American Community Fund Trustees
Steve Biffle, Trustee, has served as Pastor of the Church of the Living Word in Columbus, Ohio since 1999 and is the owner of Biffle & Associates, an accounting firm. He is a member of several service, community, and faith-based organizations. Mr. Biffle serves as the Corporate Treasurer of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International, and is a member of its Executive Board.
Ronald Wolfinger, Trustee, is a Regional Sales Manager and Executive Director for Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. For more than 10 years he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Teen Challenge Columbus, a Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation service. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of many trade and civic associations, including the Gahanna Chamber of Commerce and the Gahanna Rotary.
James B. Wootton is Trustee, President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of American Community Fund. He served for more than 20 years as a board member of both The Kiwanis Club of German Village and Teen Challenge Columbus.
Engaged in commercial real estate brokerage since 1973, Mr. Wootton has negotiated many property transactions for churches and other nonprofit organizations, including some of the larger transactions in the State of Ohio. He the author of a book on philanthropy involving major gifts of real estate, entitled Real Estate Gift (American Charter Press – 2006).
He was president of the Columbus Real Estate Exchangers in 1986 and rose to become president of the statewide Ohio Commercial Realtors Exchange Association in 1988. Mr. Wootton is a member of the Columbus, Ohio, and National Associations of Realtors, Columbus Commercial Industrial Investment Realtors, and the Ohio Commercial Real Estate Exchangors.
James B. Wootton holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Finance Department of the College of Administrative Sciences at The Ohio State University. Since his graduation he has pursued the study of economics with Harvard University Extension School of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Realtors Institute.
