The Asian American Foundation
Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
The foundation was created with an initial $125 million in donations from its board of directors, and it intends to raise additional money to make grants to Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations and causes over the next five years.
PepsiCo
C.D. Glin, president and CEO of the U.S. African Development Foundation, is now vice president and global head of philanthropy at the beverage company. He will also serve as president of the PepsiCo Foundation.
Science Philanthropy Alliance
France Córdova, a senior science adviser at the grant-makers group since last year, has been promoted to president.
Schwarzman Philanthropies
Two co-CEOs have been tapped to lead this umbrella organization that unites the foundations created by the billionaire financier Stephen Schwarzman.
Bruce Simpson, a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has been hired as CEO of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Foundation. In addition, he will serve as co-CEO of Schwarzman Philanthropies.
Amy Stursberg will also be co-CEO of Schwarzman Philanthropies. She is the executive director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and CEO of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation.
More New CEOs
Geoff Ball, chief development officer at Uplift Northwest, has been hired as president and CEO at the Kitsap Community Foundation.
Laura McWhorter is returning to the Texas Health Resources Foundation as its president. She was previously a vice president there before becoming chief philanthropy officer at the North Texas Community Foundation in 2019.
Tulaine Montgomery has been named co-CEO of New Profit, serving alongside the venture-philanthropy group’s founder and CEO, Vanessa Kirsch. Montgomery has worked at New Profit since 2010, most recently as managing partner and leader of its Inclusive Impact strategy and Proximate Capital fund.
Robert Mulhall, acting CEO of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health since January, will continue in the top role permanently. He joined the nonprofit yoga retreat as vice president of programming and business strategy in 2019.
Patience Peabody, senior managing director of communications and external affairs at the Flamboyan Foundation D.C., has been promoted to executive director.
Rashid Shabazz will be the first executive director of Critical Minded, a nonprofit group that supports cultural critics of color. Most recently he was chief marketing and storytelling officer at Color of Change.
Megan Thomas, interim president and CEO at Catalyst of San Diego and Imperial Counties since October, will continue in the role permanently. Previously she was vice president of collaboration and special initiatives there. Thomas succeeds Debbie McKeon, who stepped down last fall from this group that was formerly known at San Diego Grantmakers.
Other Notable Appointments
Erin Brown has joined the Colorado Health Foundation as vice president of community investment and impact. Most recently she worked for the City and County of Denver as chief equity officer and deputy chief of staff for Mayor Michael Hancock.
Tina Brown, an assistant municipal counselor for Oklahoma City, will now serve as program officer for criminal justice reform at the Arnall Family Foundation.
Mike Hogan has been appointed vice president of marketing and development at Medical Teams International. He comes to the humanitarian-aid group from Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East where he was director of development.
Alesandra (Ali) Lozano has been promoted from voting rights outreach coordinator to director of advocacy and communications at the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Jessica Mann, assistant vice president of the Center for Community Engaged Teaching at Duquesne University, has joined the Forbes Funds as editor in chief of the Tropman Report, an interdisciplinary research publication that covers challenges in the nonprofit sector.
Ann Mullin, program director for public education, has been promoted to associate director at the George Gund Foundation. She follows Robert Jaquay, who will retire at the end of the summer after 25 years at the $491 million foundation.
Nazanine Scheuer has joined Accion as chief development and partnerships officer. She most recently led Save the Children’s Social Enterprise and Impact Ventures.
Javier Valdés, co-executive director at Make the Road New York, has been appointed U.S. director of the Ford Foundation’s Civic Engagement and Government program.
Departure
Karen Minkel, director of the Home Region Program at the Walton Family Foundation, has resigned. Emma Pengelly, a deputy director in the Home Region Program, will serve as interim director until the position is filled.
Legacies
Eli Broad, a Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist, died on April 30. He was 87. He and his wife, Edythe, gave nearly $2.5 billion from 2000 to 2013 to their Broad Foundations and other nonprofit groups.
Donald Buttrey, co-founder of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, died on April 24 at age 86.
Claes Nobel, co-founder of the National Society of High School Scholars, died on April 28 at age 90. He created the society in 2002 to recognize students in high school and college for exceptional achievements in academics, leadership, and community service. He was a grand-nephew of Alfred Nobel, who created the Nobel Prize.
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