Sandra Fatmi-Hall

FOUNDER, CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Sandra Fatmi-Hall is the founder, CEO, and executive director of the United Foundation of Central Florida, Inc. (UFCF), a 501c3 public foundation formed with love on February 14, 2014, to "empower communities one family at a time, using a holistic approach." Fatmi-Hall has more than 25 years of experience in leadership, Finance, Marketing, and Business Development. She collaborated with a professional group of loyal, dedicated individuals to form UFCF to bridge the gaps through programs that aid in job training, housing, addressing food insecurities, utilities, childcare, and afterschool enrichment and mentoring programs, to name a few. Through the commitments of Fatmi-Hall's team, her foundation has amassed $4,907,965.00 in economic impact on the Central Florida community, yielded from 49,080 hours of volunteerism and programming hours. Her dynamic, practical, results-driven leadership continues to enhance the community. On December 6, 2022, for the second time in five years, Fatmi-Hall was voted in as the 2023 president of the Pine Hills Community Council (The oldest advocacy organization for the 78,000-plus residents of Pine Hills).

She created an after-school enrichment and mentoring program, the Future Leaders United (FLU) Program, which is her pride and joy. Working diligently to empower the youth through creating new opportunities, she has proudly graduated 180 students, with 168 pursuing degrees in higher education, 10 enrolling in the military, and two in the workforce and vocational/trade school. FLU has a 100% success rate with students that complete the program. FLU has seven target pillars, all focused on the holistic development of a child. Under Fatmi-Hall's leadership and with the support of her board of directors, junior board of directors, and dedicated community partners, students in the FLU Program have received more than $180,000.00 in educational scholarships.

Over the past nine years, Fatmi-Hall has received more than 47 community service and philanthropic awards. She is a native of Kingston, Jamaica, and married to her best friend, Dennis.