Rose Bradshaw Found Her Purpose. Then She Found Fort Worth. – Fort Worth Inc.

Rose Bradshaw Found Her Purpose. Then She Found Fort Worth.  Fort Worth Inc.

Rose Bradshaw leads the North Texas Community Foundation, connecting Fort Worth donors with local efforts in maternal health, conservation, and more. Of Fort Worth's philanthropic community, Rose Bradshaw says: “They’re willing to not just write a check, but to think about what relationships they have and how they can help solve problems." Rose Bradshaw had life by the collar. Or so she thought. Bradshaw was COO of Deutsche Bank’s foundation, doing consequential work in New York, including during the city’s recovery after the Sept. 11 attacks. Then she stepped over the worst kind of trip wire: love. “I met my husband there,” she says of her beau idéal, a Fort Worth native who wanted to do what most Fort Worth natives eventually want to do: return home.

“Fort Worth had never ever crossed my mind,” she says, clearly referring to one of the country crooner’s best noted lines. “Now I can’t imagine a better place to do this work in a more exciting time for a region where we can really get some important things done.” Bradshaw is president and CEO of the North Texas Community Foundation, a Fort Worth nonprofit connecting donors with local causes. She is also a member of Fort Worth Inc.’s The 500, which honors influential people in their fields. The foundation began in 1981 as