Allie Rouse named director of planned giving for Arkansas Community Foundation
by October 8, 2020 2:38 pm 781 views
Alexandra (Allie) Rodery Rouse, J.D., M.P.S., was named Thursday (Oct. 8) as Arkansas Community Foundation’s director of Planned Giving.
Recently passing over $442 million in assets, the Arkansas Community Foundation offers tools to help Arkansans protect, grow and direct charitable dollars.
“Allie’s legal and nonprofit experience combine for a perfect fit in managing planned giving operations for the Foundation,” said Heather Larkin, ACF president and CEO. “She will be working with attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors and bank trust officers whose clients benefit from the Foundation’s charitable gift services.”
A native of Piggott, Rouse most recently was deputy chief of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS). Previously, she was deputy Human Resources chief, and chief of staff at DHS. Before joining DHS, Rouse was policy advisor at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, deputy prosecuting attorney for Pulaski and Perry counties, and judicial law clerk to the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Third Division.
Her nonprofit experience includes work with the Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance, the World Disaster Management Community College in Kanana, South Africa, and Partners for Inclusive Communities in Little Rock.
Rouse earned a juris doctor degree in 2014 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, a master’s degree in Public Service in 2014 from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 2009 from Arkansas State University.