People

American Friends of the Israel Museum (New York): Appointed Lynn Holstein, director of external affairs at Iscar (Tefen, Israel), to be executive director.

Bo’s Place (Houston): Appointed Muffin Clark, executive director of the DeLay Foundation for Kids (Houston), to be executive director. Bo’s Place provides bereavement services to children who have experienced the loss of a loved one.

Christus Schumpert Health System (Shreveport, La.): Appointed Deborah A. Kotch, vice president at Saint Barnabas Medical Center Foundation (Livingston, N.J.), to be vice president and chief development officer.

Duke U., Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Kimerly Rorschach, director of the U. of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, to be director. The museum is scheduled to open in October 2005.

EastLake Educational Foundation (San Diego): Appointed Rhonda R. Valencia, major-gifts officer at St. Mary’s Food Bank (Phoenix), to be executive director.

Entrepreneurs Foundation (Sunnyvale, Calif.): Appointed Joni Podolsky, a consultant in Belmont, Calif., to be director of community programs.

For Love of Children (Washington): Appointed Linda Wright-Fuller, interim executive director and director of operations, to be executive director.

Indiana U. of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Pa.): Appointed Matthew P. Hughes, director of development at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, to be interim vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the university’s foundation.

Institute of International Education (New York): Appointed Tina A. Ravitz, president of New Media Ventures (New York), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Leon H. Sullivan Foundation (Washington): Appointed Anne Mathis, an executive director at Community Counselling Service (New York), to be senior vice president of development.

MedicAlert Foundation (Turlock, Calif.): Appointed Paul Kortschak, chief operating officer at Kriscan Holdings (Danville, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Los Angeles): Appointed Ann Marie Tallman, a senior vice president at Fannie Mae and former president and chief executive officer of the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be president and general counsel. She succeeds Antonia Hernández, who now serves as president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles).

National Forest Foundation (Washington): Appointed Mary Vasse, director of community programs at Sustainable Northwest (Portland, Ore.), to be director of Northwest programs, based in Portland.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Capital Chapter (Washington): Appointed Jeanne Heller, publications coordinator, to be manager of communications, and Megan McMullen, a program analyst at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Washington), to be development manager.

Network for Good (Vienna, Va.): Appointed Bill Strathmann, senior manager at BearingPoint (McLean, Va.), to be chief executive officer. Network for Good is a nonprofit organization founded by America Online, the Cisco Foundation, Cisco Systems, the Time Warner Foundation, and Yahoo! that allows people to use the Internet to make charitable donations and find volunteer opportunities.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital Charitable Foundation (Newton, Mass.): Appointed Dodie Bump, director of marketing at DYS Analytics (Wellesley, Mass.), to be communications and community-outreach director.

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City): Appointed Steve Blair, external-relations director for the Cardiovascular Center at U. of California-San Diego (La Jolla), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Project GRAD Houston: Appointed Roy Hughes, a partner at the Forte Group (Houston), to be executive director, and Ann Stiles, director of mathematics at Project GRAD USA (Houston), to be senior director of academic programs.

Student Conservation Association (Charlestown, N.H.): Appointed Elizabeth Adams, regional manager for conservation finance at the Trust for Public Land (Boston), to be director of the Center for Conservation Service.

Thirteen/WNET (New York): Appointed Allison Fox, director of major gifts, to be director of development.

U. of Northern Colorado (Greeley): Appointed Mark Harlan, assistant athletics director for regional development and marketing at U. of Arizona (Tucson), to be associate athletic director for development.

United Way of Central Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Mark Furst, senior vice president of cash management and merchant services for M&T Bank’s mid-Atlantic division (Baltimore), to be senior vice president.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Boston): Appointed Milton J. Little Jr., executive vice president and chief operating officer at the National Urban League (New York), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in mid-July. He will succeed Marian L. Heard, who is retiring.

United Way of New York City: Appointed Jacqueline M. Ebanks, senior director of the management-assistance program, to be vice president of community investment; Leah Lamb, director for advancement at the New Jersey Historical Society (Newark), to be senior vice president of resource development; Jane Orenstein, senior director for donor services, to be vice president of policy and planning; and Elwanda Young, vice president of community investment, to be senior vice president of program integration and strategic planning.

Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Elizabeth Costa, director of foundation and government relations at the Japan Society (New York), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

GRANT MAKERS

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York): Appointed Nancy Roob, vice president, also to be chief operating officer, a newly created position.

Cleveland Foundation: Appointed Caprice Bragg, interim director of the gift-planning and donor-relations department, to be vice president of the gift-planning and donor-relations department, and Leslie Dunford, chief of staff, also to be vice president for corporate governance.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Announced the death of Leighton E. Cluff, who served as president from 1986 to 1990. He died in Gainesville, Fla., on April 14.

New Britain Foundation for Public Giving (Conn.): Appointed Ann Bova, executive director of the New Britain Symphony, to be director of development.

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Announced the retirement of E. Ray Cope, president, effective December 31.

United Nations Foundation (Washington): Appointed Amy Weiss, senior vice president of communications at the Recording Industry Association of America (Washington), to be vice president of public affairs.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Americans for Libraries Council (New York): Elected C. Mathews Dick Jr., former president of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum (Newport, R.I.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Elected Lisa Shover, co-founder and vice president of K Group (Phoenix), to the Board of Directors.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected Fiona Druckenmiller, former portfolio manager for the management of Dreyfus Strategic World Investing and Dreyfus Global Investing at the Dreyfus Corporation (New York), and Richard W. Riley, a former governor of South Carolina and U.S. secretary of education in the Clinton administration (Washington), to the Board of Trustees.

El Paso Community Foundation: Elected Richard H. Feuille, an attorney at Scott, Hulse, Marshall, Feuille, Finger and Thurmond (El Paso), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. The foundation also elected the following to the board: Patricia Saucedo Burdick, a former high-school teacher in El Paso; Carolyn R. Chambers, a community volunteer in El Paso; Sharon Smith Kidd, an officer at El Paso Southwestern Cardiovascular Associates; and Tom D. Porter, owner of a consulting firm in El Paso.

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation (Washington): Elected Thomas S. Foley, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995 and a partner in the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Washington), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Saint Paul Foundation: Elected Scott Jones, chairman of BancPlan (Red Wing, Minn.), to the Board of Directors.

Young Audiences of San Diego: Elected Gordon Summer, founder and principal of To Market, To Market (San Diego), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Adams Hussey & Associates (Washington): Appointed Bill Goldstein, Karin Kirchoff, and Dana Weinstein, account executives, to be vice presidents, and Joseph Harr, director of information systems, to be vice president of network administration and analytical services. Adams Hussey & Associates provides fund-raising, lead-generation, membership, and subscription services to advocacy groups, charities, financial institutions, and other organizations.

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Zoey Cole, senior developer at NOVA Information Systems (Atlanta), to be a fund-raising consultant; Tracey-Monique Jackson, a consultant at AxsOne (Rutherford, N.J.), to be a financial consultant in the Atlanta office; Cathy McCoske, a project manager at Clifton Gunderson (Peoria, Ill.), to be a financial consultant in the Tucson office; and Rick Panchenko, senior client-support representative at ProVantage Software (North Canton, Ohio), to be a financial consultant in the Seattle office. Blackbaud provides technology services to nonprofit organizations.

Harmon, Curran, Spielberg and Eisenberg (Washington): Appointed Jenny Gillon, assistant corporation counsel at the American Cancer Society (Washington), to be an associate, and John Pomeranz, nonprofit advocacy director at the Alliance for Justice (Washington), to be of counsel. This law firm provides legal advice to nonprofit organizations in the areas of election, employment, environmental, and tax law.

InfoCision Management Corporation (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Carl Albright, chief operating officer, to be president, and Gary Taylor, founder, to be chairman of the board. InfoCision provides telemarketing services to nonprofit, religious, political, and other organizations.

Gary Kaplan & Associates (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Richard Fitch, executive vice president of Cal Fed Bancorp (San Francisco) and executive vice president of human resources and administration at California Federal Bank (San Francisco), and Donald G. Gaertner, managing principal of Right Management Consultants (Phildelphia), to be vice presidents at this executive-search firm that assists nonprofit organizations.

Phillips & Associates (Los Angeles): Appointed Molly Preston, a consultant in Los Angeles, to be senior counsel at this consulting firm that focuses on fund-raising management.

Public Policy Associates (Lansing, Mich.): Appointed C. Patrick Babcock, director of public policy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.), to be senior policy consultant.