Jenny Parks Named Senior Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy at Anchorum Health Foundation
Anchorum Health Foundation recently named Jenny Parks as its Senior Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy. Anchorum Health Foundation was created after nonprofit Anchorum St. Vincent...
Anchorum Health Foundation recently named Jenny Parks as its Senior Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy. Anchorum Health Foundation was created after nonprofit Anchorum St. Vincent transferred its half-ownership share of the Santa Fe hospital to Texas-based Christus Health last year. The transaction will give to a new entity, led by President and CEO Jerry Jones.
While some of the $500 million the foundation is set to receive under the deal will be invested to ensure the long-term health of the organization, Parks said it plans to issue about $30 million in grants in its next fiscal year, which starts in July, then about $20 million per year for the next nine years.
“It’s a very exciting time to be here,” said Parks, who lives in Santa Fe. She started her career as an attorney and working for a real estate development company in Austin, Texas. She later moved back to New Mexico — where she had graduated from high school years earlier — to take a job at the Trust for Public Land. She eventually joined what was then the New Mexico Community Foundation and in 2015 took over as president and CEO of the LANL Foundation, overseeing the organization’s efforts to bolster education in the region during a nine-year period when it grew from 14 employees to 33.
WittKieffer’s Ashley Buderus and Eleanor Vogelsang led this search.
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