Board & Staff

Board of Directors

President JoAnn Bolek

Vice President Mary Seifert

Treasurer Eric Andrzejak

Secretary Bethanie Mansfield

Director Gene Gerard

Director Karen Politowicz

Director John Reardon

Director Rob Wright

Director Sylvia Ashton

Staff

Executive Director Karen L. Myers
kmyers@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Pantry Manager Stephanie Mercier
smercier@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Client Services Manager Carrie Ortiz
cortiz@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Resale Store Manger Pat Kanners
pkanners@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Resale Store Assistant Manager Nancy Mannix
nmannix@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Administrative Assistant Jon McGregor
jmcgregor@opendooroutreachcenter.com

Open Door Outreach Center & Resale Store has 193 volunteer staff members and 6 part time paid staff who ensure we run efficiently and effectively. We are very grateful for their support and could not do this work without them. Our key volunteers commit to a 3 hour shift once a week, usually 10-1 or 1-4.

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Client Stories

Sometimes just the right referral can mean everything to a client.
Staff recall the day a 76-year-old veteran came into the office. He’d moved to the Waterford area from a Southern state, and was having a hard time getting prescriptions filled.
Staff referred him to a local VFW contact that is trained to help Veterans and work with VA benefits. After a few weeks, he came back to Open Door.
“He was ecstatic,” remembered Pam Kozak, client services. “The Veterans Offices had not only helped him with the prescriptions, they found him an apartment, got him a new mattress and given him a new TV.” Open Door continues to help him with food, clothing and houshold items to ease his life.

Food Pantry

Open Door’s Client-Choice Food Pantry provides food and care items on a monthly basis to qualified income men, women, children and seniors struggling to make ends meet.

Client Services

Open Door Outreach Center's primary mission, in the spirit of interfaith charity, is to provide emergency services of food, clothing and referral information to families in need.

Resale Store

This welcoming stand-alone store provides gently used, clean, in-season clothing and shoes to –extremely low income families and individuals at no cost.

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At Open Door we listen, qualify and compassionately serve low income families and seniors.