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Jennifer Borron
Furla, Executive Vice President
Midwest Region
Jennifer Furla brings more than 25 years' experience in nonprofit and small business management to Jeffrey Byrne
& Associates, Inc.,where she serves as executive vice president and specializes in capital
campaigns, strategic planning and planned giving. Jennifer also serves
as a Director and on the Executive Committee of the Giving USA
Foundation, publisher of the Giving USA report.
Jennifer joined Jeffrey Byrne &
Associates from Commerce Bank, where she was a vice president and
business development officer in the trust department. At Commerce,
Jennifer worked with high net-worth individuals, encouraging charitable
giving to minimize federal estate tax liability.
A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in political science and journalism, and
Saint Louis University School of Law, Jennifer has been a speaker and
volunteer for the Mid-America Planned Giving Council, where she
co-chaired Kansas City's Leave a Legacy Campaign in 1998-99. She is a
former co-chair of Kansas City's Report on Charitable Giving and a past
board member and president of the Kansas City’s Nonprofit Connect
(formerly the Greater Kansas City Council on Philanthropy). She is editor-in-chief of JB&A’s nationally-recognized e-newsletter and
has been a speaker at local, regional and national conferences, including AFP International,
and at AFP chapters on planned giving, capital campaigns, donor stewardship, and building annual funds.
Jennifer has led numerous strategic and business planning efforts as both a paid professional and volunteer
for for-profit and nonprofit groups. Through her work as CEO of the
YWCA of Kansas City, she helped guide the successful completion of an
$11,000,000 capital campaign to develop and construct The
Children’s Center Campus. Prior to working at the YWCA, she was
the founding publisher of Missouri Lawyers Weekly, a
statewide newspaper for the legal profession.
Jennifer’s commitment to her community extends through her numerous volunteer posts,
including service with the American Royal, De La Salle Education Center, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church,
the Heart of America Council of Boy Scouts of America, and the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri.
She is a graduate of the Kansas City’s Civic Council’s Kansas City Tomorrow leadership program.
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