Women's Fund Announces 2011 Advisory Committee Officers

Women's Fund of the Community Foundation of GF, EGF and Region Announces 2011 Advisory Committee Officers.

Chairperson, Abby

D'Heilly is North

Dakota's 1st Master

Esthetician. She owns Abby @ Pure Image where she does microdermabrasion, facials, body wraps, waxing and eyebrow and eyelash

tinting. Abby has 10 yrs of experience. Abby stays

active in the community by supporting nonprofit

organizations. Abby is

married to Rob D'Heilly and is a proud mother of two.

Chair-elect, Roseann Lund is an Assistant Vice

President and Senior

Mortgage Loan Officer for Gate City Bank. Throughout the years she has volunteered with St. Vincent Food Cupboard and Thrift Store, Homeless

Awareness, Transitional Housing, Habitat for

Humanity, Relay for Life, Bowls for Hunger, Grand Forks Board of Realtors, Real Estate Trust

Association State

Committee, Special

Olympics, Saint Michael's Church, United Way and has also been a Girl Scout leader. Roseann and her husband, Tim Lund, have four children.

Secretary/

Treasurer, Kathy

Sukalski is UND

associate professor and interim chair of the department of

biochemistry and molecular biology. She serves on the Board of Directors of Grand Forks Homes, Inc, a

nonprofit that, in

partnership with the

Housing Authority, provides housing for the elderly, those with disabilities, and low-income families. She is active in leadership and educational activities at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Kathy and her husband Tom Johnson live in Grand Forks and have two grown children.

We also welcome our newest members, Sandra Torgeson of Ecolab and Dr. Mary Loyland of UND, department of accounting.

The women's fund is an endowment held at the Community Foundation. The Advisory committee works to build the

endowment as well

recommend grants to

support healthy women and girls. In addition, the

advisory committee works to inform and engage

women in our community regarding current issues/ challenges facing our

women & girls, as well

encourage support and

involvement to make

positive change.

For more information, please contact Kristi

Mishler, Executive Director, Community Foundation at 701-746-0668 or

kmishler@gofoundation.org