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Alverno College (Milwaukee): Appointed Julie Landes, provincial assistant for communications at the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus (Milwaukee), to be vice president for advancement.

Amanecer Community Counseling Services (Los Angeles): Appointed Timothy J. Ryder, executive vice president at Hollygrove Children and Family Services (Hollywood), to be executive director.

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Washington): Appointed Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski, director of government affairs and clinical practice, also to be deputy executive director.

Brooklyn Information & Culture (New York): Appointed Leslie Griesbach Schultz, a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips (New York), to be executive director.

California State U. at San Marcos: Appointed Rick D. Keith, assistant vice president for development at the U. of Texas at Dallas, to be vice president of external affairs.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: Appointed David M. Hillenbrand, former executive vice president at Bayer Polymers (Pittsburgh), to be president.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Candy S. Hill, president and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of Monroe County (Temperance, Mich.), to be senior vice president for social policy.

Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest (Washington): Appointed Tesia Love, a postgraduate intern at Edelman Public Relations (Washington), to be communications manager.

Christus Santa Rosa Health Care (San Antonio): Appointed David Boggan, vice president for development at the U. of Colorado Hospital (Denver), to be vice president and chief development officer.

City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.): Appointed Tanya Mink, vice president for college advancement at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, Calif.), to be vice president of development.

Colorado Neurological Institute (Denver): Appointed Melissa Francis, director of public affairs and marketing at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital (Denver), to be development director.

Communities In Schools, Central Texas (Austin): Announced the retirement of Donald M. Loving, chief executive officer.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness (Owings Mills, Md.): Appointed William T. Schmidt, chief operating officer at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (Silver Spring, Md.), to be chief executive officer.

Friends of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention (Houston): Appointed George Marshall Worthington, director of major gifts and planned giving at the Houston Symphony, to be executive director.

Georgetown U. (Washington): Appointed James M. Langley, vice chancellor for external relations at the U. of California-San Diego (La Jolla), to be vice president for alumni and university relations, effective July 1.

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (New York): Appointed Morlie Hammer Levin, vice president for strategic donor initiatives at the Jewish Federation (Los Angeles), to be national executive director, effective in September.

Helen Keller International (New York): Appointed Sue Mather, director of development and communications for the Americas at Orbis International (New York), to be senior vice president of development and communications.

Hennepin Theatre Trust (Minneapolis): Appointed Sharon DeMark, director of education at the Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), to be director of community engagement and education, and Bill Venne, former vice president of development at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (St. Paul), to be director of resource development.

HomeAid Southern Nevada (Las Vegas): Appointed Kathleen Dye, former director of the office of the president and chief executive officer at the San Diego Foundation, to be executive director.

Kempe Children’s Foundation (Denver): Appointed Pat Loewi, former president and chief executive officer of Special Olympics Colorado (Denver), to be president and chief executive officer.

KUED-Channel 7 (Salt Lake City): Appointed Beth Wolfer, associate director of development at Utah Youth Village (Salt Lake City), to be capital-campaign director.

La Jolla Playhouse (Calif.): Appointed Steven B. Libman, managing director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, to be managing director.

Leadership Rhode Island (Providence): Appointed Anthony DiPietro, a contract employee with the organization, to be communications specialist, and Lisa Pelosi, director of communications in the administration of former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Almond, to be director of programs.

Pilchuk Glass School (Seattle): Appointed Katherine Cardinal, associate director of development at the Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle), to be development director.

Science and Math at the Right Time for Girls (Seattle): Appointed Robin Dawn Kelly, a graduate student in the executive nonprofit-leadership program at Seattle U., to be executive director.

Shriners Hospitals for Children (Boston): Appointed Mary E. Stanton Cotter, director of development at Hope for the Children of Haiti (Woburn, Mass.), to be director of development.

Travelers Aid International (Washington): Appointed Martha A. Morris, associate director of development at the U. of Maryland at College Park, to be director of development.

The Wonder of Reading (Los Angeles): Appointed Andrea Reinken, Western zone manager for the Los Angeles Times in Education program, to be development director.

Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Inge Reichenbach, vice president of alumni affairs and development at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be vice president for development.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed Jerrold Mitchell, chief investment officer at the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Boston), to be chief investment officer.

The California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Appointed Nicole J. Jones, program director for grant making in mental health and violence prevention, to be program director for grant making in the prevention of teenage pregnancy and violence; Jeffrey Seungkyu Kim, associate director of development at the National Conference for Community and Justice-Los Angeles Region, to be program director for grant making in healthy aging and mental health; and Taryn Lee, director of human resources and administration at Lions Gate Entertainment (Los Angeles), to be human-resources manager.

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Cassandra L. Joubert, senior program officer at the Ruth Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to be senior program officer; Colleen Ochoa Peters, a financial adviser at UBS Financial Services (Rochester, Mich.), to be director of development; and Anne S. Weekley, a program officer, tobe director of communications. The foundation also announced the resignation of Mark E. Neithercut, vice president for program.

Daniels Fund (Denver): Appointed Linda Childears, chief executive officer of the Young Americans Bank and Young Americans Center for Financial Education (Denver), to be president and chief executive officer, effective August 1. She will succeed Hank Brown, who is resigning to become president of the U. of Colorado (Boulder).

Davis United World College Scholars Program (Middlebury, Vt.): Appointed Philip O. Geier, president of United World College (Montezuma, N.M.), to be executive director.

Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation (Conn.): Appointed Susan Ball, development manager at Stepping Stones Museum for Children (Norwalk, Conn.), to be development officer, and Anne C. Watkins, program officer and media-relations coordinator at Eisenhower Fellowships (Philadelphia), to be director of programs.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Hugh Gildea, controller at Dynamic Graphics (Florence, Ky.), to be controller.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Appointed Joseph D. Collins, director of information technology, to be vice president for information technology.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, Md.): Appointed Nancy Coleman, director of the Commission on Law and Aging at the American Bar Association (Washington), and Stan Goldman, director of corporate and foundation relations at Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services (Louisville, Ky.), to be program officers.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Advocate Charitable Foundation (Park Ridge, Ill.): Elected William C. Graft, senior law partner at Graft & Jordan (Schaumburg, Ill.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Agape Foundation Fund for Nonviolent Social Change (San Francisco): Elected May Cheng, an analyst at Health Net of California (Oakland), and Winnie Chu, a consultant and former vice president for programs and grants at the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.), to the Board of Trustees.

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Elected Kathleen Brown, senior adviser for public finance for the West region at Goldman Sachs (Los Angeles), to the Board of Directors.

Chicago Public Education Fund: Elected Tim Schwertfeger, chairman and chief executive officer of Nuveen Investments (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

The Foundation Center (New York): Elected M. Christine DeVita, president of the Wallace Foundation (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

George Gund Foundation (Cleveland): Elected Cathy M. Lewis, former minority owner of Resource Careers (Berea, Ohio), to the Board of Trustees.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Elected Richard G. Darman, a partner of the Carlyle Group (Washington), to the Board of Trustees.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York): Elected Frank A. Bennack Jr., vice chairman of the Hearst Corporation (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Maine Health Access Foundation (Augusta): Elected Maroulla Gleaton, president of the Maine Medical Association (Manchester), to be chair of the Board of Trustees. The foundation also elected to the board: Neil Rolde, former member of the Maine House of Representatives (Augusta); Cheryl Lee Rust, owner of Le Garage, a restaurant in Wicasset, Me.; and Lee Webb, a senior fellow at the U. of Maine at Orono’s Margaret Chase Smith Center.

Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund: Elected Carol Tomé, executive vice president and chief financial officer at the Home Depot (Atlanta), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

National Council on the Aging (Washington): Elected Ronald Schoeffler, executive director of the Senior Citizens Council of Greater Augusta and the CSRA (Ga.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Parks Conservation Association (Washington): Elected Gene Sykes, managing director at Goldman Sachs (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation (Quincy, Mass.): Elected Karen Hammond, senior vice president and corporate treasurer at Fidelity Investments (Boston), and James W. MacAllen, former president of David L. Babson & Company (Cambridge, Mass.), to the Board of Directors.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Elected José A. Cárdenas, chairman of Lewis and Roca (Phoenix), and Stephen J. Zabilski, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul-Phoenix Diocesan Council, to the Board of Trustees.

Population Resource Center (Princeton, N.J.): Elected M. Faith Mitchell, senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Foundation (Redford): Elected Robert V. Peterson, a lawyer in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Woods Fund of Chicago: Elected William Ayers, a professor of education at the U. of Illinois at Chicago, to be chair of the Board of Directors.