All successful entrepreneurs can identify certain other individuals that make their company viable and later successful.

- JAMES L. VINING

Entrepreneurship is vital to the preservation of our society’s economic health and, more so, to its continued freedom and high standard of living.

- JEFFREY G. WEBB

Strategic Philanthropy- Investing in the Future of Memphis

Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Napa Cafe
5101 Sanderlin Avenue
#122
Memphis, TN 38117

Bob Fockler As president of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, Fockler oversees the largest charitable grantmaker in the Mid-South, with grants of more than $147 million last year. Under his direction, the Community Foundation manages 1,100 charitable funds for individuals, families, and organizations throughout the region, with total assets of $480 million. Fockler leads the foundation’s efforts to present community information at LIVEGIVEmidsouth.org and to offer GiVE 365, a dollar-a-day giving program. As a volunteer, he formerly led community grantmaking for both the Community Foundation and United Way of the Mid-South. A graduate of Princeton, he serves as immediate past board chair of the Southeastern Council of Foundations and as a board member of Memphis University School.

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