Foundation Board of Directors
Pastor Tommy Barnett - Phoenix, AZ
Pastors Matthew & Caroline Barnett, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Bellinger - Long Beach, CA
Dr. Ken Blanchard - Escondido, CA
Glenn Burris - Los Angeles, CA
Jack & Sandra Carey - Rancho Sante Fe, CA
Dr. Michael K. & Lindsey Clifford - Encinitas, CA
David T. Smith & Carmen Copple - Pacific Palisades, CA
Rodney Jerkins & Joy Enriquez - Los Angeles, CA
Michael & Dru Hammer - West Hollywood, CA
Tim & Resa Hunt - Liberty Lake, WA
Tom Jones - Choctaw, OK
Deloris Jordan - Chicago, IL
Kevin Malone - Santa Clarita, CA
David L. & Shelly Meyer - Fenton, MO
Dr. Cecil Stewart - Antrim, NORTHERN IRELAND
Jim & Johanna Townsend - Newport Beach, CA
Kim Unicume - Avon, CO
Foundation Staff
Randall K. Barton Esq. - Executive Consultant
Pastor Aaron Jayne - Development Consultant
Joel Freebairn - Development Officer
Matthew Wheeler - Development Officer
Leanne Mills - Administrator
DELORIS JORDAN is a devoted philanthropist and family advocate. As President and co-founder of the Michael Jordan Foundation, she also contributed an estimated six million dollars to charities until the transition to the James Jordan Boys and Girls Club and Family Life Center of Chicago. She serves on numerous boards, including the Jordan Family Institute, University of Chapel Hill School of Social Work, Jordan Elementary School, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Jump, Inc., UNICEF, Lawrence Hall Youth Services, and the Illinois State Treasurer's African American Advisory Council. She has received numerous service awards and served from 1996 to 2001 as a panelist at the Family Re-Union Conferences led by then Vice-President Al Gore. As a writer, she co-authored the New York Times bestseller, Salt in His Shoes; authored Family First, Did I Tell You I Love You Today? and Michael’s Golden Rules; and contributed to the book I Will Follow Christ.
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Featured Board Biographies
MICHAEL A. HAMMER Chairman and CEO of The Armand Hammer Foundation and the Hammer International Foundation, is an active businessman heading up a number of business interests. While owner of Hammer Galleries and Knoedler Galleries in New York City; President of Hammer Productions, a film and TV production company; and an active real estate investor, Michael has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Columbia University School of Business, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, and the Starbright Foundation, just to name a few. Currently, he serves on the Board of Regents of Oral Roberts University and is a member of its executive committee. Founder of Grace Christian Academy and the Christian Communications Association, as well as a not-for-profit Christian radio station in the Cayman Islands, Michael is also a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. With a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University, his career has notably included working as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation and in the Corporate Finance Department of the Kidder Peabody investment banking firm in New York City.
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