Foundation Source Appoints Dominique Sinyard Smith Vice President, Partner Marketing

FAIRFIELD CONN.  -- March 30, 2010 -- Foundation Source, the nation's leading provider of support services for private foundations, announced the appointment of Dominique Sinyard Smith as Vice President, Partner Marketing. Ms. Smith will lead the company’s growing successful efforts to partner with leading wealth advisory firms to provide a full suite of support services, including administrative, compliance, tax filing and strategic advice, to private foundation clients.
 
Ms. Smith is regarded as an expert in business development, financial and philanthropic planning, and relationship management to high net worth clientele.  She comes to Foundation Source from Wachovia Nonprofit and Philanthropic Services, a Wells Fargo Company, where she was repeatedly recognized as the top performing philanthropic consultant nationwide. Previously, she was honored as the top performing relationship manager at Wachovia Wealth Management, Atlanta. In her new position at Foundation Source, Smith will oversee the continued growth and management of the company’s partner relationships.

Page Snow, Foundation Source’s Chief Philanthropic Officer, said, “Partnership relationships account for upwards of 40 percent of our client base and growing. They are tremendously important to our forward strategy and we are tremendously fortunate to have Dominique Smith to lead that effort. She is a proven leader in the High Net Worth sector and will be a great asset to the Foundation Source management team.”

Dominique Smith said, “With almost five billion dollars under administration and some of the nation’s most prominent donors as clients, Foundation Source sets the pace in providing state-of-the-art support services to private foundations. Increasingly, wealth advisory firms are looking to partner with Foundation Source to provide a complete “end-to-end” solution for their high net worth clients. Foundation Source has revolutionized how private foundations are managed, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to share that message with firms around the country.”

Dominique Smith is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a Certified Financial Planner ™ designation. A native of New Orleans, she lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband Todd.  She is an active member and volunteer with the Junior League of New York, The Nazareth House, Junior Achievement, Goodwill Industries, and Big Brothers Big Sisters.

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Recognized as Philanthropic Group of the Year by the editors of Private Asset Management, Foundation Source is the nation's leading provider of support services for private foundations. The company's full suite of back-office, online, support and advisory services allow foundations to focus on their mission, strategy and family priorities, and less on administration and compliance tasks. The result: better run foundations with greater social impact.

Foundation Source offers a full range of award-winning services to nearly 900 private foundations coast-to-coast representing over $4 billion in foundation assets. Foundation Source provides its services through partnerships with the nation's leading private wealth management firms, trust and estate attorneys and CPAs. The company is headquartered in Fairfield, CT with regional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.

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