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| Kurt and Rose Rosenbach love their community. |
Every nonprofit should be so lucky as to have advocates like accountant Kurt Rosenbach and his wife Rose. These long-time Norfolk, Virginia residents love their community and are ambassadors for the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. We thank them for being part of our community foundation family
For 20 years Kurt served on our board of directors. Although he left that position in 2006 he remains involved in many ways. He serves on our Audit and Finance Committee and comes with Rose to many community foundation events. Both the Rosenbachs are members of our Legacy Society for Hampton Roads, which celebrates people who have made arrangements for a future bequest.
Kurt, whose career was spent in retail, retired in 2009 as senior vice president of Hayne's Furniture in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He joined the Haynes team after serving as chairman of the board of Norfolk-based Rices Nachmans department store chain. Throughout his career he was always involved in community organizations including the Downtown Norfolk Council where he was its first board chair.
Until last year Kurt presided over the foundation at Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk. He also is active with the Tidewater Jewish Foundation.
For Kurt "the foundation world is so important. Without foundations and their financial support many organizations could not fulfill their missions."
It is particularly gratifying when professionals like Kurt, an accountant, become champions for endowment building through foundations.
(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 $195 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. )
