Daily business operations of the Foundation are administered by the Executive Director of the Foundation, Jack Brooks. The Executive Director is supported by our Associate Director, Frank Robert, our Operations Manager, Tracy Brown and the Assistant Director, Customer Care, Annabel Lusardi.
Jack Brooks
Executive Director
Jack possesses over 20 years’ experience as a registered representative and financial advisor. He lends his expertise to many non-profits in the Philadelphia area, serving as a Board or Chair member with Radnor Studio 21, Taste of Radnor Restaurant Show, Ocean City Rowing and Athletic Association, Ocean City Beach Patrol, Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory, and Wildcat Masters Swim Association. Jack graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Management.
Frank C. Robert, Jr.
Associate Director
Frank loves being able to help the diverse groups of churches, from inner city to suburbia to country churches. Outside of the Foundation, Frank is the Lay Member to the Annual Conference (and former Lay Leader) for St. Paul’s UMC Sykesville. He is also the former President of the Sykesville Town Council (voted the “Coolest Small Town in America”). Frank spent 22 years in medical sales after receiving his B.A. and M.ED. from The College of William & Mary, and a M.B.A. in from Loyola College. Frank’s wife, Beth, is a Special Needs Elementary Teacher and a handbell ringer at St. Pauls!
Tracy Brown
Operations Manager
Tracy’s extensive financial and accounting background includes over 30 years of both non-profit
and for-profit experience. She joined the Foundation in 2008 as the Operations Manager
overseeing the daily operations of the organization. She graduated from Villanova University
with a B.S. in Business Administration, majoring in Finance. Tracy is an avid tennis player who
plays competitive USTA tennis year-round in her spare time. She also enjoys running, attending
her monthly book club, and spending time with family and friends.
Annabel Lusardi
Assistant Director
Customer Care
Annabel's experience in the nonprofit world ranges from running a statewide fundraising program for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to running the Christian Education program and developing a discipleship ministry in a local church. She is an International Coach Federation trained coach with an emphasis on coaching in ministry settings. In her spare time Annabel loves to read, bike, walk in the woods and spend time with her husband and three grown children.
Additional support staff
In addition to our full-time staff, we have a cadre of ICF-trained coaches and outreach support personnel who work with our Financial Leadership Academy and other Foundation programs on an ad hoc basis.
Gayle Annis-Forder
Phillip Ayers
Walter Beaudwin
Wendy Bellis
Rosa Brown
Michael Bynum
Kendell Daly
Robin Fisher
Tim Fisher
Cary James
Marsha Johnson
Bruce Jones
Joan Jones
Andrea King
Conrad Link
Mary Ka Kanahan
Twanda Prileau
Kirkland Reynolds
Ben Rigsby
Barbara Seekford
Bill Thomas
Herb Watson
Meredith Wilkins-Arnold
