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Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Sandy McGill, a partner at Look TV (New York), to be vice president for market development.

AIDS Research Alliance (West Hollywood, Calif.): Appointed Carolyn Carlburg, executive director of the Center for Community & Family Services (Pasadena, Calif.), to be executive director.

Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Jonathan Green, program director at Project Seed (Milwaukee), to be program manager of the Value Added Partners Program.

Association of Community Cancer Centers (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Robert B. Demske, a consultant in Washington, to be director of development.

Baptist Health Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.): Appointed Aubrey Miller, director of tourism and travel at Southern Living magazine (Birmingham), to be president and chief development officer.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Jean Beil, director for housing and social concerns at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Metuchen (Perth Amboy, N.J.), to be senior director of networking.

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington): Appointed Rena Moyers, vice president for market research and Web and campus relations at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association (Atlanta), to be vice president for research and information services.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Luis Maldonado, executive director for legislative affairs at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (Washington), to be director of government relations and public policy.

Council on Philanthropy (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Michelle Davis, affiliate education director at the National Kidney Foundation’s National Headquarters Affiliate Services (Kansas City), to be executive director.

Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix): Appointed Beckie Mayberry, a personal banker at the Bank of America (Phoenix), to be membership manager.

Episcopal Relief and Development (New York): Appointed Robert Radtke, senior vice president for programs at the Asia Society (New York), to be president, effective July 5. He will succeed Sandra Swan, who is retiring.

Girls and Boys Town (Boys Town, Neb.): Appointed the Rev. Steven E. Boes, director of the St. Augustine Indian Mission (Winnebago, Neb.) and associate pastor of four parishes in Nebraska, to be executive director, effective June 30. He will succeed the Rev. Val J. Peter, who is retiring.

Greenpeace International (Amsterdam): Announced the death of Bob Hunter, co-founder and the first president of the Greenpeace Foundation, on May 2. He was 63.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Mohammad Akhter, senior associate dean for public and international health at Howard U.’s College of Medicine (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

International Trachoma Initiative (New York): Appointed Ibrahim Jabr, former representative for Ethiopia at Unicef (New York), to be vice president of programs; Derek Kolleeny, chief financial officer at the Greyston Foundation (Yonkers, N.Y.), to be vice president of finance and operations; and Lorenzo Martinez, director of development, communications, and advocacy at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (New York), to be vice president for development and external affairs.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York): Appointed Tom Healy, a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine (New York) and owner of the Thomas Healy Gallery (New York), to be president.

Mercy Foundation-Des Moines: Appointed R. Wayne King, senior vice president for development at the Oklahoma State U. Foundation (Stillwater), to be president. This organization raises money for the Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines.

Music Center of Los Angeles County: Appointed Barbara Racklin, director of development at the Anti-Defamation League-Los Angeles, to be associate vice president for advancement.

National Council of Churches USA (New York): Appointed Phil Jenks, communications officer at the World Council of Churches (New York), to be interim director of media relations.

National Partnership for Women & Families (Washington): Appointed Renee Stone, acting deputy solicitor at the U.S. Department of the Interior (Washington), to be chief operating officer.

Nauticus, the National Maritime Center (Norfolk, Va.): Appointed Brian Fair, a public-relations associate at Goldman & Associates (Norfolk), to be development director, and Dana Mayo, a sales manager at the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau, to be sales manager.

Points of Light Foundation (Washington): Appointed Lynne Durham, team leader for outsourcing communications at the Computer Sciences Corporation (Falls Church, Va.), to be vice president of communications; Timothy McLaughlin, vice president of corporate and community affairs at the Wilmington Trust (Del.), to be vice president for corporate volunteer development; and Christopher Toppe, director of philanthropic studies at Independent Sector (Washington), to be senior social scientist in the office of planning, research, and evaluation.

Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Foundation (Redford): Appointed Dawn Magretta, executive director of Leadership Oakland (Troy, Mich.), to be director of development.

Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation (Rochester, Minn.): Appointed Monica J. Herman, director of institutional advancement at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary (Winona, Minn.), to be director of development.

Simon Youth Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Barbara Richardson, director of institutional advancement at the International School of Indiana (Indianapolis), to be deputy director.

SOS Children’s Villages-USA (Washington): Appointed Heather Paul, executive director of the National Safe Kids Campaign and Safe Kids Worldwide (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

U. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa: Appointed Shanna Ackerman Hocking, regional director of the American Heart Association (Tuscaloosa), to be major-gifts officer for the School of Social Work.

U. of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio): Appointed Lisa L. Schultz, vice president of marketing and public relations at Morningside Ministries (San Antonio), to be director of alumni relations.

YMCA of Greater San Antonio: Appointed Joe Bueno, executive director of the Mays Family branch, to be senior vice president of corporate development; Tony Ceresoli, executive director of the D.R. Semmes branch, to be group vice president of operations; and Gloria Vasquez, executive director of the SBC branch, to be group vice president of operations.

GRANT MAKERS

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Ignatius Bau, a program officer, to be director of culturally competent health systems, based in San Francisco.

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (Washington): Appointed Michael J. Petrilli, former associate assistant deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education (Washington), to be vice president for national programs and policy, effective in July.

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund and the Goldman Environmental Prize (San Francisco): Appointed Amy Lyons, deputy director, to be executive director. She succeeds Samuel Salkin, who has resigned.

Koret Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Jeffrey A. Farber, a partner at the Quellos Group (San Francisco), to be executive director.

McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Sara Slaughter, program director at Chicago Metropolis 2020, to be director of the education program.

New York Foundation for the Arts: Announced the retirement of Theodore S. Berger, executive director, effective in January. He will remain in an advisory role at the foundation until June 2007.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): Appointed Shenyu Belsky, a senior program director at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (New York), to be a program officer for grant making in southern China.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Educational Research Association (Washington): Elected Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor of curriculum and instruction at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison, to be president.

Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies of North America (East Brunswick, N.J.): Elected Ted Marcus, a lawyer in Atlanta, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CLAL-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (New York): Elected Fern Hurst, a community volunteer, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (Washington): Elected Rod Paige, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (Washington), to the Board of Trustees.

Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Elected Patricia J. Flanagan, director of the Teens With Tots Clinic at Hasbro Children’s Hospital (Providence), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

AngelPoints (Mill Valley, Calif.): Appointed Stuart Ogawa, chief technology officer at Excambria (San Mateo, Calif.), to be chief technology officer, and Peter Wooster, an executive at Salesforce.com (San Francisco), to be vice president of sales. AngelPoints makes volunteer-management software.

CPS Human Resource Services (Sacramento): Appointed Marjorie Harris Young, former commissioner of the Georgia Merit System (Atlanta), to be regional manager of the Southeastern region, based in Atlanta.

Executive Consulting for the Nonprofit Sector (Long Beach, Calif.): Appointed Sunny Breed, director of volunteers at For the Child (Long Beach), to be vice president of client services, and Walter Kirwan, executive director of the Volunteer Center of Los Angeles, to be director of executive mentoring services.