Work and Careers

Also, the AARP Foundation has tapped a new president, Miriam Nelson has stepped down from the Newman’s Own Foundation, and the author Martin Morse Wooster was killed in a hit-and-run accident.

Also, the Hershey Trust Company has hired a new CEO and chief investment officer to oversee its $20 billion endowment, and Georgia Levenson Keohane will serve as CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact-investment arm of the Open Society Foundations.

Also, the Chicago Community Trust and the Education Trust have both promoted their next leaders from within.

Mississippi’s association of grant makers and its center for nonprofits joined forces to form the Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy. The new group is founded on the premise that nonprofits and grant makers have shared goals. The new leader shares lessons from the merger.

As nonprofits struggle with high levels of staff turnover and fierce competition for leaders, a group of experts joined the Chronicle to discuss how to train and retain chief executives and how to cope with the so-called Great Resignation.

To solve the problem, some groups are offering bonuses, giving fundraisers more decision-making power, and more.

In 2018, Unicef realized it had a problem: The international humanitarian group could not hold on to its major-gift fundraisers. In that year alone, 30 percent of the fundraisers who brought in the biggest gifts quit.

Also, the Weingart Foundation hired its next COO, and the longtime leader of the Apollo Theater will depart next summer.

Also, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust has chosen its next leader, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation tapped a new chief program officer.

Also, GoFundMe appointed the next president of its Classy platform, and the philanthropist Lorry Lokey has died at age 95.