Leadership of Firefly Children and Family Alliance

Our CEO Tina Cloer

Tina Cloer became the President and CEO of Children’s Bureau in 2013. In 2020, she led the merger of Children’s Bureau and Families First, the longest standing human services agencies in Indiana. At the completion of the merger in 2021, she assumed the position of President and CEO of the newly rebranded organization, Firefly Children and Family Alliance. Today, she leads a redefined agency that has successfully achieved economies of scale, provides a holistic approach to individual and family wellness, and leverages all its resources to ensure the continuation of quality services. As the leader of a nearly $50 million-dollar per year nonprofit, she is committed to creating an environment of continual reinvention so that the needs of the client, her staff and the community at the forefront.

Her own upbringing in an at-risk family living under the poverty line fuels her desire to ensure that every child can thrive, and that all families have access to the resources that can support them on their paths to well-being.

Tina is an expert in deploying progressive business strategy in a nonprofit environment.  With 30 years of nonprofit management experience, she understands the importance of community systems that work together so that children and families have access to the resources needed to overcome generational poverty and the impact of childhood trauma.

She participates in several volunteer roles related to improving the lives of children and families and invests her time in growing other nonprofit leaders. Her current board service includes IARCA and Charitable Allies. Ms. Cloer holds a M.S. in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University, in addition to earning an undergraduate degree from DePauw University. In her free time, Tina enjoys reading, home renovation projects, mixed media art and gardening. She is the mother of three young adults, and has been married to her husband, Ron, for 33 years.