July 23, 2021 | Read Time: 6 minutes
Pratham
Effective in September, Manisha Bharti will be the first CEO of Pratham USA and global executive for the literacy and education group in India. Most recently she was chief of strategy and programs at the GHR Foundation.
Center for Public Integrity
Paul Cheung, a journalist and director of the Journalism + Technology Innovation program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has been tapped as CEO.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Carter Stewart will next serve as the $8.2 billion foundation’s executive vice president of programs.
Most recently he was the managing director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a venture philanthropy group.
More New CEOs
Michael Balaban, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Broward County, has been selected as president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
David Bobbitt has been appointed CEO of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Previously he was president and CEO of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, a global organization that collects data on research for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Khari Garvin has been named president and CEO of United Way of Greater Greensboro. Most recently he was executive director of Save the Children’s portfolio of regional Head Start programs in six states.
Lourdes Rosado, program director at the New York Civil Liberties Union, will become president and general counsel of LatinoJustice on September 7. She will succeed Juan Cartagena, who is retiring after 10 years of leadership.
KID Museum
This experiential museum in Bethesda, Md., has hired four new senior staffers.
Kelly Chmielewski, a branding consultant who founded the Possibility Shop, has been hired as managing director of marketing and communications.
Jacqueline Eyl is now its chief program officer. She is the former director of youth education, exhibitions, and programs for the International Spy Museum.
Monica Goodwyn, a human-resources consultant, has been appointed managing director of people and culture.
Lisa O’Brien has been named chief advancement officer. For the past year, she has served as interim chief operating officer at the Whittle School and Studios where she was its general manager since 2019.
Other Notable Appointments
Constance Brooks has been named vice chancellor for public affairs and advancement at the Nevada System of Higher Education. Most recently she was vice president for public affairs and diversity at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and vice president for regional government affairs at MGM Resorts International.
Joanna Curtis has been promoted from chief advancement officer to vice president for advancement as the University of Memphis.
Laura Davies, managing director of development and external affairs at the Women’s Prison Association, will now serve as chief development officer at Safe Horizon.
LaToya Davis, director of communications at the Greater D.C. Diaper Bank, is now director of communications and marketing at 2020 Mom, a nonprofit advocacy organization that works to close gaps in maternal mental-health care. In addition, Shalini Wickramatilake has joined the group as director of public policy. Previously she was associate director of federal affairs at the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors.
Melissa Higgins, senior director for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math at the Boston Children’s Museum, has been promoted to vice president of programs and exhibits.
April Khadijah Inniss has joined King Boston as the director of community engaged research. A pediatrician, she most recently was director of research and evaluation at the Message, a media literacy start-up that works with youths in Boston.
Yeou-Rong Jih, director of urban initiatives at Greenlink Analytics, is joining the Kresge Foundation as a program officer, overseeing its Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems portfolio.
Catherine Morris, founder and executive director of the Boston Art and Music Soul Fest, has been hired as the Boston Foundation’s next director of arts and culture, beginning September 7.
Katharine Ogonek, director of development at the Osborne Association, has been named director of development at Partnership for the Homeless.
Ben Passer, lead director of energy access and equity at Fresh Energy, will join the McKnight Foundation as a senior program officer for its Midwest Climate and Energy program on September 14.
Colin Stewart, who has led the nonprofit group at Merkle, has been named executive vice president for strategic partnerships and philanthropy at Arjuna Solutions, which offers behavioral economics modeling and artificial intelligence services to improve fundraising at nonprofit groups.
James Merle Thomas, a professor of art history at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, has been appointed executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, which focuses on the work of the Bauhaus artist and designer Herbert Bayer.
Danielle Kristine Toussaint has joined the NewSchools Venture Fund as chief external affairs officer. She is finishing a year as the inaugural Morgridge Communicator in Residence with Ascend at the Aspen Institute.
Christopher White, an audit manager at Sproles Woodard, now works at the North Texas Community Foundation as chief financial officer.
Departures
Melinda Giovengo, who has served as president and CEO of YouthCare for 15 years, is departing on August 31.
Peter Hayashida, vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of California at Riverside since 2009 and president of the UCR Foundation, intends to retire in December.
Mark Hanson will step down as CEO of the San Francisco Symphony, effective August 31.
John Murphy is retiring after eight years as president of the Ivy Tech Community College Foundation.
Legacies
Edward Berkeley, the longtime opera program director at the Aspen Music Festival and School, died on July 17 at age 76. He had worked at the music organization for 40 years, and died just hours before he was to direct a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Annette Bloch died on July 17 at age 94. Her late husband was Richard Bloch, the co-founder of the tax-preparation company H&R Block, who died in 2004. The couple donated millions to cancer research and the arts. Her notable gifts include $10 million in 2014 to the University of Kansas Hospital and $1 million in 2012 to the Desert AIDS Project for medical research. She also served on the Board of Trustees at the Palm Springs Art Museum and on the Annenberg Theatre Council.
Joyce Stupski, an arts and education philanthropist who gave to causes primarily in San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii, died on July 19. With her late husband, Larry, the couple founded the Stupski Foundation in 1996. Larry Stupski was president and chief operating officer at Charles Schwab; he died of cancer at age 68 in 2013. Their foundation plans to spend all of its remaining $250 million in assets by 2029.
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