Jumpstart for Young Children
Crystal Rountree has been tapped as its next CEO, effective January 8. She is currently executive vice president and chief revenue and development officer at Teach for America.
Rountree will succeed Naila Bolus, who has led the organization since 2011 and will depart at the end of this year.
Artadia
Patton Hindle has been hired as executive director of this grant maker that supports visual artists, curators, and patrons.
She was most recently the head of Forward Funds, a social-impact program at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. She was also head of arts at Kickstarter.
Hindle follows Carolyn Ramo, who departed in May after 11 years at the helm.
Propel
Lisa Herring, recently the superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools, is now president of this innovation and learning hub that supports historically Black colleges and universities.
She will concurrently serve as strategic adviser to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
More New CEOs
Janelle Duray has been promoted from executive vice president and chief operating officer to president and CEO of Jobs for America’s Graduates.
Amy Lestition Burke has been appointed executive director and CEO of the Solid Waste Association of North America. Most recently she was vice president for industry solutions at the Consumer Brands Association.
Luisa Ortega, an education consultant and former director of the Onward Scholars Program, will be the first executive director of the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project. Ortega is an alumna of the organization; she participated in a leadership project there as a teenager in 1995.
Warwick Sabin will be the first president and CEO of Deep South Today, a network of nonprofit newsrooms that serves Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. He was most recently chief strategy officer at Interfaith America.
Belinda Tate has been tapped as director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, effective November 6. Currently she is executive director of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Other Notable Appointments
Akosua Ali, president of the NAACP’s branch in Washington, D.C., has been hired as senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the United Negro College Fund.
Anne-Carolyn Bird has been appointed development director at Collage Dance Collective. Most recently she was a development strategist at Ballet Memphis.
Juliette Boberg has moved from being senior director at the social-impact consulting firm Impactual to being director of corporate and organizational partnerships at League of Women Voters.
Maria Burke is now senior major-gifts officer at New England Public Media. She previously was director of development at Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
Tom DeCaigny will become a program officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s performing-arts program beginning January 9. Currently he is executive director of Create CA, an organization that expands high-quality arts education for California students. (The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.)
Danna Grant is now executive director of donor and community engagement at Providence South Division Philanthropy. She was most recently senior vice president of advancement at the Hoag Hospital Foundation.
Danielle LeBlanc has joined the Surdna Foundation as a program officer for Inclusive Economies, its $10 million grant-making portfolio to build wealth and develop better job opportunities for communities of color across the United States. LeBlanc was previously co-op development director at Green Worker Cooperatives.
Cecilia Mejia, founder of Remedias Productions and an adjunct professor at New York University, has been hired as vice president of external affairs at American Documentary.
Elizabeth Racheva, vice president of strategic planning and chief advancement officer at Washington Performing Arts, has been appointed chief advancement officer at the Phillips Collection.
Linda Schupack has stepped from being president of marketing at AMC Networks to chief influence and marketing officer at the Doris Duke Foundation, a new role at the $2.6 billion grant maker.
Meiyu Tsung has been promoted from director of individual giving to director of advancement at Washington Performing Arts.
Amy Wagner, president and chief operating officer at Ohio’s Hospice, has been appointed senior vice president for operations at the Dayton Foundation. She succeeds Jeanne Holihan, who plans to retire in March 2024.
Vanessa Wise has been promoted from vice president for development to also serve as chief strategy officer at the WNET Group, a public-media organization in New York.
Departures
Emily Harris, executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum, plans to retire on July 1, 2024.
Candy Marshall, president of TheDream.US since its founding 10 years ago, will step down from the helm on November 1. She will remain with the immigrant-aid group as a senior adviser.
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