Dr. Shelley Strickland has served as President & CEO of the Charlotte Community Foundation (CCF) since January 2024. She draws upon executive leadership at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF), including eight years as Vice President for Philanthropy, where she oversaw all aspects of development and communications. Dr. Strickland was hired to engineer a strategic redirection of the foundation and under her tenure, AAACF enjoyed sustained record asset growth and exponentially enhanced community engagement. At the board’s request, she also served as Interim CEO for several months to continue advancing the foundation’s strategic direction. Dr. Strickland has enjoyed sharing her community foundation knowledge and experience as a featured author and speaker for Grantmakers for Education, the Foundation Review, the Council on Michigan Foundations, and the Growing Community Foundations Conference.
Beyond her community foundation executive leadership, Dr. Strickland has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector in Michigan and Georgia, as both a practitioner in development and communications as well as a philanthropy educator and scholar. She has numerous national publications and presentations and teaching experience at both two- and four-year institutions.
Dr. Strickland earned her PhD from the University of Michigan, where she created the curriculum for and taught for nine years the academic course component of U-M’s Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP), an award-winning program designed to expose undergraduates to fundraising and philanthropy, and taught workshops for nonprofit boards. She also holds an MA from the University of VA, and a BA from Western Michigan University.
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