Michael M. Parks became the third full-time President of The Dayton Foundation in March 2002. As President of The Dayton Foundation, Mr. Parks works to help people and organizations help others in Greater Dayton and beyond. In the past eight years, Mr. Parks has grown philanthropic commitment to our region, elevated the Foundation’s role in fostering community collaborations and leadership initiatives. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Parks served the YMCA for 22 years, most recently as the President/CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dayton. He and his wife, Amy, have been married for 28 years and have four children, ages 15 to 24.
Pastor K. Edwin Bryant began leading the Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church on October 2, 2004. Pastor Bryant can be accredited with raising the spiritual marturity of the congregation, developing numerous ministries, retiring the mortgage on the current facility, providing vision for administrative strategies and being a community service model. As a result of his leadership, Mt. Pisgah has become a congregation which continues to grow and mature at an unprecedented rate. Pastor Bryant is supported in ministry by his wife Dwan and children Kohl, Kaleb, and Kerissa.
