Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Names New President; LISC Will Install Next CEO in October

Foundation to Combat Antisemitism

Tara Levine has been named president of the group founded in 2019 by Robert Kraft, the billionaire chairman of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots football team, to reduce hate crimes against Jewish communities.

Most recently, Levine was president of Mayfield Advisory, a consulting group for companies that package food and other consumer goods.

Chicago Community Trust

Sheila Cawley has been tapped as chief philanthropic officer at the $4.3 billion foundation. Previously she was senior vice president for external affairs and chief revenue strategist at the Museum of Science and Industry.

In addition, Marisa Novara, commissioner of the City of Chicago Department of Housing, has been hired as vice president of community impact.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

LaTrice McClendon is joining the $3 billion foundation as its program director in Detroit.

She was most recently community president of Detroit at Huntington National Bank.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Michael Pugh, president and CEO of Carver Bancorp, will be its next CEO. He will start his new role on October 2.

He will succeed Lisa Glover, a LISC board member who has served as interim CEO since Maurice Jones departed in 2021.

More New CEOs

Melanie Edwards-Tavares has been hired as president and CEO of the SouthCoast Community Foundation. Most recently she was director of capacity building and nonprofit support at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Wesley Escondo, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin, has become president and CEO of the Eau Claire Community Foundation. He succeeds Sue Bornick, who has served as executive director of the $31 million community fund since 2009.

Suzette Gordon, interim president and CEO of SCO Family of Services since December, will stay at the helm permanently. She has worked there since 2019, most recently as executive vice president and chief legal counsel.

Greta Holtz, chancellor for the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University and the former U.S. ambassador to Oman, has been named president and CEO of Amideast. She will succeed Theodore Kattouf, who is retiring after 20 years at the international-affairs group.

Giovanna Gray Lockhart, a consultant in Yarmouth, Me., who advises executives on philanthropy, advocacy, board building, and communications, has been hired as executive director of the Frances Perkins Center.

David Macoubrie has been promoted from executive vice president and chief operating officer to president and CEO of Inceptia, which was previously called the National Student Loan Program. He follows Randy Heesacker, who will retire on October 2. Heesacker has worked at the organization for more than 35 years and has led it since 2007. In addition, Deana Unger has been promoted from vice president of financial-aid services to chief operating officer.

Other Notable Appointments

Samara Berger is now director of impact at the Situation Project, a charity that gives students from marginalized communities in New York the opportunity to experience Broadway shows and live entertainment. She previously worked at New York University as associate director of visitor relations and special events.

Scott Crews, executive director of Texas 4000 for Cancer, has been appointed vice president of development operations at Upbring, a nonprofit organization that advances the well-being of children.

Larry Griffith has been promoted to executive vice president for programs and student services at the United Negro College Fund. Previously he was senior vice president for UNCF programs and student services.

Shaunice Jordan, annual-gift officer at Consumer Reports, has been tapped as major-gifts officer at the Marshall Project, a nonprofit media organization that reports on criminal justice.

Wilfredo López has been promoted from director of government affairs to senior director of government affairs at the Urban Resource Institute. In addition, Lesley Samuel-Young was promoted to vice president of domestic-violence services after serving as senior director of that program for three years.

Sybil Newman, interim director of the Guilford Technical Community College Foundation, has been promoted to college advancement officer at Guilford Technical Community College. Previously she was director and coordinator of the community college’s Titan Link Center.

Sean O’Connor, chief development officer at the National Audubon Society, has become chief development officer at the National Gallery of Art.

Cari Romeu Mozur, interim director of development at the Folger Shakespeare Library, is now senior vice president of relationship development at Americans for the Arts.

Departures

David Farren plans to retire at the end of the year as executive director of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. He has led the $208 million foundation since 2012.

Bob McQuinn, vice president for alumni relations and development at Northwestern University, will retire in October after 13 years there.

Legacies

Robert Giles, a journalist who served as the curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University from 2000 until 2011, died from cancer on August 7. He was 90.

Dorothy Tapper Goldman, a collector of historical artifacts, died on July 24 at age 78. In 2021, she sold an original copy of the U.S. Constitution to the billionaire Kenneth Griffin for $43.2 million; her late husband, S. Howard Goldman, had bought it in 1988 for $165,000. She used $41 million from that sale to endow the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation, which makes grants to strengthen civics-education programs for American students.

Rhoda Karpatkin, a lawyer and civil-rights advocate who led Consumers’ Union from 1974 until 2001, died on August 4 at age 93. She was the first woman to serve as executive director of the organization, which is now known as Consumer Reports.

William Kerr, a lawyer and art collector who co-founded the National Museum of Wildlife Art, died on July 4. He was 85. He and his late wife, Joffa, used their vast personal art collection to create the museum in Jackson, Wyo., in 1987. She died last year at the age of 87.

Harvey Morton (Bud) Meyerhoff, a real-estate developer and prominent Baltimore philanthropist, died on August 6 at age 96. He directed grant making at his family’s Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds until his retirement in 2000. Meyerhoff was the chairman of the governing council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he played an instrumental role in raising millions to open the museum on the National Mall in 1993. He also previously served as chair of the Johns Hopkins Health System, the League for the Handicapped, and the United Way of Central Maryland.

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