This month WPI ’10 cohort members, Fern Webb and Caroline Brinton, caught-up for an interview. Dr. Fern Webb, Ph.D.,WPI ’10, is a faculty member of the UF College of Medicine Department of Community Health and Family Medicine and an active member of the UF Urban Health Alliance. Her extensive research includes examining intrinsic motivation within …
Greetings & Happy New Year!
Greetings and Happy New Year! We are excited to usher in 2021 here at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. As we turn this page, we continue to push forward—recalibrating as needed to respond to conditions—to do the important work that exists in our community. We spent much of 2020 attracting donor gifts and then …
Interview with WPI Alumnus, Dr. Sol Brotman
Dr. Sol Brotman’s commitment to the community spans an incredible number of agencies and honors. He is a OneJax Silver Medallion Humanitarian Award recipient and has been president of three United Way agencies; he was the Founding Chairman of OneJax. Sol has served in leadership roles in additional areas such as cancer, veterans, the Jewish …
Interview with WPI Alumna, Ellen Wiss
Ellen Wiss is a WGA Past President and active businesswoman and community leader. Her philanthropic journey is a great example of how engagement in philanthropy evolves over your lifetime and how using all of your forms of capital can be deployed. Ellen recently took the time to connect with Caroline Brinton ’10 for this month’s Weaver …
Food Insecurity: Setting the Table
We recently hosted a forum to provide donors with an updated snapshot of what the current landscape of food insecurity looks like in Northeast Florida, and the role that philanthropy is playing in addressing solutions. Speakers included: Susan King, President & CEO of Feeding Northeast Florida (part of Feeding America) Sunny Mulford, Co-Founder of Epic-Cure, …