Wildlife for Everyone Foundation expands board with 4 new directors

STATE COLLEGE — The Wildlife for Everyone Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to wildlife conservation in Pennsylvania, recently elected four members to its board of directors. The incoming directors will serve three-year terms. 

Janet D. Nyce, of Elliottsburg, is returning to the board after a two-year hiatus. Nyce joined the board in 2004, serving as its president for three years. She retired from her family’s business, Nyce Crete Co. and Landis Block and Concrete, in 2000.

An avid outdoorswoman and advocate for women and youth participation in the sport of shooting, Nyce has served in numerous leadership roles promoting pro-sportsmen’s positions and has served on multiple advisory councils for hunting, fishing and conservation.

She received the Budweiser Conservation Award in 2005 for development of the Wildlife in a Box program, an outreach initiative designed to inform urban youth in the Philadelphia School District about wildlife.

Nyce also received two national awards from the National Rifle Association and held national and international positions with Safari Club International.

Margaret Brittingham, of Port Matilda, is a professor of wildlife resources in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State University. She teaches ornithology and is a wildlife extension specialist for Pennsylvania.

Brittingham’s research interests focus on avian ecology, human impacts on bird populations and the effects of habitat fragmentation on forest birds. She and her students are currently conducting research on the response of bird communities to shale gas exploration and development.

Brittingham is president of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Wildlife Society and a board member of the Clearwater Conservancy, State College. She has been a member of the Ornithological Technical Committee of  the Pennsylvania Biological Survey since 1994 and chaired the committee from 2009 to 2015.

Cathy Pomanti, of Hummelstown, is a principal in KPMG’s advisory services practice and the office managing principal for KPMG’s Harrisburg office. KPMG is an international firm offering audit, tax and advisory services.

Pomanti has more than 30 years of experience in technology and management consulting. She has a background in IT project delivery and considerable project management experience, including all phases of the development process. Prior to re-joining KPMG in 2010, she was responsible for business and consulting firm Bearing Point’s state and local government and higher education practice in North America.

Pomanti has served on KPMG’s board of directors and Bearing Point’s Executive Leadership Committee.
Michael Harpster, of Tyrone, is director of sales and membership for HomeWaters Club, a private fly fishing club located in Spruce Creek. Harpster is responsible for sales and marketing, including the membership program, non-member offerings, charitable and fundraising programs and all member-related issues. 

Since joining HomeWaters 18 years ago, Harpster has been instrumental in developing programs that have helped more than 30 different nonprofit organizations raise more than $500,000 using the club’s facilities. He created and currently serves as chairman of the Wildlife for Warriors Spruce Creek Classic Fly Fishing Tournament. The tournament benefits the Wildlife for Everyone Foundation and Project Healing Waters, an organization committed to the rehabilitation of disabled active military personnel and veterans through fly fishing.

Prior to his employment at HomeWaters, Harpster held positions in direct sales, was a recruiter and trainer of direct sales staff and owned and operated a factory distributorship.

The vision of the Wildlife for Everyone Foundation is to be the leading advocate for wildlife conservation in Pennsylvania. The foundation was formed in 2004 to provide all wildlife enthusiasts with a way to show their commitment through much-needed financial support for wildlife conservation efforts and education.

Since its inception, the foundation has raised millions of dollars to support projects including wildlife and wetland habitat improvements, creek and lake restorations, the Seedlings for Schools program and student educational opportunities.

For more information, visit www.wildlifeforeveryone.org.