Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Marie D’Costa, vice president and chief development officer at the New York Community Trust, is now executive vice president of philanthropic partnerships at the nation’s richest community foundation, with $13.8 billion in assets.
In addition, Moses Zapien has been hired as executive vice president of community action, initiatives, and policy. Most recently he was CEO of the San Joaquin Community Foundation.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
David McKinney has been hired as vice president of YouthTruth, the center’s program that surveys young people and uses that data to improve outcomes at schools and districts. Most recently he was executive director of youth-leadership programs at the Aspen Institute.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
John Mangum, executive director and CEO of the Houston Symphony, will become the opera’s general director, president, and CEO this fall.
He follows Anthony Freud, who is retiring after 13 years there.
More New CEOs
Elizabeth Condic, chief financial officer at the Houston Symphony, will step up as interim executive director and CEO in October.
Lauren Hendricks has been named president and CEO of Trickle Up. She is the founder and CEO of KEIPhone, which donates smartphones and solar chargers to women in East Africa. Hendricks succeeds Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, who is stepping down to become program chair of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellows.
Nicolas Karagosian is joining Marshall University as senior vice president for development and president and CEO of the Marshall University Foundation. Most recently he was vice president of university advancement at Ohio University and also led its foundation.
Jennifer LeFevre, vice president and senior director at the Concrete Advancement Foundation, has been named executive director of the Electrical Safety Foundation. She replaces Brett Brenner, who is departing after 18 years at the helm.
Klaudio Rodriguez will become executive director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, in October. Currently he is executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Laura Cangelosi Sewell, chief operations officer and executive director, has been promoted to CEO of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, which makes grants for civil legal aid in the state. She has worked there since 2005.
Other Notable Appointments
Janae Downey has been hired as chief financial officer at the Rogers Foundation. She has consulted at the $80 million foundation in Las Vegas since 2019.
Taldi Harrison, director of community and government affairs at the outdoor-goods company REI, will now serve as chief program officer at the Foundation for America’s Public Lands.
Brian Leidy is now chief development officer at Island Harvest Food Bank, on Long Island, N.Y. Previously he was chief development and communications officer at Union Settlement.
Judy Leventhal, former director of finance at Symphony Space, is now chief financial officer at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. She succeeds Joe Berardelli, who has retired after 23 years at the performing-arts group.
Cheryl Schiele has joined the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies as program director for arts and cultures, where she will oversee its work in native arts and cultures, folk arts and cultures, and music education. Previously she was acting program director of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts program.
Departure
Kevin Prine has departed after less than a year as president and CEO of the Patterson Family Foundation, a Kansas City grant maker with more than $1.5 billion in assets. His successor has not yet been named.
Legacies
Jung Lee Sanders, a curator and founder of Art Projects International, died on August 6 at age 68. She founded her group in 1993 to support contemporary artists in New York who are of Asian origin and descent. Until her death, she was also a board member at the Vilcek Foundation, which supports the work of immigrants in the United States, and curated the foundation’s inaugural exhibition, Il Lee and Pouran Jinchi, in 2008.
Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died on August 9 from non-small cell lung cancer. She was 56. Her father was a Polish immigrant who rose to become a professor at Stanford University, and her personal philanthropy focused on education, Jewish causes, poverty, and refugees. The author John Green says Wojcicki was quietly the biggest individual donor to his Partners in Health project to support maternal health in Sierra Leone. She also served on the boards of the University of California at Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, and the children’s literacy nonprofit Room to Read.
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