| The Community Foundation
President: Josie Heath |
Josie Heath is President
of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, a
position she has held since l995. She served as County
Commissioner from l982-1990, the second woman elected
to serve as Commissioner for Boulder County.
Heath served in the Carter Administration as the Regional
Director of Action, the federal agency for national service.
Her leadership responsibilities included Peace Corps recruitment,
Vista programs, University Year for Action, the Retired
Senior Volunteer Corps and supervision of other programs
involving eighteen thousand volunteers in six western
states.
Josie was a candidate for the United States Senate in
l990, winning the Democratic primary, but losing the general
election. She was also a US Senate candidate in l992.
She taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
in l991, and later served as the Assistant to the Director
of the White House Office of National Service in the Clinton
administration.
From l994-98, Heath served as a member of Harvard’s
Project Liberty team working with elected officials in
emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. She
has worked extensively with elected officials in 10 different
countries and has made fourteen trips to work with officials
in countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary,
the Slovak and The Czech Republics. She has also been
a consultant for the Transatlantic Community Foundations.
Josie was an honorary Torch Bearer for the 1996 Olympics.
In 2004, she was inducted in the Colorado Women’s
Hall of Fame. She is one of the founders of the Women’s
Foundation of Colorado, and is a member of the International
Women’s Forum. Josie was a Commissioner for the
Colorado Rockies Baseball Stadium District and co-chaired
the Coors Field Design committee.
The Colorado Association of NonProfit Organizations honored
Josie as their 2004 Awardee for her statewide service
to the civic sector. She was inducted into the Colorado
Women’s Hall of Fame in that same year.
Heath has an undergraduate degree from Eastern Oregon
University and a Masters degree from the University of
Wisconsin.
She has been married to Rollie Heath for 44 years. They
have three children and five grandchildren.
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Home of The Community Foundation
Serving Boulder County |
Josie Heath |
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