People Post: Staff And Board Changes At Foundations; Job Opening: Foundation President

In June, Becky Hayes Boober left the Maine Health Access Foundation, where she was a senior program officer. She is now vice president of community impact at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) and is working out of its Ellsworth office. She told me in an e-mail, "As part of our strategic planning, we are exploring goals related to health, such as opioid addictions and aging." MaineCF is refining its new strategic plan, so more information will be forthcoming. Her new boss is Steve Rowe, former president of the Endowment for Health, which is in New Hampshire.

I missed it! Nicole Collins Bronzan joined the staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in autumn 2015 as a communications officer. She came there from ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, where she was communications director. "When not working toward a Culture of Health," among the things Nicole may be doing is running, "seeking out chocolate, or bemoaning the latest grammatical indiscretion," her RWJF bio says.

Peter Currie has been named senior vice president of program strategy and innovation at the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). A licensed psychologist, he comes to CHCF from Inland Empire Health Plan, a public plan serving more than 1.1 million members in California's Riverside and San Bernadino counties. He was senior director of clinical transformation and integration there. According to a foundation spokesperson, "CHCF is dedicated to creating a health care system that works for all Californians, particularly underserved populations. This includes looking at the needs of the whole person and integrating behavioral . . . and physical needs, conditions and treatments." The spokesperson pointed out that "behavioral" here refers to both mental health and addiction. Currie starts his new position on August 1.

Emma Dugas, a former senior communications officer at CHCF, who worked at the foundation for five years, left her post there this summer "to pursue opportunities with grassroots organizations working at the frontline of change," she told me in an e-mail.

Aidil Ortiz Hill joined the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in June as a Health Care Division program officer who serves the central North Carolina region. (The foundation is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.) Hill is co-founder of Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!) and team lead for its substance use prevention work. YES! is a nonprofit "that works in North Carolina and around the country to empower youth to create community change," according to a foundation press release.

Matt James is now a visiting scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. His tenure there began in March 2016 and goes through September 2017. Carol S. Larson, Packard Foundation president and CEO, said in a March press release, "We are especially pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with Matt on bringing awareness to the role philanthropy can play in mitigating climate change." James most recently led Next Generation, "a start-up communications, research and policy nonprofit," according to the release. Health Affairs readers may remember him from his time at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where he at one time was senior vice president for media and public education. While at Kaiser, he helped develop and launch Kaiser Health News, the release reminded me. Read a 2005 Health Affairs GrantWatch article by Matt James and coauthors titled "Leveraging the Power of the Media to Combat HIV/AIDS."

Mara Leff recently joined the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), in Pittsburgh, as a program associate. She is working on the foundation's long-term care and aging team and on JHF's efforts to improve behavioral health services for adolescents. She most recently worked as an independent marketing and communications consultant, according to the April/May issue of JHF's newsletter, The Window. She holds a master's degree in public health, behavioral health, and communications from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health.

Stephen H. Lockhart has joined the Packard Foundation's board of trustees, according to a January press release. A board-certified anesthesiologist, he is chief medical officer for Sutter Health, a health system in northern California. He also holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Judith Monroe became president and CEO of the CDC Foundation in February. She was previously director of the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before that, Monroe was Indiana's health commissioner.

Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, announced in a June e-alert her intention to "transition out" of the position once her successor has been identified. She noted that she is "especially proud of two major fields" that the foundation "developed and championed" under her leadership. "The first is impact investing—private investment capital that generates both financial return and social impact." The second is the study and practice of resilience, an effort "to help people, communities, and institutions around the world build resilience against the mounting physical, social, and economic challenges of the 21^st century." A Wall Street Journal article about Rodin's announcement mentioned that she is the foundation's first female leader and that she "stressed forging corporate partnerships to further philanthropic projects."

Job Opening:

The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York is seeking a new president. The position is based in Buffalo. As GrantWatch previously reported, Ann Monroe is stepping down from the presidency. For details about the position, read more here.

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