People

Arizona Humanities Council (Phoenix): Appointed Herbert J. Paine, president of Paine Consulting Services (Phoenix), to be executive director.

Arts Corps (Seattle): Appointed Elizabeth Whitford, community-investment director, to be executive director. She succeeds Lisa Fitzhugh, founder, who has resigned.

Calcutta House (Philadelphia): Appointed Matthew Teter, director of development and communications at Doorways (St. Louis), to be executive director. Calcutta House provides housing and support services to homeless people with AIDS.

Catholic Foundation of North Georgia (Atlanta): Appointed Nancy Coveny, executive director of Homestretch (Roswell, Ga.), to be executive director.

Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (St. Paul): Appointed Clarence Hightower, president and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis Urban League, to be executive director.

Direct Relief International (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Appointed Katie Lewis, office manager at Nicholson & Schwartz (Santa Barbara), to be domestic-partner liaison, and Eduardo Mendoza, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in global and international studies at the U. of California at Santa Barbara, to be a program assistant.

Friends of Karen (Purdys, N.Y.): Appointed Judith Factor, senior vice president for external affairs at Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (Hawthorne, N.Y.), to be executive director. Friends of Karen provides financial and emotional support to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families who live in the New York metropolitan area.

Heifer International (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Tim McElwee, director of the Peace Studies Institute at Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.), to be senior director of development.

Human Rights First (New York): Appointed Elisa Massimino, director of the organization’s Washington office, to be executive director and chief executive officer. Minneapolis Urban League: Appointed David Oguamanam, program-services director, to be interim president and chief executive officer.

Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul): Appointed Steve Nelson, program director for The Current, the organization’s music program, to be program director for the statewide regional-news network, a newly created position.

Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay (Fla.): Appointed Dorothy Freeman, executive director of the Hope Foundation (Grand Rapids, Mich.), to be chief executive officer.

Northern California Golf Association Foundation (Pebble Beach): Appointed Adam Heieck, managing director, to be executive director.

Public Theater (New York): Appointed Andrew D. Hamingson, managing director at the Atlantic Theater Company (New York), to be executive director, effective in October. He succeeds Mara Manus, who has become executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Sports4Kids (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed David Rothenberg, chief executive officer of Nolo (Berkeley, Calif.), to be executive director.

United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington): Appointed Angela Woods, chief operating officer, to be interim chief executive officer. She succeeds Charles W. Anderson, who has become a senior consultant at the United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.).

Zoological Society of Florida (Miami): Appointed Nestor A. Rodriguez, chief executive officer of the Voices for Children Foundation (Miami), to be president and chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Bush Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Kelly Kleppe, grants manager, to be director of program operations.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Patrice Cablayan, assistant to the director of development and campaign coordinator at Polytechnic School (Pasadena, Calif.), to be donor and prospect-research manager of external and donor relations; Yamileth Guevara, director of homeownership programs at the East L.A. Community Corporation (Los Angeles), to be a program officer for neighborhood revitalization; Leslie Ito, director of grants at the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, to be a program officer for the arts; Robert Lewis, project director at Prototypes (Culver City, Calif.), to be a program officer for human development; Carolyn Steffen, vice president for finance at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, to be controller; and Elva Yañez, director of the Audubon Center at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park (Los Angeles), to be Community Building Initiative project director.

Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh): Appointed Stanley Thompson, executive director of the Times2 Academy for Engineering, Mathematics, Science and Technology (Providence, R.I.), to be director of the education program.

Henry Luce Foundation (New York): Appointed Helena Kolenda, program officer, to be program director for Asia. The foundation also announced the retirement of Terrill E. Lautz, vice president, secretary, and program director for Asia and Henry R. Luce programs.

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (Baton Rouge): Appointed Oreoluwa Alao, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), to be program associate for the equity and inclusion campaign; Jainey Bavishi, program associate for community engagement, to be equity and inclusion campaign manager; Amber Hutchinson, program assistant, to be development associate; Jessica McKelvie Kemp, coordinator for development and faculty programs at the Women and Minority Engineering Program at Louisiana State U. (Baton Rouge), to be director of communications; Charliette Nelson, executive assistant to the president and chief executive officer, to be manager of grants and administration; Matt Nunez, business and accounting manager at the DeFrances Academy of Dance (Baton Rouge), to be director of finance; and Ashley Kennedy Shelton, director of public initiatives, to be vice president of programs.

Plough Foundation (Memphis): Appointed Scott McCormick, Memphis City Council chairman, to be executive director.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Diane Camper, assistant editorial-page editor at The Sun, in Baltimore, to be communications officer.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Announced the retirement of Robert Long, senior program officer.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Kim Jorstad, managing director at the California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity (San Francisco), to be program coordinator for the Philanthropy Workshop West, and Camilla Simon, an administrative assistant in assurance at Burr, Pilger & Mayer (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be program assistant for the environment.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Minneapolis Foundation: Elected Diane L. Thormodsgard, vice chairman and head of wealth management and securities services at U.S. Bancorp (Minneapolis), to the Board of Trustees.

National Council of La Raza (Washington): Elected Andrea Bazan, president of the Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

NEA Foundation (Washington): Elected Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, a partner at the Livingston Group (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Nord Family Foundation (Amherst, Ohio): Elected Jane Spiegelberg, a clinical psychologist and a consultant to the Wellness Management & Recovery Coordinating Center of Excellence (Columbus, Ohio), to the Board of Trustees.

Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul): Elected Linda L. Hoeschler, a community volunteer in St. Paul, and Fred C. Kiga, vice president of Northwest state and local government relations and global corporate citizenship at the Boeing Company, based in Seattle, to the Board of Directors.

San Francisco Foundation: Elected David Friedman, a senior principal at Forell/Elsesser Engineers (San Francisco), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and C. Andy Ballard, a managing director at Hellman & Friedman (San Francisco), to be a trustee.

Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Elected Phail Wynn Jr., vice president for Durham and regional affairs at Duke U. (Durham), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Window to the World Communications/WTTW 11 (Chicago): Elected Norman R. Bobins, recently retired chief executive officer of LaSalle Bank Corporation (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.