The Community Foundation of Broward Announces New Board Members
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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 recent 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. She is passionate about giving back and being involved in her community and has earned recognition such as Mother of the Year by Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (2021). In addition, she is a Board member of Nova Southeastern University’s Planned Giving Council, Planned Giving Council of Broward, Gilda’s Club South Florida, and a member of many more organizations.
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. Fried is also a Community Foundation of Broward Community Builder, a group of local philanthropists who create endowed charitable funds of $1 million or more to shape a brighter future for Broward. He is an active member or Board member of several civic and benevolent organizations in Broward County. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Planned Giving Council of Broward. He recently served as the Board Chair at Gilda’s Club of South Florida and continues serving as an honorary Board member. In addition, he is a volunteer Guardian for Honor Flight South Florida. In 2019, he was appointed as a trustee of the South Florida National Parks Trust.
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. In addition to the Community Foundation of Broward, he has volunteered with numerous national and local nonprofit organizations, such as the Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, Junior Achievement, Our Fund Foundation, Sunserve and the United Church of Christ Fort Lauderdale.
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. He represented the Community Foundation of Broward as a Co-Chair for the Joint Tax and Estate Planning Seminar in 2019. He served for 10 years as Chair of the 450-member Wills, Trusts, and Estates Section of the Broward County Bar Association and as president of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee in Broward County.
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. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Pace Center for Girls, and First Tee of the Treasure Coast.
“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. All grants are made possible by the dedicated fundholders who partner with the Foundation to create charitable funds to fuel their philanthropy.
For more information about the Community Foundation of Broward, please visit https://www.cfbroward.org/.
About the Community Foundation of Broward:
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. 571 charitable funds represent more than $300 million in assets, distributing more than $195 million in grants over the past 40 years. The Community Foundation transforms our community through focused leadership that fosters collaboration, builds endowment, advances equity and connects people who care to causes that matter. The Community Foundation of Broward empowers visionaries, innovators and doers to create the change they want to see in the community – and to BE BOLD. www.cfbroward.org.
