The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation has announced the appointment of EV BOSQUE to the newly created position of chief financial officer. A CPA with nearly thirty years' experience as a finance executive, most recently as CFO for EMI Industries, Bosque will be responsible for maintaining the financial integrity of the foundation through the direction of its financial, fund accounting, and investment activities.

The Christensen Fund has announced the appointment of CASEY BOX as director of global strategy, effective October 18 and SHAWN WATTS as director of U.S. strategy, effective January 5, 2022. Box served for eight years as executive director of Land is Life, where he worked to advance Indigenous peoples' rights; in his new role, he will focus on supporting international organizations, leaders, and movements in recognizing the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples. Watts, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a district court judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, previously served as director of the Tribal Law & Government Center, Tribal Judicial Support Clinic, and Mediation Clinic at the Kansas University School of Law.

The Ford Foundation has announced the appointment of CATHERINE CHINEDUM ANIAGOLU-OKOYE as regional director for West Africa. She succeeds the late INNOCENT CHUKWUMA, who served in that role from 2013 to 2021 and helped the foundation establish partnerships with donors, civil society, and public- and private-sector leaders in the region, and DABESAKI MAC-IKEMENJIMA, who served as interim regional director from January to September while continuing in his primary role as program officer. Aniagolu-Okoye most recently served as the country director of Technoserve; prior to that, she served as the country director for WaterAid in Nigeria, where she provided grants to civil society organizations advocating for improved access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services and strengthening civil society networks.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has announced the election of J. TOMILSON HILL as board chair, succeeding WILLIAM L. MACK, who has served for sixteen years in that position. Hill joined the board in 2019 and is a founding member of the Guggenheim International Director's Council; in 2019, he and his wife, Janine, opened the Hill Art Foundation, a public exhibition and education space in New York City. The foundation also elected poet, playwright, essayist, and New York University professor of creative writing CLAUDIA RANKINE to its board.

The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, has named TOM EGAN as its executive director, effective October 18. Egan brings more than twenty years of nonprofit executive experience to the role, most recently as president and CEO of the Foundation for Senior Living. He previously held leadership positions with Catholic Charities Communities Services and Esperanca.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced the appointment of ROSA MARIA CASTAÑEDA as the inaugural director of its Racial Justice Initiative, a ten-year, $150 million commitment announced last year. Castañeda currently is a senior program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where she leads a body of work in the foundation's Center for Economic Opportunity and, prior to that, worked at research and policy analysis organizations including the Urban Institute, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. In her new role, which Castañeda will take up in late November, she will develop and manage the grantmaking strategy for the initiative under the leadership of chief of equity and culture Charmaine Mercer.

The Rippel Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, has announced the appointment of two executive vice presidents: ALAN LIEBER and REBECCA PAYNE. Lieber is former president of Overlook Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System; he was instrumental in establishing numerous regional and national clinical centers of excellence and helped launch and served on the boards of two accountable care organizations. Payne has spent the last twenty years in leadership roles in federal government, including with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; she most recently spearheaded an effort among twenty-six agencies and civil society partners to develop a vision and strategy for the equitable long-term recovery and resilience of social, behavioral, and community health.

350.org has announced that ANNE SCHROEER has joined the environmental organization as fundraising director. In her new role, she will oversee global fundraising and help diversify funding into more countries to advance the organization's mission of stopping all new coal, oil, and gas projects and building a renewable energy future for all. Schroeer previously led Oceana's global campaign to curb plastics and, prior to that, was responsible for Oceana's fundraising from foundations and major donors in Europe.

Fidelity Charitable has announced the appointment of JACOB PRUITT as president, effective October 18. Pruitt previously served as vice president and head of T. Rowe Price Charitable, where he led the firm's charitable giving strategy and donor-advised fund program. He succeeds PAMELA NORLEY, who is retiring after five years leading Fidelity Charitable and more than twenty years in various leadership roles across Fidelity Investments.

The Marshall Project has announced that founder NEIL BARSKY is stepping down as the nonprofit news organization's board chair after seven years. He will remain an advisor to the organization he founded in 2015 to "elevate the criminal justice issue to one of national urgency, and to help spark a national conversation about reform." Heising-Simons Foundation co-founder and chair LIZ SIMONS will succeed Barsky as board chair. The Marshall Project also announced the election of three new board members: MICHELE ROBERTS, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association; CARTER STEWART, executive vice president for programs at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and Tow Foundation president EMILY TOW.

The National Gallery of Art has announced the election of former PepsiCo chair and CEO INDRA K. NOOYI to its board; the retirement of SHARON PERCY ROCKEFELLER, a policy maker and former president and CEO of WETA, as board chair; and philanthropist and Carlyle Group co-founder DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN as its new board chair. Rockefeller, who has served as chair since 2013, will become trustee emeritus.

The Urban Institute has named MYRA JONES-TAYLOR as its first chief policy impact officer, effective April 2022. In this newly created position, she will lead the institution's policy impact strategy, working with experts and analysts to help maximize the impact of their research and evidence-based recommendations, while helping tell the story of how their work changes lives and strengthens communities. Currently the chief policy officer at ZERO TO THREE, Jones-Taylor leads the organization's federal and state policy and advocacy work; she previously served as Connecticut's founding commissioner of early childhood.

The USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education has announced that executive director STEPHEN D. SMITH will step down at the end of 2021 after twelve years at the helm. While Smith will take a position in the private sector, he will continue to serve the foundation as executive director emeritus and pursue research and publish within Holocaust and genocide studies at USC as a visiting professor of religion. During his tenure, Smith led the effort to bring ten different genocide experiences into the Visual History Archive — the world's largest collection of testimonies from the Holocaust — restoring dignity to those communities by putting a permanent spotlight on their stories. KORI STREET will serve as Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi interim executive director chair.