Ellen Wiss
Co-Founder and Board Chair
Ellen is a real estate professional (President, Homkor Florida) and community volunteer. She has led several nonprofit efforts in the areas of education and poverty. She is Founder/Chair of READ USA, Inc., President Emeritus of the Women’s Giving Alliance, and serves on the boards of READ JAX (local grade-level reading campaign), Lift Jax (Vice Chair), VyStar Foundation, Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Teach For America, Hubbard House Foundation, World Affairs Council, Cost Honors College Jacksonville University, serves as a member of The Jacksonville Civic Council, and is a trustee member of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. She is a founding leader for Lift Jax (formerly #nopovertyjax), an all-sector movement aligned with global, national, and state 2030 agendas around the common agenda of eradicating poverty in all of its forms, where she is passionately entrenched in the cradle-to-career pillar where she believes we can solve the ills of society. Ellen is married to Jim Wiss and they have three married children.