Skillman Foundation
Angelique Power will become its president and CEO on September 13. She joins the $482 million foundation in Detroit from the Field Foundation of Illinois, which she has led since 2016.
Power also co-founded Enrich Chicago, a nonprofit group that bolsters social-justice organizing in the city, and is a co-founder of Just Action, which helped a group of 200 people and institutions implement antiracist policies last year.
Marin Community Foundation
Rhea Suh, a consultant and former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 2015 to 2019, will be its next president and CEO. The foundation has $3 billion in assets including its supporting organizations, and $495 million in net assets.
She succeeds Thomas Peters, who is retiring after 23 years there.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Manish Bapna has been appointed president and CEO, effective August 23. He has worked at the World Resources Institute since 2007, most recently as its interim president and CEO.
World Resources Institute
Aniruddha (Ani) Dasgupta, who has served as global director of the conservation group’s Cities program for the past seven years, has been promoted to president and CEO.
More New CEOs
Saida Agostini-Bostic, vice president of member services at YWCA USA, will be the next president of Funders for LGBTQ Issues.
Sol Anderson, executive director of I Grow Chicago, has been named president and CEO of the Evanston Community Foundation.
Kathleen Caliento, chief learning and design officer at the Academy Group, has been tapped as president and CEO of the Cara Collective, a group that helps people experiencing homelessness and poverty train for new jobs.
Jenny Flynn has been appointed president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, effective August 30. She is currently senior vice president for development services at the University of Arizona Foundation. Mark Montoya, who has served as the $155 million grant maker’s interim president and CEO since December, has been named chief operating officer.
Judy Kim has been hired as executive director of the Asian Cultural Council. Previously she was deputy director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Suresh Ramalingam, a thoracic oncologist and physician scientist, has been promoted from deputy director to executive director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.
YoungArts
This organization that helps develop young artistic talent has announced four senior staff moves.
Rebekah Lanae Lengel has been promoted from senior director of artistic programs to deputy director.
Lisa Leone is now creative producer. Previously she was vice president of artistic programs.
Tanya Reid, chief financial officer at Miami Children’s Museum, has been hired as vice president of finance.
Lauren Snelling, senior director of alumni programming, has been promoted to artistic director.
Other Notable Appointments
Ti Barnes is now associate vice president for institutional advancement and director of development at Allen University. Previously he was executive director and chief fundraising officer at the Bowers-Rodgers Children’s Home, in Greenwood, S.C.
Zachary Cohen has been hired as director of development at the Ali Forney Center, which provides housing and services to LGBTQ young adults who are homeless in New York. He was most recently deputy director of development at the Center, a New York community center for LGBTQ people.
Tim Daly, senior program officer for the gun-policy portfolio at the Joyce Foundation, has been promoted to director of its Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform program. He succeeds Nina Vinik, who is departing after 13 years.
Mary Fitzgerald will be the first director of information democracy at the Open Society Foundations. She was most recently editor in chief and CEO of the global media group OpenDemocracy.
Michael Hutchison, president of the Friendship Foundation, will now serve as vice president for institutional advancement at McMurry University.
Salena Jegede, managing director at Stacey Abrams’s Fair Fight Action, will next serve as the Sierra Club’s chief advancement officer. She will be based in Atlanta.
Jennifer Patterson is joining YouthCare as its chief operating officer. She is a librarian who most recently was the director of the State Library of Oregon, appointed by Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon.
Paul Rogé, a professor and research adviser at Merritt College, is joining the McKnight Foundation as senior program officer for its International program.
Stuart Sullivan, senior vice president at Graham-Pelton Consulting, has joined Shriners Hospitals for Children as chief development officer.
Departures
Brad Erickson, who has been executive director of Theatre Bay Area for 18 years, will step down at the end of the year.
Andy Johnson, founding program director of the William Penn Foundation’s Watershed Protection Program, has retired after 20 years at the foundation in Philadelphia.
Leticia Peguero is stepping down as vice president of programs at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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