Ashley Walden
Vice President of Community Impact
Contact Ashley at 417-864-6199.
As vice president of community impact, Ashley Walden oversees the CFO’s wide range of grantmaking and scholarship programs. She brings years of nonprofit leadership to the CFO, previously serving with the Mercy Health Foundation, Springfield Ballet and United Way of the Ozarks.
Ashley graduated from Drury University in 2005 with a bachelor’s in business administration. She is a member of Rotary Club of Southeast Springfield and chairs its Rotary Youth Leadership Awards committee. Ashley also has volunteered with Springfield Ballet Guild, Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland and Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club. She is a member of Leadership Springfield’s Signature Class 33.
In addition to spending time with her husband and three daughters, she loves live music and all forms of art. Ashley lives by the words of Mother Teresa: “Do small things with great love.”