Former National-Service Acting Chief Executive Moves On

Nicola Goren, the former acting chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service, is leaving the federal agency to become president of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation.

Ms. Goren, who has been at the corporation for 12 years, served in the top job during a drawn-out search for a successor to David Eisner, the former chief executive, who left the post in November 2008. Mr. Eisner’s successor, Patrick Corvington, took office last month. Ms. Goren then moved into a position as senior counselor in the chief executive’s office.

She supervised the national-service agency during a high-profile period when Congress and the White House agreed to greatly expand AmeriCorps and create the Social Innovation Fund, which provides grants to help nonprofit groups expand successful social programs.

Mr. Corvington said Ms. Goren would take a break before starting her job at the women’s foundation, which provides money and other help to local nonprofit groups to help lift women and girls out of poverty.