People

Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (New York): Appointed Josie Di Chiara, senior director of marketing at BMG Entertainment (New York), to be director of marketing.

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Washington): Appointed Camille Akeju, president and chief executive officer at the Harlem School of the Arts (New York), to be director.

Animal Rescue League of Boston: Appointed John J. Bowen, vice president for development and external affairs at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Boston), to be president.

Asia Society (New York): Appointed Jamie Metzl, president of the Partnership for a Secure America (Washington), to be executive vice president, and Thomas Moore, vice president and associate general counsel at Philip Morris International, based in Hong Kong, to be senior vice president for operations.

Brooklyn College Foundation (New York): Appointed Andrew Sillen, a deputy director at the Synergos Institute (New York), to be executive director of the foundation and vice president for institutional advancement for the college.

Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, Calif.): Appointed Edgar M. Gillenwaters, senior director of external affairs at the U. of California-San Diego (La Jolla), to be vice president for external relations.

Caring People Alliance (Philadelphia): Appointed Ed Christie, vice president and chief financial officer at the United Way of America (Washington), to be vice president of administration and chief financial officer, and Eileen Kelliher, director of public relations and development at the Bucks County Opportunity Council (Doylestown, Pa.), to be vice president of development and public relations.

Casa Myrna Vazquez (Boston): Appointed Georgianna Meléndez, executive director of Respond (Somerville, Mass.), to be executive director. This organization operates a shelter for victims of domestic violence.

Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland): Appointed Diane M. Strachan, director of gift planning at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Foundation (Akron, Ohio), to be director of major gifts for the School of Medicine.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: Appointed Bonna Kol, executive director of Mended Hearts (Dallas), to be president.

Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Foundation: Appointed Sister Carol Anne Smith, secretary for Catholic education and catechesis at the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, to be executive director, effective in April 2006. She will succeed Anthony F. Lang, who is retiring.

Cause Effective (New York): Appointed Paul Spivey, president of the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children (New York), to be executive director. He succeeds Lauren Goldstein, who has resigned.

Centenary College of Louisiana (Shreveport): Appointed Amy Petrus Giglio, director of annual giving, to be director of development research, and Sarie Joubert, a financial adviser in Shreveport, to be director of annual giving.

Center for Nonprofit Management (Los Angeles): Announced the resignation of Peter Manzo, executive director.

Children’s Village (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.): Appointed Richard Larson, director of case management at Catholic Charities Community Services (Rochester, N.Y.), to be director of the Way Scholarship and Aftercare Services Program.

Commission on Economic Opportunity of the Greater Capital Region (Troy, N.Y.): Appointed Theresa Grafflin, a development and Internet fund-raising consultant in Troy, to be community-development division director.

Committee of 200 (Chicago): Appointed Susan L. Gilpin, chief executive officer of the Foundation for Rehabilitation Education and Research (Rolling Meadows, Ill.), to be president. This network of female business owners and corporate executives encourages entrepreneurship among women and girls.

Dance Notation Bureau (New York): Announced that it had laid off Ilene Fox, executive director, and four other staff members because of financial difficulties.

DePaul U. (Chicago): Appointed Laura A. Jackson, founder and principal of CJI Management Group (Chicago), to be director of advancement planning and special projects.

Emporia State U. (Kan.): Appointed Jesse Tuel, a reporter for the Emporia Gazette, to be associate director of advancement communications.

Environmental Grantmakers Association (New York): Appointed Dana Lanza, founder and executive director of Literacy for Environmental Justice (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Florida Coastal School of Law (Jacksonville): Appointed Margaret Dees, director of alumni and parent relations, to be director of institutional advancement.

Franklin Square Hospital Center (Baltimore): Appointed Martha McCollum, senior associate director of development at the Johns Hopkins U.’s Whiting School of Engineering (Baltimore), to be director of major gifts.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago): Appointed Denise Garrity, media-relations director at Arena Stage (Washington), to be publicity director, and Christine Mickletz, acting vice president of development at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), to be development director.

Grow Santa Fe Community College Foundation (N.M.): Appointed Harry Hummer, chair of Santa Fe Economic Development, to be president.

Harlem School of the Arts (New York): Appointed Bill Terry, chief operating officer, to be interim president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Camille Akeju, who is resigning.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (Chicago): Appointed Lizabeth G. Sode, a nonprofit-management consultant in Chicago, to be executive director of strategic services.

Hispanics in Philanthropy (San Francisco): Appointed Leila Hernandez-Freedman, program associate at Women’s World Banking (New York), to be Northeast program coordinator, based in New York; Lydia Johnson, senior development officer for foundation partnerships at the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (San Francisco), to be Latino-funds program manager; and Rafael Mazer, a union representative for nursing-home workers in Santa Cruz, Calif., to be development and communications coordinator.

Historic Homes Foundation (Louisville, Ky.): Appointed Antonia Lindauer, assistant to the director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Jerry Abramson of Louisville, to be executive director.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle): Appointed Nancy Wells, vice principal of development and alumni relations at McGill U. (Montreal), to be vice president of development.

Institute for Policy Studies (Washington): Appointed Elizabeth Schulman, founder of EGS Consulting (Washington), to be director of development.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed Clarence Bauman, development director at the Salvation Army, Winchester Corps (Va.), to be director of development for the Hale Library; Kelly Carrico, an admissions and advising counselor at Kansas State U. at Salina, to be director of development for Kansas State U. at Salina; and Mark Friesen, account executive at MarketAide Services (Salina), to be development officer for the College of Engineering.

Kent Sussex Industries (Milford, Del.): Appointed Dawne M. Kovach, logistics planner at Playtex Products (Dover, Del.), to be director of development. This nonprofit group provides vocational training and jobs to people with disabilities.

La Roche College (Pittsburgh): Appointed Janet Dennis, director of development and stewardship at Point Park U. (Pittsburgh), to be vice president for development.

Lawrence Technological U. (Southfield, Mich.): Appointed Stephen C. Ragan, vice president for university advancement, to be senior vice president for university advancement.

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston): Appointed Lisa Marks Schwarz, a consultant at KublerWirka (Wellesley, Mass.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Operation Access (San Francisco): Appointed Benjamin R. Aune, executive vice president at the Benedictine Health System (Duluth, Minn.), to be executive director.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Howard Weizmann, director of European business operations and senior vice president of human resources at Digex (Washington), to be president of the Private Sector Council.

Project Grad USA (Houston): Appointed Robert S. Rivera, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds L. Steven Zwerling, who is retiring.

Quinnipiac U. (Hamden, Conn.): Appointed Val Belmonte, executive director of U.S. Figure Skating (Colorado Springs), to be associate vice president for athletic marketing and development.

Randolph-Macon Academy (Front Royal, Va.): Appointed Susanne I. Shaw, associate vice president for annual funds and advancement services at Gettsbury College (Pa.), to be vice president for development.

Robert Morris U. (Moon Township, Pa.): Appointed Larry Karnoff, director of planned giving for the Southeast region at the American Friends of the Hebrew U. (New York), to be assistant vice president for development.

SafePlace (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Julie Morgan Hooper, executive director of the Colorado River Foundation (Austin), to be senior director of development and communications, and Julia Spann, executive director of Caritas of Austin, to be executive director.

Salvation Army, Greater New York Division: Appointed Lucille Geraci-Miranda, director of development and public relations at the Children’s Rehabilitation Center (White Plains, N.Y.), to be director of Hudson Valley development.

San Diego State U.: Appointed Christopher Redo, assistant dean for external relations at the U. of San Diego School of Business, to be executive director of development for major, planned, and scholarship gifts.

Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington): Appointed Ed Zakreski, director of individual campaigns at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), to be chief development officer.

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland (College Park): Appointed Heidi A. Onkst, director of development at Round House Theatre (Bethesda, Md.), to be senior director of development.

St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity (Minn.): Appointed Thomas R. Ryan, director of development at NET Ministries (West St. Paul), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

U. of Massachusetts at Boston: Appointed Darrell C. Byers, vice president of development at Caritas Norwood Hospital (Norwood, Mass.), to be vice chancellor for institutional advancement; Kerri Cleghorn, manager of special events at the Boston Public Library Foundation, to be director of stewardship; John R. Hayes Jr., a project manager at Fidelity Investments (Boston), to be associate vice chancellor for institutional advancement; and Jane Ellen Holtz, a major-gifts officer at New England Baptist Hospital (Boston), to be senior director of major gifts.

U. of the Pacific (Stockton, Calif.): Appointed Edward Leland, athletics director at Stanford U. (Calif.), to be vice president for university advancement, effective January 1, 2006.

U. of Southern Mississippi Foundation (Hattiesburg): Appointed Rocky Kettering, director of institutional advancement at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School (Atlanta), to be associate director of fund raising.

United States Olympic Committee (Colorado Springs): Appointed Elizabeth Hurley, vice president of development at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, to be managing director of development.

United Way of Rock River Valley (Rockford, Ill.): Appointed Julie Alsup, special-gifts coordinator at Park U. (Parkville, Mo.), to be major-gifts manager; Mercedes Dewey, corporate-video spokesperson at ABC Supply (Beloit, Wis.), to be communications manager; and Nancy McDonald, development and grant-compliance specialist for the City of Rockford, to be resource-development manager.

Vocational Foundation (New York): Appointed Hector Batista, executive vice president at the American Cancer Society’s New York Metropolitan Region, to be executive director.

West Side YMCA (New York): Appointed Deborah Baggata-Bowles, chief executive officer of the YMCA of Middletown (N.Y.), to be executive director. She will also serve as vice president of operations at the YMCA of Greater New York.

Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades (Media, Pa.): Appointed Sylvia V. Bastani, president and owner of Bastani & Associates (Wallingford, Pa.), to be director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Asia Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Richard Fuller, senior director for South and Southeast Asia programs, to be vice president of field operations, and Kim N.B. Ninh, director of the conflict-management program, to be Vietnam country representative, based in Hanoi.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation (Eagan): Appointed Jocelyn Ancheta, a consultant at Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees (Sebastopol, Calif.), based in Minneapolis, and Lisa Simer, executive director of the Women’s Cancer Resource Center (Minneapolis), to be program officers.

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Raymond Colmenar, associate director at PolicyLink (Oakland, Calif.), to be senior program officer, based in San Francisco.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Announced the death of Alan Pifer, a former president, on October 31. He was 84.

Central Carolina Community Foundation (Columbia, S.C.): Appointed Tonia E. Pearson, administrative assistant at Mothers Against Drunk Driving-South Carolina (Columbia), to be community-relations associate.

Chicago Foundation for Women: Appointed Linda Wagner, chief accountant at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, to be director of finance.

Connecticut Health Foundation (New Britain): Appointed Elizabeth Myung Sook Krause, prevention specialist for the Public Health Prevention Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta), to be program officer.

Gap Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Bobbi Silten, president of Dockers and Slates at Levi Strauss & Co. (San Francisco), to be chief foundation officer.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Stephen Brick, associate director at the Energy Center of Wisconsin (Madison), to be manager of the environment program, and Whitney Smith, associate director at the Chicago Jobs Council, to be manager of the employment program.

McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Clark Bell, managing director at American Healthcare Solutions (Pittsburgh), to be director of the journalism program.

Ruth Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Anthony Artis, an associate minister at Grace Emmanuel Baptist Church (Flint), to be a program assistant; Jennifer Hill, executive director of Groundwork Somerville (Mass.), to be a program officer; Elizabeth Jordan, program director for the 21st Century Learning Community Center at the International Academy of Flint, to be a program assistant; and Jeff Mansour, director of government relations at the U. of Michigan at Flint, to be a program officer.

Omidyar Network (Redwood City, Calif.): Appointed R. Paul Herman, chief development officer at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (Arlington, Va.), to be director of strategy.

Piton Foundation (Denver): Appointed Matthew Barry, regional-demographic analyst at the Denver Regional Council of Governments, to be research officer, and Pamela Buckley, director of evaluation at JVA Consulting (Denver), to be research and evaluation officer.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): Appointed Gail Fuller, senior director of marketing and community relations at the United Way of New York City, to be communications officer.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Announced the retirement of Richard O. Connell, vice president, treasurer, and chief investment officer. The foundation also appointed Andrea Cole, assistant vice president and controller, to be treasurer and director of finance, and Alan Harris, director of investments, to be chief investment officer.

Tisch Foundation (New York): Announced the death of Preston Robert Tisch, president of the foundation and chairman of the Loews Corporation (New York), on November 15. He was 79.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Alliance to Save Energy (Washington): Elected Sen. Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust: Elected Vernon A. Reid Jr., a vice president at T. Rowe Price Associates (Baltimore), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation (Palm Desert, Calif.): Elected to the Board of Directors: Dean J. Palumbo, a corporate officer and vice president for the Pacific South and Pacific Central regions at Stantec Consulting (Palm Desert); Michael B. Rover, founding shareholder and a lawyer at the Rover Law Firm (Palm Desert); and Francis A. Wong, chairman and chief executive officer of Genesis Hotel Development (Palm Desert).

Children’s Fund of Connecticut (Farmington): Elected Barbara S. McGrath, assistant director at the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative (Hartford), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Jane W. Carney, a partner at Carney & Delany (Riverside, Calif.), to the Board of Directors.

Justice at Stake (Washington): Elected Roger Warren, former president of the National Center for State Courts (Williamsburg, Va.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers: Elected Karen L. Rosa, vice president and executive director of the Altman Foundation (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Elected Edward W. Barnholt, former president and chief executive officer at Agilent (Palo Alto, Calif.), to the Board of Trustees.

San Francisco Ballet: Elected Pamela J. Joyner, managing partner and founder of Avid Partners (San Francisco), to be co-chair of the Board of Trustees.

Anthony Spinazzola Foundation (Boston): Elected Richard Krezwick, president and chief executive officer of Delaware North Companies (Boston), to the Board of Directors.

United States Distance Learning Association (Boston): Elected Paul Roitman Bardack, chief executive officer of MyJewishLearning.com (Rockville, Md.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Vocational Foundation (New York): Elected Nicholas M. Brown Jr., former president and chief executive officer of XL Capital (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Youth Consultation Service (Newark, N.J.): Elected Dominick Bratti, a lawyer at Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman (New York), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.