NonProfit Times releases 26th annual Power and Influence list

NonProfit Times releases 26th annual Power and Influence list

The NonProfit Times has released its 26th annual Power and Influence Top 50 list.

Selected from a group of roughly 300 executives by a committee of NPT editorial staff, contributors, and nonprofit executives, this year’s recipients include more than one-third (36 percent) who have not previously been honored, and for the second consecutive year, women outnumber men on the list (30 to 20, respectively).

First-time honorees include Angelique Albert, CEO of Native Forward Scholars Fund; Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO of ABFE; Don Chen, president of Surdna Foundation; Jim Clark, president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of America; Cecilia A. Conrad, CEO of Lever For Change; Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice; Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD; Brian Flahaven, vice president, strategic partnerships of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education; Jesús Gerena, CEO of UpTogether; Patricia E. Harris, CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies; Kenneth Hodder, national commissioner of the Salvation Army; Brian Hooks, chairman and CEO of Stand Together and the Charles Koch Foundation; Stephanie J. Hull; president and CEO of Girls Inc.; Alison Moore, CEO of Comic Relief US; Susanna Pollack, president of Games For Change; Marietta Rodriguez, president and CEO of NeighborWork America; Rusty Stahl, founder, president, and CEO of Fund the People; Fay Twersky, president and director of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation; Victoria Vrana, CEO of GlobalGiving; and Tycely Williams, chief development officer of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Those returning to the list after an absence of at least a year are YMCA of the USA executive vice president Neal Denton, Echoing Green president Cheryl Dorsey, and Interfaith America founder and president Eboo Patel.

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