MEETING REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Hello to all of our LEPC Members!

We are excited for our next monthly meeting
to be held IN-PERSON AND VIA ZOOM on Tuesday, December 14 when our presentation will be:

Closing the Gap:
Charitable Needs and Solutions for Your Clients

presented by:
Amy Owen, President & CEO
and
Nicole Acosta, VP of Grants and Nonprofit Programs
of
Community Foundation for Loudoun
and Northern Fauquier Counties


To register, just click either the in-person or Zoom registration button below.


We appreciate you and look forward to seeing you
in-person or via Zoom.

Until then, see you in December.

--Your LEPC Board
IMPORTANT MEETING INFORMATION

Due to the current COVID restrictions, 
this meeting is a HYBRID MEETING.

Only 35 seats are available for the in-person meeting. 
Zoom is available for those who are 
unable or are uncomfortable to attend in person.

PLEASE NOTE:
To attend our in-person meeting:
  • You must be vaccinated.
  • Masks are optional (unless state guidelines require it at the time of the event). 
  • You must register. No walk-ins will be accepted.
This meeting will be IN PERSON at River Creek Country Club, Leesburg
This meeting will be will be broadcasted via ZOOM
About the Presentation

Closing the Gap: Charitable Needs and Solutions for Your Clients

Are your clients charitably minded and eager to understand issues and solutions in their own backyard? 

Join the Loudoun Estate Planning Council for a dive into the unique and flexible mission of the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties. Staff will offer revelations associated with recent research into the gaps in our local charitable community.
ABOUT THIS
MONTH'S SPEAKERS
Amy Owen and her spouse, Don, live near Unison, Virginia, Loudoun County. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Alabama and received her Master's Degree in Interpersonal Communications from West Virginia University.

The majority of her professional career has been in nonprofit management with interim teaching as an adjunct professor at Shepherd University. 
For more than 10 years, she managed and directed fundraising programs for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy based in Harpers Ferry, WV. She served as a circuit rider to some 25 West Virginia community foundations supporting their emerging policy and fundraising efforts. She worked for a small family foundation before transitioning to the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation in 2001. 
 
In May 2012, she and Don moved to Loudoun County where she began serving as lead executive of the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties headquartered in Leesburg, VA. 
 
The Community Foundation was named Nonprofit of the Year in 2017 by the Loudoun Chamber. Amy Owen was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Loudoun Chamber in 2018.
 
She was a founding member of the Loudoun Estate Planning Council and serves on the Board of the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, and the County of Loudoun’s Human Services Strategic Planning Advisory Committee.
As the Director of Grants and Nonprofit Programs of the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties, Nicole Acosta manages the Community Foundation’s grantmaking processes, implements and facilitates nonprofit programs and capacity-building trainings, and oversees the organization’s communications and public relations.   

Nicole has extensive experience in the local nonprofit and human services sector, from providing therapy to child victims of domestic and sexual violence, to serving as Executive Director of Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter for five years. She served on the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s Public Policy Committee and chaired the Northern Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Task Force for three years. She currently chairs the Loudoun Human Services Network’s Advocacy Committee, serves as vice-chair of the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce’s Nonprofit Initiative, as well as vice-chair of the Loudoun County Census 2020 Complete Count Committee. 

Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from James Madison University and a Master of Social Work degree with a clinical concentration from the Catholic University of America.

Learn more about Community Foundation For Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties
IMPORTANT MEETING INFORMATION

Due to the current COVID restrictions, 
this meeting is a HYBRID MEETING.

Only 35 seats are available for the in-person meeting. 
Zoom is available for those who are 
unable or are uncomfortable to attend in person.

PLEASE NOTE:
To attend our in-person meeting:
  • You must be vaccinated.
  • Masks are optional (unless state guidelines require it at the time of the event). 
  • You must register. No walk-ins will be accepted.
This meeting will be IN PERSON at River Creek Country Club, Leesburg
This meeting will be will be broadcasted via ZOOM
Mark Your Calendars for Future Networking Events!

Monthly Meetings are held the SECOND Tuesday
of the month from 8:00 am - 10 am.
River Creek Country Club
43800 Olympic Blvd.
Leesburg, VA 20176
and via Zoom


January 2022 - NO MEETING
February 8, 2022 - Ray Owens, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
March 8, 2022 - Bobby Feisee, Insight Law


We are currently working on the speaker schedule for 2022.
If you or someone you know would like to present to our group,
please visit our website.

Please know: LEPC works hard to provide industry experts to speak at the monthly meeting on a variety of topics surrounding Estate Planning. LEPC also tries to make Continuing Education credits available to attendees.
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