NonProfit Times releases 25th annual Power and Influence list
For the first time in its 25 years, a majority of the leaders in the NonProfit Times’ (NPT) annual Power and Influence Top 50 list are women.
Selected from a group of roughly 300 nonprofit executives by a committee of NPT editorial staff, contributors, and nonprofit executives, this year’s list features 28 women, 16 new honorees, and two returning to the list after a hiatus.
New faces include José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen; Rakim H.D. Brooks, president of the Alliance for Justice; Heather Carpenter, interim executive director of the Institute for Nonprofit Administration and Research at Louisiana State University, Shreveport; Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project; Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness; Skoll Foundation CEO Donald Gips; Libra Foundation CEO Crystal Hayling; Mindy S. Lubber, president and CEO of Ceres; Shannon McCracken, CEO of the Nonprofit Alliance; Michael J. Nyenhuis, president and CEO of UNICEF; Sabeen Perwaiz Syed, president and CEO of the Florida Nonprofit Alliance; Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance; La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Elise Westhoff, president and CEO of the Philanthropy Roundtable; Rachel White, president of theguardian.org; and Angela Williams, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide.
Those returning to the Top 50 list after an absence of at least a year are TechSoup CEO Rebecca Masisak, who also made the list in 2017, and Blue Meridian Partners president Nancy Roob, who was last included in 2020. Newcomer Heather Carpenter and three-time honoree Sonal Shah are the first two who made the list while carrying an “interim” title; Shah is an executive vice president at United Way Worldwide. Another notable leader, Melanie L. Herman, executive director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, has now been included in the list 14 times—the most in the current cohort—including the last 12 editions.
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