GlobalGiving Co-Founder Will Lead the Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Mari Kuraishi, co-founder and president of GlobalGiving, to be the $309 million fund’s next president, effective in January. She succeeds Sherry Magill, who is retiring after 25 years in the top role.

Council of Michigan Foundations

Kyle Caldwell, executive director of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, will become president and CEO of the grant-makers group on November 1. He will succeed Rob Collier, who has been president since 1999.

GlobalGiving

Alix Guerrier, co-founder and outgoing president of the education technology company LearnZillion, will become CEO of GlobalGiving in November.

Read more about Guerrier’s plans for the crowdfunding charity.

More New CEOs

Tiffany Grunert, acting president and CEO of the Morris Animal Foundation, has been appointed permanently to the top role. She was the $78.5 million organization’s vice president for marketing and operations before stepping into the interim position in February.

Rickey McCurry, vice president for development and alumni affairs and programs at the University of Tennessee System, has joined the Northern Arizona University Foundation as its executive director. He will also serve as the university’s vice president for development and alumni relations.

Heidi McIntosh, deputy director of the National Association of Social Workers, has been named CEO of First Place for Youth.

Kenneth Rainin Foundation

The $349 million foundation in Oakland, Calif., has hired two senior officials.

Loren Harris will be chief program and strategy officer, a newly created role. He was previously vice president for programs at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

Lauren Webster, chief financial officer of PolicyLink, has joined as chief financial officer. She succeeds Ed Weinsoff, who joined the foundation when it opened in 2008 and has now retired.

Other Notable Appointments

Josh Gerstman, director of philanthropy at the Green River College Foundation, has been named vice president at Highline College, overseeing its institutional-advancement office.

Nancy Giles, director of development at the Alley Theatre, will become chief development officer at the Houston Symphony next month.

Tamara Michel Josserand has been named vice president for advancement at the University of Redlands. Previously she was assistant dean and director of advancement at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health.

Angie Junck will join the Heising-Simons Foundation as director of human rights. She was most recently the supervising lawyer and director of immigrant-defense programs at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Jill Maney, individual giving manager at Bassett Healthcare Network, has been named director of development at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.

Tim McMahon, senior associate vice president in the Office of University Advancement at Villanova University, has been named vice president for university advancement at Marquette University.

Lisa Murray has been promoted to chief investment officer at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, overseeing its portfolio of $2 billion in assets. She succeeds Mary McLean, who has retired after 20 years.

Jessica Polk has joined the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation as operations manager. She was previously corporate secretary and special assistant to the president and CEO at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

Patrick Sablich, deputy director of Invest in Kids, has been tapped as vice president of philanthropic services at the Rose Community Foundation.

Renee Stone, chief of staff at the Natural Resources Defense Council, is now vice president for climate at the National Audubon Society.

Barbara Wolf, vice president for development at the National Apartment Association Education Institute, has been named vice president for philanthropy at the NHP Foundation, which creates affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families and seniors.

Departures

Henry Nemcik, president and CEO of the University of New Mexico Foundation, will retire after nine years in the role.

Cathy Tisdale, national president and CEO of Camp Fire for the past eight years, plans to retire, effective April 1.

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Correction: A previous version of this article said that Lisa Murray was hired as chief investment officer, instead of being promoted to that job, at the Kauffman Foundation.