Natural Resources Defense Council Chief to Depart, Henry Timms to Lead Lincoln Center (Transitions)

Natural Resources Defense Council

Rhea Suh is stepping down as president after four years of leading the conservation group. She will continue work through June 30 to oversee the search process for her successor.

Before she became the first Asian-American to head the charity, Suh had served as assistant U.S. secretary of the interior under President Obama.

Candid

Brad Smith, president of the Foundation Center, will now be president of Candid, a new organization created through the merger of GuideStar and the Foundation Center. Jacob Harold, who has been president of GuideStar, will become executive vice president of Candid. Harold will continue to work in Washington while Smith will continue to work in New York.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Henry Timms, president and CEO of the 92nd Street Y, will become president and CEO of the arts organization in May.

Timms is co-author, with Jeremy Heimans, of New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World and How to Make It Work for You. He also helped found Giving Tuesday and in 2016 was named to the Chronicle’s 40 Under 40 list of people likely to transform the nonprofit world.

One Hope United

Charles Montorio-Archer, co-founder of the Thrive Network, has been named president and CEO. He is the first African-American to hold the top role at this social-services group that was founded in 1895 in Chicago. Montorio-Archer succeeds Todd Schultz, who has served as acting CEO for the past year.

More New CEOs

Gabe Conger, director of philanthropy at the Bradley Impact Fund, has become its president. He succeeds Jessica Dean, who will continue on as senior vice president for development at this $9 million donor-advised fund of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Samantha Handley, vice president and chief operating officer at Trilogy Behavioral Healthcare, is now president and CEO of this nonprofit mental-health provider in Chicago. She succeeds John Mayes, who has retired.

Aishah Miller has been named executive director of the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation and will also lead the Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation. Miller was most recently a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, focusing on global relationship building, and before that was executive vice president for development at the Opportunity Finance Network. She replaces Denise McGregor Armbrister, who retired after more than 20 years in the role.

Mark Ritchie, president and CEO of Minnesota USA Expo, has been named president of Global Minnesota. He succeeds Carol Engebretson Byrne, who is stepping aside after 21 years.

Jeff Rodgers, provost and chief operating officer at the South Florida Museum, has been selected as the Berkshire Museum’s executive director, effective April 1. He succeeds Van Shields, executive director of the museum since 2011, who retired last summer in the wake of a controversy over the museum’s decision to sell part of its collection to raise money for its endowment and repairs to its facilities.

Other Notable Appointments

Tom Boucher has been named chief of marketing and development at PACE Organization of Rhode Island. He was most recently senior manager for marketing and external affairs at Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

Christopher Bryant, director of development at Goodwin House, has been appointed vice president of institutional advancement at Central Virginia Community College.

Donald Ger, national director of scale and impact at Year Up, has been named managing director for sites at the GreenLight Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy organization.

Kellie Chavez Greene, a program officer for organizational effectiveness at the Greater New Orleans Foundation, has been promoted to director of nonprofit leadership and effectiveness.

Kate Harris has been promoted from senior consulting analyst to consultant at Richner + Richner, a fundraising consulting firm in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Michelle Jones, global director of organizational development and talent at Humentum, has been named chief human capital officer at Pact, an international-development charity.

Benjamin Kennedy has been promoted to vice president and officer of the Kresge Foundation, overseeing the $3.9 billion grant maker’s work in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans, as well as its Shared Prosperity Partnership. He joined the foundation in 2009 and has previously served as co-managing director of the Detroit program and managing director of its American Cities Practice.

Toni Millar, vice president at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, has become director of program innovation at Project Sunshine, a charity that offers psychosocial and developmental therapy for pediatric patients and their families.

Robert Smith III, associate director of the National Public Housing Museum, has become program officer of the Surdna Foundation’s Thriving Cultures program.

Yvonna Stevens has been promoted to chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance, administration, and information technology at the International Youth Foundation. She was most recently director of international finance and administration at the foundation.

Departures

Victoria Nuland, CEO of Center for a New American Security, has stepped down after one year. Richard Fontaine, president of the military research institution, has been named acting CEO pending the selection of a successor.

Legacies

Yechiel Eckstein, a rabbi who was founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, died on February 6 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 67. The humanitarian-aid organization has raised more than $1.4 billion over the past 30 years, the bulk of which has come from evangelical Christian donors. See this profile of the organization from the Chronicle.

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