Heather Carroll

How would you like to be contacted?

Email is the best way to reach me: hcarroll@jhedmondson.org

CC graduation year:

1989

Other education:

No additional formal education at this point in time – just LIFE…….

Current employment position:

President and Executive Director of the Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, a private, multi-purpose foundation serving the Colorado Pikes Peak area. 

Experience/areas of interest:

I have extensive experience in grant making in the public and private sectors having previously served as a grants manager for the Colorado Department of Education, a program officer for El Pomar Foundation and Administrative Director of the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation in New York. 

I am also a graduate of the El Pomar Fellowship in Community Service and the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Education Policy Fellowship.

I currently serve on the boards for the Association of Small Foundations, the Colorado Association of Funders, Community Venture Partners, The Colorado College Alumni Board, The El Pomar Foundation, Bikes for Kids, and the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival. 

Why have you chosen to work in or support the nonprofit sector?

It chose me, and I have remained on board for the ride.

What do you enjoy or value most about being a PIFP advisory board member? 

The interaction/time spent with the CC students and fellow advisory board members.

What’s your favorite book or movie?

As I am a bibliophile and a filmophile, I could not possibly choose a favorite…

What is something most people would be surprised to know about you?

That I am really NOT a workaholic – I spent my early years living on a ranch, and all of my childhood summers running around the hills in and around Salida, CO.  I love the great outdoors, and I try to get out as much as possible.