communications executive, to be
chief communications officer.
Boston Foundation: Appointed Edward M. Powell, deputy
director at the Boston Private
Industry Council, to be executive director of its StreetSafe
Boston program, which helps
youths living in violent neighborhoods, and F. Javier Torres, director of the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (Boston),
to be senior program officer for
arts and culture.
College Access Foundation
(San Francisco): Appointed
Jacqueline Khor, a managing director at Imprint Capital Advisors (San Francisco),
to be vice president for programs.
John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation (Miami): Appointed
Rishi S. Jaitly, founder and
chief executive officer of Michigan Corps (Detroit), to be a program director, based in Detroit,
and Michael Maness, vice
president of innovation and design at Gannett (McLean, Va.),
to be vice president of the journalism and media-innovation
program. Mr. Maness succeeds
Eric Newton, who is now senior adviser to the foundation’s
president.
McKnight Foundation (
Minneapolis): Appointed Shaina
Briscoe, associate specialist at
Target Corporation (
Minneapolis), to be grants administration
associate, and Becky Mon-nens, a program associate, to
be international program officer.
Richland County Foundation
(Mansfield, Ohio): Appointed
Bradford (Brady) Groves,
manager of MedCentral Health
and Fitness Center (Mansfield),
to be president. He succeeds
Pamela H. Siegenthaler, who
has retired.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Robert Graham, a
professor at the U. of Cincinnati College of Medicine, to
be national program director
of Aligning Forces for Quality, which seeks to improve the
quality of health care across
the country, and Kate Sullivan Hare, principal of Health
Policy Insight & Strategy
(Washington), to be director of
policy outreach and public affairs.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
(New York): Appointed Naomi
Jackson, program associate
for its Democratic Practice and
New York City programs, to be
program officer of the New York
City program.
Rose Community Foundation
(Denver): Appointed Sue Cobb,
communications director and
legislative liaison for the City of
Denver’s Department of Community Planning and Development, to be director of communications and marketing.
Universal Orlando Resort
(Fla.): Appointed Diane Young,
executive director of the Universal Orlando Foundation, to be
vice president of community relations.
WORTH READING
Charitable Giving Improves Outlook
of the Wealthy, Study Finds
JEROLD PANAS,
LINZY &
PARTNERS
Consultants to
Philanthropy
For America’s wealthy, accumulating
millions of dollars is not necessarily a recipe for happiness, but philanthropy is proving to be a popular
balm to alleviate their anxieties, according to a new foundation-support-ed study of households with as much
as $25-million or more in assets.
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The study of roughly 165 wealthy
households, conducted by Boston
College’s Center on Wealth and Philanthropy and previewed in the April
issue of The Atlantic, has found that
the very wealthy “turn out to be a
generally dissatisfied lot.”
Millionaires worry about how their
money distances them from non-wealthy people, feel suspicious of the motives of friends and romantic prospects, struggle with
the impact of their wealth on their children, and often struggle with finding a career and a
purpose to their lives. And most rich people, the study found, fret that even their millions
have not made them financially secure. (One of the survey participants, whom the article described as “the heir to an enormous fortune” and a devout Christian, told researchers that he
“wouldn’t feel financially secure until he had $1-billion in the bank.”)
MICHAEL BRUNKER
Executive Director
JACKIE ROBINSON
FAMILY YMCA
San Diego, California
But there’s an upside for charities to all these tales of personal angst. The study—supported
by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation—
uncovers a common thread among the ultrawealthy: almost all of the survey subjects said they
had either family foundations or other charitable funds. “Excluding two unusually wealthy
foundations,” the article reports, “these respondents invested an average of $11-million in
these funds, in addition to household giving.”
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The survey results, Robert A. Kenny, an architect of the study, tells the magazine, indicate
that wealth isn’t always enviable, and not as important as, say, making the world a better
place. “Don’t work too hard for money,” he says, “because it isn’t going to get you much if you
ignore everything else.” —HEATHER JOSLYN
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AWARDS
Fund-Raising Group Honors
a Donor’s Diverse Gifts
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The award: 2011 Award for Outstanding Philanthropist
Who gives the award: Association of Fundraising Professionals
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The winner: Adrienne Arsht, a lawyer and former chairwoman of
the board of her family’s TotalBank, in Miami, which she sold to a
Spanish bank in 2007 for $300-million.
Why she won: Paulette V. Maehara, head of the Association of Fund-raising Professionals, says that Ms. Arsht was selected by the committee in part for the diversity of causes that she has supported. In
particular, she says, she was impressed with Ms. Arsht’s effort to purchase a former home of the orator William Jennings Bryan, which was
scheduled for demolition, and seeking historic-landmark status for it.
About her giving: Ms. Arsht, 69, has divided her giving over the
years among several causes. She gave $5-million to the University of
Miami to, among other things, establish an ethics program and support research at its eye institute. She also gave $750,000 to the Delaware chapter of Best Buddies to help serve Hispanics and African Americans with developmental disabilities.
OMAR CRUZ
Biggest single gift: Ms. Arsht provided $30-million in 2007 to what is now the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The gift, which saved the center
from bankruptcy, is the one of which she is most proud, and one that helped land her on The
Chronicle’s list of America’s most-generous donors for that year. Giving to arts groups is important, she says, because “the arts define our civilization. They are in our DNA.”
CANDY C. BURNETT, CFRE
President
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL
FOUNDATION
Huntsville, Alabama
Plans for future giving: “I’ll know it when I see it,” she says of her decision-making process.
She says she will give all of her money to charity either during her lifetime or upon her death.
Any bequests, she says, will probably go to organizations with which she has a history.
Advice she has for other potential donors: Be candid, she says, if you aren’t interested in
giving money to an organization. “I believe that as a prospective donor the best thing to do is
to acknowledge the request and turn it down simply and quickly,” she says. “The entity asking
appreciates it, even if they think you didn’t give them a chance, because now they can now go
on to the next person on their list without wasting time.” —EUGENE MCCORMACK
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