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Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (Washington): Appointed Max Wallace, chief executive officer of TheraLogics (Chapel Hill, N.C.), to be chief executive officer, effective August 1.

AMD3 Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Alana S. Kulesa, director of education programs at 3 Rivers Connect (Pittsburgh), to be executive director. This organization works to improve the delivery of health care.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: Appointed Josh Kraft, president of the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation (Foxborough, Mass.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Linda Whitlock, who has resigned.

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (Ohio): Appointed Jeff Swanagan, president and executive director of the Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta), to be executive director.

Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Bradford K. Smith, president of the Oak Foundation (Geneva), to be president, effective October 1. He will succeed Sara L. Engelhardt, who plans to retire.

Foundation for Physical Therapy (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Robert J. Brennan, executive director of the Fairfax County Park Foundation (Fairfax, Va.), to be executive director.

Grantmakers in the Arts (Seattle): Announced the resignation of Anne Focke, executive director.

Green Bay Botanical Garden (Wis.): Appointed Susan Garot, vice president at Garot Hospitality (Green Bay) and general manager at Tundra Lodge (Green Bay), to be executive director.

HOPE Worldwide (Wayne, Pa.): Appointed Randy Jordan, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer. He succeeds Bob Gempel, co-founder, who has retired. The organization also announced the retirement of Pat Gempel, co-founder and executive vice president.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore): Appointed Benjamin T. Jealous, president of the Rosenberg Foundation (San Francisco), to be president.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Mark Tercek, a managing director at Goldman Sachs and head of the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Phi Kappa Tau Foundation (Oxford, Ohio): Appointed David Boggan, vice president and chief development officer at Christus Santa Rosa Health Care (San Antonio), to be executive director.

Safe Horizon (New York): Appointed Ariel Zwang, executive director of New York Cares, to be chief executive officer. Safe Horizon assists victims of child abuse, domestic violence, and other violent crimes.

Southeastern Council of Foundations (Atlanta): Appointed Michael Howland, chief executive officer of Noble of Indiana (Indianapolis), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in August. He will succeed Martin Lehfeldt, who plans to retire.

Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas): Appointed Kern Wildenthal, president of the U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas), to be president and chief executive officer, effective upon his retirement in September. He will succeed W. Plack Carr Jr..

United Way of Broome County (Vestal, N.Y.): Appointed Alan G. Hertel, regional community outreach and development manager for the City of Binghamton at New York State Electric and Gas, to be executive director, effective August 1.

GRANT MAKERS

Altman Foundation (New York): Appointed Deborah E. Thompson, founder and principal consultant of Row 10 Philanthropy Advisors (New York), to be senior program officer.

Arlington Community Foundation (Va.): Appointed Wanda L. Pierce, principal consultant and founder of Consulting Works (Arlington), to be executive director.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Jeffrey S. Raikes, former president of the Business Division at Microsoft (Redmond, Wash.), to be chief executive officer, effective September 2. He will succeed Patty Stonesifer, who plans to resign.

The California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Dan C. DeLeon, Los Angeles regional vice president of finance at Time Warner Cable, to be vice president and chief financial officer.

Commonweal Foundation (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Barbara Bainum, a community volunteer in Chevy Chase, Md., to be president and chief executive officer. Ms. Bainum will also serve as chair of the Board of Directors.

Essex County Community Foundation (Danvers, Mass.): Appointed David M. Welbourn, senior vice president and director of philanthropy at the Lahey Clinic (Burlington, Mass.), to be president and chief executive officer.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Toby Tannenbaum, director of education at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to be assistant director for education at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Marin Community Foundation (Novato, Calif.): Appointed Elizabeth Brown Marlowe, vice president and senior philanthropic-services officer for the wealth-management division at Bank of America, based in San Francisco, to be vice president for philanthropic services.

Peter G. Peterson Foundation (New York): Appointed Eugene Steuerle, a senior fellow and co-director of the Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute (Washington), to be vice president.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Ria Pugeda, senior program associate, to be program officer, and Robert Shull, former deputy director of auto safety and regulatory policy at Public Citizen (Washington), to be program officer for workers’ rights.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Center for Nonprofit Management (Dallas): Elected Fran Eichorst, general manager and vice president for human resources, regional management, and public affairs at Fidelity Investments, based in Westlake, Tex., to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Commonweal Foundation (Silver Spring, Md.): Elected Alexander Froom, a recent graduate of Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), and James McCutcheon, former president and chief executive officer of Sunburst Hospitality (Silver Spring), to the Board of Directors.

San Francisco Ballet: Elected Richard C. Barker, a community volunteer in San Francisco, to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas): Elected William T. Solomon, former chairman of Austin Industries (Dallas), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.