COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Ambassador
- Founder of Susan
- Founder Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Member of the Council
- Member of the Harvey Milk Foundation
Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has been dedicated to ridding the world of breast cancer for nearly 40 years. Ms. Brinker served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and as U.S. Chief of Protocol from 2007-2009. In 2008, President Bush appointed her to The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, and she was named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People." In 2009, President Obama honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she was also named the Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control for the United Nations' World Health Organization. In 2010, Ms. Brinker released her memoir, "Promise Me," which became a New York Times best-seller. She is a Global Advisor to HOLOGIC, Inc.; a medical technology company primarily focused on women's health.
Ms. Brinker has a bachelor's from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Ms. Brinker is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Ms. Brinker is a member of the Harvey Milk Foundation's leadership
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- Information Systems Manager
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- Senior Director for Community Engagement
Corey previously served as the Program Director of Philanthropy Tank, an organization that provides teens with the tools they need to execute social impact projects. He was a program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. While in Maryland, he created programs for young executive directors to fortify their leadership and management skills, supported organizations in developing their programs, and collaborated with city agencies and funders to change policies affecting young people.
Danita served as the Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Chief Executive Officer of the FAU Foundation, Inc., at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). During her tenure, she helped catapult the university into a new era of excellence with record-breaking fundraising and spearheaded its second-ever comprehensive campaign (the first in 20 years). Before joining FAU, Danita was promoted quickly through the University of Florida (UF) ranks.
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- Director for Development and Philanthropic Partnerships
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- Vice President for Community Impact
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- Chief of Staff and Strategic Implementation
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- Board Member / Director, EDA University Center for Community & Economic Development at the University of Michigan
- Director of the EDA ( U.S Economic Development Administration ) University Center for Community & Economic Development
- Director, EDA University Center for Community & Economic Development at the University of Michigan
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- Director of Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida
- Treasurer / Director, Seacoast Bank
Mr. Hudson has been a director of Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida since 1984 and serves as chairman of the bank's directors' credit risk committee and a member of the company's corporate development committee. He served as the executive chairman of Seacoast Bank in 2021 after serving as chairman since 2005 and CEO from 1998 to 2021. Mr. Hudson also served as chairman and CEO of the bank from 1992 to 2021, after serving in various positions with the company and the bank since 1978. He also serves on the board of directors and the audit and compensation committees of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation. a public gas and electric utilities company headquartered in Dover, Delaware. Previously, Mr. Hudson was an independent director of PENN Capital Funds, a mutual fund group managed by PENN Capital Management.
Mr. Hudson is a graduate of Florida State University with dual degrees in finance and accounting and a master's degree in business administration.
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- President Emeritus, Palm Beach State College
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Chairman, Audit Committee / Managing Partner, Ellison Consulting Group
- Managing Partner of the Ellison Consulting Group
Mr. Ellison is the managing partner of the Ellison Consulting Group, a diversity and inclusion consultancy focused on the sports industry, leveraging inclusion to create value for sports companies, national sports organizations, their partners, and customers. He also serves as the managing partner with EPB Golf, LLC, Walk-Off Golf, LLC, and Mosaic Golf Partners, LLC, Sports Management Companies.
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Director of the Broadcaster 's Foundation of America
Elizabeth Neuhoff is a former CEO, corporate director, and media, marketing, and consumer segmentation, expert. Ms. Neuhoff is recognized for creating high-performing organizations and brand-building strategies in national and local markets. As CEO of Neuhoff Communications, Ms. Neuhoff lead this award-winning, privately held broadcast, and digital media company. As a public and private corporate director, Ms. Neuhoff is a strong proponent of elevating the consumer perspective in the boardroom. Ms. Neuhoff is a director for West Bend Mutual Insurance Company, Focus Financial Partners (FOCS), Zip's Car Wash and World Acceptance (WRLD- Nasdaq). She also served on the board of Gray Television (GTN- NYSE). She has been a member of the audit, governance/ compensation, strategic risk, investment, and pricing committees. A past director of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., she served three terms as second vice chair of the executive committee.
Ms. Neuhoff earned a bachelor's from the University of Oklahoma (1988-1992)
Ms. Neuhoff is a director of the Broadcaster's Foundation of America, the broadcast industry's largest and oldest charitable organization. Additionally, she is a trustee of the National Association of Broadcaster's Leadership Foundation (NABLF).
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- Director of Scholarship Programs
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Board Director of Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle
- Board Member / Chief Operating Officer, Tory Burch Foundation
- Chief Operating Officer, Tory Burch Foundation
Gabrielle Raymond McGee is an award-winning Chief Operating Officer, Board Leader, and marketing powerhouse with an uncanny eye for the future, who puts movements in motion. McGee has driven transformational change for sports, entertainment, and fashion mega brands, such as Major League Baseball (MLB), USGA, NHL Islanders, and Tory Burch. Her contributions to MLB helped the organization transition into the digital age and generate unprecedented levels of fundraising and fan engagement around the All-Star Game and World Series for the League's charitable initiatives. As Chief Operating Officer of the Tory Burch Foundation, McGee helped scale the organization to become a go-to resource for women entrepreneurs worldwide by launching ToryBurchFoundation.org. She architected the critically acclaimed, celebrity-led digital movement #EmbraceAmbition. And, in partnership with Bank of America, she launched the Capital program that has provided over $95 million to 5,500 women entrepreneurs. A passionate ocean conservationist.
Her accolades include being named to the Marketing Hall of Femme and receiving the Intellectual Contribution Award three times from the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD program. McGee holds a Master of Public Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from Elon University. Gabrielle is presently an Executive MBA student at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. McGee serves as Board Director of oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle's nonprofit, Mission Blue and she also serves as a Board Director of God's Love We Deliver.
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- Operations Coordinator for Philanthropic Services
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- Board Member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association
- Chairman / CEO, SBA Communications Corporation
Mr. Stoops currently serves as a board member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association, The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (where he served as a prior Chair of the Board of Directors), Children's Healthcare Charity, Inc. (the governing body of the Honda Classic), Seminole Boosters, Inc., and is a member of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County. He is also a former Chair of the Board of Directors of Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton.
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- Chairman, Scholarship Committee / Doctor of Medicine
- Doctor of Medicine
Joanne Julien is a Doctor of Medicine. She co-edited a textbook in pulmonary physiology and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her areas of interest focused on asthma, public health, and tuberculosis. Joanne was the Division Chief for Pulmonary Medicine at Good Samaritan Medical Center and a consultant for the Florida Department of Health tuberculosis (TB) program and the Center for Disease Control's Southeastern National TB Center.
Dr. Julien trained in pulmonology and received her Doctor of Medicine degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she served as chief resident in internal medicine. She completed her fellowship in respirology at McGill University and her post-graduate research fellowship at the renowned Meakins-Christie Laboratories at McGill University Health Centre.
Julie Fisher Cummings advocates for responsible policies on health, education, and philanthropy on behalf of underserved and marginalized children and families. She co-founded the Lovelight Foundation to focus on domestic child sex trafficking, undeserved women and girls, and early childhood education and care. Ms. Cummings has forged effective public-private partnerships and new funding networks in Florida and nationally. She was an executive producer of "I Am Jane Doe," an award-winning 2017 documentary about domestic child sex trafficking. She is co-founder of the Florida Women's Funding Collaborative, which has commissioned two research reports to drive policy change and enhance the quality of life for women and girls in the state: The Status of Women in Florida by County and The Status of Girls in Florida by County. Through the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, where she serves as incoming chair, she was the founding sponsor of the Southeastern Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative. From 2012-2016, she served as an assistant adjunct professor at the University of Miami's Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine where she developed and taught a graduate-level course in Child Policy.
Ms. Cummings earned a master's in social policy from Columbia University's School of Social Work (2007-2011).
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- Vice President for Marketing & Community Engagement
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- Co - CEO of Hollywood
- Co - CEO, Hollywood.Com LLC
- Co - Founder of the Syfy Channel
Laurie S. Silvers is co-CEO of Hollywood.com, a leading entertainment website. Ms. Silvers is the co-founder of the Syfy Channel, which she originally sold to USA Networks and is now owned by NBCUniversal. She is the co-founder and majority owner of MisFits, a global esports organization. She is also the majority owner of four FM radio stations in Florida. Ms. Silvers was elected to the University of Miami Board of Trustees in 2003 and is the 2021-2024 chair of the Board, following a one-year term as vice chair. Ms. Silvers is an active member of several boards, including PBS Foundation in Washington, D.C., South Florida PBS, United Way of Palm Beach, and the International Women's Forum of Palm Beach.
Ms. Silvers earned her BA and JD from The University of Miami.
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- Community Engagement Manager
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- Vice President for Philanthropic Services
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- President and Director of Ventus Charitable Foundation
Ms. Trim is the President and Director of Ventus Charitable Foundation (CF). Ms. Trim created Ventus CF in 2015 with an initial mission of supporting public education in Palm Beach County. Also in 2015, she founded Red Apple Supplies (RAS), the free resource for teachers from high needs public schools in Palm Beach County. Opening its doors in March 2016, RAS distributed $60,000 of school supplies to teachers in nine schools that Spring. Last academic year, RAS distributed over $1.4M of supplies and currently serves 80 schools.
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- Executive Vice President of the Northern Trust Company
- President, East Florida Region and Mid - Atlantic Region, EVP of Northern Trust
Michael J. Bracci is an executive vice president of the Northern Trust Company, where he has worked since 1993. He currently serves as the East Florida Region president, leading in all aspects of its wealth management business, including investment management, trust, fiduciary management, financial planning, and private banking. Before that, he served as the regional senior banking officer for the Palm Beach and Martin County region and as managing director of the North Palm Beach office. With over 30 years of experience in the banking and finance industry, Mr. Bracci started his career in the management training program at a large Southeast regional commercial bank, then led a regional commercial banking team and held various other management positions. The 2011 Palm Beach Atlantic University Free Enterprise Day Medalist, he is married with two children. A resident of Tequesta, he enjoys boating, paddle boarding, running, and coaching youth athletics.
Mr. Bracci received a bachelor's in economics from Tulane University in 1987.
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- Director for Philanthropic Services
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- Vice President
- Board Member / Vice President - External Affairs and Economic Development, Florida Power & Light
- Vice President - External Affairs and Economic Development, Florida Power & Light
Pamela Rauch has held the position of vice president of external affairs and economic development at Florida Power & Light Company since January 2008. From 2011-2015, Ms. Rauch's responsibilities also included project development, where she spearheaded development of all new power generation for FPL, including the addition of a natural gas pipeline to serve the state and growing the company's solar generation by installing the first three cost-effective, universal scale solar projects that went online in 2016. Prior to 2008, she served as an associate general counsel for FPL, overseeing the real estate, land use and environmental matters focusing on local government permitting and licensing issues for FPL and development of its unregulated subsidiary's wind portfolio.
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- Director of Information Management
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- Board Member / Owner, Gillespie Law Firm
- Member of the National Bar Association
- Owner, Gillespie Law Firm
Phyllis M. Gillespie of Stuart owns Gillespie Law Firm, which provides full-service personal injury representation. Prior to opening her own firm, Gillespie served as a Partner and the Director of the Medical Malpractice Department at Gary, Williams, Parenti, Watson, Gary & Gillespie, P.L.L.C., where she managed the Medical Malpractice Department and handled complex medical negligence, tractor-trailer, breach of contract, and personal injury cases for clients all over the country.
Gillespie has more than 40 years of combined nursing and legal experience. She graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She began her nursing career as a critical care nurse before attending the University of Memphis-Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law.
Gillespie is a member of the National Bar Association, Virgil Hawkins Bar Association, Martin County Bar (former chair of the diversity committee), Treasure Coast Justice Association, The Florida Bar, and Tennessee Bar.
She served as the Fourth Vice President of the Martin County Chapter of the NAACP.
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- Accounts Payable Specialist
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- Director for Philanthropic Services
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- Co - Chair of the Governance Committee
- Governance Advisor, Atlantic Street Capital
Susan Schiffer Stautberg works with companies on governance and obtaining the best directors. She is the president of PartnerCom Corporation, whose unique career spans the corporate, entrepreneurial, media, and nonprofit sectors, politics, and government. Ms. Stautberg became an entrepreneur with the founding of MasterMedia Ltd., producing more than 125 books. Earlier, Ms. Stautberg served as communications director for Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche), McNeil Consumer Products, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. As a Westinghouse/GroupW TV correspondent covering the White House and Capitol Hill, she was the first woman and one of the youngest to head a Washington TV bureau. She then became the first TV journalist to be chosen as a White House Fellow, where she worked for Vice President Rockefeller and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Her firm, PartnerCom, assembles and manages advisory boards globally for businesses, governments, and nonprofits with a targeted focus on providing specific expertise unencumbered by the fiduciary responsibilities of a board of directors. She has served on or created the advisory boards for numerous organizations, including Amex Open, AMEC, Avis Rent-A-Car, Avon, Bank of America, Bayer Diabetes Care Division, CIGNA, Citigroup, Council on Competitiveness, Deutsche Private Bank, Flexjet, Goldman Sachs, Houlihan Lokey, Investment New Zealand, Merrill Lynch, Medtronic, Microsoft, Northern Trust, Northwestern Mutual, Procter and Gamble, STRATCO Global, Sun Trust/AMA, Swissotel, TIGER 21, The Times Centre for Learning (India), The United Nations, and Walmart. She is an influential and sought-after public speaker and author of seven books and numerous articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her work has been covered in the Financial Times, Business Week, USA Today, International Herald Tribune, the Sunday Times, Directors and Boards, and more. Susan's on-air interviews include The Today Show, CBS Evening News, and Oprah. She co-founded the Belizean Grove and the OnBoard Bootcamp. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University for three years.
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- Owner, the Jackson - Moore Group
Tammy Jackson-Moore's vast professional experiences include positions in the not-for-profit arena, state government, and municipal administrations. She is a dynamic and impactful consultant skilled in community organizing and developing short- and long-term goals in businesses and communities, including planning, economic development, budgeting, and community development. She believes that everyone should take an active role in the look and feel of their communities, and she works to develop collaborative partnerships to address the myriad of challenges facing underserved communities. In 2008, Ms. Jackson-Moore founded Tammy's Closet, which helps people seeking to enter the workforce by providing them with free professional attire to attend job interviews. She is the co-founder of Guardians of the Glades. This organization advocates for residents and businesses in the Tri-Cities (Belle Glade, Pahokee, South Bay, and unincorporated western Palm Beach County). The mother of four adult daughters, and the grandmother of seven, she dedicates a large majority of her time to working to better the lives of the many people she encounters.
Ms. Jackson-Moore holds a bachelor's in public administration with a concentration in business management from Barry University in Miami Shores.
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- Board Member / Chair, Marketing & Community Engagement Committee / Former Publisher / CEO
- Chairman, Marketing & Community Engagement Committee / Former Publisher / CEO
- Executive Media
Timothy D. Burke is an executive media consultant. Most recently he served as the Senior Vice President and Group Publisher for LRP Media Group, an innovative media giant serving millions of human resources professionals, federal agencies, and K-12 educators worldwide. At LRP, Mr. Burke oversaw the world's largest annual event for HR technology and LRP's digital media products focused on key HR and workplace issues for Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Burke was publisher and CEO of The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News and group publisher for Gatehouse (Gannett) Media. Mr. Burke was the multi-market vice president for Cox Enterprises' newspapers in Atlanta; Austin, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio; and an editor at newspapers in Miami, Dallas, and Springfield, Missouri.
Mr. Burke received his bachelor's in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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- President and CEO of NCCI
William E. Donnell is President and CEO of NCCI, the nation's most experienced provider of workers' compensation information, tools, and services. He has over three decades of industry experience specializing in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance in both global and domestic U.S. leadership roles. Mr. Donnell is a founding board member of Kids' Chance Florida and has served on several non-profit boards, including BuildOn and Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation.