The Heinz Endowments has announced that its president, GRANT OLIPHANT, is leaving at the end of February 2022 to serve as CEO of the Conrad Prebys Foundation in San Diego. During his eight years as president, Oliphant reshaped the endowment’s grantmaking around the core ethos of building a more just community through a focus on three strategic grantmaking areas — sustainability, creativity, and learning. The endowments’ accomplishments under his leadership include the creation of the new Center for Shared Prosperity at Carnegie Mellon University; the Almono partnership, which includes the endowments, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, and the Benedum Foundation, to invest in Hazelwood Green to drive Pittsburgh's innovation economy; and the launch of a major democracy initiative. Prior to rejoining the endowments as president, Oliphant served as president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation from 2008 to 2014 and held a number of senior management positions at the endowments, including communications director and later vice president of programs.

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation has announced the election of MUHAMMAD QUBBAJ, DANIELLE MARLENEROBINSON, EDNA KANE-WILLIAMS, and JEAN-RENE ZETRENNE to its board. Qubbaj, a partner in the Global Markets Division of Goldman Sachs, is head of interest rate product distribution; Robinson is director of community engagement at Diageo NA; Kane-Williams is executive vice president and chief diversity officer at AARP; and Zetrenne is partner and chief people officer at United Talent Agency.

The American Ballet Theatre has announced the appointment of JANET ROLLÉ as CEO and executive director, effective January 3. Rollé joins ABT from Parkwood Entertainment, where she has served as general manager since 2016, leading all business operations, including music, film, video, live performances, and concert production; artist management; business development; marketing; digital; creative; philanthropy; and publicity.

The Boston Arts Academy Foundation has announced that Academy Award-winning costume designer RUTH E. CARTER has joined its board. The first Black costume designer awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Carter uses fashion and design to share narratives of culture, race, and politics. The BAAF board also elected JEROME SMITH, senior manager of external affairs at Amazon, and MAGGIE BAXTER, vice president of programming at NBC Boston, as new members.

Counterpart International, which partners with global leaders, organizations, and social sector networks to advance sustainable change in governance and food security, has announced the appointment of women’s empowerment advocate LIDA NADERY HEDAYAT as associate director of the Global Women in Management Program. Based in the Washington, D.C., office, Hedayat will lead the program’s efforts to provide leadership skills development, woman-to-woman coaching, and grantmaking in seventy-seven countries. She previously served as chief of party for USAID’s Women’s Leadership Development program. The organization also announced the election of three new board members: RENATA AMARAL, founder of Women Inside Trade and an adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law; JULIE BORLAUG, president of the Norman Borlaug Foundation and vice president for corporate communications and public relations for Invaio Sciences; and RASHID SESAY, ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Arab Emirates, India, and Bangladesh, who previously served as the international director of programs at Heifer International.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has announced the promotion of ESTHER ADLER to the position of curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Her responsibilities will include developing special exhibitions and publications, helping shape the museum’s acquisitions program, and collaborating with colleagues to realize new rotations across the collection galleries. Adler joined MoMA in 2005 and has worked as a research assistant, curatorial assistant, assistant curator, and associate curator.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida has announced the appointment of DERRICK CHUBBS as president and CEO, effective January 1. For the past five years, Chubbs has served as president and CEO of Central Texas Food Bank in Austin, the largest hunger-relief agency in central Texas, and prior to that, held regional and national executive roles at the American Red Cross. He succeeds DAVE KREPCHO, who will retire at the end of 2021 after leading the nonprofit since 2004.

The Women's Prison Association in New York City, a nonprofit established in 1845 as the nation’s first organization for women impacted by incarceration, has announced the appointment of CARYN YORK as executive director, effective December 1. York is the first Black woman to lead the organization, which was founded by abolitionists and is committed to replacing punitive, costly, and ineffective systems with transformative, community-based solutions and investments to empower women. York previously served for ten years as CEO of the Baltimore-based Job Opportunities Task Force, where she executed statewide policy campaigns that coupled community-informed advocacy with data-driven research. She succeeds interim executive director LESLIE BROWN.