The W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, has announced the selection of CARLOS RANGEL as vice president and chief investment officer, succeeding Joel Wittenberg, who is retiring after eleven years. Most recently, Rangel, who joined the foundation in 2010 as a portfolio manager, has been leading its Expanding Equity work. In his new role, he will be responsible for the management and oversight of both the foundation’s endowment and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust investments, will provide leadership for team execution and quality performance against allocation targets, and will shape the development of research and analysis of fact-based improvements to short- and long-term asset allocations. Prior to joining WKKF, Rangel worked for Managed Assets Portfolios (MAP), a boutique, SEC-registered, global value investor serving individuals and institution, where, as a buy-side generalist analyst, he focused mainly on small and midcap technology stocks and was responsible for idea generation, primary research, and financial analysis for recommended companies.

ERIK GJESFJELD has joined the John Templeton Foundation in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, as a program officer in Human Sciences. In that role, he will help lead a global portfolio of more than $100 million in philanthropic initiatives within the social, behavioral, cognitive, and health sciences. Gjesfjeld joins the foundation after serving as a Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Society and Genetics and a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained his PhD at the University of Washington in Anthropology, his MA degrees in Archaeology at University College London, and his BA at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in Archaeological Studies.

The Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan, has announced the addition of MARY BETH BAUMEISTER to its Grants Management team. As grants manager, Baumeister, who previously served as grants manager for the Skillman Foundation and held positions at the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Detroit Land Bank Authority, Midtown Detroit, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, will oversee compliance for grants and program-related investments at the foundation. The foundation also announced the promotions of JOYCE HOLLIMAN to the position of senior grants management associate and MICHAEL WILLIAMS to the position of program officer in its Detroit program.

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has announced the election of long-time board member WADE W. LOO as board chair. Before retiring as a KPMG audit partner, Loo served as the senior partner in charge of audit for the Northern California business unit and led KPMG’s audit committee institute in Silicon Valley. He currently serves on the strategic advisory board for JobTrain and has served as co-president of Ascend, an organization focused on Pan-Asian leadership development. The foundation also announced three new board members. SHANNON NASH is chief accounting officer at Reputation.com, which helps companies manage their online information and reputation. MAURICIO SIMBEK is the co-founder and CEO of Milagros de Mexico, a retail chain that provides health and wellness products to the Latinx community. And ISSAC VAUGHN is chief operating officer at Zenefits, a cloud-based software company that helps companies manage their human resources. 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, has announced the election of KATHRYN S. FULLER as chair of its board of trustees, succeeding ROGER S. FINE, who is retiring. Fuller, an attorney and philanthropic leader, joined the board in 2011 and is the first woman to serve as chair. Her leadership experience in the not-for-profit sector includes service as president and chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund U.S. and as chair of the Ford Foundation’s board of trustees. In addition to her service on the RWJF board, she currently serves as a trustee of the Greater Himalayas Foundation and the Summit Foundation and as a member of the advisory council of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center; she also is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Previously, she served as advisory board chair of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and on the board of the Brown University corporation. In the for-profit sector, she serves on the board of Alcoa Corporation. She joined WWF in 1983, serving successively as its director of programs in public policy and wildlife trade monitoring, general counsel, and executive vice president before being named president and CEO in 1989. Prior to joining WWF, Fuller worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, starting in the Office of Legal Counsel and then helping to create and lead the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section in the Land and Natural Resources Division.

The Princeton Area Community Foundation in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, has appointed three new members to its board of trustees. SONIA DELGADO previously served the foundation as a community trustee from 2011 to 2016 and last year volunteered as a member of the team that evaluated grant applications to the foundation's COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund. This year, Delgado, who grew up in Trenton, will chair that grants evaluation team as well as the Committee on Impact, which provides oversight of the foundation’s responsive and strategic grantmaking programs and services. SHANNON MASON has a PhD in counseling psychology and consults with organizations in transition. She previously served as executive director of Mercer Street Friends and currently serves as an advisor to the Bunbury Fund at the foundation. TONYA WOODLAND is vice president of administration at the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund, where she oversees human resources, IT, facilities, budget development, and organizational culture initiatives. She previously served as senior director of human resources and organizational development at the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, as service area director for the Office of Emergency & Community Services at Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton, as executive director of Do Something, Inc. and as program officer for organizational capacity building at the Philadelphia Foundation. The foundation also announced that five other trustees recently completed their terms of service. They are: ELEANOR HORNE, JOHN HATCH, MARGUERITE "Mimi" MOUNT, JUSTINA NIXON-SAINTIL, and CAROLYN SANDERSON.

The board of directors of the Iowa West Foundation has announced the election of STEVE BAUMERT, CEO of Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, to a three-year term on its board. Baumert brings decades of experience to the role, having served on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce and the Southwest Iowa Foundation. In addition to Baumert’s election, the foundation also announced a new slate of officers for 2021. They are: MATT GRONSTAL, chair; TARA SLEVIN, vice-chair; and TAMMY PAVICH, secretary/treasurer.

The Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation has announced the election of ANGELA SALAZAR, a member of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Grant Committee and co-owner of Harbor Point business park, to a three-year term on its board. Salazar has held board positions with the PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center Foundation, Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, and Ketchikan-Kanayama Sister City Exchange and was a member of First City Rotary. In addition to her role on the borough Grant Committee, she leads the live auction for the hospital foundation’s annual Sole-Stice Event. She will replace KRIS NOROSZ, who has term-limited off the board after serving since 2015.

The D.C.-based Council on Foundations has announced the appointment of four nonprofit leaders to its board of directors. The new members are: MARTHA I. JIMENEZ, executive vice president and general counsel, California Endowment; BRANDEE McHALE, head, Citi Community Investing and Development and President, Citi Foundation; JENNIFER FORD REEDY, president, Bush Foundation; and MAI-ANH TRAN, chief financial officer, Ford Foundation.

And HARRY LYNCH has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the AFP U.S. Foundation for Philanthropy. Lynch, CEO of Sanky Communications in New York City, has been a member of AFP for more than three decades and previously served in positions on the AFP Association and Foundation boards. In addition to Lynch, the officers for the organization’s governing board for 2021 are: MELISSA RYAN PENLAND, chair-elect; KAREN ROTKO-WYNN, immediate past chair; and CATHERINE CONNOLLY, secretary/treasurer.