I am extremely pleased to announce that NCRP elected four exceptional new nonprofit leaders to its board of directors yesterday. The new directors include:
- Bill Dempsey, CFO, Service Employees International Union.
- Cristina Jiménez, Co-founder and Managing Director, United We Dream Network.
- Molly Schultz Hafid, Assistant Director, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock.
- The Rev. Starsky D. Wilson, President and CEO, Deaconess Foundation.
Bill Dempsey has 25 years of experience managing innovative social change organizations that empower low-income families and working class communities to advance economic and racial justice. He co-founded CtW Investment Group, which advises public and private sector pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with the Change to Win Federation. He also previously worked for the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock and Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Cristina Jiménez was recently named among Forbes’ “30 under 30 in Law and Policy,” one of “21 immigration reform power players” and one of five nonprofit leaders who will influence public policy by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has spent the past nine years organizing immigrant youth and workers to pass pro-immigration policies.
In her role at Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Molly Schultz Hafid is responsible for managing the organization’s program and leadership within the broader philanthropic sector. She is the lead author of a recently published article in Foundation Review on how eliminating budgets can improve due diligence and increase the value of grants. Additionally, she plays a leadership role in Funders for Justice, a coalition of funders formed recently to advance racial justice.
In addition to his work making child well-being a civic priority in the St. Louis region at the Deaconess Foundation, Rev. Starsky Wilson has been a pastor at Saint John’s Church (The Beloved Community) in St. Louis since 2008. In 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Rev. Wilson co-chair of the Ferguson Commission to study the underlying conditions and make policy recommendations following the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. The commission released its findings and recommendations earlier this month.
The board also voted to make board member Vivek Malhotra, director for equality and justice at the Ford Foundation, the new treasurer on the board’s executive committee. Chair Sherece West-Scantlebury, Vice Chair Gara LaMarche, Secretary Priscilla Hung and At-Large member Cynthia Renfro were all re-elected to the executive committee.
Meanwhile, board Treasurer Judy Hatcher, and board members Marjorie Fine and Ana Garcia-Ashley have stepped down from their positions. Everyone at NCRP is thankful for the passionate leadership and commitment to responsive philanthropy Judy, Margie and Ana demonstrated as members of the board. Their efforts have made NCRP a better and more effective organization. We will miss them.
Stay tuned to our blog for forthcoming reflections from Judy, Margie and Ana on their experiences as members of the NCRP board of directors. A complete list of NCRP’s current board of directors and brief biographies are available on our website.
Aaron Dorfman is executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). Follow @NCRP on Twitter.
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