People

Adventures for Wish Kids, Cincinnati Chapter: Appointed Hap Durkin, director of annual giving at the U. of Cincinnati Foundation, to be executive director.

America on the Move (Boston): Appointed Arlin Wasserman, founder and principal of Changing Tastes (St. Paul), to be executive director. This organization provides programs that support healthy eating habits and exercise.

American Cancer Society (Atlanta): Appointed Karen Radwin, senior vice president for income development for the eastern division, based in New York, to be senior managing executive of the organization’s Hope Lodge New York City.

Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Washington): Appointed Ted Y. Mashima, associate director of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (Blacksburg, Va.), to be president and executive director.

Catholic Community Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Donna Marino, executive director of development at the Diocese of Bridgeport (Conn.), to be president and chief executive officer.

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (San Francisco): Appointed Jeanne Bell, associate director, to be executive director.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York): Appointed Diane Willis, a management and fund-raising consultant at Rose & Associates (New York), to be senior program manager for strategic partnerships and co-director of the Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance project.

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers (Washington): Appointed Rick Rose, director of communications at the Center for Nonprofit Advancement (Washington), to be director of communications.

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Michael V. Seiden, chief of the clinical-research unit in the division of cancer medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (Boston), to be president and chief executive officer, effective June 1.

I Have a Dream Foundation (New York): Appointed Iris Chen, executive director of Teach for America (New York), to be president and chief executive officer, effective June 1.

International Aid (Spring Lake, Mich.): Appointed Robert J. Goodwin, deputy assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs for the U.S. Air Force at the U.S. Department of Defense (Washington), to be chief operating officer.

Mercy Housing Colorado (Denver): Appointed Jennifer L. Erixon, vice president and director of capital markets at Capmark Securities (Denver), to be president.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Los Angeles Chapter: Announced the death of Marcy DeJesus, co-founder, on March 12. She was 67.

Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (Cherry Hill, N.J.): Appointed Bruce Makous, major-gifts and planned-giving officer at the American Association for Cancer Research (Philadelphia), to be vice president of development.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago): Announced the resignation of Robert Fitzpatrick, director and chief executive officer, effective in 2008.

Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York): Appointed Garvester Kelley, senior project manager at Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia), to be vice president of the mid-Atlantic region, based in Philadelphia.

Northlight Theatre (Chicago): Appointed Timothy J. Evans, director of special projects at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago), to be executive director. He succeeds Philip J. Santora, who has become the managing director of TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, Calif.).

Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago): Appointed James Bau Graves, a co-founder and artistic director of the Center for Cultural Exchange (Portland, Me.), to be executive director.

Physicians for Social Responsbility (Washington): Appointed Doug Shaw, director of communications at the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (Washington), to be director of security programs.

Saint John’s U. (Collegeville, Minn.): Appointed Richard Adamson, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Augsburg College (Minneapolis), to be vice president for finance and administration.

Seattle Symphony: Appointed Thomas Philion, president and chief executive officer of the Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, N.C.), to be executive director.

Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Appointed Cristián Samper, director of the National Museum of Natural History (Washington), to be interim secretary. He succeeds Lawrence M. Small, who has resigned.

Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Chapter (Washington): Appointed Jeffrey Zell, founder and president of JM Zell Partners (Washington), to be president.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Jim Broschart, a major-gifts officer at the State U. of New York at Oswego, to be director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences, and Rebecca Bruzdzinski, an administrative specialist for the university’s Office of Program Development of Institutional Advancement, to be advancement and alumni-affairs manager for the College of Human Services and Health Professions.

U. of California at Los Angeles Live: Appointed John Spokes, senior vice president at Netzel Associates (Culver City, Calif.), to be director of development. This group presents music and performing-arts programs.

U. of Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Kit Anderson, director of development for the School of Fine Arts at Miami U. (Oxford, Ohio), to be director of development for the College-Conservatory of Music; Jeffrey R. Dundon, a co-founder of Dundon & Huddleston (Columbus, Ohio), to be director of gift planning; Danute Miskinis, president of DM Productions (Cincinnati), to be director of campaign events; Judy See, associate director of annual giving, to be director of annual giving; and Karen Sieber, director of major gifts for the southwestern Ohio region at Ohio State U. (Columbus), to be senior director of development at the College of Law.

U. of Maryland at College Park: Appointed Holly DeArmond, account executive at Ackermann Public Relations (Knoxville, Tenn.), to be associate director of marketing; Neena Kumar, manager of member services and development at the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (D.C.), to be manager of corporate and foundation relations; and Tracey Williams, vacation planner at Disney-MGM Studios (Orlando, Fla.), to be program-management specialist for leadership gifts.

United Service Organizations (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Henry Wolfgang, vice president of development at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (Washington), to be senior vice president and chief development officer.

Venture Philanthropy Partners (Washington): Appointed David Sylvester, a former partner at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr (Washington), to be a partner. This organization provides money and management advice to nonprofit organizations in the Washington metropolitan area that serve low-income families and needy children.

Vera Institute of Justice (New York): Appointed Daniel F. Wilhelm, director of technical assistance, to be chief program officer.

Verified Voting (San Francisco): Appointed Pamela Smith, nationwide coordinator, to be president.

Walker Art Center (Minneapolis): Announced the resignation of Kathy Halbreich, director, effective November 1.

YES Reading (Milpitas, Calif.): Appointed Michael Lombardo, director of scholarships at the U. of California at Berkeley, to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Asia Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Bruce Tolentino, senior technical adviser at Catholic Relief Services, based in Hanoi, Vietnam, to be director for economic reform and development.

Cleveland Foundation: Appointed Traci Douglas, administrative assistant at Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland), to be a donor-relations assistant; Maureen Forrest, administrative assistant at the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office (Cleveland), to be a scholarship assistant; Lillian Kuri, an urban-development consultant in Cleveland, to be director of special projects; and Kevin McDaniel, director of admissions and records at Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland), to be a program officer.

Jack N. and Lilyan Mandel Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Joel Fox, executive vice president at the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, to be executive vice president.

Open Society Institute (New York): Appointed Ann Beeson, associate legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union (New York), to be director of U.S. programs. She succeeds Gara LaMarche, who this month takes over as president of the Atlantic Philanthropies (Hamilton, Bermuda).

Weingart Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Tawnya N. Mason, a program officer at First 5 LA (Los Angeles), to be a program officer.

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Sherece West, chief executive officer of the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (Baton Rouge), to be president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Elected Tim Dunn, president of Tim Dunn Farms and Dunn Grain Company (Yuma, Ariz.), and David C. Maurer, chief executive officer of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce (Ariz.), to the Board of Directors.

Broad Foundations (Los Angeles): Elected to the Board of Governors: David Baltimore, a biology professor and former president of the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena); Henry G. Cisneros, chairman of CityView (San Antonio) and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Washington); Robert A. Day, chairman and president of the W.M. Keck Foundation (Los Angeles); Paul N. Frimmer, a partner at Irell & Manella (Los Angeles); Jana Waring Greer, president of AIG SunAmerica Life Assurance Company (Los Angeles) and AIG SunAmerica Retirement Markets (Los Angeles); Kent Kresa, former chairman and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman (Los Angeles); Barry Munitz, an English professor at California State U. at Los Angeles and former president and chief executive officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles); Roderick R. Paige, a co-founder and chairman of Chartwell Education Group (New York) and former U.S. Secretary of Education (Washington); Richard J. Riordan, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, based in Los Angeles, and former mayor of Los Angeles; Morton O. Schapiro, an economics professor and president of Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.); Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (Washington); Lawrence H. Summers, an economics professor and former president of Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.); and Jay S. Wintrob, president and chief executive officer of AIG Retirement Services (Los Angeles).

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (Hollywood, Fla.): Elected Thomas D. Stern, a managing director and principal of Chieftain Capital Management (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors, effective July 1.

Direct Relief International (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Elected Stanley C. Hatch, founder of Hatch & Parent (Santa Barbara), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Nasher Foundation (Dallas): Announced the death of Raymond D. Nasher, chairman of the Board of Directors, on March 16. He was 85.

Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia): Elected Matthew T. McGuire, vice president of institutional marketing at Ariel Capital Management (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

S.H. Cowell Foundation (San Francisco): Elected to the Board of Directors: Lisa Backus, clinical manager for the Clinical Case Registries at the Center for Quality Management in Public Health (San Francisco); Mikiko Huang, a pediatrician in San Francisco; and Deborah Ortiz, a former state senator, based in Sacramento.

Southeastern Council of Foundations (Atlanta): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Louie Bunton, chief executive officer of the Louie M. & Betty M. Phillips Foundation (Nashville); Lesley Grady, vice president of community partnerships at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; Karen McNeil-Miller, president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.); and Dot Neale, corporate community-relations manager for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee at IBM, based in Memphis.

VH1 Save the Music Foundation (New York): Elected Sheila Johnson, a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (Washington) and chief executive officer of Salamander Hospitality (Middleburg, Va.), and Gordon Singer, a senior portfolio manager at Elliott Advisors (New York), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Campbell & Company (Chicago): Appointed Edith H. Falk, president, to be chair and chief executive officer, and Peter J. Fissinger, senior vice president, to be president. This firm offers fund-raising, marketing-communications, and executive-search services for nonprofit organizations.

Goettler Associates (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Len Ford, founder and president of the Philanthropy Group of Ohio (Columbus), to be vice president. This company provides fund-raising consulting services.

Russ Reid Company (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Pamela Barden, vice president for development at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (Chicago), to be vice president. This firm provides marketing and fund-raising services for nonprofit groups.

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