June 15, 2020 | Read Time: 4 minutes
United Way Bay Area
Kevin Zwick, CEO of Housing Trust Silicon Valley, has been tapped as CEO. His new appointment is effective July 6.
Zwick replaces Anne Wilson, who led the organization for 20 years before retiring in February.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
On September 15, Aileen Hefferren will become its new CEO and director. Currently she is the chief executive of Prep for Prep, an organization that guides New York students toward academic, personal, and professional advancement.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Gina Dalma, senior vice president of public policy and special adviser to the CEO, has been promoted to executive vice president of strategy, policy, and community action.
She succeeds Erica Wood, executive vice president of community impact, who is departing after 17 years with the nation’s largest community foundation.
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Armando Camacho, president and CEO of Opportunity Partners, will become president and CEO of the $123 million foundation in St. Paul on July 1. He succeeds Brad Hewitt, who has served as interim president since October.
More New CEOs
Heather Hamilton will now serve as director of the Elevate Children Funders Group. She was most recently deputy executive director and interim executive director of Girls Not Brides.
Tatiana Hernandez will become CEO of the Community Foundation Boulder County on July 6. Currently she is president of the Emily Griffith Foundation, which raises money for Emily Griffith Technical College. She replaces Jeff Hirota, who is retiring after three years at the $61 million community foundation.
Andrew Huddart, the former CEO of TwentyEight, will now be CEO of Benevity, a technology company that makes software for corporate social responsibility. He succeeds its founder, Bryan de Lottinville, who will remain with his organization as executive chairperson of the Board of Directors.
Other Notable Appointments
James Durrah II has been appointed director of communications at Miriam’s Kitchen, an organization that provides food, shelter, and job services to people experiencing homelessness in Washington. Most recently he was associate director of communications at Prosperity Now.
DeJunne’ Clark Jackson has been named vice president of program development at the Center for Development and Learning. She is the owner of Learning Fundamentals Educational Therapy and Consulting, in Baton Rouge.
Courtney Hills McBeth, special assistant to the president at the University of Utah, has joined Strada Education Network as senior vice president of national engagement operations.
Rebecca Middleton, executive director of the Alliance to End Hunger, will join the World Food Program USA next month as vice president of public policy and advocacy.
Courtney Pineau, associate director at Non-GMO Project, has been named senior director of climate and agriculture networks at Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions.
Mary Sabin has been hired as vice president for institutional advancement at Lourdes University. She developed and led the Imagination Library while serving as senior adviser to Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio.
Lindsey Yates-Grimley, executive director of planned giving at the Louisiana State University Foundation, has been named director of bequest management at the law firm Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick.
Departures
Henry Bienen, president of the Poetry Foundation since 2015, has resigned following protests by 2,000 poets that the foundation has not done enough to support marginalized poets and hire more diverse staff.
David Jones, CEO of the George and Barbara Bush Foundation since 2016, is retiring. He will continue serving the presidential foundation as a senior adviser for its fundraising campaign. Andrew Card, a member of its Board of Directors and former White House chief of staff under President George W. Bush, will serve as interim CEO pending the selection of a successor.
Jean Tehan, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin is retiring on August 31. She first joined the community fund in 1987, one year after its inception as the Wausau Area Community Foundation.
Legacies
Christel DeHaan, founder of Christel House International, has died at age 77. The co-founder of Resort Condominiums International, she used her wealth to create the international nonprofit group in 1998 to aid children living in poverty around the globe. It now operates schools in India, Jamaica, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States.
Kathryn (Kitty) Hach-Darrow, a scientist and philanthropist who gave millions to education, died on June 4 at age 97. She founded the Hach Chemical Company with her first husband, Clifford, in the 1940s, and later served as its president and CEO. She gave $10 million to Northwood University for the Hach Student Life Center in 2000. In 2009, Hach-Darrow donated $34 million through her family’s Hach Scientific Foundation to the American Chemical Society to endow scholarships and grants to new and veteran chemistry teachers.
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