Board & Staff

Board

  • Eloiza Altoro-Acevedo, Chair, Board Development
    Society for Clinical Data Management
  • Laura Bouslough
    Northwestern Mutual
  • Jackie Boynton
    Law Offices of Jackie Boynton
  • Sandra Cunningham
    Virtual Care Provider, Inc.
  • Jane Gellman
  • Trish Hansen
    Robert W. Baird & Company
  • Amy Johnson, Board Chair
    Cedar Community
  • Juli Kaufmann
    Pragmatic Development
  • Martha Love, Co-Chair AAWFP
    Martha Love Association
  • Sally Merrell
    von Briesen & Roper, s.c
  • Renee Messing, Treasurer
    Clifton Gunderson LLP
  • Kim Metcalf-Kupres
    Johnson Controls
  • Mary Louise Mussoline
    88Nine Radio Milwaukee
  • Michelle Nettles, Officer at Large
    MillerCoors
  • Robin Reese
    J. F. Cook Co., Inc.
  • Carol Robinson
    Girl Scouts of Southeast Wisconsin
  • Michelle Sieg, Chair: Communications Committee
    Zizzo Group Advertising and Public Relations
  • Anne Tidmore, Board Vice Chair
    M&I Investment Management Corp
  • Patti Van Kampen, Chair: Investment Committee
    Mason Street Advisors
  • Beth Weckmueller, Chair: Grants Advisory Committee
    Enrollment Services, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Staff

Elaine Maly, Executive Director
Elaine has over 20 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit industry with an emphasis on women and girls. She joined the Women's Fund in 2002 with the goal of substantially increasing the endowment, increasing diversity, and evolving to a social change grantmaking platform. Elaine lead the transition to establish the Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee as a separate public foundation from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation in 2006. Elaine holds volunteer positions with the Women's Funding Network, an international association of women's funds, and the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a scientific research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. Elaine has earned a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Cardinal Stritch University and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Mount Mary College. In addition, Elaine was recognized as a Woman of Influence by the Business Journal serving Greater Milwaukee in 2003 for her leadership role in the Status of Women in Wisconsin Report, for advancing diversity by the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, as a "visionary" by Strive Media Institute in 2005, and by the Milwaukee Post Office for "Putting Her Stamp on Milwaukee" in 2006.

LG Shanklin-Flowers, Program Manager
LG is a human resource management consultant with more than 30 years of experience. She joined the Women's Fund in 2005 to oversee the Fund's grantmaking program, and is working closely with the African American Women's Fund Project and Latinas en Accíon to further their growth. A doctoral student in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning & Service at Cardinal Stritch University, LG was a contributing writer on the 2004 Status of Women in Wisconsin Report. The Women's Funding Network chose LG in a competitive process to participate in the Women of Color International Development Incubator, an opportunity designed to accelerate the success of women of color in fundraising.

Ann Fisher, Operations and Development Manager
Ann has more than 15 years experience working with non-profit organizations in the areas of fundraising, program creation and oversight, systems development, database management, office administration, and executive and board support. She is a fifth-generation Milwaukeean and has a degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.