Marion P. Miles

Senior Vice-President &

Resource Development Chairperson

Thomasine M. Miles

Communications Director

Marion P. Miles is the co-founder of the Uplift Community Foundation, Inc. She is an original Charter Board member and has served on its Board of Directors since its inception in 1986. During the Board of Directors first meeting, Marion Miles was elected as its Secretary. Soon after being elected as Secretary to the Uplift Community Foundations Board of Directors, she was promoted to Vice-President and Resource Development Chairperson. In 2001, Marion was elevated to Senior Vice President of the Foundation with the responsibility of serving as the Board Liaison for overseeing its Fundraising and Resource Development Activities. In this position, Mrs. Miles’ reports directly to the CEO while she oversees the Foundation’s fundraising activities in building the organization’s name strategic planning for the Foundation, and also oversees and works with special events on a frequent basis.

recognition, fundraising efforts and projects, events, and other special programs that would attract other potential donors and sponsors.  She also oversees the research, analysis, and recommendation of short and long-term fundraising goals on an ongoing basis.  Marion Miles participates in Marion. Miles is a native Washingtonian and is a product of the D.C. Public Schools.  With an extraordinary talent for singing traditional music, Marion set out to audition for several groups around the Washington Area.  Her Golden Alto voice was soon recognized by some of the great Musicians in the Metropolitan Washington area including the director of her High School Chorus, the Choir Director of her church and later by the renowned Sanctuary Choristers of over one hundred voices.  While singing with this group, the Sanctuary Choristers went on to record a number of Albums, Videos and tapes. Marion Miles has always been involved in many church and community activities.  She retired from the Federal Government where she was a management technician for the Department of Defense.  During her tenure of government service, she received many awards for her productivity and efficiency.

Mark S. Roberts, CPA

Roberts & Associates

Uplift Board Member

Mr. Mark S. Roberts is a board member of the Uplift Community Foundation, Inc.   He is also a member of the President’s advisory cabinet with broad experience in accounting.  He has been the owner and certified public accountant for Roberts & Associates since 1982.  Mark has a master of Business Administration from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas A&M University.  He received his license as a certified public accountant in 1973.  Before getting involved in accounting, he was an audit manager for the law firm, Seidman & Seidman in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1970 to 1982.

His professional affiliations include the Greater Washington Area Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Maryland Association of Accountants, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, the Business and Professional Association of Georgetown, the British American Business Association, the Washington International Trade Association, and the Community Associations Institute.  Before getting involved with the foundation, he was a member of the board and treasurer of the Francis Scott Key Park Foundation and the secretary of the India-U.S. Foundation.

Grants

The UPLIFT Community Foundation, Inc.

Board of Directors

President & Chairman of the Board

Solomon T. Miles

Mr. Miles attended the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL, before leaving the Air Force, majoring in Political Science. He then settled in Washington, D.C. in 1958 and went into business for himself as an Independent Salesman and Sales Manager with North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Over the next 12 years he completed courses in investments and life insurance at George Washington University. In 1969 Mr. Miles became the first African American, in over 100 years, to be awarded a Sales Managers franchise contract with Franklin Life Insurance Company. In 1975, he founded Solomon T. Miles and Associates, Inc., a financial planning and consulting firm. After thirty plus years in the financial planning and services field, he decided to gradually dissolve his practice and devote full time to the development of the organization he founded in 1986, The UPLIFT Community Foundation, Inc., where he currently serves as President and CEO.