Andrew Watt, Chief Executive Officer,
Association of Fundraising Professionals
Association of Fundraising
Professionals (Arlington, Va.):
Appointed Andrew Watt, chief
program officer, to be president
and chief executive officer. He
succeeds Paulette Maehara,
who plans to retire. (See article
at right.)
Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese of Washington:
Announced the retirement of
Edward Orzechowski, president and chief executive officer,
effective in January 2012.
City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.):
Appointed Gary F. Conner,
vice president of financial operations at Catholic Healthcare
West (San Francisco), to be chief
financial officer. City of Hope
is a research, treatment, and
education center for cancer,
diabetes, and other life-threat-ening diseases.
Gen YOUth Foundation (New
York): Appointed Alexis Glick,
former anchor for the Fox Business Network (New York), to
be chief executive officer. This
new organization will work
with schools, communities,
and businesses to improve
the health and fitness of children.
Grantmakers in Aging (
Dayton, Ohio): Announced the retirement of Carol A. Farquhar, executive director, effective in October.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
(San Marino, Calif.): Announced
the retirement of George Abdo,
vice president for advancement,
effective on August 31.
Independent Sector (
Washington): Appointed Lois Fu, senior adviser to the president at
the National Academy of Public
Administration (Washington),
Background: Mr. Watt, 49, who was born in Britain, spent nearly
a decade at the Institute of Fundraising, in London, an organization
that provides professional training to people who seek donations for
nonprofits.
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Previous job: Mr. Watt joined the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2006 as vice president of international development, concentrating on opening
new chapters outside the United States. He was later promoted to chief program officer.
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When the new job starts: He will take over as chief executive on March 23, replacing
Paulette Maehara, who is retiring after nearly 13 years in that role.
Why he was hired: “The board believes that Andrew has the experience and skills to take
AFP to the next level,” said Andrea McManus, a Canadian fund-raising consultant who chairs
the association’s board. She said the association, which has 30,000 members in more than 200
chapters worldwide, undertook an extensive international search before settling on Mr. Watt.
What he’ll tackle: Mr. Watt said his priorities will be to bring young people into the fund-raising profession and provide resources to nonprofit organizations, not just to individual fund
raisers who are association members.
Education: Mr. Watt has a master’s degree in history from the University of Edinburgh.
Salary: He declined to specify his compensation.
What he’s reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
—HOLLYHALL
MARCIA M. FORSTON
Board President
GILDA’S CLUB
EVANSVILLE
Evansville, Indiana
to be vice president of public
policy.
Jewish Federation of South
Palm Beach County (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Irv Gef-fen, executive vice president for
financial resource development,
to be chief executive officer.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed
Kathy Eason, comptroller at
the Natural Resources Defense
Council (New York), to be chief
financial officer.
Tufts Medical Center and
Floating Hospital for Children
(Boston): Announced the retirement of Ellen Zane, president
and chief executive officer, effective in the fall.
United Way of Greater Mercer
County (Lawrenceville, N.J.):
Appointed Herbert Klein III,
former chief executive officer of
the Louis August Jonas Founda-
tion (New York), to be president
and chief executive officer.
Carnegie Corporation of New
York: Appointed Nicole Howe
Buggs, director of grants
management and administration at the Public Welfare Foundation (Washington), to be director of grants management
and Bonnie Rivers, grants
specialist and program assistant to the associate director of creativity and culture at
the Rockefeller Foundation
(New York), to be grants manager.
Chicago Community Trust:
Announced the death of Bruce
L. Newman, executive director
from 1973-99, on February 10.
He was 74.
Conrad Hilton Foundation
(Los Angeles): Appointed Marc
Moorghen, assistant director
of the foundation’s Humanitarian Prize, to be communications
manager.
Fairfield County Community Foundation (Susan Ross):
Announced the resignation of
Susan Ross, president and
chief executive officer, effective
December 31.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination
Fund (New York): Appointed
Rick Luftglass, a consultant
to grant makers based in New
York and former senior director of corporate philanthropy
and community engagement at
Pfizer (New York), to be executive director.
Skoll Foundation (Palo Alto,
Calif.): Appointed Renee
Kaplan, principal of her own
business and marketing consulting firm in Seattle, to be
chief marketing officer.
United Nations Foundation
(Washington): Appointed Richard S. Parnell, chief of staff, to
be chief operating officer.
William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.):
Appointed Sara Davis, senior
foundation manager at the Adobe Foundation (San Francisco),
to be director of grants administration.
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Grant Makers
Atlantic Philanthropies (New
York): Appointed Mary Sutton,
program executive for aging in
the Republic of Ireland (
Dublin), to be country director for
the Republic of Ireland, based
in Dublin.
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NEW ON THE JOB
Jeffrey D. Klein, Chief Executive Officer,
Global FoodBanking Network
Background: Mr. Klein, 52, is a newcomer to nonprofit management after nearly 30 years in banking and finance, most recently
as managing director of EGI, the private investment firm owned by
Chicago real-estate developer Sam Zell. Mr. Klein holds a bachelor’s
degree in finance from Georgetown University.
PRNEWSFOTO/GLOBAL
FOODBANKING NE TWORK
Why he wanted the job: To advance the mission of the Global
FoodBanking Network, a Chicago charity that offers assistance to food-bank networks in 18
countries. His concern about hunger, he says, was fueled in part by taking his young children
to volunteer in local food banks as a way to experience “a little bit of adult reality.”
Why he was chosen for the job: Mr. Klein’s business acumen and international experience
weighed heavily in his favor, noted William Rudnick, the charity’s chairman. “At its core, food
banking is a logistics business,” Mr. Rudnick says, involving the kinds of challenges that engage people from the for-profit world.
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Mr. Klein’s agenda: While he hopes to expand the organization’s reach, “we have to be very
disciplined in our choices” of locations and projects, he says, and “remain mission-driven but
not in a way that outstrips our financial and human resources.” The organization runs on an
annual budget of about $2-million.
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Salary: He declined to reveal it but noted that it represents less than 40 percent of his peak
earnings in the investment business.
Favorite vacation trip: Tanzania, on safari with his family.
—SANDYASIRVATHAM
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