Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) has announced the appointment of WILLIAM MOON as vice president and CFO, effective August 15. Moon has served as CFO at the Russell Sage Foundation for the past four years. He will succeed ROBERT J. SEMAN, who plans to retire at the end of 2022 after more than 32 years of service to CCNY.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has announced the election of three new members to its board. RUSSLYNN ALI is managing director of the Education Fund at Emerson Collective and CEO and co-founder of the XQ Institute. JANELLE T. SCOTT is the Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the Berkeley School of Education and African American Studies Department. And NICOLE TAYLOR is president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

The Ford Foundation has announced the appointments of two program directors: MONICA ALEMAN will serve as international program director for the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice (GREJ) program, succeeding Nicolette Naylor, and José García will serve as program director for Future of Work(ers), succeeding Sarita Gupta. Aleman first joined the foundation in 2011 in its Eastern Africa office as a program officer for women’s rights; in 2016 she was appointed senior program officer for the BUILD initiative and simultaneously served as a senior advisor for the GREJ-International team. García has worked in the Future of Work(ers) program since 2017, serving as a program officer and senior program officer.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has announced the election of JOSEPH PIERSON as board chair. A fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family and grandson of RBF co-founder Nelson A. Rockefeller, Pierson first served on the board in 1994 and has since served four separate terms for a total of 23 years; his most recent term began in June 2021. He is founder and president of Cypress Films and previously served as president of Abeyton Lodge, a not-for-profit corporation that manages the family’s philanthropic, business, and social affairs and gatherings and as chair of the Fort Tryon Park Trust, established by John D. Rockefeller in the 1920s.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation has announced the passing of board chair LILY SAFRA in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 87. Born Lily Watkins in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she married Edmond J. Safra in 1976 and helped initiate many of the couple’s philanthropic efforts in support of education, including the Israel Scholarship Education Foundation and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. After her husband’s death in 1999 from Parkinson’s disease, she carried on their philanthropic legacy in the arts, Jewish religious life, health care, and medical research, including establishing the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums and Foundation director and board member RICHARD ARMSTRONG has announced that he will step down in 2023 from his role overseeing the foundation and its museums in New York, Venice, and Bilbao and future museum in Abu Dhabi. Since joining the Guggenheim in 2008, Armstrong has expanded global initiatives to broaden the geographical scope of the museum’s collection and activities; supported a shift in the leadership structure to advance diversity, equity, access, and inclusivity (DEAI) efforts; and helped double the foundation’s endowment. He will continue to lead the long-term strategic and daily operations of the museums and work with the board as they search for a new director.

The Heising-Simons Foundation has announced that president and CEO DEANNA GOMBY will retire at the end of 2022, after more than 10 years with the foundation. Gomby began working with the foundation in 2009 as a consultant on early childhood issues, becoming the organization’s first staff position in education, then the founding executive director in 2012, and president and CEO in 2015. During her tenure, the foundation grew to an annual awards budget of more than $150 million in the areas of education, climate and clean energy, science, human rights, and community and opportunity.

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced the election of JAMES D. THORNTON as board chair, the first person of color to lead the BMA board, which he first joined in 2004. Thornton, who has served as managing director of Thorwood Real Estate Group LLC and as senior executive vice president and director of diversity for MBNA Bank, has led or served on the board’s Finance, Corporate Giving, Earned Income, Building and Capital Planning, Major Gifts, Compensation, and Governance committees. He succeeds CLAIR ZAMOISKI SEGAL, who held the position for seven years and remains on the board as immediate past chair and co-chair of the Director Search Steering Committee. The board also added three new members: VIRGINIA K. ADAMS, who returns after having served several terms between 2000 and 2020; SAM CALLARD, senior financial advisor and shareholder at WMS Partners LLC; and PAUL L. OOSTBURG SANZ, general counsel of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Borealis Philanthropy has announced the appointment of JARDYN LAKE as senior program associate for its Black-Led Movement Fund. Launched in 2016, the fund invests in powerful local organizations that anchor progressive, Black-led organizing networks.

United Way Worldwide has named five new members to its Women United Global Leadership Council: LINDA DEMMLER is the incoming chair of Women United for United Way in Central Maryland; TERRIE EDWARDS is a founding member of Women United at United Way of the Virginia Peninsula and current member in Hampton Roads; JAN BROWN HELGESON is a member of Women United of United Way Northern New Jersey; TESSIE JOHNSON manages the PricewaterhouseCoopers Des Moines, Iowa office; and AIMEE NORASINGH is a senior relationship executive with Optum Financial and has been a member of the Greater Twin Cities United Way and Women United community since 2015.

The Urban Resource Institute, which provides domestic violence shelter services and services for homeless families, has announced that LAUREN SCHUSTER has joined the organization as its first vice president of government affairs. In the newly created role, Schuster will lead and expand URI’s advocacy efforts to drive impact on public policy and legislative priorities. Schuster previously served as chief of staff to New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal.

Young New Yorkers, a nonprofit that combines the arts and criminal justice reform, has announced the appointment of BOBBIE BROWN as executive director, effective August 11. Currently an assistant corporation counsel for the New York City Law Department, Brown will bring to her new role more than 10 years of experience in community development, criminal justice, and education, including her recent role as associate director of community partnerships for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.