Female Faces of Philanthropy: Ann W. Lovell

Ann W. Lovell's commitment to philanthropy is a family tradition. She is the Executive Director and a Trustee of The David C. and Lura M. Lovell Foundation, which was founded by her parents. The Lovell Foundation is a private family foundation focusing on three major areas of funding: social issues related to mental illness such as housing, work opportunities, research and education; integrative medicine with an emphasis on arthritis and cancer programs; and education including spiritual training, philanthropic programs, and cultural and scholarship opportunities for at-risk youth.

Ann is also a Director and Treasurer of The Bravewell Collaborative, a Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine, established in 2002. This operating foundation strives to bring about optimal health and healing for both individuals and society by advancing integrative medicine, offering strategic program initiatives that create optimal healing environments for both patients and healers, creating an atmosphere of collaboration that stimulates and supports innovation in integrative medicine, and providing educational opportunities for health professionals, philanthropists and consumers to move American healthcare toward integrative medicine.

A committed member of the Tucson community, she is the Founder and Director of the Valley Foundation, which provides college scholarships to local residents based on extra-curricular activities, employment and community participation. Ann currently serves on the advisory council for the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona and has served on the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 's Grants Panel and Achievement Awards Panel. She is a past chairman and current member of the Southern Arizona Grantmakers.

Ann has recently joined the Women's Leadership Board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . Ann has had more than twenty years experience in business, focusing on financial accounting and tax consulting.