Easter Seals and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Get New Chiefs

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Peter Sands, chairman of the World Bank’s International Working Group on Financing Pandemic Preparedness, has been appointed executive director of the international health group, based in Geneva.

The Global Fund, which receives money from governments and from grant makers like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and RED, has spent more than $32.6 billion on programs to eliminate AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria since its founding in 2002.

Aspen Institute

Daniel Porterfield, the president of Franklin & Marshall College, has been selected as the leader of the Aspen Institute, effective June 1. He will succeed Walter Isaacson, who will remain at the helm until Mr. Porterfield assumes his new position.

Easter Seals

Angela Williams, executive vice president, general counsel, and chief administration officer at YMCA of the USA, has joined Easter Seals as its president and CEO.

Heron Foundation

Dana Bezerra, a senior vice president at the foundation who has been leading operations on an interim basis since June, has officially been promoted to president of the $270 million fund. She will succeed Clara Miller, who is becoming president emerita.

International Planned Parenthood Federation

Alvaro Bermejo, executive director of the Survive and Thrive portfolio at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, has been chosen as director general of the global network of Planned Parenthood clinics. He will start in the role on March 22.

New Community Foundation CEOs

Diane Fong, CEO of the Pulse3 Foundation in Saginaw, Mich., will lead the Bay Area Community Foundation, in Bay City, Mich. She replaces Eileen Curtis, who is retiring.

Brad Little, head of the Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation, in Iowa, will take the helm at the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, in Ind., effective January 8. He will succeed David Bennett, who is retiring.

Matthew Randazzo, chief executive of the National Math and Science Initiative, in Dallas, will become CEO of the Dallas Foundation. He will succeed Mary Jalonick, who plans to retire this month. Helen Holman, the foundation’s chief philanthropy officer, and Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt, a nonprofit consultant in Dallas and former board member, will serve as interim co-presidents until Mr. Randazzo begins in the middle of 2018.

Susan True, director of education strategy and ventures at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, has been named CEO of the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.

More New CEOs

Michael Caligiuri will become president and physician-in-chief of the City of Hope National Medical Center, effective in February. Dr. Caligiuri is a cancer researcher and president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Michelle Crim, senior director of development at the JPS Foundation, in Fort Worth, has been appointed executive director of the Down syndrome Partnership of North Texas.

Shelly Power, artistic director and CEO of the Prix de Lausanne dance competition, in Switzerland, will become executive director of the Philadelphia Ballet on February 12.

Kevin Schmiegel, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corp and founder of the nonprofit Hiring Our Heroes, has been chosen as chief executive of Operation Gratitude.

Simon Woods, president and CEO of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has been named CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, effective January 22. He replaces Deborah Borda, who announced last spring that she would be leaving to lead the New York Philharmonic.

Other Notable Appointments

Rima Dael, executive director of institutional advancement and foundation at Springfield Technical Community College, has become the interim executive director of development and major gifts at New England Public Radio.

Marc Glass, director of advancement communications at Bates College, will become director of advancement at the University of Maine at Farmington on January 2.

Cindy Lewin, formerly executive vice president and general counsel at the AARP, has joined the consulting firm Venable’s nonprofit-organizations practice as partner in its Washington office.

Meredith Blair Pearlman, evaluation and learning manager at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, has been promoted to evaluation and learning director.

Paula Popeo, assistant vice chancellor for leadership and capital giving at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has been appointed executive director of development at Bristol Community College.

Departure

Rahim Islam, chief executive of Universal Companies, a nonprofit group that operates seven charter schools in Philadelphia, has been put on leave following a federal raid of his home and office. A statement by Universal said Mr. Islam, but not the charity, is under federal investigation.

Legacy

Eric Newman, a lawyer, coin collector, and philanthropist in St. Louis, died on November 15. He was 106. He spent the last years of his life auctioning off his valuable coin collection, generating $72 million that he used in large part to create the Newman Money Museum at the Washington University in St. Louis.

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