T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: William Coffey #4700.0722

IDENTIFICATION: [1940 - ]; President and CEO of VOA - Baton Rouge

INTERVIEWER: Tanasha Flintroy

PROJECT: Volunteers of America Series

DATE: 28 March 1995

ABSTRACT: Educational background; employment history; joining VOA; transition of VOA from "military" to corporate structure; Randall "Bud" Snowden as CEO; Christian Outreach Center; transitional housing program; VOA as a church; creation of low-income housing; single room occupancy project; family preservation program; Parker House; VOA's Soviet mission; VOA thrift store; services for mentally retarded; youth volunteer program

Tape # T1049 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 30 minutes

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 17

RESTRICTIONS: Copyright retained by interviewer and her heirs.