Community Foundation of Northern Colorado Welcomes New President
Community Foundation of Northern Colorado Welcomes New President
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Kristin Todd, new president and chief executive officer of the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado. Photo courtesy of the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado.
The Community Foundation of Northern Colorado Board of Trustees has hired Kristin Todd to serve as the new president and chief executive officer.
Kristin most recently served as executive vice president for the Denver-based Daniels Fund, one of the largest private foundations within the Rocky Mountain West with roughly $1.5 billion assets. Kristin oversaw all aspects of the organization’s program and joined the Daniels Fund team in 2003.
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The organizations that excel at getting funds are masters of what Tatiana Hernandez, a seasoned leader in arts philanthropy and the new CEO of Community Foundation Boulder County, calls “grantsmanship.” But polished grants don t necessarily mean an organization is tied to the community or is all that effective at anything other than paperwork and spin.
“Are we giving to organizations that are actually doing the best work? she asks. Or are we giving to organizations that are giving us the best grants?”
Duffy is among those nonprofit leaders who would prefer that foundations focus on her organization’s work and not polished applications, with their time-consuming and needlessly complicated paper and video reports. Still, she and other beleaguered nonprofit leaders play the game, contorting themselves into pretzels to meet foundations requests. They field endless questions from grant managers, rewrite their budgets to fill in each funder’s slightly different form, and