August 17, 2018 | Read Time: 4 minutes
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Jennifer Giovannitti, a community-development manager in the Federal Reserve Bank’s Fifth District, will become president of the $347 million foundation in October. She succeeds William Getty, who has led the Pittsburgh grant maker since 1999 and will now retire.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
James Cadogan, a civil-rights lawyer and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, has joined the $1.9 billion grant maker as vice president for criminal justice. Before joining the NAACP, he served as a counselor to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Open Society Foundations
The philanthropic group, created by the billionaire financier George Soros, has hired two senior directors.
Ayisha Osori, a lawyer and development consultant, has been named executive director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.
Kavita Ramdas will become director of the Women’s Rights Program, effective September 25. She was previously at Madre, a women’s rights organization, and at the Ford Foundation, where she served as a strategic adviser to its president.
More New CEOs
Christopher Conway has joined the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation as executive director, a new position at the charity that raises money for research on neuromyelitis optica, a disease of the spinal cord and optic nerve. He was previously the president and executive director of the Joffrey Ballet.
Phil Ferrante-Roseberry has been appointed the first executive director of the Elevations Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Elevations Credit Union, in Boulder, Colo. He most recently worked at TechSoup as its executive vice president for strategic development.
Nancy Holland, vice president of marketing at the DirectEmployers Association, has been promoted to philanthropy chair of DE-Serves, the human-resource trade association’s new philanthropic foundation to build residential communities for homeless people across the United States.
Monica Jeffries Hazangeles, president of Strathmore since 2011, was promoted to president and CEO of the Washington-area arts institution. She succeeds Eliot Pfanstiehl, who has led the organization since founding it in 1981.
Yung Lie, deputy director and chief scientific officer at the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, has been promoted to CEO. She succeeds Lorraine Egan, who is stepping down after 18 years at the helm.
Mitchell Netburn, president and CEO of Project Renewal, has become president and CEO of Samaritan Daytop Village, a charity that provides services for people struggling with addiction, homelessness, and mental illness in New York.
Other Notable Appointments
Becky Berk, executive director of Breakthrough Manchester, has been named director of education services at Future in Sight, a charity that offers support services for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Alise Marshall, senior manager for economic opportunity at the Walmart Foundation, has joined the Public Welfare Foundation as director of strategy and new ventures.
Bahia Ramos, national director for the arts at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is set to become the Wallace Foundation’s director of arts in September. She succeeds Daniel Windham, who is retiring.
Kimberly Howard Robinson has been named executive vice president of the Forum for Youth Investment and managing director of the organization’s David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. Previously she was planning, evaluation, and research officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Christine Stobaugh, chief financial officer of Grain Management, a private-equity firm, has joined the Gulf Coast Community Foundation as chief financial officer.
Jessica Strausbaugh, treasurer at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been named chief financial officer of the Chicago Community Trust. She will succeed Carol Crenshaw, who is retiring after 35 years at the community foundation on September 30.
Adam Wise, associate vice president for development and alumni relations at Boston University, is joining the University of Massachusetts at Boston as vice chancellor for university advancement.
Janet Wong, a retired partner at the accounting firm KPMG, has been named lead senior executive adviser of Ascend Pinnacle, a nonprofit association for Asian business professionals. She succeeds S.K. Gupta, managing director and co-founder of Ascend Pinnacle, who will retire.
Stephanie Ybarra, director of special artistic projects at New York’s Public Theater, has been appointed the artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage, effective in October. She succeeds Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is now the artistic director of the Young Vic Theater, in London.
Legacies
Charles Collier, who worked at Harvard University as its longtime senior philanthropic adviser, died on August 9 of complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He was 70. Before joining Harvard in the mid-1980s, he also worked in fundraising at Dartmouth College, Phillips Academy Andover, Brown University, and Princeton University.
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