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Association of Junior Leagues International

Patsy Doerr, global head of diversity and inclusion at Credit Suisse, has been tapped as CEO of this association of 290 civic-leadership organizations for women in four countries.

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Kalipso Chalkidou has been named head of health finance, a new department at the Global Fund that will develop streams of sustainable domestic funding to fight the spread of infectious disease and develop more resilient health systems.

Chalkidou currently serves as director of global health policy and senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development. She is also a professor of global-health practice at both Imperial College and King’s College London.

Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Carla Eckhardt has been named executive director of the center, where she will also oversee the publication of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Most recently she was senior director of the Office of Global Women’s Health and Special Issues in Women’s Health at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

More New CEOs

Marge Betley, major-gifts officer at the Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation, has been named CEO of the Arkansas PBS Foundation.

Xavier McElrath-Bey, senior adviser and national advocate at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, has been promoted to co-executive director. He will work alongside its founding director, Jody Kent Lavy.

Mary McGowan, executive director of the Myositis Association, will be the first CEO of the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research.

Fetzer Institute

The private operating foundation in Kalamazoo, Mich., has named four new staff members.

Chelsea Langston Bombino, director of Sacred Sector and the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance at the Center for Public Justice, has been hired as a program officer.

Sara Critchfield is now vice president for movement building. She is the founding editorial director of Upworthy.com, a media website.

Sylvester Jones Jr., a children’s services specialist for the state of Michigan, will now serve as a program officer.

Rodney McKenzie, executive vice president of Demos, has been named vice president for ally development, a fundraising position.

Other Notable Appointments

Angel Acosta, a program director at CFES Brilliant Pathways, has been named the inaugural director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship at the Garrison Institute. In addition, Lina Pasquale is now director of the institute’s contemplative-based resilience project. She was previously senior division director and executive team member at Good Shepherd Services.

Lee Anderson has been appointed vice president of creative and storytelling at the Marguerite Casey Foundation. He joins the $722 million foundation from the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action, where he was director of public affairs and strategic communications.

Sarah Angel-Johnson will join Save the Children U.S. as chief information officer on November 16. Currently, she is chief information officer at Year Up.

Kristopher Childs, national mathematics content specialist at the textbook company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has been named chief equity and social justice officer at Open Up Resources, a nonprofit group that offers free curricular resources to educators in the United States.

Ross DeMont, who joined the Kenneth Rainin Foundation as director of research in 2016, has been promoted to chief investment officer. He has served as interim chief investment officer at the $572 million foundation since the death of Brian Igoe in April.

Jessie Duncan has been named program officer at the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing, where she will lead its grant making. Most recently she was a consultant in Boston Consulting Group’s health care and social-impact practice areas.

Miecha Ranea Forbes will join the Aspen Institute next month as vice president for people and culture. She is currently senior vice president of culture, inclusion, and strategic advising at Koya Leadership Partners.

Caroline McCoy, a program officer at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, will now serve as vice president of programs at the Woods Fund.

Carlo Robustelli has joined Dickinson College as vice president for college advancement. He was most recently assistant vice president of advancement at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Departure

Miho Walsh has stepped down as executive director of the Asian Cultural Council after 11 years at the helm.

Legacy

Florence Howe, a leader in women’s studies and a founder of the Feminist Press, a literary nonprofit group, died on September 12. She was 91.

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