Elyse Hammett Brings Community Foundation Know-How to Turn Two
July 14, 2026
Turn Two has named Elyse Hammett Senior Brand Advisor, adding a longtime community foundation communications leader and self-described scrappy entrepreneur to its senior team.
“It’s not a coincidence that we’re bringing on Elyse at a moment when philanthropy-serving organizations are being asked to demonstrate their value, respond quickly, and build trust across an increasingly complex audience landscape,” said Turn Two Co-founder and Managing Partner Peter Panepento. “She has run up against many of the challenges our clients face today, and she has a talent for identifying and leading others toward solutions to those challenges.“
Hammett spent more than a decade as Vice President of Marketing and Communications at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, where she helped lead an integrated strategy that doubled the foundation’s assets and giving, positioning it as one of the nation’s largest. But ask her about her biggest accomplishment, and she skips past the numbers.
"What I'm proudest of is how we got there," Hammett says. "Building authentic community. Telling hard truths with compassion. Matching donor passions with nonprofit purpose. Showing up with humanity and hope."
Hammett said she’s “stoked” to do that work with Turn Two clients nationwide — leaders who, like her, understand the pace and high stakes of speaking to donors, nonprofits, civic partners, and neighborhood residents, often all at once, while proving their values match their actions.
"For 15 years, I've worked with or for community foundations, and what I love about them is that they have to be scrappy," Hammett says. "Turn Two is built for that kind of work because it comes alongside leaders who are doing hard, important things with limited time and resources and helps them communicate with clarity, consistency, and purpose."
Hammett comes by "scrappy" honestly. She built and sold a marketing and PR agency serving Fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Disney, and HD Supply, as well as real estate developers building master-planned communities with heart. That experience cemented a belief she still carries: Doing good and doing well are not competing goals. They're inextricably linked.
She's earned the credentials that prove the point. Hammett holds the Accreditation in Public Relations, was inducted into PRSA's College of Fellows in 2022 (a distinction held by fewer than 3% of the association's membership), and is Georgia Communications Hall of Fame honoree. She served as president of PRSA Georgia and on the advisory boards of the Community Foundation Awareness Initiative and The Communications Network.
At Turn Two, Hammett will help clients answer the questions that shape strong communications: who they are, what they stand for, how they show up, and why their work matters now. She brings a rare mix of vantage points — foundation executive, agency leader, and brand strategist — and is at home in the boardroom and in the trenches.
Her next chapter is also about legacy. In addition to helping clients strengthen their brands and communications strategies, Hammett has spent much of her career giving back to the profession — mentoring rising communicators and teaching the next generation what it means to "walk the talk." At Turn Two, she's looking forward to doing more of it: sharing decades of lessons in PR, branding, agency leadership, and foundation communications with colleagues who are just getting started.
For leaders of community foundations and philanthropy-serving organizations, Hammett's arrival means a partner who’s done the work from the inside and who believes that the best strategies aren't built on numbers alone. They come from listening deeply to what people value, what they fear, and what inspires them to act.
