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Donnette Ellis is the Community Relations and Grant Coordinator in the Office of Community Partnerships, Planning, and Research. She leads efforts to promote community engagement opportunities, showcase Ë®¹ûÅÉ’s role in community vitality, and reinforce a culture of positive campus-community engagement. She coordinates Ë®¹ûÅÉ's community giving programs to enrich local quality of life, build nonprofit capacity, and support community partners. Examples include the Ë®¹ûÅÉ Community Mini-grant Program, Ë®¹ûÅÉ donations and sponsorships, and the Ë®¹ûÅÉ Employee Volunteer Initiative Program. She is also the main contact for general office management and reservations for the Katherine Howell Weingart '61 Civic Innovation Pavilion in Renfrow Hall. 

Donnette serves as the Treasurer of the Friends of Drake Community Library Board, is a lifetime Ë®¹ûÅÉian and loves spending time with her family. In her free time, she loves to read, traveling to the Denver area to spend time with her granddaughter, and walk her fur baby, Seymour.