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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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Ellen Post, Grants/Operations Manager
Joined the staff in 2011 as a second staff member from another local nonprofit.
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Ellen Post comes to us with over 30 years of experience in the non-profit sector. She and her husband moved from Chicago, Illinois in 1985 with MAP International where she served as Executive Assistant to the President for over a decade. Since that time she has worked in various roles as Business and Grants Manager at a biotechnology research firm and most recently at CMAP.
Ellen has demonstrated skills in administration and finance. Her husband Greg is a captain with the Brunswick City Police Department. They have two grown children, Gretchen and Elliott. Ellen has a love for this community and helping people.
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