Barrett Coker Krise, Philanthropic Advisor
Contact Barrett Coker Krise(404) 588-3186
BARRETT COKER KRISE serves as a philanthropic advisor for The Community Foundation. She works with individuals and families to reach their philanthropic giving goals by facilitating family meetings, helping to identify values and interest areas, assisting in working with multiple generations and understanding family dynamics, preparing funding recommendations, and introducing donors to nonprofit organizations in their interest areas with site visits and reports. Barrett serves as a relationship manager to roughly 300 funds and supporting organizations at The Community Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2003, Barrett worked with Fernbank Museum of Natural History as the manager of Individual Giving and helped to create their major donor program, the Fernbank Society. Before that she was the Annual Fund manager at the Atlanta Opera and worked as a writer in the Institutional Advancement department of Emory University’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Barrett volunteers extensively in the nonprofit sector, most notably as a frequent panelist for the Fulton County Arts Council and as a board member for the Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corporation.
A member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, she is also an alumna of the LEAD Class of 2008, a program of Leadership Atlanta. Barrett was a member of the Excellence in Family Philanthropy Initiative, a collaborative of 20 Community Foundations and The Philanthropic Initiative.
Barrett received her B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. A fourth generation native of Atlanta, Barrett lives in the historic neighborhood of Cabbagetown with her husband, Eddie.