The broad support for communities to plan for serving residents as they age is offered by the youngest generations - Gen Y and Gen X combined - with 68% of these younger residents saying they support planning for serving residents as they age. Source: 2008 Older Dominion Project Residents' Study
About the ODP
Jeffrey S. Cribbs, Sr.
Jeff Cribbs is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, the founding partner of the Older Dominion Partnership, Inc. RMHF is a regional health care foundation with approximately $125 million in assets. RMHF’s mission is to provide financial and intellectual investments in nonprofit health and health care-related organizations serving the residents of Richmond and Central Virginia. The Foundation works in four primary areas: Aging and Alzheimer’s; Women’s and Children’s Health; Nursing and Other Health Education; and Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center – the legacy hospital to Richmond Memorial Hospital, the institution from which the Foundation has its roots. The ODP is the Foundation’s signature initiative in the Aging and Alzheimer’s area of emphasis. The Foundation’s signature initiative in Nursing and Other Health Education is a Nurse Leadership Institute addressing leadership development for nurse managers practicing in health systems, long term care facilities, public health settings, academe, or other professional practice sites. For Women’s and Children’s Health, the Foundation is serving in a leadership role engaging the community in the implementation of a Community Health Services Plan developed by a broad cross section of community leaders in 2007-2008 to address health care needs of the Region’s uninsured.
Cribbs has more than 35 years of leadership experience in government, higher education, philanthropy, business, and civic affairs. Cribbs served in State Government as a policy advisor in the Governor’s Office, on the staff of the State Department of Planning and Budget, the Virginia General Assembly’s House Appropriations Committee, and the State Council of Higher Education. Cribbs was an Associate Professor of Economics and an administrative vice president at Virginia Commonwealth University for more than 20 years. Cribbs also served as President of Jeffrey S. Cribbs and Associates, a consulting firm serving higher education, health care, and philanthropic organizations.
Cribbs civic engagement includes two terms on the Chesterfield County School Board, a founding member of the Richmond Region Math Sciences Center Board, the Chesterfield Public School Foundation Board, the Chesterfield Communities in School Board and the Pace Center for Campus and Community Board at VCU. In addition to the ODP Board, Cribbs currently serves on the Board of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, the Membership and Health Legacy Foundation Committees of the Southeastern Council on Foundations, Co-Chair of the Virginia Consortium of Health Care Foundations, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Health Care Workforce Data Center for the Virginia Department of Health Professions, Virginia Nursing Education Reform Committee, the Long-Range Strategic Planning Committee and Outstanding Faculty Awards Committee for the State Council of Higher Education, and is a member of the Finance and Investment Committee of the Richmond District for the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Cribbs holds a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religious studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu, a Master’s in Commerce (economics and finance) from the University of Richmond, completed post graduate studies in higher education administration and finance at the College of William and Mary, and post graduate studies in institutional investments at Yale University.