Tag: Nonprofit

CDF Appoints Its First New CEO As Founder and Civil Rights Leader Steps Down

For the first time in its 47 year history, The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) will undergo a leadership change, appointing Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson its new president and CEO. Wilson succeeds Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights leader who founded the children’s advocacy and research nonprofit in 1973, citing inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement. […]

September 3, 2020

New Nonprofit Hopes to Promote the Hire of More Minority Football Coaches

In his second year as the University of Maryland’s head football coach, Michael Locksley is hoping to promote the hire of more minority football coaches through his newly-created nonprofit National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches, reports The Hill. “When I took the Maryland job last year and looked at the landscape of college football, I […]

August 7, 2020

National Campus Leadership Council Appoints New Executive Director

The National Campus Leadership Council (NCLC), which works to strengthen student leadership in higher education, appointed Sarah Schultz as its executive director, citing her as a “talented leader in the higher education nonprofit space.” Most recently, Schultz served as deputy executive director of Young Invincibles, a national research and advocacy organization that works to broaden […]

January 30, 2020

Leadership & Policy

Vermont Tech President to Step Down, Lead Nonprofit

RANDOLPH, Vt. ― The president of Vermont Technical College is stepping down to lead a nonprofit. Dan Smith, who’s been president since 2014, will step down in August. He’s leaving to become president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation, a Middlebury-based nonprofit that facilitates charitable giving for philanthropists, funds and other foundations. Smith was […]

June 22, 2016

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