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Angie Bush has been a member of WIF since October 2019 serving on the Lunch & Learn and Finance committees. As a Charlotte resident for 19 years, she enjoys discovering new places through the WIF events, such as the Innovation Barn and most recently the SOCO Gallery. The opportunities within WIF enable her to broaden and inform her views and opinions on issues impacting the community. She joined WIF to meet women who shared her passion for giving back and thought it would be a great way to make new friends and to date, she had been right!

A Cleveland, Ohio native, Angie remains a diehard Browns fan although frustrating at times.  Angie graduated with her Batchelor of Science in Business Economics from Florida A&M University and started her career in banking. A job opportunity for her husband, Howard, enabled the family to relocate from Cleveland to Charlotte. In 2006, Angie embarked on a nonprofit career when she became the administrative assistant at Hospitality House of Charlotte. Angie has served at the Hospitality House for more than sixteen years with her period as interim Executive Director concluding with her appointment as Executive Director. To ensure she is operating at the top of her profession, Angie earned her Professional Fundraising Certification from Boston College in 2021.

Together with her husband Howard, they seed-funded the Green and White Scholarship at Ohio University, which has transitioned to an Emergency Microgrant Fund which ensures that a financial crisis during a full-time student tenure will not derail their degree completion. Her work with the Friedland Foundation as a mentor for middle-school students burdened with socioeconomic disadvantages has resulted in college graduation for a student from this program. In addition to her support with WIF, Angie serves as chair of the governance committee on the Apparo Board of Directors and co-chair of the Healthcare Hospitality Network’s Advocacy & Awareness Committee.

Angie is a proud mother to daughter Taylor (likely a future WIF member) who lives in Charlotte, daughter Jordyn who lives in Scotland, and son Isaac who lives in Florida. The family enjoys completing puzzles of at least 1,000 pieces and has completed so many over the past three years that they have had to start doing them without utilizing the picture on the box to slow down their completion rates! While traveling internationally she enjoys museums and walking tours with Paris being her favorite city. Per Angie, there is no right way to participate in WIF with membership being what you choose to make it. Membership can morph to meet your lifestyle. Any way you participate you are giving back to the Charlotte community. Have time to volunteer? Join a committee! Packed calendar? No worries- you are still contributing to the WIF collective that is making a positive impact on the community.

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Janet LaBar

Executive Director​
jlabar@womensimpactfund.org

With more than 25 years of experience, Janet has a proven track record of leading organizations and teams in developing strategies that foster thriving communities. Her career is dedicated to the well-being of the places she serves, and the people and businesses within them, positioning her as a trusted sounding board, critical thinker, and purposeful protagonist across corporate, government, education, entrepreneurial, and civic spheres.
Janet joined Women’s Impact Fund in June 2025 to guide one of Charlotte’s most respected, women-led philanthropic organizations into its next phase of growth and impact. In partnership with the Women’s Impact Fund team, Board, Advisors, members, volunteers, and key community partners, she will continue strengthening communities by maximizing women’s leadership in philanthropy through collective giving, education, and engagement.
Inspired by her family, teams who dare greatly, and people and communities striving to be their best selves, Janet’s impactful career includes leadership roles as President and CEO of Charlotte Regional Business Alliance, President and CEO of Greater Portland Inc, and Chief Performance Officer of Greater Phoenix Economic Council. As a first-generation Filipino American, her lived experience deeply informs her professional drive to create equitable economic growth and opportunity in the metro areas she’s served.
She holds a BA in Communication Arts from the University of West Florida and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Phoenix. Janet and her husband James are proud parents to an older daughter, and a daughter and son who are twins.