The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced the selection of MICHAEL D. MURPHY as vice president of communications effective October 4. Murphy currently serves as chief marketing officer of the Cleveland Foundation, where he leads strategic communications, community engagement, public affairs, and issues management. His previous positions include managing director for Burson-Marsteller's corporate/financial practice, senior vice president and partner for Fleishman-Hillard, and senior manager of media relations at Fox News Channel. In his new role, Murphy will lead strategic communications — both domestic and international — in service of the foundation's mission, vision, values, and strategic direction and provide strategic counsel to the president and CEO, executive team, and staff.

The American Council on Education has announced the appointment of HIRONAO OKAHANA as vice president for ACE Research. Okahana has spent the last eight years at the Council of Graduate Schools, where he most recently served as vice president for research and knowledge development. He also has served as an adjunct faculty member at William & Mary and George Mason University, teaching graduate-level courses in their higher education programs.

Opportunity@Work, a nonprofit whose mission is to increase career opportunities for adults who do not have a four-year college degree, has announced the hiring of KELCEY REED as chief technology officer. Reed will lead the engineering team as it builds out Stellarworx — Opportunity@Work's talent marketplace designed to help employers find and hire workers who are "skilled through alternative routes (STARs)" such as community colleges, workforce training, boot camps, certificate programs, military service, or on-the-job learning. Executive-in-residence JULIE ELBERFELD, who has been serving as interim CTO, will continue to work with Opportunity@Work as a senior advisor.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation has announced the appointment of CHARLES J. RYAN as president and CEO. Ryan joins PCF from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he served as director of the Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation Division in the Department of Medicine; he also served as associate director for clinical research in the Masonic Cancer Center and held the B.J. Kennedy Chair in Clinical Medical Oncology. Ryan succeeds JONATHAN W. SIMONS, who stepped down from day-to-day leadership earlier in August after more than fourteen years and now serves on the PCF board.

The TIME'S UP Foundation, the anti-harassment nonprofit, has announced the resignation of TINA TCHEN as president. Her resignation follows that of board president ROBERTA KAPLAN in early August in the wake of revelations that TIME'S UP leaders appear to have allied more closely with former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who faces sexual harassment allegations from eleven women, than with the first accusers to come forward. "I am especially aware that my position at the helm of TIME'S UP has become a painful and divisive focal point, where those very women and other activists who should be working together to fight for change are instead battling each other in harmful ways," said Tchen, who co-founded the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund in 2017 and has led TIME'S UP since 2019, in a statement. "Therefore, it is time for me to resign and continue to work for change in other ways, and to let TIME'S UP engage in the thoughtful and meaningful process I know will occur to move forward."

And PND notes the passing of Seattle philanthropist KAY BULLITT at the age of 96. Born Katharine Muller in Boston, she was an advocate for an array of causes including education, racial justice, international relations, politics, historic landmark preservation, and the arts — a legacy of the family she married into. Her ex-husband, Charles Stimson Bullitt, who died in 2009, was heir to a family fortune made from timber, real estate, and broadcasting; his mother established King Broadcasting Company and the Bullitt Foundation, which later funded the solar-powered, zero-waste Bullitt Center in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. An elementary school teacher, in the 1960s Bullitt championed one of the earliest efforts to desegregate Seattle Public Schools and organized a citizens' group that helped recruit parents to opt their children into the district's integration program, as she had with her own.