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Lee Hiers Owen, Executive Director
Joined the Foundation as its second Executive Director in 2006 after two decades of work in the nonprofit sector.
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Prior to joining the Foundation, she had worked 21 years in the fundraising division of MAP (Medical Assistance Programs) International, a health organization that is active in disaster relief, medicine distribution, community health training, and AIDS prevention overseas. Joining MAP as a proposal writer, she advanced to direct the major gifts division and then to lead the entire fundraising department.
Prior to MAP, Lee worked for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1970s and the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce beginning in 1977. While at the Chamber, she helped lead the first Industrial Development Council - the precursor of today's Industrial Development Authority. A native of Greenwich, Connecticut, she was graduated from Marymount College, Tarrytown NY and pursued graduate studies in government and international relations at Georgetown University.
Lee is married to Cannon Owen and they live on St. Simons Island. Lee's son, Clayton Hiers, is a graphic artist and musician residing in Alpharetta, GA.
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Diane L. Doster, Donor Services/Grants Officer
Joined the staff in 2006 as a second staff member from another local nonprofit.
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Diane Doster was born in Pensacola, Florida and moved to Coastal Georgia in 1971. She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia.
Upon returning to Glynn County, she pursued a career in banking for fifteen years, specializing in mortgage loan applications. She interrupted her career to raise three children before re-entering the workforce as a teacher in the Glynn County School System and Brunswick Christian Academy. She moved to the nonprofit sector in 2007, first with MAP International, and then with the Community Foundation.
She currently serves on the advisory board for the Ferst Foundation of Glynn and the Executive Board of Family Connection of Glynn. She resides in Brunswick with her son and two daughters.
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