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Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services: Appointed Fred D. Rachman, an attending physician in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) and chief medical officer of the Alliance, also to be chief executive officer.

Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (Washington): Appointed Anthony W. Conway, manager of government relations at the United States Postal Service (Washington), to be executive director. Mr. Conway succeeds Neal Denton, who resigned in January.

Children’s Hospital and Health System Foundation (Milwaukee): Appointed Patricia L. Allison, director of board relations and philanthropy at Advocate Health Care (Chicago), to be vice president for campaign development.

Children’s Institute (Pittsburgh): Appointed Helene Conway-Long, associate vice president of corporate and foundation giving and sponsorships at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, to be director of development and marketing.

Fight for Children (Washington): Appointed Michela English, former president of the consumer-products division at Discovery Communications (Silver Spring, Md.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Friends of the Children (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Catherine Beckett, director of curriculum, training, and evaluation, to be director of program and quality assurance; Jani Iverson, vice president of planning and development at Planned Parenthood of Central Washington (Kennewick), to be director of operations; and Benjamin Root, operations director and development director at St. Andrew Nativity School (Portland), to be director of development.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Sam Worthington, chief executive officer of Plan USA (Warwick, R.I.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective October 10. He will succeed Mohammad Akhter, who resigned in April.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia): Announced the resignation of Janice C. Price, president and chief executive officer, effective in September. She is leaving to accept a new position as chief executive officer of the Toronto Festival of Arts, Culture and Creativity.

Mount Saint Charles Academy (Woonsocket, R.I.): Appointed Donald M. Demers, director of development at the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Fairhaven, Mass.), to be director of development.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago): Appointed Ellen Haddigan, executive vice president of the community-affairs division at Rush Communications and executive director of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (New York), to be director of development.

National Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York): Appointed Elise Bernhardt, former executive director of the Kitchen (New York), to be executive director.

Oregon Environmental Council (Portland): Appointed Andrea Durbin, principal of Durbin Strategies (Brussels), to be executive director.

Reach Our Children (St. Louis): Appointed Renee L. Kirkiewicz, development director, to be executive director.

Saint Xavier U. (Chicago): Appointed Robert Tenczar, director of communications at Community Consolidated School District 15 (Palatine, Ill.), to be vice president for university relations.

Samaritan Inns (Washington): Appointed Michael J. Little, director of the Shared Hope program and co-director of the organization, to be president.

Say Yes to Education (New York): Appointed Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey, president and chief executive officer of New American Schools (Washington) and vice president for public policy and external relations at the American Institutes for Research (Washington), to be president.

Seeing Eye (Morristown, N.J.): Appointed James A. Kutsch Jr., vice president of strategic technology at Convergys (Cincinnati), to be president.

Social Venture Partners International (Seattle): Appointed Ruth Jones, manager of operations at Community Foundations of Can-ada (Ottawa), to be executive director.

U. of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children: Appointed Mat-thew W. Stagner, director of the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute (Washington), to be director.

USA Cares (Radcliff, Ky.): Appointed Hugh Dukes, former post chaplain for the U.S. Army in Fort Knox, Ky., to be executive director. USA Cares provides financial and social services to military families.

GRANT MAKERS

Alaska Community Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Carol G. Simonetti, president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance (Indianapolis), to be chief executive officer, a newly created position.

Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Lue Her, a participant in the foundation’s Graduate Fellowship on Philanthropy and Human Rights, to be a program associate.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Peter Dunn, director of gift planning, to be vice president for philanthropic services; Ann Sewill, vice president and California director of Enterprise Community Partners (Los Angeles), to be president of the land trust; and Linda Wong, director of civic engagement, to be vice president for civic engagement, communications, and administration.

The California Endowment (Sac-ramento): Appointed Diane Norcio, a recent graduate of the U. of California at San Francisco’s School of Nursing, to be a program officer.

Casey Family Programs (Seattle): Appointed David Berns, director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security (Phoenix), to be executive vice president of child and family services.

Central Carolina Community Foundation (Columbia, S.C.): Appointed J. Larry Snipes, deputy director of the South Carolina Youth Challenge Academy (West Columbia), to be director of development.

Communities Foundation of Texas (Dallas): Appointed J. Steven Orr, vice president and trust-division manager at American National Bank of Texas (Terrell), to be vice president of investments.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Appointed Lauren Norton, vice president of WordOne (Atlanta), to be vice president of marketing and communications, and Robert Smulian, executive director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, to be vice president of philanthropic services.

Dorot Foundation (New York): Appointed Eillene C. Leistner, vice president of development at Youth Consultation Service (Newark, N.J.), to be associate executive director of development.

Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed David Addiss, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Infectious Diseases (Atlanta), to be senior program officer for science and spirituality programs.

Jim Joseph Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Sandra J. Edwards, director of grants at the Koret Foundation (San Francisco), to be associate director. In February the foundation received a $500-million bequest from Jim Joseph, a California real-estate developer who died in 2003.

Minneapolis Foundation: Appointed Jean Adams, vice president of operations at the Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul), to be vice president of finance and administration.

Piton Foundation (Denver): Appointed Van Schoales, executive vice president for education initiatives at the Colorado Children’s Campaign (Denver), to be program officer for urban education.

Roche Laboratories (Nutley, N.J.): Appointed Vivian L. Beetle, director of corporate relations and contributions and executive director of the Roche Foundation (Nutley), to be corporate-projects coordinator at the company’s corporate-donations and sponsorship group, based in Basel, Switzerland.

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (New York): Appointed Tangie Murray, assistant executive director, to be managing director.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.): Appointed Edward J. Doherty, former commissioner of environmental services for the City of Rochester, to be vice president for community programs.

Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock (Manhasset, N.Y.): Appointed Ed- ward Delano Wight, a religious- program consultant in the San Diego area, to be executive director.

Zachry Foundation (San Antonio): Appointed Amy Dameron Phipps, vice president of development at San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries, to be executive director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Marguerite Casey Foundation (Seattle): Elected Freeman Hra-bowski III, president of the U. of Maryland Baltimore County, to be chair of the Board of Directors, and William Bell, president and chief executive officer of Casey Family Programs (Seattle), to be a member of the board.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice (Fla.): Elected Richard Conroy, an ophthalmologist in Osprey, Fla., to be chair of the Board of Directors.

National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (Miami): Elected Paul Zeller, president and chief executive officer of the Zeller Realty Group (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Elected John Morgridge, chairman of the board of directors at Cisco Systems (San Jose, Calif.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (New York): Elected Ellen Haddigan, director of development at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), to be president of the Board of Directors.

United Hospital Fund (New York): Elected J. Barclay Collins II, executive vice president and general counsel at Hess (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.