Barbara Goodmon To Head A.J. Fletcher Foundation

New AJFF President Barbara Goodmon

Barbara Goodmon, a member of the board of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation in Raleigh, has been elected board president and will serve as executive of the $45 million-asset foundation.

Goodmon, who will work part-time without pay, will succeed Tom McGuire, who is stepping down after 15 years as executive director to start a management advisory practice.

Jim Goodmon, CEO of Capitol Broadcasting Co., who has served as president of the foundation's board and is married to Barbara Goodmon, has been elected board chairman, a new position.

Barbara Goodmon says the foundation will be flexible in its funding, supporting a broad range of causes, while also becoming "an effective voice for human services, statewide and in the Triangle."

A registered nurse, Goodmon is a graduate of Meredith College and of the master's program in liberal studies at N.C. State University.

She chairs the Wake County Human Services Board and is a member of the board of The Healing Place of Wake County, a residential facility she helped found for homeless men with alcohol and drug addiction.

She also was instrumental in the creation of a new initiative at NCSU that will support nonprofit studies, research and services.

The Fletcher Foundation has agreed to give $1 million over four years to the initiative for operations if NCSU can match those funds.

Thanks to the Philanthropy Journal's Todd Cohen for this capcom story.