Help Wanted: The Gill Foundation Seeks President

The Gill Foundation is seeking a President to partner with Founder Tim Gill, the Board and staff in the ongoing realization of the Foundation’s strategy and its leadership role in securing equal opportunity for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.  The LGBT movement as a whole is now at a critical juncture in its development.  In this context, the Gill Foundation is seeking to sharpen its impact and focus with a chief executive with vision and breadth of operating experience.

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The Gill Foundation's Dave Montez named new Chief of Staff of GLAAD

GLAAD yesterday announced Dave Montez (pictured) as the organization’s new Chief of Staff. Montez will be working closely with GLAAD President Herndon Graddick on the organization’s development, operations and programs departments which work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. He will be based in the New York office and is scheduled to start work with the organization in January 2013.

“Dave’s strong relationship with advocates in the LGBT equality movement along with his experience building bridges between the LGBT and Latino communities will strengthen GLAAD’s culture-changing work,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “He will be integral in continuing to create a new GLAAD where our dedicated staff builds national impact through campaigns that raise the visibility of LGBT people and issues as well as hold anti-LGBT activists accountable.”

Montez most recently served as senior program officer at the Gill Foundation, one of the nation’s leading funders of LGBT advocacy efforts. He oversaw the foundation’s Latino Initiative, which is designed to build lasting alliances between LGBT people and Latinos. He also worked with the Director of Allies and Institutions with the goal of building broad support for LGBT equality. Previously, Montez managed a portfolio of grants to state-based LGBT organizations working to achieve policy change at the state and local level.

“Dave has been an outstanding leader for the Gill Foundation. We’re excited that his talent and commitment will continue to benefit the LGBT movement in his new role,” said Tim Sweeney, President and CEO of the Gill Foundation. “Dave has a unique ability to build coalitions where diverse communities recognize their shared values and common goals. He also understands the important role that research plays in learning how to communicate more effectively.”

Before joining the Gill Foundation, he was a research development officer at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he researched and reviewed funding opportunities, grant proposals, and funding contracts for faculty members. He also worked for the Latino/a Research & Policy Center as the events and publications coordinator, where he planned, coordinated, and implemented all center-sponsored events.

Montez speaks Spanish and holds a BA in journalism/public relations from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is a gubernatorial appointee to the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) in the Denver Metro Area, which oversees an average of $40 million in grant funding annually. He is also a graduate of Leadership Denver, where he helped raise money and resources to remodel Urban Peak, a youth homeless shelter in Denver.

"I'm really excited to join the GLAAD family,” said Montez. “I've long respected GLAAD as an organization and Herndon as a leader. GLAAD has an incredibly talented leadership team, and I look forward to working with these colleagues to achieve full equality for all LGBT people."

The move has been applauded by leaders of LGBT and Allied organizations. Read their statements after the jump.

Tim Sweeney to step down as president and CEO of the Gill Foundation

Gill Foundation Founder and Board Chair Tim Gill announced today that Tim Sweeney (pictured) has informed the board he will end his term as president and CEO of the foundation before the end of 2013. The board will lead a search process to identify Sweeney’s replacement.

“Tim Sweeney’s excellent stewardship has placed the Gill Foundation in the strongest position in its history, and we’re grateful for his service to the foundation, the LGBT movement, and our home state of Colorado,” said Gill.

“Leading the Gill Foundation and working with Tim Gill has been a privilege,” said Sweeney. “I have been humbled by Tim’s generosity, and I am proud of what our staff and our board have accomplished together in the past five years. We were leaders in focusing resources on education and advocacy in the states to build national momentum for equality. We helped reimagine federal advocacy to ensure that agencies include LGBT concerns in administrative decisions. We increased the range and depth of non-gay ally organizations working to advance equality. In Colorado, we revitalized LGBT advocacy and helped build a national model for progressive infrastructure.”

“The foundation is positioned well to continue having a tremendous impact on the LGBT movement and on Colorado, and it’s the right time for me, personally, to return to my home in San Francisco and take on new challenges,” said Sweeney.

“Tim Sweeney is a true pioneer in the LGBT movement and not easy to replace,” said Gill. “From working with Harvey Milk in the ‘No on 6’ campaign, to leading organizations like Lambda Legal and Gay Men’s Health Crisis, to his service in philanthropy at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund and the Gill Foundation, Tim’s 35 years of exemplary service in the movement has changed the lives of millions of Americans. We asked him to give us a year of transition when he decided to move on, and we appreciate that he has done that.”

“We’re confident that through this transition we will find the right person to lead the foundation into its next phase,” said Gill.

Jobs: Vice President of Donor Resources for The Gill Foundation

Founded in 1994, the Gill Foundation is one of the nation’s largest funders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equal rights work. The Gill Foundation works to create an America in which all people are treated equally and respectfully. Over the course of their history, they have invested more than $197 million, including $118 million in grants, to support programs and nonprofit organizations across America committed to their mission of equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.

Reporting to the President and CEO and as a member of the senior management team, the Vice President of Donor Resources will shape, grow, refine, and implement a comprehensive donor development program focusing on individuals and institutions.

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JOBS: Vice President of Donor Resources for The Gill Foundation

Founded in 1994, the Gill Foundation is one of the nation’s largest funders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equal rights work. The Gill Foundation works to create an America in which all people are treated equally and respectfully. Over the course of their history, they have invested more than $197 million, including $118 million in grants, to support programs and nonprofit organizations across America committed to their mission of equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.

Reporting to the President and CEO and as a member of the senior management team, the Vice President of Donor Resources will shape, grow, refine, and implement a comprehensive donor development program focusing on individuals and institutions.

Click here for more details or to apply.