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Academics in Motion (New York): Appointed Jim Presbrey, co-founder of the organization and chief executive officer of Extra Hands and the Jack Orchard ALS Foundation (St. Louis), to be vice president. Academics in Motion promotes students’ participation in sports as a way to boost academic performance at poorly financed high schools.

Advertising Icon Museum (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Leslie Strube, director of development at Union Station Kansas City, to be development director.

Agenda for Children Tomorrow (New York): Appointed Linda Selvin, executive director of the International Dyslexia Association, New York Branch, to be executive director. This coalition of community and business leaders, human-service providers, and local government officials helps families in low-income neighborhoods in New York.

Alliance to Save Energy (Washington): Appointed Laura Van Wie McGrory, a program manager for the Environmental Energy Technologies Division and head of the Washington office at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be director of international programs.

Arizona State U. (Tempe): Appointed Jennifer Marsteen, manager of corporate and donor relations at the Arizona Humane Society (Phoenix), and Jon Meyers, associate vice president for alumni relations at the Thunderbird School of Global Management (Glendale, Ariz.), both to be senior development officers for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Artrain USA (Ann Arbor, Mich.): Appointed Robb W. King, public-relations administrator at Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties (Massillon, Ohio), to be sponsorship and communications director. Artrain USA is a traveling art museum housed in vintage rail cars.

Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Washington): Appointed Neil Horikoshi, director of global business development at IBM, based in Bethesda, Md., to be president and executive director.

Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Appointed Anne Scott, director of the Hanan Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Project in the West Bank and Gaza at John Snow International (Boston), to be vice president for global programs.

Da Vinci Science Center (Allentown, Pa.): Appointed Frank Schweighardt, former global manager of process analytical for the gas and chemical divisions at Air Products and Chemicals (Allentown), to be interim executive director and chief executive officer. He succeeds Frank Steslow, who has become chief operating officer at the Miami Science Museum.

Durham’s Partnership for Children (N.C.): Appointed Angelica Oberleithner, program director at the Orange County Partnership for Young Children (Chapel Hill, N.C.), to be assistant director.

Easter Seals New Jersey (East Brunswick): Appointed Richard W. Schumann, quality-improvement specialist, to be assistant vice president of camping and recreation and director of Camp Merry Heart. He succeeds Alex Humanick.

Equal Rights Center (Washington): Appointed Donald L. Kahl, chief operating officer, to be executive director.

Fedcap Rehabilitation Services (New York): Announced the resignation of Susan Fonfa, executive director, effective January 1. This organization develops job-training and employment programs for disabled people.

Finger Lakes Health Foundation (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Ruth C. Benedict, senior director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be executive director.

First Graduate (San Francisco): Appointed Thomas Ahn, managing director, to be executive director. First Graduate helps youths graduate from high school and become the first person in their families to complete college.

Florida Atlantic U. (Boca Raton): Appointed Jennifer Dubuque, associate vice president of development at the State U. of New York College at Plattsburgh, to be assistant vice president for university advancement.

Florida Memorial U. (Miami): Appointed Sumner Hutcheson III, a fund-raising consultant in Miramar, Fla., to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville): Appointed Stefanie Gerber Darr, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in museum studies at Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis, to be educator for public programs.

Give2Asia (San Francisco): Appointed Michael Howe, chair of the National Task Force on Community Leadership for the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford U. (Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. Give2Asia works with corporations and individual donors who wish to contribute to Asian causes. Mr. Howe succeeds Mike Rea, who has become director for West Coast philanthropic services at Bank of America, based in San Francisco.

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey & Philadelphia (Maple Shade, N.J.): Appointed Rachel M. Lippoff, senior development officer at the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey (Cherry Hill), to be chief development officer.

Greater DC Cares (Washington): Appointed Madye Henson, vice president for community-impact development at the United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Siobhan Canty, who has started her own consulting firm. Greater DC Cares coordinates volunteers and business philanthropy.

Harvard U., Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Kathan Tracy, director of development, also to be director of alumni relations, and Judy Wolfe, annual-fund gift officer at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), to be associate director of leadership gifts.

Hazelden (Center City, Minn.): Appointed Mark G. Mishek, president of United Hospital of St. Paul and senior vice president at Allina Hospitals & Clinics (Minneapolis), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Ellen L. Breyer, who has resigned. Hazelden is a drug-treatment facility.

Hebrew Home at Riverdale (N.Y.): Appointed Laura Lewis, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, Westchester Chapter (White Plains, N.Y.), to be chief development officer.

Independent Colleges of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Anne Cassidy, chief development officer at Edmonds Community College (Lynnwood, Wash.) and executive director of the college’s foundation, to be director of development, and Greg Scheiderer, director of government and public relations, to be vice president.

Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Meizhu Lui, executive director of United for a Fair Economy (Boston), to be director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, a newly created position, based in Boston.

Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Andrew M. Rose, vice president of marketing and communications, to be senior vice president of marketing and corporate development.

Larkin Street Youth Services (San Francisco): Appointed Ray Fort, controller, to be chief financial officer. This organization offers education, housing, and medical services for homeless and disadvantaged youths age 12 to 24.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre (Jupiter, Fla.): Appointed Tricia Trimble, director of development, to be managing director.

Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.): Appointed Pamela Clapp Hinkle, acting director of external affairs and director of communications, to be director of development and external affairs.

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation (New York): Appointed Caroline Mansuetto, director of development and alumni relations at St. John Villa Academy (New York), to be director of hospice development.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Appointed Thomas P. Campbell, curator for the museum’s department of European sculpture and decorative arts, to be director, effective January 1. Mr. Campbell succeeds Philippe de Montebello, who plans to retire.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Lori S. Hurd, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council (Charlotte), to be chief executive officer.

Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis): Appointed Doug Brusa, associate director of development at Columbia U., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (New York), to be director of development for the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences; Martha Coleman, director of faculty-foundation relations at Stanford U. (Calif.), to be director of foundation relations; Mark Koenig, director of prospect research at George Washington U. (Washington), to be director of research, discovery, and prospect management; and Dan Peterson, assistant vice president for development at the U. of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle), to be assistant vice president for gift planning.

ORT America (New York): Appointed Laurie A. Pine, director of communications at the UJA-Federation of New York, to be national director of communications. This group helps young people around the world become economically self-sufficient.

Research America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Ralph E. Grunewald, executive vice president at Hillel: the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life (Washington), to be executive vice president.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed Ann Brownell Sloane, president and chief executive officer of Sloane & Hinshaw (New York), to be a vice president.

San Antonio Symphony: Appointed Lauren Miller Walthour, associate director of development at the U. of Texas at San Antonio, College of Public Policy, to be vice president of development.

Silicon Valley Faces (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Pat Mitchell, former director of the Office of Parish and Planning at the Catholic Diocese of San Jose, to be executive director. She succeeds Bart Charlow, who has retired. This organization offers educational programs designed to reduce prejudice, promote religious understanding, and prevent violence.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Dan Murrell, director of development at the Community Foundation of Memphis, to be director of planned giving.

U.S. Fund for Unicef (New York): Appointed Robert Thompson, senior director of development at Columbia U. Medical Center (New York), to be senior vice president for development.

United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.): Appointed Karl Reid, associate dean of undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), to be senior vice president of academic programs and strategic initiatives.

GRANT MAKERS

The California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Elaine Peacock, an evaluation and research consultant based in San Francisco, to be a program officer.

Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita): Appointed Steve Coen, vice president for administration, to be president and chief executive officer.

Kern Family Foundation (Waukesha, Wis.): Appointed Ryan Olson, director of education policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Midland, Mich.), to be program director for education reform.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed James Applegate, vice president for academic affairs at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (Frankfort), to be senior vice president for program development.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): Appointed Ariadne Papagapitos, special assistant to the president, to be program associate for the Peace and Security Program, and Randa Slim, vice president at the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, based in Kettering, Ohio, to be senior program adviser for the Peace and Security Program.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): Appointed Helen Dannelly, director of development for the department of medicine at U. of California at San Francisco, to be senior director of development.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Tom Steinbach, a program officer for the environment program, to be director for the environment program.