Nancy Roberts Named as Trustee
Hartford Seminary’s Board of Trustees has unanimously named Nancy Roberts, president of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, to the Board. The appointment is effective immediately.
Roberts was appointed President of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, a regional association of grantmakers in Connecticut in 1991. Prior to this post, she managed the Howard and Bush Foundation in Greater Hartford.
Roberts currently serves as a member of the national board Plowshares Institute, based in Simsbury, CT. She is a member of the advisory task force for Project Streamline, a national collaborative effort of grantmaking and grantseeking organizations working to improve grant application and reporting practices, and the Hartford Area Neighborhood Support Collaborative.
Roberts is a past board member of the Foundation Center in New York and was a founding board member and past chair of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, has served on two national initiatives of the FORUM, New Ventures in Philanthropy and the Effectiveness and Accountability Initiative as co-chair. She also served on the coordinating committee of the World Wide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) in Manila.
Roberts, who lives in West Hartford, CT, is a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
