Wells Fargo Foundation Appoints New President (Transitions)

Wells Fargo Foundation

Nate Hurst, chief sustainability and social impact officer at HP, will join Wells Fargo & Company on June 1 to oversee sustainability and corporate responsibility. He will also serve as president of the Wells Fargo Foundation.

Last June, the bank committed $1 billion in philanthropic giving through 2025 to expand housing affordability in the United States. Hurst succeeds Brandee McHale, who briefly led the corporate grant maker before returning to the Citi Foundation in February.

Bright Pink

Ginny Ehrlich, CEO of Power to Decide, has been named CEO of this charity for the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer.

Fund for Investigative Journalism

Eric Ferrero, global head of communications at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, has joined the foundation as executive director. He succeeds Sandy Bergo, who has retired after 10 years in the role.

More New CEOs

Loree Jones, chief of staff to the chancellor of Rutgers University at Camden, will become CEO of Philabundance next month. She succeeds Glenn Bergman, who departed in March after six years as executive director of this hunger-relief charity in Philadelphia.

Audra Wilson, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Illinois, has been named president and CEO of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law.

FairVote

This nonpartisan organization that advocates for electoral reform in the United States has made three staff changes.

Ashley Houghton, tactical campaigns manager at Amnesty International USA, joins FairVote as communications director.

Khalid Pitts is now executive vice president of policy and programs. Most recently he was a principal at Democracy Partners.

Sangita Sigdyal, managing director, has been promoted to executive vice president for strategic partnerships and operations.

Other Notable Appointments

Allyson Bear, vice president for quality, impact, and learning at Corus International, has been promoted to vice president for international programs at this parent organization for Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health.

Joy Bivins will become associate director of collections and research services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on June 23. Most recently she was chief curator of the International African American Museum.

Abigail Feder-Kane, senior director of development at Sarah Lawrence College, has been named director of development and external relations for the City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

Tamara Turoff Keough, senior director of regional giving at the RAND Corporation, has been appointed chief development officer at UsAgainstAlzheimer’s.

Thomas Kurmann, director of development at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, has been named vice president for resource development at Oxfam America.

Keith Miles, major-gift officer at Howard University, has joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as director of major gifts for the ASME Foundation.

Shannon Roddy has joined Miami Dade College Foundation as its chief financial officer. Most recently she was chief financial officer for the Broward College Foundation and BCEduventures.

Kirk Swenson, vice president for college advancement at Dickinson College, will become vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of North Carolina at Asheville on June 1.

Chad Wilsey, interim chief scientist at the National Audubon Society, will continue in the role on a permanent basis. Previously he was vice president of conservation science.

Departure

Pat Modugno, vice president of administration and chief financial officer at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, has retired. He joined the $6.6 billion foundation in 1987.

Legacies

Georgianna Glose, a Catholic nun who led the Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership for 24 years, died from complications of the novel coronavirus on April 28. She was 73. In addition to running her nonprofit group in Brooklyn, she was a whistle-blower in a sex-abuse scandal involving the Brooklyn Diocese.

Richard Gilder Jr., a billionaire investor who was a major donor to museums and historical preservation in New York, died on May 12. He was 87. The founder of the investment firm now known as Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Company, he was a longtime donor to the American Museum of Natural History, giving $50 million to establish the Richard Gilder Graduate School. Then in 2012, he gave the museum $60 million for the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, which is currently being built in Manhattan. Glider made a challenge gift of $17 million in 1993 to rehabilitate Central Park, a commitment that the Central Park Conservancy and the city matched; at that time, it was the largest private donation to a public park. He also gave $1 million to create the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in 1994.

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