Kimberly K. Brandon and Joe Hafey
Metta Fund
Metta Fund appointed Kimberly K. Brandon and Joe Hafey Chair and Vice Chair, respectively, of its board of directors.
Ms. Brandon is a respected and valued community leader with a successful career in financial services along with extensive engagement in public service. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President with The Brandon Group at Morgan Stanley. She is the first African-American woman to be appointed to the San Francisco Port Commission and currently serves as President in her sixth term. She also serves on the SF State Foundation’s Board of Trustees as Chairwoman and on the board of PACT, Inc. Additionally, Ms. Brandon is on the Advisory Panel of San Francisco Grants for the Arts and past Chair of the board of trustees of the Museum of African Diaspora.
Mr. Hafey is President Emeritus of the Public Health Institute (PHI). Under his direction as President and CEO for 20 years, PHI grew into an organization with over $80 million in annual revenue, 600 employees, and 20 centers with over 250 distinct projects. As the Executive Director for the Center for Health Planning, he led technical assistance to State and Regional health planning agencies. He was instrumental in creating the first Healthy Cities program, the Center for Health Law and Policy, the Community Benefits program, and the Regional Asthma Management program.
The foundation’s outgoing Chair, James Loyce, has served on the board since 2013, and as Chair since 2017. He will continue to serve on the board.
Contact: Anna Karrer Manley at 415.660.7359 or akarrer@mettafund.org.
Chima Chionuma, MD and Gary Williams
Health Foundation for Western and Central New York
The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York welcomed Chima Chionuma, MD, and Gary Williams to the board of trustees. Dr. Chionuma and Mr. Williams join 17 other community and business leaders from throughout western and central New York who currently serve on the foundation’s board. Trustees provide vision, leadership, and strategic direction in support of its mission to improve the health and health care of people and communities in western and central New York.
Dr. Chionuma is a board certified pediatrician and experienced clinician. She is Chief of Service Pediatrics for Syracuse Community Health Center, a local federally qualified health center located in Syracuse, New York; and Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Chionuma is a graduate of the Health Foundation’s Health Leadership Fellows program and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, Onondaga County Medical Society, and Onondaga County Pediatric Society.
Mr. Williams is the Director of Performance Improvement at Syracuse Community Health Center. Previously, he was Director of Health Quality Improvement at Molina Healthcare Inc. He has also held several leadership positions including serving on numerous community boards in the Syracuse area. Mr. Williams is a renowned public speaker and spoke on health care equity during a TEDx in April 2019.
Contact: Kerry Jones Waring at 716.852.3030 or kjwaring@hfwcny.org
Bob Hughes
Missouri Foundation for Health
Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) President and CEO Bob Hughes will retire from MFH next year. During his time at MFH, Mr. Hughes has enhanced the strategic direction of the foundation’s work and positioned it to be a catalyst for change throughout the region.
Under his leadership, MFH has evolved from a grantmaker to a systems-level changemaker. A new mission was adopted, core values were defined, MFH’s work gained national recognition, and a new headquarters was built in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, to only name a few related achievements.
Mr. Hughes was appointed President and CEO of MFH in 2012, taking over leadership from Dr. James Kimmey, who had served as the foundation’s President and CEO upon its founding in 2000. Mr. Hughes came to MFH with 30 years of experience in philanthropic leadership, public health, and health policy. He had previously worked as a visiting research professor in the Center for State Health Policy, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in New Jersey. From 1990 to 2010, he held positions at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including vice president and chief learning officer.
Prior to RWJF, Mr. Hughes was an Assistant Professor of Health Administration and Policy at Arizona State University and a Pew Postdoctoral Fellow in health policy at the University of California-San Francisco. He has published extensively, focusing mostly on philanthropic learning, the effect of grantmaking on improving health and health care, and health policy issues.
Since joining the foundation, Mr. Hughes has focused on fostering a culture of learning, exploration, and collaboration internally with his staff and has continued to reinforce the importance of partnership and collective efforts externally, in order to achieve equity and make progress toward a healthier Missouri.
A national search, which is due to launch in the fall of this year, will be conducted for his successor.
Contact: Courtney Stewart at 314.345.5505 or cstewart@mffh.org.
Jasmine Lacsamana
Archstone Foundation
Archstone Foundation promoted Jasmine Lacsamana, MPH to Program Officer. Ms. Lacsamana joined the foundation in 2015 as a program associate and has more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector and academic research field. At Archstone Foundation, Ms. Lacsamana has designed and implemented a multi-year initiative to strengthen the capacity and long-term sustainability of Adult Day Services programs as a support for family caregivers. She is currently overseeing a portfolio of projects in the Foundation’s Family Caregiving priority area.
Prior to joining Archstone Foundation, Ms. Lacsamana served as a Program Manager at the California State University, Fullerton, on a project to support Pacific Islander women’s health in Southern California. She also worked at the American Red Cross, Orange County Chapter to implement community programming in youth mentorship, leadership, and health education.
In addition, it welcomed three new members to its board of directors.
Angela Coron, MPH, is the Managing Director, Community Health, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California Region, where she directs community health/benefit activities to improve the health of communities in the Southern California region of Kaiser Permanente. Ms. Coron is responsible for planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving community benefit programs and services in Southern California. Ms. Coron works to build and lead collaborative and strategic partnerships with philanthropic, policy, public health, and academic organizations to advance shared mission.
John Feather, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer, Grantmakers In Aging (GIA), where he revitalized GIA, a national association of charitable foundations, public charities, and corporate giving programs who fund work to improve the lives of older people. Mr. Feather expanded the reach of GIA through strategic planning, development of education materials, creation of a social media presence, and fundraising.
Tammy Funasaki, MBA, serves as the Head of Investor Relations, Breakwater Management LP, where she manages all client relationships and capital raising efforts for private credit funds and co-investment opportunities, while developing a focus on institutional investors. Ms. Funasaki also works directly with the firm’s Managing Partners, CFO, and investment team to create and maintain all due diligence and marketing materials, investor letters and data room.
As it welcomes new board leadership, it says goodbye to the Honorable Lynn Daucher, Former Director, California Department of Aging, who served on the foundation’s board of directors since 2009.
Contact: Christine Gherst at 484.410.9243 or cgherst@aboutscp.com.
Monica Valdes Lupi, JD, MPH
The Kresge Foundation
Monica Valdes Lupi, JD, MPH will join The Kresge Foundation in September as the program’s new Managing Director.
Ms. Lupi brings more than 20 years of experience in public health to her new role. In her current position as Senior Fellow at the de Beaumont Foundation, Ms. Lupi serves an advisory and leadership role in its efforts to amplify and accelerate policy initiatives aimed at developing and advancing a health agenda on critical public health issues such as tobacco control, racial justice, and health equity.
Ms. Lupi is also an adviser to the CDC Foundation (CDCF) in its COVID-19 efforts. In this role, she has been guiding activities aimed at quickly identifying and supporting needs among state and local health departments in their response and recovery activities. Working alongside the CDCF’s leadership team, Ms. Lupi is particularly focused on building out support for vulnerable populations such as the homeless, older adults, and Black and Latinx communities.
Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). Her portfolio included Boston Emergency Medical Services, the largest homeless services program in New England, school-based health centers, and other critical public health services. While at BPHC, she participated in the Emerging Leaders in Public Health Program, graduating with the second cohort.
Contact: David Fukuzawa at ddfukuzawa@kresge.org.
Rose Foundation
While the Rose Community Foundation team continues to work remotely due to COVID-19 precautions, its physical office and mailing address have moved. Please note the new address:
4500 Cherry Creek Drive South
Suite 900
Denver, Colorado 80246
Its phone, fax and e-mails remain the same.
Amy Schechner
Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (HFNJ) elected Amy B. Schechner, Esq. Chair of its board of trustees. Only the third chair in the history of HFNJ, she follows Beth Levithan and the late Lester Z. Lieberman, Founding Chair.
Ms. Schechner has always been involved in helping the underserved. She worked for about four years as a Deputy Attorney General in the Human Rights Section of the NJ Attorney General’s Office, seeking to promote social justice through legal means. In 2012 she joined the board of HFNJ, where she applied her skills and her passion for social justice. Her elevation to Chair of the Foundation follows years as a Vice Chair and Co-Chair of the Grant Evaluation Committee, and, this past year, as First Vice Chair.
HFNJ awards approximately $8.5 million in grants each year to improve the health and wellness of the most vulnerable, underserved people in greater Newark and in the Jewish community of Greater MetroWest NJ. In its 24-year history, the foundation has awarded more than $150 million to achieve that goal. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, HFNJ has awarded more than $1.5 million to community agencies, hospitals, and health centers to help fight the virus, prevent its spread, support its victims, and protect workers on the front lines.
Contact: Marsha Atkind at 973.921.1210 or matkind@hfnj.org.