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PRESIDENT AND CEO, HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, NORFOLK
PRESIDENT AND CEO, HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, NORFOLK
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
After spending more than 35 years as a university professor and college president in Virginia, DiCroce has led the Hampton Roads Community Foundation for more than a decade. The foundation is the largest grant and scholarship provider in southeastern Virginia, distributing more than $23 million in 2022.
For the 2023-24 school year, the organization provided more than $1.6 million in scholarships to 443 undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides grants to nonprofits focused on health, education, the arts, the environment, animal welfare and other causes. Grants are awarded four times a year.
DiCroce, who has a doctorate in higher education from College of William & Mary, was president of Tidewater Community College for 14 years and president of Virginia Piedmont Community College for nine years. She also taught at the University of Virginia, William & Mary and Old Dominion University. DiCroce earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from ODU.
She serves on the boards of the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable, RVA757 Connects and Virginia Beach Vision.
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