People

Advocacy Institute (Washington): Appointed Jerry Hauser, chief operating officer at Teach for America (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

American Society of Association Executives & the Center for Association Leadership (Washington): Appointed Heidi Ellis Robey, staff accountant, to be vice president and chief financial officer, and Robert Skelton, director of human resources, to be vice president of administration.

Arthritis Foundation, Ohio River Valley Chapter (Cincinnati): Appointed Tracy L. Hearn, public-relations manager at the Salvation Army of Greater Cincinnati, to be vice president of development.

Case Western Reserve U., School of Medicine (Cleveland): Appointed Annette Ballou, director of strategic initiatives for Case Western’s Office of Research Administration and Technology Transfer, to be director of corporate and foundation relations, and Patricia Egan, executive director of the EMH Foundation (Elyria, Ohio), to be director of major gifts.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Christin Driscoll, senior director of public policy at the Association for Career and Technical Education (Alexandria), to be senior director for policy development and advocacy.

Center for Nonprofit Management (Dallas): Appointed Anne Leary, vice president of development, to be interim president.

Center for Women’s Business Research (Washington): Appointed Jaqui Falkenheim, deputy director of research, to be acting director of research; Claudia Holtzman, senior policy associate and project director at Independent Sector (Washington), to be director of communications and marketing; Emily Reynolds, executive assistant to the executive director, to be development associate; and Juanita Weaver, director of communications and marketing, to be director of media and strategic alliances.

Charlton Memorial Hospital (Fall River, Mass.): Appointed Dionisia A. Hanson, chief advancement officer at the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket (R.I.), to be chief philanthropy officer.

City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.): Appointed Brenda Maceo, associate vice president at the U. of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be senior vice president of communications.

Education Development Center (Newton, Mass.): Announced the retirement of Janet Whitla, president and chief executive officer, effective in December.

Episcopal Community Services (San Diego): Announced the resignation of the Rev. Amanda May, chief executive officer, effective in November.

Escondido Humane Society (Calif.): Appointed Sally Costello, Western area manager for field environmental, health, and safety at Air Products (Carlsbad, Calif.), to be executive director.

Family Service Agency of San Francisco: Appointed Robert W. Bennett, interim chief executive officer at FSA and former principal and founder of Resource Development Associates (Lafayette, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Grow Santa Fe Community College Foundation (N.M.): Appointed James Fries, president of James Fries and Associates (Santa Fe) and president emeritus of the College of Santa Fe, to be interim executive director.

Heartland Alliance (Chicago): Appointed Lizabeth G. Sode, a consultant in Chicago, to be executive director of strategic services.

Independent Colleges of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Jim Moran, corporate-contributions manager at Safeco (Seattle), to be director of development.

Lawrence U. (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed T. Thomas Nustad, advancement officer at the U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh’s College of Nursing, to be director of major and planned gifts, and Susan Raben, office and intern coordinator at Life Promotions (Appleton), to be assistant director of annual giving.

McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.): Appointed Lori Etringer, development-stewardship officer, to be associate director of development.

National Community Capital Association (Philadelphia): Appointed Arthur Fleming, senior director for the Southeast region at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be executive vice president and chief lending and investment officer.

New America Alliance (Washington): Appointed Regina Montoya, president of WORKrules (Dallas), to be chief executive officer. This organization promotes the economic and political empowerment of Latinos.

Optical Society of America (Washington): Appointed John R. Heberlein, chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (Washington), to be chief operating officer.

Oregon State Parks Trust (Bend): Appointed Lisa Panian, assistant director of annual giving at the U. of Idaho (Moscow), to be development director.

Parents as Teachers National Center (St. Louis): Appointed Jane Callahan, assistant to the vice president for research at Washington U. in St. Louis, to be public-policy manager.

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (Calif.): Appointed Michael D. Driebe, director of development, to be vice president for development.

Princeton U. (N.J.): Appointed Jane Corwin, vice president and director of philanthropic services at Morgan Stanley Trust’s Philanthropic Services Group (Jersey City), to be senior associate director of planned giving.

Promise Keepers (Denver): Appointed George E. Fisher, a senior consultant at the Westfall Group (Atlanta), to be vice president of advancement.

Ragazzi Boys Chorus (San Mateo, Calif.): Appointed Scott Warren, director of advancement at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Rashi School (Newton, Mass.): Appointed Paul G. Swindlehurst, vice president for institutional advancement at Merrimack College (North Andover, Mass.), to be chief advancement officer.

Staples Center Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Jennifer M. Lynch, senior director of community affairs at the Help Group (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), to be senior manager.

Tai Sophia Institute (Laurel, Md.): Appointed Blaize Connelly-Duggan, director of institutional development, to be vice president of strategic planning, and Joyce Kroeller, director of development at the Copper Ridge Institute (Sykesville, Md.), to be director of development. This graduate school offers courses in complementary and alternative medicine.

United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana (Baton Rouge): Appointed Rob Fairly, vice president, to be executive vice president and chief operations officer.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Susan T. Gilmore, vice president of membership accountability at United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.), to be president.

Wake Forest U. Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Norman D. Potter, senior vice president and group director of the wealth-management division at BB&T (Winston-Salem), to be vice president for development and alumni affairs.

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.

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (New York): Appointed Addie Guttag, a marketing and development consultant in New York and former chief of staff for Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1980, to be senior vice president of development.

Youth Employment Service of the Harbor Area (Costa Mesa, Calif.): Appointed Kathy Du Vernet, executive director of the Long Beach Bar Foundation (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

AXA Foundation (New York): Appointed Faith Frank, assistant vice president at AXA Financial (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Appointed Kathy Higgins, vice president and vice chair of the BCBSNC Foundation, to be vice president of community relations.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Vera de Vera, senior director of regional initiatives at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be program officer for neighborhood-revitalization efforts, and Laurel Fowler, registry coordinator at the Los Angeles-Orange Immunization Network, to be program officer for health-related grant making.

California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): Appointed Jukka Valkonen, senior manager of information technology at Blue Shield of California (San Francisco), to be director of health-information technology.

Hyatt Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Martha Thorne, associate curator of architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, to be executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She succeeds Bill Lacy, who is resigning.

New Hampshire Endowment for Health (Concord): Appointed Yvonne Nanasi, director of government relations at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Manchester, N.H.), to be director of communications and public affairs.

Open Society Institute (New York): Appointed Erlin Ibreck, director of youth initiatives, to be director of grant-making strategies; John Kowal, director of constitutional and legal policy, to be director of constitutional democracy initiatives; Antonio Maciel, former director of grant making and program development for U.S. programs, to be director of the U.S. Justice Fund; Maria Teresa Rojas, associate director for grant making and program development, to be deputy director of grant-making strategies; and Nancy Youman, associate director of U.S. programs, to be deputy director of U.S. programs.

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Joseph D. Crocker, senior vice president and Carolinas community-affairs manager at Wachovia (Winston-Salem), to be director of operations.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Music Center (New York): Elected Augusta Read Thomas, composer in residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

ASID Foundation (Washington): Elected Juliana Catlin, president of Catlin Interiors (Jacksonville, Fla.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad (Bethesda, Md.): Elected David T. Chaconas, senior project manager at CarrAmerica Development (Washington), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (Washington): Elected Charito Kruvant, president and chief executive officer of Creative Associates International (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Escondido Humane Society (Calif.): Elected Catherine A. Jones, president and owner of the HRAgency (Escondido), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Elected Robert Woodbury, former chancellor of the U. of Maine System (Bangor), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

San Francisco Foundation: Elected Tatwina Chinn Lee, a community volunteer, to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and James Herbert II, founding president and chief executive officer of the First Republic Bank (San Francisco); Marcela Medina, vice president and general manager of Univision 14-KDTV and TeleFutura 66-KFSF (San Francisco); and John Murray, president of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission, to be trustees.