FCA Board Announces Wey as New Chairman

Bill Burnett, area director for the nonprofit group Fellowship of Christian Athletes, has announced Rogers bank executive Ron Wey as new chairman of the group’s advisory board.

Wey has nearly three decades of banking experience, and has spent the last three years as vice president of business development at First National Bank of Rogers.

Burnett said Wey’s role is to be the driver for the board as it tries to generate increased financial support.

That includes growing membership — both individually and corporately — in the Home Team program, the FCA’s main income stream to fund its outreach initiatives to athletes and coaches throughout Northwest Arkansas.

Donations through the Home Team are made primarily by monthly donations, starting with commitments of $25.

Burnett said the Home Team program currently “has less than 100 but more than 60” memberships.

“When I came on board nine years ago our fundraising was strictly through events,” Burnett said, noting the FCA’s annual golf outing. “There were less than five people [who were] giving monthly, so there hasn’t been a lot of progress there.”

Burnett said Wey is a well-suited choice to lead the board, lauding his fundraising and networking abilities.

Wey has had success in the nonprofit sector previously. He was executive director of the Terre Haute Boys Club for a little more than two years before resigning in April 1987 to take a job in the banking industry.

 “The primary role of this board is to fund what we are all about, and Ron is going to be a blessing,” Burnett said. “He is great at organization and knows a lot of people in this part of the country.”

The national FCA organization, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., had assets with a market value of $44.1 million for the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2012.