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Changes in Leadership 2009<br />
PATRICK ROONEY was named<br />
executive director of the <strong>Center</strong><br />
on <strong>Philanthropy</strong> at Indiana<br />
University in June 2009.<br />
EDWARD ROVER, CEO of the<br />
Dana <strong>Foundation</strong>, was elected<br />
its chair in October 2009. He<br />
succeeds William Safire, who<br />
died in September 2009.<br />
AMANDA SCHAFER was named<br />
executive director of the Mt.<br />
Pleasant Area Community<br />
<strong>Foundation</strong> (Michigan) in<br />
October 2009.<br />
MICHAEL SCHLEIN was named<br />
president and CEO of ACCION<br />
International in September<br />
2009. He succeeds María<br />
Otero, who was appointed U.S.<br />
Under Secretary of State for<br />
Democracy and Global Affairs in<br />
August 2009.<br />
NADYA K. SHMAVONIAN was<br />
appointed president of Public/<br />
Private Ventures in October 2009.<br />
JERRY SILVERMAN was named<br />
president and CEO of the United<br />
Jewish Communities in July 2009.<br />
CAROL SIMONETTI announced<br />
her retirement as CEO of the<br />
Alaska Community <strong>Foundation</strong> in<br />
July 2009.<br />
JAVIER ALBERTO SOTO<br />
became president of the Dade<br />
Community <strong>Foundation</strong> (Florida)<br />
in July 2009. He succeeds Ruth<br />
Shack, who led the organization<br />
since 1985.<br />
ANN STALLARD, CEO of Graphic<br />
Communications Corporation,<br />
was elected chair of the United<br />
Way of America in June 2009.<br />
KEN STERNAD was named<br />
president of the UPS <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
in February 2009. He succeeds<br />
Lisa Hamilton.<br />
ROBERT J. STRUYK, senior<br />
vice president of Dorsey &<br />
Whitney Trust Company, was<br />
elected chair of the McKnight<br />
<strong>Foundation</strong> in February 2009.<br />
JEFFREY STURCHIO was named<br />
president and CEO of the Global<br />
Health Council in May 2009.<br />
MARY P. SUNDEEN was<br />
appointed executive director of<br />
the HealthWell <strong>Foundation</strong> in<br />
October 2009.<br />
SCOTT C. SWANSON, president<br />
of Charter One Bank, Illinois,<br />
was elected chair of the Eleanor<br />
<strong>Foundation</strong> in February 2009.<br />
DONN WEINBERG was elected<br />
chair of the Harry and Jeanette<br />
Weinberg <strong>Foundation</strong> in March<br />
2009, effective February 2010.<br />
A. DENNIS WHITE was named<br />
president and CEO of MetLife<br />
<strong>Foundation</strong> in March 2009.<br />
Obituaries<br />
NORMAN BRINKER, former husband<br />
of Susan G. Komen for the<br />
Cure founder Nancy G. Brinker<br />
and founding Board member,<br />
died in June 2009.<br />
AENGUS FINUCANE, former<br />
CEO of the Irish charity Concern<br />
Worldwide, died in October 2009.<br />
DONALD G. FISHER, co-founder<br />
of Gap Inc., who funded the<br />
creation of KIPP (Knowledge<br />
Is Power Program) <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
died in October 2009.<br />
JOHN W. FISHER, former chairman<br />
and president of the Ball<br />
Brothers <strong>Foundation</strong>, died in<br />
June 2009.<br />
MILLARD FULLER, founder and<br />
longtime CEO of Habitat for<br />
Humanity International, died in<br />
February 2009.<br />
TERRY KEENAN, healthcare<br />
philanthropy pioneer and an<br />
early leader at the Robert Wood<br />
Johnson <strong>Foundation</strong>, died in<br />
February 2009.<br />
CLAIBORNE PELL, founder of the<br />
Pell Grants program and six-term<br />
Democratic senator from Rhode<br />
Island, died in January 2009.<br />
CARL PoHLAD, owner of the<br />
Minnesota Twins baseball club<br />
and founder of the Carl and<br />
Eloise Pohlad Family <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
died in January 2009.<br />
CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH,<br />
president and CEO of the Marine<br />
Corps Scholarship <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
died in May 2009.<br />
WOODWARD A. WICKHAM, former<br />
vice president of the John<br />
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur<br />
<strong>Foundation</strong>, died in January<br />
2009.<br />
MARGARET WILSON, the first<br />
black woman to serve as chair<br />
of the NAACP, died in August<br />
2009.<br />
“ <strong>Foundation</strong>s remain<br />
one of the few sources<br />
of stability for nonprofit<br />
organizations in this<br />
very volatile economic<br />
climate.... However, the<br />
longer this crisis persists,<br />
the more foundations will<br />
have to reduce giving.”<br />
— <strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>Center</strong> president Bradford K. Smith<br />
(<strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>Center</strong> Press Release 3/31/09)<br />
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