Miami, FL – Independent Sector (IS) members elected four new directors and re-elected one director to the IS Board, IS announced today. The elections were part of the Annual Business Meeting held in conjunction with the 2015 Independent Sector “Embark” National Conference in Miami. The four new directors elected to their first three-year term of service are Kathy Calvin, President and CEO, United Nations Foundation; Antony Chiang, President, Empire Health Foundation; Terry Mazany, President and CEO, The Chicago Community Trust; and Henry Timms, Executive Director, 92nd Street Y. Julie Floch, Partner-in-Charge of Not-For-Profit Services, EisnerAmper LLP, was re-elected, and begins a second three-year term of service.
“We are honored to have these four dynamic leaders join our Board of Directors and grateful for the continuing service of our existing leadership. We also want to extend our sincere thanks to those board members who are stepping down from service this year. We thank all of our directors for serving on behalf of the charitable sector at this pivotal time,” said Claire Wellington, Senior Vice President, Governance and Special Projects and interim Co-CEO. “The world around us is changing and our sector faces new challenges in the months and years ahead. We look forward to continuing to advance the common good thanks to the experience and wisdom of this deeply committed and talented group of individuals.”
The board’s elections of the 2016 officers and the At-Large Member of the Executive Committee were also announced during the Annual Business Meeting:
- Neil Nicoll, Chair, President Emeritus, YMCA of the USA
- Steven McCormick, Vice Chair, CEO, Earth Genome Project
- Sandra Vargas, Secretary, President and CEO, The Minneapolis Foundation
- Jim Gibbons, Treasurer, President and CEO, Goodwill Industries International
- Jeff Bradach, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, The Bridgespan Group
Independent Sector also acknowledged the service of its retiring board members:
- Irene Hirano Inouye, President, U.S.-Japan Council
- Michael Piraino, Immediate-past Chief Executive Officer, National CASA
- Lorie Slutsky, President, The New York Community Trust
- Kelvin Taketa, President and CEO, Hawaii Community Foundation
Also during today’s business meeting, IS shared the updated vision, purpose and beliefs with members:
Vision and Purpose:
We envision a world of engaged individuals, robust institutions, and vibrant communities working together to improve lives and the natural world, and strengthen democratic societies. To help create this future, we lead and catalyze the charitable community, partnering with government, business, and individuals to advance the common good.
Independent Sector Beliefs:
- Collective Solutions – We find better solutions to complex problems when diverse groups, committed to the common good, come together in networks of responsibility.
- Opportunity, Respect, and Inclusiveness – Societies thrive when all people have equal opportunity to succeed, are treated with respect, and can fully participate in the life of the community.
- The Power of the Charitable Community – By taking bold risks, encouraging creativity, fostering collaboration, and inspiring optimism, the sector is a vital, leading force in improving lives and the natural world, and strengthening democratic societies.
- Responsible, Transparent Institutions – Democratic societies rely on transparent, ethical, and accountable institutions and people.
About Independent Sector’s new slate of directors:
Kathy Calvin is President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation. Her career has spanned work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She is a passionate advocate for multi-sector problem-solving, U.S. leadership on global issues, and the inclusion of women at all levels and in all sectors. Kathy was named CEO by the UN Foundation Board in 2009 and President in 2013. In those roles, she leads one of the most innovative organizations advocating for the UN and the creation of public-private partnerships. Her leadership brings together the largest network of supporters of UN issues in the United States and a global network of corporate, civil society and media partners. The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation advocates for the UN and connects people, ideas, and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. As a public charity with many partners, the UN Foundation’s work is focused on decreasing child mortality, empowering women and girls, creating a clean energy future, using mobile technology for development, and improving U.S.-UN relations. In 2011, Kathy was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Rock the World,” and in 2012, she was listed in Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women.” Her innovative work in the philanthropy and international NGO sector was featured by The New York Times in 2011. She has received numerous other awards for philanthropy and leadership.
Prior to joining the UN Foundation as Chief Operating Officer in 2003, Kathy served as President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation where she guided AOL Time Warner’s philanthropic activities and was the chief architect of the company’s corporate responsibility initiatives. She joined America Online in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, and was responsible for the company’s brand, social responsibility, and external relations. Immediately prior to joining AOL, she was a Senior Managing Director at Hill and Knowlton, a global public relations company, where she led the U.S. Media Relations practice. For 12 years before that, she served as Director of Editorial Administration for U.S. News & World Report, overseeing budget, personnel, innovation and strategy. From 1976 through 1984, Kathy served as Senator Gary Hart’s press secretary in his Senate office and his 1984 Presidential campaign. She was one of the first women to hold that title in American Presidential campaigns.
Throughout her career, Kathy Calvin has taken an active role in a range of philanthropic activities, including the boards of the International Women’s Media Foundation, City Year, Internews, the Newseum, Share Our Strength, the United Nations Association of the United States of America, and the East-West Center. She is a frequent public speaker and commenter. Kathy is a graduate of Purdue University.
Antony Chiang is the President of Empire Health Foundation (EHF). EHF is a private health foundation, with approximately $165 million in assets under management and stewardship, working to measurably improve the health of communities in Eastern Washington. With an estimated $86 million reserved towards philanthropy, it is the largest private foundation in the region, giving Antony the unique opportunity to build a philanthropic organization from the ground up, design and implement a strategic vision for impact, and establish the Foundation as a catalyst and convener in the region. Through a series of innovative public-private collaborations, EHF will govern and re-grant an estimated $14 million in 2015 in public and private funding in the region. EHF has helped to move the needle, creating impact via sustainable systems change in the region, in health areas as diverse as obesity prevention, health care access, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The foundation was recognized with the 2013 Secretary’s Award for Public Philanthropic Partnership: Presented by HUD Secretary Donovan and the Council on Foundations in recognition of “an exemplary public-philanthropic partnership which has transformed the relationship among the sectors, led to measurable benefits for residents and community, and serves as a role model for other communities”. Antony was honored with the 2012 Annual Public Health Leader Award by the Washington State Public Health Association. In addition, he is a member of RWJF’s/Culture of Health Prize National Advisory Group, and serves on several statewide leadership boards including the Governor’s Council for the Healthiest Next Generation. Antony is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at philanthropy and health conferences. Prior to working at EHF, Antony was an executive at a leading philanthropic service provider, designing and managing innovative models of corporate technology philanthropy and streamlining international grant making. In addition, he has served as the chief executive of several social enterprise start-ups and practiced corporate venture capital law. As a Principal Investigator specializing in bioinformatics, Antony was awarded several Phase 1 and Phase 2 SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health. Antony earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from UC Berkeley and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Terry Mazany is president and chief executive officer of The Chicago Community Trust. In 2004, Mazany was appointed as the fifth chief executive officer in the Trust’s history. Mazany has risen through the ranks, serving as chief operating officer and as director and senior program officer for the Education Initiative, where he led the design and implementation of the Trust’s initial $50 million, five-year commitment to improvement in Chicago schools. In addition, Mazany recently concluded his tenure as the interim chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools, a district of more than 400,000 students and over 650 schools with a budget of $6 billion. He was appointed to this position in November of 2010 by Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley to provide leadership for the nation’s third largest school district until a new mayor was elected. In response to the economic recession and an invitation from Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mazany helped organize and lead the Recovery Partnership involving over 50 foundations to support the distribution of over $1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds in Chicago. Mazany is a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Council on Foundations. A member of the National Assessment Governing Board since 2012, he was named as its chair by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in 2014. He served as past chair of its Community Foundation Leadership Team representing the nation’s 700 community foundations, and a member of the Diversity in Philanthropy Project. Mazany came to the Trust from a distinguished career in public school administration, working in districts across the country including Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, and San Francisco. Mazany received a Masters in Anthropology and a Masters in Business Administration, with an emphasis on organizational change, from the University of Arizona. Preceding his work in the public sector, Mazany enjoyed his first career as an archaeologist and dendrochronologist — using tree-ring chronologies to date human settlements and develop past climate records.
Henry Timms is executive director of 92nd Street Y, the renowned cultural and community center. More than 300,000 people visit 92Y annually, and millions more participate in 92Y’s digital and online initiatives. Under Henry’s leadership, 92Y is re-imagining the role of the traditional community center, using innovative programming and new technology both locally and globally. Henry oversees the organization’s 40+ businesses, including critically-acclaimed performing and visual arts programs; a world-renowned series of talks and readings; a huge range of family and wellness programming; professional development opportunities; and more. In 2012, Henry founded #GivingTuesday, which engages more than 10,000 partners in a global day of giving that was honored with a Cannes Lion at the International Festival of Creativity; the PRWeek Global Award for Nonprofit Campaign of the Year; and the inaugural UJA-Federation Riklis Prize in Agency Entrepreneurship. Henry also co-founded the annual Social Good Summit, which pioneered a new, inclusive summit model that opened up the critical discussions held during UN week to a much wider audience and led to concurrent gatherings around the world. As an extension of the Social Good Summit, Henry led the team that developed a MOOC (massive open online course) called “How to Change the World,” offered with Wesleyan University; 51,000 students participated in its first year. Henry has inspired the organization to develop a range of other groundbreaking initiatives and partnerships, including the Campaign for the American Conversation with Harvard and Stanford universities, and with NYCEDC, the NYC Venture Fellows and NYC Fashion Fellows. Henry is a practitioner in residence at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. In 2014, Henry was named the NonProfit Times Influencer of the Year. He is a member of several philanthropic committees, including the selection committee for the 2015 CECP Excellence Awards and the Lipman Prize Committee at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Henry serves on the board of the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), where he is chair of the nominating committee for the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin Medal. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K., and lives in New York City with his wife and two young children.
Julie Floch is Partner-in-Charge of EisnerAmper’s Not-For-Profit Services Group and is responsible for coordinating the planning and administration of engagements in the firm’s not-for-profit practice. She has participated in various not-for-profit initiatives of the American Institute of CPAs (including terms on its Not-for-Profit Industry Expert Panel and its former Not-for-Profit Organizations Committee) and is a panelist in some of its educational courses. She has also served on the New York State Society of CPAs’ committee on not-for-profit organizations (which she formerly chaired) and its committee on tax-exempt entities. Julie is currently a member of the governing board (and audit and governance committees) of Independent Sector, a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Project Resource Group for Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations, a member of the government affairs committee of the New York Nonprofit Coordinating Committee, an advisor to the Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Memorial Fund, a member of the legislative affairs committee of Philanthropy New York, a member of the audit committee of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, and an advisor to the Charities Law Project at the Columbia Law School. Previously, she served on the Internal Revenue Service’s Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities, a role which included providing input for the significant redesign of the federal Form 990 in 2008, was a member of the board of trustees of the New York Council of Nonprofits, and chaired the finance and audit committees of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. A graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, with graduate studies at Baruch College/CUNY, Julie is an adjunct professor of auditing at Baruch College/CUNY, and she previously taught not-for-profit management at the New School University and served on its Faculty Senate. She writes and speaks frequently on a variety of business topics.
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