People

ALS Association, Greater New York Chapter: Appointed Lucretia Gilbert, development and marketing associate at Gilda’s Club Worldwide (New York), to be special-events manager, and Pam Yosh, a major-gifts officer at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), to be director of development.

American Heart Association, Texas Affiliate (Austin): Appointed Tod Marvin, vice president for development at the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee), to be senior vice president of health strategies.

American Lung Association of Oregon (Tigard): Appointed Susan Warren Fratt, executive director of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Oregon and Southwest Washington Affiliate (Portland, Ore.), to be chief executive officer.

AmeriCares (Stamford, Conn.): Appointed Carolyn O’Brien, a principal at Philanthropy Partners (Stamford), to be senior vice president of development.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: Appointed Jan Goldstein, director of strategic communications at City Year (Boston), to be director of marketing and communications; Jerry Steimel, vice president of operations, to be executive vice president of operations; and Ellen Varney, chief financial officer, to be executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed the Rev. Larry Snyder, executive director of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, to be president and chief executive officer, effective February 1. He succeeds the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, who resigned in December 2003.

Center for U.N. Reform Education (New York): Appointed Lisa N. Bertrand, assistant dean of admissions at Hofstra U. (Hempstead, N.Y.), to be executive director.

Character Education Partnership (Washington): Appointed Robert T. Sherman Jr., founder and president of RTS Solutions (Minnetonka, Minn.), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

Chicago Public Library Foundation: Appointed Rhona S. Frazin, vice president of resource development, marketing, and communications at Metropolitan Family Services (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer.

Citizens for Global Solutions (Washington): Appointed Charles J. Brown, deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Denver): Appointed Charles S. Shimanski, executive director of the American Alpine Club (Golden, Colo.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind (Washington): Appointed Jeanne M. Dubow, manager of individual giving at the Alzheimer’s Association, National Capital Area Chapter (Fairfax, Va.), to be director of development.

Community Service Society (New York): Appointed Jeffrey F. Rizzo, controller at Marble Collegiate Church (New York), to be vice president and chief financial officer.

Covenant Health System (Knoxville, Tenn.): Appointed Jeffrey N. Elliott, director of major and deferred gifts at the U. of Tennessee Medical Center (Memphis), to be vice president for development.

Foster and Adoptive Family Services (Monmouth Junction, N.J.): Appointed Leslie Lukas, director of development at Anderson House (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), to be special-projects coordinator in the office of association development.

Girl Scouts of Tejas Council (Dallas): Appointed Jorene Jameson, executive vice president at the YMCA of Orange County (Tustin, Calif.), to be chief executive officer.

International Rescue Committee (New York): Appointed Anne C. Richard, a writer and consultant based in Paris who was chief adviser for budget and planning to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright from 1999 to 2001 (Washington), to be vice president for government relations.

Main Line Health (Bryn Mawr, Pa.): Appointed Kenneth E. Kirby, executive vice president at the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), to be senior vice president for development.

Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture (Phoenix): Appointed Myra Millinger, associate director of the Flinn Foundation (Phoenix), to be president and chief executive officer.

McQuade Children’s Services (New Windsor, N.Y.): Appointed Lynne Francis, director of institutional advancement at Tuxedo Park School (N.Y.), to be director of development and grants.

Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Peter Blomquist, director of the Better, Safer World Campaign (Des Moines), to be vice president of constituency development.

Metropolitan Opera (New York): Appointed Peter Gelb, president of Sony Classical (New York), to be general manager, effective August 1, 2005. He will succeed Joseph Volpe, who is retiring in 2006.

National Council of Churches USA (New York): Appointed Vince Isner, communications director at the United Methodist Board of Church and Society (Washington), to be director of FaithfulAmerica.org., the council’s online advocacy service.

National Development and Research Institutes (New York): Appointed Bernard S. Arons, senior science adviser at the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

National Park Foundation (Washington): Appointed Jill Nicoll, chief operating officer and executive vice president, to be interim president.

Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.): Appointed Joshua Basseches, executive director of the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, Mass.), to be deputy director and chief operating officer.

Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (Philadelphia): Appointed Thomas Stevenson, chief of the division of plastic surgery and professor of surgery at U. of California at Davis School of Medicine, to be president.

Resources Legacy Fund (Sacramento): Appointed Jim Maddy, president of the National Park Foundation (Washington), to be executive director. This organization works to preserve natural landscapes and marine systems.

Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota, Fla.): Appointed Lance Burchett, associate executive director at the U. of Arkansas Alumni Association (Fayetteville), to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

Rowan Regional Medical Center Foundation: (Salisbury, N.C.): Appointed Diane Dillon Hooper, executive director of the Historic Salisbury Foundation, to be grants manager and chief writer.

Scenic America (Washington): Appointed Kevin E. Fry, director of communications and external relations at Reading Is Fundamental (Washington), to be president.

Special Olympics North Carolina (Raleigh): Appointed Jon Balbo, an account manager at Applied Industrial Technology (Raleigh), to be director of development, and Megan O’Donnell, sports director and reporter for Fox and NBC affiliates in Richmond, Va., to be vice president of communications.

Suburban Hospital Foundation (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Leslie Ford Weber, acting assistant dean of external relations and director of development at the U. of Maryland’s engineering school (College Park), to be executive vice president.

U. of California Press (Berkeley): Appointed Erin Marietta, assistant editor for acquisitions, to be assistant director of development.

U. of Texas at Austin: Appointed Michael D. Jansen, planned-giving adviser at the U. of Illinois Foundation (Urbana), to be associate director of development in planned giving, and Bill Layton, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at Stanford U. (Calif.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Virginia Museum of Natural History (Martinsville): Appointed Jan Albaum, an economic-development, marketing, and urban-planning consultant, to be director of planning and external affairs.

Wildlife Trust (Palisades, N.Y.): Appointed Robert R. Lane, vice president for development at the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, N.Y.), to be vice president for external relations.

World Education and Development Fund (New York): Appointed Laura J. Forte, managing director at Citigroup (New York), to be director of development and marketing.

GRANT MAKERS

Calpine Foundation (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Janice M. Stewart, vice president and director, to be president and chief executive officer.

The Colorado Trust (Denver): Appointed Carol Breslau, senior program officer, to be vice president of initiatives.

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco): Appointed Minari Fernando, a researcher and project coordinator at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (Colombo, Sri Lanka), to be development officer, and Zeina Zaatari, a lecturer in the anthropology department at the U. of California at Davis, to be program officer for the Middle East and North Africa.

Marin Community Foundation (Novato, Calif.): Appointed Jennifer M. Johnson, government-relations policy analyst at the Nature Conservancy (San Francisco), to be program officer for the environment.

National Philanthropic Trust (Jenkintown, Pa.): Appointed Margaret Bandera, business manager at the Meadowbrook School (Pa.), to be controller; John Berezny, finance director at the Greater Philadelphia Food Bank, to be manager of finance and operations; and Karen Pearson, a processing associate at the Vanguard Group (Wayne, Pa.), to be an operations assistant.

New England Women’s Fund (Boston): Appointed Kate C. Sturgis, chief development officer at the New Bedford Oceanarium (Mass.), to be executive director.

New Jersey Historic Trust (Trenton): Appointed Barbara Haney Irvine, senior program associate at the Heritage Philadelphia Program, to be executive director.

Nike Foundation (Beaverton, Ore.): Appointed Maria Eitel, vice president of corporate responsibility at Nike (Beaverton), to be president.

No-Strings Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Tim B. Wride, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to be executive director. This new foundation will provide grants to photographers.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Sharnita Johnson, a program officer at the Ruth Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to be a program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected to the Board of Trustees: Pedro Aspe, chief executive officer of Protego (Mexico City); Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke U. (Durham, N.C.); and Janet L. Robinson, who will become president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company later this year.

Delaware Community Foundation (Wilmington): Elected Donald R. Kirtley, former vice president of public affairs at Hercules Incorporated (Wilmington), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

DuPage Community Foundation (Wheaton, Ill.): Elected Jack E. Mensching, president of Itasca Bank & Trust Company (Ill.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees. The foundation also elected the following to be trustees: Dalip Bammi, founder of Bammi & Associates (Wheaton); Josephine Beavers, a former board member at Urban Gateways: Center for Arts in Education (Chicago); Emmett P. Malloy Jr., president of E M Enterprises (Oak Brook, Ill.); and Laurie K. McMahon, former senior vice president and director of investor relations at the Northern Trust (Chicago).

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance: Elected Happy Craven Fernandez, president of Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Margaret Hamburg, vice president for biological programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (Washington); Alice Huang, senior councilor for external relations and faculty associate at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena); and Diana Natalicio, president of the U. of Texas at El Paso.