4 Named To Board Of Trustees At Princeton Community Foundation

Princeton NJ

31 January, 2022

3:46 PM

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PRINCETON, NJ — The Princeton Area Community Foundation has appointed four new members to the Board of Trustees, the organization announced. Steve Downs, the Co-Founder of Building H; Kathryn A. "Kate" Foster, President of The College of New Jersey; Scot D. Pannepacker, partner at Lear & Pannepacker; and Atiya Weiss, the Executive Director of the Burke Foundation, were appointed to three-year terms on the Board of the Community Foundation, which has awarded more than $173 million in grants since its founding in 1991. They will replace William Harla, Andrew Lieu and Calvin Thomas who completed their terms of service on the board. "The Governance Committee is honored to have recruited four individuals who will add great value and perspective to our board work. Each is a respected leader in their various fields, and each brings a deep commitment to advancing the mission of the Community Foundation." said Jamie Kyte Sapoch, Community Foundation Trustee and Chair of the Governance Committee. Downs, who lives in Princeton, is the co-founder of Building H, a community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, engineers and researchers working to build health into everyday life – by design. He is also an adjunct faculty at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Downs previously served as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. While there, he also held the roles of chief technology and information officer, assistant vice president of the health group, and founding leader of the foundation's innovation portfolio. Foster, of Pennington, has been the President of TCNJ since 2018. She also is a Board Member of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, serves on the President's Leadership Council for the national All In Campus Democracy Challenge, and is a member of the NCAA Division III Presidents Council. She previously served as the President of University of Maine at Farmington (UMF), and as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University. From 1993 until 2012, Foster worked at the University at Buffalo. Scot D. Pannepacker, is a resident of Hopewell Borough. He joined Lear & Pannepacker in 1988. He is a certified public accountant who is accredited in business valuations and certified in financial forensics. He is also a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Mercer County Estate Planning Council. He serves as a Member of the Boards of Trustees and Treasurer of the Friends of Hopewell Quarry, Mary G. Roebling Foundation, and the Mary G. Roebling Music Foundation. Pannepacker is a former Trustee and Treasurer of The Watershed Institute, and former Trustee of the Historical Society of Princeton. Princeton's Atiya Weiss, is the Executive Director of the Burke Foundation. Weiss also serves on the Community Foundation's Committee on Impact, and its COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund grants evaluation team. Before joining the Burke Foundation, she served as Executive Director of JP Morgan's Philanthropy Center, where she advised charitable trusts and family foundations, and worked with the Gates Foundation to create the Global Health Investment Fund. Meanwhile, Sonia Delgado, who was named Board Chair Elect in June. She took over leadership of the Board, while her predecessor, Anthony "Skip" Cimino will now serve as Immediate Past Chair. Trustees also voted to name Jeanne Besser as Secretary and Michelle Everman as Treasurer. Read More: New Chair Appointed To Princeton Area Community Foundation Board "They are outstanding members who each served their terms with distinction and integrity," said Cimino. "I'm proud of the fact that they've been associated with our organization."