Shirley Fredricks

Vice-President and Trustee of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation

Shirley served as President of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation for 17 years. She founded its next-generation adjunct board for training and succession and transferred leadership of the Foundation to the third generation. She is a founding board member and former co-chair of Los Angeles Urban Funders (LAUF), an economic development collaborative of 26 foundations working in three inner-city Los Angeles neighborhoods. Shirley served for seven years on the board of the Council on Foundations in Washington, DC and was a founding board member of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, a national resource for direct services, publications and research on family philanthropy. She is a member of its development committee and was chair of its 2003 California Research Initiative on Donors. She also served on the board of Southern California Grantmakers, an association of 175 Southern California foundations, for 13 years.

Currently Shirley is also a member of the Advisory Council of the USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy. She works with donors, families and their investment advisors and the national organizations that assist them. She has published several articles on family philanthropy and is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences.