Please join us in welcoming ​Khara Leilani DeWit, our new finance director! 

Khara comes to the Community Foundation with over 18 years of accounting and human-centered leadership experience.  As our finance director, Khara will play a critical role in the daily management of accounting and investment activities, budgets, financial reporting and regulatory compliance and filings for the Community Foundation.

Khara is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience supporting organizations through fractional CFO and accounting roles, both externally and internally. She co-founded South East Market, a community-rooted grocery store working to disrupt systemic inequities in food access in the 49507, with an emphasis on sourcing from Black, Indigenous, POC and women-led farms and businesses.

Khara serves as finance director, leading the daily management of accounting and investment activities, budgets, financial reporting and compliance. She works closely with senior leadership and across departments to ensure fiscal accountability and long-term community impact.

Learn more about Khara, including her favorite local nonprofit organization and restaurants, by visiting her staff profile page.