With great excitement, the Coronado Community Foundation (CCF) Board of Directors announces that Michelle Gilmore will join the organization as its first CEO on September 1, 2024. “Michelle has served on our Advisory Council since its inception and has been a sounding board, a valued source of advice, and a cheerleader for CCF since we launched in 2021,”  said Board Chair Helen Kupka, adding, “I have no doubts she will take CCF to new heights.” Previously CEO of the Coronado Schools...

Since its launch a few months ago, the Exceptional Families Program has held three events: Earth Day in the Coronado Cays (pictured above), family picnic day at the Rady Shell, and a meet-up at the Promenade Concert. The impact is already being felt. CCF is actively seeking donations from the community to ensure the Exceptional Families Program can be expanded and sustained. The Coronado Community Foundation (CCF) is hard at work this year with the launch of the Exceptional Families Program....

Featured in Coronado 365 Magazine By Beth Wood Helen Kupka, chair of the Coronado Community Foundation Board, had misgivings before moving to the Crown City in 2010. But her husband, Sig, was determined. “Sig wanted a boat in his backyard,” the former Silicon Valley resident said, speaking from her Coronado Cays home. “I was ready to kill him! But now you couldn’t get me out of here with an atomic bomb. “I’ve never lived anywhere before that I wouldn’t live anywhere else. People here care...