Elizabeth A. (Beth) Casselman
Executive Director, The Clowes Fund, Inc.
320 N. Meridian St., Suite 316
Indianapolis, IN 46204


Beth Casselman serves as executive director of The Clowes Fund. She was hired in 2000 as the first professional staff of this family foundation which was established in Indianapolis in 1952. With Beth’s guidance The Clowes Fund has established a more open and focused grant making process consistent with the stewardship principles for family foundations as recommended by the Council on Foundations.

Previous experience includes leading the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation through a period of transition, refocusing on its primary mission to support academic excellence. Beth was the founding executive director of the Community Foundation of Boone County developing its board, policies and assets from infancy to critical mass, or in dollar figures from zero to $5 million. Philanthropy as a career provides a great marriage of Beth’s previous professional experience in marketing and public relations with her volunteer service to non-profits, blending a desire for her professional life to reflect a continuum toward her spiritual goals.

In addition to the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance she currently serves on the United Way of Central Indiana board, its Community Issues Committee and chairing its Boone County Advisory Board; and editorial board for the Council on Foundations publication Family Matters. Other non-profit affiliations have included the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service series, Boone County Leadership, and Witham Memorial Hospital Foundation board. Beth has been honored as Boone County Businesswoman of the Year, Kappa Alpha Theta High Flyer and with an ADDI marketing campaign.

A lifelong Hoosier currently residing in Zionsville, Beth received a Bachelor of Science from Butler University as journalism major. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Bob, and they are the parents of two wonderful teenage sons.

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