People

American Liver Foundation (New York): Appointed John W. Corwin, founder of Corwin Consulting (New York), to be interim chief executive officer. Mr. Corwin succeeds Frederick J. Thompson, who is resigning.

ArtsConnection (New York): Appointed Deborah Hays, director of development at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (New York), to be deputy director for development.

Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Steve Salem, vice president of government relations at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, based in Rockville, to be executive director. The organization also appointed Chuck Brady, senior director of government relations at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta), based in Rockville, Md., to be deputy executive director, and Amy Kearney, community liaison for the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be director of development.

Center for a New American Dream (Takoma Park, Md.): Appointed Lisa Wise, vice president of the Genetic Alliance (Washington), to be executive director.

Children’s Cancer Research Fund (Minneapolis): Appointed John Hallberg, a management consultant and interim president of the stationery division at Diversified Graphics (Minneapolis), to be chief executive officer.

Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles: Announced the resignation of Miriam Krinsky, executive director.

Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Appointed Anne Lynam Goddard, chief of staff at CARE (Atlanta), to be president.

Colburn School (Los Angeles): Appointed Miguel Angel Corzo, president and chief executive officer of the U. of the Arts (Philadelphia), to be president and chief executive officer.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Deborah De Santis, director of the group’s New Jersey program (Trenton), to be president and chief executive officer, based in New York. She succeeds Carla Javits, who has resigned to become president of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (San Francisco), which supports nonprofit groups that operate social programs to help homeless and poor people.

Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia): Appointed Elizabeth B. Warshawer, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Philadelphia Orchestra, to be executive vice president, chief financial officer, and chief operating officer.

Duke U. Medical Center (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Anita Shirley, Southeast foundations officer at Environmental Defense (Raleigh, N.C.), to be assistant director of foundation relations.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Washington): Appointed Suzanne Mink, vice president for institutional fund raising at the World Wildlife Fund (Washington), to be vice president of development.

Emory U. (Atlanta): Appointed John T. Engelen, director of federal relations at the U. of Minnesota (Minneapolis), to be vice president for governmental affairs.

Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Lawrence T. McGill, deputy director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director of research and planning at the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive at Princeton U. (N.J.), to be senior vice president for research.

Global Partnerships (Seattle): Appointed Elizabeth A. Castleberry, vice president of regional development at the Washington State U. Foundation (Pullman), to be director of development and communications. Global Partnerships supports microfinance institutions.

Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.): Appointed John C. Costopoulos, vice president of marketing and communications at the American Heart Association of the Greater Richmond Area (Glen Allen, Va.), to be vice president of marketing and communications.

Green Dot Public Schools (Los Angeles): Appointed Marco Petruzzi, founder and chief executive officer of R3 School Solutions (Los Angeles), to be president and chief operating officer. Mr. Petruzzi succeeds Marshall Tuck, who is resigning.

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (New York): Appointed Rick Annis, chief financial officer at Yeshiva U. (New York), to be chief financial officer.

Kendal Corporation (Kennett Square, Pa.): Appointed Cheryl H. Wade, associate general secretary and treasurer at the American Baptist Churches in the USA (King of Prussia, Pa.), to be director for philanthropy and executive director of the Kendal Charitable Funds. This group provides housing and services for older adults.

Mercy Ships (Garden Valley, Tex.): Appointed Cal Huge, interim finance manager at Pactec International (Kabul, Afghanistan) and former headmaster at Cathedral Academy (North Charleston, S.C.), to be chief executive officer.

National 4-H Council (Chevy Chase, Md.): Appointed Karla Chappelle Howard, a principal at Chappelle Howard Business Solutions (Bowie, Md.), to be senior vice president and chief financial officer.

New England Conservatory (Boston): Appointed Carol L. Phelan, director of marketing and communications at the Citi Performing Arts Center (Boston), to be director of marketing and public relations.

New Mexico Association of Grantmakers (Santa Fe): Appointed Terry Odendahl, a co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Collaborative Change (Santa Fe), to be executive director. Ms. Odendahl succeeds M. Carlota Baca, who is resigning.

Oregon Health & Science U. Foundation (Portland): Appointed Ann Barden, director of planned giving at the San Francisco Foundation, to be director of gift planning; Deniz Conger, senior development director at the Henry Ford Health System (Detroit), to be director of major gifts for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation; Patrick Regan, an advancement consultant in Portland, to be director of development for the school of dentistry; Pete Sommerfeld, a planned-giving officer, to be senior director of gift planning; and Lori Sweeney, director of development at the Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis), to be director of development for neurosciences.

Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis): Appointed Marlys Amundson, director of marketing and development communications for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the U. of California at Los Angeles, to be assistant director of development for the College of Engineering; Kelsey Anglin, Memorial Union event-services supervisor, to be assistant director of special events; Lacie LaRue, associate director of the Maryland Fund for Excellence at the U. of Maryland at College Park, to be director of annual-giving programs; Jennifer Niedermeyer, regional director in the office of advancement at the U. of San Francisco, to be director of development for ocean and earth sciences and the Marine Mammal Institute; Foy Renfro, district sales manager at Lufthansa (Portland, Ore.), to be assistant director of development for the College of Business; Stephen Slotemaker, an analyst at Kaspick and Company (Boston), to be associate director of planned giving; Kenneth Suski, director of gift-information management at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be controller and associate vice president for finance and administration; and Doug Wright, director of athletic development at Wichita State U. (Kan.), to be regional director of development for athletics for Portland, Ore.

Physicians for Social Responsibility (Washington): Appointed Mike McCally, a professor of community and preventive medicine and co-director of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), to be executive director.

Police Athletic League (New York): Appointed Felix A. Urrutia Jr., Bronx borough director, to be executive director.

Population Council (New York): Appointed Kenneth L. Payne, chief investment officer at CARE (Atlanta), to be chief financial officer.

Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia): Appointed Josh Freely, project coordinator for the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project at Temple U. (Philadelphia), to be a research associate, and Tina Kauh, a research associate, also to be director of management-information systems.

Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Appointed Gabriel Riera, communications manager at the Miami Art Museum, to be director of communications and marketing for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Syracuse U. (New York): Appointed Peter Englot, director of academic services at the university’s Graduate Enrollment Management Center, to be director of strategic initiatives in the division of public affairs.

Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (King of Prussia, Pa.): Appointed Allan S. Miller, acting executive director and a former project-finance consultant in Wynnewood, Pa., to be executive director. Mr. Miller succeeds Helene Marks, who died last year.

U. of Central Arkansas (Conway): Appointed Jan Davis, product/project manager at Acxiom (Little Rock, Ark.), to be director of planned giving, and Shelley Mehl, associate vice president for advancement and director of development at Hendrix College (Conway), to be associate vice president of institutional advancement and development.

Washington Area Women’s Foundation (D.C.): Appointed Siobhán O’Riordan, a communications and management-strategies consultant in Boston, to be director of communications and philanthropic programs.

Washington National Cathedral (D.C.): Appointed Michael Hill, director of the Next Stage campaign at the Arena Stage (Washington), to be senior director of external relations and development.

Weill Cornell Medical College (New York): Appointed Susan Holt, associate dean for development and alumni relations at Case Western Reserve U. School of Medicine (Cleveland), to be chief development officer.

Weingart Center Association (Los Angeles): Appointed Gregory Scott, senior vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York): Appointed Susan Feder, vice president at G. Schirmer (New York), to be program officer for the performing arts, and Philip E. Lewis, a professor of Romance studies at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be vice president for the liberal-arts colleges program.

Atlantic Philanthropies (Hamilton, Bermuda): Appointed Gara LaMarche, vice president and director of U.S. programs at the Open Society Institute (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Rob Horsch, vice president for international-development partnerships at Monsanto (St. Louis), to be a senior program officer.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation (Eagan): Appointed Marsha Shotley, vice president of board and community relations for the Blue Cross health plan, to be president. The foundation has also appointed Joan Cleary, associate director, to be vice president for foundation and community leadership.

Burton D. Morgan Foundation (Hudson, Ohio): Appointed Deborah D. Hoover, executive vice president, to be president. Ms. Hoover succeeds John V. Frank, who is retiring.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Appointed Michele Cahill, senior counselor to the chancellor for education policy in the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, to be vice president for national-program coordination and director of urban education. The foundation has also announced the resignation of Narciso Matos, chair of the international-development program, effective in July. Mr. Matos will become the executive director of the Community Development Foundation of Mozambique (Maputo).

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Ross Maclaren, director of the Russian Far East office at the Institute for Sustainable Communities, based in Khabarovsk, to be program officer for Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, based in London. The foundation also announced the resignation of Rebecca Fedewa, associate program officer for the environment.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Mary E. McClymont, a former chief executive officer of InterAction (Washington), to be vice president of the peace and social-justice program.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed James N. Wood, former director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago, to be president and chief executive officer. The trust also appointed David Bomford, senior restorer of paintings at the National Gallery (London), to be associate director for collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Juan J. Martinez, vice president of finance and treasurer, to be vice president and chief financial officer.

Kalamazoo Community Foundation (Mich.): Appointed Ann Fergemann, senior donor-relations officer, to be vice president of donor relations, and Wes Freeland, vice president of donor relations, to be adviser to the president.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Announced the retirement of Martha D. Lamkin, president and chief executive officer, effective December 31, 2007.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Appointed Cherie Galyean, a grants writer at the Island Institute (Rockland, Me.), to be regional coordinator for midcoast and downeast Maine.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Neal Cuthbert, interim vice president of program and former program director, to be vice president of program.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): Appointed Candice Balmaceda, director of finance at the at the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose), to be vice president for finance and controller; Ellen Clear, vice president of community programs at the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be vice president for grant making; Peter Hero, president of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, to be senior adviser; Sandi Hutchings, controller at the Peninsula Community Foundation, to be chief administrative officer; and Ash McNeely, vice president of philanthropic services at the Peninsula Community Foundation, to be vice president for donor engagement. The Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the Peninsula Community Foundation recently merged to form the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Stuart Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Marie B. Washington, chief financial officer at the Knowledge Is Power Program Foundation (San Francisco), to be vice president of finance and administration.

Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Susin Seow, vice president of workplace-giving campaigns at the Triangle United Way (Morrisville, N.C.), to be development officer for corporate outreach.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Boston Foundation: Elected Claudio M. Martinez, executive director of the Hyde Square Task Force (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), to the Board of Directors.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U. (Indianapolis): Elected Harriet Ivey, president and chief executive officer of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis), to be chair of the Board of Visitors.

Children’s Memorial Foundation (Chicago): Elected Daniel J. Hennessy, a co-founder and partner at Code, Hennessy & Simmons (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Children’s Memorial Medical Center (Chicago): Elected J. Christopher Reyes, a co-founder and chairman of Reyes Holdings (Rosemont, Ill.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Elected Alfred M. Rankin Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Nacco Industries (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Elected Janice Kreamer, former president and chief executive officer of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, to the Board of Trustees.

McGregor Foundation (East Cleveland): Elected Jane K. Meyer, a former health-care consultant at Ernst & Young, based in Cleveland, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

National 4-H Council (Chevy Chase, Md.): Elected Anthony A. Tansimore, a senior consultant at the 360 Group (San Francisco), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

National Corporate Theatre Fund (New York): Elected James S. Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Philadelphia Foundation: Elected Patricia A. Coulter, president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Philadelphia, to the Board of Managers.

Physicians for Social Responsibility (Washington): Elected Catherine Thomason, a staff physician at Portland State U. (Ore.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Polk Bros. Foundation (Chicago): Elected Desiree Rogers, president of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas (Chicago), to the Board of Directors.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Elected Byron Auguste, a director at McKinsey & Company, based in Los Angeles, to the Board of Directors.