Trudy Crowetz has been involved in nonprofit leadership for over 25 years. She is a Certified Public Accountant who has served as the Chief Financial Officer for several nonprofit organizations during her career. Trudy has been focused on achieving organizational excellence for these organizations, and she brings her vast expertise in this area to Nonprofits First, where she has also worked as a fiscal reviewer, as a member of the Standards Committee, and as a graduate of the 2014 Rising Leaders, and the 2023 Advancing Leaders program.
Trudy strives to be a servant leader who puts the needs of others first. She served in the Emergency Operations Center during two hurricanes, and she was instrumental in assisting the county with securing volunteers and medical staff to serve in the shelters. She later received recognition from the county as being a “Hero of the Storm”.
She is a lifelong learner who is passionate about leadership development, which is evidenced by the various leadership programs in which she has participated, including the Leadership Palm Beach County’s Engage Class of 2022 and Focus Class of 2019, as well as Leadership West Palm Beach’s Class of 2017. She was honored to be chosen to participate in United Way Worldwide’s Advanced Leadership Program Class of 2018, where she was one of 17 people chosen from over 1,500 affiliates.
She is an active community volunteer advocates for women in leadership and has served as President, Secretary, and Treasurer for Executive Women of the Palm Beaches Foundation. She recently served on the board of the Croquet Foundation of America as the Treasurer, and she enjoys playing croquet in her free time. She has two grown children: AJ Crowetz, who is a Operations Analyst for a Resilience in Gainesville, Florida and Alicia Crowetz, who is a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Pembroke Pines Fire Department in Broward County, Florida.
