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Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Adds Two to Staff
August 07, 2017Bailey Schorr and Leslie Vargas-Prada have joined the staff at Community Foundation of the Lowcountry.
Schorr will serve as program associate, assisting with grant management and administration, serving as a liaison to several fund advisory committees and providing support for special projects and initiatives. He ’s a recent graduate of University of South Carolina Beaufort where he majored in psychology and minored in French. While a student, Schorr and a classmate built and maintained a hydroponic garden. Vegetables grown were donated to the Jasper County Boys & Girls Club and integrated into a cooking class that taught the children about healthy cooking and the benefits of eating vegetables.
Schorr hails from Bel Air, Md.
Vargas-Prada recently moved to the Lowcountry from the Atlanta area. Her professional background includes over 20 years of administrative management and client relationship experience, primarily in the financial industries. Most recently she was employed for over 12 years with VRA Partners, an investment banking firm in Atlanta, and prior to that worked with The Robinson-Humphrey Company in both Atlanta and Hilton Head. In her new position, donor services liaison, she ’ll serve as a liaison between the Community Foundation and select donors, handle aspects of donor relationship management and engagement, undertake outreach efforts with constituent groups and assist with various donor and development committees.
Vargas-Prada received a B.S. degree in business administration from Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC.