The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in Los Angeles has announced the promotion of ARLENE COX to the role of chief operating officer. Since joining the foundation in 2005, Cox has served as executive assistant, operations manager and, most recently, chief of staff. In her new role, she will assume additional leadership responsibilities while maintaining focus on various staff and operational issues and serving as an adviser to Rachel Garbow Monroe, the foundation’s president and CEO. 

The Huguette Clark Foundation in Sullivans Island, South Carolina, has announced the election of EILEEN MICHAELS and SHIPPEN L. PAGE to its board of directors — the first non-family members to be elected to the board. Michaels began her career in nursing before moving to financial services, where she rose to the position of senior vice president, wealth management at UBS. An author and frequent commentator on wealth planning for families, she serves on the board of Energizing Young Voters, a program of the League of Women Voters. Page has been a practicing attorney in Massachusetts for more than four decades and is deeply involved in civic affairs. His practice includes estate planning and probate, residential real estate, and divorce mediation. He also serves as president of the Cambridge Public Library Foundation and is a past board member of The Cambridge Homes and of Cambridge Neighbors, Inc., which are dedicated to supporting older adults age in place.

The Community Foundation of South Jersey in Haddonfield has announced the addition of LORI A. PEPENELLA to its governing board. Pepenella has served as chief executive officer of the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce since 2016, was the first woman in New Jersey to achieve Destination Management Executive Certification through Purdue University, and over the years has served in various leadership roles in Ocean County.

The New York Foundation for the Arts has announced the appointment of five new members to its board of trustees. They are GRACE ANGELA HENRY, president, Grace Angela Henry, Inc.; EUNBI KIM, concert pianist and co-founder, bepoken; RICARDO ALBERTO MALDONADO, poet, translator, and managing director, 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center; ANNA DEAVERE SMITH, actress, playwright, and NYU professor; and LUIS VALDERAS, artist, Bishop & Valderas LLC – Large Scale Print Makers, Arts Consultants.

The San Francisco Foundation has announced that two of its senior staff members will be retiring this year. DEE DEE BRANTLEY, the foundation's chief operating officer for the past eleven years, will retire in March, and RUBEN ORDUNA, chief of philanthropy, will retire in May. Brantley has been a part of the foundation for the last nineteen years and in 2014 served as interim CEO as the foundation conducted a search to fill its top leadership position. Orduña has led the foundation’s fundraising and donor stewardship for the past eight years. Under his leadership, the foundation expanded its fundraising and increased donor giving to organizations addressing racial equity and economic inclusion. He previously led fundraising at the Boston Foundation and has spent much of his career working in community foundations. The foundation has promoted GALEN MANESS, senior director of human resources and administration, to fill the role of chief operating officer beginning in March. Prior to joining the foundation in 2015, Maness worked in the private sector for many years, most recently serving as director of human resources for Starbucks’ operations in the Bay Area. 

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation in Quincy, Massachusetts, has announced that NICK DONOHUE will be stepping down as the organization’s president and CEO at the end of 2021 after fourteen years with the organization. During his time at NMEF, Donohue was responsible for shepherding in student-centered approaches to learning as a national education reform strategy and shifting the organization to its current grantmaking strategy focused on advancing racial equity in public education. Donohue will continue to serve in an active role as the foundation’s leader through the end of the calendar year, while the board of directors — chaired by Greg Gunn — begins a search in the coming weeks for his successor.

And the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation has announced that WILLIAM C. BAKER, longtime CEO of will be stepping down as head of the environmental group at the end of this year. Baker, 67, began working for CBF as an intern in 1976 and has run the organization since 1981. The organization’s board of trustees, led by Chair Elizabeth Olivier-Farrow, will form a committee to search for Baker’s replacement.