July 21, 2017 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Points of Light
Natalye Paquin, chief transformation officer at the Girl Scouts of the USA, has been selected as the volunteer organization’s new chief executive officer. She will take the helm in September.
Points of Light, formed from the 2007 merger of the Points of Light Foundation and the HandsOn Network, has affiliates in 250 cities and engages 4 million volunteers each year.
American Council on Education
Ted Mitchell, who served as under secretary of education in the Obama White House, will be council’s next president. Mr. Mitchell replaces Molly Corbett Broad, who announced plans in January to step down after nine years. He assumes his new role on September 1.
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Ana Marie Argilagos will be the new president of the grant makers’ association. Ms. Argilagos, a senior adviser at the Ford Foundation, will succeed Diana Campoamor, on January 1, 2018.
New York University
Kenneth Manotti, vice president of alumni relations and development at the University of Chicago for the past five years, has been named New York University’s senior vice president for university development and alumni relations. He makes the move in late August.
August Wilson Center
Janis Burley Wilson was appointed president and CEO. Previously, she was vice president of strategic partnerships and community engagement and director of jazz programs at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, which oversees the center. She is not related to August Wilson, the late playwright for whom the Pittsburgh arts venue is named.
Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation
Jennifer Myers has been named executive director of the organization. Previously she was an integrated account executive at The Wall Street Journal.
Princeton AlumniCorps
Kef Kasdin, interim executive director, has been assigned the leadership role on a permanent basis.
Within Our Reach
Theresa (Teri) Covington has been named director of Within Our Reach, an office within the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities. She is currently senior program director for the Center for National Prevention Initiatives and director of the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention at the Michigan Public Health Institute.
More foundation moves:
Tom Brown is the new vice president of programs at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. Previously, Mr. Brown was the senior corporate grant writer at the Novant Health Foundation.
Two new program directors are joining the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. John Govea, a former senior program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be program director for the immigrant-rights portfolio. Raquiba LaBrie, a former senior leader with the Open Society Foundations, will serve as director of the Haas fund’s education-equity program.
The Lilly Endowment filled two senior posts: Ben Blanton, a partner with the Indianapolis law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, will become vice president and general counsel, and Peter Buck, the endowment’s controller and director of diversified investments, will now be its vice president for investments.
Ted Russell will be associate director of arts strategy and ventures at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. He spent a decade as senior program officer for the arts program at the James Irvine Foundation.
Other notable appointments:
Kirsten Kilchenstein, a senior donor-relations officer at the Oregon Community Foundation, was promoted to vice president of donor relations. She replaces Laura Winter, has been named vice president of the foundation’s new Family Giving Center.
Jennifer Schell Podoll, vice president of March of Dimes’s March for Babies initiative, will become chief development officer of Guiding Eyes for the Blind.
Robert Rathbun has been appointed senior director of development for the School of Business and the School of Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He previously served as assistant vice president for development at Vassar College.
Departures
Tani Marinovich is stepping down at the end of September as executive director of the Esplanade Association, which focuses on maintaining and improving the Charles River Esplanade in Boston.
Legacies
Idrissa Ousmane Dicko, vice president for Africa programs at the Hunger Project, died July 6 after a brief illness. He was 63.
