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Donnette Ellis is the Community Relations and Grant Coordinator in the Office of Community Partnerships, Planning, and Research. She leads efforts to promote community engagement opportunities, showcase Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s role in community vitality, and reinforce a culture of positive campus-community engagement. She coordinates Â鶹¹ÙÍø's community giving programs to enrich local quality of life, build nonprofit capacity, and support community partners. Examples include the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Community Mini-grant Program, Â鶹¹ÙÍø donations and sponsorships, and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Employee Volunteer Initiative Program. She is also the main contact for general office management and reservations for the Katherine Howell Weingart '61 Civic Innovation Pavilion in Renfrow Hall and serves on Staff Council. 

Donnette serves as the Treasurer of the Friends of Drake Community Library Board, an application reviewer for the Â鶹¹ÙÍø-Newburg School Foundation, and also for the Theisen's Family Foundation. She is a lifetime Â鶹¹ÙÍøian and loves spending time with her family. In her free time, she loves to read, traveling to the Denver area to spend time with her granddaughter, and walk her fur baby, Seymour.