Cheryl Noe, C.F.R.E.

With over 30 years of experience in all aspects of fundraising, Cheryl Noe has had a multitude of experience in raising support for nonprofits in social service, arts, education, religion, and community and national foundations. She has successfully executed capital and annual fund campaigns, grant writing, major gifts funding, and planned giving efforts for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, Easter Seals of East Georgia, Providence Memorial Hospital Foundation (El Paso, TX), Midland Community Theatre (TX), Permian Basin Area Foundation (Midland, TX), Project C.U.R.E. Nashville, and the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation (TN). She has been an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) for most of her career, and was recognized as the Permian Basin (Midland, Texas) Chapter’s 1995 Fundraising Executive of the Year and the Greater Nashville (Tennessee) Chapter’s 2008 Fundraising Executive of the Year. She has established charitable endowments benefitting charities in Moscow, Costa Rica, and Banska Bystrica, as well as hosted teas, conducted seminars, planned international theatre festivals, bass fishing tournaments, horse shows, jump rope marathons, spelling bees, 5k races, Oktoberfests, planetarium shows and way-late playdates, a mini-maker faire or two, charity symphony concerts, radiothons, celebrity turkey frys and golf classics, a 24-hour television telethon, a 2-hour television special, endowment dinners in Saint Paul (MN), Seattle (WA), Charlotte (NC), Washington (DC), and Atlanta (GA), just to name a few events.

Cheryl currently serves on nonprofit boards for Tracy Lawrence’s Mission:Possible providing support for the homeless in Middle Tennessee, Solidarity Ministries Africa for Reconciliation and Development (SMARD) supporting education equality in South Sudan, and Mayor John Cooper’s Sustainability Advisory Committee for Metro Nashville. She and her husband Derek have four grown children: Sam (27, who works in television production and is a class 4/5 whitewater kayaker), Grace (23, who has served as a missionary in Swaziland, India, Nepal, and Guatemala with the World Race, and is getting married in September), Mitchell (23, who works in the fire sprinkler industry and is working towards owning his own company someday), and Myles (20, who is working on his Associate’s Degree, and plans to teach and coach soccer). They live on a farm north of Nashville with dogs Bruiser, Hank, and Persephone, five ducks, and a goose named Gert.