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Jordan said, "e term significant life challenges is a big
enough umbrella that encompasses all the people we support,
whether children in Pittsfield who need child care or children
in Sierra Leone who need basic education."
For the last 28 years, Seven Hills continued to reinvent
itself, evolving to meet the day's challenges. As new needs
arose, the organization was prepared to shift operations
accordingly. Jordan said, "During my tenure, we've gone
through four or five different iterations of Seven Hills. We
keep going through growth cycles."
Jordan looked to his long-time partner Joseph Tosches,
Executive Vice President and Chief of Operations, to move
through those cycles.
Tosches had decades of experience working with David
Jordan and observing his leadership style. "Taking on big,
hairy, audacious goals, as David liked to call his growth ideas,
were leaps of faith," Tosches said. "But they weren't unrealistic
goals. ey really were meant for us to do two things: serve
the clients in better settings and diversify and financially
stabilize ourselves."
