Board of Directors
Alan Stewart
Foundation President
A retired Vermont teacher and coach, who was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame there. Nowadays, Alan gets sporty on the Lake Monticello Golf Course. You might remember him from last year's wildly successful Festival of Trees at the Ashlawn Clubhouse. We are excited to see what fun events Alan and The Foundation Events Committee create. Alan's wife, Shirley, also has a heart for volunteerism and currently serves on the Fluvanna County School Board.
Joe Grubb
Foundation Vice President
Joe Grubb spent 22 years in the US Army as a military intelligence officer with overseas duty in Vietnam, Philippines, Belgium, and twice in Germany. Trained as a Soviet specialist, he spent the final three military years assigned to the U.S. delegation that negotiated the INF Treaty with the Soviets in Geneva. Despite all that active duty travel, Joe and his wife, Cheri, cannot get enough of globetrotting. Joe said he has visited 49 countries for work and fun and hopes to make it 50 whenever COVID gets under control.
Anne Stoppe
Foundation Treasurer
No stranger to Foundation work, Anne has been very involved in fundraising for the US Coast Guard Association. Anne and her husband, Ben Stoppe, a retired Coast Guard officer, live on Jackson Cove. Anne has spent the last several years planning and booking travel for her clients to fabulously exotic locations. COVID-19 put a dent in her successful business, but she has filled the time with an adorable puppy.
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Sarah Monceaux
Foundation Secretary
Born and raised in Virginia, Sarah has called Lake Monticello home since 2008. She grew up in Northern Virginia and attended college at Christopher Newport University, graduating with a sociology degree. Sarah accepted a position with the University of Virginia in 2007 and began the search for her first home search in 2008, in the process of falling in love with real estate. She officially became a licensed Realtor in 2018, working with Avenue Realty as either a buyer agent or as a seller agent. Sarah is a member of Fluvanna Women in Business, the Fluvanna/Louisa Housing Foundation, and the Fluvanna Chamber of Commerce, and looks forward to contributing to the community through her involvement with the Lake Monticello Community Foundation.
Craig Conboy
Craig retired from the U.S. Navy after 29 years, including 16 years at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., and service in Vietnam as a combat medic. He also was Operations Officer and Senior Instructor at Marine Corps Field Medical Service School, training Navy Hospital Corpsmen. He moved to Lake Monticello in 1989 and begin his second career on the staff of Martha Jefferson Hospital for 27 years as a Medical Technologist. Meanwhile, heganized a MJH team for Muscular Dystrophy for years, volunteerd with the Lake Monticello Water Safety Patrol, coordinated for his church collection and delivery of food items to the Fluvanna Food Pantry and was amember of Feeding the Hungry team. Craig also organized two successful charity golf tournaments for the American Legion; the Lake Monticello Community Foundation with the Festival of trees, including stepping in as Santa Claus.
Mike Feazel
A reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor for 50 years, he’s a co-founder of the Lake Monticello News Facebook page. He was on the LMOA Communications & Marketing Committee for six years, chairman for two. He helped plan the launch of Lake Views and was an active contributor. Mike has been co-chair of the Fluvanna Leadership Development Program, and has been on the steering committee since 2014. The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors named him in 2016 to the county Economic Development and Tourism Advisory Council, where he was vice chair, and to its Broadband Task Force in 2017, where he was vice chair. Among other things, Mike helped organize and publicize the 2015-2019 Old Farm Days, and helps promote and generate publicity for a variety of groups and activities around the county, including FLDP, the Rotary, the Lake Monticello Fire Department and the Fluvanna Historical Society.
Carrol Kinsey
He has been practicing law for over 40 years. He started out as an active duty Army JAG, followed by over 20 years of Reserve duty in the DC Army National Guard. After his active duty military service, he was a Federal government civilian attorney at OPM for 8 years and, thereafter he was Chief Counsel of the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1990 to 2004. Carrol then went into private practice in DC and Northern Virginia for over 15 years, specializing in Federal government contract law. He now works remotely as a semi-retired Of Counsel with Redmon, Peyton & Braswell in Alexandria. He has worked with numerous non-profit organizations on a pro bono publico basis and has assisted those organizations on a wide range of legal issues, including initial establishment and ongoing administration in service to the communities they serve. Carrol is proud to have been “discovered” here at the lake by the civic-minded and philanthropic founders of the Lake Monticello Community Foundation and is gratified to have played a small part in its establishment.
Margaret Loewenstein
Margaret spent most of her career in the Washington, D.C. area, working in administration, including executive assistant, finance, personnel and office management. She worked for TWA, MCI Telecommunications and retired from Booz Allen Hamilton in June 2017. She was active with the Washington Capitals Fan Club as President, Treasurer and Chairperson for the Charities Committee. She was also active in various other charities in the No. Va. Area. After moving to Lake Monticello, she has become involved in several organizations including the LM Community Foundation, “Gifted Ladies”, Happy Faces and has was Chairperson and Treasurer for the LM Newcomers and Old Friends Group. She and her husband Pete are also members of the Water Safety Patrol.
Scott Mein
Foundation Board Member and can't stop teaching. He has been teaching for 38 years and serving as a counselor for 25 years. The retired school teacher organizes and teaches smoking cessation classes and serves as a board member for "On Our Own" in Charlottesville, which is a peer support center for people who have mental health challenges. A movie buff, Scott leads the popular Lake Film Club. He and his wife, Joanne Mein, were avid Pre-COVID travelers.
Nancy Parsons
After a short time as a secondary English teacher, Nancy Parsons spent over 32 years in foundation management, fund-raising, and development at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina and Saint Gertrude High School in Richmond. While living in Columbia, South Carolina, she was a member and president of Women in Philanthropy, an affinity group with the United Way that raises money to fund grants to organizations aiding women and children.
A Lake Monticello homeowner since 2015, Nancy completed the Fluvanna Leadership Development Program in 2018. A member of several groups sponsored by Newcomers and Old Friends, Nancy served as the organization's president in 2018-2019. She also has volunteered for several LMOA events, the Fluvanna County Library, St. Peter and Paul Church and AARP's Tax Aide program.
Jean Shore
After graduating from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, Jean Shore spent 20 years working in many different hotels (Hiltons and Hyatts) in Food & Beverage and Accounting. Then 25 years ago she accepted a position with Hyatt’s corporate office as Director of Hotel Accounting, later supervising the opening (and sadly, closing) of hotels, with each transaction unique and memorable. She eventually started her own business specializing in purchases, sales and management changes for independent hotels that generally needed a bit more direction and guidance than branded hotels. And that led her to (proudly) open one of the best luxury hotels in the US, the Waldorf Astoria in Chicago. For the past 11 years, Jean has been senior vice president-controller for AJ Capital Partners, a private equity real estate group that develops show-stopping, handcrafted hotels, including two in our own back yard, the Graduate Charlottesville and the Graduate Richmond. In that capacity, she has helped build and support a real estate portfolio that has grown from inception to serving more than 40 markets.
Maureen Smith
Maureen Smith worked at IBM, and an IBM Business Partner for a combined forty years, most of which was in Northern California in the Sales Operations and Support areas. She and her husband, Steve, moved to Danbury Connecticut in 1994, where they lived for ten years near Candlewood Lake, which is where they learned to love “Lake Life”. Their final move was to Tufton Pond in 2010. Maureen was Secretary for Newcomers and Old Friends 2018-2019; she also volunteers for Fluvanna Meals on Wheels.
Parsons Honored
Outgoing Lake Monticello Community Foundation President Nancy Parsons was honored Wednesday at a Foundation board meeting for her four years of service as founding president of the Foundation.
During her term, the Foundation was established, began fundraising, donated tens of thousands of dollars to local community service organizations, granted thousands of dollars in scholarships to local high school students, and funded the All-Inclusive Playground and such projects as the new kayak launch ramps being installed at Lake beaches.
In addition to a plaque, board members contributed to a gift certificate for a spa day for Nancy.
New Foundation President Alan Stewart presented the board's thanks to Nancy.
Foundation Committees
The Events Committee’s primary role is to plan, develop strategies and execute a wide variety of events that will not only support the Foundation’s fundraising efforts, but will promote the many positive attributes of the LMOA community as well. The events themselves will be born out of suggestions and discussions of the Foundation’s Board as well as suggestions from LMOA residents and community members themselves. These events should keep in mind the many different age groups, as well as the diversity of residents that make up the LMOA community. The Events Committee will maintain a positive working relation with the LMOA administration, LMOA Board and LMOA staff as well as a pool of talented volunteers that will help in bringing the events to a successful outcome. The success of this committee will also be reliant on the positive working relationships with the other LMCF committees and the surrounding Fluvanna business community.
The Grants Committee role is to develop the process for groups and individuals to apply for grants from the Lake Monticello Community Foundation. Once a grant concept is determined and approved by the Board, this committee discusses the criteria for funding, designs the application form to collect information, develops the request for proposal (RFP), reviews the grant application submissions based on the established criteria, and makes grant funding recommendations to the Board. This committee is also responsible for communication with applicants about whether or not their application was selected for funding, and if required, monitors the grant recipients reports.
The Ideas Committee is responsible for generating and tracking funding ideas that benefit the Lake Monticello community. Committee members solicit ideas from neighbors, discuss new ideas, serve as the repository for recommendations and, based on viability of concepts and monies available, bring funding concepts to the Lake Monticello Community Foundation Board for further discussion, refinement and approval.
The Communications Committee’s role is to make all of the surrounding community aware of the activities of the Foundation. It developed and maintains a Facebook page and website, as well as other social media as needed. It’s also responsible, under the direction of the Board and Officers, for developing press releases, flyers, advertisements and other methods of generating attention to and marketing Foundation activities.