People in the News (6/24/18): Appointments, Promotions, Obituaries

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has announced CASEY KELLOGG as its new vice president of donor engagement and services. In that role, Kellogg will oversee SVCF's philanthropy advisors and donor services and provide cross-departmental leadership in support of donor service standards. Over ten years at the foundation, Kellogg has played a critical role in the foundation’s growth and has been a key player in providing excellent customer service to SVCF donors. Prior to joining the foundation in 2008, she worked in development and special events at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. 

Building on a career that began in Alaska, TODD SHENK has joined the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation as a senior program officer. Shenk joins the foundation from Seattle, where he worked on youth homelessness and ran a consulting business. From 2005 to 2017, he worked at Seattle-based Casey Family Programs and from 2011 to 2014 served as a Casey Senior Fellow on loan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Before that, he worked as a youth enrichment coordinator at Covenant House Alaska, where he developed an internship program for at-risk youth with the Anchorage mayor’s office, and as education director at the Denali Education Center.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California, has announced the election of HILARY KRANE, executive vice president, chief administrative officer, and general counsel for NIKE, Inc., to its board of trustees. Krane joined NIKE. from Levi Strauss & Company, where she held various roles, including senior vice president, general counsel and corporate affairs. Prior to joining Levi Strauss, she was a partner and assistant general counsel for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Krane also co-chairs the Nike Foundation and is a director and member of the audit and finance committee of Girl Effect, a UK charity devoted to building youth brands and mobile platforms to empower girls to change their lives.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in New York City has named GREGORY FAIRCHILD, a pioneering academic known for his thought-leadership on community development finance and entrepreneurship, to its board of directors. The Isidore Horween research professor of business administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Fairchild has written extensively on the intersection of business strategy and social impact and has done groundbreaking work in the areas of prisoner entrepreneurship, wealth creation in distressed communities, and the connections between segregation and self-employment. At UVA, Fairchild also serves as associate dean for the university's Washington, D.C. initiatives; as academic director of public policy and entrepreneurship; and as academic director of the Institute for Business in Society. A presidential appointee to the Treasury Department’s Community Development Advisory Board and a gubernatorial appointee to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Fairchild has been named one of CNN/Fortune’s "Top 10 Business Professors in the World"; selected as MBA Professor of the Year by Poets and Quants, and honored with the Aspen Institute's Pioneer Award.

Earthjustice, the nation’s largest environmental law organization, has announced that Vice President of Climate and Energy ABIGAIL "ABBIE" DILLEN will replace retiring president TRIP VAN NOPPEN on October 1. Dillen, who leads Earthjustice's litigation and advocacy efforts, plans to continue the organization’s battle against the Trump administration’s destruction of environmental safeguards. "Trip Van Noppen oversaw an enormous amount of growth and change at Earthjustice, and he helped make it one of the world’s preeminent environmental organizations," said Larry Kramer, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major supporter of the organization. "He is a tough act to follow. But Abigail Dillen is a worthy successor, and we are thrilled that she will lead the organization into its next chapter of environmental defense and protection."

CORINNE GODSALL has joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York City as director, corporate, institutional, and global partners. Godsall comes to the Guggenheim from Smithsonian Enterprises, where as director of media operations she launched new content businesses and developed funded programs through corporate partnerships and in collaboration with the institution’s nineteen museums.

The board of Hilarity for Charity, a nonprofit led by Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen that works to raise awareness and inspire change in Alzheimer's care, research, and support, has announced BONNIE P. WATTLES as its new executive director. Before joining HFC, Wattles served as executive director of Franklin Street Works, an award-winning contemporary art space in Stamford, Connecticut.

"Silicon Valley Community Foundation Names Casey Kellogg as Vice President of Donor Engagement and Services." Silicon Valley Community Foundation Press Release 06/22/2018. "Meet Rasmuson Foundation’s New Program Officer." Rasmuson Foundation News Release 06/15/2018. "Hilary Krane Joins the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Board of Trustees." Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation News Release 06/19/2018. "UVA’s Fairchild Named to LISC Board." Local Initiatives Support Corporation Press Release 06/21/2018. "Earthjustice Names Abigail Dillen as New President." Earthjustice Press Release 06/14/2018. "Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Appoints Corinne Godsall as Director, Corporate, Institutional, and Global Partners." Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Press Release 06/14/2018. "Hilarity for Charity Names Bonnie P. Wattles as Executive Director." Hilarity for Charity Email 05/19/2018.