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Alliance to Save Energy (Washington): Appointed Kateri Anne Callahan, president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (Washington), to be president.

American Red Cross Tulare-Kings Chapter (Visalia, Calif.): Appointed Kevin L. Mullin, director of team in training at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Central California Chapter (Fresno), to be executive director.

Assets for Colorado Youth (Denver): Appointed Stephanie Hoy, director of training and community services, to be executive director.

Baptist Health Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Diane Harrison, director of major gifts and estate planning, to be executive vice president.

Casa de los Niños (Tucson): Announced the retirement of Jeanne Landdeck-Sisco, executive director, effective February 29. Ms. Sisco has served as executive director for 16 years.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis: Appointed William H. Schneider, associate dean for research and graduate programs at Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis, to be chair of international health-care philanthropy.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (N.Y.): Appointed Bruce Stillman, director of the cancer center, to be president, and James D. Watson, president, to be chancellor. This nonprofit organization conducts research on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, and other scientific topics.

Columbia Museum of Art (S.C.): Appointed Karen Brosius, director of media relations at the Altria Group (New York), to be executive director.

Community College of Allegheny County Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Lara M. Flister, annual-fund coordinator at the Catholic U. of America School of Law (Washington), to be director of alumni affairs and special projects.

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington): Announced the resignation of Vance T. Peterson, president.

Defiance College (Ohio): Appointed Holli Hesselchwardt, interim vice president for institutional advancement, to be associate vice president for institutional advancement; Bruce Mack, assistant vice president for university development at Indiana State U. (Terre Haute), to be vice president for institutional advancement; Cindy Shaffer, director of alumni relations, to be director of planned giving; and Kathleen Thompson, admissions counselor at Kent State U. (Ohio), to be director of alumni relations.

Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington): Announced that Hillel Fradkin, president, will resign on January 31 to become the center’s director of Islamic and Jewish studies and of foreign policy and human rights.

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Jeanne Nace, executive assistant to the vice president for population science and network development, to be grants-management specialist.

Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Lyn D. Traverse, director of development at Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), to be development and communications director. Haskins is a nonprofit research institute formally affiliated with Yale U. (New Haven) and the U. of Connecticut (Storrs).

Hearts and Homes (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Claudia Thorne, regional director of community programs at the Abraxas Group (Pittsburgh), to be vice president of programs. Hearts and Homes provides educational, residential, mental-health, and other services to abused and neglected children in Baltimore and Washington.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Michael L. Mattson, assistant vice chancellor for leadership gifts at Texas Christian U. (Fort Worth), to be assistant vice president for institutional advancement.

Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute (New York): Appointed Michael A. Divers, director of development at Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of New York, to be vice president of development.

Huston-Tillotson College (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Vicki Minor, development officer at Texas Southern U. (Houston), to be executive director of institutional advancement.

Independent Sector (Washington): Announced the retirement of John Thomas, vice president for strategic outreach.

International Christian Satellite Television Ministry (Easton, Md.): Appointed Debbie Brink, regional vice president, to be vice president and chief development officer.

Irvine Public Schools Foundation (Calif.): Appointed Debbie Rugani, a volunteer at the foundation, to be director of community initiatives.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Boi Carpenter-Mellady, senior associate director of development at the School of Medicine, to be director of development for the department of surgery at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine; Judson Crihfield, assistant dean for development in the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, to be director of the office of annual giving; Susan Cruse, assistant vice chancellor for corporate, foundation, and University Research Park relations at the U. of California at Irvine, to be executive director of the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine; Harriet Kornfeld, associate director of the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine, to be director of development; India Lowres, senior associate director of alumni relations, to be director of alumni programs; Jessica Preiss Lunken, associate director of development for the neurology and psychology departments, to be director of development for the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine; Scott Rembold, director of development at the university’s School of Advanced International Studies (Washington), to be associate dean for development and alumni relations at the school; Sara Rubin, senior associate director at the university’s Wilmer Eye Institute, to be director of development at the School of Arts and Sciences; and Sybil Wyatt, marketing communications manager at the Bechtel Corporation (San Francisco), to be director of development communications for the Johns Hopkins Institutions.

Metropolitan State U. (St. Paul): Appointed Lani Muchulas, director of annual-giving programs, to be development director.

National Parks Conservation Association (Washington): Appointed Thomas D. Martin, president of Earth Force (Alexandria, Va.), to be executive vice president.

Nevada Cancer Institute (Las Vegas): Appointed Nicholas J. Vogelzang, director of the U. of Chicago Cancer Research Center, to be director.

Ohio Grantmakers Forum (Cleveland): Appointed Todd Lloyd, director of international programs and associate director of admissions at Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland), to be director of the northeast Ohio office and coordinator of statewide regional programming.

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, Mass.): Appointed Matthew S. Cottle, senior development officer and director of major gifts at the National Academies (Washington), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Project Access (Newport Beach, Calif.): Appointed Lane Macy, manager of the Connect Program at Orangewood Children’s Foundation (Santa Ana, Calif.), to be executive director. Project Access helps bring educational and social services to residents of low-income communities.

San Francisco Opera: Appointed Mary Powell, a consultant to businesses and nonprofit organizations in Northern California, to be director of development.

St. Barnabas Health System (Gibsonia, Pa.): Appointed Nanci L. Case, assistant vice president, to be vice president.

TERC (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Elaine Laughlin, senior program manager at WGBH (Boston), to be director of development. TERC provides curriculum development, research, and other services designed to improve teaching and learning, primarily for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

United Jewish Communities-Washington: Appointed Charles S. Konigsberg, executive director of the Parkinson’s Action Network (Washington), to be vice president for public policy.

United Way International (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Christine L. James-Brown, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be president and chief executive officer.

Vital Voices Global Partnership (Washington): Appointed Sandra Willett Jackson, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the U.S. Department of State (Washington), to be executive director. Vital Voices works to increase the entrepreneurship of women worldwide, to expand their role in politics, and to fight human-rights abuses, including the trafficking of women and children.

GRANT MAKERS

Cameron Foundation (Petersburg, Va.): Appointed Handy L. Lindsey Jr., president of the Field Foundation of Illinois (Chicago), to be executive director, effective February 1. This foundation, formed through the sale of Southside Regional Medical Center (Petersburg) to a for-profit entity, will make grants to benefit residents of Petersburg and other areas of southeastern Virginia.

Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Miguel Bustos, program officer at the Marguerite Casey Foundation (Seattle), to be policy and communications adviser; Eugene Chan, program officer, to be senior program officer; and Phillippe Wallace, director of finance, to be chief financial officer.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Eugene W. Cochrane Jr., vice president and director of the health-care division, to be president, effective December 2004. He will succeed Elizabeth H. Locke, who is retiring. The endowment also appointed J. Porter Durham Jr., associate director of the education division and staff counsel, to be director of the division; Linwood B. Hollowell III, assistant director of the health-care division, to be associate director of the division; and Mary L. Piepenbring, associate director of the health-care division, to be vice president and director of the division.

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Unmi Song, a program officer at the Joyce Foundation (Chicago), to be executive director.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Elisa Callow, a program officer at the Ahmanson Foundation (Beverly Hills, Calif.), to be director of the arts program.

Koret Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Sandra Edwards, director of grants, also to be chief operating officer; Debra England, a specialist in organization practice at the San Francisco office of McKinsey and Company, to be program officer; and Susan Wolfe, assistant director of the office of public affairs at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be director of communications.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed Rachelle Swan, director of research and policy analysis at the Indiana Youth Institute (Indianapolis), to be evaluation associate, and Heather Wathington, director of programs in the office of diversity, equity, and global initiatives at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington), to be senior research officer.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed Carol S. Larson, vice president and director of programs, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Richard T. Schlosberg III, who announced his retirement in June 2003.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Announced the retirement of Gordon Conway, president, effective at the end of 2004.

Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation (Beverly Hills, Calif.): Appointed Theresa K. Luo, administrative director, to be executive director, and Wendy Chang, program director at the Whitecap Foundation (Los Angeles), to be program officer.

Tamarack Foundation (Beckley, W.Va.): Appointed Sally Bushong, director of development at the Charleston Area Medical Center Foundation (W.Va.), to be executive director.

Verizon Foundation (New York): Appointed Patrick Gaston, executive director of strategic alliances in the Washington office, to be president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco): Elected Miya Iwataki, director of the office of diversity programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and Jack Van Sambeek, former director of administrative services for the City of Coronado, Calif., to the Board of Directors.

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (Washington): Elected Curtis L. Decker, executive director of the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems (Washington), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Foodlink (Rochester, N.Y.): Elected Larry Hahn, vice president of sales at Birds Eye Foods (Rochester), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Goldman Sachs Foundation (New York): Elected Josef Joffe, publisher and editor of Die Zeit (Hamburg, Germany); Stuart Rothenberg, head of the Goldman, Sachs and Company Real Estate Principal Investment Area; and Dinakar Singh, head of Goldman Sachs’s Principal Strategies Department, to the Board of Trustees.

Humane Society of Greater Miami: Elected Bob Brunn, group director of investor relations at Ryder System (Miami), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Elected Sharon C. Harper, president and chief executive officer of the Plaza Companies (Peoria, Ariz.), to the Board of Trustees.

Teagle Foundation (New York): Elected Sol Gittleman, a professor of German at Tufts U. (Medford, Mass.); Mary Patterson McPherson, vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York); and Pauline Yu, president of the American Council of Learned Societies (New York), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Aronson and Company (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Matthew P. Zarcufsky, director of annual giving at Strathmore Hall Arts Center (Bethesda, Md.), to be a senior consultant in the company’s fund-raising consulting group, Aronson Philanthropic Partners.

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Brian Cook, a managing consultant at Astute (Columbus, Ohio), to be a fund-raising consultant; Andrew Hazen, an e-commerce developer and vice president of production at Jatech Solutions (Toronto), to be a fund-raising consultant in the Toronto office; and Steven Losardo, an implementation manager and pre-sales consultant at Khameleon Software (Tampa, Fla.), to be a financial consultant in the Tampa office. Blackbaud provides technology services to nonprofit organizations.

IEG Sponsorship Services (Chicago): Appointed Jeff Sodikoff, vice president of alternative and rock promotion at Sony Music Entertainment (New York), to be senior vice president of marketing strategy. IEG provides independent research, training, and analysis related to sponsorship.

Douglas Shaw and Associates (West Chicago, Ill.): Appointed Gary Fischer, executive director and chief executive officer of the U.S. office of Questscope (Carol Stream, Ill.), to be a senior consultant at this fund-raising consulting firm.

Susitna Development and Consulting (Anchorage): Appointed Margaret Nelson, president and chief executive officer of Alaska Native Heritage Center (Anchorage), to be president and chief executive officer of this newly formed consulting group that specializes in fund-raising services to nonprofit organizations in Alaska.