People

ABS CBN Foundation (Redwood City, Calif.): Appointed Mitos Santisteban, manager of community relations at ABS CBN International (Redwood City), also to be president and chief executive officer.

Actors Theatre of Louisville (Ky.): Appointed Jennifer Bielstein, executive director of Writers’ Theatre (Glencoe, Ill.), to be managing director.

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York): Appointed Diane Portnoff, director of the Bay Area Region, to be director of major gifts, based in Walnut Creek, Calif., and Virginia Saifer, development director at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, to be director of the Bay Area Region, based in San Francisco.

American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Helen L. Mitternight, assistant executive director of public relations at the American Psychological Association (Washington), to be vice president for communications and external relations.

American Heart Association, Greater Washington Region (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Laura McGinnis, assistant executive director of public relations at the Caraway Group (Washington), to be communications director.

Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth): Appointed Paula Parrish, director of development and public relations at Devereux Georgia Treatment Network (Marietta), to be director of development.

Arizona Animal Welfare League (Phoenix): Appointed Sam Kabbel, acting director and former president of Pet Behavior Solutions (Phoenix), to be executive director.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore (North Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Resa Levy, director of philanthropy and resource development at Jewish Women International (Washington), to be director of development.

Barker Foundation (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Ted Y. Mashima, associate director of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine (College Park, Md.), to be director of development. This organization provides adoption and other family services in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: Appointed Deborah Re, executive director of City Year Boston, to be chief executive officer.

Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Naomi King, senior community liaison at Outward Bound (Baltimore), to be volunteer-engagement coordinator. This organization provides volunteer-recruitment and board-consulting services to fellow nonprofit groups.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Boulder): Appointed Philip Charles Sneed, associate director of the Sacramento Theatre Company, to be producing artistic director.

Community Breast Health Project (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Amy Moody, associate director, to be executive director. Ms. Moody succeeds Karen Nierenberg, who is retiring.

Community Food Bank (Tucson): Appointed Pauline Hechler, director of development at St. Gregory College Preparatory School (Tucson), to be vice president of development.

Computers for Youth (New York): Appointed Janice Goldfarb, director of development at the National Council of Jewish Women (New York), to be chief development officer.

Fathers & Families (Boston): Appointed Carol Sardo, project manager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Learning International Networks Consortium (Cambridge, Mass.), to be assistant director of operations.

Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council (Tex.): Appointed Elizabeth Shea, president of the Shea Group (Houston), to be vice president of communications and development.

Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz, N.Y.): Appointed Eric Roth, interim director and former archivist and librarian, to be executive director.

Jewish Family & Life (Newton Upper Falls, Mass.): Appointed Amir Cohen, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer.

Kids Enjoy Exercise Now USA (Washington): Appointed Mark Russell, executive director of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation (Washington), to be executive director.

Melwood (Upper Marlboro, Md.): Announced the retirement of Earl Copus, chief executive officer, effective early next year. This organization provides developmentally disabled people with community- and family-support programs, housing, job training, recreation activities, and therapy.

Minnesota Council on Foundations (Minneapolis): Appointed Joan Othieno, site system- assessment coordinator at the Care System Assessment Demonstration Project (Minneapolis), to be research manager.

National Science Center (Augusta, Ga.): Appointed Norwood R. Dennis, chief operating officer of Catscan 2000 (Augusta), to be president and chief executive officer.

Nova Southwestern U., Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences (David, Fla.): Appointed Maria Puente-Duany, director of development for the Caridad Center at the Migrant Association of South Florida (Boynton Beach), to be director of development.

Phillips Collection (Washington): Appointed Barbara A. Hall, vice president of development at National Public Radio (Washington), to be director of development.

Providence College (R.I.): Appointed David C. Wegrzyn, vice president for institutional advancement at St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Smith College (Northampton, Mass.): Appointed Karen Boehnke, director of the annual fund and development operations at the U. of California at Berkeley’s College of Engineering, to be director of annual support and volunteer engagement.

Social Investor Forum (Washington): Appointed Lisa Woll, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

State Theatre (New Brunswick, N.J.): Appointed Marion F. Combs, vice president of development at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Ala.), to be senior vice president of development.

Sunshine Foundation (Feasterville, Pa.): Appointed Jane Konefsky, director of annual support at St. Mary Medical Center Foundation (Langhorne, Pa.), to be vice president and executive director.

United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana (Baton Rouge): Appointed Rob Fairly, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Baltimore Community Foundation: Appointed Kevin Griffin Moreno, senior policy advocate and communications director at the Job Opportunities Task Force (Baltimore), to be program officer for the human-services area.

Marguerite Casey Foundation (Seattle): Announced the resignation of Chantel Walker, director of programs and evaluation.

Central Carolina Community Foundation (Columbia, S.C.): Appointed Veronica L. Pinkett-Barber, cost analyst at KB Home South Carolina (Greenville), to be donor-services associate.

The Colorado Trust (Denver): Appointed Tanya Beer, senior legislative-performance auditor at the Colorado Office of the State Auditor (Denver), to be evaluation officer.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Appointed Kristina Arañas, a recent graduate of the master’s of business administration program at the U. of Georgia (Athens), to be a program associate; Natasha Battle, a program associate, to be grants administrator; and Tené Traylor, grants administrator at the Zeist Foundation (Atlanta), to be a program officer for community development.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Announced the resignation of Bradley W. Wells, vice president of finance and administration.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Jenna McHugh, director of credit-customer service at the FACS Group (Cincinnati), to be acting executive director of the Women’s Fund.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Appointed Becca Mader, assistant manager of marketing and donor relations at the Milwaukee Center for Independence, to be a program and communications associate.

Walter Kaitz Foundation (Washington): Appointed David Porter, director of graduate programs at the Howard U. School of Business (Washington), to be executive director.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Katherine Torres Loflin, community-foundations and technical-assistance program officer, to be program director for Palm Beach and Bradenton, Fla.

Minnesota Community Foundation (St. Paul) and the Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Sonja A. Moore, director of annual and planned giving and major-gifts officer at the Blake School (Minneapolis), to be donor-relations officer.

Solidago Foundation (Northampton, Mass.): Appointed Guillermo Quinteros, executive director of the Commonwealth Coalition (Boston), to be a program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Elected Louise H. Bryson, president of distribution at Lifetime Entertainment Services and general manager of the Lifetime Movie Network, based in Los Angeles, to be chair of the Board of Trustees, effective in October. Ms. Bryson succeeds John H. Biggs, who is resigning.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Elected Frederick P. Stratton Jr., chairman emeritus of Briggs & Stratton (Milwaukee), to be chair of the Board of Trustees. Also elected to the board: Peter W. Bruce, chief insurance officer at the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (Milwaukee); Janine P. Geske, a professor of law at Marquette U. Law School (Milwaukee); and David J. Lubar, president of Lubar & Co. (Milwaukee).

National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver): Elected Stephen B. Siegel, chairman of global brokerage at CB Richard Ellis (New York), and Wendy Siegel, a community volunteer in New York, to be co-chairs of the council of national trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Marts & Lundy (Lyndhurst, N.J.): Appointed Don Fellows, managing director and senior consultant, to be president and chief executive officer. This firm provides philanthropic-consulting services.

Neithercut Advisors (Detroit): Appointed Mark E. Neithercut, program vice president of the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit), to be principal. This new consulting firm provides administrative, program-development, and research services for nonprofit groups.

Westgate Capital Management (Pearl River, N.Y.): Appointed Philip F. Rutigliano, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in business administration at the U. of Phoenix, to be senior vice president of the company’s nonprofit sector.