World Vision VP Will Now Lead Action Against Hunger USA (Transitions)

Action Against Hunger USA

Charles Owubah will now serve as CEO of the hunger group after nearly 20 years at World Vision, most recently as vice president and partnership leader. He succeeds Andrea Tamburini, who is stepping down after five years at the helm.

Bainum Family Foundation

Jacquelyn Davis, co-founder and partner of Education Forward DC, will become CEO and president of the $569 million foundation on July 22. She succeeds Barbara Bainum, a daughter of founders Stewart and Jane Bainum; she is retiring after 11 years leading her family’s philanthropy but will remain chair of its Board of Directors.

Stuart Foundation

Sophie Fanelli, chief of programs at the $542 million family foundation, has been promoted to president. She replaces David Barlow, who served as interim president for five months and will now return to his previous role as chief financial officer.

More New CEOs

John (Mick) Nicholson Jr., a retired four-star general in the United States Army, has been named president of the PenFed Foundation.

Laura Rubin has been named director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, effective June 3. For 21 years, she has served as executive director of the Huron River Watershed Council.

Children’s Museum of Manhattan

Jennifer Arcure, a consultant and former chief of staff at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has been hired as director of institutional giving.

In addition, Kara Pusateri, a development manager at the Central Park Conservancy, has joined the museum as development officer.

YouthBuild USA

The youth-development charity has announced three senior staff changes.

Heidi Brooks, chief operating officer at the Schott Foundation for Public Education, has joined as chief operating officer.

Michael Brotchner, who had been consulting for the charity, was hired as chief strategy officer, a newly created role.

Shauna-Lee Ruglass has been promoted from special projects manager to chief of staff.

Other Notable Appointments

Chanté Coleman, director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition at the National Wildlife Federation, has been promoted to director of equity and inclusion, a new position at the conservation group.

Jarrett Collins, co-founder and senior director of operations at the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda, has been named chief operating and business development officer of the Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike race that raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Valerie Gay has joined the Barnes Foundation as deputy director for audience engagement and chief experience officer. She most recently served as executive director of Art Sanctuary, also in Philadelphia.

Margaret Lawrence, director of programming for Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, has been named the director of programming for the Moss Arts Center.

Jessica Rothkuo, a child-welfare consultant at Deloitte, has joined the Redlich Horwitz Foundation as senior program manager, overseeing organizations that are implementing New York’s Family First Prevention Services Act.

Edward Sevilla, senior vice president at the fundraising consulting firm Grenzebach Glier and Associates, has joined the USS Constitution Museum as senior vice president and chief development officer.

Patricia Suflita Wilson, CEO of P.S. Think Big, has joined CoachArt as chief opportunity director. She previously worked as executive director of Make-a-Wish Bay Area, where she coordinated the viral “Batkid” event in 2013, during which a 5-year-old with leukemia got to live out a day as a superhero in San Francisco.

Departures

Katie Meyler, the founder and CEO of More Than Me, a charity she created to protect Liberian girls from sexual exploitation, has resigned. She took a leave of absence in October after an investigation revealed that a senior staff member at the charity had sexually assaulted girls in its care in Liberia. She has said that she did not know about the assaults at the time.

John Pinette, vice president of marketing and communications at Vulcan, has left the philanthropic organization established by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. He has since joined Facebook as vice president for global communications.

Legacies

Henry Bloch, the co-founder of the tax-preparation company H&R Block and a philanthropist who gave millions to the arts and higher education in his hometown of Kansas City, Mo., died on April 23 at age 96. In 2011, he was No. 40 on our Philanthropy 50 list after pledging $32 million to the University of Missouri at Kansas City Foundation for its business school. More recently, he gave 29 impressionist paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and others to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

David Hamburg, who led the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1982 to 1997 and oversaw its reorganization into a multibillion-dollar foundation, died on April 21. He was 93.

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