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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
The Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation has named Margaret Liu, M.D. as its new Senior
Advisor for Vaccinology. In her new position, Dr. Liu will
assist the foundation in monitoring and enhancing the
progress of its current health programs and in identifying
new opportunities for investment.
The Board of Directors of the Minnesota Council on Foundations has selected Bill
King of Minneapolis as its next president. King,
senior vice president of the Council, will succeed
Jackie Reis, who is retiring after more than 21 years
in the position. King will begin his new duties on February
19, 2001.
The Carnegie Corporation
of New York has announced the promotion of Narciso
Matos from senior program officer to chair of the
International Development Program and Patricia L.
Rosenfield’s appointment to chair of the Carnegie
Scholars program and special advisor to the vice president
and director for strategic planning and program
coordination. (Details)
CARNEGIE CORPORATION ANNOUNCES STAFF CHANGES
New York, New York (October 20, 2000) — Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, announced to the Board of Trustees at the October board meeting the promotion of Narciso Matos from senior program officer to chair of the International Development program and Patricia L. Rosenfield’s appointment to chair of the Carnegie Scholars program and special advisor to the vice president and director for strategic planning and program coordination.
Matos joined the foundation earlier this year to run the African Higher Education program. A former rector of Mozambique’s Eduardo Mondlane University, he was until this year the Secretary General of the Association of African Universities, working on the continent to improve universities’ status and educational opportunities. Matos will now oversee the foundation’s work in sub-Saharan Africa which focuses on supporting higher education in a few select African universities, creating scholarships for women undergraduate students and revitalizing African libraries.
Rosenfield has chaired the Corporation’s developing country programs since 1990 and helped launch the Carnegie Scholars program in 2000 which supports individual scholarship in areas of interest to the foundation’s work. Each year as many as 20 scholars will be chosen for $100,000 grants for up to two years of research. In 2000, the first class of 12 scholars was announced after a rigorous competitive process.
“We feel very rich in talent to have a scholar like Narciso Matos to lead our International Development program which is dedicated to educational strategies in Africa,” says Neil Grabois, vice president and director for strategic planning and program coordination. “He has spent his adult life working to improve the educational opportunities in Africa and his leadership will be invaluable to the success of our work. With Pat Rosenfield’s appointment to chair the Scholars program the Corporation will continue to draw on her vast knowledge of the developing world and I will benefit from her advice and wise counsel. Her move to this new chair position underlines how important the Carnegie Scholars program is to our current work.”
Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote “the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.: As a grantmaking foundation, the Corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie’s vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim “to do real and permanent good in the world.” The Corporation’s capital fund, originally donated at a value of about $135 million, had a market value of $1.7 billion at the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 1999. The Corporation expects to make grants of $75 million dollars in 2000-2001 in the areas of education, international peace and security, international development and special projects, which focuses on citizenship for the 21st century.
The Bellevue, Washington-based Paul G. Allen
Charitable Foundation, one of six foundations created
to manage the charitable giving of Microsoft co-founder
Paul Allen and his family, has
announced that Peter Berliner has joined the
organization as program officer. Berliner was formerly
executive director at the Children's Alliance in Seattle.
Following a year of unprecedented growth, the
Greater
Cincinnati Foundation (GCF), has
announced the following new staff appointments: Margaret
L.
Gaither, advancement officer;
Linda K.
Heines, advancement officer/Women's
Fund; Kaki Kinne McGeary, dual role of program manager
for the Anthem Foundation of Ohio, a supporting
organization of GCF, and
program officer for the Greater Cincinnati Foundation;
Kristina Newman Moster, Ph.D.,
program officer; Joy A. O'Cull,
finance associate;
Anthony J. Stidham, CPA, accountant;
Karen A. Zerhusen, J.D., advancement
officer
(regional) for the
foundation, working with the Northern Kentucky and Clermont
County families of funds to expand philanthropy and
grantmaking in those areas.
The James Irvine
Foundation, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has announced the election of Cheryl
White Mason, a partner at the law firm O'Melveny &
Myers, to its Board of Directors.
The Open Society Institute US Programs, part of the Soros
Foundations Network, has recently made two new staff
appointments: Jo-Ann Mort
as director of communications for US Programs, heading up a newly established communications
department, and Raquiba LaBrie as the program officer responsible for grants to promote equal access to quality legal and problem-solving services by low- and moderate-income people, part of the Program on Law & Society. Both positions are based in New York, at OSI's headquarters.
The New York City-based
Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced that Dr.
Annette U. Rickel has joined the fund as education
program officer. Dr. Rickel will direct grantmaking aimed
at improving early childhood education and care, other
educational priorities, and will oversee the fund’s
recently resumed Fellowship Program for Minority Students
Entering the Teaching Profession.
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