Masters Degree in counseling and, fortunately for us, is now returning to United Way. She assumed her new position effective March 1st, 2008.