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Not for Profit Leadership Changes as reported by Philanthropy.com in August 2019
Peter Burgess
MacArthur Foundation Chooses New Chief Financial Officer (Transitions) By M.J. Prest MACARTHUR FOUNDATION Kenneth Jones is leaving the Annie E. Casey Foundation to become vice president and chief financial officer of the MacArthur Foundation. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Kenneth Jones II, vice president and chief financial officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, will become vice president and chief financial officer at the MacArthur Foundation on October 15.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nora Burnett Abrams, curator and director of planning at the museum, has been promoted to director. She replaces Adam Lerner, who has led the institution since 2009.
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Sarah Reed, director of applied conservation science for the Americas program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, has been hired as executive director. She succeeds Lissa Widoff, who has served for 20 years as the head of this foundation that awards grants and fellowships annually to graduate students in New England and California who are studying to become environmental leaders.
More New CEOs
Afira DeVries, president and CEO of United Way of Roanoke Valley, has joined Spring Impact as U.S. director. She will report to Dan Berelowitz, CEO and co-founder of this international nonprofit group that works with grant makers to increase the impact of their giving.
Doug Draut, director of annual giving and the parents fund at Berry College, has been named president of the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program Foundation. He succeeds Hal Smith, who has retired.
Marc Hopin, interim CEO of the Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service of Palm Beach County and its sister organization, Melvin J. & Claire Levine Jewish Residential and Family Service of Palm Beach County, will assume the top job permanently. Before Hopin became interim CEO last year, he was chief administrative officer and chief financial officer for five years.
Chris Johnson, interim executive director of Evergreen Treatment Services, has been tapped as president and CEO of Veterans Resource Centers of America. He succeeds Peter Cameron, its co-founder, who has retired after 47 years.
Michelle Lakly, managing director for the Saving Great Rivers Program at the Nature Conservancy, has been named executive director of Save the Chimps.
David Wu has been hired as chief development and membership officer of San Diego Zoo Global and president of the Foundation of San Diego Zoo Global. Most recently he worked at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo as chief advancement officer.
The Fortune Society This organization that serves formerly incarcerated individuals has hired two senior staff members.
Lou Miceli, chief program officer at Semper Fidelis Youth Leadership Academy, will serve as chief operating officer.
Donald Powell will return to the Fortune Society as associate vice president of development and communications. After his release from prison in 1992, he developed HIV/AIDS programs at the organization. Most recently, he was senior director of policy and development at Exponents, a social-services charity for people with HIV/AIDS.
Other Notable Appointments
Adam Conner, a senior account executive at Slack Technologies, has joined the Center for American Progress as vice president for technology policy.
Leah Heister, vice president at CCS Fundraising, has joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation as deputy director and chief advancement officer.
Derek Reynolds, director of new business development at PATH, been named vice president for business development at Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. The two humanitarian-aid organizations merged at the beginning of the year.
David Siegel has been hired as director of strategic partnerships at Exceptional Minds, a California charity that works with people on the autism spectrum. Previously he was director of marketing at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Kimberly Thornbury, vice president for institutional research and strategic planning at King's College, will become senior program director for enrichment at the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust this fall. She succeeds Terry Stokesbary, who is retiring at the end of the year.
Departures
Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, is departing after 10 years at the helm. He will stay on until a successor is hired.
Belen Vargas, senior vice president at the Weingart Foundation, will leave next month to become associate vice president for operations and chief mission officer at California State University at Los Angeles. She has worked at the foundation since 2000.
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