ELLENSBURG, Wash., Sept. 7 -- Central Washington University issued the following news release:

Central Washington University Trustee Erin Black recently took over as the president and CEO of the Yakima Valley Community Foundation (YVCF).

In a recent article in the Yakima Herald-Republic, Black said she is hoping to stress the organization's outreach to nonprofits and other organizations across the Yakima Valley.

"I want to help to be a connector in the work that we're doing," she said in the article published September 1. "We hope to really bring a variety of voices of people who can build solutions for some of the issues we're wanting to deal with in our community, whether they're emergent needs related to some of the devastating fires ...