October 8, 2021 | Read Time: 5 minutes
Fidelity Charitable
Jacob Pruitt has been tapped as president of the charity created by Fidelity Investments to offer donor-advised funds. The independent fund made $9.1 billion in grants last year. Pruitt succeeds Pamela Norley, who is stepping down at the end of the year.
Pruitt was most recently vice president and head of T. Rowe Price Charitable, where he led the investment firm’s charitable-giving strategy and donor-advised fund program.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Joy Chia has started as its new executive director.
She comes to Astraea from the Open Society Foundations, where she was most recently team manager for its Women’s Rights Program.
Lafayette Square
Antony Bugg-Levine, former CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, has been appointed managing director at this impact-investment organization.
He will also serve as co-head of community impact alongside Don Baylor, who joined the firm in January 2021.
Rochester Area Community Foundation
Jennifer Leonard will retire after 28 years as its president and CEO in September 2022.
In addition, Simeon Banister has been promoted from vice president for community programs to executive vice president.
More New CEOs
Joe Daniels has been named president and CEO of the America250 Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. Previously he was president and CEO of the 9/11 Museum and Memorial.
Dominique Jones, executive director of the Harlem Boys & Girls Club, will now serve as executive director of Global Kids. She succeeds Evie Hantzopoulos, who has worked there for 25 years and been its leader for 11 years.
Josephine Kalipeni has been promoted from deputy director to executive director of Family Values at Work.
Giuliano Kornberg, chief revenue and development officer, will be promoted to executive director of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera on February 1. He will succeed Alice Sauro, who joined the performing-arts group in 2015 and is stepping down.
Aneesh Sohoni, executive director of the Greater Chicago-Northwest Indiana region at Teach for America, has been named CEO of One Million Degrees, an organization that works to increase community-college enrollment among students from marginalized communities. He succeeds Paige Ponder, who has stepped down after nine years as CEO.
Other Notable Appointments
Darnell Adams, vice president for program implementation at Invest Detroit, has been appointed director of Detroit community initiatives at the Gilbert Family Foundation.
Christopher Aimone, executive director of development and senior director of planned giving at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, is now vice president for institutional advancement at Carroll College.
Catherine Chinedum Aniagolu-Okoye, country director at Technoserve, will now serve as regional director for the Ford Foundation’s office that serves West Africa, based in Lagos. She succeeds Innocent Chukwuma, who served in the role from 2013 until he died from leukemia in April.
Ev Bosque, chief financial officer at EMI Industries, has been hired as chief financial officer at the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation.
Thérèse Fitzgerald, director of research at the American City Coalition, has been named chief program officer at RIZE Massachusetts, which works to reduce opioid abuse in the state. Kathleen Glunz Skarin has also joined the group as senior engagement officer. Most recently she was director of strategic partnerships at the New England Aquarium.
Myra Jones-Taylor will join the Urban Institute as its first chief policy impact officer, beginning in April. Currently she is chief policy officer at Zero to Three.
Roy Kaufmann, interim associate vice president for communications at Lewis and Clark College, has been hired as director of communications at the Meyer Memorial Trust.
John Mix has joined Physicians for Human Rights as chief marketing and development officer. He was most recently vice president of marketing and communications at Catholic Medical Mission Board.
Kimberly Otis, senior adviser at the Women’s Equity Center and Action Network, has been appointed vice president of advancement at the National Council of Nonprofits. In addition, Amy Silver O’Leary was promoted from director of resource development to director of knowledge sharing and special projects.
Dominique Parris, interim director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Child Trends, has been promoted to the position permanently. Previously she was senior technical assistance specialist.
Anne Schroeer, who most recently led Oceana’s global campaign to curb plastics, is joining the conservation group 350.org as its fundraising director.
Terry Skoda, interim director of the Museum of Arts and Design, joined the Fresno Chaffee Zoo as chief development officer.
Departures
Millie Acamovic has retired after 14 years as chief financial officer at the Northwest Area Foundation.
Vanessa Daniel will step down on February 28 as founding executive director of the Groundswell Fund and Groundswell Action Fund, a position she has held for 12 years.
Claudia Herrold, chief communications and public policy officer at Philanthropy Ohio, is retiring after 23 years there. She will remain at the organization as executive-in-residence, beginning January 1.
Deborah Hoover, president and CEO of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation since 2007, plans to depart the foundation in Cleveland in June 2022.
Max Williams will step down as president and CEO of the Oregon Community Foundation once a successor has been named. He has led the $3.2 billion community fund for 10 years.
Legacy
Evelyn Mangham died on October 5 at the age of 98. She and her late husband, Grady Mangham, worked as Christian missionaries in Vietnam from 1947 until 1967. Upon returning to New York, the couple co-founded World Relief’s refugee-resettlement program in the 1970s. Since then, the program has resettled 300,000 refugees in communities throughout the United States.
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