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The Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice, a 15-year-old organization with only 18 employees, is playing with the big boys.
The organization has generated regional and national exposure with some recent campaigns and programs, including its workplace civility initiative. Now it has another coup: It was recently ranked third in The NonProfit Times' annual list of the 50 best nonprofits to work for in the country.
The list includes several large groups that have up to 2,000 employees. It also includes some name-famous groups, such as the American Heart Association and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The foundation joined the Pencil Foundation in Nashville as one of only two foundations to make the list.
Foundation President and Chief Executive Teri Hansen says the ranking is a validation of the organization's daily effort to communicate with all employees. “I am constantly making sure people are challenged and growing in their positions and getting outside of what they normally do,” Hansen says in an April article in the magazine that accompanied the rankings.
The Gulf Coast Community Foundation, while small by nonprofit employee standards, is one of the largest community foundations in Florida, with $240 million in assets at the end of 2008. For more on the Foundation, go to www.Review.net and search: Hansen.
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