Northwest Area Foundation Leader Resigns

The Northwest Area Foundation, in St. Paul, announced this week that its chief executive, Karl Stauber, will resign his position this summer to run a grant-making organization in Virginia, the foundation reports on its Web site.

Mr. Stauber has led the Northwest Area Foundation since 1996 but also served as vice president of programs from 1986 to 1993, when he left to take a post in the Clinton administration. He leaves the foundation to take over as chief executive of the Danville Regional Foundation, in Danville, Va.

“His vision helped us move to a different model of philanthropy, one where our assets could support a single issue for optimal impact,” said Cornelia B. Flora, the foundation’s outgoing board chair.

Under Mr. Stauber’s leadership, the Northwest Area Foundation revamped its grant making by putting big amounts of money into a few rural towns at a time rather than making smaller grants to groups throughout the country. He explained the shift in detail in an article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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