Nancy Grigsby
Nancy Grigsby, administrative officer at PetroMass, was the inaugural Director of Development for the University of Oklahoma College of Education, the first State Director of Public School Foundations and Special Projects for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, and the first volunteer State Director of Local Education Foundations for the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. She has served on the boards and executive committees for the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (charter member), Leadership Oklahoma, Oklahoma Academy for State Goals, Oklahoma Women in Educational Administration, and the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce Education Coalition. Ms. Grigsby has been a governor's appointee to the Commission for the Status of Women and to the Task Force for Volunteerism. Currently she serves on the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Board of Trustees Selection Committee.
Ms. Grigsby’s role in the public school foundation movement has assured the beginnings of more than 1000 such organizations, nation-wide, and well over 150 in the State of Oklahoma alone. She founded one of Oklahoma’s premier foundations, serving as director for three consecutive years. Because of these achievements, she has received recognition from the Oklahoma Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development, the Oklahoma School Public Relations Association, the National Kappa Delta Order of the Pearl, and the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. Ms. Grigsby has been a regular speaker for national educational conferences, including the California Consortium of Educational Foundations, National Dropout Prevention Conference, National Association for Partnerships in Education, the Michigan Alliance for Educational Foundations, and the Texas Conference for Educational Foundations. In addition to being a commencement speaker, she has been a keynote speaker at numerous fund raising events in behalf of education throughout the country.
Ms. Grigsby attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman. While pursuing her course of work in volunteerism, and during her active professional career, Ms. Grigsby, together with her husband, Ronald, devoted thirty productive years to raising seven children.