Nathan Cummings Foundation Ousts CEO Greer

Simon Greer has been fired from his leadership post at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, reports the Forward.

In an email letter to supporters and the news media, Mr. Greer, a veteran social activist who has served as the fund’s president for more than two years, confirms that he is leaving the fund at the end of June.

“In recent months, it became clear that my vision and the Board’s vision for the Foundation had diverged,” he writes. “Despite our agreement around much of the substance of the Foundation’s new direction, we were increasingly unaligned around the hard choices that are inevitably part of implementation. I was ready to continue my work on these and other Foundation priorities, but the Board has decided it wants new leadership.”

Mr. Greer steered the foundation, a longtime supporter of progressive Jewish causes, to focus on alleviating income inequality and climate change.

Read more from The Chronicle about Mr. Greer’s tenure at the Cummings foundation.