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PHILANTHROPY
Women's Foundation Names Chief
The Washington Area Women's Foundation announced yesterday that Phyllis R. Caldwell, president of community development banking at Bank of America, will be the group's new president.
Caldwell, a longtime District resident, will replace Anne Mosle as chief of the public foundation, which focuses on the lives of women and girls. Mosle left the foundation to become vice president of philanthropy and volunteerism at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The Women's Foundation, created in 1998, is one of the nation's fastest-growing foundations focusing on women.
"I've watched The Women's Foundation grow over the years, and I look forward to working hard to advance its mission and to ensuring that the voices of low-income women and their families are heard and addressed," Caldwell said in a statement.
Caldwell had been an executive in business sales and management for 20 years and had been with Bank of America since 1997. At the bank, she focused on affordable housing issues, leading a team of 200 people providing loans and investments for real estate developments geared toward low- and moderate-income individuals.
"Phyllis Caldwell is an outstanding, accomplished leader with an unparalleled record of revitalizing underserved neighborhoods across the nation," Deborah Gandy, chairman of the Women's Foundation's board, said in a statement.
-- Philip Rucker
ENVIRONMENT
Coastal Birds Deemed Imperiled
Several bird species that live along the Atlantic coast in Virginia and Maryland are among the most imperiled in the country, threatened by climate change, development and other human activities, according to a new report.
The report, released yesterday by the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy, listed more than 200 species threatened with decline or extinction in the United States.
The report placed these mid-Atlantic birds on a "red list," a group of 59 species believed to be at greatest risk: the piping plover, the least tern, the black rail, the seaside sparrow and the salt marsh sharp-tailed sparrow. The birds have been harmed by shrinking wetlands and development along the coastline, the report said.
"Human activities continue to put species, and the habitats we share with them, in real jeopardy," said Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society.
-- David A. Fahrenthold
