We Miss You Miriam

Miriam Engelberg (1958 - 2006)

On October 17, 2006, the CompassPoint family lost Miriam Engelberg, a wonderful staff member who died at age 48 after a long battle with cancer.

Miriam worked at CompassPoint for 13 years. She was among the most popular trainers we've ever had. When she was on staff, her time was split among technology training, coaching to nonprofit staff on the use of technology, and support of CompassPoint's own internal technology.

Several years before leaving the staff due to a recurrence of cancer, she began drawing Planet 501c3--a comic strip about the nonprofit sector. You can view these wonderful comics here. Everyone on staff loved Miriam; she was exceptionally caring, funny, and courageous.

In her last years she wrote a book of cartoons called Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: a Memoir in Comics, published by Harper.

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