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Executive Director
Location: Mattoon, IL
Closing date: Open until position is filled
The Lumpkin Family Foundation (LFF) has been a beacon for healthy, sustainable communities in East Central Illinois and beyond for over seventy years. Now in its eighth decade, LFF is a quiet but proud force behind creative collaborations that protect and enhance the environment, ensure a strong local food economy, support healthy eating and physical activity, strengthen strategic community leadership, and promote mental wellness through connection to nature.
The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s next Executive Director must be a proven leader, an approachable manager and an active listener who embraces collaboration, community relationships and continuous learning.
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Program Officer - Environment Program
Location: Troy, MI, US
Salary: $140,545.00
Closing date: 3/10/2025
The Environment Program Officer will play a key role in advancing the goals of the Environment Program, focused on helping cities combat and adapt to climate change while advancing racial and economic justice. The Program Officer will manage a diverse portfolio, overseeing grants within the program’s Climate Change, Health, and Equity Initiative (CCHE) as well as field-building efforts aimed at strengthening leaders and organizations crucial to accelerating equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions in U.S. cities. In addition, the Program Officer will work closely with other members of the Environment team to contribute to the design and execution of the program’s broader grantmaking and social investment strategies.
About The Kresge Foundation
The Kresge Foundation is one of the top 20 private philanthropic foundations in the United States and the only one focused exclusively on expanding opportunities for people with low income in American cities. With an endowment of approximately $4 billion and a staff of over 100 employees, the foundation deploys grants and social investments across arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development. The foundation’s state-of-the-art headquarters maintains an array of energy-efficient, water-conserving and health-promoting systems. The foundation also operates an office in Detroit’s Midtown district.
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