Center for Community Change
Deepak Bhargava, president of the Center for Community Change for the past 16 years and vice president of the Center for Community Change Action, intends to depart after the 2018 midterm elections. He has worked at the social-justice organization for 24 years.
Council on Foundations
Ruth LaToison Ifill has been named vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion, replacing Floyd Mills. Previously, she was manager of national career-development services for veterans and military family members at Goodwill Industries International.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Timi Gerson, strategic advocacy and communications consultant at Gerson Strategies, is its new vice president and chief content officer. In this role she will oversee the committee’s philanthropy research, assessment efforts, and public-policy campaigns.
More New CEOs
Matthew Anderson has been named director of the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States. He has studied the behavior of new-world monkeys during postdoctoral research work at the University of Cambridge and Zoological Society of San Diego.
Monique Barber, a consultant in Fort Worth and a board member at Sixty and Better, will lead the senior-services charity as CEO. She succeeds Jerome Mosman, who served as CEO since 2009 and retired earlier this year.
Christine Emery, vice president for development for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has joined the AAMI Foundation as its executive director.
LaShawndra Vernon, a program director and portfolio manager at United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County, has been appointed executive director of Artists Working in Education.
Other Notable Appointments
Luis Arteaga has joined the Y & H Soda Foundation as senior program officer for family economic success. Previously he was a senior program manager at the Levi Strauss Foundation, overseeing grant making in the areas of financial empowerment for women and immigrants and stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS.
Neill Coleman has been appointed chief philanthropy officer at Trinity Church, leading its $10 million grants and mission-investing program. Previously he was vice president for global communications at the Rockefeller Foundation and before that served as the chief external affairs officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama.
Amy DeMaria has been hired as the Aspen Institute’s executive vice president for communications and marketing. She was previously senior vice president and chief communications officer at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Pamela Franks, senior deputy director and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Yale University Art Gallery, has been named director of the Williams College Museum of Art, effective in September.
Keith Howard, executive director of Liberty House, has been hired as director of development at Hope for New Hampshire Recovery, a substance-abuse treatment charity.
Neeraj Mehta will join the McKnight Foundation as its director of learning on July 16. Currently he is the director of community programs at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
Sonia Quiñónez, executive director at SCAN of Northern Virginia, will be the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation’s program director for Northern Virginia, effective June 18.
Janisse Rosario-Schoepp, associate vice president for programs, policy, and special initiatives at the Health Foundation of South Florida, has been promoted to vice president of operations and strategy.
Kay Takeda has been appointed senior director of artist programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She joins the organization from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council where she served as vice president for grants and services.
Departures
Maxwell King, president of the Pittsburgh Foundation, will retire in September 2019. The board of the community foundation promised a transparent search process and plans to announce King’s successor early next year. King has lead the organization for four years. In a recent opinion article for the Chronicle, King called on philanthropy leaders to condemn President Trump for “inciting fascism.”
Daniel Greenstein, who directed the Postsecondary Success strategy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for six years, has left the foundation to become the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, effective in September.
Nancy Jamison, president and CEO of San Diego Grantmakers since 2005, intends to retire at the end of 2018.
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Correction: A previous version of this article said that Ruth LaToison Ifill would be the first vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Council on Foundations. She is the second person to hold that job.