South Shore Stars, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive early education and youth programs through a family-support approach and which has served as a resource for working parents on the South Shore since 1970, has recently announced that Denver Gibbs, resident of Braintree, MA, has been named its newest board member.

Stars is led by a Board of Directors that is comprised of individuals from different professions, including corporate executives, lawyers, academics, parents, community leaders and others who have a deep commitment to the early care and education needs of children and their families. In this role, Gibbs will provide invaluable leadership, direction and support in helping to fulfill South Shore Stars’ mission of enhancing the development of children from economically and culturally diverse families through collaboration with parents, schools, and local communities.

Gibbs is the president and CEO of Gibbs Software Solutions (formerly known as Cube Chatter, Inc.), a Massachusetts-based consultancy that specializes in custom business software and strategy for startups and established firms which he founded in 2015. An established entrepreneur with almost 20 years of ownership experience, he started his professional career in 2000 as a salesperson for Candle Business Systems, a reseller for Toshiba and Ricoh copier machines.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Denver to our board,” said Sheri Adlin, executive director of South Shore Stars. “He will add an invaluable perspective, and we appreciate his commitment to our organization, and to this important mission.”

About South Shore Stars

South Shore Stars is a not-for-profit organization that has been a resource for working parents on the South Shore since 1970. The organization’s two interconnected goals are to enable parents to work, and support each child to thrive. Stars’ mission is to provide comprehensive early education and youth programs through a family-support approach. They strive to enhance the development of children from economically and culturally diverse families through collaboration with parents, schools, and local communities.

South Shore Stars has embraced and nurtured thousands of South Shore families and children since their first center-based pre-school childcare center located in Quincy center. Today, they annually serve over 1,200 children and youth age newborn through 18 years in a family child care system, Early Head Start, preschool centers, school age centers, middle school programs, a high school program, and summer camp, throughout the communities of Braintree (family child care system only), Holbrook (Early Head Start and family child care system only), Quincy, Randolph, Weymouth, and Westwood (summer camp) and surrounding cities and towns. Stars’ core goals are to enable parents to work, help each child reach their full development potential, improve academic achievement for students at-risk of academic failure and facilitate positive youth development. Stars recognizes the importance of supporting and partnering with parents for children to be the best versions of themselves.

South Shore Stars’ main office is located at 200 Middle Street, East Weymouth, MA. For more information, please call 781-331-8505 or visit www.southshorestars.org.