The Kenneth Rainin Foundation in Oakland, California, has announced the appointment of DANA CILONO as its new education program officer. Cilono will help guide the foundation’s strategies in early childhood literacy to produce more equitable results for all Oakland children. Cilono joins the Rainin Foundation with 15 years of early childhood education experience rooted in Oakland. Most recently, she served as a program director at FluentSeeds, a nonprofit that promotes early learning and literacy through the SEEDS of Learning professional development program.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has announced the appointment of JIM ENOTE as a senior fellow. A Zuni tribal member who has spent more than 40 years working to protect and steward cultural and natural resources, Enote is CEO of the nonprofit Colorado Plateau Foundation, which helps support regional Native communities in protecting water and sacred places, ensuring food security, and preserving languages and ancestral knowledge. A scientist, artist, and writer, he also serves as board chair of the Grand Canyon Trust and as a board member of the Trust for Mutual Understanding and sits on the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society. 

The Akonadi Foundation has announced that program officer IRIS GARCIA will be leaving the foundation next month to join the Kataly Foundation, which works to enhance the economic, political, and cultural power of Black and Indigenous people and all communities of color. Garcia served the Akonadi Foundation for seven years and was instrumental in launching its So Love Can Win fund in 2016. 

The Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust has announced the election of ROBERT G. RINEY to its board of trustees. In 1978, Riney joined Henry Ford Health System, where he has served as its chief operating officer since 2003 and president of healthcare operations since 2017. He oversees all hospital and service operations for the six-hospital health system consisting of more than 60 clinical locations, and 30,000 employees.

The Sound Start Foundation has appointed TERRY LEWIS as its executive director. A music industry veteran with broad senior executive and nonprofit experience, Lewis most recently served as president and founder of International Business Resources, Ltd., providing business consulting services primarily to the musical products industry. 

The Space Frontier Foundation has announced ANN KAPUSTA, a veteran space operations and consulting expert, as its new executive director. The foundation is a space advocacy nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the exploration and development of space is open and accessible to everyone through the power of free enterprise. Kapusta is co-founder and managing director of ThinkSpace Consulting, an operations and innovation firm supporting cutting-edge missions in space and organizations with a mission to do good on Earth. 

VolunteerNow has announced that its CEO, TAMMY RICHARDS, will retire later this year. Richards was instrumental in implementing and enhancing VolunteerNow’s proprietary volunteer matching platform, VOLY.org, a software-as-a-service platform that facilitates the connection between volunteers and nonprofits. Upon her retirement, Richards plans to continue serving on nonprofit boards, particularly in education and family services, as well as on corporate and advisory boards in the educational technology space. 

The Colorado Nonprofit Association has announced the appointment of ELIZABETH PRUTCH as its new chief impact officer and the return of GERRY RASEL to the organization as director of membership services. Prutch brings nearly two decades of experience creating and stewarding cross-sector partnerships, revenue generation, and involvement with capacity building, training, and professional development. Rasel previously served CNA as director of membership services for a decade and has more than 20 years of experience working in nonprofits, including membership marketing, acquisition, and retention.

Junior Achievement USA has announced the appointment of SRIDHAR ("SRI") THODUPUNOORI as chief information technology officer, effective March 1. Thodupunoori will lead the Information Technology group and be responsible for developing an enterprise technology strategy that supports JA’s short- and long-term objectives.