Nicolette Rea

Director of Donor Relations, Community Foundation Tampa Bay

Nicolette “Nici” Rea has been with the Community Foundation Tampa Bay for over 4 years. She oversees stewardship of existing fundholders and enjoys connecting fundholders to causes they care about. An attorney by trade, she also assists the Community Foundation with IRS compliance, fund administration, and community Foundation governance. She works with many professional advisors and uses her connections in the local bar associations to promote the Community Foundation. Nici grew up in West Virginia, where she first fell in love with the community foundation model during summer internships at a local community foundation. She moved to Tampa in 2017 and is a licensed member of the Florida Bar Association.

Contributions

Community Foundations Topical Call: Telling the Story of your Community Foundation’s Philanthropic Services

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Nicolette Rea, Karen Hrdlicka, Tracy Burt, Jennifer Olson Curry

Community foundations have been serving giving families for many decades. Recently more and more community foundations have been re-examining how they are promoting the philanthropic services they offer to donor families. How have community foundations successfully marketed their services to encourage families to partner with them on their philanthropy? What are the changes that some community foundations have made that… Read More