Blue Shield of California Foundation Hires New President; Other New Appointments

Asia Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed David D. Arnold, president of the American U. in Cairo, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Douglas Bereuter, who plans to retire.

Associated Grant Makers (Boston): Appointed Jeffrey Poulos, executive director of StageSource (Boston), to be executive director.

Austin Children’s Shelter (Tex.): Appointed Kelly White, executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, to be chief executive officer.

Boston Children’s Museum: Appointed Carole Charnow, general director of Opera Boston, to be president and chief executive officer.

Center for Children and Young Adults (Marietta, Ga.): Appointed Kimberley A. Shellman-Borna, executive director of the Juvenile Justice Fund (Atlanta), to be chief executive officer.

Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington): Announced the resignation of Paul Greenhalgh, director. He will become director of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the U. of East Anglia (Norwich, England).

Corporate Voices for Working Families (Washington): Appointed Stephen M. Wing, director of work-force initiatives at CVS Caremark (Woonsocket, R.I.), to be president, effective September 1.

Future of Music Coalition (Washington): Appointed Lissa Rosenthal, programs director at the American Council for the Arts (Washington), to be executive director.

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco): Announced the resignation of Kavita N. Ramdas, president and chief executive officer.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance: Appointed Tom Kaiden, chief operating officer, to be president.

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens (Washington): Appointed Kate Markert, associate director at the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), to be executive director. She succeeds Frederick J. Fisher, who plans to retire.

In Defense of Animals (San Rafael, Calif.): Appointed Scotlund Haisley, senior director of emergency services at the Humane Society of the United States (Washington), to be president.

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (New York): Announced the resignation of Bill White, president.

Lutheran Social Services of the South (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Betsy Guthrie, chief operating officer, to be president.

Ms. Foundation for Women (New York): Appointed Susan Wefald, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be interim president. She succeeds Sara K. Gould, who will become a senior fellow at the Foundation Center (New York).

Newport Music Festival (R.I.): Announced the death of Mark P. Malkovich III, artistic director. He was 79.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Tamara Stanton Luzzatto, former chief of staff for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, to be managing director of government relations, based in Washington.

Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (New York): Appointed Jean-Jérôme Peytavi, director for new business and marketing at DCM Inc. (New York), an arts consulting firm, to be executive director.

River North Chicago Dance Company: Appointed Gail Kalver, interim executive director and an arts-management consultant based in Chicago, to be executive director.

Save the Chimps (Fort Pierce, Fla.): Appointed Philip Flynn III, executive director of the Catholic Community Foundation of SW Florida (Venice), to be executive director.

Scripps College (Claremont, Calif.): Appointed Patricia F. Goldsmith, vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communication, to be vice president of advancement.

Settlement Music School (Philadelphia): Appointed Helen Eaton, executive director of the Chicago Children’s Choir, to be executive director, effective on August 30. She succeeds Robert Capanna, who plans to retire.

Social Enterprise Alliance (Washington): Appointed Lisa Nitze, vice president of the global-engagement team at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (Arlington, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Touro College (New York): Appointed Eric Levine, senior vice president for development at Jewish Federations of North America (New York), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

U. of the Pacific (Stockton, Calif.): Appointed Christopher M. Johnston, interim assistant vice chancellor for university advancement and former assistant vice chancellor for the office of campus development and leadership initiatives at the U. of California at Irvine, to be vice president for development.

YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region (Colorado Springs): Appointed Dan Dummermuth, senior vice president of operations, to be chief executive officer, effective February 1. He will succeed Merv Bennett, who plans to retire.

Grant Makers

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Wade Fauth, grants director, to be vice president.

Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Peter Long, senior vice president for executive operations at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

The Colorado Trust (Denver): Announced the retirement of Irene M. Ibarra, president and chief executive officer.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks (Springfield, Mo.): Appointed Brian Fogle, executive vice president, to be president. He succeeds Gary Funk, who will become a senior fellow at the foundation.

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Lydia Logan, vice president and executive director of the Institute for a Competitive Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Washington), to be a senior director for the education team.

Gifford Foundation (Syracuse, N.Y.): Announced the retirement of Kathy Goldfarb-Findling, executive director, effective December 31.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Bobby Clark, executive director of ProgressNow and ProgressNow Colorado (Denver), to be vice president of communications and marketing.

James Graham Brown Foundation (Louisville, Ky.): Appointed Mason B. Rummel, executive director, to be president.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed John Bracken, a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be director of new media; Judith Kleinberg, a former mayor of Palo Alto, Calif., and a lawyer, to be program director for San Jose and Silicon Valley; and Mayur Patel, director of strategic assessment and impact, also to be assistant to the foundation’s president.

Peter G. Peterson Foundation (New York): Appointed Loretta Ucelli, a strategic communications consultant based in New York, to be vice president for communications and public affairs.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Announced the resignation of Deborah Leff, president. She will become deputy counselor for access to justice at the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington).