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Jennifer Borron Furla, Executive Vice President
Midwest Region

An active civic and charitable volunteer, Jennifer Furla brings more than 22 years of 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 for 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 has been a speaker at conferences 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 has volunteered with numerous organizations, including the American Royal, De La Salle Education Center, St. Andrew's Altar Guild and the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri. She is a graduate of the Kansas City Tomorrow leadership program.

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