The Lincoln Community Foundation has announced Barbara Bartle will retire at year’s end. Bartle was named President of the Lincoln Community Foundation in 2010. Under her leadership, LCF has grown substantially, initiating significant programs which have increased philanthropy in the community while creating new partnerships with government, business, nonprofits, and neighborhoods.
Barbara’s notable career spans 48 years of fundraising, program development, community engagement, and teaching. For more than 65 years, the mission of LCF has been to provide leadership and resources to help build a great city. A few of the many accomplishments under Barbara’s leadership the past 11 years include:
- • The number of donor funds more than quadrupled
- • Assets grew from $62 million to $175 million
- • Annual grants to the community grew from $4 million to more than $21 million
- • Give To Lincoln Day raised more than $40 million for hundreds of nonprofits
- • Lincoln Littles Giving Day raised more than $2.4 million to help children from lower-income families with early childhood education
- • Lincoln COVID-19 Response Fund raised more than $1.2 million to assist 66 nonprofits serving the most vulnerable populations
- • First Community Land Trust in Nebraska was established in Lincoln to address affordable housing
- • From Veterans initiatives to Lincoln Vital Signs and Prosper Lincoln, there have been multiple community building efforts to guide Lincoln’s vision toward a stronger, more diverse, and more innovative community.
“We have been so fortunate to have Barbara Bartle at the helm of Lincoln Community Foundation for the past 11 years,” said Foundation Board Chair, Kim M. Robak. “She immediately set out to form the best staff, surrounding herself with talented, hardworking professionals. Barbara quickly connected with community foundations across the country, gathering great ideas and bringing them home. Her incredible passion and energy to raise funds and unite people together for causes that benefit Lincoln will leave a lasting legacy”.
A search for Barbara’s successor is underway.
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