The Elkhorn Fund announced last week that Denise Schultz has joined the Advisory Board. Schultz is Chief Executive Officer of Lakes Area Realtors Association, a professional organization of approximately 500 members, based in Elkhorn.
Schultz and her husband relocated to Elkhorn from Milwaukee on New Year’s Eve, 1997 when they purchased the home they live in today. They are the proud parents of four sons and two grandchildren. After years of promoting lakes area tourism, Schultz said she feels it was a natural progression to become an advocate for home ownership in the community she now calls home.
Re-joining the Advisory Board is John Henderson, a Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Elkhorn (1969). He and his wife Jean love to travel and have made many international trips including five weeks in India this last January.
In 2007, having just completed six years as a Corporate Board Member of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Henderson was a founding board member for the Elkhorn Fund. He currently volunteers with local City and County economic development boards, and sings in the Church Choir. John is retired from commercial real estate.
Schultz and Henderson join the following Elkhorn Fund Advisory Board Members: Tobie Watts-Green, Bob Ford, Karen Kallem, Tim Middleton, Jason Tadlock and Ward Phillips.
The Elkhorn Fund, a component of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., is a platform for building local philanthropy and believes that every citizen plays a part in making a good community better. It’s the only community resource uniquely positioned to respond to a variety of current and changing needs in Elkhorn.
Established in 2007, the growth of the fund depends on financial gifts from the community at large. Gifts are pooled for maximum investment opportunities and grants are awarded via an application process or in response to current need.
Since 2007 the Elkhorn Fund has granted nearly $85,000 back to Elkhorn to support programs/projects as they relate to education, health and human services, visual and performing arts, and historic preservation-proving that together, charitable giving through the Elkhorn Fund “creates a better place to live for all of us.”
For more information about the Elkhorn Fund contact any of the Advisory Board Members or Jane Maldonis, at the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc. at (608) 758-0883 or jane@cfsw.org.
