Ann Mei Chang Will Lead Candid; Robertson Foundation Taps Education Trailblazer as President

Candid

Ann Mei Chang will be its next CEO, beginning October 4. Through the end of the year, she will overlap with its departing president, Bradford Smith, who began working at the Foundation Center in 2008 and became Candid’s leader in 2019 when the Foundation Center merged with GuideStar.

The author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good, Chang was chief innovation officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the first executive director of U.S. Global Development Lab from 2014 until 2017. She then worked on Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign until last year.

Jacob Harold, who was CEO of GuideStar prior to the merger and has since served as an executive vice president at Candid, is also departing to work on his forthcoming book The Toolbox: Methods and Mindsets for Social Impact.

Robertson Foundation

Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation since 2005, will become president of the $509 million grant maker next summer. Barth was one of the first employees of Teach for America, which was started by his wife, Wendy Kopp.

Julian Robertson Jr., the chairman of Tiger Management, created his family foundation with his late wife, Josie, in 1996. It primarily makes grants for education, the environment, and medical research.

Colorado Trust

Morris Price Jr. has joined the $525 million foundation as vice president of grants.

Most recently he spent six years as vice president and executive director of City Year Denver.

Wallis Annenberg PetSpace

Gabrielle Amster has been tapped as the new director of this organization, which explores the bond between people and their pets, as well as the science of that relationship.

She most recently was executive director of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter for three years.

More New CEOs

Rawle Andrews Jr., regional vice president at AARP, has been named executive director of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation.

Krista Carter, president of the Board of Directors at Medical Missions for Christ and a longtime volunteer at the clinic, will become its executive director. She succeeds Carolyn Bowling, who is retiring after 11 years as its leader.

Justin Fincher, who was previously vice president for advancement at Ohio State University, has joined Stony Brook University as vice president for advancement.

Other Notable Appointments

Zane Bail has been promoted from director of development and special projects to chief operating officer at the Northland Foundation.

Brett Mayer, gift officer at Penn State Health St. Joseph, has been named vice president of development at the Pennsylvania Cable Network, a nonprofit news outlet in Camp Hill, Pa.

Cynthia McKee will become executive vice president for institutional advancement at the Aspen Institute this fall. She is currently senior vice president for development at Conservation International.

Dominic McQuerry is joining the McKnight Foundation as a program officer for its Vibrant and Equitable Communities and Midwest Climate and Energy programs. He comes to the $2.5 billion foundation from the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, where he was director of public policy and community relations.

Andy Miller, executive director of development at Kalamazoo College, has been named vice president for advancement at Alma College.

Matthew Proto, vice president for enrollment and communications and dean of admissions and financial aid at Colby College, has been promoted to vice president and chief institutional advancement officer.

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Three program employees are departing the $287 million foundation in New Jersey.

Sharnita Johnson most recently served for six years as its arts program director.

Richard Simon was arts and education senior program associate. He has worked at the grant maker since 2009.

Meghan Van Dyk is leaving after seven years as communications director and four years as program officer for its Informed Communities program.

Departures

Dianne Harris, a senior program officer for the Higher Learning program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is leaving to become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington.

Peter Hayashida, vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of California at Riverside and president of the UCR Foundation since 2009, plans to retire in December.

David Mathews, who has led the Charles F. Kettering Foundation since 1981, will step down as president and CEO once a successor has been named. He will remain with the Ohio foundation in a scholarly role.

Tina Tchen, president and CEO of Time’s Up since 2019, announced internally that she would resign, according to reports. She co-founded the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund with Roberta Kaplan, who also resigned this month after the group’s supporters condemned her connection to the sexual-harassment scandal surrounding departing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York.

Legacies

Dennis Bowman, executive director of Nicholas House, died from a pulmonary embolism on August 22. He had led the organization that serves homeless families in Atlanta since 2007. Michael Jones, the charity’s board president, will serve as its interim leader.

Katharine (Kay) Bullitt, co-founder of the Seattle music and arts festival Bumbershoot, died on August 22. She was 96. A former elementary schoolteacher, she was an activist in the 1960s who worked to desegregate Seattle Public Schools and ran a racially integrated camp out of her home for many years. Her late ex-husband, Charles Stimson Bullitt, inherited a family fortune made from timber, real estate, and broadcasting. They divorced in 1979. She told the Seattle Times in 2005 that she had arranged to leave her home and property in Seattle to the city to be developed into a public park.

Lester Salamon, a pioneer of nonprofit research and frequent contributor to the Chronicle, died on August 20. A political science professor who served as deputy associate director in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under former President Jimmy Carter, he spent 40 years analyzing economic data about nonprofit and civil-society institutions. Up until his death, he was director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University.

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