NVEPC Membership Meeting
Speakers:
Christy Cole is the Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer at Arlington Community Foundation. She serves as a trusted partner for donors, professional advisors, and nonprofits. With over 25 years of experience in gift planning and nonprofit fundraising and leadership, she is passionate about connecting resources to important missions and about helping people develop and achieve their philanthropic goals. As a consultant, Christy has advised non-profits on major and planned giving program design and assessment, campaign strategy and implementation, and board development. Christy previously served as the Director of Planned Giving for the United States Naval Academy Foundation and as the Associate Director for Planned Giving and Major Gifts for the AAUW Educational Foundation. She started her career as a trust officer managing relationships with foundation and endowment clients. Christy is active in non-profit leadership serving on the board of Doorways for Women and Families and as the chair of Aspire Afterschool learning’s Board Emeritus. Christy lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, Don, and their three children.
Avery T. Fontaine is senior vice president and Head of Purpose for PNC Private Bank Hawthorn®, overseeing a national team of highly credentialed purpose-driven advisors. Her team encompasses Philanthropy & Impact, the Institute for Family Success®, and Purpose Driven Investing professionals.
Avery brings more than 20 years of purpose and impact experience to Hawthorn, as well as expertise in building and leading world-class programs that effectively deploy capital reflecting the values and goals of ultra high net worth families and the institutions they support. Avery is a frequent speaker, writer and contributor to the national conversation on philanthropy and social investment.
Throughout her career, she has held various positions with Wachovia Trust, Wells Fargo and BNY Mellon Wealth Management and was previously a board member of ACE Loans, Inc., one of the largest Community Development Finance Institutions in the Southeast. She currently serves as a Volunteer Planned Giving Advisor for the Smithsonian Legacy Council. Avery holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in philosophy and fine arts from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and a MBA in general management with a social enterprise focus from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Thank you to our event sponsor, MAI Capital Management.
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