January 8, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes
NPR Chief Executive Moves to Fundraising Role
Jarl Mohn will step down as CEO of NPR in June after five years at the helm. He will remain there in a newly created position leading the network’s forthcoming fundraising drive in honor of its 50th anniversary in 2020.
As the network announced this move, Mohn and his wife, Pamela Mohn, pledged $10 million to the campaign. Before he became chief executive, Mohn worked as a private investor.
New Leader at Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Rini Banerjee has been named president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation after serving as its interim executive director since last year. She is the first woman to lead the New York grant maker and replaces Genaro Lopez-Rendon, who left the fund in 2017 after a year at the helm.
Banerjee previously was executive director of the Foundation for a Just Society.
Richard King Mellon Fund Appoints New Official
Sam Reiman, associate director, has been promoted to director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, overseeing grant making at the $2.6 billion foundation in western Pennsylvania. He will report to its CEO, Seward Prosser Mellon. Reiman succeeds Scott Izzo, who has served in the role since 2005 and will remain on the foundation’s Board of Trustees.
National Gallery of Art Names Head
Kaywin Feldman, director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2008, is the new director of the National Gallery in Washington, the first woman to hold the top role. She succeeds Earl (Rusty) Powell III, who is retiring after 26 years.
Car Company Foundation Appoints Leader
Carolyn Kindle Betz, senior vice president and executive director of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation, has been promoted to president. The organization is the philanthropic arm of the company that owns the Enterprise Rent-a-Car, National Car Rental, and Alamo Rent a Car. Last year, the corporate foundation made $51.8 million in grants.
Departures
Paula Goldman, vice president of the Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab, has left the grant maker to join Salesforce as chief ethical and humane use officer.
Faith Mitchell, CEO of Grantmakers in Health for the past seven years, will leave her role at the end of 2019.
Laura Walker, chief executive of WNYC for 23 years, announced that she will step down on March 31.
Legacies
Victoria Sant, a Washington philanthropist, died last month at age 79. With her husband, Roger Sant, co-founder of Applied Energy Services, they gave $26.5 million to the National Gallery of Art and millions more to reproductive-health and women’s groups.
The Sants also signed the Giving Pledge promising to contribute the bulk of their wealth to charity.
