Community Action announces departure of CEO Allison Rumler-Gomez

 

[January 15, 2022] 

“See you all again soon,” will be the parting words from the exiting Community Action Chief Executive. After seven and half years of service, CAPCIL will be turning the page and searching for a new CEO to begin the next chapter. Rumler-Gomez has taken a position for a company corporately located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The opportunity is a remote arrangement that will allow her to continue to locally support the mission of CAPCIL in a volunteer capacity. Her new role as the Business Integrator for Crazy Good Talks will return her to her for-profit business roots. Rumler-Gomez stated, “Leaving Community Action is a little like losing a limb. The work isn’t just something that you do. It is something that becomes a part of you. That’s why it cannot be goodbye. It has to be, see you again soon.”

In 2014 when Alison began the journey, the Agency’s Governing Board was looking for someone to cultivate a new organizational mindset. The Board charged Rumler-Gomez with creating new ways of helping people and changing lives by reevaluating CAPCIL’s poverty solutions. While addressing the immediate and urgent needs like food instability and utility assistance were recognized as vital programs, the vision paired those programs with innovative solutions like the GrowMe coaching program. GrowMe is a coaching approach that helps customers re-route their brain neuropathways through science-based knowledge and activities. Different thinking means different results.

The transition is expected to be smooth. CAPCIL boasts an experienced and capable leadership team. Rumler-Gomez will serve as the Search and Selection Consultant after her departure on January 31st, and the current Chief Operating Officer, Ryne Komnick, will serve as the Interim CEO during the nationwide search process. Information about the upcoming opportunity will be available on the website beginning February 1, 2022. (www.capcil.info)

It is the mission of CAPCIL, in partnership with community stakeholders, to empower low-income persons and other vulnerable populations of all ages, through creation and implementation of poverty-fighting initiatives for those in crisis and those who seek a life of lasting independence.

[Breann Titus
Director of Agency Development
Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois]