Ballmer Group has announced the appointment of ANDREA ZAYAS as national director of K-12 education. In this role, Zayas will develop and lead the philanthropy's national education strategy and grantmaking to address barriers to academic success and greater economic mobility, with a focus on systems change. She has served in roles at every level of school leadership — including as chief academic officer of Boston Public Schools; regional state turnaround superintendent in Camden, New Jersey; director for charter school accountability for the New York City Department of Education; and founder of New Orleans Youth Alliance, Upstream Education Consulting, and La Cima Elementary Charter School.

The Gilbert Family Foundation has named DARNELL ADAMS its director of Detroit Community Initiatives. Adams will oversee the deployment of $350 million in philanthropic investments as part of the ten-year, $500 million joint commitment between the foundation and Rocket Community Fund announced in March. Adams most recently served as vice president for program implementation at Invest Detroit and previously served as the director of inventory for the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

The Walton Family Foundation has announced the appointment of TERESA ISH as senior program officer and Oceans initiative lead for its Environment Program, which is focused on protecting rivers, oceans, and the communities that rely on them by promoting sustainable management of fisheries that support ecosystems and build economically thriving coastal communities. Ish has been managing grants in the Environment program that leverage the power of the supply chain to advocate for more sustainable fisheries since 2010. Before joining the foundation, she was the seafood project manager for the Corporate Partnerships Program at the Environmental Defense Fund.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has announced the promotion of AARON MERKI to role of chief program officer. Merki has led the program team in distributing approximately $130 million in annual grants, spearheading efforts to prioritize strategic and collaborative approaches and streamlining the foundation's grantmaking to four core focus areas — housing, health, jobs, and education. He previously served as a program director and was responsible for grantmaking focused on aging and older adult services. Prior to joining the foundation, Merki served as the executive director of FreeState Justice, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Maryland's LGBTQ citizens through legal services and advocacy.

Borealis Philanthropy has announced a new board. North Star Fund executive director JENNIFER CHING will serve as board chair; GARLAND A. YATES, senior fellow and managing director of Community Democracy Workshop will serve as secretary; and independent consultant and Nonprofit Quarterly contributor JEANNE BELL will serve as treasurer. The other members are California Transcends director EBONY HARPER; ALICE Y. HOM, director of equity and social justice at Northern California Grantmakers; CHARLES LONG, manager of resource strategy at the Movement for Black Lives; INCA MOHAMED, an independent consultant for IAM Associates; Noor Consulting principal SIMRAN NOOR; and ISABEL SOUSA-RODRIGUEZ, a program officer at the Edward W. Hazen Foundation.

First Book has announced the appointment of four new board members, each of whom will serve a three-year term. CHEQUAN LEWIS is vice president of operations at Pizza Hut; MANISH MADHAVANI is partner in charge of New York financial services at KPMG; LIDIA SOTO-HARMON is CEO of Girl Scouts Nation's Capital; and CARLA D. THOMPSON PAYTON is vice president for program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Global Fund for Children has named three new directors to its board: MARK WILSON, who leads equity franchise sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Goldman Sachs International; JACLYN FOROUGHI, co-founder and managing partner of Brazen Impact, LLC, an impact investment fund; and MARINE ABIAD, executive vice president at Goldman Sachs – head of distribution France.

The New York Public Library has announced the election of four new trustees to its board: ANNETTE GORDON-REED, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008); MICHAEL BYUNGJU KIM, founder and chair of MBK Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, with more than $24 billion in capital under management; HUBERT JOLY, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and former chair and CEO of Best Buy; and TRACY K. SMITH, professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a poet, memoirist, editor, translator, and librettist who served as U.S. poet laureate from 2017 to 2019.

PARC, Inc., a provider of opportunities for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in St. Petersburg, Florida, has announced the appointment of MICHELLE DETWEILER as president and CEO, succeeding succeed KAREN HIGGINS. A former PARC board member and COO, Detweiler brings a wealth of knowledge and a family commitment to her new role: her father, Bert Mueller, served three decades as president of PARC and was instrumental in shaping the nonprofit organization,

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute has announced the election of former U.S. secretary of transportation ELAINE CHAO to its board. Chao served in the Reagan administration as a White House fellow, a deputy maritime administrator at the Department of Transportation, and chair of the Federal Maritime Commission; in the George H.W. Bush administration as deputy secretary of transportation and director of the Peace Corps; and in the George W. Bush administration as secretary of labor, the first Asian-American woman appointed to a cabinet position. She also served as president and CEO of United Way of America.

And PND notes the passing of Omaha-based philanthropist Walter Scott, Jr., former CEO and chair of Kiewit Corporation, at the age of 90. The beneficiaries of his philanthropy include the Omaha Zoo and the Joslyn Art Museum, on whose boards he served; Colorado State University, where he earned his engineering degree; the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center; the CHI Health Center; TD Ameritrade Park; the Holland Center; and the Omaha VA medical facility. Scott was among the first billionaires to sign on to the Giving Pledge, which his longtime friend Warren Buffett launched with Bill and Melinda Gates in 2010.

"You cannot find a better model for a citizen than Walter Scott," Buffett told the Omaha World Herald. "He was basically a builder, whether he was building Kiewit and physical things or building his vision of Omaha or Nebraska. He was nonstop."