Since January 2009, KC Burton is the Deputy Director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of nearly 300 faith-based institutional investors, representing over $100 billion in invested capital, who seek to better integrate social values into corporate and investor actions. For the preceding twelve years, he was a Senior Associate of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Beginning in January 2002 he shared a portfolio of work that included developing and implementing efforts at the Foundation to encourage more of the philanthropic sector in America to direct a portion of their investments in place-based ways to benefit disadvantaged children and families. Primary focus areas for KC included small and family foundations, place-minded high net worth donors and African American, faith-based and other ethnic and identity-based philanthropy. KC also managed the Foundation’s sponsorship and membership budgets. In 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the U.S. southern gulf coast, he was deployed for nearly six months as a loaned executive to the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (LDRF). In November 2007 Burton was again deployed as a loaned executive to LDRF where he then served as chief operating officer and after that, undertook a portion of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s work on philanthropic and community disaster readiness and response for vulnerable children and families. Previously at The Casey Foundation, KC served for more than four years as Director of Baltimore Relations and as such was responsible for developing, implementing and administering the Foundation’s initiatives in its home city of Baltimore, Maryland.
Prior to joining the Foundation, KC was the executive director of the Baltimore City Child First Authority, a legislatively created Authority to establish after school learning centers in select Baltimore City schools.
Prior to that, KC was a public relations consultant and business owner for six years. Previously he was public affairs manager and corporate responsibility manager for the Baltimore Sun, and held positions in public and community relations for the Mayor’s Office of Baltimore City, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.
KC grew up in Baltimore and has served on more than 50 local non-profit boards and committees, including the Maryland 4-H Foundation, the Towson YMCA, Sojourner Douglass College Foundation, Advocates for Children and Youth, the House of Ruth, the Maryland Juvenile Justice Advisory Council, the Community Initiatives Committee of the United Way of Central Maryland, the Maryland Juveniles Disproportionate Minority Representation Committee, the Maryland Visionary Panel for Better Schools and has been active with several professional philanthropy and non-profit associations including the Maryland Association of Non-profit Organizations and the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. Presently he is a board member of the Association of Black Foundation Executives, Fusion Impact Strategies, Foundations Inc., HEAL Inc., the Vision Impact Council of the United Way of Central Maryland, and the Session of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (Baltimore, Md.)
KC has a B.A. degree (1971) in political science from Shaw University (Raleigh, N.C.), studied urban planning and public policy analysis at Morgan State University (Baltimore, Md.) and was awarded a Ph.D. (2001) from Sojourner-Douglass College (Baltimore, Md.). He also is a 2006 graduate of the Associated Black Charities Leadership2000 Plus Program.
KC is married since 1978 to Essexe Ross Burton and they have two adult children; a daughter, Keresse, and a son, Evan. KC and Essexe have resided in Baltimore City prior to relocating to New Jersey for ICCR.
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