The Community Foundation of Broward, which partners with families, individuals and organizations to create personalized charitable funds that deliver game-changing philanthropic impact, is proud to announce that it has named five new members to its Board of Directors. The new Board members, elected at a meeting of the full Board of Directors, are Marianela “Nela” Collado, Trevor Fried, Ken Kappner, Greg Medalie, Esq. and Pam E. Booker Pettis, Esq. Marianela “Nela” Collado CPA/PFS, CFP, CDS is Chair of the Professional Advisors Council at the Community Foundation of Broward. She serves as a senior wealth advisor and is CEO and co-owner of Tobias Financial Advisors in Plantation, Florida. Trevor Fried, CFP, financial advisor, published author and senior portfolio management director/founder of The Las Olas Group at Morgan Stanley, is a member of the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation of Broward. Ken Kappner has more than 35 years of industry experience in supply chain management, having held senior executive-level positions at several Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble, Quaker Oats — PepsiCo, Electronic Arts and Samsung. Greg Medalie, Esq. of Medalie & Medalie, PA in Fort Lauderdale is the past Chair of the Community Foundation of Broward’s Professional Advisors Committee and is a member of the “Special Forces” planning team. Pam E. Booker Pettis, Esq. is a longtime South Florida attorney who currently works with the Law Offices of Austin Pamies Norris Weeks Powell PLLC. In addition to serving as a Board member with the Community Foundation of Broward, she serves the community as the chairman of the Community Education Alliance.“Our Board members bring an invaluable mix of expertise and wide-ranging talents that continue to elevate the Community Foundation of Broward to new heights,” said President/CEO Jennifer O’Flannery Anderson, Ph.D. “We are so grateful to the local leaders who volunteer their time to help us champion philanthropy that makes life better in the community we love.” Presently, the Foundation shepherds 571 charitable funds, and over 40 years it has provided nearly $200 million in support of student achievement, the arts, career readiness, seniors in need, HIV/AIDs prevention, equity and social justice, environmental resilience, health care, mental health, affordable housing, disaster relief, nonprofit empowerment and much more. Founded in 1984, the Community Foundation of Broward partners with families, individuals and organizations to create personalized charitable funds that deliver game-changing philanthropic impact.
