Amoroso is Lovell Foundation executive director
John Amoroso is the new executive director of the David and Lura Lovell Foundation, which was founded in 1994 and is based in Tucson.
The family foundation supports nonprofit projects related to mental health, integrative medicine, cultural and spiritual enrichment and other family-initiated grants. In 2015 the foundation awarded more than $2 million to 15 nonprofits in Tucson, six in Toledo, Ohio, and several national projects.
Over the past 15 years, Amoroso has managed multimillion-dollar grant portfolios from the design to the reporting phase.
He has served as program officer for The Ford Family Foundation, Oregon’s largest private foundation, funding more than $30 million in grants and scholarships annually. He managed more than 180 responsive grants for rural youths in the areas of access to health and dental care, abuse prevention and positive development, Lovell Foundation said in a news release.
Most recently he managed a region for the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s bi-annual responsive grant cycle for natural resource restoration and a statewide technical assistance grant for community collaboration on forestry issues.
Amoroso has a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Regis University in Denver and received his bachelor’s degree in English from Carroll College in Helena, Montana.
