July 26, 2024 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Mosaic
Eva Hernandez, managing director of the Sierra Club, will become executive director of this fiscally sponsored project of the Tides Center on August 26.
She will succeed Katie Robinson, who had led the environmental grant maker since its founding in 2020 and stepped down earlier this summer.
Robinson spoke this spring on political polarization in climate action; read more about it in The Commons.
Arnold Ventures
Raymond Guthrie will be the first executive vice president of impact investing at the grant-making entity of the billionaires John and Laura Arnold. He will focus on its new impact investing effort to make housing more affordable for Americans.
Previously, Guthrie was chief investment officer and head of capital deployment at Capital Impact Partners.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Katherine Beckmann has been named national policy director, and will oversee the foundation’s efforts to advance the health, well-being, education, and economic opportunity of children and families in the United States.
A developmental psychologist, Beckmann has worked at the $8.3 billion grant maker since 2016 when she was hired as a program officer for its children’s health strategy and federal policy portfolio for children and families.
More New CEOs
Nicholas Abrahams, senior vice president of partnerships and regional investment at the Orlando Economic Partnership, will begin as president and CEO of the Winter Park Health Foundation on August 26.
Colleen Bragalone has been appointed executive director of the Assistance League of Long Beach. She is the former executive director of Friends of Leaps and Bounds Pediatric Therapy.
Bill Brower has been named executive director of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. He joins the $78 million foundation from Le Moyne College, where he was most recently vice president of advancement and special assistant to the president for strategic partnerships and work-force innovation.
Willie Ford, co-founder of the athletic-coaching app Givego, will now serve as CEO of the National Ability Center, a nonprofit organization that provides adaptive recreation and outdoor experiences for people with disabilities.
Other Notable Appointments
Sadikshya Aryal, evaluation associate at the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, and Carson Faust, program associate at the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, have been hired as program officers at the Northwest Area Foundation.
Brian Eule, director of journalism and communications at the Heising-Simons Foundation, will be the new managing director of Frontline, the investigative documentary series on PBS.
Michael Minetti, director for student and young alumni engagement at Temple University, is now assistant vice president for university advancement at Gwynedd Mercy University. He succeeds Christina Riso, who has been promoted to vice president for university advancement.
Ingrid Rasmussen, chief financial officer at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, will become chief financial officer at the Wallace Foundation on September 3. She will replace Stacy Martin, who has guided the foundation’s $1.7 billion in assets for 10 years.
Departures
Brian Lee, vice president for alumni affairs and development at Harvard University since 2018, will retire at the end of the year.
Darren Walker plans to step down after 12 years as the Ford Foundation’s president at the end of 2025. He joined the $16 billion foundation in 2010 as vice president for education, creativity, and free expression. Read more about Walker’s legacy in the Chronicle.
Legacy
Jack Connors Jr., a Boston philanthropist and founding partner of the advertising company Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, died from pancreatic cancer on July 23 at age 82. He founded the youth-development nonprofit Camp Harbor View and served as chairman of the board of Partners HealthCare, where he guided the merger of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospital. He also gave a large gift in 2005 to his alma mater Boston College to establish the Connors Family Retreat and Conference Center.
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