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The Community Foundation of Broward Announces New Board Members

February 3, 2025

The Community Foundation of Browardwhich  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.