Ford Foundation
Depelsha McGruder, chief operating officer at New York Public Radio, will now serve as chief operating officer and treasurer at the $13 billion grant maker in New York. She is also the founder and president of Moms of Black Boys United and M.O.B.B. United for Social Change.
McGruder succeeds John Bernstein, who has been in the role since 2015.
GiveWell
Neil Buddy Shah, founding partner and CEO of IDinsight, will become managing director this summer.
IDinsight
Ruth Levine is becoming CEO of this organization that conducts data analysis and research for nonprofit development leaders. She is a development economist and nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development who previously served as director of the global development and population program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation until last year.
Rite Aid Foundation
Matthew DeCamara, chief development officer for SeriousFun Children’s Network, has been tapped as the corporate foundation’s new executive director.
More New CEOs
Mamie Nicholson, program director, is set to be promoted to president of Self Family Foundation on July 1. She will succeed Frank Wideman III, who is retiring after 27 years with this $29 million foundation in Greenwood, S.C.
Jennifer Schantz, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the New-York Historical Society, has been named executive director of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Simon Woods, who stepped down as CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic last fall, will become president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras on September 1. He succeeds Jesse Rosen, who has worked for the orchestra group for 22 years and has led it since 2008.
Other Notable Appointments
Lisa Alvarez-Calderón has been named chief human resources officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle. She joins the $50 billion foundation from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, where she was most recently academic director of the university’s Center for Organizational Engineering.
Malissa Bahr, senior program manager at the Blandin Foundation, has been promoted to director of leadership at the $374 million foundation in Minnesota. She succeeds Valerie Shangreaux, who has retired.
Camonghne Felix has been hired as vice president of strategic communications at Blue State, a creative agency and strategic consulting firm for nonprofit groups. Most recently, Felix was the national director of surrogates communications, black media, and strategic communications for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.
Alicia Fitzpatrick has joined the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies as program director for animal welfare and quality of life. Most recently, she was deputy director for programs in Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the International Rescue Committee.
Philip Gaskin, senior director of entrepreneurship, has been promoted to vice president of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Lorna Malcolm has joined the City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College as vice president of advancement. Most recently she was assistant dean of development in the College of Engineering at Temple University.
Lois Montorio, director of alumni and donor relations, was promoted to vice president of advancement at Concordia College New York.
Legacies
Anne Bass, a philanthropist who donated millions to art museums, schools, and ballet groups in Dallas and New York, died on April 1. She was 79. She was the former wife of the Texas oil tycoon Sid Richardson Bass. Over her lifetime, Anne Bass was a major donor and trustee of the Fort Worth Art Museum, the New York City Ballet, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Botanical Garden.
Arlene Schnitzer, an art collector, gallery owner, and philanthropist who gave millions to charities primarily in the area around Portland, Ore., died on April 4 at age 91. In January, she gave $10 million to the Portland Art Museum for a construction project. Her giving also included a $16.6 million apartment building to the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation in 2012, and an endowment gift of $1 million to the Portland Japanese Garden that same year. Her late husband, Harold, was a Portland real-estate developer. He died in 2011.
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