People

Alliance for Children and Families and United Neigborhood Centers of America (Milwaukee): Appointed Patrick Lester, director of public policy at United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.), to be senior vice president for public policy, based in Washington.

Alzheimer’s Association, California Southland Chapter (Los Angeles): Appointed David Coscia, segment producer for the game show Hollywood Squares (Santa Monica, Calif.), to be director of special events; Barbara Goen, senior vice president at the Rogers Group (Los Angeles), to be vice president of communications and marketing; and Cheryl Bernstein Gurin, director of leadership giving, to be vice president of development.

American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Leah Lee, director of development at the Giddens School (Seattle), to be annual-fund director.

American Council on Education (Washington): Announced the resignation of David Ward, president, effective in February 2008.

Appleseed (Washington): Appointed Betsy Cavendish, interim president and former vice president and legal director at Naral Pro-Choice America (Washington), to be executive director. She succeeds Linda Singer, who has been appointed the attorney general of Washington, D.C. Appleseed provides opportunities for lawyers to do pro bono work.

Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Jan Savarick, senior director of development, to be senior vice president.

Boston Lyric Opera: Appointed Nina Gilbert, director of choral activities at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.), to be manager of education and community programs.

CHF International (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Jeffrey Meer, senior program-development officer, to be director of external relations. This organization operates humanitarian and development programs internationally.

Cleveland Scholarship Programs: Appointed Alenka Winslett, chief operating officer, to be interim president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Maria Boss, who has resigned.

Colon Cancer Alliance (Washington): Appointed Timothy J. Turnham, senior development officer at the United Cerebral Palsy Association (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

Community Preservation and Development Corporation (Washington): Appointed Hilary A. Morgan, founder and president of Resourceful Results (Washington), to be director of development and communications.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York): Appointed Wendy Coco, director of the Oasis Wellness Center at the Community Health Center (Middletown, Conn.), to be a program manager for southern New England, based in New Haven, Conn.

The Door (New York): Appointed Dianne Morales, assistant executive director, to be executive director. This organization provides services for adolescents from low-income families.

Family Pride (Washington): Appointed A. Charlene Leach, a fund-raising and management consultant at Hayes-Cozier & Schaffer Health Partnership (Washington), to be development director. Family Pride is an advocacy organization for the families of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

Guide Dogs of the Desert International (Palm Springs, Calif.): Appointed Kim Laidlaw, director of operations, to be deputy executive director.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Connie Steward, a co-founder and managing director of the Crossland Group (Boston), to be vice president and chief learning officer.

Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont (Martinsville, Va.): Appointed Richard Killingsworth, program director at the Ruth Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to be executive director.

Indiana State U. Foundation (Terre Haute): Appointed Gene C. Crume Jr., executive vice president at Midland Lutheran College (Fremont, Neb.), to be president.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Jordan (Jody) Harburger, development director at the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes (Rockville, Md.), to be managing director of the United Jewish Endowment Fund.

Jumpstart (Boston): Appointed George Askew, founder and executive director of Docs for Tots (Washington), to be chief executive officer. Jumpstart promotes early-education programs.

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: Appointed Adam M. Wilhelm, assistant director for advancement, to be director for advancement.

Metropolitan State U. Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Robert H. Heuermann, assistant chancellor for university advancement at the U. of Wisconsin-Stout (Menomonie), to be vice president for university advancement at Metropolitan State U. and executive director.

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (New York): Appointed Sarah Orsay, managing director and head of the endowment- and foundation-coverage group at Goldman Sachs (New York), to be chief executive officer. She succeeds Deborah W. Brooks, co-founder, who has been appointed president.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore): Appointed DennisHayes, general counsel, to be interim president. He succeeds Bruce Gordon, president and chief executive officer, who has resigned. (See article on Page 33.)

New College Foundation (Sarasota, Fla.): Appointed Carol Armacost Carter, vice president for university advancement at Duquesne U. (Pittsburgh), to be vice president for advancement.

New Eyes for the Needy (Short Hills, N.J.): Appointed Pamela DePompo-Klein, director of the Arc of Hunterdon Foundation (Annandale, N.J.), to be executive director.

Nurse-Family Partnership (Denver): Appointed Thomas R. Jenkins Jr., chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer.

Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (Cumming, Ga.): Appointed Lori Warrens, executive director of the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (Washington), to be executive director. This organization provides medical products to poor people and disaster victims.

U. of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Appointed Nancy Nelson, vice president of development and communications at the Grameen Foundation (Washington), to be campaigns director.

U. of Rochester (N.Y.): Appointed Matthew P. Haag, senior associate director of development and alumni relations at the Johns Hopkins U. School of Nursing (Baltimore), and Kevin S. Weekley, director of major gifts at the Johns Hopkins U. Whiting School of Engineering (Baltimore), to be directors of the office of major gifts and regional programs; Elizabeth Wehle, director of regional programs and parent relations for the university’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, to be senior director of donor relations; and Kevin P. Wesley, assistant vice president for university advancement and deputy director of alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon U. (Pittsburgh), to be executive director of alumni relations.

Venture Philanthropy Partners (Washington): Appointed Carol Thompson Cole, managing partner, to be president and chief executive officer. This group provides money and management advice to nonprofit organizations in the Washington metropolitan area that serve low-income families and needy children.

Works/San Jose (Calif.): Appointed Erin Cizan, law-office administrator at Myers, Hawley, Morley, Myers, & McDonnell (Los Altos, Calif.), to be executive director. This organization is an art and performance center.

YMCA of Greater New York: Appointed J. Frederick Rogers, managing director for foundation and government grants and corporate development at the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York), to be senior vice president for fund development.

GRANT MAKERS

Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles: Appointed Conrad R. Freund, vice president of finance, to be chief operating officer.

Cleveland Foundation: Appointed George Delgado, European sales and marketing director at HE G. Geschmack (Munich), to be director of international relations.

Comerica (Detroit): Appointed Thomas E. Dieters, executive director of development at Nova Southeastern U. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be vice president of the charitable-services group, based in Fort Lauderdale.

Fair Food Foundation (Ann Arbor, Mich.): Appointed Oran B. Hesterman, director of the food and society initiative at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.), to be president and chief executive officer.

France-Merrick Foundation(Baltimore): Announced the death of Anne M. (Nan) Pinkard, former president, on March 3. She was 83.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Marci Hunn, a program officer at the Corporation for National and Community Service (Washington), to be a program officer.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Allison Clark, a senior underwriting manager for the community-lending group at Fannie Mae (Chicago), to be program officer for program-related investments; Ben Stokes, a co-founder of Games for Change (New York), to be program officer for digital learning and media; and Matthew Stumpf, foreign-affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State (Washington), to be program officer for international peace and security.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Marc Fest, founder and president of QuickBrowse.com (Miami Beach), to be director of communications.

John T. Petters Foundation (Minnetonka, Minn.): Appointed Dawn Fish, vice president of advancement and communications at Scholarship America (Edina, Minn.), to be executive director.

Omidyar Network (Redwood City, Calif.): Appointed Matt Bannick, general manager of global development and citizenship at eBay International (San Jose, Calif.), to be managing partner. He succeeds Iqbal Paroo, who is resigning to become a senior business adviser to Pierre and Pam Omidyar.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Nicholas Turner, vice president and chief program officer at the Vera Institute of Justice (New York), to be a managing director.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): Appointed Bheesham Sethi, director of development at Common Sense Media (San Francisco), to be vice president of development.

Warren Alpert Foundation (Providence, R.I.): Announced the death of Warren Alpert, founder and chairman of the Board of Directors, on March 3. He was 86.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Burn Foundation (Philadelphia): Elected MaryJane Roache, director of construction and maintenance for the Delchester region at PECO Energy (Berwyn, Pa.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Carl M. Freeman Foundation (Olney, Md.): Elected Michelle D. Freeman, a community volunteer in Gaithersburg, Md., to be chair of the Board of Trustees. She succeeds her husband, Joshua M. Freeman, who died on December 14.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected Thomas H. Kean, former president of Drew U. (Madison, N.J.) and former Governor of New Jersey (Trenton), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees. Also elected Richard W. Riley, a senior partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, based in Greenville, S.C., and former U.S. Secretary of Education (Washington), to the Board of Trustees.

Healthcare Georgia Foundation (Atlanta): Elected Richard D. Shirk, former chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors of Cerulean Companies (Atlanta) and president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (Atlanta), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (Palo Alto, Calif.): Elected to the Board of Directors: Gary Dillabough, vice president of global citizenship at eBay International (San Jose, Calif.), and Chris Schaepe, a founding general partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners (Menlo Park, Calif.).

New York City Mission Society: Elected Alexis Thomas, a principal and manager of the fixed-income debt and equity syndicate desk at Williams Capital Group (New York), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Philadelphia Foundation: Elected Leslie Anne Miller, former general counsel to Gov. Ed Rendell (Harrisburg, Pa.), to the Board of Managers.

Women’s Campaign School at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.): Elected Martha Sterling-Golden, major-gifts manager at the Maine Coast Heritage Trust (Topsham), to be president of the Board of Directors. This corrects an item that appeared in the People section on February 8.

Notices of personnel changes and board-member appointments may be sent to people@philanthropy.com.