Anne Kubisch cements her legacy as a lifelong community builder and tireless advocate
for the children and families of Oregon and Siskiyou County, Calif. Anne recently retired
after more than a decade as president and CEO of The Ford Family Foundation.
Since joining the Foundation in 2013, Anne worked tirelessly to build content expertise and strategy across the Foundation’s programs, grow community supports and staff capacities
to serve its rural region, and lead a multi-year strategic planning process and launch a 10-
year plan.
Anne continued the Foundation’s legacy of being present to meet community needs,
whatever they may be. During her tenure, she oversaw emergency grantmaking to support
rural nonprofits meeting basic needs of people during COVID-19 and for those who were
displaced due to wildfires and other natural disasters, like flooding on the Coast and
hailstorms in Wallowa County. Anne consistently pushed to ensure the Foundation is as
responsive as possible – showing up in community, opening our doors and getting dollars
and other supports out in timely ways.
Under Anne’s leadership, community building came to influence all of the Foundation’s
work – being integrated in every aspect of grantmaking and leading to the creation of
dozens of new roles, including Field Coordinators, who work within their communities and
extend the Foundation’s reach and learning across the rural region it serves.