Prominent Sarasota nonprofit leader to retire after 10 years

The leader of a Sarasota nonprofit announced her plans to retire after a decade of service. Teri Hansen, president and CEO of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, will remain in her role as the organization searches for her successor and will assist in the leadership transition, according to a statement. 

Hansen, who has led the Barancik Foundation since 2015, was initially hired as its first employee. Previously, Hansen was the president and CEO of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation for more than 13 years. (She was also named a change-maker by the Business Observer in 2021.)

“I’m really a ‘startup’ person,” Hansen says in a statement. “It was the honor of my professional career to help Margie and Chuck Barancik explore the possibilities of their philanthropy and then build the structure to care for the community and organizations they loved in perpetuity.”