October 23, 2020 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Tides Network
Janiece Evans-Page will become the philanthropy organization’s next CEO on January 4. She currently works at the fashion-design brand Fossil Group, where she is chief sustainability and diversity officer and head of the Fossil Foundation. She previously worked at the Hewlett-Packard Company for more than 20 years.
Evans-Page succeeds Tuti Scott, who has served as interim CEO since Kriss Deiglmeier departed last year.
Tides expects to receive more than $1 billion in contributions and make $750 million in grants this year.
Asia Society
Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, has been promoted to president and CEO of the Asia Society, effective January 1.
Rudd is the former prime minister of Australia. He will succeed Josette Sheeran, who is stepping down at the end of this year.
Christensen Fund
Carla Fredericks, director of First Peoples Worldwide and clinical professor and director of the American Indian Law Clinic at Colorado Law at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been appointed executive director. She is the first Native American to lead the $300 million foundation in San Francisco.
Grantmakers in Aging
Lindsay Goldman, founding director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the New York Academy of Medicine, will become CEO on January 1.
She will succeed John Feather, who is retiring at the end of this year after nine years at the helm.
More New CEOs
Melissa Beck is now executive director of the Sozosei Foundation, a new grant maker created with funding from Otsuka America Pharmaceutical that aims to reduce incarceration rates for people with mental illness. Most recently, she was executive director of the Educational Foundation of America.
Erin Rodriguez, managing director at Root Cause, has been promoted to executive director. She succeeds its founder and CEO Andrew Wolk, who is stepping down from the nonprofit consulting group after 15 years.
William Smith, former president and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, has been tapped as CEO of the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. He is not related to the founders of the $416 million grant maker in Corte Madera, Calif.
Jacqueline Waggoner, vice president and Southern California market leader at Enterprise Community Partners, has been promoted to president of its Solutions division.
Ariel Zwang, CEO at Safe Horizon, will become CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee on January 2. She will be the first woman leader of the organization.
Other Notable Appointments
Tamara Mozahuani Alvarado, executive director of the Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation, will join the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as a program officer in its Local Grantmaking Program on November 30. In this new role, she will oversee the Vibrant Communities portfolio that spans Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties in California.
Peter Curtin, a fundraising consultant in Hamden, Conn., has been named director of development at Ädelbrook Behavioral and Developmental Services.
Joel Durbin has joined the Concilio as chief impact officer. He will oversee the organization’s parent-engagement programs and work advocating for Latino families in North Texas. Most recently, he was chief program officer at Equal Heart.
Laura Lucas Magnuson is now vice president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously she was the communications director at the Obama Foundation.
Kara Ramirez Mullins, vice president for advancement at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, was appointed chief advancement officer at the National Geographic Society.
Jacqueline Stewart will become chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, effective in January. Currently, she is a professor of American film history at the University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies, where she teaches African American cinema from the silent era to the present.
Departure
Barbara Finklestein, CEO of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley since 1995, will retire on December 31.
Legacy
Donald Comb died on October 4 at age 93. A scientist who founded the company New England Biolabs and taught biochemistry at Harvard Medical School, he went on to become an environmental philanthropist and created the NEB Foundation to make grants to environmental activists in poor countries. Comb also helped establish the Ocean Genome Legacy, a nonprofit marine research facility dedicated to studying and conserving the sea’s biological diversity.
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