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Our Leadership
WNC Nonprofit Pathways is led by a Steering Committee with the following members:
- Susan Jenkins, Executive Director, Cherokee Preservation Foundation
- Pat Smith, President, Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
- Bruce Thorsen, President, Mission Healthcare Foundation
- Ann Von Brock, VP for Planning and Community Investment, United Way Asheville/Buncombe
- Bob Wagner, Vice President, Programs, Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
| Kim McGuire serves as WNC Nonprofit Pathways’ Director. McGuire supervised grantmaking at the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina from 1991-2002 and has over 20 years of experience in both staff and volunteer leadership roles within the nonprofit sector. She can be contacted via email: mcguire@nonprofitpathways.org |
WNC Nonprofit Pathways utilizes an Advisory Committee and ongoing contact with nonprofit leaders for input and feedback to ensure that their programs and content are relevant and useful to staff and volunteers working in mountain communities.
Advisory Committee members include:
- Leslie Anderson, Consultant
- Paul Castello, Center for Participatory Change
- Celeste Collins, OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling (WNC)
- John Ellis, Diana Wortham Theatre (WNC)
- Judy Futch, Consultant
- Althea Gonzalez, Buncombe County Medical Society (WNC)
- Angela Kemper, Consultant
- Bill Massey, University of North Carolina at Asheville (WNC)
- Brenda Oocumma, Consultant
- Kitty Schaller, MANNA Food Bank (WNC)
- Lynn Shields, Stecoah Valley Center (Graham County)
- Pam Sugarman, Consultant
- Greg Walker-Wilson, Mountain BizWorks (WNC)
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