People

American Near East Refugee Aid (Washington): Appointed Bill Hopkins, former treasurer and director of internal audit at Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.), to be chief financial officer.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas (Austin): Appointed Angie Adams, chief financial officer at Greenlights for Nonprofit Success (Austin), to be vice president of finance and operations.

Casting for Recovery (Manchester, Vt.): Appointed Lori Simon, state director of the March of Dimes-Montana Big Sky Chapter (Billings), to be executive director.

Children’s Aid Society (New York): Announced the retirement of C. Warren Moses, chief executive officer, effective by the end of 2009.

City U. of New York, Baruch College: Appointed Mark Gibbel, associate dean for development and alumni relations at New York U. Faculty of Arts and Science, to be vice president for college advancement.

College Horizons (Pena Blanca, N.M.): Appointed Carmen Lopez, executive director of the Harvard U. Native American Program (Cambridge, Mass.), to be executive director. College Horizons provides pre-college and pre-graduate summer programs for Alaskan Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian high-school and college students.

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Michael Litz, chief executive officer at OneWorld United States (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Genetic Alliance (Washington): Appointed Natasha F. Bonhomme, program manager, to be director of strategic development, and Kristi Zonno, program manager at the Rhode Island Newborn Screening Program at the Rhode Island Department of Health (Providence), to be director of genetics and health policy. Genetic Alliance helps advocacy organizations seek more money for research on genetic testing and the development of new technologies.

Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (New York): Appointed John Tedstrom, executive director, to be president and chief executive officer.

Growth Philanthropy Network (New York): Appointed Karen Goodheart, former managing director at Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group (New York), to be senior consultant for adviser relations; Bernard Morse, former director at UJA Federation of New York, to be vice president of growth capital; and Janice Schoos, senior managing director at Changing Our World (New York), to be director of adviser relations.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Announced the death of its founder, Millard Fuller, on February 3. He was 74. (See article on Page 27. )

Holistic Management International (Albuquerque): Appointed Peter Holter, executive director for Albuquerque, to be chief executive officer. Also appointed: Kelly Bee, director of finance, to be chief financial officer, and Jutta von Gontard, director of development, to be senior director of philanthropy. The organization provides training and consulting services to ranchers, farmers, government agencies, environmental advocacy groups, and other nonprofit groups that manage large tracts of land.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (New York): Appointed Cary Alan Johnson, senior Africa specialist and manager of its Cape Town office, to be executive director.

Joyful Heart Foundation (New York): Appointed Jeannette Kossuth, director of client services at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, to be clinical program director. This organization aids victims of sexual assault.

Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth): Appointed Eric Lee, director of the Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati), to be director.

KLRU-TV PBS (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Michael Larkin, vice president for university advancement at St. Edwards U. (Austin), to be senior vice president of development.

League of Conservation Voters (Washington): Appointed Rich Thomas, deputy general counsel at Volunteers of America (Alexandria, Va.), to be general counsel and vice president.

Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach, Calif.): Announced the death of its founder, Robert Gumbiner, on January 20. He was 85.

New Hampshire Catholic Charities (Manchester): Appointed Joanne Hollen, comptroller, to be chief financial officer.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark): Appointed Bobbie Arbesfeld, vice president and chief financial officer, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Warren Tranquada, partner and co-founder of Aperio, a social-enterprise consulting company in Newark, N.J., to be vice president and chief financial officer.

North Star Fund (New York): Appointed Diana Correa, Northeast regional director of funders’ collaboratives at Hispanics in Philanthropy (San Francisco), to be deputy director for programs and strategic initiatives.

NPower (New York): Appointed Stephanie Cuskley, a member of the New York City Mayor’s Commission on Women’s Issues and a former managing director at JPMorganChase (New York), to be chief executive officer of the national network, as well as executive director of NPower New York. NPower is a national network of nonprofit technology-support organizations.

Partnership for the Homeless (New York): Appointed Piper Hoffman, a New York lawyer, to be director of advocacy.

Project Hope (Millwood, Va.): Appointed Stuart Myers, former deputy vice president for global health, to be senior vice president. Project Hope is an international health-education and humanitarian-assistance organization.

Project Inform (San Francisco): Announced the death of its founder, Martin Delaney, on January 23. He was 63. Project Inform is an AIDS advocacy organization.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Announced the death of William Randolph Adams, former president and executive director, on January 14. He was 64.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Los Angeles County Affiliate: Appointed Catherine Mullally, president and chief executive officer of CMC Group, a business-consulting company in New York, to be executive director.

Texas Christian U. (Fort Worth): Appointed David Dibble, director of regional development, to be director of development for the Neeley School of Business.

Triangle United Way (Morrisville, N.C.): Appointed R.J. Moshay, senior vice president of brand strategy and communications at the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, to be senior vice president of marketing and communications.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Joe Donahoo, assistant dean for advancement for the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo, to be executive director of development at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

U. of Louisville (Ky.): Appointed Mary Griffith, former vice chairwoman of Kentucky operations at National City Bank (Louisville), to be senior associate vice president for advancement.

Valley Hospital Foundation (Ridgewood, N.J.): Announced the death of its president, Ann Swenson, on January 22. She was 61.

GRANT MAKERS

Bush Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Susan Heegaard, director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (St. Paul), to be vice president and educational achievement team leader.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Stanford, Calif.): Appointed Catherine M. Casserly, director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.), to be senior partner.

Chicago Community Trust: Appointed Bob Eichinger, director of development and alumni affairs at Morgan Park Academy (Chicago), to be director of donor services; Lloyd Fry, director of development at Window to the World Communications/WTTW 11 (Chicago), to be director of development; William Lowry Jr., senior adviser to the president at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be special assistant to the president; Antonio Martinez Jr., director of corporate sponsorship at the American Bar Association (Chicago), to be assistant director of development; and Veronica Vidal, a fellow in arts and culture management at the trust, to be manager of development.

Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Appointed Rick Moyers, director of the foundation’s Nonprofit Sector Fund, to be director of programs.

Latino Community Foundation of Colorado at Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Appointed Marcelina Rivera, initiative director, to be executive director. The Latino Community Foundation of Colorado was formed by the Rose Community Foundation in association with Hispanics in Philanthropy (San Francisco) to support nonprofit groups that serve Hispanics in Colorado.