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Foundation Staff Linda L. Ford, M.A.President & CEO Email:
Ms. Ford brings over 25 years of hospital fundraising, philanthropy consulting and entrepreneurial expertise to Natividad Medical Foundation. Her specialty is start-ups and turnarounds for philanthropic organizations. Ms. Ford developed and lead one of the largest fundraising campaigns in Colorado history – the $200 million campaign to relocate the University of Colorado Hospital to the former Fitzsimmons Army Base (now know as the Anschutz Medical Campus). While there, the team successfully cultivated a $25 million gift – the largest single gift in Colorado’s history at the time. She has also worked for The Children’s Hospital and the Sisters of Charities Providence Health Partners, both in Denver, Colorado and Eisenhower Medical Center in California.
Ms. Ford’s professional experience also includes Capital Campaign consulting to Scripps Coastal Medical Center, Girl Scouts of the USA, and other healthcare organizations. In the early 1990’s, Ms. Ford accompanied the Project Open Heart team that performed the first open heart surgery in Central Asia. At the same time in Kazakhstan, she helped with an orphanage adoption program. Sponsored by the Republic of China Army and the Beijing Medical Society, Ms. Ford toured Chinese hospitals and was one of the first lecturers on the subject of philanthropy in China.
Ms. Ford, a Certified Executive Coach and a graduate of the Disney Institute, has served as a board member at several nonprofit agencies, including Special Olympics. Ms. Ford earned a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University and a Master of Arts in Gerontology. She is a jewelry designer specializing in ancient beads from as far back as the 13th century. Ms. Ford is also an Oblate with the Order of St. Benedict, New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur.
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