Board of Directors

Sue Foreman connects people, organizations, causes, and, especially, innovative ideas. She connects people to create visions, and helps the visions come true through teamwork, humor, creativity, and grit.  She facilitates solutions to sticky complex problems.  Using her experience as a woman of faith and science, as a futurist, civic leader, philanthropist, fundraiser, Imago educator, and knowledge worker, Sue helps move projects forward in areas of faith, education, family support, addiction recovery, sustainability, peace and justice. Her focus is to enhance growth, opportunity, and equity for all people.

Sue explores systems thinking and inspires effective action with diverse groups that learn how to release and capture their group genius. Her humor and enthusiasm make working with her both mind stretching and unexpectedly entertaining.  She is passionately curious about learning, emotional and spiritual growth, and service. Some of the work is serious, but her best days start when she wakes up laughing.

Sue has received the Women’s Resource Center’s Summit Award; twice received the AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) annual Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser award; and was listed as one of the Winter Park Influentials by Winter Park Magazine.  Previously, for her work with the Parent Resource Center, she received the JC Penny Golden Rule Award; Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce Community Recognition Award; and the National Volunteer Activist Award.  Her penchant for technology, graphics and photography support her various communities.

Sue is a UF Gator with a BS in biology and chemistry education, is past chair of the Valencia College Foundation, past chair of 4C and the 4C Foundation, past chair of the Grove Counseling Center, member of Valencia’s Peace and Justice Institute Board, founding member of the original Science Center Guild, member of the Winter Park Land Trust and board secretary of Came to Believe Recovery. She and Steve married in 1961 and have two children, Karen and Doug, and five really grand grandchildren.

B. J. Rapp was the oldest of seven children in her Ohio home where alcohol and drug abuse were prevalent. After high school, she joined the Woman’s Army Corp (1967–1970) and later served in the National Guard. She relocated to the Orlando area to pursue her education and employment and where she met and married Jack Rapp. Jack had taken the Steps with Clarence Snyder and they spent many hours in the Snyder home. The Rapps began attending church, A.A. meetings, and Came to Believe Retreats (CTBR), beginning in 1981. B.J. appreciated that the retreats welcomed family members as well as alcoholics. While attending the 1984 Leesburg retreat, B. J. participated in the CTBR 12 Step Workshop and began her “New Way of Living.” Although she is not physically addicted to a substance; her experience proved to her that the A.A. Steps can be applied to all “isms.”

B.J. began assisting Grace Snyder and other leaders in planning and registration for the early 1980s retreats. Her leadership grew through the rapid expansion years as she and Jack co-led the Leesburg retreat and helped start new retreats in other states. In the years after Clarence Snyder died, it became evident that the retreats needed to preserve his methods of taking people through the Steps. The Rapps, Foremans, and Morfitts each had collections of materials to combine. B.J. created the first outline that set the foundation for several iterations of the current Recovery Legacy Guide. The Rapps enjoyed traveling to many retreats throughout the U.S where B.J. shared her message, led family member meetings, and occasionally presented the ‘Bottle Family’ puppet story of the nature of the disease. After the 2015 Summit, where retreat leaders designed a way to strengthen retreats by linking together, B.J.’s accounting and taxation expertise proved essential in the formation of the organization – CTBR, Inc. She served as Treasurer on the founding Board for several years. B.J. is a true friend, extraordinary woman of God, wise spiritual counselor, astute business woman, and dedicated carrier of God’s recovery message.

B.J.s educational and professional background of software development, business administration, project management, accounting, payroll and taxation has well served both profit and non-profit companies. Currently her business specializes are accounting, payroll services and training. She is a federally licensed Enrolled Agent of the Internal Revenue Service to assist clients with all taxation matters.

Every day Steve celebrates the vast blessings of recovery given to him because he met Clarence Snyder in January, 1979.  Clarence, one of the first forty members of Alcoholics Anonymous, became Steve’s sponsor and taught him much. Steve is driven to carry the message he was taught by Clarence and the successful old-timers of the original A.A.  He continues to be in awe as he witnesses the fruits of this life-changing program.  He is grateful for the opportunities to share how relationships have healed and grown over the 44 years since he took on the way of life of the 12 Steps of Recovery.

Steve graduated from the University of Florida in 1962 with Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Insurance.  He also earned degrees from The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania as a Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant. Steve is a member of The Million Dollar Round Table for the past 57 years. He holds several business licenses, including Florida Real Estate Broker, and Life, Health and Annuity Broker.

Steve still works as President of Fringe Benefit Plans, Inc., an employee benefits company he started in 1969, and which is now led by his son, Doug. In the non-profit sector he has served as a chairman or member of: the BETA Center, Frontline Outreach, The Parent Resource Center, Fresh Start Ministries, Spirit of Life Ministries, and Came to Believe Recovery. He served in the public sector as Chairman of the Board of the Altamonte Springs Redevelopment Agency (CRA). And, in the for-profit sector, on the boards of Handex Consulting and Remediation, Orlando Foot and Ankle Clinic, the SameDay Surgery Center of Orlando, on bank boards such as The Security National Bank, Century National Bank, First Green Capital, and Ivanhoe Financial, Inc., a mortgage banking firm.  Steve and Sue live in Winter Park, FL, have two children, Karen and Doug, and five grandchildren.

Patrick Grace is a business executive, philanthropist and experienced board member. He is President & CEO of the Grace Institute Foundation, which has provided tuition-free workforce development programs to unemployed women in New York City since 1897. He also oversees the charitable activities of his family, which has been actively engaged in philanthropy for five generations. Patrick has served on more than 15 nonprofit boards with missions in the US, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

Patrick spent most of his business career at W. R. Grace & Co., an international company founded by his family in Peru in 1854. He was the CEO of Grace Logistics, which was responsible for the company’s $5.0 billion global supply chain. Patrick has served on the board of Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHE) since 1996 and of Tonix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TNXP) from 2007-2019. He attended the University of Notre Dame and earned an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Brett has served as the CEO/President of numerous companies. He is the current owner, CEO & Chairman of Breca Capital LLC. He is also an owner, CEO & Chairman of Handex Consulting and Remediation, LLC, an environmental ground water remediation company. He served as an owner, CEO and Chairman of eSchool Solutions Inc. until 2014, when he sold the business to a large private equity group in Chicago. Brett actively serves as a member on several Advisory and Board of Directors including, Demco Venco, (an owner), Demetree Global, Mico Cooling, and Palmer Electric (an owner). Brett is the founder of the first turnaround management organization in Orlando. He has a diverse background in assisting manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and service companies from diverse industries. Brett has significant, successful and proven leadership experience in providing turnaround management and profit improvement results for many businesses since 1995.