As Community Investments Director for Communities Foundation of Texas, Ashley leads CFT’s place-based community investments strategy aligned with the organization’s five-year strategic plan, which focuses on sustainable community revitalization in neighborhoods in Southern Dallas – South Dallas, The Bottom/Oak Cliff, and the Education Corridor. Her team’s portfolio focuses on comprehensive community development, including affordable housing, education and workforce, community health, nonprofit capacity building.
One of Ashley’s favorite aspects of her role is building connections within the community through capacity building, grantmaking, and relationship building.
During Ashley’s tenure at CFT, she has grown and developed a nonprofit network focused on economic security through strategic investments and capacity-building. Ashley is a coach of people and organizations who is passionate about data, impact, proximity, and relationship building — keys to effectively supporting communities, nonprofits, and individuals so they are better able to connect their work and purpose to improving systems.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP / BOARD SERVICE
Ashley is the co-author of “I Said What I Said,” an anthology of Black women in nonprofit. She represents the Foundation on several boards and committees, including Co-chair, North Texas Asset Funder’s Network, Tarrant To and Through, Junior League of Dallas Advisory Board, Texas Opportunity Youth Advisory Council, Wells Elementary PTA, Workforce Matters (2020-2023), Encore Park (2022-2023), and DFW Regional Housing Consortium (2020-2022).