Broad Foundation Names New Chief Investment Officer; Other New Appointments

ALS Association, DC/MD/VA Chapter (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Ronnie Gunnerson, an affiliate assistant professor in the department of communications at Loyola U. Maryland (Baltimore), to be executive director.

American Rivers (Washington): Appointed Alma Jane Shepard, a fund-raising consultant at Talisman Associates (Washington), to be senior vice president for development.

Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Arwen Duffy, vice president for advancement at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), to be senior vice president for development and external affairs.

Association of Fundraising Professionals (Arlington, Va.): Announced the retirement of Paulette Maehara, president and chief executive officer, effective in March 2011.

Center of Creative Arts (St. Louis): Appointed Kelly Lamb Pollock, general manager, to be executive director.

Center for Family Representation (New York): Appointed Patrick J. Sirois, former vice president of individual giving at Safe Horizon (New York), to be director of development and communications. This organization provides free legal services to troubled families.

Citizen Schools California (Redwood City): Appointed Joe Ross, senior business manager at Cisco Systems (San Jose, Calif.), to be executive director of this organization, which offers after-school programs for needy middle-school students.

Community Services League (Independence, Mo.): Appointed Michael A. Levine, director of development and marketing, to be executive director of this social-services group.

Connecticut Humanities Council (Middletown): Appointed Stuart Parnes, former president of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (St. Michaels, Md.), to be interim executive director. He succeeds Bruce Fraser, who died in June.

DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation (Washington): Appointed Ellen London, interim president and former vice president of communications and community engagement, to be president and chief executive officer.

Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (Tukwila, Wash.): Appointed Cheryl Bozarth, executive director of Dove House (Port Townsend, Wash.), a center for victims of domestic and sexual violence, to be executive director.

EngenderHealth (New York): Appointed Pamela W. Barnes, president and chief executive officer of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. EngenderHealth works to improve reproductive health care in poor communities around the world.

Epilepsy Foundation (Landover, Md.): Announced the resignation of Eric R. Hargis, president and chief executive officer.

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Scott Campbell, national vice president of research programs at the American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle): Appointed Lawrence Corey, senior vice president, to be president and director. He succeeds Lee Hartwell, who plans to retire.

Gallaudet U. (Washington): Appointed Lynne Murray, senior director of principal and leadership gifts at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

Garrison Institute (Garrison, N.Y.): Appointed Mary C. Pearl, administrative vice president and dean at Stony Brook U. at Southampton (N.Y.), to be chief executive officer of this organization that promotes social and environmental change.

Get Schooled Foundation (New York): Appointed Marie Groark, senior program officer for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle), to be executive director. This group works to increase high-school and college graduation rates.

HomeownershipSF (San Francisco): Appointed Christi Baker, founder of the Chrysalis Consulting Group (San Francisco), a firm that trains charities to help poor people build their financial assets, to be executive director.

Impact Fund (Berkeley, Calif.): Appointed Jocelyn D. Larkin, deputy director, to be executive director. She succeeds the organization’s founder, Brad Seligman, who will become senior counsel. The Impact Fund provides financial and legal assistance to class-action civil-rights lawsuits.

Investment Fund for Foundations (West Conshohocken, Pa.): Appointed Laurence H. Lebowitz, former chairman and managing director of HBK Capital Management (Dallas), to be president and chief investment officer. He succeeds David A. Salem, who has stepped aside from day-to-day leadership.

Lyric Opera of Chicago: Announced the retirement of William Mason, general director, effective at the end of its 2011-12 season.

N Street Village (Washington): Appointed Schroeder Stribling, deputy executive director, to be executive director. She succeeds Mary Funke, who will become president, leading the organization’s fund-raising efforts. N Street Village provides mental-health counseling, job training, and other social services to low-income and homeless women.

National Audubon Society (New York): Appointed David Yarnold, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. (See article.)

National MultiCultural Institute (Washington): Appointed John R. Kirksey, owner of a management-consulting firm, to be president. (See article.)

New School (New York): Appointed Pam Besnard, director of major gifts at Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.), to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

Notre Dame College Prep (Niles, Ill.): Appointed James R. Stangle, executive director of development and alumni affairs for the School of Medicine at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.): Appointed Lisa D. Calvert, vice president for university relations at Creighton U. (Omaha), to be vice president for development.

Second Stage Theatre (New York): Appointed Casey Reitz, director of development at the Public Theater (New York), to be executive director.

Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (Norwood, N.J.): Appointed Elizabeth Woolfe, former director of cause marketing at Web MD (New York), to be executive director.

U. of Wisconsin Foundation (Madison): Appointed Michael M. Knetter, dean of the School of Business and vice chancellor for advancement at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison, to be president and chief executive officer.

United States Veterans Initiative (Los Angeles): Announced the death of Dwight Radcliff, president and chief executive officer, on July 31. He was 55. This organization provides counseling, housing, and job placement for military veterans.

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: Appointed Sarai Hoffman, former executive director of alumni relations and development at the U. of Chicago Laboratory Schools, to be senior vice president and chief development officer.

Grant Makers

Baltimore Community Foundation: Appointed Ralph M. Serpe, executive vice president at the Princeton Area Community Foundation (Lawrenceville, N.J.), to be vice president for development.

Broad Foundations (Los Angeles): Appointed Marc A. Schwartz, managing director and principal of Reservoir Capital Group (New York), to be chief investment officer.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Felicia Chiu, research analyst at Farallon Capital Management (San Francisco), to be director of public equities and fixed income in the foundation’s investment department.

Legacy Foundation (Merrillville, Ind.): Appointed Harry J. Vande Velde III, vice president of development at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Nancy K. Johnson, who plans to retire.

Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York): Appointed Maurine D. Knighton, senior vice president at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (New York), to be director of the arts and culture program, and Caroline L. Williams, former chief financial and investment officer, to be executive vice president.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (Concord): Appointed Richard Ober, vice president of civic leadership and communications, to be president. He succeeds Lewis M. Feldstein, who plans to retire.

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation (New York): Appointed Roslyn Black, director of corporate and foundation relations at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be a program officer.

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.): Appointed E. Charles Brummer, a professor of forage and biofuel crop breeding and genetics at the U. of Georgia at Athens, to be senior vice president and director of the Forage Improvement Division, which focuses on applying basic plant-science research to agriculture.

Tiffany and Co. Foundation (New York): Appointed Anisa Kamadoli Costa, director, to be president.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Chloe O’Gara, associate vice president for education and child development at the Save the Children Federation (Washington), to be a program officer for its global development program, and Margarita María Parra, a program associate at the ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco), to be a program officer in the foundation’s environment program.