THE CFOS FOUNDATION BOARD

Candi Avery

Board Chair

Candi Avery, CPA, is an audit principal at Clark Nuber P.S. a large local accounting firm located in Bellevue, Washington.  She has 18 years of experience focused exclusively on providing audit and consulting services to the not-for-profit sector.  She routinely speaks on complex accounting issues, policies and procedures, federal grant compliance, enterprise risk management, and board governance topics.

Candi is a popular instructor for Not-for-Profit Basics workshops, and she routinely speaks at seminars geared to the not-for-profit professional.

Candi is a member of the Fred Hutch planned giving advisory committee and has previously served on the Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professional’s board as its Treasurer.  She also currently serves on the planning committee for the AICPA National Governmental and Not-For-Profit Training Program Conference.  

Candi received her Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Western Washington University and is a member of Leadership Tomorrow Class of 2016. She lives in Maple Valley with her husband and two active boys who enjoy baseball, boating and traveling to warm places. 

Mimi Siegel

Since 1978, Mimi Siegel has served as executive director of Kindering, a nonprofit neurodevelopmental center helping infants and children with special needs. Kindering is one of the largest and most comprehensive centers in the US; its work has been honored locally and nationally.

Mimi has published several articles regarding early intervention, therapeutic child care, and foster care. She is a founding member and past chairperson of the Early Childhood Development Association of Washington.

Mimi chaired strategic planning and external relations efforts for the board of Amara.  She has served on the board of trustees of Intiman Theatre (Vice-President and Chair of Strategic Planning as well as on the Artistic Director Search Committee), and United Way of King County Eastside Community Council. She was also a member of the City of Bellevue Downtown Implementation Plan Community Advisory Council.   Mimi joined the board of Social Venture Partners in 2008.

Mimi is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin (BA history) and Case Western Reserve University (MA history).  She is married to Martin Siegel, MD, and has two adult children, Elizabeth and Marc.

Sue Sander

Secretary

Sue Sander is an Environmental Protection Specialist for Leidos Corporation/Federal Aviation Association Reports for Airport expansion projects in the US. She is also the President of ATI, a Renewable Energy Consulting company in the NW. In the past, Sue was also the former president of Shapiro and Associates, Inc., and was responsible for management and direction of the Northwest’s largest environmental firm. Sue continues to provide expertise in the fields of business management, financial administration, human resources, marketing, and sustainability/climate change prevention.

Sue is honored to have been one of the initial CFOS Board Members and supported its incredible commitment to help Nonprofits Organizations and currently Foster Care Children/Families/Organization in the Pacific Northwest.

She previously served on the Board for the Seattle Aquarium and Bellevue Art Museum, and currently serving on the following Boards: Bellevue School District’s Ski School Program, Somerset Community Association, Institute for Energy Resource Management (IERM will help to develop US/ Worldwide Renewable Energy and Resource Management Facilities (e.g., Waste-to-Energy, Plastic/Sewage Sludge Incineration Facilities that produce Energy and Clean Air Emissions).

Sue earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Western Washington University and an MBA from the University of Puget Sound. In addition, Sue and her family have grown up in the Bellevue area and enjoy being in the Pacific Northwest every day!

Cedric Davis

Cedric works as a trusted partner to help philanthropists build relationships and bridge their passions with critical community needs.

From families to nonprofits to businesses, Cedric works with a wide variety of philanthropists to ensure they receive a personal approach to their community impact.

Personal Philanthropic Interests and Passions:

• Education, mentorship and youth development
• Preventing gun violence and vigilantism
• Foster care

Cedric brings expertise in sales, marketing and consulting. He previously managed national partnerships at Casey Family Programs, a foundation focused on improving child welfare.

An active community member, Cedric currently serves as an advisor with Mentoring Urban Students & Teens, as a Board Director with Mothers for Justice United and as a Trustee with Seattle Pacific University and also works at Seattle Foundation.

Cedric enjoys time with family, playing golf and capoeira.

Derenda Timmons Schubert

Derenda Timmons Schubert has been the Executive Director of Bridge Meadows since 2007.  Bridge Meadows is a nonprofit organization that focuses on developing and sustaining intergenerational neighborhoods for adoptive families of foster children that promote permanency, community, and caring relationships, while offering safety and meaningful purpose in the daily lives of older adults.

Prior to Bridge Meadows, Derenda was with Trillium Family Services for almost ten years, serving in positions such as Chief External Affairs Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Trillium is one of Oregon’s largest nonprofit organizations devoted to children’s mental health, providing services ranging from in-home to hospital level care including school-based services, crisis services, alternative education, and therapeutic foster care. Before joining Trillium, Derenda was a practicing psychologist and clinician in the greater Portland area.

Derenda holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from DePaul University, a Master of Arts from the Clinical Child Psychology Program at DePaul University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Purdue University.

She is an Advisory Member to the Sara Start Fund, a Former Board Member of the Coalition for Equal Access for Girls and a Former Member of the Board of Directors for the Autistic Children’s Activity Program. Currently, she is a Commissioner on the Oregon Volunteers Commission.

Carol Wire

Carol Wire is the Associate Executive Director of Dress for Success Oregon, a nonprofit that focuses on job procurement and retention for low-income women. Prior to Dress for Success, Carol was the first Executive Director of Oregon PTA, a 110-year-old volunteer organization. She worked extensively with the legislature on educational issues and with the Oregon Education Investment Board to institute high-quality parent engagement strategies in the schools.

Carol also served as Executive Director for Kids on the Block, a nonprofit working in the schools on issues of abuse, diversity, disability, safety, and healthy choices. She was Deputy Director for the Oregon Commission on Children and Families, Director for Washington County Commission on Children and Families, and the Director for Multnomah Commission on Children and Families. Carol was also the Co-Chair of the Grant-Making Committee for the Oregon Women’s Foundation and the Board Vice Chair for Family Solutions.

Carol holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Mount Holyoke College and is a graduate of the Pacific Program for Leadership in Public Administration.

She has also completed graduate work in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and in Public Administration at Portland State University’s Executive Leadership Institute.

Jerry Heemstra

Jerry Heemstra is an accounting and finance professional with over 30 years of experience in leading accounting teams, mergers and acquisitions, budget and planning processes and development, working with boards of directors, multi-company integration, financial reporting, credit management, forecasting, debt compliance, and economic research.  He has a background in federal and multi-state tax issues, employee benefits, and successfully managing complex projects including software development and conversion initiatives.

Jerry is a CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant) and has an Executive MBA from the University of Iowa and a B. A. in Business/Economics from Northwestern College.  When he’s not working, Jerry is involved in his church and also enjoys backpacking, hiking the Cascade and Olympic mountains, bicycling, and downhill skiing.

Todd Kimball

Treasurer

Todd Kimball is a senior accounting professional with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit and government sectors. His expertise has generated a consistent track record of finance and accounting solutions that work. He excels at solving the most challenging not-for-profit accounting issues, creating process efficiencies, motivating and utilizing staff to their full potential, implementing internal controls and providing sound technical expertise to move organizations forward.

As a Partner with CFO Selections, Todd leads the non-profit practice in Oregon and SW Washington. 

Beginning his career as an auditor with the Oregon Audits Division and Moss Adams, Todd then became the Assistant Controller at Mercy Corps.  Since joining CFO Selections in 2014, Todd has worked with over 20 non-profits as a fractional CFO, taking on challenging accounting projects and performing financial assessments.

Todd is an Oregon state Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of George Fox University with a BA in Accounting and Finance. When he is not focused on his many philanthropic endeavors, he enjoys traveling to faraway places, skiing on snow and water, and grilling in the backyard.

Robin Rothe

When asked, Robin defines her professional career in three segments, all of which were centered around vulnerable children.  Robin received her undergraduate and master’s in special education from Bloomsburg University and Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.  The first phase of Robin’s career phase covered eleven years in teaching and administration in the public schools of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.   During her time in New Jersey, Robin was on the Board of Directors of The ARC of Morris County, New Jersey where she created a summer program for young children with special needs.  She was also an adjunct instructor of special education at Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey.

The second phase of Robin’s career took her into the business world through an educational publishing company as a sales representative in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Within three years, she was promoted to National Sales Manager and relocated to the company’s corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas area where she was lived for 9 years.  She was responsible for the hiring, training and management of the national sales force that included extensive travel throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.  Robin eventually assumed additional marketing responsibilities.   When the company was sold in 1993, she was recruited to join another educational publishing company with corporate headquarters in Bothell, Washington.   Hired to develop a marketing department, Robin relocated to the Pacific Northwest to become Vice of Marketing with additional sales management responsibilities covering the Mid- Atlantic Region and Canada.  Robin served on the Board of Directors for Books for Kids, a nonprofit children’s literacy organization based in Seattle, Washington.

Retiring from educational publishing after sixteen years when the company was sold to the Tribune Company, Robin’s interests led her in to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.  She returned to graduate school at Seattle University for a second Masters in Non-Profit Leadership.   Robin held a management position with a private charitable foundation and became involved with several non-profits serving vulnerable children.  For nine years, Robin was a partner of Social Venture Partners, a member of Philanthropy Northwest, and was a volunteer for Hopelink for six years.  While a resident of Mill Creek, she served on the Arts Advisory Council for the city of Mill Creek.

With more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Robin currently serves on several nonprofit boards including a leadership role as a Board Secretary for Kindering, a neurodevelopmental center helping infants and children with special needs.   Robin is the Managing Trustee of a private charitable foundation, is a Board Trustee of the Bellevue Art Museum, volunteers with a local woman’s shelter, with Meals on Wheels, and serves on the Advisory Board of the CFOS Foundation.

Former leadership roles included serving on Amara’s Board of Directors for thirteen plus years (including three as Board Chair).  Amara is a 100-year-old nonprofit agency supporting children and their families involved with the child welfare system. 

Robin has lived in the Pacific Northwest for 28 years and resident of Kirkland, Washington.