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Alliance for Regional Stewardship (Denver): Appointed David Thornburgh, executive director of the Pennsylvania Economy League (Philadelphia), to be president and chief executive director. The organization will move its headquarters to Philadelphia, effective in June.

American Red Cross, Rhode Island Chapter (Providence): Appointed John E. Holt, executive director of the Interfaith Counseling Center (Providence), to be chief executive officer.

Ball State U. (Muncie, Ind.): Appointed Ben Hancock, vice president for institutional advancement at Albion College (Mich.), to be vice president for university advancement, effective July 1.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta): Appointed Cyndi Court, vice president for planned and major gifts, to be senior vice president of resource development, and Lorraine Howerton, director of government relations and external relations at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (Washington), to be senior vice president of government relations, based in Rockville, Md.

City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.): Appointed David M. Carter, vice president for finance and chief financial officer at the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund (Washington), to be vice president for finance and administration, and Ken Mintzer, director of the Greater Los Angeles Zone at the Jewish National Fund, to be vice president of development.

Grace Center (Altadena, Calif.): Appointed Joe Ford, director of therapeutic family-support programs at Five Acres (Altadena), also to be director. The Grace Center, which provides support services for victims of domestic violence, recently merged with Five Acres.

Indiana Motorsports Association (Indianapolis): Appointed Thomas L. Weisenbach, director of business development at Keystone Marketing Company, based in Indianapolis, and former national sales manager at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, to be executive director.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Julia Taft, assistant administrator and director in the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery at the United Nations Development Programme (New York) and a former president of InterAction, to be interim chief executive officer, following the April 11 resignation of Mohammad Akhter, president and chief executive officer.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed Natalye Paquin, chief operating officer of the Philadelphia School District, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Christopher P. Woehrle, acting senior vice president of institutional advancement at Drexel U. (Philadelphia), to be vice president of development.

Liberation Programs (Norwalk, Conn.): Appointed Alan Mathis, president and chief executive officer of the Lower Eastside Service Center (New York), to be chief executive officer. Liberation Programs provides substance-abuse treatment and prevention services.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Greta Harris, senior program director of Virginia LISC (Richmond), to be program vice president, based in Richmond; Chuck Vliek, senior program director of Michigan LISC (Kalamazoo), to be program vice president, based in Kalamazoo; and Paul Williams, senior program director for the Twin Cities (St. Paul), to be senior vice president for field strategies and development, based in St. Paul.

Neighborhood Interfaith Movement (Philadelphia): Appointed Eric Wilden, Eastern Pennsylvania director for Clean Water Action, based in Allentown, to be director of development.

Pacific Science Center (Seattle): Appointed Erik G. Pihl, director of development at the Seattle Art Museum, to be vice president of development.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association: Appointed James Undercofler, director and dean of the U. of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music (N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective August 1.

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (Denver): Appointed Chris Gates, president of the National Civic League (Denver), to be executive director.

Salvation Army (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Israel L. Gaither, chief of the staff at the Salvation Army’s international headquarters (London), to be national commander, and Eva D. Gaither, world secretary for women’s ministries at the Salvation Army (London), to be national president of women’s ministries. Mr. Gaither succeeds W. Todd Bassett, who retired in April.

Sports Philanthropy Project (Boston): Appointed Jubi Headley, a consultant in Washington, to be director of communications, based in Bethesda, Md.; and Lisa Roberts Willlis, director of communications, to be director of development, based in Seattle.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Roslyn Black, director of development at Princeton U.’s McCarter Theater Center for the Performing Arts (N.J.), to be director of development for the Joseph I. Lubin House in New York.

U. of Rochester (N.Y.): Appointed Jim Conway, associate vice president of alumni relations and development at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.), to be associate vice president for advancement services.

VIP Community Services (New York): Appointed Evelyn Sanchez, deputy vice president at Brooklyn Family and Youth Services (New York), to be vice president of program services.

YMCA of the USA (Chicago): Appointed Neil J. Nicoll, president and chief executive officer of the YMCA of Greater Seattle, to be president and chief executive officer, effective June 26. He succeeds Ken Gladish, who resigned in February.

GRANT MAKERS

Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Kari Suzuki Bardy, a program officer, to be director of operations, and Danielle Cheslog, supervisor for corporate administration at Bremer Financial Services (St. Paul), to be grants manager.

California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Ellen Braff-Guajardo, project director of the Agricultural Worker Health Project at California Rural Legal Assistance (Fresno), to be a program officer in the Fresno regional office.

California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): Appointed Lisa K. Kang, grants manager at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York), to be director of grants administration.

Colorado Trust (Denver): Announced the retirement of John R. Moran Jr., president and chief executive officer, effective later this year.

Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (Conn.): Appointed Joseph Rivero Baker, executive director of the United Way of Meriden and Wallingford (Meriden, Conn.), to be director of finance and administration.

Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Laura L. Efurd, director of policy, leadership, and initiatives, to be chief community- investment officer; Priscilla Enriquez, senior program officer, to be director of programs; Phillippe Wallace, chief financial officer, also to be chief operating officer; and Timothy C. Wu, vice president and director of programs, to be chief strategy officer.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Mario Flores, a community organizer at Metro Organizations for People (Denver), to be leadership-development specialist for the Strengthening Neighborhoods program; Lisa Fasolo Frishman, associate director of admissions and financial aid at the Madeira School (McLean, Va.), to be program assistant for Social Ventures Partners Denver; Jeff Hirota, program officer, to be vice president of programs; Leslie Karotkin, national director of special events at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver), to be senior philanthropic planner; and Sami Nakazono, director of operations at Anton Sport (Phoenix), to be controller.

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Stacie Ma’a, program officer, to be vice president.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Katherine Peck, national director, to be chief operating officer.

Johnson Foundation (Racine, Wis.): Announced the retirement of Boyd Gibbons, president.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Eric Muschler, director of the Asset Building Policy Project at the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (Lansing), to be program officer for the region and communities program area.

Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Appointed Amy K. Harbison, associate director of communications at the U. of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park), to be director of communications.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Adam Bernstein, a consultant to arts organizations in New York, to be deputy director of programs.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Michael J. Smith, associate vice president for investments and investment manager, to be vice president and chief investment officer. He succeeds Robert E. Swaney, who has retired after 31 years with the foundation.

1675 Foundation (Ardmore, Pa.): Appointed Daphne Rowe, founder and president of Pembroke Philanthropic Advisors (Ardmore), also to be executive director.

Staying Alive Foundation (New York): Appointed Timothy Thomas, a consultant based in New York, to be executive director. This foundation is affiliated with MTV Networks International and raises awareness on HIV and AIDS prevention.

Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Ben Blankenship, controller at the Denver Foundation, to be director of operations and chief financial officer, and Cathleen D. McCarthy, a freelance health writer in Chapel Hill, N.C., to be information associate.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

AARP (Washington): Elected Erik D. Olsen, retired president and chief executive officer of Delta Dental of California (San Francisco), to be president of the board.

Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (Conn.): Elected Donna C. Lasher, vice president at Okay Industries (New Britain), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Cheryl C. Carlson, director of admissions at the Mooreland Hill School (Kensington, Conn.); Phyllis A. Kindelan, a community volunteer in New Britain; and Paul G. Salina, former principal of New Britain High School.

Everybody Wins Foundation (New York): Elected Robert C. Dinerstein, vice chairman for the Americas at UBS Investment Bank (New York), to be chairman of the board.

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco): Elected to the Board of Directors: Abigail Disney, founder and president of the Daphne Foundation (New York); Lydia Alpízar Durán, theme manager for the feminist movements and organizations program at the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (Mexico City); and Mu Sochua, founder of Khemara (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) and a former minister of women’s and veterans’ affairs in Cambodia.

InterAction (Washington): Elected Charles MacCormack, chief executive officer of Save the Children (Westport, Conn.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mazon: a Jewish Response to Hunger (Los Angeles): Elected Arnold Rachlis, rabbi at the University Synagogue (Irvine, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

National Veterans Business Development Corporation (Alexandria, Va.): Elected George Butvilas, vice chairman of the board of Republic Bancorp (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Elected Lacy M. Presnell, a partner at Burns Day & Presnell, a law firm in Raleigh, N.C., to the Board of Directors.

Yolo Community Foundation (Woodland, Calif.): Elected Andrew Newman, principal and owner of Newman Associates, an accounting firm in Redwood City, Calif., to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

BKD (Wichita, Kan.): Appointed Noelle Testa, supervisor, to be manager of audit services. BKD provides financial advisory services.

Brakeley Briscoe (San Mateo, Calif.): Appointed Stewart R. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Banner Health Foundation (Phoenix), to be managing director of health-care consulting; Julie Ver Steeg, senior vice president, to be managing director of the firm’s California offices, and Margorie Winkler, consulting associate, to be vice president. This firm provides fund-raising and management consulting services.

Campbell & Company (Chicago): Appointed Marian Alexander DeBerry, principal of Alexander DeBerry (Chicago), to be an executive-search consultant. This firm provides philanthropic consulting services.

Mid Tier Partners (Denver): Appointed Steve Silver, vice president of sales operations at StorageTek (Louisville, Colo.), to be executive vice president of sales and marketing. Mid Tier provides strategic-consulting and data-integration services.

Plexus Consulting Group (Washington): Appointed Anna Caraveli, a consultant and senior affiliate at A. Knerr & Associates (New York), to be a senior adviser.