Tides Network Selects Janiece Evans-Page as Next CEO

Plus, Father Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries is tackling the pandemic’s challenges, and a nonprofit executive tells donors how to connect with effective nonprofits (podcast) ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( [logo] We’ve made some changes and improvements to [philanthropy.com]( such as ending the distinction between free and premium articles. Now free registration is all that’s required to read any Chronicle article. [Read about these and other changes](. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Please sign up to receive your own copy.]( You’ll support our journalism and ensure that you continue to receive our emails. [Read this newsletter on the web](. TRANSITIONS [Tides Network Selects Janiece Evans-Page as Next CEO]( By M.J. Prest [image] Also, the Christensen Fund’s next executive director will be the first Native American to lead the $300 million foundation, and the former prime minister of Australia has been named president and CEO of the Asia Society. ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( [Advertisement]( FACE OF PHILANTHROPY [From ‘Decade of Death’ to Jobs and New Lives]( By Emily Haynes [image] The pandemic has added challenges to the work of Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries, but it is still providing job training, substance-abuse assistance, and other services without furloughing any employees. PODCAST [Blue Meridian Executive Offers Advice for Donors on Connecting With Effective Nonprofits]( [image] Tiffany Cooper Gueye, COO at Blue Meridian Partners, explains how donors can better understand what works at nonprofits. 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([Associated Press]( Yale's endowment chief pushes investment managers to hire more women and people of color. David Swensen, who has drawn wide praise for his investment successes, warned the firms that manage Yale's money that if they didn't make progress on diversity, they might lose business from the $31.2 billion endowment. He said his office will measure progress annually, and he pledged to work on the diversity of the people who work in his office, too. Because of Swensen's stature, the newspaper said, his move is likely to prompt other nonprofit endowments to focus more on the diversity of their money managers. ([Wall Street Journal]( — subscription) More News - 2 Large Mich. Nonprofit Hospitals Paid Bonuses Before Covid-19 — Then Got a Taxpayer Bailout ([Detroit Free Press]( - Some Minn. 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