Sarah Owen, chief executive officer of Community Cooperative Ministries Inc., has announced that Cheryl Haack recently joined the staff of CCMI as director of volunteer services.

In her new role, Haack will be responsible for directing the more than 1,200 volunteers that donate their time annually to CCMI’s programs including the Soup Kitchen, on-site and mobile food pantries, Meals on Wheels, Senior Transportation, the Montessori Preschool of Dunbar, Family and Homeless Services and new weekend backpack program for schoolchildren.

Haack will also work with the many local businesses, community organizations, schools, church and civic groups that partner with CCMI on fundraising and volunteer opportunities throughout the year.

Haack relocated to Southwest Florida from Saginaw, Mich., in 2005. She has over 20 years of progressive leadership experience in the management of human resources and labor relations functions in both public and private sector/manufacturing organizations. She most recently served as director of Human Resources and Labor Relations for Saginaw Township Community Schools in Saginaw, a local school district with 850 employees. Haack earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Saginaw Valley State University and a master’s degree in Labor and industrial relations from Michigan State University. She also holds a juris doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy Law School and is a member of the Michigan Bar Association.

CCMI is the umbrella agency for the Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, Meals on Wheels, Senior Transportation, the Montessori Preschool of Dunbar and Family and Homeless Services. CCMI serves Fort Myers and the greater Lee County area, including Bonita Springs, Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres. The Soup Kitchen serves a noontime meal six days a week to men, women, and children in a traditional soup kitchen setting. In addition, CCMI prepares and delivers nutritious packaged meals and beverages for the homebound hungry, offers a food pantry and mobile food pantries that provide emergency groceries to families in need, serves two nutritious meals a day for the children in their childcare center and oversees a backpack program for local schoolchildren who would otherwise receive little to no food on weekends.

For more information, call (239) 332-7687.