Collaborating together with our shared love of philanthropy and our El Dorado Hills area community, we leverage each other’s strengths to execute EDHAF’s goals and mission. Together, we make a greater impact in our community. 🌟
EDHAF is governed by a cabinet of local community members, including at least one El Dorado Community Foundation Board Member, who volunteer their time to connect people, ideas, needs, and resources for the betterment of El Dorado Hills and its residents. The EDHAF cabinet also oversees the EDHAF Giving Circle and EDHAF’s annual granting cycle for tax-exempt organizations meeting section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Dennis Johnson
Cabinet chair
“Rivers never go reverse. So try to live like a river. Forget your past and focus on your future. Always be positive.” Morgan Freeman
Jody Bisson
Cabinet chair
Governance and finance committee mEMBER eNGAGEMENT cOMMITTEE
“We only have what we give.”
Isabel Allende
Andrea Howard
Immediate Past Cabinet Chair
Grants AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE
“We rise by lifting others.”
Robert Ingersol
Shelbi Bennett
founding chair
GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE FUNDRAISING AND EVENT COMMITTEE GRANTS AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
Charles Dickens
Mayra Aguilar
FUNDRAISING AND EVENT COMMITTEE GRANTS AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE mEMBER ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE
“Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in and do it as thoroughly, and honestly, and fearlessly as you can.”
Marie Colvin
Melinda Hollis
GRANTS AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE mEMBER ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Mitch Albom
Nikki Smaglik
fUNDRAISING AND EVENTS COMMITTEE
“‘What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever said?’ asked Piglet. ’Help,’ said Pooh.”
A.A. Milne
Steve Backers
governance and finance COMMITTEE grants and outreach COMMITTEE
“The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.”
Ronald Reagan
Terri Wilson
fUNDRAISING AND EVENTS COMMITTEE
"It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving"
Mother Teresa
The El Dorado Hills Area Foundation is a fund administered by the El Dorado Community Foundation, an accredited Community Foundation founded in 1992 devoted to financial security, transparency and accountability. EDHAF is proud to collaborate with the El Dorado Community Foundation for their extraordinary fiduciary excellence in managing EDHAF’s endowment funds and associated investment strategies. For more information about the El Dorado Community Foundation, please visit: eldoradocf.org.