Calvert Collins-Bratton
Joined CFT
As CFT’s Chief Relationships Officer, Calvert leads the Relationships Department comprised of charitable giving experts, and serves as a key senior leader in the areas of development, fundraising, events, and donor stewardship. She also oversees Center for Business Impact and its corporate partners and their philanthropic priorities. Calvert works alongside the other members of the Executive Leadership Team to collaborate on giving, grantmaking, marketing, strategy, and other projects that support the foundation and Educate Texas.
Prior to her role at CFT, Calvert worked as Vice President of Communications and Strategic Events at Methodist Health System Foundation. In this role, she led the team responsible for fundraising events and communications, and worked closely with donors, board members, and executives. Before joining Methodist in 2015, she spent a decade as a television reporter and anchor in Omaha, Las Vegas, and in DFW with KDFW FOX 4.
She received her Bachelor’s in Journalism and Broadcast News from the University of Missouri.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP / BOARD SERVICE
Calvert spent eight years representing District 13 on the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Board, including as president from 2019-2021. She serves on the boards of the Dallas Zoo, Resource Center, SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Christ’s Family Clinic, and Safer Dallas Better Dallas. She is a member of Charter 100, The Dallas Assembly, The Dallas Summit, and is a Junior League of Dallas sustainer and a past recipient of the Dallas Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” Award.
