Ken Gladish has accepted the position of president and CEO of the Seton Foundations. Ken is a nationally recognized leader in charitable and philanthropic endeavors.

Since 2008, Ken has been president and CEO of the Austin Community Foundation (ACF). During his tenure, ACF received more than $65 million in contributions and disbursed nearly $60 million to a wide range of charitable causes in Central Texas. Prior to joining ACF, Ken served as president of the YMCA of the USA and in academic leadership roles in Michigan and Indiana. He will begin his new role in November.

The Seton Foundations are comprised of the Seton Fund, Children’s Medical Center Foundation of Central Texas, Seton Williamson Foundation and Seton Hays Foundation. In partnership with generous donors, these fundraising foundations raised nearly $19 million last year to support Seton’s healthcare ministry in Central Texas.

Philanthropic support will continue to be critical to Seton’s success as we expand medical education and innovative research across Central Texas as part of our partnership with UT Southwestern Medical School and The University of Texas System. As Seton welcomes Ken Gladish, we again recognize the remarkable achievements of Gene Attal, who left Seton in January after 35 remarkable years of service. Under Gene’s leadership, Seton’s fundraising efforts supported the opening of the region’s first neonatal intensive care unit, the region’s only heart transplant center and construction of new facilities such Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Seton Medical Center Williamson and Seton Medical Center Hays. In addition, we thank Gerald Hill, interim president of the Seton Foundations and executive director of the Seton Hays Foundation, for his exceptional leadership during this transition.

Please join us in welcoming Ken to the Seton Family of Hospitals. His expertise, vision and commitment will help us continue to ensure a vibrant and dynamic philanthropic partnership with the Central Texas community.

The Seton Foundations Executive Office houses the central administrative staff for Seton’s four fundraising foundations: Children’s Medical Center Foundation of Central Texas; Seton Hays Foundation; Seton Williamson Foundation; and, The Seton Fund.

Through the extraordinary generosity of donors and a culture of philanthropy nurtured by trustees, volunteers and staff, Seton has raised more than $300 million over the years to support the Daughters of Charity healthcare ministry across Central Texas, from the region’s first heart transplant to a world-class pediatric medical center.

From the founding of the Daughters of Charity in 1633 in Paris, France to their roots in Central Texas with the founding of the Seton Infirmary in 1902, the Daughters have partnered with the communities in which they serve to care for the poor and vulnerable and provide exceptional care to those in need.

St. Vincent de Paul, co-founder of the Daughters of Charity, said that our efforts should “…connect the healthy to the sick, the educated to the uninstructed, the skilled to the unskilled, the influential to the deprived, the powerful to the weak.” His words from nearly four hundred years ago are reflected – every day – in our community’s generous philanthropic support of Seton.

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The Seton Fund was founded in 1981 as the fundraising arm for these health care ministries in Central Texas: University Medical Center Brackenridge, Seton Highland Lakes Hospital, Seton Medical Center Austin, Seton’s three community health centers for low-income families: Seton Kozmetsky, Seton McCarthy and Seton Topfer; Seton Shoal Creek Hospital, Seton Northwest Hospital and Seton Southwest Hospital.

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