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BHEF CEO to Leave, Position to Be Revamped
The Beverly Hills Education Foundation's Dev Hankin is leaving just as the group finishes a successful fundraising campaign.
The chief executive officer of the nonprofit Beverly Hills Education Foundation is leaving her job when her current contract ends June 30.
Dev Hankin has been the foundation’s CEO since 2008 and recently resigned.
“I was on the BHEF board for eight years—two of them as president—and have served as CEO for three years. I felt that I had to resign at this time but know that I am leaving the organization in great shape with a fabulous new board of directors,” Hankin said. “I am incredibly proud of the accomplishment of BHEF and I plan to remain active in our school community.”
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The BHEF just wrapped up one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in its history. Through the , the foundation raised about $625,000 this month alone to pay for teacher salaries for the next school year. (Under California law, parent-teacher associations cannot pay for school staff; only foundations can.)
“We will look internally and externally for [Hankin’s] replacement,” BHEF Chairman Jonathan Prince told Patch.
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The One Campaign’s success persuaded the Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education to reinstall a dozen teachers, school counselors and other staff who had been warned they might lose their jobs because of budget cutbacks.
The has become more important in Beverly Hills and elsewhere as state educational funding has been slashed in recent years.
The BHEF board of directors with its executive committee will “recreate the [CEO] job description together,” Prince said.
There has been talk in the community that Hankin was overpaid compared with her counterparts at other educational foundations. According to an article in the Feb. 3 Beverly Hills Weekly, Hankin made $100,000 in 2008 while the CEO of the larger Manhattan Beach Education Foundation made $73,000 that year.
“We’ll tailor the job and salary to fit our current BHEF needs,” Prince said when asked about the salary that would be offered to the next CEO.
Hankin has two children in city schools, one at El Rodeo and one at Beverly Hills High School. Before taking her current job, she worked as a producer on films such as 2002’s Catch Me If You Can. She started with BHEF as a volunteer.
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