has relocated to Easton, Md. from Silver Spring, Md. to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as Controller, responsible for oversight of all finance, accounting and reporting activities, including capital project and endowment accounting, and supervising accounting staff for the 50-year old non-profit institution.
Parks brings 17 years non-profit accounting experience with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. He has also held positions with SUSTAIN, a USAID-funded project within the National Cooperative Business Association, and the American Petroleum Institute.
Parks will work closely with CBMM Vice President of Finance Jean Brooks and President Kristen Greenaway during a five-year fundraising campaign that will provide a stable foundation for the museum’s future. Goals of the campaign include a new guest orientation center and library, facility and boatyard upgrades, enhanced exhibitions, more on-the-water activities, and an increased endowment.
“Howard is a great addition to our team at a critical time in the museum’s history,” said Greenaway. “His non-profit accounting experience is very important to the museum, and as we move into the museum’s next 50 years, Howard will be instrumental in helping to strengthen the institution as we meet our aspirations.”
Parks is an associate member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, completing accounting coursework at University of Maryland University College in College Park, Md. He earned a BA in English with honors from Western Maryland College in Westminster, Md.
Parks’ volunteer work includes performing as a musician for residents of the Hillhaven Assisted Living Nursing Rehabilitation Center in Adelphi, Md. and mentoring youth through an exchange program in connection with the Bokamosa Youth Centre in Winterveld, South Africa.
Parks first became connected to the Chesapeake Bay dipping his toes into the water at Sandy Point State Park. His fondest memory of the Bay is joining a group of harmonica players on a sailboat, an event dubbed the “Sail and Wail.”
CBMM is the only museum in the world preserving and exploring the history, environment, and people of the entire Chesapeake Bay. For more information, call 410-745-2916 or visit www.cbmm.org.
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