People

ALS Association (Calabasas Hills, Calif.): Appointed Gary A. Leo, senior vice president for development at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles), to be president and chief executive officer. The association supports research and services related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Art Institute of Chicago: Appointed James Cuno, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), to be director and president, effective in September. He will succeed James N. Wood, who is retiring after 24 years at the institute.

Asia Society (New York): Appointed Vishakha N. Desai, senior vice president and director of the museum and cultural programs, to be president. She will succeed Nicholas Platt, who is retiring this summer after serving as president for 12 years.

Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland): Appointed Thomas J. Kolda, director of college advancement and university planned giving at the U. of Wisconsin at Whitewater, to be director of gift planning.

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest (Washington): Appointed Elizabeth M. Baumgarten, program director and counsel, to be executive director, effective July 1. She will succeed Bob Smucker, founder of the organization, who is retiring.

Child Abuse Prevention Services (Roslyn, N.Y.): Appointed Howard Simon, deputy director of public affairs at the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (New York), to be director of communications and marketing.

Cure Autism Now Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Peter H. Bell, franchise director in marketing at McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals (Fort Washington, Pa.), a division of Johnson & Johnson, to be executive director and chief executive officer.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (Hollywood, Fla.): Appointed Sandra F. Cahn, co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Cahn Rosenthal Consultants (New York), to be director of the Northeast region, based in New York.

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues (New York): Appointed Robert Vásquez-Pacheco, program manager at Community Access (New York), to be program manager.

Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo, & Marin Counties (San Francisco): Appointed Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, vice president of the Omidyar Foundation (Redwood City, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Mary Edington, who retired in November 2003.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Benjamin G. Foster, assistant director of the Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at Tufts U. (Medford, Mass.), to be director of reunion campaigns.

Hospice of Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Michael McHale, director of access services at San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care, to be corporate marketing director.

McKee Medical Center Foundation (Loveland, Colo.): Appointed Julie Johnson Haffner, president of the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County (Greeley, Colo.), to be executive director.

National Audubon Society (New York): Appointed Darryl C. Brown, executive director of Oxford U.’s North American offices (New York), to be vice president and director of development.

National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis): Appointed Alisa M. Smallwood, development officer, to be national director of development.

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship-New England (Babson Park, Mass.): Appointed Helen Rosenfeld, director of business development, to be regional director.

National Park Foundation (Washington): Appointed Kraig M. Butrum, vice president for development at Conservation International (Washington), to be senior vice president of development, and Julia Washburn, senior director of grants and programs, to be vice president of grants and programs.

Northern Westchester Hospital Foundation (Mount Kisco, N.Y.): Appointed Carin Grossman, director of media relations at Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, N.Y.), to be vice president of marketing and public affairs.

Ohio Northern U. (Ada): Appointed Dennis D. Hunt, former vice president for college advancement at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), to be vice president of development and university relations.

Roswell Park Alliance Foundation (Buffalo, N.Y.): Appointed Don Elick, project manager in the special-events department at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), to be associate director of corporate partnerships, and Fran Folta Vaughan, assistant dean for development for the school of social work at State U. of New York at Buffalo, to be individual-giving officer.

St. Francis Hospital (Roslyn, N.Y.): Appointed Sherry J. Friedman, director of alumni relations and giving at Cornell U.’s Weill Medical College (New York), to be vice president for development.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago): Appointed Brooke Walters, associate director of development, operations, and programs at the Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, Ill.), to be director of individual giving.

U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Appointed Bob Lyon, associate vice chancellor of university development at Vanderbilt U. (Nashville), to be vice chancellor for university advancement.

United Way of Central Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Nicole Avery, associate vice president of resource development, to be vice president of resource development.

United Way of Delaware (Wilmington): Appointed Drew Langloh, vice president of resource development at United Way of Central Maryland (Baltimore), to be president.

United Way of New York City: Appointed Sandra Y. Osorio, director of human resources at the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York), to be vice president of human resources.

Washington Hospital Center (D.C.): Appointed Bob Levey, a former columnist for The Washington Post, to be senior vice president for development.

GRANT MAKERS

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Jacky Alling, executive director of the Arizona Alliance for Arts Education (Phoenix), and Rudy Guglielmo, a program officer in the office of corporate and foundation relations at Arizona State U. (Tempe), to be program officers; and Stephen Hart, director of advancement services at Colorado College (Colorado Springs), to be scholarship coordinator for the Gear Up program.

Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington): Appointed Lessie Powell Evans, director of the Washington office of the Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.), to be managing director of Washington, D.C., Initiatives, the foundation’s efforts to revitalize the city’s neighborhoods.

A.D. Henderson Foundation (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.): Appointed Katherine E. Danio, director of development at Lighthouse of Broward County (Fort Lauderdale), to be senior program officer in Broward County.

Charles F. Kettering Foundation (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed John R. Dedrick, a program officer, to be director of programs.

New Israel Fund (Washington): Appointed Larry Garber, director of the West Bank and Gaza mission of the U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington), to be executive director.

Oral Health Foundation (Boston): Appointed Judith Foley, director of the Regional Center for Community Health at Mount Auburn Hospital (Boston), to be program officer.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Morris Vogel, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple U. (Philadelphia), to be director of the creativity and culture division.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Appointed Carolyn Schaefer Wollard, vice president for institutional advancement at Metropolitan State College of Denver, to be vice president for donor services.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

S.H. Cowell Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Ann Alpers, senior counsel at the law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld (San Francisco), and Donald D. Roberts, a partner at Thelen Reid & Priest (San Francisco), to the Board of Directors.

William T. Grant Foundation (New York): Elected Lisa Hess, chief investment officer at the Loews Corporation (New York), and Sara McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton U. (N.J.), to the Board of Trustees.

National 4-H Council (Chevy Chase, Md.): Elected David C. Hardesty Jr., president of West Virginia U. (Morgantown), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (Washington): Elected Janet Singerman, president of Child Care Resources (Charlotte, N.C.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

WNYC (New York): Elected Nicki Newman Tanner, director of the Oral History Project at UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, to be chair of the Board of Trustees.