Our Staff
Deborah D. Hoover
President
dhoover@bdmorganfdn.org
(330) 655-1630
Ms. Hoover has served as president of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation since January 2007. She joined the Foundation in 1999 as a program officer and was elected executive vice president and treasurer in 2004. She was instrumental in establishing the Foundation’s Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a Kauffman CampusesSM Initiative, to spread entrepreneurship across liberal arts campuses. She is currently on the Steering Committee and serves as Co-Chair of The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Action Team for Northeast Ohio’s Fund for Our Economic Future. She is a member of The Aspen Institute Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group. She also serves on the Advisory Board for The Foundation Center-Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio Program Committee and Family and Private Foundations Committee for Ohio Grantmakers Forum. She is a member of the National Council for The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Denise M. Griggs
Chief Financial Officer
(330) 655-7920
dgriggs@bdmorganfdn.org
Leslie Goldwater Nelson
Senior Program Officer
330-655-7929
lnelson@bdmorganfdn.org
Alison J. Burner
Program Officer
330-655-1642
aburner@bdmorganfdn.org
Charlene Nevada
Special Projects Coordinator
(330) 655-1527
cnevada@bdmorganfdn.org
Marie-Ellen Erb
Grants Manager
(330) 655-1369
merb@bdmorganfdn.org
Paula J. McCulloch
Office Manager
(330) 655-1532
pmcculloch@bdmorganfdn.org
Diane Rafferty
Executive Assistant
(330) 655-1385
drafferty@bdmorganfdn.org