Three Elected to Hampton Roads Community Foundation Board

Three community leaders were elected in June 2015 to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation board of directors. They are Susan R. Colpitts of Norfolk, Sharon S. Goodwyn of Chesapeake and Suzanne Puryear of Norfolk.
Susan Colpitts is founder and chief of client experience

Susan Colpitts

at Signature Family Wealth Advisors. She is a trustee of Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation and serves on the boards of the United Way of South Hampton Roads and Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Board at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in accounting with a concentration in taxation.

Sharon Goodwyn

Sharon Goodwyn is a member of Hunton & Williams LLP. She is board secretary for the St. Mary's Home and serves on the Eastern Virginia Medical School board of visitors. She also serves on the boards of the United Way of South Hampton Roads Foundation and Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and is a trustee of the University of Virginia Law School Foundation. She is a member of the  University of Virginia Tidewater Jefferson Scholars Selection Committee and the Harvard University Schools Committee. She earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in economics and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.  

Suzanne Puryear, president of of The Planning

Suzanne Puryear

Council, chairs the Norfolk Interagency Consortium for At-Risk Children and Youth board. She is Tidewater Pastoral Counseling board vice chair and Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay board secretary. She serves on the boards of the Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement, Together We Can Foundation and YMCA of South Hampton Roads. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in public administration from Old Dominion University.
 

Click here for a list of all 17 Hampton Roads Community Foundation board members.

(The Hampton Roads Community Foundation is a regional community foundation started in 1950 as the first community foundation in Virginia. It is among nearly 750 community foundation around the country serving specific geographic regions. It is the largest grant and scholarship provider in southeastern Virginia and manages more than 400 charitable funds created by donors from all walks of life. Over the decades it has provided more than $210 million to improve life for residents living in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, including the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Smithfield, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. It also serves people in Isle of Wight and Southampton counties and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, including Accomack and Northampton counties. Learn more at hamptonroadscf.org. You can click here to locate a community foundation near you. )