Susan Kirkpatrick

Susan Kirkpatrick is the Associate Vice President, Marketing & Communications at the Community Foundation. In this role, she is responsible for shaping and executing the Community Foundation’s brand, messaging, and outreach efforts, as well as overseeing all aspects of marketing, communications, and public relations to enhance visibility, engage stakeholders, and support philanthropic growth.

Susan is a seasoned communications professional with experience in the Boston, Atlanta and Buffalo markets, working in both agency and corporate settings.   Before joining the Community Foundation, Susan served as Chief Communications Officer for The John R. Oishei Foundation where she led all aspects of its marketing and communications. She also supported the Foundation’s grantees with communications counsel and capacity building programs, including the highly successful StoryGrowing program. Prior to that she also founded and managed her own communications consulting practice, providing marketing/communications services to a wide variety of businesses and nonprofit organizations in Western New York.

Susan earned her B.S. in Business Management from Alfred University.