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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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