People

Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships (Boston): Appointed Bob Giannino-Racine, vice president of business development and government relations at Jumpstart for Young Children (Boston), to be executive director.

Alliance to Save Energy (Washington): Appointed Brian T. Castelli, an energy consultant in Washington, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

American Health Assistance Foundation (Clarksburg, Md.): Appointed Kathleen L. Honaker, director of development, to be executive director.

Blues Foundation (Memphis): Appointed Jay Sieleman, director of administration, to be executive director.

Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center: Appointed Theresa Olson, development research manager at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (Ill.), to be manager of individual and corporate giving.

City Harvest (New York): Appointed Sally Hernandez Pinero, a lawyer and consultant in New York, to be executive director.

Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Denver): Appointed Sharon Knight, executive director of the Front Range Community College Foundation (Boulder, Colo.), to be vice president of development.

Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (Santa Clara, Calif.): Appointed Safaa Ibrahim, former senior project manager at Registration Unlimited (San Jose, Calif.), to be executive director.

Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix): Appointed Kelly Lovell-Taylor, senior marketing director at the Harlem Globetrotters (Phoenix), to be director of marketing.

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (Winchester, Va.): Announced the retirement of Paul D. Nelson, president, effective in March.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Jonathan T.M. Reckford, executive pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church (Edina, Minn.) and former president of stores for Best Buy’s Musicland division (Minneapolis), to be chief executive officer.

Hearthstone of Minnesota (South St. Paul): Appointed Greg Schlichter, director of development at MRCI (Mankato, Minn.), to be director of development. Hearthstone provides residential family care for youths with emotional and behavioral problems.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties (San Francisco): Appointed Thomas A. Dine, president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Prague), to be president and chief executive officer.

Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore): Appointed Steven A. Rum, vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs at the Duke U. Medical Center (Durham, N.C.), to be senior associate vice president for development and alumni relations for medicine.

Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Joe Youngblood, director of the foundation’s Institute for the 21st Century, to be executive director.

LA’s Best (Los Angeles): Appointed Richard Hoff, director of development in leadership giving at Save the Children’s office in Beverly Hills, Calif., to be senior director of development and planning. LA’s Best operates after-school educational programs for elementary schoolchildren.

LifeSpan (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Ralph W. Adams, president and chief executive officer of Chemical Technologies (Charlotte), to be chief financial officer.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions: Appointed Carol Stakenas, deputy director and curator at Creative Time (New York), to be executive director.

Metropolitan Family Services (Chicago): Appointed Bryn E. Reese, vice president of external affairs at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, to be executive vice president for external relations.

National Constitution Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Betsy Murray, membership manager, to be director of annual giving.

National Urban League (New York): Appointed Chandra Y. Anderson, senior vice president for development at the Apollo Theater Foundation (New York), to be senior vice president for development.

Oregon Ballet Theatre (Portland): Appointed Beth Barbre, managing director, to be senior consultant.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Announced the death of Thomas W. Langfitt, former chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Trustees, on August 7. He was 78.

Prostate Cancer Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed Sarah Z. Evans, founder and vice president of the social marketing and lifestyle division at CarryOn Communication (Los Angeles), to be vice president for communications, and Karen D. Stone, executive vice president of the Mercy Hospital Foundation at Scripps Mercy Hospital (San Diego), to be senior vice president for development.

Richmond Jewish Foundation (Va.): Appointed Daniel H. Weintraub, assistant executive director at the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, to be executive director.

Smith College (Northampton, Mass.): Appointed Patricia Jackson, associate vice president for development at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), to be vice president for advancement.

Via of the Lehigh Valley (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Sylvester Kohut Jr., campus executive officer and professor of education at Pennsylvania State U. at Schuylkill, to be director of development. Via provides services to people with disabilities.

Volunteer Center Orange County (Orange, Calif.): Announced the retirement of Carol Stone, chief executive officer, effective by the end of the year.

Winning Workplaces (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Celeste Wroblewski, director of marketing and communications at Lakefront Supportive Housing (Chicago), to be director of organizational advancement.

Women’s American ORT (New York): Appointed Hope Kessler, vice dean of development at the New York U. Medical Center, to be national executive director.

Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale-New Haven Health System (Conn.): Appointed Marna P. Borgstrom, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the hospital, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Joseph A. Zaccagnino, who is retiring.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed David E. Trueblood, director of communications at Trinity Church (Boston), to be director of public relations.

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Cecilia Echeverría, a program associate, to be a program officer, based in San Francisco, and Sid Voorakkara, a political and corporate consultant in San Diego, to be a program officer for Imperial, Orange, and San Diego Counties, based in San Diego.

Communities Foundation of Texas (Dallas): Appointed Brent E. Christopher, director of development at the Children’s Medical Center Dallas, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Ed Fjordbak, who announced his retirement in February.

Deloitte & Touche (Washington): Appointed Evan Hochberg, managing director at Community Wealth Ventures (Washington), to be national head of community involvement.

Deshpande Foundation (Woburn, Mass.): Appointed Nishith Acharya, chief executive officer of Youth Tech Entrepreneurs (Medford, Mass.), to be executive director. The foundation focuses on development, education, health, and other issues in India and the United States.

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed Terry Ryan, program director, to be vice president for Ohio programs and policy.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Marcelle Hinand Cady, a senior consultant at the TCC Group (San Francisco), to be program director for the arts.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Announced the resignation of Anne C. Petersen, senior vice president of programming. She plans to start an organization that will pair American volunteers with impoverished communities in other countries.

McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed David L. Grange, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Richard A. Behrenhausen, who is retiring.

San Diego Foundation: Appointed Paul Thompson, principal and senior partner at Global Community Solutions (Carlsbad, Calif.), to be senior vice president for the Organizational Success program.

Skoll Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Richard Fahey, controller, to be chief operating officer.

Wallace Global Fund (Washington): Appointed Melissa Dann, senior program officer for the natural-resources program, to be executive director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Adler Planetarium (Chicago): Elected Frank M. Clark, executive vice president and chief of staff at Exelon (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Baltimore Community Foundation: Elected Harry S. Johnson, a partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston (Baltimore), and Marc B. Terrill, president of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, to the Board of Trustees.

Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Elected Julia H. Klein, president and chief executive officer of C.H. Briggs Hardware (Reading), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

City Harvest (New York): Elected James Kallman, president of Kallman Management (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Dennis W. Archer, chairman of Dickinson Wright (Detroit); Albert M. Berriz, president and chief executive officer of McKinley (Ann Arbor, Mich.); Andrew L. Camden, senior vice president at JP Morgan Private Client Services (Grosse Pointe, Mich.); John D. Lewis, vice chairman of Comerica (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.); Florine Mark, president and chief executive officer of the WW Group (Farmington Hills, Mich.); James B. Nicholson, president and chief executive officer of PVS Chemicals (Grosse Pointe Farms); and Ken Whipple, chairman of CMS Energy (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers (Washington): Elected Bill King, president of the Minnesota Council on Foundations (Minneapolis), to be chair of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Lucille DiDomenico, executive director of the Conference of Southwest Foundations (Dallas); Colin Lacon, president and chief executive officer of Northern California Grantmakers (San Francisco); Michael Seltzer, president of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers; and Eileen M. Wilhem, senior vice president and managing executive of Wachovia’s Charitable Services Group (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

Goldseker Foundation (Baltimore): Elected Susan B. Katzenberg, former president and chief executive officer of Westview Savings Bank (Baltimore), and Howard M. Weiss, senior vice president and wealth-management consultant at Bank of America (Baltimore), to the Board of Directors.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation: Elected Stephen H. Marcus, chief executive officer of the Marcus Corporation (Milwaukee), to be chair of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Judy Jorgensen, former dean of academic support at Waukesha County Technical College (Pewaukee, Wis.), and Thomas Spero, managing partner of Deloitte & Touche’s Milwaukee office.

New York Foundation for the Arts: Elected Kathleen O’Grady, president of the O’Grady Foundation (Westport, Conn.), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

U. of California at Irvine Foundation: Elected Douglas K. Freeman, chairman and national managing partner at IFF Advisors (Irvine), to be chair of the Board of Directors.