Tom Viola Announces Retirement After 36-Year Leadership Of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
deadline.comTom Viola, the longtime executive director of the groundbreaking nonprofit organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, announced today that he’ll retire at the end of 2024, ending a 36-year tenure that guided the organization – and the theater industry – through two catastrophic eras: the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s and the Covid pandemic of the 21st Century.
Under his leadership, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS emerged as one of the leading fundraising and grant-making organizations in the country.
Danny Whitman, the current Broadway Cares Director of Development who’s been with the nonprofit for 15 years, will succeed Viola as executive director beginning January 1, 2025.
Viola will remain involved with the organization as a consultant throughout 2025, advising on Broadway Cares’ National Grants Program strategies and procedures.
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