GUADALUPE CENTER WELCOMES TRACY CONNELLY AS VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT

(November 17, 2016) Tracy Connelly, formerly of the Lee Memorial Health System Foundation, has been named by the Guadalupe Center as Vice President of Development. Connelly has served as System Director of Gift Planning and Senior Director of Major Gifts for the Foundation since 2005. Connelly will be responsible for all fundraising and development activities to raise the needed funds for Guadalupe Center’s three core educational programs. These programs, which begin with preschool and culminate with a college degree, strive to create educational possibilities and break the cycle of poverty for the children of Immokalee.

Previous positions have included include Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations at Western Michigan University. Connelly earned his B.A in Organizational Communications and Business from Western Michigan University.

The Guadalupe Center creates possibilities through education in its mission to break the cycle of poverty for the children of Immokalee by providing Early Childhood Education, After-school Tutoring, and the college-prep Tutor Corps Program.
For more information, please call 239-657-7711 or visit us at www.guadalupecenter.org.