Patty Grant

Patty Grant has served the Community Foundation of Wabash County in Indiana in various capacities since 1989. Leveraging the influence of Lilly Endowment’s 7 phases of the GIFT Initiative, Patty’s leadership supported the Foundation’s asset growth from $15,000 in 1990 to over $77 million today. Patty served as project director for the first Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship program and the Community Alliance to Promote Education Initiative (CAPE), a $5 million spend-down initiative to advance educational attainment. As Executive Director, Patty led the Foundation’s team in the development of the innovative Community Foundation Early Award Scholarship Program, which utilizes Indiana’s CollegeChoice 529 Plan to build college-going identities and assets for post-secondary education. Patty holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from DePauw University, Greencastle IN, and an MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, (formerly the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business), Chicago Illinois.