People

AARP (Washington): Appointed Jerry Florence, associate executive director for membership, also to be director of the AARP

Foundation (Washington).

Alliance for Excellent Education (Washington): Announced the resignation of Susan Frost, president. Ms. Frost will serve as senior adviser to the alliance for the next six months.

American Heart Association, Heartland Affiliate (Davenport, Iowa): Appointed Kevin D. Harker, chief operating officer at the Greater Midwest Affiliate (Chicago), to be executive vice president.

American Liver Foundation (New York): Announced the resignation of Alan P. Brownstein, president and chief executive officer, effective October 1.

American Red Cross, Greater Carolinas Chapter (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Amy Cervantes, director of marketing and communications at the Charlotte Repertory Theatre, to be director of marketing and education services.

Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.): Appointed Stephen Williamson, assistant director of admission, to be director of current giving.

Brown U. (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Neil D. Steinberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Fleet Bank-Rhode Island (Providence), to be vice president for development and campaign director.

CarePartners Foundation (Asheville, N.C.): Appointed Scott Buchanan, vice president for planning and part-time executive director, to be executive director.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington): Appointed Albert Keidel, deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Washington), to be a senior associate in the China program.

Children’s Memorial Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Elizabeth A. LaBorde, associate vice president of major and planned gifts at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, to be vice president of development and chief operating officer. The foundation is the fund-raising arm of Children’s Memorial Hospital.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Linda Dalch Jones, vice president of Virginia Commonwealth U.’s School of Engineering Foundation (Richmond), to be vice president for development.

Covenant House New York: Appointed Mary Egan, senior director of marketing at United Way of New York City, to be director of development.

Delaware Valley Grantmakers (Philadelphia): Appointed Nancy Lanham, a consultant based in Philadelphia, to be executive director.

DePaul U. (Chicago): Appointed Brenda Wilson-Hale, associate vice president for development, to be vice president for development.

The Emergency Fund (Chicago): Appointed Brian McManaman, executive director of My Brother’s Keeper (Chicago), to be associate director. The Emergency Fund is a newly created organization formed by the merger of the Emergency Fund for Needy People (Chicago) and My Brother’s Keeper.

Hanover College (Ind.): Appointed Molly Dodge, a consultant at the fund-raising firm of Woodburn, Kyle & Company (Madison, Ind.), to be director of external relations for the Rivers Institute.

Harbinger Partners (Boston): Appointed Leslie Koplow, an information-technology program manager for the Americas region at Novell (Provo, Utah), to be program manager. Harbinger provides technology services to nonprofit groups in metropolitan Boston by working in partnership with corporations.

Hoffman Center (Muttontown, N.Y.): Appointed Michelle O. McFaul, a deputy commissioner at the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Museums (East Meadow, N.Y.), to be executive director, a newly created position. The Hoffman Center operates a 155-acre nature preserve and wildlife sanctuary.

Home for Little Wanderers (Boston): Appointed Kevin G. Courtney, chief development officer at the May Institute (Norwood, Mass.), to be vice president of development. The Home for Little Wanderers operates more than 30 programs for at-risk children and families.

Horizons for Homeless Children (Dorchester, Mass.): Appointed Kris Hormann, director of development at the Walker Home and School (Needham, Mass.), to be chief development officer.

Hospice of Pasadena (Calif.): Appointed Sandra K. Atkins, project director at the U. of Southern California’s Center for Long-Term Care Integration (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

Independent Sector (Washington): Announced that Gordon Green, vice president of research, has left to become a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute (Washington), and Chris Toppe, director of philanthropic studies, will join the Points of Light Foundation (Washington) in September.

International Life Sciences Institute North America (Washington): Appointed Pamela Copeland, associate director of development and member relations, to be director of development and member relations. The institute is a network of scientists whose research pertains to public-health decision making.

Jacksonville Public Library Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Kathryn E. Redington, a consultant at Profit Solutions (Jacksonville), to be executive director.

James Madison U. (Harrisonburg, Va.): Appointed Weston W. Hatfield, associate vice chancellor for development at U. of North Carolina at Greensboro, to be associate vice president for development, and Steve Smith, a capital-gifts officer, to be associate vice president for constituent relations.

LifeBridge Health (Baltimore): Appointed Joel L. Simon, a regional loan officer at MMA Financial (Baltimore), to be vice president for development.

May Institute (Norwood, Mass.): Appointed Joseph P. O’Brien Jr., senior director of development, to be chief development officer. The May Institute provides behavioral health-care, education, and rehabilitation services to people with autism or other developmental disabilities.

McDaniel College (Westminster, Md.): Appointed Kimberly Stevenson Parks, director of annual giving, to be associate director of major gifts.

McKendree College (Lebanon, Ill.): Appointed Brian George Dulski, a program manager at RuffaloCody (Lowell, Mass.), to be director of major gifts.

Minnesota State Fair Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Kay Cady, vice president of development at Goodwill/Easter Seals Minnesota (St. Paul), to be executive director, a newly created position.

Mission Hospital Foundation (Mission Viejo, Calif.): Appointed Anne Firestone, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Orange County (Costa Mesa, Calif.), to be director of major gifts.

Neuropathy Research Foundation (Memphis): Appointed Aggie Alexander, senior vice president at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis), to be chief executive officer. This newly established organization supports research on peripheral neuropathy.

New Yorkers for Parks (New York): Appointed Mark Caserta, director of the advocacy and policy division at the New York League of Conservation Voters, to be deputy director.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center: Appointed Christine Meola, assistant vice president for development at Fordham U. (Bronx, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Pacific Environment (San Francisco): Appointed David Gordon, associate director, to be executive director. This nonprofit group works to protect ecosystems in the Pacific Rim region.

Portland Center Stage (Ore.): Appointed Mary Jo Ahlbrandt, director of development and alumni affairs at the Oregon Health & Science U.’s School of Science & Engineering and the Oregon Health & Science U. Foundation (Beaverton), to be director of development.

Ripon College (Wis.): Appointed Margaret Kastein, a marketing and sales service coordinator at Aither State Farm Agency (Ripon), to be assistant director of alumni relations, and Larry Malchow, acting director of the annual fund, to be director of alumni relations.

Shanti (San Francisco): Appointed Kevin Burns, deputy director, to be interim executive director. He succeeds Hywel Sims, who resigned effective July 30. Shanti provides assistance and services to people with life-threatening illnesses.

Silk Road Project (New York): Appointed Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and university relations at Brown U. (Providence, R.I.), to be executive director and chief executive officer. The Silk Road Project works to present the music of cultures along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that stretched from China to the Mediterranean.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Monica Boyd, a recent graduate of the university’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, to be assistant manager of the telefund.

Truman State U. (Kirksville, Mo.): Appointed Mark Gambaiana, a consultant at Gonser Gerber Tinker Stuhr (Naperville, Ill.), to be vice president for university advancement.

UJA/Federation Westport-Weston-Wilton-Norwalk (Westport, Conn.): Appointed Steven M. Friedlander, vice president of the Interfaith Center of New York, to be executive director.

United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County (Asheville, N.C.): Appointed Robin Green, director of development of the CarePartners Foundation (Asheville), to be community-services director.

U.S. Committee for the United Nations Population Fund (New York): Appointed Anika Rahman, director of the international program at the Center for Reproductive Rights (New York), to be president.

U.S. Fund for Unicef (New York): Appointed Ronald F. Gibbs, senior vice president for external relations at America’s Second Harvest (Chicago), to be senior vice president of marketing, development, and communications.

Youth Consultation Service Foundation (Newark, N.J.): Appointed Frances Spiegel, senior development officer at the Newark Public Library, to be director of foundation relations.

GRANT MAKERS

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Announced the resignation of Kathryn L. Jensen, senior vice president. Ms. Jensen, who has worked at the foundation for 25 years and was responsible for its leadership programs, plans to run a consulting business. The foundation has appointed James Krile, director of the Blandin Community Leadership Program, the Reservation Leadership Program, and the Partners in Leadership Program, to be interim director for leadership programs.

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed George R. Flores, a consultant and public-health adviser to the California Endowment and a consultant to the California Department of Health Services’ Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (Sacramento), to be a senior program officer for the Disparities in Health program.

California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): Appointed Veenu Aulakh, a senior project manager in the regional health-education department of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland), to be senior program officer for the chronic-disease care program, and Maribeth Shannon, assistant vice president for clinical-services development in the U. of California’s Office of the President (Oakland), to be director of the hospitals and nursing-home program.

Central Carolina Community Foundation (Columbia, S.C.): Appointed Rose Dangerfield, vice president of the Gillespie Agency (Columbia), to be director of development and donor services.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Katie Hong, director of the City of Seattle’s Office of Housing, to be deputy director of the Pacific Northwest giving program.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Appointed Denise Lourdes Delgado, a program assistant, to be grants manager.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Carol A. Goss, vice president of programs, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Richard Connell, who has served as interim president since the resignation of Kari Schlachtenhaufen, in March.

Twenty-First Century Foundation (New York): Announced the death of Robert Span Browne, founder and president of the Board of Directors. He was 79. The foundation makes grants to spur black philanthropy and to support community revitalization, education, and leadership development in African-American communities.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Heart Association (Dallas): Elected William D. College, executive vice president of Capital City Bank (Tallahassee, Fla.), to be chairman of the national Board of Directors, and Alice K. Jacobs, a professor at the Boston U. School of Medicine and director of Interventional Cardiology and the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Boston Medical Center, to be president of the board.

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington): Elected Mary Quin, a women’s-rights activist and author of the book Kidnapped in Yemen, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Elected John W. Daniels Jr., a partner and member of the management committee at the law firm of Quarles and Brady (Milwaukee), to the Board of Directors.

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York): Elected John J. Curley, a professor of communications at Pennsylvania State U. (University Park) and former chairman and chief executive officer of the Gannett Company (McLean, Va.), and Margaret L. Wolff, a partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (New York), to the Board of Trustees.

Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles: Elected Steven Koltai, founder and former general manager of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Warner Bros. Online (Burbank, Calif.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Ray Graham Association for People with Disabilities (Downers Grove, Ill.): Elected Edward Bales, retired director of education at Motorola (Schaumberg, Ill.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland and the Saint Ann Foundation: Elected William R. Joseph, a partner at Weston Hurd Fallon Paisley & Howley (Cleveland), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Creative Direct Response (Crofton, Md.): Appointed Kristin Chapman, an account executive at Columbia Direct Marketing (Annapolis, Md.), to be an account executive, and Joel Zimmerman, information-systems director at the Charlotte, N.C., office of Royal & SunAlliance, to be director of consulting services. Creative Direct Response is a direct-marketing company.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Tim Kersten, owner of Kersten Direct Response Marketing (Wausau, Wis.), to be senior vice president and executive creative director in the Los Angeles office. Grizzard provides direct-marketing services to nonprofit groups and corporations.

Lipman Hearne (Chicago): Appointed Jeanne Brennan, communications director at the Education Trust (Washington), to be a vice president in the Washington office; Carissa Cardone, project manager at Tricom Associates (Arlington, Va.), to be an account executive; Kevin Donnellon, founder and president of Donnellon Public Relations (Chicago), to be senior vice president; Keith Romero, editorial associate in the office of public affairs at the U. of Illinois at Chicago, to be an associate vice president; and Joelle Ziemian, director of communications at the Global Steel Exchange (Chicago), to be a vice president in the Washington office. Lipman Hearne is a communications firm that serves nonprofit organizations.

O’Neill & Associates (Atlanta): Appointed Victoria Wood, campaign assistant, to be campaign manager at this fund-raising consulting firm.

Teeter Associates (Greensburg, Pa.): Appointed John M. Cathey, president of Camelot Advisors (Ligonier, Pa.), to be managing director. Teeter Associates provides fund-raising, planning, training, and other services to nonprofit and for-profit groups.