After leading a six-year period of unprecedented growth for the Emporia Community Foundation, Becky Nurnberg has announced her retirement.
In announcing her retirement on KVOE’s On-Air Chat on Wednesday, Nurnberg said the Community Foundation works well as a team.
Since Nurnberg came on board, the Community Foundation has essentially doubled in size. In 2017, the Community Foundation had 187 individual funds, with 94 area students receiving scholarships, over $1 million in grants awarded and assets of just over $20 million. Last year, there were over 350 individual funds, the Community Foundation gave scholarships to over 180 students, over $4.2 million was awarded in grants and total assets were over $39 million. Match Day, which paid out almost $180,000 to 24 organizations with $50,000 in matching funds in 2017, grew to $175,000 in matching funds and 35 organizations participating — after last year’s total of over $501,000 generated. Nurnberg says the support for Match Day is evident any way you look at the event.
Nurnberg succeeded Shirley Antes in 2017. Originally from Michigan, she says an online relationship with Chase County rancher Dan Nurnberg through FarmersOnly.com led to a chance conversation with Community Foundation board member Kay Lauer at the Symphony in the Flint Hills in 2015 — which helped to pave the way for her moving to the Emporia area.
Resumes are now being accepted through November, with applicants encouraged to email information to ecfsearch@emporiacf.org or to mail information to ECF Search Committee, PO Box 1084 in Emporia. The goal is to have a new CEO in place by April.
