People

Alliance to Save Energy (Washington): Appointed Leslie Black Cordes, director of corporate and program development, to be vice president for program development.

Baptist Health Foundation (Miami): Appointed Stephen J. Parsons, chief development officer, also to be vice president.

Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Mark W. Glickman, executive director of the Jewish Community Foundation of South Palm Beach County (Boca Raton), to be executive director.

Clarkson U. (Potsdam, N.Y.): Appointed William F. Mitchell, director of major gifts at Boston U. School of Medicine, to be director of major gifts and gift planning.

Community Shares of Colorado (Denver): Appointed Jesse Wolff, director of research at Northfield Trading (Denver), to be executive director.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Anne Parsons, general manager of the New York City Ballet, to be executive director, effective this summer.

First Homes (Rochester, Minn.): Appointed Shirley Lee, community-services director at Three Rivers Community Action (Zumbrota, Minn.), to be a program officer.

Foundation for Comprehensive Community Care (West Palm Beach, Fla.): Appointed Roland Emerton, director of development at St. Elizabeth Medical Center (Utica, N.Y.), to be director.

Georgia Museum of Art (Athens): Appointed Joan Roeber-Jones, director of advancement services and campaign operations in the external-affairs division at the U. of Georgia (Athens), to be director of development.

Human Rights Campaign (Washington): Appointed Cheryl Jacques, a state senator from Massachusetts (Boston), to be president and chief executive officer. The Human Rights Campaign advocates gay and civil rights.

Humane Society of the United States (Washington): Appointed Wayne Pacelle, senior vice president for communications and government affairs, to be chief executive officer-designate.

Lawrence Hall Youth Services (Chicago): Appointed Shawn Gavin, a consultant at the Alford Group (Evanston, Ill.), to be director of development.

Los Angeles Hillel Council: Appointed David R. Levy, director of the Jewish Federation Valley Alliance (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

Mayfair Improvement Initiative (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Jaime Alvarado, assistant director, to be executive director.

Mercy Housing (Denver): Appointed Tom Gelder, a senior consultant at Marts & Lundy (Los Angeles), to be vice president of resource development and communications.

Nature Conservancy, New York Chapter: Appointed Stephen C. Seward, executive vice president at the John O’Donnell Company (New York), to be director of philanthropy.

New Center for Arts and Culture (Boston): Appointed Francine Achbar, a partner at High Impact Marketing & Media (Boston), to be director of development and marketing.

New York Public Library: Appointed David S. Ferriero, university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be director and chief executive of the research libraries, effective September 1.

92nd Street Y (New York): Appointed Allison Goldberg, director of grants management at Women in Need (New York), to be director of foundation, corporate, and government support; Lynne Gregory, president of Gregory Communications (New York), to be associate director of development; and Pamela Hare, donor-base administrator at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York), to be manager of donor-information systems.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America (New York): Appointed Bill McDonough, executive vice president and worldwide account director at Foote, Cone & Belding (New York), to be executive vice president and director of consumer marketing.

Retreat Inc. (East Hampton, N.Y.): Appointed Mary Slattery, development consultant for the Fresh Air Home (Southampton, N.Y.) and the Southampton Cultural Center, to be director of development. Retreat provides shelter and support for victims of domestic violence.

St. Edward’s U. (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Mollie O’Hara Butler, director of leadership giving and campaign resources, to be executive director of development; Kippi Griffith, associate director of alumni relations for the U. of Texas at Austin School of Business, to be director of alumni and parent programs; Adair Hamilton, development and marketing associate at the Heritage Society of Austin, to be leadership-giving officer; Anil Patel, technical-support coordinator, to be assistant director of advancement services; and Rachel Reitmeyer, grant director at the City of Austin Housing Authority, to be director of development for behavioral and social sciences, education, and humanities.

Stanford U., Haas Center for Public Service (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Leonard Ortolano, interim director and professor of civil and environmental engineering, to be director.

Starlight Children’s Foundation of New England (Charlestown, Mass.): Appointed Julianne Beauregard, assistant director of development and public relations at the Massachusetts Salvation Army (Boston), to be executive director.

Wake Education Partnership (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Bob Saffold, a senior associate at the Public Education Network (Washington), to be president, effective in July.

GRANT MAKERS

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Jim Hoolihan, president of Industrial Lubricants Company (Grand Rapids) and a former mayor of Grand Rapids, to be president. He succeeds Paul Olson, who resigned last year.

Chicago Community Trust: Appointed Terry Mazany, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer, effective July 1. He will succeed Donald Stewart, who will remain as president through December 31.

Community Foundation for the Capital Region (Albany, N.Y.): Appointed E. Kristen Frederick, corporate vice president of marketing for the Eastern region of Service Corporation International (Albany), to be president. She succeeds Judith Lyons, who is retiring in June.

Community Foundation in Jacksonville (Fla.): Appointed Grace Sacerdote, an accountant in Jacksonville, to be vice president of finance.

Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado (Colorado Springs): Appointed Mary Lou Makepeace, a former mayor of Colorado Springs, to be executive director.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Linda Bush, president and chief executive officer of SafeRent (Denver), to be chief operating officer, a newly created position.

Initiative Foundation (Little Falls, Minn.): Appointed Mark Lease, director of development at the Paramount Arts Resource Trust (St. Cloud, Minn.), to be donor-services officer.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Diane Olberg, a consultant based in San Francisco, to be director of communications.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed Tim Legesse, investment officer for alternative investments at the Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund (Indianapolis), to be director of alternative investments, and Dollyne Pettingill Sherman, media and communications consultant at DS Consulting (Indianapolis), a firm she founded, to be director of communications.

Burton D. Morgan Foundation (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Deborah D. Hoover, secretary-treasurer, to be executive vice president and treasurer.

Ms. Foundation for Women (New York): Appointed Sara K. Gould, executive director, to be president, effective July 1. She will succeed Marie C. Wilson, who will become president emeritus. Ms. Wilson is leaving to devote more time to the White House Project (New York), a group she founded in 1998 that seeks to place greater numbers of women in political and other leadership positions.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed George Brown, senior fellow at the International Center for Research on Women (New York), to be director of health equity, effective July 1.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Cleveland Foundation: Elected Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Frank C. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of RPM International (Medina, Ohio), to the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation in Jacksonville (Fla.): Elected William E. Scheu, a lawyer at Rogers Towers (Jacksonville), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees. The foundation also elected the Rev. Frank S. Cerveny, former executive vice president of the Church Pension Group (New York), and Eleanor J. Gay, retired instructor for the foundation’s Philanthropic Initiative program, to be trustees.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Elected Emmett D. Carson, president and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis Foundation, to be chair of the Board of Directors. The council also elected the following to be board members: C. David Campbell, president of the McGregor Fund (Detroit); Victoria P. Garchitorena, president of the Ayala Foundation (Redwood City, Calif.); Stanley S. Litow, president of the IBM International Foundation (Armonk, N.Y.); Kathleen Odne, executive director of the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation (Walnut Creek, Calif.); and Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (Los Angeles) and a trustee of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation (New York).

Lutheran Services in America (Baltimore): Elected Robert G. Miles, president and chief executive officer of Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan (Bay City), to be chairperson of the Board of Directors, effective on July 1.

Rainbow Endowment (Philadelphia): Elected Aly Kassam-Remtulla, a senior associate at Isaacson, Miller (Boston), to the Board of Directors.

Starlight Children’s Foundation of New England (Charlestown, Mass.): Elected David Cooper, principal of Terra Firma Development (Boston), to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Epsilon (Wakefield, Mass.): Appointed Steven Roth, vice president, CRM strategy and planning, also to be chief privacy officer of this marketing firm.

Vertis (Baltimore): Appointed Tommi Thornbury Pryor, vice president of development and marketing at Sourcecorp (Orange, Calif.), to be national director of sales for the nonprofit national-account team, based in the Orange County, Calif., office. Vertis provides advertising, marketing, and media services.