2024 Golden Heart Award Winner

TREENA REID

For many years, faithfully each month she donates to a myriad of organizations including: St. Jude’s, Susan Koran, St. Joseph’s Indian School, Make A Wish, Veteran’s, Wounded Warriors, SPCA, Southern Poverty Law Center to name a few. She supports the National African American Museum, Edge Hill Fire Department, Abington Police Department and the Philadelphia Chapter of The Tuskegee Airmen. For over 15 years, Treena has been a member of the Kimmel Center and the Walnut Street Theatres.

Anytime she can spend with her son Michael is her cherished time. Beyond work, Treena loves attending the theatre/concerts, museums, reading, listening to audio books, traveling worldwide, collecting, and watching the Hallmark Channel and anything Disney. Favorite quote: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou. Favorite scripture: Psalm 23.

She lives by her faith in God, love of family, and in the belief that every child needs and deserves: a one on one relationship with a caring adult: a safe place to learn and grow: a healthy start and a healthy future; a marketable skill to use upon graduation; a chance to give back to peers and community.

Treena Y. Reid's mission is to make a positive impact on people by offering the necessary tools to help them learn and overcome obstacles so they can better succeed in this ever-changing world, in turn, make a difference for themselves and others in creating societal change.

She has over 30 years of educational and executive experience. She has earned a doctorate in business administration and a master's in education and has administered multi-million-dollar programs for non-profit and profit organizations.

Teaching for 12 years before joining Communities In Schools, Inc., (CISP) now known as Launch of Philadelphia, Inc. in 1994; she has developed multi-funded local and national policies, procedures, programs, curricula, training, and resources which focus on: alternative education; 21st Century workforce development; year-round beyond school hours; male and female pregnant and/or parenting teens; early warning indicators; leadership and character development; Mentoring and service-learning. For five years, she also wrote and hosted “Making A Difference,” a Philadelphia TV show, which highlighted CISP and School District of Philadelphia’s programs and partners.

She has presented at various local and national conferences; co-authored “Best Practices State Manual for Teen Parents,” received awards from the March of Dimes, Boys Scouts of America, Metropolitan Societies of Philadelphia, Children’s Aid Society of PA, and the Philadelphia LAY Association of the A.M.E. Church. The National Governor’s Taskforce and the Senate recognized her initiation of a bi-partisan national fatherhood program. She serves on the LAY, Missionary, Hospitality and Community Outreach Ministries of New Bethel A.M.E. Church, and serves on the Executive Board of the NAACP, both of Willow Grove.

Helping others is her passion and actively participates in coat, homeless, food and fundraising opportunities to assist the less fortunate and after a recent trip to Ghana, sends donations to an orphanage there.