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American Legacy Foundation (Washington): Appointed Dave Dobbins, interim chief operating officer and former associate general counsel, to be chief operating officer.

Association of Voluntary Action Scholars/Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Indianapolis): Announced the death of Richard A. Graham, former president, on September 24. He was 86.

Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service (New York): Appointed Alan D. Goodman, executive director of the American Red Cross September 11 Recovery Program (New York), to be executive director. He succeeds Donna A. Santarsiero, who has retired.

Clemson U. Foundation (S.C.): Appointed Harrison F. (Hack) Trammell, president of the Regional Facilities Division at the Carolinas HealthCare System (Charlotte, N.C.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in January 2008.

Cleveland Play House: Appointed Melodee A. DuBois, director of external affairs at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), to be director of development.

Columbus AIDS Task Force (Ohio): Appointed Chad M. McCoury, acting executive director and former director of organizational administration and planning, to be president and chief executive officer.

Common Hope (St. Paul): Appointed Joanne Arnold, a research assistant at Wilder Research (St. Paul), to be development director. This organization supports education, family services, health care, and housing in Guatemala.

Florida Orchestra (Tampa): Appointed Michael Pastreich, executive director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra (Ill.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Indiana State U. Foundation (Terre Haute): Appointed Vanessa Braswell, assistant to the director of sales and marketing at NNR Global Logistics USA, based in Indianapolis, to be director of board relations, and Michele Reeson, major-gifts officer and team leader of development at Midland Lutheran College (Fremont, Neb.), to be director of advancement services.

Jewish Social Service Agency (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Kenneth Kozloff, chief executive officer of Inova Alexandria Hospital (Va.) and senior vice president at the Inova Health System (Falls Church, Va.), to be executive director. He succeeds Joan G. de Pontet, who has retired.

Marquette U., Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee): Appointed Wally Mason, director of the U. of Maine Museum of Art (Bangor), to be director. He succeeds Curtis Carter, who has resigned to become a professor of philosophy at the university.

Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Jessica Cox, senior major-gifts officer at the American Civil Liberties Union (New York), to be director of development; George Devendorf, field officer and senior military liaison officer for the Disaster Assistance Response Team at the United States Agency for International Development/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, based in Kosovo and Macedonia, to be vice president of global engagement; and Johanna Thoeresz, director of development at Reed College (Portland), to be vice president for development.

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (New York): Appointed Katie Hood, deputy chief executive officer, to be interim chief executive officer. She succeeds Sarah Orsay, who has resigned.

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Fla.): Appointed Amy Hever, director of development at the Cathedral Foundation (Newark, N.J.), to be director of advancement.

Museum of Children’s Art (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Patricia Hannum, executive director of the Westchester Children’s Museum (White Plains, N.Y.), to be executive director.

Museum of Modern Art (New York): Appointed Kathy Halbreich, former director of the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), to be an associate director.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Stephanie Meeks, chief operating officer, to be interim president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Steve McCormick, who has resigned. Mr. McCormick will serve as an adviser to the organization’s Board of Directors.

Presbyterian Children’s Village (Rosemont, Pa.): Appointed Marcia Carle, director of development at the Metanexus Institute (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), to be director of development.

Public Broadcasting Service (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Haydee M. Rodriguez, executive director of the Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs (Baltimore), to be director for the organization’s Diversity Initiative.

Randolph College, Maier Museum of Art (Lynchburg, Va.): Announced the resignation of Karol Lawson, director.

Reeves-Reed Arboretum (Summit, N.J.): Appointed Mary Beth Cooney, director of development, to be executive director.

Trust for America’s Health (Washington): Appointed Dara Alpert, a recent graduate of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be government-relations manager; Sherry Kaiman, professional staff member for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families, based in Washington, to be director of policy development; and Serena Vinter, a recent graduate of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be health-policy research associate.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Eric Nakano, assistant executive director at the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (Washington), to be associate director of development for the College of Letters and Science, and Jeffrey Poltorak, regional education manager at the New York Times Company, to be associate director of major gifts.

U. of Connecticut Foundation (Storrs): Appointed Paul Goldberg, chief development officer at the Vocational Foundation (New York), to be major-gifts officer for the School of Fine Arts; Tina Huey, adjunct instructor of academic writing, to be a grant writer; Barbara G. Rubin, director of the annual fund for the Temple U. School of Medicine (Philadelphia), to be director of leadership gifts and the annual fund for the university’s Health Center; Diana Timlin, director of development at the U. of New Haven (Conn.), to be director of development for the School of Business; and Karen Tomasko, president of Tomasko Creative (Hartford, Conn.), to be associate director of development for the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the U. of Connecticut Health Center.

GRANT MAKERS

Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed Johnny Jenkins Jr., creative director and principal of NoirAmerica (Detroit), to be Michigan program officer for the Gay and Lesbian Fund.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed David Bley, vice president of strategic initiatives at Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.), to be director of the Pacific Northwest initiative, and Jaime Sepulveda, former director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico (Cuernavaca), to be director of integrated health-solutions development in the Global Health program.

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Matt Rezac, public-policy department manager at the Catholic Charities Office for Social Justice (St. Paul), to be senior program officer for the Public Policy and Engagement program, and Valerie Shangreaux, program manager for the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Oklahoma State U. (Stillwater), to be director of the Community Leadership Program.

Boettcher Foundation (Denver): Appointed Julie Lerudis, an auditor at Kundinger, Corder, & Engle (Denver), to be a grants-program officer.

Bush Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Peter C. Hutchinson, co-founder of Public Strategies Group (St. Paul) and former vice president for external affairs at the Target Foundation (Minneapolis), to be president. He succeeds Anita M. Pampusch, who has retired.

Central Carolina Community Foundation (Columbia, S.C.): Appointed Jo Bull, associate director at the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Columbia), to be director of donor relations.

Charles H. Revson Foundation (New York): Appointed Julie A. Sandorf, co-founder and director of Nextbook (New York) and founder and former president of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (Oakland, Calif.), to be president. She succeeds Lisa E. Goldberg, who died in January.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed John H. Moehling, director of fixed income and co-director of hedge funds at the U. of Chicago, to be chief investment officer.

Elmina B. Sewall Foundation (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Jay Espy, president of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust (Topsham), to be executive director.

Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh): Appointed Melanie R. Brown, a recent graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Mass.), to be a program officer in the education section.

New York Life Foundation: Appointed Marlyn Torres, program officer at the Clark Foundation (New York), to be assistant vice president and senior program officer of corporate responsibility.

Peregrine Charities (Chicago): Appointed Maria Benham, director of development at Cedar Valley Hospice (Waterloo, Iowa), to be executive director.

Sam L. Cohen Foundation (Portland, Me.): Appointed Stephanie Eglinton, a strategic-planning consultant, based in Portland, Me., to be a program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Home Works of America (Columbia, S.C.): Elected Cliff Moore III, a partner at Ellis, Lawhorne & Simms, based in Columbia, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.): Elected Mary Lynn Huntley, president of the Southern Education Foundation (Atlanta), to the Board of Trustees.

Melwood Horticultural Training Center (Upper Marlboro, Md.): Elected Andrew V. Colevas, principal of the Colevas Group (Upper Marlboro), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Partnerships With Industry (San Diego): Elected Jim Lantry, owner of California Legislative Advocates (San Diego), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Notices of personnel changes and board-member appointments may be sent to people@philanthropy.com.