People

American Rivers (Washington): Appointed Jennifer Levine, director of marketing at Levine and Associates (Washington), to be director of marketing.

Aquinas College (Nashville): Appointed Kate Davis, manager of advancement information systems, and Cindy Dorman, program manager, to be managers of advancement strategies, and Marjorie Kindel, program coordinator for planned giving, to be director of planned giving.

Asian-American Heritage Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Ani Agnihotri, managing partner at the U.S. India Business Research Center (Atlanta) and president of Third Millennium Technologies (Atlanta), to be president.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Reynaldo Ramirez, director of education and community engagement at the Virginia Symphony Orchestra (Norfolk), to be senior director of education and community engagement.

Be a Mentor (Hayward, Calif): Appointed Rick Beets, a private business consultant (Hayward), to be director of strategic development.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Boston): Appointed Robb Zarges, executive director of Straight Ahead Ministries (Worcester, Mass.), to be executive director.

Children’s Medical Fund of New York: Appointed Steven A. Humphrey, assistant executive director for external relations at Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York, to be executive director.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, School of Pharmacy (Baltimore): Appointed Terri L. Meekins, director of gala and individual giving at the American Heart Association, MidAtlantic Affiliate (Baltimore), to be director of philanthropy.

Counterpart International (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Stephanie K. Meeks, acting chief executive officer and former chief operating officer at the Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer. Counterpart International is an international development and humanitarian-assistance organization.

Delaware Valley Grantmakers (Philadelphia): Appointed Debra A. Kahn, principal at Goldsmith Kahn Associates, a consulting firm in Philadelphia, to be executive director.

Doorways (St. Louis): Appointed Stephen E. Phelps, director of development at Neighborhood Houses (St. Louis), to be director of development and communications. Doorways provides housing resources for individuals living with AIDS.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (New York): Appointed Sophia Silao, program officer at the North Star Fund (New York), to be associate director.

Ferris State U. (Big Rapids, Mich.): Appointed John Willey, special counsel to the president and vice president for institutional advancement at Drake U. (Des Moines), to be vice president for university advancement and marketing.

French-American Foundation (New York): Appointed Antoine Treuille, managing partner at Altamont Capital Partners (New York), to be president.

Global Foodbanking Network (Chicago): Appointed David Pendergast, senior vice president for planning at Feeding America (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer.

Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale (N.Y.): Appointed Luz D. Liebeskind, deputy controller at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), to be chief financial officer.

IslandWood (Bainbridge Island, Wash.): Appointed John Haskin, director of the graduate program at Teton Science Schools (Kelly, Wyo.), to be director of education. IslandWood is an outdoor learning center.

Jewish Funders Network (New York): Appointed Maya Natan, director of the Jewish Experience in Israel Unit for the education department at the Jewish Agency for Israel (New York), to be director for Jewish Funders Network Israel.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Nonprofit Center (Biloxi, Miss.): Appointed Catherine M. Gautier, outreach-programs manager at the Mississippi Gulf Coast YMCA (Ocean Springs), to be executive director.

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Lisa Browar, university librarian at the New School U. (New York), to be president.

Lumina Studio Theater (Silver Spring, Md.): Announced the death of Jillian Raye, founder, on November 2. She was 62. The theater trains young people in acting and other theater skills.

Malaria No More (New York): Appointed Kate Carr, president and chief executive officer of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (Washington), to be managing director and chief development officer.

Montgomery College (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Bruce Berman, vice president for institutional advancement at the Community College of Baltimore County (Baltimore), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore): Appointed Monique W. Morris, founding partner at Aya Solutions (Contra Costa, Calif.), to be national director of research.

National Italian American Foundation (Washington): Appointed James R. De Santis, executive director of the Florida Council on Economic Education (Tampa), to be national executive director and chief administrative officer.

National Public Radio (Washington): Appointed Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

New Hampshire Catholic Charities (Manchester): Appointed Lisa Merrill-Burzak, development director at Lazarus House (Lawrence, Mass.) to be vice president for development.

New York Cares (New York): Appointed Gary Bagley, associate executive director, to be executive director.

Oregon Health & Science U. and Oregon Health & Science U. Foundation (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Allan Price, vice president for advancement at the university, to be senior vice president for advancement for the university and president of the foundation.

Pace Center for Girls (Jacksonville, Fla.): Appointed Mary Marx, vice president of external affairs, to be interim chief executive officer. Pace provides delinquency-prevention programs for troubled girls.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Vince Micone, assistant director of programs and external relations at the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington), to be vice president for development, and Tina Sung, founder and president of Synergy Works (Washington), to be vice president for government transformation.

Quinnipiac U. (Hamden, Conn.): Appointed Paul Sutera, associate athletic director for development at Rice U. (Houston), to be associate vice president for development.

Raising a Reader (San Mateo, Calif.): Appointed Gabrielle E. Miller, vice president at Reading Is Fundamental (Washington), to be executive director.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Gretchen Orschiedt, individual-gift officer at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be director of development.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Tracie Christensen, co-executive director and assistant vice provost for development for the university’s College of Letters and Science, to be assistant vice chancellor for development.

WNYC Radio (New York): Appointed Jennifer Bensko Ha, director of digital content in the content solutions group at Time Inc. (New York), to be executive director of digital media.

GRANT MAKERS

Atlantic Philanthropies (New York): Appointed Donna Lawrence, executive director of the Riggio Foundation (New York), to be director of the Disadvantaged Children and Youth program.

California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Appointed Frank A. Lalle, grantmaking director at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.), to be program director for special projects.

Dayton Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Angela Clements, development officer for the foundation’s Legacy Partnership Program, to be senior development officer; Beth Redden, development director at the Artemis Center (Dayton), to be development officer for the Legacy Partnership Program; and Debbie Watts, counsel at NCR Corporation (Dayton), to be legal development officer.

Fairfield County Community Foundation (Norwalk, Conn.): Appointed Linda Franciscovich, a managing director at U.S. Trust (New York), to be vice president for development and philanthropic services, and Nancy von Euler, grant manager at the Center for Women and Families (Bridgeport, Conn.), to be program director and director of the Fund for Women and Girls.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Nina Vinik, legal director of Legal Community Against Violence (San Francisco), to be gun-violence program officer.

Lake County Community Foundation (Waukegan, Ill.) Appointed Sylvia M. Zaldivar-Sykes, program officer, to be executive director.

Leon Levy Foundation (New York): Appointed Philippe de Montebello, recently retired director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), to be special adviser for culture and the arts.

Philip L. Graham Fund (Washington): Appointed Eileen F. Daly, program manager at The Washington Post, to be president. She will succeed Candice C. Bryant, who plans to retire.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Barbara Bach, chief financial officer at DataFlow/Alaska (Anchorage), to be director of grant management, and Aleesha Towns-Bain, editor of the Crested Butte News (Colo.), to be program associate.

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.): Appointed James Rogers, pasture and range consultant, to be manager of its northern Texas consulting team. The foundation supports efforts to improve agricultural production techniques and advance plant-science research.

Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation (New York): Appointed Sarah A. Vogel, a fellow in the history of chemical industries at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia), to be program officer for the environment.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Aspen Institute (Washington): Elected Robert K. Steel, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Washington), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Association of American Medical Colleges (Washington): Elected Elliot J. Sussman, president and chief executive officer at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (Allentown, Pa.), to be chairman of the Executive Council.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Elected Carlos Bustamante, professor of chemistry, physics, and molecular and cell biology at U. of California at Berkeley, to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the Board: Chris Viehbacher, chief executive officer of Sanofi-Aventis (Paris).

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia): Elected David G. Marshall, chairman and chief executive officer of Amerimar Realty (Philadelphia), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Frederick N. Griffith Foundation for the Advancement of Transplantation (Baltimore): Elected Karen Ort, chair of the board of Fibred Group (LaVale, Md.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Goodwill Education Initiatives (Indianapolis): Elected Fred C. Tucker III, president of F.C. Tucker Company (Indianapolis), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh): Elected Sasha Heinz, a doctoral student at Columbia U. (New York), to the Board of Directors.

Jack and Jill of America Foundation (Washington): Elected Erik A. Cliette, director of the Injury Prevention Program at Harlem Hospital (New York), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Unity: Journalists of Color (McLean, Va.): Elected Rafael Olmeda, senior writer at the Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Coxe Curry and Associates (Atlanta): Appointed Daniel J. Preister, senior campaign and research manager, to be associate campaign director. This organization is a fund-raising consulting firm.

Creative Communications (Duxbury, Mass.): Appointed Allie Moore, a recent recipient of a bachelor´s degree in business management at Babson College (Babson Park, Mass.), to be account manager. Creative Communications is a fund-raising and direct-response-marketing firm for nonprofit organizations.

Foundation Source (Fairfield, Conn.): Appointed Sharon Schneider, vice president of client services, to be philanthropic director for the central region.

McKinsey & Company (New York): Appointed Laura Callanan, a social-enterprise consultant based in New York, to be knowledge expert for the philanthropy practice in the company´s Social Sector Office.

MPower (Dallas): Appointed Matt McCabe, principal consultant at Convio (Austin, Tex.), to be vice president of community. MPower provides software to nonprofit organizations.

Pyramid Communications (Seattle): Appointed Brad Kahn, senior project manager, to be senior vice president. Pyramid Communications is a public-affairs firm dedicated to socially responsible causes.

Russell Investments (Tacoma, Wash.): Appointed Heather Myers, senior consultant for endowment and foundation relationships, to be director of endowment and foundation strategy.

Russell Reynolds Associates (New York): Appointed Nalini Vasagam, an associate, to be executive director for the health-care and not-for-profit sectors. This firm conducts executive searches and personnel evaluations for charities.

Venable (New York): Appointed Sally G. Blinken, New York State assistant attorney general and prosecutor in the Public Integrity and Charities Bureaus (Albany), to be a partner in the firm´s national nonprofit law practice.