The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has announced the promotion of SOHINI  CHOWDHURY to the position of deputy chief executive officer. In that role, Chowdhury, who previously served as the organization's senior vice president of research partnerships, will continue to spearhead its partnerships with important research networks while providing broader organizational oversight alongside MJFF CEO Todd Sherer and co-founder and executive vice chair Debi Brooks.

Grameen Foundation India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty and hunger, has named PRABHAT LABH as its new CEO, succeeding CHANDNI OHRI, who has served as CEO since 2011. An international development expert with more than two decades of experience in leading programs and initiatives across Asia, Africa and North America, Labh previously designed and led programs at the MasterCard Foundation, worked as a senior technical advisor for CARE USA's Pan-Africa microfinance initiative "Access Africa," and served on the faculty of the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, where he focused on the development of youth-led microenterprises and rural industries.

The Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation in Winter Park, Florida, has named RICK WALSH as its new chair. A respected businessman, community leader and philanthropist, Walsh retired in 2007 following a 25-year career with Darden Restaurants. Currently CEO of the Knob Hill Companies, a media, investments, agriculture and business strategy enterprise, Walsh is active on a number of corporate and community boards and previously chaired the University of Central Florida board (2007-11), the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the National Restaurant Association board of directors, the National Employment Policy Institute, the Governor's Task Force on Affordable Health Care, and Enterprise Florida.

In other news, PND notes the passing of Pittsburgh industrialist and philanthropist HENRY HILLMAN at the age of 98. Born in Pittsburgh in 1918, Hillman attended Shady Side Academy and graduated from Princeton University (’41) before serving as a Naval pilot during WWII. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he amassed a fortune in the iron industry and got involved in philanthropy during the late 1960s and early ’70s, when he served as president of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. Over the years, he also served as a trustee for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh, to which he donated millions in the 1960s toward construction of the university’s Hillman Library, followed by a gift of $20 million in 2005 for cancer research at the Pitt Cancer Institute and UPMC CancerCenter.  In 2008, he donated $10 million to Carnegie Mellon University for computer science research. “The pioneering presence of Henry Hillman has long been one of the distinguishing features, and distinctive assets, of Pittsburgh,” said Pitt chancellor emeritus Mark A. Nordenberg in a statement released on Friday. “As a civic leader, he combined vision, focus and exceptional powers of persuasion….His impact as a philanthropist can be seen in his extraordinarily generous contributions to so many worthy causes that have made this region a far better place. Less visible, but also very important, were the countless acts of kindness that he extended to other people, each and every day. In virtually everything that he did, Henry Hillman stood as a shining example of human goodness.”