Cohn Tapped to Chair Arizona Community Foundation

Shelley Cohn, a former executive director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, has been tapped to lead the board of directors of the Arizona Community Foundation.
Cohn succeeds as chairman Ron Butler, Arizona managing partner for Ernst & Young, who served as chairman since 2015. She served as vice chairman to Butler throughout his two-year term. A member of the Arizona Community Foundation board of directors since 2008, Cohn said she is “impressed with the innovative leadership, programs and reach of the Arizona Community Foundation throughout Arizona, as well as the engagement and diversity of its board.”
With a tenure that began in 1984, Cohn had been executive director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts for 21 years when she retired in 2005, having advocated for artists, arts organizations and the people whose lives they enrich.
Cohn consults with the Flinn Foundation on its arts and culture programs and has taught classes in arts entrepreneurship and arts and public policy at Arizona State University.
The Arizona Community Foundation and its affiliates award millions of dollars in grants and scholarships every year. Funding is awarded year-round to nonprofit organizations, government agencies and educational institutions for a variety of uses, including general operating support, programmatic support and capacity building.
— Mike Saucier
Editor, Frontdoors News