Hank Brown Returns to Lead Daniels Fund as Interim CEO (Transitions)

Daniels Fund

Hank Brown will return to the $1.5 billion foundation in Colorado as interim president and CEO, effective May 1. He will succeed Linda Childears, who is retiring next month after 15 years of leadership.

Brown was president and CEO of the foundation from 2002 to 2005 and currently serves as a member of its Board of Directors. He is also a former congressman who represented Colorado from 1981 until 1997, at first in the U.S. House of Representatives and then in the U.S. Senate.

Religion News Foundation

Deborah Caldwell, vice president of content marketing at Bank of America, has been named CEO of this journalism organization for religious organizations. She will also serve as publisher of the Religion News Service.

Unicef USA

Cristina Shapiro, head of global strategy and management at the Goldman Sachs Office of Corporate Engagement and Goldman Sachs Foundation, is joining the humanitarian-aid group as president of its Impact Fund for Children.

More New CEOs

Mimi Corcoran has been named the Child Mind Institute’s next executive director. Before becoming a strategic consultant to nonprofit groups in 2018, she was president and CEO of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

David Eisner, CEO of Repair the World, has been named president and CEO of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution.

Lauren Holaly-Zembo, vice president of community impact at the Crim Fitness Foundation, will be promoted to president and chief operating officer on September 1. This organization in Flint, Mich., organizes road races and encourages healthy lifestyles for residents of Genesee County.

Other Notable Appointments

Bethanie Constant will become vice president for university advancement at Marymount University on May 1. Currently she is senior director of advancement at Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences.

DeAnna Cummings, co-founder and CEO of Juxtaposition Arts, has joined the McKnight Foundation as program director of arts.

Maura DeNicola, interim vice president for university advancement at Felician University, has been named to the post permanently.

Kristen Mack, director of communications at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, has been promoted to managing director of communications.

Dawn Wallace, an education-policy adviser to the president of the Arizona State Senate, has joined the Flinn Foundation as vice president for civic leadership. She succeeds Nancy Welch, who retired in December.

Departures

Gayle Colston Barge, vice president for institutional advancement at Bellevue College, has departed under pressure after reports that she removed text from a campus mural depicting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Jane DiFolco Parker, vice president for development at Auburn University and president of the Auburn University Foundation, will retire in June. She joined the university in 2012 and oversaw a capital campaign that raised $1.2 billion.

Legacies

Catherine Hamlin, an obstetrician who founded a charity to help poor women with severe childbirth injuries, died on March 18 at age 96. With her late husband, Reginald Hamlin, she co-founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, a health-care network that treats women in Ethiopia and Uganda who suffer from obstetric fistula, a complication that leads to postpartum incontinence.

Karen Hoeb, who was the first president and CEO of Greater Cincinnati Foundation, died on March 2 at age 77. She led the community foundation from 1988 until 1996, and later became executive director of the Farmer Family Foundation.

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