Housing Charity Leader Named to Lead Big New York Social-Services Group

The Children’s Aid Society announced yesterday that Richard Buery Jr. will take over the venerable charity when its president, C. Warren Moses, steps down in October after 40 years of service at the New York organization, reports Crain’s New York Business.

Mr. Buery, 37, co-founded Groundwork, a nonprofit group that serves families in public housing in his native Brooklyn, N.Y. He will be the first black leader of the Children’s Aid Society and its youngest leader since it was founded by a 27-year-old in 1853.

Society trustees said Mr. Buery was chosen in part for his ability to modernize the charity, which employs 1,200 and operates 45 schools, camps, and other sites for disadvantaged children across New York. “He takes a social entrepreneurial approach to finding solutions for tough issues,” said Angela Diaz, the charity’s board president.