California Community Foundation CEO to Retire

Plus, diversity efforts mask continuing inequities facing women scientists (letter to the editor) ADVERTISEMENT [Philanthropy Today Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. You can now follow The Chronicle on [Apple News]( [Flipboard]( and [Google News](. TRANSITIONS [Antonia Hernández to Retire as CEO of the California Community Foundation]( By M.J. Prest [STORY IMAGE]( Also, Human Rights Watch promotes its next executive director from within, and the billionaire philanthropist Gordon Moore has died at age 94. ADVERTISEMENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [DEI Initiatives Mask Continuing Inequities Facing Women Scientists]( The leaders of the group 500 Women Scientists, which recently experienced a large drop in funding, believe philanthropy is less committed to equity in the field than op-ed authors claim. 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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online Major universities continue to have deep relationships with fossil-fuel companies despite the student-led divestment movement. The ties go beyond the hundreds of millions of dollars that energy companies have plowed into academic research. At Princeton, for example, some students were surprised to learn that a lecturer who had criticized divestment and spoke of the impossibility of leaving behind fossil fuels was an Exxon employee who had an office on campus. A doctoral student there said she suspects her work is being funded by fossil fuels but has “not received a straight answer from the university over this.” An expert on the subject at the University of Oxford said fossil-fuel firms “have purposely sought to ‘colonize’ academia with industry-friendly science, rather than seed overt climate denial.” A Princeton researcher whose work has been funded by Exxon said he is OK with divestment, but “we need everyone inside the tent to solve this problem, including the fossil-fuel industry.” ([Guardian]( The $4 billion Kresge Foundation is on track to reach its goal of measurably diversifying its corps of investment managers by 2025. In 2018, 71 percent of the Detroit philanthropy’s investment team was male and 93 percent was white. The following year, Kresge set out to have 25 percent of the investment funds in its portfolio managed by women or people from ethnic or racial minorities by 2025. As of December 31, the foundation had hit 21.1 percent and John Barker, Kresge’s chief investment officer, said it should hit its goal on time. Barker said Kresge executives had to break old habits of talking with peers, usually white men, or looking for “spinouts of current funds” for suitable investments. “We started to go to a lot more conferences and [to expand] our traditional sourcing network.” ([Institutional Investor]( As huge numbers of people near the ends of their long prison sentences, a Brooklyn nonprofit is testing a housing program for older people returning to society. The Osborne Association seeks to help those over age 50, who are most at risk of homelessness and who are more likely to have health problems, lack the skills to stay afloat, or simply suffer isolation. Its program includes housing, “psychological counseling, drug counseling, connections to doctors, job placement,” as well as activities and classes. The need for these services will become more acute, as long prison sentences end or as officials rethink the draconian sentences meted out in the late 20th century, the era of mass incarceration. The Osborne Association hopes to take the program statewide. ([New York Times]( More News - Harry and Meghan Relied on Silicon Valley Nonprofit’s Mystery Donor to Fund Good Works ([San Jose Mercury-News]( - Harvard and MIT Launch Education Nonprofit Using Proceeds From edX Sale, Tap Stephanie Khurana as CEO ([Harvard Crimson]( - Expenses Rose at New York City’s Health-Care Nonprofits During the Pandemic ([Crain’s New York Business]( Nonprofit Innovation - Volunteer Pilots Fly Patients Seeking Abortions to States Where It’s Legal ([NPR]( - Pet Pantries Across Mass. Are Making a Difference by Feeding Furry Friends ([Boston Globe]( - Volunteer ‘Heat-Pump Coaches’ Help Neighbors Ditch Fossil Heat in Mass. ([Canary Media]( - Tired of High Electricity Rates, N.H. Communities Take Control of Purchasing Their Own Power ([Boston Globe]( - Vt. Conversation: A Literacy Crusader Fights Poverty and Prejudice With Books ([VTDigger]( Housing and Homelessness - L.A. Seeks Receivership for Skid Row Housing Trust’s 29 Distressed Buildings ([Los Angeles Times]( - Salvation Army’s Downtown Austin Shelter Is Closing, Leaving A Gap In Services For Single Women ([KUT Radio]( - As Pandemic Hotel Funding Expires, N.H. Service Providers Fear What’s Next ([Concord Monitor]( Legacies - ‘His legend Is So Strong for the Working Class’: Mel King’s Impact on Boston Housing ([Boston Globe]( - Retired GATX Corp. CEO Defused Funding Crisis at Chicago Community Trust ([Wall Street Journal]( — subscription) Note: In the links in this section, we flag articles that only subscribers can access. But because some journalism outlets offer a limited number of free articles, readers may encounter barriers with other articles we highlight in this roundup. 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