Community Foundation of Broward

Community Foundation of Broward

The Community Foundation of Broward launched in 1984, built to unify local giving. President and CEO Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, alongside Board Chair Jonathan K. Allen and Vice Chair Burnadette Norris-Weeks, oversees a civic institution that converts donor contributions into an enduring endowment for Broward County. Its wealth originates from decades of philanthropic contributions by area residents. Asset allocation stretches across hedge funds, private equity, distressed debt, commodities, and mission-related investments. The foundation's strategy covers the full lifecycle — seed and start-up venture, growth, buyouts, special situations, and secondaries — while its grantmaking funds causes including the Broward Cares initiative, co-founded with the United Way and Jewish Federation of Broward County. Partnerships with entities like The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation amplify its deployment capacity throughout North America. The headquarters sits at 910 East Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Beyond securities, the foundation holds a residential life estate property in Broward County and commissioned a series of public "Love" murals through its Business for the Arts Broward partnership. The Professional Advisors Council, an elite network of local tax and estate attorneys, accountants, and advisors, feeds a structured pipeline for planned giving. In recent months, the foundation maintained its active grant cycles and community fundraising collaborations, including the ongoing Broward Cares fund operations. Its structural distinction is the marriage of community foundation governance with an institutional-grade investment program. As Florida's first entity to achieve the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations accreditation, it pairs philanthropic oversight with a portfolio that reaches into illiquid private markets — an architecture that few regional community foundations pursue at this scale.