The Breeze Dozen: Cape Trailblazers — Michael Chatman
Each week the Cape Coral Breeze will feature a leader within the business community — public sector, private sector, or non-profit — asking a dozen questions that focus on the person and the business in which they hold a leadership role.
Bio:
Name: Michael Chatman
Position: President &?CEO
Company or organization: Cape Coral Community Foundation
Industry: Nonprofit
Contact information: 239-542-5594
Address: 1405 S.E. 47th St., unit 2, Cape Coral, FL 33904
Your business
at a glance:
What you do: I guide, connect and serve as a champion for small-staffted nonprofits and the donors that support them to grow their impact.
Unique niche: Our foundation stimulates philanthropy that enriches our community and region’s quality of life, through lasting and meaningful giving.
Bragging rights: As a foundation, we’ve mobillize over $4 million for over 600 charities at work here in Cape Coral, Lee County and throughout Southwest Florida.
Where you see your business in five years: I see our foundation expanding and reaching more donors and helping nonprofits in Cape Coral, Lee County and throughout Southwest Florida.
About you:
Describe yourself in one word: Passionate.
Hero, role model or mentor: My mother.
Person you’d most like to meet: Bono.
Book that changed your life: The Bible.
Best business advice you’ve ever received: You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
Biggest risk you ever taken: Starting my own speaking, training and consulting business.
Personal passion: Helping others to succeed and fulfill their dreams.
Guilty pleasure: Chips and salsa.