July 27, 2023 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Catholic Charities USA
Kerry Alys Robinson, executive partner at Leadership Roundtable, will become president and CEO of the humanitarian aid group on August 23.
She will succeed Donna Markham, a Catholic sister who is retiring after nine years at the helm.
Kresge Foundation
Jacquelynn Orr, a program officer for research, evaluation, and learning at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has joined the $4 billion foundation in Michigan as a senior program officer for health.
NextFifty Initiative
Peter Kaldes will become its president and CEO on September 11. The $265 million foundation makes grants to support older people and their caregivers.
Kaldes is currently CEO of the American Society on Aging.
More New CEOs
Meredith (Max) Hodges, executive director of the Boston Ballet, will be the next CEO of the Shed, the arts organization in New York. She will start in October.
Karen Kelleher has been tapped as president of the BlueHub Loan Fund, a nonprofit community development financing organization. Previously she was executive director of LISC Boston.
Kyu Rhee, senior vice president and Aetna chief medical officer at CVS Health, has been named president and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, will become director and president of the Museum of the City of New York on September 11. She will follow Sarah Henry, who has led the museum on an interim basis since Whitney Donhauser departed last year. Henry will return to her role as chief curator and deputy director.
RestoringVision
The charity that provides vision services and eyeglasses to people living in poverty has appointed three new directors.
Stephanie Godward has been promoted from senior manager of communications and marketing to director of marketing and communications.
Katrina Posey has been hired as director of finance and accounting.
Shaun Starkey, operations manager, has been promoted to director of operations.
Other Notable Appointments
Stephen Carr, chief development officer at Anderson Humane, has been appointed vice president of development at ProLiteracy.
John Churchill, business strategist at WSFS Bank, is joining the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as its Philadelphia program director.
Celeste Ford has been promoted from director of special projects to chief communications officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Todd Jensen, director of principal gifts for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named associate vice president for development at Texas State University.
Shirley Leonard has been hired as senior director of development at the Cleveland Public Library. Most recently she was associate dean of development and external relations at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.
John Sonego has been named vice president of development and communications at Chrysalis, a job-readiness nonprofit group in Southern California. Most recently he was associate dean for external affairs at the University of California at Los Angeles’s School of Law.
Aimee Witteman is joining Rewiring America as head of investment. Previously she was deputy assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Departure
Amada Cruz, director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum since 2019, plans to depart in October.
Legacy
Jonathan Lewis, a major donor to LGBTQ and youth-development causes, died on July 5 from brain cancer. He was 64. A Florida restaurateur who owned the independent design and development firm Jonathan Lewis and Associates, he co-founded the Jonathan D + Mark C. Lewis Foundation with his husband. It currently has $40 million in assets.
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