Tempel leaving Center on Philanthropy to head IU Foundation.(Who ... When ... Where ... How ... WHAT?)

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Eugene R. "Gene" Tempel, executive director of the prestigious Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (IU), is leaving that post to head the university's fundraising arm, the IU Foundation.

Tempel will succeed Curtis R. Simic as president of the IU Foundation. He will be the seventh leader of the foundation, established in 1936. A national search has been launched to replace Tempel at the Center on Philanthropy. Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., director of research at the Center, will serve as its interim executive director.

Tempel, an expert on philanthropy and nonprofit management, has been listed in The NonProfit Times's Power & Influence Top 50 every year since 1998. He was appointed to this new position after a nationwide search by a 15-member committee. The committee included representatives from the IU Foundation Board, IU Trustees and senior IU administrators, according Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie.

McRobbie, who is also chairman of the IU Foundation's Board of Directors, said that the appointment, which is subject to the ratification by the foundation's board, is to take effect Sept. 1.

"I am honored to have been asked to serve as the next president of the Indiana University Foundation," said Tempel. "President McRobbie has created a bold vision for the future of Indiana University and has challenged the IU Foundation to build on what has been accomplished in the past to help bring that vision to life."

Simic is retiring after 20 years as president of the foundation. During Simic's tenure, the endowment grew from $214 million in fiscal 1988 to $1.6 billion, and IU has ranked among the top 20 American universities in total voluntary support--gifts and research grants from the private sector--for 16 of the past 18 years.

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