People

Alliance of Artists Communities (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Caitlin Strokosch, program and communications director, to be executive director.

American Council on Education (Washington): Appointed Molly Corbett Broad, a professor of government at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former president of the U. of North Carolina System (Chapel Hill), to be president.

Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Phoenix): Appointed Judith Gardner, a former vice president at American Express (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (Little Rock): Appointed Virginia H. Blankenship, research director at the Charter School Policy Institute (Austin, Tex.), to be director of research and fiscal policy.

Brighton National Addiction Foundation (Mich.): Appointed Richard L. Kramer, former vice president for development at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Detroit), to be president.

CancerCare (New York): Appointed Susan Fryberger, vice president for development at the Ms. Foundation for Women (New York), to be associate executive director for development and external affairs.

Center for Effective Philanthropy (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Paul Heggarty, director of business planning and analysis at Watchfire (Waltham, Mass.), to be vice president of finance and administration.

Community Renewal Society (Chicago): Appointed Alysia Tate, an editor and publisher at The Chicago Reporter, to be chief operating officer.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York): Appointed Connie Tempel, managing director of the eastern region, based in New York, to be chief operating officer.

Duke U., Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Edward Skloot, former president of the Surdna Foundation (New York), to be director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Naomi Bayer, director of Fannie Mae’s New York Community Business Center, to be vice president for field operations.

Foundation for California Community Colleges (Sacramento): Appointed Lynda Gregory, vice president for human resources and volunteer services at Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento), to be vice president for operations and chief operating officer, and Denise Howell, director of contracts at Catholic Charities CYO (San Francisco), to be vice president for finance and chief financial officer.

Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta: Appointed Vikki Millender Morrow, director of human resources at BellSouth, based in Atlanta, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Janet Street, who has retired.

Leader Dogs for the Blind (Rochester, Mich.): Appointed Gregory Grabowski, vice president of development at the National Hospice Foundation (Alexandria, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds William Hansen, who has retired.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Mariano Diaz, senior vice president for community partnerships at the San Diego Foundation, to be western regional vice president, based in San Diego.

MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Kenneth A. Samet, president and chief operating officer, also to be chief executive officer. He succeeds John P. McDaniel, who has retired.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Announced the retirement of Philippe de Montebello, director and chief executive officer, effective by the end of the year.

National Museum of American History (Washington): Appointed Margaret Webster, acting associate director of external relations and former director for corporate and foundation relations, to be associate director of external relations.

New Jersey After 3 (New Brunswick): Appointed Fred Ball, a consultant at the Canon Group (Princeton, N.J.), to be director of development. This organization works to expand and improve after-school opportunities for children.

Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis): Appointed Julie Brandis, a lobbyist for Associated Oregon Industries (Salem), to be director of corporate relations; Dennis Muscato, program manager for corporate social responsibility and stakeholder relations at Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be director of planned giving; and Forrest Rodgers, president and chief executive officer of the High Desert Museum (Bend, Ore.), to be director of development for the Cascades Campus and executive director of the Cascades Campus Foundation.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project (N.Y.): Appointed Susan L. Grove, director of the U.S. office of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (New York), to be executive director.

Roswell Park Alliance Foundation (Buffalo, N.Y.): Appointed Judith Epstein, assistant Cancer Center Support Grant administrator at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo), to be director of grants and foundation giving; Jennifer Hickok, special-events manager at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Western New York Chapter (Buffalo), to be director of special events; John C. Senall, manager of marketing communications at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, to be director of development communications; and Monique Watts, director of special events, to be director of corporate partnerships and retail initiatives.

Save the Children (Westport, Conn.): Appointed Anne-Marie K. Grey, chief of international and corporate alliances for the private-sector division of Unicef (New York), to be vice president of leadership giving.

Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis: Appointed Kevin Miller, director of corporate and foundation relations at the U. of Indianapolis, to be director of development.

Sierra Club Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Peter Martin, senior advancement director for the Mid-Atlantic region, based in Washington, to be executive director.

Spondylitis Association of America (Sherman Oaks, Calif.): Appointed Laurie Savage, associate executive director, to be executive director. This group helps people with this chronic inflammatory disease.

Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Kari Luther Carlson, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. Also appointed: Shawn Sagers, director of development at the Special Libraries Association (Alexandria, Va.), to be senior director of development. This group focuses on studying potential cures for this genetic condition.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Megan Aubrey, development manager at Fresh Start Surgical Gifts (Carlsbad, Calif.), to be assistant director for annual and special gifts; Tracey Kleber, director of major gifts at the U. of Pennsylvania’s Western Regional Office, based in Los Angeles, to be director of major and regional giving for the university’s Anderson School of Management; Rebecca Melville, associate director of annual giving at the university’s School of Law, to be director of annual giving at the law school; Steve Ramirez, associate director of development at the university’s College of Letters and Science, to be director of development for the College of Letters and Science; and J.C. Schnabl, chief financial officer for the School of Nursing at California State U. at Long Beach, to be associate executive director for finance and administration.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Jerry Conway, a budget analyst for the university’s athletics department, to be a business officer; Marianne Minton, annual-fund manager at the Richmond Symphony (Va.), to be director of annual giving; and Jay Philpott, director of admissions at St. George’s Independent School (Collierville, Tenn.), to be director of development for the Fogelman College of Business & Economics.

GRANT MAKERS

Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed Alvin Starks, associate director of the Racial Justice Intiative and Fellowship Program at the Open Society Institute (New York), to be senior program officer for the Racial Justice, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity program.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Stanford, Calif.): Appointed Anthony S. Bryk, an organizational-studies professor at Stanford U.’s School of Education and Graduate School of Business (Calif.), to be president, effective in August. He will succeed Lee S. Shulman, who plans to retire.

Eno Transportation Foundation (Washington): Appointed Stephen D. Van Beek, director of Jacobs Consultancy (Chantilly, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer.

GiveWell (New York): Appointed Holden Karnofsky, executive director, to be a program officer. (See article on Page 54.)

J.J. Keller Foundation (Neenah, Wis.): Appointed Mary Harp-Jirschele, chief operating officer at Employment Resource Group (Appleton, Wis.), to be executive director.

Minneapolis Foundation: Appointed Don W. Taylor, vice president and chief development officer at the Courage Center and Courage Foundation (Golden Valley, Minn.), to be vice president of development and client services.

Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul): Announced the retirement of John Kostishack, executive director.

ShoreBank (Chicago): Appointed Clare Golla, portfolio manager for the mission-based banking department, to be senior vice president for nonprofit and foundation banking.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Elected Darren Walker, vice president of foundation initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), to the Board of Directors.

Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.): Elected Carmen Sigler, provost and vice president for academic affairs at San Jose State U., to be chair of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Monica Zent, founder and president of Zent Law Group (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center (San Francisco): Elected Mary Jo Shartsis, a founding partner at Shartsis Friese (San Francisco), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Elected John Natoli, special adviser to the director of administration and finance of the City of Boston, to the Board of Directors.

National Center for Family Philanthropy (Washington): Elected Mary Mountcastle, a senior associate at Self-Help, based in Durham, N.C., to be chairperson of the Board of Directors.

South Florida After-School All-Stars (Miami): Elected Ben Gilbert Jr., a vice president of FPL Energy (Juno Beach, Fla.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Alden & Associates (Amherst, Mass.): Appointed David P. O’Brien, director of athletics at Northeastern U. (Boston), and Judith M. Sweet, senior vice president for championships and education services at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Indianapolis), to be senior associates. Alden & Associates is a national executive-search and consulting company for colleges and universities.

Burd Group (Philadelphia): Appointed Nancy Burd, vice president for grant-making services at the Philadelphia Foundation, to be president. The Burd Group is a newly established company that will assist foundations and nonprofit organizations in grant making and management.

Matale Line (Seattle): Appointed Tessa Levine-Sauerhoff, program director at Worldchanging (Seattle), to be project manager, and Toby Travis, account director at DNA Brand Mechanics (Seattle), to be director of strategy. Matale Line is a communications firm for charities.

Phillips & Associates (Los Angeles): Appointed Kellie Stockdale Webb, director of development at the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, Calif.), to be senior counsel. Phillips & Associates helps nonprofit organizations raise money.

Virilion (Washington): Appointed Ken Deutsch, executive vice president and principal at Issue Dynamics (Washington), to be senior vice president. Formerly known as Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, Virilion creates digital-media campaigns and projects for charities.