People

American Association of Museums (Washington): Announced the retirement of Edward H. Able, president and chief executive officer, effective August 1.

American Farmland Trust (Washington): Appointed Victoria Edwards, vice president for finance and administration, to be chief financial officer.

American Society of International Law (Washington): Appointed Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (Washington), to be executive director, effective this fall.

Americans for Libraries Council (New York): Appointed Bruce Astrein, senior vice president for programs at the Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix), to be executive director.

Bottomless Closet (Chicago): Appointed Courtney Bell, executive director of the Chicago Women’s Health Center, to be executive director and chief executive officer. This group provides office-appropriate clothing to low-income women applying for jobs.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: Appointed Patricia Gannon, vice president for fiscal affairs and chief financial officer at Merrimack College (North Andover, Mass.), to be vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

Christian City (Union City, Ga.): Appointed Phil Kouns, executive director of Rainbow House (Jonesboro, Ga.), to be special assistant to the president for program development. This organization provides services to abandoned and abused children in Georgia.

Church World Service (New York): Appointed Reginald K. Ingram, president and chief executive officer of Ingram and Associates, a business-management consulting company in Altadena, Calif., to be chief development officer, and William E. Wildey, regional director for CWS in northern New England, based in Ludlow, Mass., to be resource- development director.

City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.): Appointed Judith Deutsch, former senior associate director of development at U. of California at Los Angeles Medical Sciences, to be senior director of development.

College & Community Fellowship (New York): Appointed Catherine Onyemelukwe, director of development at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (New York), to be executive director. This group helps formerly incarcerated people earn college-level degrees.

Common Sense Media (San Francisco): Appointed Bheesham Sethi, director of development at the National Environmental Trust (Washington), to be director of development.

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (San Francisco): Announced the resignation of Jan Masaoka, executive director.

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (New York): Appointed Richard J. Geswell, executive vice president for revenue and marketing at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (White Plains, N.Y.), to be president.

Demos: a Network for Ideas & Action (New York): Appointed Steve Carbó, director of the democracy program, to be senior program director, and Stuart Comstock-Gay, executive director of the National Voting Rights Institute (Boston), also to be director of the democracy program. Demos recently became formally affiliated with NVRI, with joint programs to be based in Boston.

Florida Philanthropic Network (Winter Park): Appointed Nancy M. Shelton, institutional-advancement writer at Rollins College (Winter Park), to be chief operating officer.

The Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Lester M. Salamon, a professor and director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be director of the new Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy.

Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care (Dallas): Appointed Nancy B. Dent, director of development for the medical school at the U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, to be executive director.

Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center (Santa Fe, N.M.): Appointed Donna Lee, a philanthropy and communications consultant based in Milwaukee, to be director of development.

Hoosier Environmental Council Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Mary Ann Houff Shields, director of development for the university library at Indiana U./Purdue U. at Indianapolis, to be executive director.

Hudson Guild (New York): Appointed Brian Saber, deputy executive director, to be executive director. Hudson Guild is a settlement house based in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Mr. Saber succeeds Janice McGuire, who is retiring after leading the organization for 19 years.

Humanities Washington (Seattle): Appointed Ted Lord, a partner at Philanthropy Northwest’s Giving Practice (Seattle), to be president and chief executive officer.

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia: Announced the retirement of Harold Goldman, president.

Junior Achievement Worldwide (Colorado Springs): Appointed Cynthia Hofmann, vice president for marketing and customer-relationship management at Blockbuster (Dallas), to be senior vice president of marketing and communications.

Junior Blind of America (Los Angeles): Appointed Miki Jordan, president and chief executive officer of Para Los Niños (Los Angeles), to be president and chief executive officer.

National Parkinson Foundation (Miami): Appointed Michael S. Okun, co-director of the Movement Disorders Center and an assistant professor at the U. of Florida (Gainesville), to be national medical director.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America (New York): Appointed Marcia Lee Taylor, senior adviser for drug policy and research for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the Democratic staff director of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Washington), to be vice president and director of government affairs, based in Washington.

Swedish Covenant Hospital (Chicago): Appointed J. Spencer Medford, senior director of major gifts at the U. of Illinois at Chicago, to be vice president of development and executive director of the Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation.

United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington): Announced the resignation of Kim Tran, chief financial officer.

VH1 Save the Music Foundation (New York): Appointed Bill Kramer, director of development for the Miller Theater at Columbia U. (New York), to be senior director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Atlantic Philanthropies (Hamilton, Bermuda): Announced the resignation of John R. Healy, chief executive officer, effective in September 2007.

Colorado Health Foundation (Denver): Appointed Timothy Cortez, director of operations at Adult Care Management, based in Denver, to be a program officer focusing on older adults, palliative care, and chronic-disease management, and Khanh Nguyen, a program officer at the Daniels Fund (Denver), to be a program officer focusing on children, youths, and families.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York): Appointed Ben Cameron, executive director of the Theatre Communications Group (New York), to be program director for the arts.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Joe Saylor, national sales manager at Osborne Coinage Company (Cincinnati), to be giving-strategies officer for new business.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Eugene A. Hillsman, a program assistant for the foundation’s Pathways Out of Poverty program, to be an associate program officer; Frederick L. Kump, a contract employee in the program department, to be a program officer and financial analyst; and Ridgway H. White, a program assistant for Flint, Mich., to be an associate program officer.

Woods Fund of Chicago: Appointed Deborah Harrington, vice president, to be president. She succeeds Ricardo Millett, who has resigned.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York): Elected Norman D. Cohen, a founder of the former New England-based Lechmere Sales retail-store chain, to be president.

Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.): Elected William F. (Rick) Cronk, former president of Dreyer’s Ice Cream (Oakland, Calif.), to be president of the National Executive Board.

California Endowment (Los Angeles): Elected Arthur Chen, medical director of the Alameda Alliance for Health (Calif.) and a family physician at Asian Health Services (Oakland, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Chicago Public Education Fund: Elected Siddharth N. (Bobby) Mehta, chief executive officer of HSBC North America Holdings (Prospect Heights, Ill.), to the Board of Directors.

Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (New York): Elected Harold (Terry) McGraw III, chairman and chief executive officer of the McGraw-Hill Companies (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. He succeeds Sanford I. Weill, chairman emeritus of Citigroup (New York).

Commonwealth Fund (New York): Elected James J. Mongan, president and chief executive officer of Partners Healthcare (Boston), to the Board of Directors.

Hispanics in Philanthropy (San Francisco): Elected Albert Ruesga, vice president for programs and communications at the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Legal Services for New York City: Elected Fern Schair, senior vice president at the American Arbitration Association (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Elected Michael L. Smith, former executive vice president and chief financial officer at Anthem (Indianapolis), and Albert C. Yates, former president of Colorado State U. (Fort Collins), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Creative Direct Response (Crofton, Md.): Appointed Toby Gohn, an account manager at Craver Mathews Smith & Company (Arlington, Va.), to be an account executive; Marni Grimm, production manager at the Columbia Direct Marketing Corporation (Annapolis, Md.), to be production manager; and Mikaela King, appeals and special-projects manager at Defenders of Wildlife (Washington), to be an account executive. This company provides direct-marketing fund-raising services to nonprofit groups.

Grenzebach Glier & Associates (Chicago): Appointed Henry Stephen Bangser, superintendent of the New Trier Township High School District (Winnetka, Ill.), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective in August.

Metis Associates (New York): Appointed Manuel Gutierrez, co-director of the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (Philadelphia), to be director of applied research and evaluation. Metis is a research and consulting company that serves foundations, nonprofit groups, and government agencies.

Viscern (Dallas): Appointed Deborah Fols, director of development at the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington (Del.), to be an executive consultant for RSI Catholic Services Group, and Steve Higgins, director of community relations at Saint Edward’s School (Vero Beach, Fla.), to be vice president at Ketchum. RSI and Ketchum are divisions of Viscern, a fund-raising and marketing consulting group.