Elfenworks Team Member: Marian Brown Sprague
Meet Elfenworks foundation team member Marian Brown Sprague. A graduate of Duke University, Sprague began her nonprofit career with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affiliate, Very Special Arts. Over the next decade, she was instrumental in the creation of two Washington, DC-based NGOs: the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare and the Caring Institute. She has also worked for the Heart of America Foundation and Interplast, the first organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for medically underserved children worldwide.
Sprague brings more than a dozen years of experience in the nonprofit sector to the Elfenworks Foundation team, where her skills and her passion for promoting positive change are being put to good use. In addition to her responsibilities in operations, Marian heads up our awards programs, including our In Harmony With Hope and Elfen Works awards, and is responsible for our annual awards event. This year's event, Hope Takes Flight, is scheduled for October 9, 2008 at the Hiller Aviation Museum ... Ten nine eight (10/09/08) save the date [event details]!
Sprague is an award-winning author whose work has been published in Toddler: Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love, the Mercury News, the Palo Alto Weekly, the Santa Clara Weekly and Who Cares and Caring People magazines. She has also worked as a technical writer and editor at various Silicon Valley companies.
