Brianne Snow, the longtime executive director at the Family and Intercultural Resource Center, known as the FIRC, is stepping down and soon moving out of the county.
Snow announced today she is leaving one of Summit’s largest nonprofits in a heartfelt letter to friends and colleagues, bearing the header, “Big News! – This One is Hard to Write.”
“I am leaving FIRC in great hands and could not feel better about that,” the letter reads. “The staff and Board have always been the heart of this organization, and knowing they will continue to do incredible things for this community is the only reason I can walk away from something I love so much.”
Snow has worked at the FIRC for 20 years, including the past seven years as executive. Her final day as director is July 1. She is contracting with the nonprofit through July while the sitting deputy director, Carla Decker, takes over as interim director.
Snow leaves the nonprofit on good terms. After a sabbatical, she is moving to Carbondale with her daughter, where her daughter will go into the eighth grade this fall and Snow will go into the workforce.
“I have always believed that in a community like ours, relationships are how things get done,” the letter continues. “It’s not the chain of command, the formal requests, the committee meetings. Relationships. The trust built over years of showing up, collaborating, and genuinely caring about the same people and the same place. That is what makes Summit County work, and it is because of all of you.”
Snow’s final major project as executive director was the Sol Center, a new nonprofit campus in north Breckenridge anchored by the FIRC thrift store, FIRC food market, and offices for the FIRC’s sister nonprofit, Building Hope.
She recommends you go check it out, and ends her letter with an invitation:
“I hope our paths cross again soon. The Roaring Fork Valley is just over the hill.”
Preview images by @fircsummitcounty on Instagram.