CFGNH - Key Persons
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- Chief Investment Officer, the Community Foundation ( TCF ) and President and CEO, TCF Mission Investments Company
- Investment Management
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1971 to 1978
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1987 to 1993
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2005 to 2011
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1970 to 1971
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2013 to 2019
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1939 to 1946
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- Nonprofit Support Manager
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- Business Development Specialist
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1989 to 1995
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2006 to 2012
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- Director of Mission Investing and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Mr. Thomas is the Director of Mission Investing and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. This role provides a platform for advancing cross-sector leadership collaboratives that create strategies for increasing equity and empowerment. Mr. Thomas recently graduated from a master's program at Yale Divinity School to enhance his ability to evaluate the ethical outcomes of community empowerment programs, and build strategic partnerships to reduce socio-economic inequities in underserved populations. Prior to that, Mr. Thomas had a career in finance and residential real estate development. He also serves on the board of directors for Community Health Network, an organization that uses "Emotional Emancipation Circles" as a tool to address systemic and actual trauma in minority communities. Mr. Thomas is vocal about faith's contribution to justice work. He is currently the co-chair of the Faith in Action outreach ministries at Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, and is in the ordination process with the American Baptist Convention. Overall, Mr. Thomas is a healer at heart, and passionate about using innovation, real estate, and entrepreneurship as a treatment for disrupting the reproduction of poverty outcomes in under-resourced neighborhoods.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2002 to 2008
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1992 to 1998
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2003 to 2009
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2015 to 2021
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1994 to 2000
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- Director, Connecticut Urban Opportunity Collaborative
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1958 to 1965
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2010 to 2016
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1992 to 1998
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1979 to 1985
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- Managing Director, Investments
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- Senior Vice President for Planning and Community Strategies
Christina Ciociola has held several positions at The Community Foundation in her twenty-plus year tenure. Most recently she was named Senior Vice President for Planning and Community Strategies.
In her role, Ciociola is responsible for ensuring the efficient and impactful distribution of The Foundation's resources through grants and leadership activities. She is also responsible for the planning and evaluation of The Foundation's strategic plan.
Since 2014 Ciociola has held the senior programmatic staff position at The Foundation, overseeing grantmaking, strategy development and implementation, and community knowledge work. Previously, Ciociola was The Foundation's Director of Knowledge and Evaluation, playing a leading role in The Foundation's community knowledge work and leading its efforts to promote local philanthropy through giveGreater.org® and The Great Give®. Prior to working at The Foundation, Ciociola worked in healthcare.
Ciociola is a graduate of Merrimack College with a BA in psychology and sociology. She received her MSW from Boston University School of Social Work and her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics. Ciociola served on the leadership team of the Community Foundation Opportunity Network (CFON), a national network of community foundations committed to narrowing the opportunity gap and was a member of Social Venture Partners (SVP) of CT's Investment Committee. She also served on the Community Impact Cabinet of United Way of Greater New Haven, and on the board of the Elm City Innovation Collaborative. Ciociola is a former member of the City of New Haven's Financial Empowerment Commission and of the boards of The Mary Wade Home and DataHaven. Ciociola is a lifelong resident of the Greater New Haven area.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1980 to 1986
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1957 to 1964
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1976 to 1984
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- New Haven Healthy Start Administrative Officer
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1945 to 1952
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2008 to 2014
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- Senior Investment Analyst
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2004 to 2010
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- Director of Grant Operations
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1987 to 1993
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1969 to 1974
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- Senior Vice President, Development
- Development and Donor Services
- Vice President, Development and Donor Services
Dorothy (Dotty) Weston-Murphy is Senior Vice President, Development & Donor Services for The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, formerly Vice President Donor & Professional Services. Responsible for The Foundation's comprehensive planned and major giving program, she works with individuals and families to reach their philanthropic goals. She oversees development and donor services and is part of the senior leadership team. Weston-Murphy has more than 35 years experience in development, marketing, project management and leadership.
Prior to joining The Foundation, she was an independent consultant working locally in Connecticut and served as project manager for the National Marketing Action Team (NMAT) for community foundations. Earlier in her career she was Director of Development, Shubert Performing Arts Center; Executive Director, New Haven 350 Cultural & Historical Association; Associate Director, Volunteer Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital; and Director of Marketing & Special Programs, The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
Weston-Murphy has been active in her local community and is a member and former president of the Planned Giving Group of Connecticut. She is a graduate of the University of New Haven and received a designation as a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®) from the American College of Financial Services. She lives with her husband in Guilford where they raised two children, and is now a proud new grandmother.
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- Member of the Board
- Professor in the Yale School of Medicine
Appointed by the Mayor of the City of New Haven for a term of seven years beginning January 1, 2024
Dr. Emily Wang is a professor in the Yale School of Medicine, director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, director of the Health Justice Lab, and co-founder of the Transitions Clinic Network.
She leads these initiatives with focus on identifying and applying strategies to improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by incarceration.
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- Member of the Board
- Associate Dean for Health Equity Research
- Director of the Center for Research Engagement
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith is Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; C.N.H Long Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management; and Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) in the Office for Health Equity Research at Yale School of Medicine. ERIC's research focuses on promoting health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized populations with an emphasis on centering community engagement, supporting healthcare workforce diversity and development, developing patient reported measurements of healthcare quality, and identifying regional strategies to reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases.
In 2021 Dr. Nunez-Smith served as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force at the Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, she served as co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and community committee chair for the ReOpen Connecticut Advisory Group on behalf of Connecticut Governor Lamont. She is the principal investigator on several NIH and foundation-funded grants.
Dr. Nunez-Smith is also Director of the Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement at the Yale Cancer Center; Chief Health Equity Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital; Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Core Faculty in the National Clinician Scholars Program; Director of the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership; and Co-Director of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Nunez-Smith is board certified in internal medicine, having completed residency training at Harvard University's Brigham and Women's Hospital and fellowship at the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, where she also received a Masters in Health Sciences. Originally from the US Virgin Islands, she attended Jefferson Medical College, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society; she earned a BA in Biological Anthropology and Psychology at Swarthmore College.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1982 to 1988
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1965 to 1972
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1977 to 1983
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1968 to 1975
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- Director of Strategic Partnerships
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1954 to 1961
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2013 to 2017
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- Member of the Board
- Lawyer
Enola G. Aird is a lawyer, activist mother, and founder and president of Community Healing Network, Inc. Launched in 2006, CHN is the only organization focused exclusively on mobilizing Black people to heal from, and extinguish, the lie of white superiority and black inferiority-the root cause of the dehumanization of Black people in the United States and around the world. In 2021, CHN received a MacArthur Foundation Equitable Recovery Grant for its work in promoting racial justice.
Under Aird's leadership, CHN has put into place key initiatives to build the global grassroots movement for freedom from the lie, including the annual celebration of Community Healing Days, the Emotional Emancipation Circle self-help support group process, and the Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit. CHN is working to make 2021 to 2030 the Decade to Defy the Lie of Black Inferiority and Embrace the Truth of Black Humanity.
Among Aird's publications are: Toward a Renaissance for the African American Family: Confronting the Lie of Black Inferiority; Breathe, Baby, Breathe: Clearing the Way for the Emotional Emancipation of Black People (with Cheryl Grills and Daryl Rowe); and African Psychology and the Global Movement for Freedom from the Lie of Black Inferiority (with Cheryl Grills and Patrick Frierson).
Aird was born in the Republic of Panama of Caribbean heritage, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. A former corporate lawyer, she has worked at the Children's Defense Fund, has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a past chair of the Connecticut Commission on Children.
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- Manager of Community Philanthropy
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1990 to 1996
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- Member of the Board
- Board of Directors Vice Chair, the Community Foundation
Appointed by The Community Foundation's Board of Directors for a term of seven years beginning January 1, 2020
Fernando J. Muñiz has a long career in child welfare, juvenile justice and public administration. He is the CEO of Community Solutions, Inc., which provides community-based services including juvenile justice, child welfare, and criminal justice programs. Muñiz worked for more than a decade at the Dept. of Children and Families, most recently serving as deputy commissioner. Muñiz serves on several other boards, including the Connecticut Community Non-profit Alliance and Capital Workforce Partners.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1968 to 1976
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1956 to 1958
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1967 to 1974
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1942
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2001 to 2007
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1949 to 1956
Appointed by the New Haven County Bar Association for a term of seven years beginning January 1, 2018
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- Program and Evaluation Manager
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1997 to 2003
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1943 to 1949
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman of the Academic Female Advisory Committee
Heather Tookes Alexopoulos, PhD, (Dr. Tookes) is a Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management, where she joined the faculty in 2004. Dr. Tookes' research lies at the intersection of capital markets and corporate finance. Much of her work focuses on understanding the ways in which credit market frictions interact with firms' financing decisions. She has a particular interest in credit default swap and convertible bond markets. She has also studied trader borrowing and has linked margin trading to the sharp declines in stock market liquidity that occur during crises. Recently, she has written a series of papers investigating a range of topics related to COVID-19, including the effectiveness of business restrictions and the impact of the pandemic on the academic finance profession. She teaches Corporate Finance to MBA and Executive MBA students.
Dr. Tookes is the Chair of the Academic Female Advisory Committee (AFFECT) of the American Finance Association (AFA), a member of the Committee on Racial Diversity (CORD) of the AFA, and a member of the FINRA Economic Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and on the boards of Ariel Investments, Dimensional Funds and Payoneer Global. As a New Haven community member since 2004, she has served a number of local nonprofit organizations, including New Haven Youth Tennis and Education (NewHYTES), St. Thomas's Day School and Trinity on the Green.
She is a former Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science and former member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Financial Advisory Round Table. Dr. Tookes received her BA in Economics from Brown and her PhD in Finance from Cornell.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1940
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1970 to 1977
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2009 to 2015
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1943
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1940 to 1947
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1973 to 1975
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1995 to 2001
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1936 to 1945
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- Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2006 to 2012
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2008 to 2014
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2012 to 2018
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1958 to 1961
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1980 to 1986
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1942 to 1949
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1939
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1999 to 2005
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1966 to 1973
- Dates of Board Membership: 1978 to 1978
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1994 to 2000
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1955 to 1962
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2001 to 2007
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1941
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1964 to 1971
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1950 to 1955
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1974 to 1982
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2017 - 2023
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- Managing Director, the Community Foundation Mission Investments Company
As Director of NHE3 (New Haven Equitable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem) Operations, Joseph "Joe" Williams focuses on building, leading and coordinating the day-to-day activities related to the establishment of an inclusive, integrated and equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in New Haven.
Joe completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he earned a BA in Political Science. He also holds an MBA from Southern Connecticut State University.
Before coming to The Foundation, Joe worked as a Trusted Connecticut Small Business Development Advisor at the University of Connecticut School of Business for 9 years. His position involved assisting small business owners and entrepreneurs start, expand and grow their businesses. Joe also brings a wealth of experience from work prior to that position including a role as an Insurance Consultant at Key Insurance Solutions in Hartford, serving as President of Williams Capital Partners in New Haven, employment at the Urban League of Greater Hartford as VP for Development and Marketing and a role as Regional Director for the Center for Business and Industry Services at Middlesex Community College.
Joe serves on the Board of the Workforce Alliance in New Haven. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and is a Prince Hall Mason. Joe resides in Hartford, and in his spare time he loves to fish, travel, play golf and spend time with his two children.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1999 to 2005
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- Director of Program and Evaluation
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- Member of the Board
- President of Yale New Haven Hospital
Keith B. Churchwell, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP is the President of Yale New Haven Hospital and Executive Vice President of Yale New Haven Health System. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He held the previous positions of Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President and Executive Director for Heart and Vascular Services, Transplantation Services and Clinical Service Coordinator for the Department of Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Born and raised in Nashville, Tenn., he obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Churchwell spent his formative training years at Emory University Medical School and Affiliated Hospitals, then spending 12 years in private cardiology practice before joining Vanderbilt Medical School as full-time academic faculty in 2006 (he became a member of the clinical faculty at Vanderbilt in 1999). At Vanderbilt he was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology and the Executive Director/Chief Medical Officer at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute from 2009 to 2014.
Dr. Churchwell is also on the National Board of the American Heart Association and is the Chair of the National Advocacy Committee for AHA through 2022. He sits on a number of local boards in the New Haven area including the New Haven Symphony (Board President) and Columbus House.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2014 to 2020
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1998 to 2004
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2015 to 2021
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2011 to 2017
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- Administrative Assistant, NHE3
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- Grants Administrator, NHE3
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1983 to 1989
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- Senior Director for Professional Development, and for the Executive Office
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- Human Resources and Organizational Culture
- Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Culture
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- Director of Gift Planning
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1996 to 2002
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- Director of Donor Services and Development Operations
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1944
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1987 to 1991
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- Director of Finance and Accounting
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1975 to 1981
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2002 to 2008
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1991 to 1997
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1946 to 1953
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- Director of Communications
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1962 to 1969
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1944 to 1947
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2017 - 2023
Michael Morand is a cultural heritage professional at Yale University and civic leader in New Haven, Connecticut. He is Director of Community Engagement for Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. One of the world's largest special collections libraries, the Beinecke Library annually welcomes more than 150,000 public visitors to its exhibitions onsite, more than 10,000 visits to its research reading room, 10,000 students in its classrooms, and more than 300,000 unique visitors online from around the world.
Michael holds a bachelor and a master of divinity degree from Yale. He has been in the senior administration of Yale for three decades, with earlier roles including service as the university's deputy chief communications officer and associate vice president for New Haven and state affairs.
He is currently chair of the Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery and serves on the boards of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Foundation (USA/Ghana). Michael is the author of a chapter in Yale and Slavery: A History (2024) and has been a leader for the research of that book and the Yale and Slavery Research Project. He is co-curator of the related exhibition, Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery, at the New Haven Museum (from February through summer 2024).
His prior public service includes two terms as alder for the first ward in New Haven, as a member of the State of Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission, and as chair of the board of the New Haven Free Public Library as well as its affiliated nonprofit foundation. Michael is currently a mayoral appointee on the City of New Haven's Dixwell Community House Advisory Board.
Michael previously served on the board of the national Urban Libraries Council. He also has served in the past as president of the boards of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, and the Community Soup Kitchen board and as vice president of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and on other civic boards, including the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, Mary Wade Home, the Regional Workforce Development Board, and Squash Haven.
He is the recipient of a special Elm and Ivy Award in recognition of exemplary leadership and initiative in developing and strengthening the collaborative relationships between the New Haven and Yale University communities. Other honors include the New Haven Free Public Library Webster Award for Distinguished Service, a Community Leadership Award from the New Haven Pride Center, as well as awards from Columbus House, JUNTA for Progressive Action, and the New Haven St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, and a fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1959 to 1966
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1974 to 1980
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1961 to 1968
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1973 to 1979
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1978 to 1986
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- New Haven Healthy Start Director
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1961 to 1962
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1960 to 1967
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1963 to 1969
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1973 to 1979
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1995 to 2001
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1988 to 1994
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1988 to 1994
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1981 to 1987
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1947 to 1958
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- New Haven Healthy Start Fatherhood Coordinator
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2008 to 2014
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2016 to 2022
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1949 to 1957
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1947 to 1954
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2009 to 2015
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2000 to 2003
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- Manager of Grants and Nonprofit Relations
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2001 to 2007
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1984 to 1990
Appointed by the Trustees Committee for a term of seven years beginning January 1, 2019
Terry Jones is a lifelong resident of Shelton, where he has run the seven-generation 400-acre Jones Family Farms for 50 years. He is the vice president of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Board of Control, and a member of the Shelton Economic Development Commission. Mr. Jones also serves on the Dean's Advisory Board at the UConn College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. A passionate spokesperson for land conservation, he serves as Chairman of CT Working Land's Alliance, a wide coalition advocating for farmland preservation and healthy food. Mr. Jones is a leader in a coordinated school health initiative sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Education, and serves on a broad-based committee to advance the development and implementation of policies to improve nutrition and the health of students. Mr. Jones earned a bachelor's degree in plant science from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1985 to 1991
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1928 to 1936
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1948 to 1950
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- Director, Connecticut Urban Opportunity Collaborative
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- Member of the Board
- Agent for the Civil Rights Movement
Valarie Shultz Wilson has been a change agent for the Civil Rights Movement for more than 25 years. Her journey began at the Louisville Urban League where she held a position as a development director prior to being named President and CEO of the Urban League of Southern Connecticut (ULSC) affiliate where she served in this capacity for over a decade.
Under her leadership, ULSC expanded its service area from three cities in one county to eight cities across four counties impacting over 2,800 families annually. Valarie erased the agency's $750,000 operating deficit and presided over the successful rebranding of the Urban League of Southern Connecticut. Today, the league is the largest training provider for CT Works (Workforce Investment Board) and viewed as a market leader in Home Buyer Education and Foreclosure Prevention. Additionally, Valarie and ULSC earned the distinction of being HUD certified. During her tenure, she increased corporate and foundation contributions by ten-fold and executed successful conferences and summits for Education, Diversity & Inclusion and the Women's Empowerment which attracts an average of 1,000 participants annually.
Over the course of her 25-year tenure in nonprofit management, Shultz Wilson has served and continues to serve on advisory boards for The Junior League of Stamford - Norwalk; Person-to-Person in Darien; The NAACP of New Haven; and she was recently appointed to the Board of The National Urban League's (NUL) Association of Executives. Shultz Wilson has long-standing relationships from her service on the boards of J.B. Speed Art Museum, National Council of Negro Women, Family Services of Woodsfield, Family Re-entry, United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, A Better Chance, National Charity League, Danbury Minority Business Association, Norwalk Community College Foundation, League of Women Voters and The Booker T. Washington Academy. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Women in Development, Women's Leadership Forum, United Nations, National Association of Black Non-Profit Managers, Regional Planning Association, U.S. Women's Committee, Women in Business and the Association of University Women and, she has most recently become a member of the International Women's Forum of Connecticut. The NAACP recently selected and honored Shultz Wilson as one of Connecticut's 100 most influential people. Former Governor Dannel Malloy appointed her to serve on various commissions including the Commission on Women, Seniors and Children and the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women. Shultz Wilson is a member of the Fairfield County chapter of The Links, Incorporated and she serves on the board of The Prosperity Foundation which is the only black community foundation in New England.
Shultz Wilson holds a bachelor of arts degree in marketing and public relations from the University of Louisville, in addition to holding nonprofit management professional certifications from Yale University, National Urban League, Duke University, University of Connecticut, New York University and Georgetown University.
Shultz Wilson is the youngest of six children, mother of four accomplished young adults and a proud grandmother. As a working wife and mother, she has learned the importance of work/family balance early in her career and she believes in transformational leadership and leading by example.
Shultz Wilson has devoted her life to finding creative and innovative solutions to some of our community's most pressing challenges.
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- Director of Information Management and Analysis
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1986 to 1987
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- Member of the Board
- CEO of Biohaven
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) and Vice President for Operations
- Finance, Administration, Communications & Stewardship
Wendy Gamba was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President for Operations at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in late 2020 after serving for two years as Vice President of Finance and Operations. She is responsible for ensuring the financial health, financial management, and financial viability of The Foundation. The CFO also has primary responsibility for both strategic long-term financial management and day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial and operationally-related activities of The Foundation, subsidiaries, and its affiliates. Gamba has more than 20 years of experience in financial management and operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Prior to joining The Community Foundation, Gamba was the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Capital Workforce Partners in Hartford, the largest workforce investment board in Connecticut. She was responsible for all administrative functions including accounting, IT, facilities and human resources, and played a key role in the execution of the organizational strategic plan.
For 10 years prior, Gamba was the Controller for the New Opportunities Inc., the second-largest community action agency in the state that serves Waterbury, Meriden, Torrington and 27 surrounding towns and administers a vast array of social service programs intended to move individuals and families out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.
Prior to joining the nonprofit sector, Gamba held financial positions in the private sector security alarm industry, handling mergers, acquisitions and commercial lending. Gamba has extensive experience in financial management including internal control systems, compliance and financial reporting.
Gamba currently serves as Past Director of the Connecticut Junior Women, Inc. and is a long time member of the Shoreline Community Women, Inc. She is a graduate of Bryant College with dual majors in accounting and business management and Champlain College with a Master of Science in Law.
Gamba resides in New Haven, Conn. with her husband Steven, and enjoys time with her rescue pets.
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1952 to 1959
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- Dates of Board Membership: 1953 to 1960
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- Dates of Board Membership: 2011 to 2017
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Executive
- President
Will Ginsberg has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven since 2000. For Will, this work is the culmination of a career devoted to community issues, as he has worked at the local and national levels in community economic development, community banking, and community philanthropy.
Mr. Ginsberg serves on the boards of numerous organizations including New Haven Promise, Yale-New Haven Hospital, ReadyCT (formerly the Connecticut Council on Education Reform), and the John B. Pierce Laboratory and Foundation. In 2011, Mr. Ginsberg received the Community Leadership Award from the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, the community's highest recognition for lifetime civic leadership.
Mr. Ginsberg served in the Clinton Administration from 1994 to 2000. He was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1994 as Assistant Secretary for Economic Development in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and served in 1995-6 as Chief of Staff to the late Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown. Following Secretary Brown's death, he served as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the Federal regulatory agency for the twelve regional Federal Home Loan Banks, from 1997-2000.
Mr. Ginsberg lived and worked in New Haven for a decade before going to Washington. As Development Administrator under Mayor DiLieto from 1984 to 1988, he was responsible for all development-related activities of New Haven's municipal government. Ginsberg was President of the Science Park Development Corporation, a non-profit inner-city technology economic development entity, from 1988 to 1994.
Mr. Ginsberg graduated from Columbia Law School in 1980 and practiced law in New York City from 1980 to 1984. He graduated from Trinity College in 1976. He has been married for 42 years to Ellen Kelly Ginsberg, who recently retired as the director of Yale University's liaison office with Asia's first western-style liberal arts college, a Yale collaboration with the National University of Singapore. Will and Kel live in New Haven. They have two grown children and three adorable grandchildren.
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- Vice President for Program and Community Engagement