Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Casey Family Grants Program Names President and Board

Nov 08, 2001

The Seattle-based Casey Family Grants Program, which was
formed earlier this year as a companion grant making
foundation to the youth-oriented Casey Family Programs
( http://www.casey.org/ ), has named Luz A. Vega Marquis
as its first president.

Vega Marquis, who has more than twenty years of experience
in the philanthropic world and most recently was the
executive director of the Community Technology Foundation
of California ( http://zerodivide.org/ ), will manage
the organization's $600 million investment portfolio and
oversee the disbursement of $30 million in grants each
year to programs and organizations that promote child
welfare.

"When Casey Family Programs...established Casey Family
Grants Program earlier this year, its intent was
to create a dynamic companion grant making foundation
that could dramatically and positively affect the lives
of tens of thousands of youth and children within
America's child welfare system," said Casey Family
Programs CEO Ruth Massinga. "...[W]e selected an
outstanding action oriented and compassionate leader
to serve as our president."

In addition to Massinga, who will chair the CFGP board,
the organization named its board of directors: Duncan
Bayne, secretary of the Casey Family Programs' board of
trustees; William Foege, former executive director
of the Centers for Disease Control; Freeman Hrabowski III,
president of the University of Maryland; Douglas Pati?±o,
vice chancellor emeritus of California State University,
Long Beach; former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder;
and Gary Severson, chairman of the Casey Family Programs.

"Casey Family Grants Program Selects Board and Names New
President." Casey Family Grants Program Press Release
10/31/01.

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