Dayton Foundation Del Mar Fellow, Noreen Willhelm
The Dayton Foundation's Del Mar Fellows Initiative seeks to harness the talents and expertise of Greater Dayton's highly-skilled retired or career-transitioning older adults help area nonprofits address community issues with work that has led to the creation of new tools, resources, insights and initiatives for the betterment of the Miami Valley.
Noreen Willhelm is a Del Mar Encore Fellow with The Dayton Foundation, working with Home, Inc. She previously led the Foundation’s Encore Fellows initiative, before retiring for the second time in 2022. (She is very bad at retirement). After working for nine years as a journalist with the Journal Herald and the Dayton Daily News, she spent more than 30 years in nonprofits, including serving as executive director of Planned Parenthood of the Greater Miami Valley, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Rhythm in Shoes and The Grail in the United States.
She retired from the Grail in 2016, before returning to the workforce as Senior Fellow with The Dayton Foundation in 2018. Noreen has served on the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District, which funds local arts organizations and initiatives, since 2008. She and her husband, Vince “Mac” McKelvey, live on a farm in Jefferson Township in Montgomery County, where they operated one of the regions first CSA (community supported agriculture) programs in the early 2000s. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.
She retired from the Grail in 2016, before returning to the workforce as Senior Fellow with The Dayton Foundation in 2018. Noreen has served on the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District, which funds local arts organizations and initiatives, since 2008. She and her husband, Vince “Mac” McKelvey, live on a farm in Jefferson Township in Montgomery County, where they operated one of the regions first CSA (community supported agriculture) programs in the early 2000s. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.
Many thanks to the Dayton Foundation for strengthening our mission by giving us the honor of working with Noreen!
