People

American Philanthropic Realty Trust (Chicago): Appointed Ethel R. Kaplan, director of gift planning at the American Heart Association–Midwest Affiliate (Chicago), to be executive director. This newly created group uses donations of real estate to establish donor-advised accounts.

Christmas in April USA (Washington): Appointed Lewis E. Fontek, regional giving manager at Reading Is Fundamental (Washington), to be director for corporate and foundation relations.

City U. of New York New York City Technical College: Appointed Patrick S. Madama, chief development officer at York College of Pennsylvania, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Colorado Christian U. (Lakewood): Appointed Eugene Ko, senior research analyst at Biola U. (La Mirada, Calif.), to be development-services manager.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Jeff Martin, public-affairs director at the Peace Corps’ Denver regional office, to be director of media relations.

Empower Program (Washington): Appointed Shanterra McBride, Southeast site coordinator at Community Impact (Washington), to be director of education and programs at this organization that teaches courses on preventing gender-based violence.

Francis Marion U. (Florence, S.C.): Appointed Todd Hudak, former city editor at The Item (Sumter, S.C.), to be news editor.

Georgia State U. (Atlanta): Appointed Alleen D. Deutsch, director of development for the College of Social Science at Florida State U. (Tallahassee), to be director of development for the College of Law.

Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro): Appointed Ronald S. McCracken, development director, to be vice president of development and public relations.

Lions Clubs International (Oak Brook, Ill.): Appointed Renee Bentel, manager of the board-meetings and convention-activities department, to be manager of the convention division.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (Takoma Park, Md.): Appointed Beth Hauptle, director of public relations and marketing at the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington), to be executive director, effective July 1.

Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas (San Antonio): Appointed Florence Clarke Macdaniel, communications manager at the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio), to be executive director.

U. of Houston System: Appointed Kathy L. Stafford, vice president for university advancement at U. of South Florida (Tampa), to be vice chancellor and vice president for university advancement for the system and the main campus.

U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor): Appointed Lisa M. Rudgers, assistant vice president for university relations at Michigan State U. (East Lansing), to be vice president for communications.

U. of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Jack Faris, director of community strategies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle), to be vice president for university relations.

United Way of Summit County (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Robert A. Kulinski, president and chief professional officer at the United Way of Roanoke Valley (Roanoke, Va.), to be president and chief professional officer.

Urban Gateways: the Center for Arts in Education (Chicago): Appointed Linda P. Steele, community-relations director at the Great Lakes Theater Festival (Cleveland), to be development manager for individual giving.

Xavier U. of Louisiana (New Orleans): Appointed Karl Turner, associate vice president for development, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

WAMU-FM (Washington): Appointed Susan Clampitt, associate administrator for management and workplace programs and associate administrator for child care at the United States General Services Administration (Washington), to be executive director and general manager, effective June 15.

GRANT MAKERS

America Online (Dulles, Va.): Appointed B. Keith Fulton, director of technology programs and policy at the National Urban League (New York), to be executive director of corporate relations. He will work with the America Online Foundation as well on the “Digital Divide” initiative to help poor people gain access to the Internet.

Baltimore Community Foundation: Appointed Thomas E. Wilcox, headmaster of the Concord Academy (Mass.), to be chief executive officer.

Eddie Bauer (Redmond, Wash.): Appointed John E. Thomas, vice president of global sourcing operations, to be vice president of corporate social responsibility.

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Larry Gonzales, director of research and planning at the Visalia and Fresno, Calif., offices of Proteus (Washington), to be program officer for the Central Valley region. He will be based in the foundation’s Fresno office.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Appointed Daniel Fallon, interim director of the office of international affairs at the U. of Maryland at College Park, to be chair of the education division, effective August 1.

Charles A. Dana Foundation (New York): David Mahoney, chairman and chief executive officer, died May 1 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 76.

Edward W. Hazen Foundation (New York): Appointed Barbara A. Taveras, executive director, to be president.

Minnesota Women’s Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Jane B. Ransom, a consultant based in Bologna, Italy, to be executive director.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed An-Me Chung, associate director at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Centers for Research on Women at Wellesley College (Mass.), to be program officer for the “Pathways Out of Poverty” program; Nicholas S. Deychakiwsky, director of the Kyiv, Ukraine, office of the Eurasia Foundation (Washington), to be program officer for the “Civil Society” program in the foundation’s Prague office; Christine A. W. Doby, a community-builder fellow in the Flint office of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, to be program officer for the “Pathways Out of Poverty” program; Neal R. Hegarty, assistant director at the Literary Volunteers of America–Capital Area Literacy Coalition (Lansing, Mich.), to be associate program officer for the Flint-area program; and Carol D. Rugg, senior communications officer, to be a loaned executive to the Fund for Innovation, Evaluation, Learning and Dissemination (Washington), a Mott grantee.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.): Appointed Deborah A. Ellwood, senior researcher at the Center for the Study of the States at the State U. of New York System’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (Albany), to be vice president for community programs, and Bonita W. Hindman, vice president for grants and programs, to be vice president for donor services.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): William J. Beckham, president, died on April 27 at the age of 59. The foundation has appointed Kari Schlachtenhaufen, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be interim president.

The United Nations Foundation (Washington): Appointed Melinda Kimble,deputy assistant secretary of state for the United States Department of State (Washington), to be vice president for program; Tonya Nyagiro, a doctoral candidate in public health at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be senior program officer for the women and population program; Xiaodong Wang, technical consultant on climate change at the United Nations Development Program/Global Environment Facility (Washington), to be program officer for the climate-change program; and May Yacoob, senior public-health and environmental-sciences specialist at the Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), to be senior program officer for the children’s-health program.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Elected Sidney D. Kline Jr., senior partner at Stevens & Lee (Reading), to be chairman of the board. BCCF also elected to be board members Mary M. Bertolet, a lawyer at Roland & Schlegel (Reading), and Leon S. Myers, senior banking executive at Allfirst Bank (Reading).

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Elected Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): Elected William H. Hastie, a lawyer with the firm of Musick, Peeler & Garrett (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Girls Inc. (New York): Elected Francis X. Burnes III, managing director and senior operating officer for the global investment-banking division at Chase Securities (New York), to be chair of the National Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Michael Lavoie, vice president of solutions marketing, to be vice president for financial services and business development; Stephanie MacDonald, vice president of fund raising at DMW Worldwide (Boston), to be director of sales for the fund-raising and membership-services division; Richard P. Murdock, senior creative director, to be vice president for creative services; and John Young, senior director of the marketing analytic consulting group, to be vice president of the marketing analytic consulting group.

Newport Creative Communications (Duxbury, Mass.): Appointed Nancy Ohringer, development officer at Groton School (Mass.), to be an account executive.