Northern California Grantmakers

NCG member John Killacky

NCG member John Killacky has announced today that he will leave his position as Program Officer at the San Francisco Foundation to become the CEO of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vt., a multidisciplinary arts organization.

In 1996 John came to the Bay Area to take a position as the Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. For the past seven years John has been at the San Francisco Foundation as its Program Officer for Arts and Culture. A writer and a filmmaker, John has been an active member of both the grantmaking and arts community.

John has also been an active member of NCG serving on NCG’s Arts Loan Fund collaborative and working with staff to develop and produce programs such as “Unleashing the Power of Film,” an all-day NCG program that explored the emerging role of film in philanthropy.

NCG congratulates John on his new position and wishes him the best of luck as he transitions to this new stage in his career.

Read the recent San Francisco Chronicle article about John Killacky online.

Northern California Grantmakers would like to take a moment to recognize the remarkable life and contributions of Evelyn Haas who passed away Wednesday here in San Francisco.

”Evelyn Haas, philanthropist, patron of the arts, matriarch of one of the Bay Area’s most prominent families…[and] widow of Walter A. Haas Jr., led the family foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, which has contributed more than $364 million to hundreds of community and cultural organizations that make the Bay Area what it is. They include the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the restoration of Crissy Field and The Chronicle’s Season of Sharing Fund.”

The Haas family have been active institutional members within the NCG community since its inception. Evelyn Haas was an integral part of the Haas family’s legacy in the field of philanthropy, which will no doubt continue to impact the Bay Area for generations to come. Her passing will be a great loss to the Bay Area community.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle article commemorating Evelyn Haas’ life online.