Press Release
The Lowcountry Food Bank announced today the appointment of four new board members to the Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation Board of Directors. These appointments bring the number of board members to 15.
New members are Mark Crocker, Erika Harrison, Brian Hubacher, and Chris Tobin. As a retired CPA, Mark brings 40 years of accounting experience to his board role. Erika is a principal, practicing attorney with more than a decade of expertise that includes human services matters. Brian practices law with a current emphasis on probate and trust administration. Chris is a senior-level foundation executive with expertise in non-profit advancement and foundation administration. All four new board members have served in leadership roles and have deep connections to the community through board and service work.
“These four new board members provide additional, professional expertise to help us invest wisely and provide perpetual support to our mission to lead the fight against hunger in the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina we serve,” said Nick Osborne, Lowcountry Food Bank President and CEO. “The Foundation enables us to further expand access to healthy food for the neighbors we serve.”
The creation of the 501(c)(3) Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation and the Patricia S. Walker Endowment was unanimously approved by the Lowcountry Food Bank Board of Directors in fall 2020.
The Foundation enables the Lowcountry Food Bank to further expand access to healthy food and increase its capacity to reach more people in outlying areas of the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina it serves.
The Foundation will donate investment earnings annually to the Lowcountry Food Bank and serve as a dependable source of income that will provide perpetual support to the organization’s mission to lead the fight against hunger in our community.
The Endowment will fund critical programs and needs, including senior and child hunger programs, mobile food distributions and emergency food in times of natural disaster and crisis.
All Foundation estate gifts will be invested in the Endowment to grow in perpetuity. The Endowment provides Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation supporters “a gift that keeps on giving” and provides a vehicle for a bequest to the endowment in their will as a legacy.
Donors may include the Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation in their will or trust, make a tax-wise gift with a beneficiary designation, or generate annual income through a charitable gift.
The Endowment has been established with an investment corpus of more than $1 million. Donors who include the Foundation in their estate plans are recognized as members of the Lowcountry Food Bank Free Plate Legacy Society, which provides public acknowledgment of their donation.
The Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation Board of Directors are as follows:
Pat Walker, Retired, Lowcountry Food Bank – Chair
Tom Jeffries, Retired, Quoizel – Vice Chair/Treasurer
Sue Reynolds, Retired, The Citadel – Secretary
Aaron Brewer, Founder – Category 4 Capital
Tyler Condon, Co-founder – Lobee Learning
Mark Crocker, Partner, Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP (Retired)
Monifa Ellington, Community Relations – Ingevity
Erika Harrison, Principal, Law Office of Erika V. Harrison
Brian Hubacher, Associate Attorney, Kuhn & Kuhn, LLC
Dr. Bob Kahle, Managing Director – Kahle Strategic Insights
Steve Swanson, Co-Founder – Automated Trading Desk
Henry Tisdale, Retired – Claflin University
Chris Tobin, Exec. VP of Institutional Advancement and Exec. Director, College of Charleston Foundation
Ex-Officio Lowcountry Food Bank Foundation Board Members Nick Osborne, President & CEO – Lowcountry Food Bank and Monica Scott, Chair – Lowcountry Food Bank Board of Directors.
The role of the Foundation Board is to manage the endowment fund effectively to help fund the mission of the LCFB. The Foundation Board has no role or participation in annual giving or development efforts other than supporting planned giving.
For more information, please contact Brenda Shaw, Lowcountry Food Bank Chief Development Officer at bshaw@lcfbank.org or 843-747-8146, ext. 104.
