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Published on: 1/21/2004
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Laura Hansen DeanPresidentCommunity Foundation of Southern Indiana
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Laura Hansen DeanLaura Hansen Dean, Attorney at Law, became President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, a four-county community foundation headquartered in New Albany, Indiana on July 1, 2003.Immediately before joining the Community Foundation, she was Of Counsel with the Fort Wayne, Indiana, office of Barnes & Thornburg, Indiana's largest law firm.For over 20 years she has assisted individuals and families in estate planning, incorporating charitable giving in financial and estate planning, the creation of charitable organizations, and the selections of recipients of charitable grants.In addition, she provides consulting services to charitable organizations in designing, implementing and evaluating major and planned giving programs, assists in charitable gift negotiations for the benefit of a wide variety of charitable organizations and advises on the management of charitable organizations.
She is a frequent speaker to estate planning councils, professional advisor associations, and national conferences on resource development and served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on Planned Giving from 1991 through 1993, authored the 1992 Gift Planner Profile, the 1995 Gift Planner Profile and was the 1993 Chair of the Education Committee.She served as the 1995-97 President of The Planned Giving Group of Indiana.She serves on the editorial review committee for the Journal of Gift Planning, is a member of the board of directors of the Ball State University Foundation and serves as a National Operational Volunteer for the Girl Scouts of the USA.
She has served as associate director of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, as executive director and legal counsel for the Ball State University Foundation, and as Senior Legal Counsel and Director of Gift Planning for the Central Indiana Community Foundation, Inc. and its affiliated foundations.She is a magna cum laude graduate of Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis.