The Foundation is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees, a broadly representative group of community leaders. Trustees are elected for three-year terms and may serve three full terms. The Board is responsible for setting Foundation policy, approving all grant awards, and for hiring investment managers to implement the Board's investment policy.

2010 Board of Trustees

Officers

Nancy L. Little, Chair
Attorney, Bernick Omer Radner & Ouellette

Douglas A. Mielock, Chair-Elect
Attorney/Shareholder, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC

Dorothy Maxwell, Secretary
President/CEO, The Max Weingar Group

Denise Schroeder, Treasurer
Chief Operating Officer, Pension Trend

Trustees

John Abbott
President, Summit Community Bank

Diana Rodriguez Algra
Executive Director, Volunteer Centers of Michigan

Mark Alley
Senior Director of Risk Management, Emergent Biosolutions, Inc.

Charles Blockett, Jr.
President, Charles Blockett, Jr. & Associates

Kira Carter-Robertson
President and CEO, Sparrow Specialty Hospital

Sam L. Davis
Jail Administrator, Ingham County Sheriff's Office

David J. Donovan
Founder/Consultant, Donovan Company, LLC

Nancy A. Elwood
Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch

Vincent J. Ferris
President, Custom Home Interiors, Inc.

Bo Garcia
Director of Strategic Planning & Economic Development, Lansing Community College

Pat Gillespie
President, Gillespie Group

Andy Hopping
Executive Vice President/CFO, Jackson National Life Insurance Company

Joan Jackson Johnson
Director, Human Relations and Community Service Department, City of Lansing

Michael King
Vice President/General Manager, WILX-TV

Robert Kolt
CEO/President, Kolt Communications, Inc.

Michael Nobach
Managing Director, Clinton County Road Commission (Retired)

Helen Pratt Mickens
Professor & Associate Dean of Community Relations, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Brian Priester
President and Publisher, Lansing State Journal

Mary J. Schafer
CPA/Partner, Plante & Moran, PLLC

Mitchell Tomlinson
CEO, Peckham Inc.

Carmen Turner
President, Boys and Girls Club of Lansing

Steven Webster
Vice President of Governmental Affairs, MSU

Ryan M. Wilson
Attorney/Shareholder, Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC

Jessica McKay, Student Trustee
Williamston High School Student

Maddie Brogan, Student Trustee - Elect
Lansing Catholic High School Student

Past Board Chairs

Douglas Milbury
Marylee Davis, PhD
Joseph Frauenheim
James F. Anderton, IV
J. Michael Warren
Patricia Munshaw
Dale Martin
Gerald Finch
Robert C. Carr
Lori Hacker Fuller
Ed Souders
Lawrence Wilhite
George Nugent
Charles A. Janssen
Mark Hooper
Suzanne B. Mills
David J. Donovan
Charles Blockett, Jr.
Mary J. Schafer
Mark Alley

Staff Members

Dennis W. Fliehman, President and CEO
Brad Patterson, Vice President of Program
Richard Comstock, Vice President of Finance
Robin Miner-Swartz, Director of Communications
Pauline Pasch, Program Officer & YAC Advisor
Traci Goulding, Executive Assistant
Lisa Levandowski, Finance Associate