Vanessa Freytag to Women's Fund
A longtime advocate for women's issues is the new executive director of the Women's Fund of
the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Vanessa Freytag took over the job in July 2007. Freytag has been volunteer chairwoman
of the foundation's Women's Fund Leadership Council since 2001. Duties for the full-time position include working
on strategies to improve the lives of women and girls, and growing the assets of the fund, according to a news release.
Freytag was senior vice president and national director of Bank One's Women's Initiative before leaving in
2000 to start a women-focused marketing firm, W-Insight Inc. Most recently, she has served as co-founder and co-publisher
of Women's Business Cincinnati, a monthly newspaper.
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation is a community foundation covering
eight counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, that makes grants and provides leadership in the areas of arts and culture,
community progress, education, the environment, health, and human services.
Read about the Women Fund in more detail
