Keetha Mills

Under Mills’ leadership, FoundationCCC has experienced consistent and sustainable growth, becoming one of the largest active nonprofit charitable organizations in its field. It now provides over $200 million in annual resources to students, colleges, and communities. Mills has overseen the launch and expansion of numerous large-scale programs and initiatives, including securing the two largest philanthropic commitments ever made to a community college – transformational gifts that now power scholarship programs supporting students at colleges across the state.

Throughout her tenure, Mills has aligned the organization to support the achievement of the California Community Colleges’ strategic plans, currently outlined as Vision 2030, and worked to braid together funding streams from a diverse portfolio of nearly 300 partners in philanthropy, state and federal agencies, corporations, and education, to create impactful and scalable solutions designed to accelerate innovation in education.

Mills has extensive experience in executive leadership, nonprofit management, finance, accounting, and operations. She assumed the role of President and CEO of FoundationCCC in 2012, following four years of serving as the organization’s Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mills served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, as well as Interim CEO of Planned Parenthood of Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. She managed a $490 million portfolio of assets for Hines Interest Limited Partnership and worked with two of the nation’s largest accounting firms at the time, Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mills also acted in an executive leadership role at Dynegy, an S&P 500 company.

FoundationCCC Highlights

• Leading the organization through a period of exponential growth in annual resources, ensuring strategic, sustainable, and scalable support to California’s community colleges, students, and their communities.
• Advancing the organization’s mission with the establishment of a board-designated Innovation Fund that provides flexible resources for investment in innovative programs, services, solutions, and organizational infrastructure in alignment with FoundationCCC’s strategic goals.
• Mentoring future leaders through a culture of shared leadership that emphasizes cross-departmental collaboration, collective decision-making, and personal empowerment that contributes to the organization’s objectives.

Mills earned an Associate of Arts in Business Administration from Lee College in Baytown, Texas, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Houston. She currently serves on the California Lottery Commission, helping to maximize the Lottery’s supplemental funding to the state’s public education systems. Mills is also a mentor to women leaders through She Shares.