Meet Nancy
Vice President of Community Impact
Nancy Fasching is the vice president for community impact at the Southwest Initiative Foundation, serving rural, southwest Minnesota. For 25 years, Nancy has worked with the grantmaking program, currently leading the foundation’s community impact and grant programs, along with research and learning for strategic initiatives, and providing leadership for funding procurement for programmatic opportunities. She serves on SWIF’s leadership team, managing strategic direction of the organization’s mission and developing partnerships that strengthen rural community development.
Nancy has a passion for communities and people coming together, especially to create systems and opportunities where all residents thrive, to meet their full potential for current and future generations. She is of and for rural places.
Nancy earned a degree in organizational management and geography from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minn. She currently serves as the Past President of United Community Action Agency board of directors and Winsted Economic Development Commission, helped found the Winsted Arts Council and is an alumna of the Blandin Community Leadership Program.
