People

Al Sigl Center Partners’ Foundation (Rochester, N.Y.): Appointed Karen M. Gaffney, senior associate director of development at the U. of Rochester Medical Center, to be vice president. The foundation raises money for the Al Sigl Center, which serves children with disabilities.

American Cancer Society, Eastern Division (Elizabeth, N.J.): Appointed Gene Derkack, senior director of corporate relations, to be regional vice president for New Jersey’s Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties.

American College of the Building Arts (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Charles P. Anderson,, a fund-raising consultant in Tampa, Fla., to be vice president for development.

American Leprosy Mission (Greenville, S.C.): Appointed Chuck Crowe, executive director and senior counsel at Develop Resources (Arlington, Va.), to be director of development.

American Red Cross (Washington): Announced the resignation of Marsha J. Evans, president and chief executive officer. Jack McGuire, executive vice president of biomedical services, has been named interim president and CEO.

American Red Cross of Rhode Island (Providence): Appointed Richard Tulis, interim chief executive officer of the American Red Cross in Westchester County (White Plains, N.Y.), to be interim chief executive officer. He succeeds Daniel Samborn, who has resigned.

American Urological Association Foundation (Linthicum, Md.): Appointed Patricia Santoni, director of annual giving at Franklin Square Hospital (Baltimore), to be manager of foundation development.

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (Washington): Appointed Steven Schwartz, a fund-raising consultant in Washington, to be development director.

Brookfield Zoo (Ill.): Appointed Dan Winter, director of planned giving at Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago), to be director of major and planned gifts.

Cancer Therapy & Research Center (San Antonio): Appointed Joseph F. Teague Jr., senior director of development at the U. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston), to be vice president of development and chief development officer.

CARE (Atlanta): Appointed Helene Gayle, director of the HIV, tuberculosis, and reproductive-health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle), to be president and chief executive officer, effective this spring. She succeeds Peter D. Bell. (For more on Ms. Gayle, see the article on Page 44.)

Casey Family Programs (Seattle): Appointed William C. Bell, executive vice president of child and family services, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Ruth W. Massinga, who is retiring.

Catholic Foundation (Dallas): Appointed Cheryl Unis Mansour, vice president of external affairs at the Communities Foundation of Texas (Dallas), to be vice president of development.

Charity Music (Sterling Heights, Mich.): Appointed Roger A. Fachini, former senior staff industrial engineer at General Dynamics (Sterling Heights), to be president and chief executive officer. Charity Music is a volunteer-run organization that loans musical instruments and sheet music.

Cincinnati Better Business Bureau Foundation: Appointed Micheal Hickerson, a charity analyst at the Cincinnati Better Business Bureau, to be director.

Community Health Charities (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Thomas G. Bognanno, chief field officer at the American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Cook Children’s Health Foundation (Fort Worth): Appointed Lesley Atkinson, vice president for private client services at Bank One (Fort Worth), to be director of development; Tim Plocica, director of development at the St. Paul Medical Foundation and the U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas), to be director of development; and Cathy Sheffield, director of gift planning at Texas Christian U. (Fort Worth), to be senior director of development.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Davidson County (Nashville): Appointed Jane Andrews, chief executive officer of the Nashville Rehabilitation Hospital, to be executive director.

Eliza Jennings Senior Care Network (Cleveland): Appointed Suzanne G. Nixon, vice president of advancement, to be executive vice president of advancement, based in Lakewood, Ohio.

First Place Fund for Youth (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Sam Cobbs, associate director at Juma Ventures (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Friends of the World Food Program (Washington): Appointed Anne Staunton Adams, senior director for major and planned gifts at the Epilepsy Foundation of America (Landover, Md.), to be vice president for development.

Funders Concerned About AIDS (New York): Appointed Sunita Mehta, associate director at Columbia U.’s Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship (New York), to be executive director.

HawkWatch International (Salt Lake City): Appointed Thom Benedict, director of the education department, to be executive director.

Home Care Association of New York State (Albany): Appointed Mark Kissinger, deputy secretary of health and human services for Governor George Pataki of New York, to be president.

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston): Appointed Carola Cadley, director of development at the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (Boston), to be director of institutional advancement.

Jackie Robinson Foundation (New York): Appointed E. Ramone Segree, president of Segree Associates, a fund-raising consulting organization in Portsmouth, R.I., to be vice president and chief development officer.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (New York): Appointed Arnold W. Donald, chairman and chief executive officer of the Merisant Company (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Peter Van Etten, who is retiring.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed Jake Worcester, executive director of the Kansas FFA Foundation (Manhattan), to be director of development for leadership studies.

KCET/Los Angeles: Appointed Dennis Mulhaupt, vice president for development and external relations at Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, Calif.), to be executive vice president for development.

Maryville College (Tenn.): Appointed Eric Bellah, member-service director at the James J. Harris Family YMCA (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of annual giving.

McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Amanda Cage, an intern in the Chicago office of Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, to be communities program officer, and Sara Melillo, an intern in the global-AIDS program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta), to be journalism program officer.

Melwood Training Center (Upper Marlboro, Md.): Announced the retirement of Dick Barnard, senior vice president of community outreach.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia U. (New York): Appointed Rush L. Russell, founder and president of Children’s Futures (Trenton, N.J.), to be senior vice president and chief operating officer.

Optical Society of America (Washington): Appointed Linda Cotton Perry, executive director and chief executive officer of the Independent College Fund of Maryland (Baltimore), to be senior director of the foundation, membership, and education.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Jim O’Hara, executive director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (Washington), to be director of policy initiatives and the health and human-services program.

Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia): Appointed Frederick A. Davie, senior vice president for prisoner re-entry, juvenile justice, and faith-based issues, to be president, effective in June. He will succeed Gary Walker, who is retiring.

Public Radio International (Minneapolis): Appointed Alisa Miller, senior vice president of the PRI Content Group, to be president and chief executive officer.

Safe Blood International Foundation (Washington): Appointed Xiyan Xie, senior executive for Hong Kong at China HealthCare Holdings, to be director of operations for Safe Blood for China, based in Beijing.

Saint Louis U.: Appointed Thomas Keefe, president of the U. of Wisconsin Oshkosh Foundation, to be vice president of development and university relations.

San Francisco Girls Chorus: Announced the resignation of Rachel Malan, executive director.

Seattle Symphony: Appointed Nan Garrison, a senior consultant at Campbell and Company (Chicago), based in Seattle, to be director of development.

Syracuse U., College of Arts and Sciences (N.Y.): Appointed Deborah J. Armstrong, director of development and major gifts, to be assistant dean for advancement, and Ragan D. Royal, director of development at Howard U.’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Howard U. Graduate School (Washington), to be director of development for the mid-Atlantic region, based in Washington.

Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati): Announced the retirement of Phillip C. Long, director.

Trickle Up Program (New York): Appointed William M. Abrams, president of the Village Temple (New York) and former president of New York Times Television, to be executive director.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Kathleen O’Connor Boelhouwer, director of institutional advancement at Miss Porter’s School (Farmington, Conn.), to be vice president for alumni relations and communications.

Trust for Public Land (San Francisco): Appointed Nan McRaven, senior director of public affairs at Freescale Semiconductor (Austin, Tex.), to be director of the Texas state office, based in Austin.

U. of South Carolina at Columbia: Appointed Brad Choate, president and chief executive officer of the Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis), to be vice president of university advancement, effective March 1.

United Way of Greater Cincinnati: Appointed Barbara L. Terry, a consultant and former vice president of community impact at the Heart of West Michigan United Way (Grand Rapids), to be vice president of community impact.

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg): Appointed Michael Kiser, director of communications at Patrick Henry College (Purcellville, Va.), to be director of development communications.

Wayne State U. (Detroit): Appointed Bernice Lopata, executive director of corporate and foundation relations and campaign operations, to be associate vice president of advancement services and corporate and foundation relations.

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children (New York): Appointed Joan Timoney, vice president for programs at the Partnership for Public Service (Washington), to be director of advocacy and external relations, based in Washington.

Women’s World Banking (New York): Appointed Petra Tuomi, senior associate director of public affairs at Barnard College (New York), to be director of communications.

Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Allison A. Tait, donor-relations associate at the U. of Colorado Foundation (Boulder), to be associate director of development for campaign communications and donor relations.

YMCA of Greater New York: Appointed Deborah Bagatta-Bowles, chief executive officer of the YMCA of Middletown (N.Y.), to be executive director and vice president of operations for the West Side and Grosvenor Neighborhood House YMCA’s.

GRANT MAKERS

Akonadi Foundation (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Leticia Alcántar, senior program officer at the Hill-Snowdon Foundation (Washington), to be director of programs.

The California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, senior program officer for the Greater Bay Area regional office, in San Francisco, to be senior program officer for the Culturally Competent Health Systems program.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Appointed Kim Frederking, executive director of the Coweta Community Foundation (Newnan, Ga.), to be Southern region outreach director; Tamara Richardson, executive director of the Community Foundation for Morgan County and the Community Foundation for Newton County (Covington, Ga.), to be Eastern region outreach director; and Jasper Tanner, executive director of the Community Foundation for North Fulton (Roswell, Ga.), to be Northern region outreach director.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Christiano Sosa, executive director of the Northern Colorado AIDS Project (Fort Collins), to be program officer for the community-grants program.

Discount Foundation (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Henry Allen, senior program officer at the Hyams Foundation (Boston), to be executive director, effective April 1.

Fairfield County Community Foundation (Wilton, Conn.): Appointed Sallie Mitchell, public-relations director at Pilot Pen (Trumbull, Conn.), to be communications director.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed M. Ann Tutwiler, president and chief executive officer of the International Food and Agriculture Trade Policy Council (Washington), to be managing director for trade and development.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Ted Russell, director of marketing at the Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, Calif.), to be senior program officer for the arts.

Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona (Tucson): Appointed Matt Lehrer, chairman of the Board of Legacies (Tucson), a consulting firm, to be associate executive director.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Dennis W. Cheek, former vice president for venture-philanthropy innovation at the John Templeton Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.), to be vice president of education.

Kresge Foundation (Troy, Mich.): Appointed Richard (Rip) Rapson, former president of the McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in June. He will succeed John E. Marshall III, who is retiring.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Ann K. Blanc, president of Blancroft Research International (New York), to be program officer for population and reproductive health.

Omaha Community Foundation: Appointed Patrick McNamara, a management consultant in Omaha, to be director of philanthropic services.

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (Tulsa): Appointed David Gappell, vice president of social programs at the Sacta-Rashi Foundation (Ben-Shemen, Israel), to be director of programs and grant making in Israel, based in Jerusalem.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation (Fort Myers): Appointed Julia East, chief development officer, to be vice president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

All Stars Project (New York): Elected Robert B. Levy, a management consultant in New York, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Elected George B. Thompson, executive director of the Rochester Diversity Council (Minn.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (Washington): Elected Diane M. Canova, former vice president of government relations and public policy at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Central City Opera House Association (Denver): Elected Edward C. Nichols, president of Corybant (Boulder, Colo.), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Conner Prairie Foundation (Fishers, Ind.): Elected Berkley Duck, chairman of Save the Prairie (Carmel, Ind.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (Oakland, Calif.): Elected Denise O’Leary, a venture capitalist in San Mateo, Calif., to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Covenant House (New York): Elected William Montgoris, former chief operating officer at Bear Stearns Companies (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Delaware Community Foundation (Wilmington): Elected to the Board of Directors: William L. Allen, senior vice president for sales at NCO Financial Systems (Horsham, Pa.); Lisa Blunt-Bradley, president of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League; James C. Borel, senior vice president for human resources at DuPont (Wilmington); Stephen P. Lamb, vice chancellor at the Court of Chancery (Wilmington); and Geoffrey M. Rogers, senior vice president and director of Delaware operations for the Glenmede Trust (Philadelphia).

Ford Foundation (New York): Elected Irene Y. Hirano, president and chief executive officer of the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles), and J. Clifford Hudson, chief executive officer of Sonic Corporation (Oklahoma City), to the Board of Trustees.

Foundation Center (New York): Elected Michael F. Hayes, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Stamford, Conn.), and Maureen H. Smyth, senior vice president for programs and communications at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to the Board of Directors.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Stewart A. Resnick, chairman and chief executive officer of Roll International (Los Angeles); William E.B. Siart, former chief executive officer of First Interstate Bancorp (Los Angeles); Mark S. Siegel, founder and president of ReMY Investors & Consultants (Los Angeles); and Peter J. Taylor, a managing director at Lehman Brothers, based in Los Angeles.

Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation (Denver): Elected Lynn Campion, an author in Ketchum, Idaho, and a granddaughter of the founders, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Kids Voting USA (Tempe, Ariz.): Elected Terry Pickeral, director of the National Center for Learning and Citizenship at the Education Commission of the States (Denver), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Elected to the Board of Directors: Jean Deighan, president of Deighan Associates (Bangor, Me.); Eileen Epstein, a partner at Epstein & O’Donovan (Portland, Me.); and Lisa Heyward, a community volunteer in Mount Desert, Me.

Minneapolis Foundation: Elected to the Board of Trustees: Katherine Hadley, director of the Minneapolis Public Library, and Eric J. Jolly, president of the Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul).

National Multiple Sclerosis Society (New York): Elected Weyman T. Johnson Jr., a partner at Paul Hastings (Atlanta), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

New Mexico Association of Grantmakers (Santa Fe): Elected Ben Maddox, director of the J.F. Maddox Foundation (Hobbs, N.M.) and executive director of the Bridges Project (Taos, N.M.), which helps local youths gain admittance to college, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Elected George Graboys, retired chief executive officer of Citizens Bank (New Haven, Conn.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Woods Charitable Fund (Lincoln, Neb.): Elected Jose J. Soto, vice president for affirmative action, equity, and diversity at Southeast Community College (Lincoln), to the Board of Directors.