WINGS Global Fund for Community Foundations appoints Programme Manager
Vadim Samorodov has been appointed Programme Manager at the WINGS Global Fund for Community Foundations. Vadim has been leading the community foundation work at CAF Russia since 2001. He is a member of the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network, a Senior Fellow with The Synergos Institute, and an International Fellow with the Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society (City University, New York). He also served on the Global Fund's Management and Grants Committee until recently.
His work with community foundations has taken Vadim to many different parts of the world and he has also spent time working in Uganda for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Vadim will join the Global Fund on 1 July and will be based in Moscow. Grants Administrator, Caroline Gobé will continue to work out of the Fund's office at the European Foundation Centre in Brussels and Director, Jenny Hodgson, will be relocating from Singapore to Bangkok in August.