Alyssa Curran is currently a Strategist on the Responsive Philanthropy team at Missouri Foundation for Health. She works on Opportunity Fund, a responsive funding mechanism investing in efforts that create systems level change for the pursuit of more equitable communities. She also facilitates MoCAP, which helps organizations pursue federal funding. She moved back to St. Louis to join Deaconess Foundation in 2016 and came to MFH in 2018. She enjoyed helping lead the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) St. Louis Chapter from 2017-2020 to create a more just and equitable sector. She started her career at Fremont Area Community Foundation in West Michigan. She enjoys finding balance and spiritual alignment, nature, exploration, and playing in various musical projects.
Maile Auterson is a fourth generation Ozarks farmer and founding director of Springfield Community Gardens, a grassroots network of 14 community gardens and two urban farms. Under her direction, the organization has received 15 million dollars in federal funding to address small farm needs and food insecurity in 22 rural and urban counties.
She is a recipient of an environmental award from James River Basin Partnership and an appointee to the Food Security Task Force by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Maile is recognized as a Food Justice Visionary by Missouri Foundation for Health, on the Agriculture Education Advisory Board of Springfield Public Schools, and a designated collaborator with Convoy of Hope Center for Agriculture and Food Security.
Doris Boeckman is co-founder and one of three partners of Community Asset Builders, LLC (CAB) and has 35 years of experience in healthcare. Her emphasis is in resource development/grant writing and association management for mostly non-profit organizations, to include federally qualified health care centers, hospitals, local public health agencies, state departments and associations, in addition to other local, regional and statewide organizations. She served as the contracted Executive Coordinator for the Missouri Association of County Developmental Disabilities Services from 2001-2012 and contracted Executive Director for the Missouri Public Transit Association from 2006-2015. In the past 24 years, the Community Asset Builders team has brought hundreds of millions in resources to Missouri to improve healthcare.
CAB is also one of three organizations that comprise the Washington County Mobile Integrated Healthcare Network, a non-profit organization working to expand MIH both statewide and nationally. Doris serves as a founding board member. The Washington County MIH Network was awarded 1st place in the Health Resources and Services Administration’s competitive national Primary Care Challenge in 2023 for its novel rural healthcare model. She is also active at the state and national level in promotion of MIH expansion and sustainability.
She has a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing from Lincoln University and resides with her family in rural Callaway County. She and her husband enjoy spending time with their adult children and families, especially their two granddaughters.
