July 29, 2016 | Read Time: 2 minutes
NPower
Bertina Ceccarelli was appointed chief executive of NPower, a nonprofit that provides free technology training and job placement to young adults and veterans. The nonprofit’s former CEO, Stephanie Cuskley, left last year to lead the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
Ms. Ceccarelli previously served six years as vice president for global resources at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where she helped launch a work-force development program for youths in the Bronx. Before that, she was senior vice president for institutional advancement at United Way of New York, where she worked with the mayor’s office to create a digital volunteer-engagement program.
Yellowstone Association and the Yellowstone Park Foundation
Heather White, executive director of the Environmental Working Group, was appointed chief executive of the organizations, which are in the process of merging to create a single entity supporting Yellowstone National Park. The groups have been operating jointly since March and will complete their union in October.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Jeff Arnal, co-founder of western North Carolina culture group Free Range Asheville, will be executive director.
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
Ben Chandler, executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council and a former congressman, was appointed chief executive.
Go For Broke National Education Center
Mitchell Maki, professor of social work at California State University at Dominguez Hills, was named interim president.
Other notable appointments:
Pauline Fong, northwest regional director InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, was appointed program director at the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
Scott Rabenold, vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, will be vice president for university development at the University of Texas at Austin.
Clovis Thorn, managing director of development at the Drug Policy Alliance, was named director of development and communications at Grand St. Settlement.
Legacies:
Zelda Fichandler, the co-founder and longtime artistic director of the pioneering regional theater Arena Stage, died July 29 at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 91.
Leading the Washington arts organization from its launch in 1950 until 1990, Ms. Fichandler built a model for regional stages with resident acting companies that was adopted across the country, helping create a vibrant, national nonprofit theater scene.
Under her leadership, Arena became the first regional theater to develop and send a play to Broadway — the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Great White Hope — and it won the inaugural Tony for outstanding achievement by regional theaters in 1981.
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