Meet our people
Our board of trustees and staff is a diverse group of individuals committed to achieving gender equity. We each leverage our strengths, talents, networks, and resources to further the mission of The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. We diligently use the power of our community, philanthropy, and impact to create a future where women and girls of every background and identity can prosper.
President & CEO - Renee Ferrufino (she/her)
About Renee:
Renee Ferrufino became the first Latina to lead The Women’s Foundation of Colorado in January 2025. Prior, as vice president of development, Ferrufino oversaw all of The Foundation’s fundraising strategies and grew annual contributions from $2.3 million in 2016 to nearly $6 million in fiscal year 2023-24. In that time, she also increased donor-advised funds from six to over 80, designed the Women & Girls of Color Fund that has granted more than $2.5 million to nonprofits since 2021, and developed a menu of impact investing opportunities for donors - including the nation’s first women’s impact investing giving circle providing low-interest loans to women entrepreneurs.
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Ferrufino was named a 2024 “Who’s Who In Impact Investing” by the Denver Business Journal and a 2024 “Top 25 Most Powerful Women In Business” honoree by The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She is a board member of Philanthropy Colorado, a member of the Colorado Inclusive Economy’s 2024 cohort and the Women’s Funding Network Gender & Capital Leverage Strategy Design Council, and an alumna of Institute for Leaders in Development at University of Denver.
“My vision centers on partnering with board and staff to evolve The Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s community impact, especially during this moment when women’s progress is in peril. I am driven to push beyond conventional philanthropic models by strategically leveraging all of our assets, such as financial capital, expertise, and community understanding to create lasting change.”
Meet Our FY 2024-2025 Board of Trustees
Chair of the Board - Tania Zeigler
Tania is a certified executive coach with 20 years of experience in diverse leadership roles within the healthcare, government and insurance industries and in non-profit leadership. She spent many of those years working to make care more affordable, equitable and compassionate for patients and their families. Serving as a leader afforded her the profound privilege of developing leaders and teams. Tania's greatest achievement is that she helped her employees and colleagues find joy, balance and new possibilities for their career and their lives.
Named a Denver Business Journal 40-under-40 Outstanding Leader, Tania is a graduate of the Leadership Coaching program at the Georgetown Institute for Transformational Leadership, a Co-active certified coach, and certified as a Leadership Circle Profile practitioner and in the EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence 360 instrument. She has a particular passion for catalyzing brilliance within every leader, through deep listening, cultural curiosity and awareness, and exploring values, identity, purpose and deeply held desires for personal growth.
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Tania's passion for leadership is matched by her commitment to strengthening our community. As Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Women's Foundation of Colorado, she works with leaders around the state to advance economic equity for Colorado women and families. She is also co-chair of the Campus Improvements Campaign for Bluff Lake Nature Center.
When Tania's not coaching, she passes the time ogling recipes in the New York Times cooking app, playing tennis, running, nurturing close friendships, and when there isn't a global pandemic, traveling as much as possible. She lives in Denver with her husband and two sons.