FACES OF THE FOUNDATION
Molly Flodder
Nonprofit Experience to Support Community Grantmaking Giving back to the community is not new for Molly Flodder. She’s been an active community volunteer for most of the more than 40 years she has lived in Muncie.
established to share information about and equip volunteers to address the community’s most pressing issues. With a background in marketing and public relations, developing clear messaging around the importance of PreK, good health, and positive race relations in our community was something in which Molly excelled.
Molly joined the Foundation’s Competitive Grants Committee in 2017, shortly after her retirement from TEAMwork for Quality Living, an organization that she helped Over time, as start in the 1990s. the volunteers of “To be a part of the The Foundation’s TEAMwork took Competitive Grants a hard look at Foundation, you are Committee reviews pressing community reminded that there are so applications for issues, one key the Quarterly challenge appeared many caring organizations Competitive Grants to be the root of and people who make program. In 2019, many of the others – nearly $1 million poverty. TEAMwork up the rich fabric of our was awarded for Quality Living’s community.” to support 46 mission shifted organizations doing to focus on work to improve the empowering people quality of life of Muncie and Delaware County. in poverty toward self-sufficiency. To the Competitive Grants Committee, Molly brings a unique perspective of being on the frontline of nonprofit work. She was one of the dozen volunteer founders of TEAMwork for Quality Living, which was originally 8 | CFMDIN 2019 Annual Report
Through her work at TEAMwork, Molly was used to connecting struggling families to community allies and organizations with programs that might help them meet their goals of self-sufficiency.
