The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has announced the election of three new board members: BARBARA BELL COLEMAN, ROB CONNOR, and MARK GRIER. Bell Coleman is president of BBC Associates, has previously served as president of Amelior Foundation and Boys & Girls Clubs of Newark, and is board chair of the Schumann Fund of New Jersey and a co-founder and executive board member of the Branch Brook Park Alliance. Connor is the co-founding head of school at Christina Seix Academy, an independent preK-8 school serving children from underserved communities, and a visiting professor of education at Wesleyan University. Grier, a veteran of the financial services industry who served as vice chair of the Prudential Financial board until his retirement in 2019, is board chair of the Global Impact Investing Network and a board member of Freddie Mac, where he served until recently as interim CEO.

The Open Society Foundations has announced the appointment of SALIL SHETTY to the newly created role of vice president of global programs, effective September 1. In this position, Shetty will guide the foundations' global programmatic work and provide thought leadership on issues critical to its mission. Shetty has been a senior fellow at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy since 2018, leading a seven-country study on resistance to elected authoritarian leaders; is affiliated with Harvard's Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; and previously served as secretary general of Amnesty International and as director of the United Nations' Millennium Campaign.

The Rockefeller Foundation has issued a statement that board chair Richard D. Parsons, whose five-year term was set to end this month, no longer holds any role with the foundation as of June 1. Following an allegation from an employee of misconduct by Parsons, the foundation engaged a law firm to conduct an ongoing independent investigation and report to the board. JAMES G. STAVRIDIS, the retired U.S. Navy admiral whose election as the next board chair had been announced in early May, has assumed his new role.

The New York Public Library has announced the appointment of JOY BIVINS as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, effective June 21. Currently associate director of collections and research services, Bivins will be the first woman to lead the center since Jean Blackwell Hutson's tenure ended in 1980. She brings to the position nearly two decades of expert leadership, extensive curatorial knowledge, and a unique ability to help audiences make sense of history, having previously served as the chief curator of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and as director of curatorial affairs at the Chicago History Museum. She succeeds KEVIN YOUNG, who left the center in January to lead the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Nonprofit Finance Fund has announced that ANTONY BUGG-LEVINE will step down as CEO effective August 15, after nearly ten years at the helm. An executive transition team of three senior executives — TRELLA WALKER as lead; KRISTIN GIANTRIS as co-lead, client services; and ANDREA BRISCOE as co-lead, talent and administration — will manage the organization on an interim basis. During his tenure at NFF, Bugg-Levine oversaw a nearly fivefold increase in lending, a doubling of the annual budget to $25 million, and a nearly tenfold growth in net assets, and most recently was instrumental in introducing a new strategy focused on racial diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Pan-Mass Challenge, which raises funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has announced the election of two new board members: MELANY DUVAL and SETTI D. WARREN. Duval is senior vice president and chief philanthropy officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund; she previously was vice president of development at Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Warren, a former mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, currently serves as executive director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School.

UNCF has announced the election of NICOLE ROSS to its board. Ross is head of the New York region's private wealth management business at Goldman Sachs, where she contributes to the firm's support for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), including through the $25 million Goldman Sachs Market Madness: HBCU Possibilities Program; UNCF serves as an advisor to that program. Ross also serves on the boards of Hampton University and the Brookings Institution.

And PND notes the passing of HERB STURZ and MICHAEL E. SMITH, the founding and second presidents of the Vera Institute of Justice, at the ages of 90 and 78, respectively. Sturz founded the institute in 1961 at the behest of philanthropist Louis Schweitzer to help find a solution to New York City's overcrowded jails; launched the Manhattan Bail Project, which in turn inspired the federal Bail Reform Act of 1966; and helped incubate more than twenty nonprofits serving people involved in the criminal legal system, before leaving to become deputy mayor for criminal justice in 1978. Smith, who succeeded Sturz following stints as director of Vera's London office and deputy director, served through 1994 and solidified the institute's reputation as a leading source of evidence in shaping justice policy and nonprofit innovation, guiding early experiments in holistic public defense, transitional employment for people returning from prison, community policing, and alternatives to incarceration.