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Mission & History | Board and Staff | Publications Board of Directors RUTH SHACK, Chair Jane has served on the board of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and chaired its personnel committee. She is a member of the ABA IOLTA Commission and is a past president and board member of the National Association of IOLTA Programs. She also is a past president of the National Conference of Bar Foundations. She served, for several years, on the design team for the joint ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference, and served as a member of the ABA Law Day Working Group and Ad Hoc Committee on State Justice Initiatives. She currently serves as vice-chair of Florida Philanthropic Network and chairs its Partner Development Committee. Ms. Boyle currently serves on many committees and several boards including Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Executives, Florida Philanthropic Network, United Way of Florida, and United Way of Pasco County, and is a graduate of Leadership Palm Beach County. She earned a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MSW from Boston College. In addition to having served as chair of the State of Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission, the P.A.C.E. Center for Girls state board, and the Florida Funders Group, Dr. Magill is past president of the Jacksonville Women's Network board, a past member of the Southeastern Council of Foundations board and the Leadership Jacksonville board. She is chair of the program committee of the Southern Education Foundation board, a founding member and immediate past chair of the Florida Philanthropic Network, and a member of the Council on Foundation's Advisory Committee for Executive Programs and the Council's public policy and membership committees. She is an alumni member of Leadership Jacksonville, Class of 1993 and Leadership Florida, Class XIV.
Mr. Odahowski came to the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation in 1990 from the Wasie Foundation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a law degree from the Hamline University School of Law. He completed the Management Certificate Program at Rollins College's Roy E. Crummer Graduate School of Business. Ibargüen is chairman of the board of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., a museum dedicated to free speech and free press. He is also on the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art and is a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, PepsiCo and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Ibargüen has served on the boards of numerous arts, education and civic organizations, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Freedom Forum, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Wesleyan University, Smith College and the University of Miami. He was chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Patty has spent most of her life in the Orlando area and currently serves as immediate past president of the Board of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center, is a past president of the Board of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. She also serves as the secretary of the board of the Victim’s Service Center, is a member of the Local Advisory Council for the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, and is a member of the Central Florida Donor’s Forum.
Our Staff Katie Ensign, President Ms. Ensign has volunteered extensively in the community, and was chosen to participate in the Community Coaches program in Jacksonville; a unique training and volunteer experience for community leaders. Ms. Ensign holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Denison University.
Amanda Schumer, Operations Manager Ms. Schumer’s volunteer experience includes service at Give Kids The World and Camp Boggy Creek. She has also been an avid horsewoman for the past 15 years and was president of the University of Central Florida Equestrian Club. Ms. Schumer earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Central Florida.
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Since becoming the president of Dade Community Foundation, the community foundation for the Greater Miami Area, Ruth Shack has spearheaded a campaign to encourage philanthropy and charitable giving by developing a permanent endowment to meet Greater Miami’s emerging charitable needs. Spurred by her leadership, the Foundation made a radical change in its mission by diversifying its Board of Governors, its staff and its grant making focus. Determined to better respond to the needs of Miami’s most intractable challenge; all grant making is set against the issue of cultural alienation and the need to help people successfully cross ethnic barriers. Empowerment and seed funding for emerging groups, based in the diverse multicultural communities of Miami-Dade, are the hallmarks of the grant making program.
Ms. Jane Curran is the executive director of the Orlando-based Florida Bar Foundation, which is the administrator of Florida’s Interest on Trust Accounts program. Jane joined the Foundation in June, 1982, having moved to Orlando from Washington, D.C. where she was the assistant director of the Consortium of Universities of the District of Columbia. Prior to that, she served in several capacities including assistant to the executive director of the American Judicature Society in Chicago.
Ms. Eileen Boyle has served as president & CEO of Allegany Franciscan Ministries, Inc. (AFM) since May 2005. Prior to joining AFM, Eileen was executive vice president at United Way Palm Beach County, leading strategic change initiatives and creating significant partnerships with funding organizations, providers, and others in the community. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Eileen was in Massachusetts, first with Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger in Boston, providing leadership to the area’s premier organization helping hungry and homeless people. Eileen then served as executived director of LynnArts, a non-profit community arts organization dedicated to bringing the arts and the community together and supporting community redevelopment efforts.
Since 1993, Dr. Sherry Magill has been president and C.O.O of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. Located in Jacksonville, Florida, the Fund has assets of $300 million and an annual grants budget of $15 million. Prior to joining the Fund's staff in 1991 as program officer for educations, Dr. Magill served as vice president and deputy to the president of Washington College. She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American studies from Syracuse University.
Dr. Marcus is the president and C.E.O. of the Health Foundation of South Florida. The Foundation has embarked on transforming its grantmaking by focusing its responsive grant program on four community focus areas, healthy lifestyle promotion, preventative measures, primary care and oral health and awarded $8,000,000 in grants for 2007. Steve was previously executive vice president of the Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation in Miami Beach, Florida, where he served for nearly 13 years. 
In addition to his role as president, CEO & board member of the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Inc., a prominent grant-making foundation in Winter Park, Florida, Mr. Odahowski is a frequent speaker and writer on philanthropic issues. He serves on the Executive Committee for the Donors Forum of Central Florida at the Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College, Council on Foundations’ National Working Group to establish Stewardship Principles for Independent Foundations, and the Nemours Children’s Hospital Committee Advisory Board. He is a former chairman and current board member of the Florida Philanthropic Network, former board member of United Arts of Central Florida, Community Foundation of Central Florida, and Southeastern Council of Foundations.
Mr. Alberto Ibargüen is president and C.E.O .of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Ibargüen is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. He studied at Wesleyan University and then served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela’s Amazon Territory and in Colombia. After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he practiced law in Hartford.
Ms. Particia DeYoung has been with Darden Restaurants and the Darden Restaurants Foundation for almost 27 years. Currently she serves as the executive administrator for the Darden Restaurants Foundation. She is responsible for bringing forth grants to the Darden Restaurants Foundation Trustees and has additional responsibility for Darden’s corporate contributions. She also works with the Community Activities Committee at Darden Restaurants whose main purpose is to provide volunteer opportunities to Darden employees while providing necessary services to the community.