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Meléndez Joins The Horizon Foundation

Rosimar Meléndez has joined The Horizon Foundation staff as Senior Staff Associate. She comes to the Foundation from the United Way of Central Maryland, where she was Regional Director for Howard and Anne Arundel Counties.

A native of Puerto Rico, Meléndez is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.

In her new job, Meléndez will oversee the Foundation’s responsive grantmaking programs, serve as a resource to the nonprofit community and assist Foundation President Richard Krieg with program planning and evaluation.
   
Krieg said, "Rosimar brings an excellent skill set to us in every phase of proposal review and grant program management.  Given demographic changes in our county, I’m also thrilled that she is a native Spanish speaker."

"Rosimar has been a member of our local funder’s group, so I’ve worked with her on key issues involving mutual grantees," he added.  "She comes to us with excellent knowledge of the local service delivery system as well as individual nonprofits."

At the United Way, Meléndez oversaw fundraising, grants and volunteer management, community relations and marketing, and public relations for both Howard and Anne Arundel Counties. She also led, managed and assigned a portfolio of corporate accounts totaling over $4 million.

Before joining the United Way, she was Director of the Women’s Business Center in Fayetteville, NC, an agency that helps local entrepreneurs start or expand small or home-based businesses. One of her accomplishments there was securing a grant to start a microlending program.

She has also been Marketing and Communications Director for the United Way of Cumberland County in Fayetteville, Public Relations Director/Account Executive at Hodges Associates in Fayetteville, Fund Development and Public Relations Director for the Girl Scouts of Concharty Council in Columbus, GA and a Market Research Analyst for the Department of the Army’s Marketing Division in Vicenza, Italy.    

Meléndez lives in Laurel with her husband, Enrique, a US Army Major and Ranger assigned to the Asymmetric Warfare Group at Fort Meade, and their 11-year-old daughter Lyanne.
   
The Horizon Foundation, Howard County’s largest philanthropy, addresses community health issues through strategic grants, community programs and partnerships with private and public institutions.