After a nationwide search, the board of directors of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation is pleased to announce Anne Hoyt Taff’s appointment as executive director of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board’s nonprofit partner effective July 1. A longtime leader in Minnesota’s nonprofit community, Hoyt Taff most recently served as Vice President of Partnerships at the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, where she spent more than eight years working on collective impact initiatives centered on community-based grantmaking, racial healing, digital equity, economic development and more. Prior to that, she served as Senior Gift Officer at Planned Parenthood Central States.
“I’m excited to see how Anne will continue to positively impact our community in this new role,” says Eric Jolly, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. “During her tenure, Anne has shown herself to be an inclusive leader, who listens to community within and beyond our organization.”
Hoyt Taff is a graduate of Macalester College and the University of Minnesota Law School. She lives in the Kenny neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis and loves to go on adventures with her husband and two young children.
Since 2003, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation has raised more than $42 million for transformative parks and programming in Minneapolis by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.
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