An unwavering advocate for healing families through the power of connection, Jenni Lord’s journey is both personal and visionary. Shaped by the challenges of her upbringing and deeply influenced by her foster brother’s five-year adoption process, Jenni’s career has been dedicated to driving systemic change within the child welfare landscape.

With a strong business background, Jenni made a life-changing shift to advocate for children needing loving and safe families. In 2008, Jenni founded Chosen, a leading nonprofit dedicated to healing children from trauma by empowering their families. Chosen practitioners and licensed care managers work with families impacted by the child welfare system, including adoptive, foster, kinship, and reunified biological parents.

Through Chosen, Jenni’s team of experts work with parents and guardians of foster and adopted children to give them tools that help them interact and influence their children and influence their children to shift their negative mindsets that have been formed due to trauma and neglect. Under her leadership, Chosen’s mission focuses on helping children heal from abuse, neglect, and abandonment while empowering families to become healing agents.

Jenni’s influence transcends the organization she leads. Her advocacy reaches beyond state lines, impacting policy reform at the state and federal levels. Deeply involved in Board and leadership roles, Jenni has served as the Texas Chair of the National Family-Focused Treatment Association (FFTA) and various community workgroups to tackle system-wide issues that stem from orphanhood mentalities and attachment styles including perpetual feelings of loneliness, avoidance, anxiety, security issues, disorganization, striving for acceptance as well as acknowledging loss and grief in orphanhood.

Jennifer was born and raised in Odessa, Texas attended Texas Tech University for undergrad and the University of Texas Health Science Center for her Master’s of Physical Therapy, and has called San Antonio and Boerne home for 24 years. She and her husband have been married for 24 years and have four children, two biological and two adopted from foster care.

Back in 2005, an article in the paper about a young girl whose life was wrecked by abuse and neglect and subsequent moves through multiple homes in foster care lit a fire in her heart. After 2 months of prayer discussions with foster families, she and Kyle accepted the call to serve as foster parents in 2006 for children in crisis right in their community. The foster parent journey was incredibly isolating and overwhelming and subsequently, a small group started meeting together to not only support each other but brainstorm how to get the church involved. During the next 8 years, Jennifer established and co-led the Grace Point Foster and Adopt ministry for 5 years. Under her leadership for 5 years, Grace Point families fostered over 75 kids, adopted 27, and raised up 40 new foster families.

During this time, Jennifer shared the model pioneered at Grace Point with 8 area churches with continued success and opportunity to refine the model. She also helped create and launch a faith-based foster agency focused on serving families in the church. The South Texas Alliance for Orphans grew organically over those years with interest slowly but continually growing. In 2016, God connected Jennifer with First Presbyterian Church leaders, who, seeing the great opportunity to serve children in crisis by activating the church, seeded the Alliance funds to launch as a true functioning nonprofit organization. Since 2016, the growth of the Alliance has exceeded even the most ambitious goals.

Through the Alliance, the church is now growing in awareness, being enable to activate with a proven ministry model and collaborating to serve along the full continuum of care for children and families.

Chelsea Vera

Chelsea Vera has been married to her husband Nick since 2014 and in those years have had a whole lot of fun and adventure. They opened up a CrossFit gym, The Tribe, in their first year of marriage and in 2022 opened up a coffee trailer called Jubilee. They love to serve people through their businesses and see the gym as a community similar to a church. Chelsea is a mom through adoption to the two sweetest baby girls Mylah Joy and Charleigh and is now pregnant with their baby boy Jediah.

Motivated by a heart for the vulnerable and a desire to steward God’s resources, Dan launched Flourish Fund to leverage his unique professional experiences and relationships for the common good. Dan’s vision for Flourish Fund is that it would create and promote places where hope is restored, human lives are dignified, and communities are strengthened through models of radical generosity and collaboration.

Before launching Flourish Fund, Dan served as the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact in North America, a non-profit foundation launched by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Previously he was a BCG Principal, advising Fortune 500 companies, global non-profit organizations, national philanthropies, and government agencies on organizational strategy and large-scale change. An early experience living and working in Rwanda, where Dan helped develop a new institute to lead the country’s economic development and poverty alleviation, informs his vision for Flourish Fund today. He began his career in government, serving as writer and policy advisor in the Bush White House and later managing healthcare and education reforms in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina.

Dan is an Entrepreneur in Residence with Praxis Labs.

Dan holds a BA in Economics and Government from the University of Virginia and a MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He and his wife, Campbell, lives in Alexandria, VA with their four daughters.

Logan Gentry serves Generosity NY families in community. Whether leading events, uncovering new ministries, or gathering on the golf course, you can count on Logan to meet you where you are personally at in your generosity journey! Most recently, Logan was the lead pastor at Lower Manhattan Community Church. Although his gifting is relational and pastoral, Logan has an extensive background in Urban Planning and Civil Engineering. Logan and his family live in Tribeca.