The California Endowment (TCE) has announced that CEO Bob Ross will retire in the summer of 2024.

The two-year period is intended to give the board of directors time to plan and navigate their approach to the transition. Ross pledged to maintain focus on three key areas in his remaining time with the organization: finishing the job of Health for All in California and improving the diversity of the state’s health workforce; investing and co-investing in dedicated movement-building infrastructure and leadership support for organizers, advocates, and activists for racial and health justice in California; and pushing further and harder on alternatives to incarceration. 

“I’m approaching the 22-year mark as president and CEO, and the time is right for fresh leadership to lead this place,” Ross wrote in a blog post on the organization’s website. “As to the future direction of TCE beyond my tenure, our Board of Directors is firmly grounded in the values and principles that our grantee partners have taught us over the past two decades.”

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