New Executive Director of the Sierra Club Named; Other Personnel Changes in the Nonprofit World

ALS Association (Calabasas Hills, Calif.): Appointed Gordon S. Lavigne, vice president of business development at the Autism Society of America (Bethesda, Md.), to be chief development and communications officer.

American Humane Association (Englewood, Colo.): Announced the resignation of Marie Belew Wheatley, president and chief executive officer. George C. Casey, a management consultant in Denver will serve as the interim chief executive.

Arthritis Foundation, Heartland Region (Chicago): Appointed Tom Fite, president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter, to be chief executive officer.

Beacon Youth and Family Center (Englewood, Colo.): Appointed Michael Guthrie, administrative director, to be executive director.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: Appointed Alexandra Fuchs, director of annual funds and donor relations at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to be chief advancement officer.

Buckner Foundation (Dallas): Appointed David M. Slover, executive vice president, to be president of this organization that helps orphans and needy children in the United States and other countries.

CancerCare (New York): Appointed Helen Miller, executive director of the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation (New York), to be chief executive officer. Ms. Miller succeeds Diane Blum, who is now chief executive officer of the Lymphoma Research Foundation (New York).

Cancer Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick): Appointed Elia M. Desruisseaux, a fund-raising consultant in Ridgewood, N.J., to be executive director.

CARE USA (Atlanta): Appointed John P. Cerniglia, senior director for leadership giving, capital campaigns, and development services at Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), to be associate vice president of resource development.

ChildCareGroup (Dallas): Appointed Margaret M. Patterson, executive director of the Child Abuse Prevention Center (Dallas), to be president and chief executive officer. This organization provides child-care services to needy families.

Chordoma Foundation (Greensboro, N.C.): Appointed Michelle Speas, former vice president for development and external relations at Old Salem Museums and Gardens (Winston-Salem, N.C), to be chief operating officer. This organization works to provide treatments and a cure for chordoma, a bone cancer that occurs in the head and spine.

Detroit Executive Service Corps (Southfield, Mich.): Appointed Cortney M. Cunningham, director of housing at Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, to be executive director and president. Ms. Cunningham succeeds Deanna McGraw, who has retired.

DoSomething.org (New York): Appointed Jessica Scheer, development manager at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York), to be director of development.

Earthworks (Washington): Appointed Jennifer Krill, program director at the Rainforest Action Network (San Francisco), to be executive director of this environmental advocacy organization.

Education Is Freedom (Dallas): Appointed Margaret Suarez, director of community relations, to be vice president of development.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): Appointed Robert Kallin, chief development officer at Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.), to be vice president for development.

Girls Inc.: Announced the retirement of Joyce M. Roché, president and chief executive officer, effective in April.

Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance: Appointed J. Buck Jabaily, artistic director, to be executive director.

Helen Keller Services for the Blind (New York): Appointed Thomas J. Edwards, former senior vice president at Verizon Communications (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Edwards succeeds Fred W. McPhilliamy, who has retired.

House Ear Institute (Los Angeles): Appointed Betsy Weaver, senior executive director of development at the U. of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology (Los Angeles), to be vice president of development for this organization, which promotes education and research on hearing disorders.

Houston Habitat for Humanity: Appointed Scott Stuckey, director of development at the Houston Food Bank, to be director of development.

J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles): Announced the resignation of Michael Brand, director. David Bomford, associate director for collections, has been appointed interim director.

Junior Achievement of New York: Appointed Joseph A. Peri, former executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Council for Economic Education (New York), to be president. Mr. Peri succeeds Douglas E. Schallau, who plans to retire.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed Fred A. Cholick, dean for the university’s College of Agriculture, to be president and chief executive officer.

La Rabida Children’s Hospital (Chicago): Appointed Kristin Lynch, director of development at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Chicago), to be major-gifts officer.

Lutheran Family Services of Virginia and Virginia Lutheran Homes (Roanoke): Appointed Ellen Sandridge, director of development at the Richmond Hospital Hospitality House (Richmond, Va.), to be director of development.

Lymphoma Research Foundation (New York): Appointed James M. Coe, former deputy science director for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Seattle), to be president of the Seattle chapter.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York): Announced the resignation of Harold Varmus, president. Mr. Varmus will remain head of his laboratory in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at the Sloan-Kettering Institute.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Appointed Jeffrey Deitch, owner of the Deitch Projects art gallery in New York, to be director, effective on June 1.

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed M. Kathleen McDonald, curator of collections at the San Diego Historical Society, to be executive director.

NHS Human Services Foundation (Lafayette Hill, Pa.): Appointed Frank W. Guthridge Jr., vice president of development and communications at Elwyn Inc. (Elwyn, Pa.), a human-services organization that serves disabled and needy people, to be executive director.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia U. (New York): Appointed William H. Foster, dean of the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the U. of Southern Maine (Portland), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Foster succeeds Joseph A. Califano Jr., who will remain chairman of the organization’s board.

New Visions Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed Kim McCleary La France, vice president of sales operations at the Los Angeles Times, to be chief operating officer. This group creates programs and charter schools for needy children.

People’s Emergency Center (Philadelphia): Announced the resignation of Gloria Guard, president, effective July 1.

Refugees International (Washington): Appointed Dan Glickman, chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America (Washington), to be president.

St. Francis College (New York): Appointed Thomas Flood, executive director of the Alive in Hope Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn (N.Y.), to be vice president for development.

Sierra Club (San Francisco): Appointed Michael Brune, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Simi Valley Hospital (Simi Valley, Calif.): Appointed Debi Schultze, president and chief executive officer of the United Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley & Region (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), to be chief development officer and director of its foundation.

Social Enterprise Alliance (Washington): Announced the resignation of Kris Prendergast, president and chief executive officer. Jerr Boschee, executive director of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (Dallas), has been appointed interim president and chief executive officer.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York): Appointed Ari Wiseman, deputy director at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, to be deputy director, a newly created position.

Special Olympics (Washington): Appointed Terry Richey, chief development officer at Feeding America (Chicago), to be chief marketing and development officer.

The Texas Tribune (Austin): Appointed Michael Sherrod, chief executive officer of Examiner.com (Denver), to be publisher of this nonprofit news-media organization.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed David Wolf, vice president for advancement and president of the foundation at the U. of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg), to be executive director of planned and major gifts.

U. of Colorado Foundation (Boulder): Appointed Matthew Wasserman, director of development for the Business School at U. of Colorado at Denver, to be a senior director of development.

U. of Hawaii Foundation (Honolulu): Appointed KC Collins, development manager at Castle Medical Center (Kailua, Hawaii), to be director of development for community colleges.

U. of Minnesota Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Tammy Lee Stanoch, vice president for corporate affairs at Delta Air Lines (Atlanta), to be vice president of transformational giving, responsible for securing large gifts.

U. of Southern Maine (Portland): Appointed David E. Hughes, executive vice president of OneSky Jets (Manchester, N.H.), to be director of development.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Cambridge, Mass.): Announced the resignation of Charlie Clements, president. Mr. Clements will become executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard U. (Cambridge).

United Methodist Committee on Relief (New York): Announced the death of the Rev. Samuel W. Dixon, director, on January 12 in the Haiti earthquake.

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York): Appointed Bertina Ceccarelli, senior vice president of institutional advancement at the United Way of New York City, to be executive vice president for global resources.

WNET.org (New York): Appointed Kerry Kruckel Gibbs, managing director for alumni relations and development in the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York U., to be vice president of development.

World Soy Foundation (St. Louis): Appointed Nathan Ruby, major-gifts manager at the Nuts, Bolts, & Thingamajigs Foundation (Rockford, Ill.), to be executive director.

Grant Makers

Atlantic Philanthropies (New York): Appointed Sharon King, president of the F.B. Heron Foundation (New York), to be director of the aging program.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Girindre Beeharry, deputy director for global health delivery, to be director of strategy; Gary Darmstadt, interim deputy director of integrated health solutions development and former founding director of the International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health at the Johns Hopkins U. Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore), to be director of family health; Sam Dryden, a managing director at Wolfensohn & Company (New York), to be director of agricultural development; and Mark Milliron, president of Catalyze Learning International (Newland, N.C.), to be deputy director for higher education.

Bloomberg Philanthropies (New York): Appointed James Anderson, director of communications for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, to oversee its communications and domestic programs.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Frank Molina, account supervisor at Valencia & Company (Pasadena, Calif.), to be program manager for its Community Building Initiative, and Peter Rivera, program manager at the San Diego Unified School District, to be education program manager.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Mary A. Gailbreath, grants manager, to be director of grants administration and assistant treasurer.

Colorado Health Foundation (Denver): Appointed Kelly Dunkin, senior program officer for its health coverage area, to be vice president of philanthropy, and Chuck Reyman, director of public relations at the Children’s Hospital in Denver, to be vice president of communications.

Community Foundation of Chippewa County (Chippewa Falls, Wis.): Appointed Bonnie Lynne Robinson, president of the Janesville Foundation (Janesville, Wis.), to be executive director.

Wartburg Foundation (Mount Vernon, N.Y.): Appointed Katherine D, Guenther, deputy director of development at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, to be president.