Black Girls Code founder and CEO KIMBERLY BRYANT was “suspended indefinitely” on December 21 by the nonprofit’s board, which said in a statement that it was investigating “serious allegations of workplace impropriety.” In a separate statement to TechCrunch, the board said it had formed a special committee to review and evaluate complaints made by current and former employees and placed Bryant on paid administrative leave “to ensure a full and fair review process.” Bryant said in a statement that there has been no active investigation, even after she approved a payment in October requested by an ad hoc board committee to hire an attorney to conduct one.

Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County has announced the appointment of MARILYN SIMON-GERSUK as its new executive director, succeeding JAN CAMPBELL. Simon-Gersuk most recently served as associate executive director of the American Friends of the Hebrew University; she also has worked at the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara and helped found the Open Medicine Foundation, an international research organization focused on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

FUSION Federal Way has appointed DAVID HARRISON executive director, effective December 29, the Federal Way Mirror reports. Harrison, who joined the FUSION board as vice president in 2017, was elected board chair in 2020 and has served as interim executive director since September. He previously served as vice president for the Washington State Lottery, Washington Energy Services, and the DuPont Better Business Bureau, and managed Bodine Enterprises’ foundation. Harrison succeeds ROBIN O’GRADY, who took on the role in January 2019.

The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee has announced the appointment of HERMIONE GILPIN as its new chief advancement officer, effective January 24. Gilpin served as vice president of institutional advancement and planning at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens for the past several years; previously she was a philanthropic advisor for the Gulf Coast Foundation.

Missoula Aging Services has appointed LISA SHEPPARD as its new CEO, the first in more than thirty years, the Missoulian reports. Effective March 1, Sheppard will succeed SUSAN KOHLER, who joined the organization in 1983 and became CEO in 1989. Sheppard has served as director of Flathead County Agency on Aging since 2012; prior to that, she served as director of operations for EveryChild Inc. in Austin, Texas.

The Women’s Foundation of the South has appointed CHRISTY WALLACE SLATER as its new vice president of programs, NOLA.com reports. Slater served for nearly a decade as a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and, prior to that, as director of economic opportunity at the Foundation for Louisiana, where she managed the foundation's grant portfolios and supported the development and growth of its program-related investment fund.

And PND notes the passing of WILLIAM GORHAM, WILLIAM MONCRIEF, and TIMOTHY H. UBBEN. Gorham, 91, president emeritus and distinguished fellow of the Urban Institute, served as the institute’s first president from 1968 to 2000. Moncrief, whose father was a pioneer in the Fort Worth oil and gas industry, largely focused his philanthropy on healthcare needs in North Texas, donating $100 million to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, first in support of the Moncrief Cancer Institute and later the Monty and Tex Moncrief Medical Center; he was 101.

Ubben, co-founder of what became Lincoln Capital Management and founding board chair of the Posse Foundation of Chicago, died of pulmonary fibrosis earlier this month, at the age of 84. He and his wife, Sharon, donated to his alma mater, DePauw University, the Posse Foundation, and charities including the Boys & Girls Club of Collier County, Golden PAWS, and Artis-Naples. He also helped fund research aimed at detecting and preventing severe lung scarring such as occurs in pulmonary fibrosis, donating $5 million to the University of South Florida just before his death.