For Impact Leaders 2024 Cohort Announced

Sep 26, 2023

The Community Foundation is proud to have created For Impact Leaders as an opportunity to develop a community of leaders and colleagues who collaborate, celebrate and support one another in collectively seeking to continue to develop a vibrant, healthy and innovative nonprofit sector. This peer learning cohort for nonprofit staff leaders will take place over the course of nine months, beginning in January 2024.

From a competitive application pool, the following individuals have been selected for the 2024 class of For Impact Leaders:

• Julie Burtnette - Des Moines Children's Museum
• Kalyn Cody - Iowa Community Capital
• Diana Echeverria - Avenue Scholars Des Moines
• Tracy Gryp - Full Circle Recovery Center
• Sam Hutchisson - Catholic Charities
• Kristi Kerner - Mindspring Mental Health Alliance
• Stanley Kokulo Beyan - Genesis Youth Foundation
• Dani Magulado - Change Course
• Julia Mason - YMCA
• Lela Scott - Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates
• Scott Sithonnorath - Anawim Housing
• John Soener - United Way of Central Iowa
• Alexander Struelens - Salisbury House
• Jessica Taylor-Fink - Lead DSM
• Jenna Turner - Orchard Place
• Christa Vander Leest - Girls on the Run
• Angie Weis - Ellipsis