The Boston Foundation has announced that ORLANDO WATKINS, a former director at the foundation and currently an executive vice president at Match Education, will rejoin TBF as vice president for programs. In that role, Watkins will oversee a discretionary grants fund of roughly $16 million and lead a program department staff of two dozen people working across five core grantmaking areas — Education, Health and Wellness, Jobs and Economic Development, Neighborhoods and Housing, and Arts and Culture — and two crosscutting strategy areas, Nonprofit Effectiveness and Grassroots. Prior to joining Match Education, Watkins held the position of senior director at the foundation and before that served as chief development officer for BELL, a leading national education organization, and as vice president of programs for the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

The Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan, has announced that LAURA TRUDEAU, managing director of its Detroit Program, will retire at the end of the year. Trudeau, 62, joined the foundation in 2001 after a 28-year career at the former National Bank of Detroit (now JPMorgan Chase), where she served as vice president and regional head of philanthropy and community relations. "It is impossible to fully understand Detroit’s renewed trajectory of hope and health without understanding the central role Laura has played in virtually every aspect of city life," said Kresge president and CEO Rip Rapson. "She has been so central to all that Kresge has done and continues to aspire to do that her retirement is hard to comprehend." Until her retirement, Trudeau will concentrate on regional transit and will serve as a senior advisor to Rapson and an executive-on-loan, working with the coalition supporting the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) and the M-1 RAIL organization, two projects in which she has been deeply involved.

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation in Atlanta has named writer and researcher MICHAEL MOLITOR (Mid-Course Correction), as a senior fellow. In that role, Molitor, an expert on resource productivity, will contribute to the foundation's knowledge base, create and share original content, and serve as a spokesperson for the concepts he is exploring. Currently a visiting professor in the International Energy Masters program at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in France, Molitor has argued that the traditional "linear" economic model of take-make-use-waste is no longer viable and that the global economy needs to move toward a "circular" model emphasizing the reuse and re-purposing of key resources. 

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation, which is getting ready to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, has tapped HENRY DONAHUE, COO and head of partnerships at Purpose, a global digital agency, to be its new executive director. The foundation also announced the election of JAMIE PERRY, vice president of marketing at JetBlue, to its board of directors.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the election of THELMA GOLDEN, CAROLINE GRAINGE, and SOUMAYA SLIM to its board of trustees. Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, began her career there in 1987, spent a decade at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returned to Studio in 2000 to be its deputy director for exhibitions and programs. She holds a BA in art history and African American studies from Smith College and honorary doctorates from the City College of New York, San Francisco Art Institute, Smith College, and Moore College of Art and Design. Grainge, an executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, worked as a senior executive at River Island, the London-headquartered high street-fashion brand with stores across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East for more than twenty-five years and currently serves as a trustee of the Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children, the UK's largest charity funder of children's disability equipment, and of the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. Born in Mexico City, Slim began serving as director of the Museo Soumaya, named in honor of her late mother and founded by her father, Carlos Slim, in 1996. Her husband, architect Fernando Romero, is the head of FR-EE and designer of the Museo Soumaya's current building. In 2012, the couple established Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, which promotes, exhibits, and broadcasts design through its many outlets.

The International Women's Media Foundation in Washington, D.C., has announced that LINDA DOUGLASS and SUZANNE MALVEAUX have joined its board of directors. Douglass, global head of communications for the Bloomberg Media Group, served as senior vice president for global communications at Atlantic Media, worked for the Obama administration in various roles, including director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform, and enjoyed a long career in broadcast journalism, working for both CBS and ABC, where she spent eight years as chief Capitol Hill correspondent. Malveaux, national correspondent for CNN, has co-anchored the network's Around the World show, its Emmy-winning coverage of the revolution in Egypt, and its Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Arab Spring.

In other news, the South Street Seaport Museum has announced the passing of its founding president, PETER STANFORD, at the age of 89. A Navy veteran and lifelong boat enthusiast, Stanford and his wife, Norma, quit their uptown jobs in New York City in 1967 to found the South Street Seaport Museum on the city's East River waterfront, saving the 1812 buildings of Schermerhorn Row and other waterfront blocks, and bringing in two square-rigged sailing ships, a lightship, a fishing schooner, and a tugboat as museum exhibits. As founder and president of the museum, Stanford received awards from the National Park Service Foundation, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Parks Council of NY, the American Institute of Architecture, and the Port Promotion Association of NY. After leaving the museum, he served as president of the National Maritime Historical Society and editor of its journal, Sea History; president of the World Ship Trust, London; and trustee of the Lilac Preservation Project and Working Harbor Committee of New York. "Peter was a persistent man, endlessly insisting that the apparently impossible could be achieved," said Capt. Jonathan Boulware, executive director of the South Street Seaport Museum. "Today we celebrate his life and his achievements. We mourn the loss, but at the same time we carry on the work. Indeed, were it not for Peter and Norma Stanford — and for the legion of volunteers, staff, and supporters who signed on to the voyage — we would have nothing left to preserve."