Last updated on October 23rd, 2024
In all our workshops and consultations, AP stresses the importance of developing relationships with foundation personnel, especially in your field of interest. Here are a bunch of new foundation folks you may need to contact.
- Julie Morita is now President & CEO at the Joyce Foundation. Morita’s appointment was announced in July. She replaces Ellen Alberding, who stepped down after 22 years in the job.
- Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation announced the promotion of Tod Herskovitz to Nonprofit Strategies Manager.
- Briana Stickney is Borealis Philanthropy‘s new Communities Transforming Policing Fund Senior Program Associate.
- Two new folks at McKnight Foundation: Candra Bennett as Senior Manager of Talent and Culture, and TaMica Tody as the new Executive Assistant, Office of the President.
- Patterson Family Foundation announced Chris Harris as the new Senior Program Officer.
- Former Northeast Bank CEO Belva Rasmussen has passed
Belva Rasmussen was a longtime Minneapolis banking leader and Minnesota Women Business Owners Hall of Fame inductee. From 1991 until 2010, she was CEO of Minneapolis-based Northeast Bank and was instrumental in establishing the Walter C. Rasmussen-Northeast Bank Foundation in 1993. Her focus on highlighting the arts in Northeast Minneapolis helped foster the development of the now-thriving Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
- Coffee with MCN’s Coffee with Commissioners: Minnesota’s Office of Grants Management – October 29. Register with Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.