Ms. Thomas is currently director of finance and administration at the Consumer Health Foundation in Washington, DC, a position she has held since 2009. Prior to joining Consumer Health, she was chief financial officer at the National Housing Conference and at the Freddie Mac Foundation.

Kristen joined the Meyer Foundation in 1999 as director of finance and administration, a position that was created in response to the foundation’s growth and increased complexity. Kristen was promoted to vice president in 2001, and is the first and only person to have held that position.

The board of directors of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation has elected Lidia Soto-Harmon to a three-year term on the Foundation’s board.

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation is suspending its longstanding Cash Flow Loan Program, and will no longer be accepting applications for new loans effective immediately.

The Meyer Foundation, a leading funder of nonprofits serving the Washington, DC region, today announced the recipients of its 2011 Exponent Awards, which recognize outstanding nonprofit executive directors.

Carmen James Lane, senior program officer at the Meyer Foundation, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the steering committee of Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG), a leading national network of approximately 175 grantmakers whose mission is to help all youth make a successful transition to adulthood by age 25.

Today the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint Nonprofit Services released The Board Paradox, completing a series of three briefs based on a national study of more than 3,000 nonprofit executive directors.

Daring to Lead 2011, a new national study of nonprofit executive directors conducted in the aftermath of the deepest economic recession in decades, reports that a significant number of executives plan to leave their jobs within the next five years, citing frustration with their organizations’ shaky finances, under-performing boards of directors, and the difficulty of maintaining healthy work-life balance in their demanding roles.

Mr. Dunbar is the co-founder and a managing director of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in small and mid-sized high-growth technology companies.

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a private foundation serving the Greater Washington, DC region, announces the recipients of its 2010 Exponent Award. The award celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership in the region and includes a $100,000 cash award for the recipient’s organization.