Corporation for National and Community Service
Congress has confirmed Barbara Stewart, a retired senior vice president in the Global Government Relations Group at JPMorgan Chase, as CEO of this federal agency, which oversees AmeriCorps and Senior Corps. President Trump nominated her in November.
Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
Alice Ayres will become president and chief executive officer on April 16, succeeding its interim president and CEO, Andrew Watt. Most recently, Ms. Ayres served as chief revenue officer at Knowledge to Practice.
Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center
Bill Rauch, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the past 12 years, has been tapped as artistic director in advance of the theater’s opening season. This new venue was built at the site of the World Trade Center and supported by a $75 million gift from the financier Ronald Perelman in 2016.
More New CEOs
David Binder, a Tony Award-winning producer of plays on Broadway, Off Broadway, and at festivals, has been named the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s artistic director, a new role that will unite the school’s artistic and education responsibilities. He succeeds Joseph Melillo, the academy’s executive producer, who plans to step down in December.
Beverley Francis-Gibson has been named president and CEO of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. She previously was executive director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Howard County in Columbia, Md.
Leonard Glickman is the new executive director of the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey. Most recently, he served in the same role at FJC — A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds.
Brett Littman, executive director of the Drawing Center, will become the new director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in May. He follows Jenny Dixon, who retired in December after 14 years leading the arts institution.
Other Notable Appointments
Dana Cummings, associate vice president for development at DePauw University, has joined Franklin College as vice president for development and alumni engagement.
Kim Francis, major gift officer at the Methodist Health Foundation, has been named assistant vice president of development for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and UC Health.
Elizabeth George, managing director at the Rome Group, a nonprofit consultancy in St. Louis, has joined the St. Louis Community Foundation as the director of philanthropic advising, a newly created position.
David Simon, senior principal gifts officer at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, has been appointed senior director of development at the University of Arizona College of Medicine at Phoenix.
Michael Westfall, vice president for advancement and executive director of the Foundation at Eastern Washington University, has been appointed vice president for university advancement at Oakland University, in Michigan.
Kevin Gregoire will join Blackbaud in April as group president, overseeing its Enterprise Market Group for North America. Brian Boruff, former leader of the group, has been tapped to expand Blackbaud’s partner ecosystem and global alliances business.
Departures
Stephen Hoffman, president of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland since 1983, intends to retire on December 31. A successor has not yet been named.
Legacies
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a longtime supporter of the arts and education in Washington who co-founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, died on February 18 at the age of 70. A social activist who married and later divorced an heir of the Cafritz real-estate fortune, she served as chairman emeritus of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a board member of the John F. Kennedy Center.
The Rev. Billy Graham, a Christian pastor who became one of the best-known Evangelist preachers in the world, died on February 21. He was 99. In 1950, he founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, a nonprofit group to promote Christian values.
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