Ball Brothers Foundation Welcomes 2023 Fellows to Strengthen Nonprofit Leadership in East Central Indiana
Ball Brothers Foundation is pleased to welcome two new Fellows for 2023: Nate Howard (Executive Director of Muncie Land Bank) and Trevor Friedeberg (President & CEO of East Central Indiana Regional Partnership). For nearly twenty years, the Fellows Program has annually given two nonprofit leaders in East Central Indiana the opportunity for two-way dialogue to help broaden their understanding of the foundation world.
Fellows meet face-to-face with Ball Brothers Foundation staff members once a month from April through December. In addition to investing in local nonprofit leaders and listening to their perspectives on nonprofit management and current community issues, the program is a way for the foundation to demonstrate its transparency and receive feedback and insights from grantees.
The goals of the Fellows Program are to help leaders better understand how Ball Brothers Foundation and foundations in general operate, gain new nonprofit management skills, and develop new leadership skills.
Trevor Friedeberg
Trevor Friedeberg has served as President and CEO of the East Central Indiana Regional partnership since 2022. He came to the Partnership after 13 years at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation where he was the Director of Business Development Projects, supporting business attraction and retention efforts throughout the state. He was a volunteer member of Downtown Lansing, Inc. for 10 years, serving the city’s Main Street community development efforts. He is a certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) through the National Development Council and earned a B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy from Michigan State University as well as his Executive MBA from the Eli Broad College of Business. He resides in Delaware County.
Nate Howard
Nate Howard began serving as Executive Director of the Muncie Land Bank (MLB) in 2022, a quasi-public nonprofit, which works to acquire abandoned property, preserve it, and provide it to the public for strategic redevelopment. Nate is a Muncie native, who prior to returning to his hometown in 2021, spent 17+ years working in Latin America in the field of local development. During his time in Latin America, Nate helped to develop and launch two international non-profit organizations. Nate holds a BA in International Business from Taylor University, and two post graduate degrees, a master’s from Eastern University in International Development and a specialization in Solidarity Economics from the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia. In addition to his work with the MLB, Nate continues to serve on the boards of the two non-profits he helped to found and is doing some adjunct teaching through Ball State's Urban Planning Department.