Dr. William E. Trueheart

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  "Gerri has played significant leadership roles in all of the accomplishments of the Foundation during her many years of excellent service, and she will be sorely missed," said Bill Trueheart, the Foundation's President and CEO.

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  Max, 23, was introduced to The Pittsburgh Foundation by Steelers legend, Dwight White, a close friend of Bill Trueheart, the Foundation's President and Chief Executive Officer.
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  "Max is a truly remarkable young man," said Bill Trueheart, The Pittsburgh Foundation's President and CEC.

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  The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President Dr. William E. Trueheart Announces RetirementThe Pittsburgh Foundation's President Dr. William E. Trueheart Announces Retirement - The Pittsburgh Foundation
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  The Pittsburgh Foundation's President Dr. William E. Trueheart Announces Retirement
  
  PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 7, 2007 - Dr. William E. Trueheart, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Pittsburgh Foundation, announced today that he is retiring this year after nearly six years service to the organization.
  
  Dr. Trueheart, who recently turned 65, said that he made his decision after long and careful deliberation."I'm proud and deeply honored to have led the Foundation through a critically important era of its development, and our achievements during this time - including those of the Foundation's Board and staff - have been enormous.I have greatly enjoyed serving the Foundation and Pittsburgh's extraordinary community and this is now the right time for me to step down."
  
  A search process to select Dr. Trueheart's successor will begin shortly, under the direction of George A. Davidson, Jr., Chairman of the Foundation's 14-member Board of Directors.
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  Bill has been influential as a dynamic, visionary and inspiring community leader."
  
  Dr. Trueheart joined the Foundation in December 2001, moving to Pittsburgh from Washington D.C. where he served as President and CEO of Reading is Fundamental, Inc., the oldest and largest children's and family literacy organization in the United States.Previously, he was President of Bryant University (formerly Bryant College) in Rhode Island.
  
  Shortly after joining the Foundation, Dr. Trueheart led a comprehensive strategic review which resulted in the successful realignment of its grantmaking priorities, the restructure of its asset management systems and the strengthening of its Board of Directors through the cultivation of new members and through diversification.
  
  He was influential in the Foundation's creation of new Human Resources, Investment and Audit committees, the implementation of cost-reduction strategies and the successful development of partnership programs with other foundations and the public and private sectors to address critical community issues.
  
  In the six years that Dr. Trueheart has served as its President and CEO, the Foundation and its supporting organizations have awarded more than $150 million in grants to nonprofit organizations not only in Pittsburgh, but throughout the United States and other parts of the world.
  
  During the same period, 340 new endowment funds were established by donors.Combined, new funds, gifts to existing funds and other charitable gifts to the Foundation have totaled nearly $200 million.Currently, the Foundation has more than 1,100 donor funds.The Foundation's assets at the end of 2006 totaled $742.5 million, a growth of nearly 40 percent since Dr. Trueheart's arrival at the Foundation in December 2001.
  
  Since moving to Pittsburgh, Dr. Trueheart has played key leadership roles with the nonprofit sector nationally.His is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Independent Sector, and he was instrumental in the formation and continuing work of the National Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.Dr. Trueheart also serves on the Building Strong and Ethical Foundations Advisory Committee of the Council on Foundations.
  
  Dr. Trueheart advised the Foundation's Chairman and Directors of his decision to retire, after which the Foundation's 34 staff were informed."During my time with the Foundation, many changes have been made, and I believe they are good and positive changes," he said."I am proud of the commitment and thoughtfulness we have demonstrated in our community, and my wife and I will be forever grateful for the many close friends and colleagues we have in Pittsburgh."
  
  Dr. Trueheart and his wife, Carol Word, live in Schenley Park.

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  Published on: 10/22/2007    Last Visited: 10/23/2007  

  William Trueheart retired last month as CEO of the philanthropic organization.

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  Published on: 5/6/2007    Last Visited: 5/6/2007  

  In the mid-'90s, after President William E. Trueheart resigned, the search for a successor came down to two former naval officers, Ronald Machtley, former three-term Republican congressman, and Rear Adm.

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  Published on: 5/15/2001    Last Visited: 3/3/2007  

  When William E. Trueheart became the first African American to lead a private New England college in 1989, his appointment made national headlines.However, he had long been a prominent figure in higher education.As a decorated Harvard scholar, doctoral graduate, and college administrator, Trueheart had made his mark in the world of educational theory and administration.However it would not be until he left the ivy-covered towers of academia that his dedication to education would reach those who needed it most,children, families, and community members.He has since been responsible for delivering free books to millions of children nationwide, promoting literacy programs in thousands of communities, and even going so far as to making sure inner-city children had a pool to cool off in during the long heat of summer.Though Harvard University put Trueheart on its board of overseers and city officials clamored for his advice, it is the children nationwide who, finishing their first book, taking their first breaststroke, stand as the true testament to Trueheart,s career.
  
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  William E. Trueheart was born to Louise Elnora Harris and Junious Elton Trueheart on July 10, 1942.
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  ,Reading Something Into It, Bill Trueheart MPA 1973,, Kennedy School of Government Bulletin, www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgpress/bulletin/spring2001/profiletrueheart.html (October 28, 2004).
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  ,William E. Trueheart, President and CEO,, The Pittsburgh Foundation, www.pittsburghfoundation.org/page11905.cfm (October 28, 2004).

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  William Trueheart, the former Reading is Fundamental CEO who led the community foundation since late 2001, retired Sept. 30, 2007.

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  WILTON, CT, December 19 , 2007 - Commonfund, the leading manager of investment funds for nonprofit institutions, today announced the appointment of Elizabeth Huidekoper, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration at Brown University, and Dr. William E. Trueheart, recently retired President and Chief Executive Officer of The Pittsburgh Foundation, to its Board of Trustees.
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  "The election of Ms. Huidekoper and Dr. Trueheart continues our tradition of strong Board leadership and experience in working with nonprofits," said Verne O. Sedlacek, President and CEO, Commonfund.
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  Dr. William E. Trueheart recently retired as President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation where he served since December 2001.Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Reading is Fundamental, Inc., America's oldest and largest children's and family literacy organization and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.Before that, Mr. Trueheart served as President of Bryant University in Rhode Island -- the first African-American to head a four-year private college in New England - and was Executive Vice President and a member of its Board of Trustees.Previously, he was Associate Secretary of Harvard University in its Office of Governing Boards, Assistant Dean and Director of the Master in Public Administration Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a member of that School's Visiting Committee.
  
  Dr. Trueheart held several administrative posts at the University of Connecticut, including Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Assistant to the President, and American Council on Education Fellow.He has served as a consultant to the United States National Park Service, the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, the College of the Atlantic, Lincoln University, and Arthur D. Little, Inc.
  
  Dr. Trueheart currently serves on the Board of Directors of the University of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative and Independent Sector.He serves on the Advisory Board of the Learning Network Education Partners and is a member of the Alumni Council of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.He is former chairman of the Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Association and is former Vice Chairman of the National Council of Presidents of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
  
  Dr. Trueheart was a director of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Fleet National Bank, Fleet National Bank Southern New England Banking Group, Narragansett Electric Company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Rhode Island, New England Education Loan Marketing Corporation, Nellie Mae, Inc., Public Education Fund, the AICPA Foundation, National Education Fund Network, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the Rhode Island Children's Crusade.His Honors include University of Connecticut Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard University Littauer Fellow, Travelli Fellow and Ford Foundation Fellow.
  
  He earned a B.A. degree in political science and economics from the University of Connecticut, an M.P.A. from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an Ed.D. degree from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.His honorary degrees include a Ph.D. in Humane Letters from Bryant University, a Ph.D. in Education from Bridgewater State College and a D.B.A. from Johnson and Wales University.
  
  Commonfund is governed by a Board of Trustees representing diverse professional backgrounds from both the nonprofit and for profit sectors.

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  Published on: 6/20/2007    Last Visited: 6/20/2007  

  William E. Trueheart is president and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Foundation.He formerly served as president of Reading Is Fundamental, Inc.Previously, he served as the first African-American president of Bryant College in Rhode Island, having first served as executive vice president.Earlier, Bill also served as a member of the college's board of trustees.At Harvard University, he held subsequent appointments as associate secretary of the university in the Office of Governing Boards, and as assistant dean and director of the Master in Public Administration program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.Among Bill's consultancies are service to the National Park Service, the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.Bill's civic activities include service as chair of the Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Association, vice chair of the National Council of Presidents for the Association of Governing Boards, and director of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.He was a Ford Foundation Fellow and an American Council on Education Fellow.He earned his B.A. from the University of Connecticut, his M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Ed.D. from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard.

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  Published on: 5/4/2008    Last Visited: 5/4/2008  

  Under former president William Trueheart, who left in September after almost six years at the helm, The Pittsburgh Foundation made some bold, controversial moves.It, along with The Heinz Endowments and The Grable Foundation, pulled funding from the Pittsburgh Public Schools and went public with the decision, attracting plaudits for the wake-up call.It raised its national profile when Mr. Trueheart served as chair of the Independent Sector, a well-known nonprofit trade group in Washington, D.C., and became involved in debates about greater transparency and accountability in the charitable sector.It moved out of expensive 30th-floor offices in One PPG Place, looking to save money where possible, and asked the foundation's trustee banks to reduce their costs.
  
  With buy-in from his board, Mr. Trueheart also initiated a process that narrowed the foundation's areas of focus from 25 to five -- educational excellence, support for families and children, economic development, reduction of health disparities among African-Americans and the arts.
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  But, "Bill did what he was asked to do," what the "board told him to do."
  
  This source, describing Mr. Trueheart as "tough" and "hard charging," said concerns developed among board members about Mr. Trueheart spending too much time away from Pittsburgh on national issues.Also, board members looked into allegations of "extremely tough" behavior on the part of Mr. Trueheart and his dealings with staff.
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  Mr. Trueheart, who now keeps an office at Downtown-based Sheridan Broadcasting Corp. and still lives in Squirrel Hill, declined to comment for this story.
  
  But Arthur White, who hired Mr. Trueheart in the 1990s to run Washington, D.C.-based Reading is Fundamental, was willing to offer up Mr. Trueheart's side of the story.
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  Mr. White said that in a recent conversation, Mr. Trueheart described the narrowing of the foundation's focus, the withdrawal of school funding and the pressure on trustee banks to reduce their costs all as sources of tension -- the trustee banks, in particular, aired their frustrations with board members.
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  Mr. Trueheart is "not warm and fuzzy," Mr. White acknowledged.
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  Mr. Trueheart's successor -- Mr. Oliphant -- arrives with a slightly different reputation.

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