Concern Worldwide U.S. and New York Philharmonic Pick New Leaders

Concern Worldwide U.S.

Colleen Kelly, an advertising executive, was named chief executive of the antipoverty organization. She will succeed Jack Haire, who led Concern for a year.

Ms. Kelly joins the nonprofit after working as managing director of SET Creative, a marketing and advertising company based in Portland, Ore., for which she helped to establish a New York branch.

Mr. Haire will return to the nonprofit’s Board of Directors, on which he served for 18 years before being appointed CEO.

New York Philharmonic

Deborah Borda, who has led the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1999, was named chief executive officer of the New York orchestra. She will take the helm on September 15, succeeding Matthew VanBesien, who has headed the organization since March 2012, first as its executive director and then as president.

Bill Thomas, who serves as the orchestra’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, was appointed its executive director. He will start his new post on May 1.

Fellowship Square Foundation

Christy Zeitz was named executive director. She is a former executive director of HomeAid Northern Virginia.

HomeAid Northern Virginia

Kristyn Burr, who served as program and operations manager at the nonprofit, was promoted to executive director.

LEGO Foundation

John Goodwin, who has served as the corporate philanthropy’s chief financial officer since 2012, was will become its CEO on April 1.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Beth Kean and Paul Nussbaum were named executive director and president, respectively.

Ms. Kean had been the museum’s president since January 2016 and its interim executive director since November. Mr. Nussbaum previously served as chief financial officer.

Ocean Conservancy

Janis Searles Jones was named chief executive of the environmental-advocacy nonprofit. She served as interim president and CEO when Vikki Spruill departed in 2012 to lead the Council on Foundations and was later formally appointed president.

Andreas Merkl, the organization’s CEO since 2013, will assume the role of president.

ReFED

Chris Cochran, senior manager of corporate sustainability at Walmart, will become executive director of ReFED, a project of the New Venture Fund that consists of 40 businesses, nonprofits, foundations, investors, and policy makers seeking ways to reduce food waste.

Thompson Child & Family Focus

Will Jones, formerly the chief operating officer at Eckerd Youth Alternatives, was appointed chief executive.

UniHealth Foundation

Michael Koch, co-founder and former executive director of the CaliforniaKids Healthcare Foundation, was named UniHealth’s president and chief operating officer.

Other notable appointments

Sheila Kinman, chief advancement officer at the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, was appointed vice president for development at the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.

Craig Mellendick, the chief financial administrative officer at Enterprise Community, was appointed chief financial officer at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

The National YoungArts Foundation announced two executive moves: Dejha Carrington, director of public relations and marketing, was promoted to vice president for external relations, and Stacey Glassman Mizener, vice president for development at Faena Art, will become vice president for development.

Departures

Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, will step down after 14 years to teach history at Tulane University. A journalist and author, Mr. Isaacson will leave the institute when a successor is named. He is also joining the financial-services firm Perella Weinberg Partners as an advisory partner.

Terry Mazany, CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, will step down at the end of September.

Dori McDonnell, manager of North Bay programs at Lifehouse, which provides supportive services to people with developmental disabilities, is retiring. She has worked at the nonprofit for 23 years.

Barry Shrage, president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, announced that he will step down next year after three decades leading the Boston organization.

Legacies

Peter Karoff, founder and former leader of the Philanthropic Initiative, a nonprofit philanthropy advisory firm that merged with the Boston Foundation in 2012, died March 9. He was 79.

David Rockefeller, philanthropist and former head of the Chase Manhattan Corporation, died on March 20 at age 101. He was the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founder of Standard Oil. David Rockefeller donated hundreds of millions of dollars over his lifetime, focusing on higher education, the arts, and environmental causes, and helped found or lead multiple family foundations.

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