Arnold and Cafritz Foundations Hire New CEOs From Within

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Mardell Moffett, who has worked at the foundation since 1993, has been elevated to executive director. She most recently served as the Washington grant maker’s associate executive director. The organization awarded $18.7 million to area nonprofits in 2016, according to the most recent data available.

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Kelli Rhee, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of the organization, will now serve as its president. The foundation, in Houston, reports $1.78 billion in assets.

Team Rubicon

Stephen Hunt, chief information officer, has been named interim CEO. William McNulty, the CEO, is stepping down nearly eight years after he founded the charity, which sends military veterans to help aid the response in disaster zones.

Weiss Institute

Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey, chief executive officer of Say Yes to Education, will also serve as the first president of the Weiss Institute, a newly created charity that will bring together education experts to increase student success in higher education. The new institute is a partnership between Say Yes and America’s Promise Alliance.

More new CEOs:

Michael Burns will take over as president and chief executive of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation on January 2. Most recently he was CEO of the Invictus Games Toronto 2017. He will succeed Paul Alofs, who has led this Toronto charity for 14 years.

Kristen Cocoman, chief development officer at the ALS Association’s Greater New York Chapter, has been promoted to president and CEO.

Masen Davis will lead Freedom for All Americans and the Freedom for All Americans Education Fund, a pair of conservative LGBTQ-advocacy groups. Previously, he was senior director of special projects at the Gill Foundation.

Rachel Fleischer has been chosen as the next executive director of Young Invincibles, a young-adult advocacy organization. Previously, she was managing director of communications at ‎Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Stevan Gibson, chief mission strategy and public-policy officer at the ALS Association, has been named president of the Lupus Foundation of America.

Peter Gielniak, executive director of gift planning in the San Francisco Bay Area at Sutter Health, has been named president of the Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation.

Other notable appointments:

John Annis, senior vice president for community investment at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, will join the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation as senior vice president for collaboration and impact, effective January 1.

Jim Cawley, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and leader of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, has become vice president for institutional advancement at Temple University.

Dan Coleman, major-gifts officer and head of planned giving at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, will become director of development at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Laurie Dorf, interim vice president for institutional advancement and alumni relations at the City University of New York Queens College, was appointed permanently to the post.

Charmaine Mercer has joined the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a program officer for education. Previously she was a senior researcher and director of the Learning Policy Institute’s Washington office.

Jay Odell, vice president for the customer-relationship management, financial, and analytics-solution portfolios at the consulting firm Blackbaud, has been promoted to president and general manager of Blackbaud’s Enterprise Nonprofit Unit, serving North America.

Steven J. Setchell, associate vice president for alumni engagement and campaign initiatives at DePauw University, will serve as interim vice president for development and alumni engagement.

April Strickland, assistant development director at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, has become director of major giving for Hampton Roads at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Patricia Weiss has joined RiverSpring Health’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale as vice president for development. She was previously associate dean of institutional advancement and alumni affairs at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law.

Departures

Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the NAACP’s Baltimore branch since 2010, has resigned from her post.

Sharon Osborne, leader of Children’s Home Society of Washington, will leave the charity next year after 28 years at the helm.

Legacies

John S. Carter Jr., a philanthropist who invented a welding machine and co-founded Electron Fusion Devices, in East Providence, R.I., died on October 24. With his wife, Letitia, he created the Innovation Fellowships at the Rhode Island Foundation and gave major gifts to Brown University, the Carter Center for Music Education, Meeting Street School, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, and other area organizations.

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