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Sunflower Foundation has named Elizabeth Burger, a longtime program officer who has been integral in helping spearhead the Topeka-based health philanthropy’s work across Kansas, as its new senior vice president of programs and strategy, effective July 1. In this role, Burger will manage the necessary infrastructure to achieve the foundation’s programmatic vision, providing oversight for proposal development and support for stakeholder engagement and program convenings. She will be instrumental in driving the foundation’s culture and approach to grantmaking. “In her nearly 12 years with Sunflower, she has invested considerable time and energy in building relationships and in meeting partners in their own communities to better understand their challenges and to learn from their work,” said Brandon Skidmore, president and CEO of the foundation. Most recently, as vice president of Healthy Communities, Burger has been leading the foundation’s work in enhancing the built environment and its influences on health and wellness, to include Sunflower’s signature trails program and improving access to the outdoors, in addition to her work in food access, nutrition security and nonprofit capacity building. Her new role will include overseeing the foundation’s program staff in both Healthy Communities and Health Systems. “I am ready to embrace my next chapter at Sunflower and the new role I will play in advancing some of our flagship work around trails and access to the outdoors, integrated care and behavioral health, nutrition security and nonprofit capacity building,” Burger said.

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This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: It's Your Business has Sunflower Foundation