Emporia Community Foundation

Kay Lauer, President

Steve Younger, Vice President

Janis Meyer, Treasurer

Bill Barnes

Ken Buchele

Patricia Saenz-Reyes

Bob Symmonds

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Steve Kuhlmann

Justin Mallon

​Janis Meyer

Dennis Murphy

Kim Pember

Patricia Saenz-Reyes

Sara Shivers

Bob Symmonds

Nancy Thomas

Ruth Wheeler

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Steve Younger, Chair

Jeff Williams, Vice Chair

Bill Barnes

Ken Buchele

Skip Evans

Eddie Gilpin

Lee Glanville

Staci Hamman

Steve Harmon

Kay Lauer

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Becky Nurnberg  |  Executive Director 

Email:  becky.nurnberg@emporiacf.org

Becky Nurnberg brings a great deal of talent to the ECF with her experience managing non-profits, fundraising and in leadership development. She has served in a number of roles during her career. Those include being the first woman Regional Representative for the Michigan Farm Bureau, later moving into management for the state organization.  During that time, she was named to represent agriculture on four state/federal commissions by two Governors.  Her next step within the Michigan Farm Bureau Family of Companies was as an insurance agent with her own agency and being recognized for numerous sales awards.  She then moved to Springfield, IL where she served as the Executive Director for the Hispanic Dental Association, a national non-profit, assisting them to become financially stable by obtaining funding from Fortune 500 companies across the US.  She went on to the position of Senior Account Executive for the Sinclair Broadcast Group marketing television and digital products where she led the sales team in both products.

 

Becky earned her B.S. degree at Ferris State University. She grew to love the Flint Hills of Kansas when she met her special friend, Dan. She has two rescue dogs, plus four horses on his farm/ranch in Chase County. In her spare time, Becky follows her horses in National Reining Horse competition, both cheering from the sidelines and showing both NRHA and Ranch Riding. 

​Loni Heinen  |  Program Officer

Email:  loni.heinen@emporiacf.org

Loni Heinen became the Administrative Assistant for the Emporia Community Foundation (ECF) in February 2010. She brought many years of retail and clerical experience as well as a younger perspective to ECF. In 2014, Loni became ECF's Program Officer.



Loni earned an Associate of Arts degree from Barton County Community College before attending Tabor College and Emporia State University. She completed an accounting assistant certificate through Butler Community College in December 2011.



Loni was born and raised in Emporia. She and her daughter, Rylee, made the move to Chase County after marrying her husband, Dave, who has two sons and a daughter. Loni and Dave are the proud grandparents of six. In her free time, Loni enjoys scrapbooking and fishing, as well as riding trails and crawling rocks in their jeep.