Denver Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust Install New Leaders (Transitions)

Denver Foundation

Javier Alberto Soto, president and CEO of the Miami Foundation, has been tapped as president and CEO of the $900-million Colorado community fund, effective in October. He succeeds Christine Marquez-Hudson, who left after two years to become vice president for advancement at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

J. Paul Getty Trust

Joan Weinstein, acting director of the Getty Foundation, will take the job permanently. She has worked at the $12.6-billion trust since 1994 and as deputy director of the foundation, which has an annual budget of $9 million, since 2007.

Newman’s Own Foundation

Bob Forrester, president and CEO of the $234-million foundation since 2008, has been dismissed following employee allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct, according to reports.

Jennifer Smith Turner, a member of its Board of Directors and a former CEO of Girl Scouts of Connecticut, will serve as interim president and CEO of the charity founded by the actor Paul Newman, who led the foundation until his death, in 2008.

Rockefeller Foundation

Elizabeth Yee has been named managing director of the foundation’s Climate and Resilience initiative. Most recently she was vice president for resilience finance at 100 Resilient Cities, an environmental program of the Rockefeller Foundation that the grant maker abruptly ended this year.

San Diego Grantmakers

Debbie McKeon has been named president and CEO. She succeeds Nancy Jamison, who retired. McKeon previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Council of Michigan Foundations.

More New CEOs

Anne Ellegood, senior curator of the Hammer Museum, will become executive director of Good Works at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in September.

Storme Gray, director of programs at Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, has stepped up as interim executive director. She succeeds Tamir Novotny, who departed in May after four years.

Cynthia Steele, global head of programs at EMpower, the Emerging Markets Foundation, has been promoted to president and CEO. She has worked there for 14 years.

Mary Williams, development director at the Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club, has been named executive director of Beautiful People, which operates adaptive sports programs for disabled youths in New York. She succeeds Jan Brunkhorst, who is retiring after leading the organization for 10 years.

Texas Women’s Foundation

The $35-million grant maker, which until last year was known as the Dallas Women’s Foundation, has hired two new vice presidents.

Lisa de la Garza has become vice president for programs after serving as executive director and chief executive officer of Trauma Support Services of North Texas.

Ashley Harris, a nonprofit fundraising consultant at Dini Spheris, has become vice president for development.

New Noteworthy Fundraisers

Sonja Carter has joined the Heller Fundraising Group as senior campaign adviser, working with nonprofit groups and colleges that are planning capital campaigns. Previously she was vice president for development and external relations at Bank Street College of Education.

Elaine Delgado, director of individual giving at the Tenement Museum, has been named chief development officer at the Ghetto Film School, in New York.

Stephen Kull, associate vice president for advancement at Central Michigan University, has been named vice president for advancement at Rockford University.

Betsy Mennell, associate vice president for principal gifts and special projects at Regis University, has been named vice president for university advancement at Weber State University.

Sara Robinson, chief advancement officer at the Celebrity Series of Boston, will become director of development at the Sarasota Ballet.

Constance Skingel has joined the Cleveland Institute of Music as director of development. She previously served as director of foundation development at the Veale Foundation.

Lynn Schwartz, director of philanthropic partnerships for Penn Medicine, will now serve as chief advancement officer at Women’s Way.

Other Notable Appointments

Regina Bell, a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has been named director of government relations and public policy at the Council of Michigan Foundations.

Emil Kang will join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as program director for arts and cultural heritage on October 1. He is currently executive and artistic director of Carolina performing arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cathy Marchant, director of global brand communications at Adidas, has been appointed vice president for brand marketing at the Children’s Cancer Association.

Steve Ragan, senior vice president at Southwest Solutions, has been named executive vice president at the Hope Network, overseeing philanthropy, program expansion, and partnership development. The charity offers behavioral-health and social-support services in southeast Detroit.

Marcella Tillett, a vice president at Planned Parenthood of New York City who oversees its HIV-prevention program, Project Street Beat, will join the Brooklyn Community Foundation as vice president for programs and partnerships on September 3.

Mark Weiss has been named chief financial officer at the New Jewish Home, which provides health care services to older adults in New York. He most recently served as vice president and chief financial officer at Montefiore, another health care system for older adults in Cleveland.

Departures

Carmen Rojas, CEO and co-founder of the Workers Lab, will depart this fall after five years.

Legacies

Kenneth Behring, a philanthropist, real-estate developer, and former owner of the Seattle Seahawks football team, died on July 25. He was 91. He gave $80 million in 2000 to the Smithsonian Institution, putting him at No. 8 that year on Philanthropy 50, our annual ranking of donors who give the most.

Eva Kor, a survivor of deadly experiments on twins conducted on imprisoned Jewish children at Auschwitz, who went on to establish the Candles Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Ind., died on July 4. She was 85. With her twin, Miriam Mozes Zieger, she worked to locate 122 other people who were tortured as children by the Nazi scientist Josef Mengele.

Ross Perot, a politician and billionaire who founded Electronic Data Systems and gave millions to the arts, education, and health care, died on July 9. He was 89. Through the Perot Foundation, he gave a total of more than $90 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The Perots also gave $50 million to build the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in 2008, which landed the family on the Philanthropy 50 that year.

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