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Share this article Share this article REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) today announced a $7 million commitment to five community organizations to help advance racial equity as well as Tribal identity and support student mental wellness in communities most impacted by COVID-19. The grant recipients are: First Nations Development Institute, Forward Promise, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin, The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, and The Skillman Foundation. "We are proud to support these organization...

The McKnight Foundation has announced that Tonya Allen will lead the Foundation as president, effective March 1, 2021. Allen comes to McKnight as a distinguished leader in philanthropy, most recently as president and CEO of The Skillman Foundation in Detroit. Poised for its next chapter, the Foundation sees her as precisely the right person to take the helm during this historic time. In the midst of a global pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and the climate crisis, Allen’s bold and visionary leadership will accelerate McKnight’s progress in addressing this generation’s mos...

Detroit — Tonya Allen, who has served as the Skillman Foundation’s president and CEO since 2014 and offered a critical voice in pushing for better education opportunities for children, announced Monday she is stepping down to lead the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis. The Detroit native said she never saw herself leaving the city, but "when you are called, you must act," she told The Detroit News. She plans to step down in February. The Skillman Foundation, a Detroit-based philanthropic organization whose primary mission is improving the lives of children, has played a critical ...

Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen leaving Detroit to lead Minneapolis foundation Tonya Allen has spent 14 years at the Skillman Foundation, seven of them as CEO. Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen, a longtime advocate for Detroit's children and neighborhoods, plans to leave the foundation in February to become the new CEO of the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis. In an interview with Crain's, Allen said she is taking the job because of a renewed focus at the McKnight Foundation on creating racial equity in a city that's been rocked by the shocking death of George Floyd at the hands of a M...

Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen leaving for new job After serving six years at the helm of one of southeastern Michigan’s most prominent philanthropy organizations, Tonya Allen is stepping down as president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation for another job. “It’s disappointing to leave, but I also feel very called to leave,” Allen told the Free Press on Sunday. “I have to do this journey before me. It’s heartbreaking because I love the Skillman Foundation, I love Detroit, I love Detroit’s children.” Allen will step down in February to lead the McKnight Foundation in Mi...