People

America’s Promise-the Alliance for Youth (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Christine Ferguson, public-health commissioner for the City of Boston, to be senior vice president for public policy.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation (Little Rock): Appointed Fred Scarborough, director of development at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (Little Rock), to be vice president.

Big Shoulders Fund (Chicago): Appointed Morgan E. Henington, manager of annual giving, to be director of development. The Big Shoulders Fund provides financial support to Catholic schools in inner-city Chicago.

Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Susan Resneck Pierce, interim vice president, to be president.

Borough of Manhattan Community College (New York): Appointed Karen Wenderoff, president of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation (New York), to be vice president of development for the college and chief operating officer of the BMCC Foundation.

Campbellsville U. (Ky.): Appointed Chuck Vaughn, superintendent of the Campbellsville Independent School System, to be director of the alumni association and officer for major gifts for the capital campaign, effective July 1.

CARE USA (Atlanta): Announced the resignation of Peter D. Bell, president and chief executive officer, effective in 2006.

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston: Appointed Kenneth P. Binder, vice president for institutional advancement at Rivier College (Nashua, N.H.), to be vice president of development.

Center for Excellence in Nonprofits (Milpitas, Calif.): Appointed Lisa Breen Strickland, director of the Women of Silicon Valley Fund (San Jose, Calif.), to be associate director.

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington): Appointed Sandra de Castro Buffington, managing director for international health and resident chief of party of the U.S.A.I.D. Brazil Disadvantaged Youth program for the American Institutes for Research (Salvador, Brazil), to be vice president of programs.

Chimes Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Cecil S. Fox, chief operating officer, to be special assistant to the president, and Edward M. Hartman, assistant vice president of programs at Chimes International (Baltimore), to be chief operating officer.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Announced the retirement of Katharine Lee Reid, director, effective when a successor is named.

Colorado Foundation for Families and Children (Denver): Appointed Janell Bauer, vice president of development at Hilltop Community Resources (Grand Junction, Colo.), to be vice president of development and chief information officer.

Council of New Jersey Grantmakers (Trenton): Appointed Nina Stack, director of external affairs at the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Trenton), to be president. She succeeds Barbara Rambo, who has retired.

Covenant House (New York): Appointed Linda N. Spencer, executive director of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund (New York), to be senior vice president for development.

Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington): Appointed Melissa Hitchens Mulrooney, an adjunct professor in the master’s-degree program at New York U.’s Steinhardt School of Education, to be interim executive director.

Detroit Zoological Society (Royal Oak, Mich.): Announced the resignation of Ron Kagan, chief executive officer. He will continue to serve as the zoo’s director, a position appointed by the Detroit mayor.

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Janet Hieshetter, senior director of education at the National Osteoporosis Foundation (Washington), to be executive director, and Sharon Krinsky, senior director of development at Rush U. Medical Center (Chicago), to be director of development.

Family Counseling and Shelter Services (Monroe, Mich.): Appointed S. David Stadler, retired deputy assistant secretary for oversight of environment, safety, and health at the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington), to be executive director.

Foundation for Biomedical Research (Washington): Appointed George R. Goodno, deputy director of radio communications at the Democratic National Committee (Washington), to be communications director.

Good Shepherd Services (New York): Appointed Kathy B. Gordon, deputy executive director of the Hudson Guild (New York), to be assistant executive director for community-based programs.

Hudsonia (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.): Appointed Fred Baumgarten, associate director of foundation relations at the National Audubon Society (New York), to be executive director. He succeeds Erik Kiviat, co-founder, who will serve as science director at this environmental-research organization.

Human Rights Campaign Foundation (Washington): Appointed Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign (Washington), to be vice president.

Lawrence U. (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed William Johnson, vice president and chief development officer at Hiram College (Ohio), to be associate vice president for development and alumni relations, and Kimberly Petersen, director of planned giving at the U. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation, to be director of major and planned giving.

Maine Technology Institute (Gardiner): Appointed Betsy Biemann, associate director of the Working Communities program at the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), to be president.

Mercy Ships International (Tyler, Tex.): Appointed Stephen A. Koinis, former managing partner and owner of Lavinski Allan & Associates (Houston), to be chief executive officer. Mercy Ships sends a fleet of hospital ships to provide free health-care services to poor people worldwide.

Monmouth Council, Boy Scouts of America (Morganville, N.J.): Appointed Kathleen Kenny, district executive, to be finance development executive.

National Audubon Society (New York): Appointed John G. Byrne, vice president of development, to be chief development officer.

National Neighborhood Day (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Barbara Link, executive director of ArsDigita Foundation (Cambridge, Mass.), to be chief executive officer.

North Carolina State U. Institute for Nonprofits (Raleigh): Appointed Jeff Leiter, a professor of sociology at North Carolina State U. (Raleigh), to be director of research.

PathWaysPA (Holmes, Pa.): Appointed Jamie Preston, director of employment training and adult education, to be deputy director for economic-support programs.

Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region (Cincinnati): Appointed Gwendolyn E. Jones, director of human resources at Mt. Healthy Christian Home (Cincinnati), to be director of human resources, and Kelly Straight, a development associate at United Way of Cincinnati, to be assistant director of development.

Possibilities: Neighbors in Action (Oklahoma City): Appointed Jennifer Harrison, major-gifts officer at World Neighbors (Oklahoma City), to be director of development.

Prevent Blindness America (Chicago): Appointed Joel S. Kurzman, director of government relations at the Anixter Center (Chicago), to be director of state-government affairs.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (San Francisco): Appointed Monika Hudson, president of the MGT Group (San Francisco), to be director of the Bayview Business Resource Center.

Safe Kids Worldwide (Washington): Appointed Stephanie Fischer, a strategic-planning and communications consultant, to be director, responsible for leading programs to prevent childhood injuries in 16 countries.

Stop AIDS Project (San Francisco): Appointed Robert J. McMullin, director of development at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, to be executive director.

Victory Programs (Boston): Appointed Jim Pettinelli, housing-development specialist at AIDS Housing Corporation (Boston), to be vice president and chief operating officer. Victory Programs operates addiction-treatment and HIV-related services.

Voices for Georgia’s Children (Atlanta): Appointed Marc Marton, a public-relations consultant, to be director of communications, and Lauren Waits, vice president of corporate philanthropy at ChoicePoint (Alpharetta, Ga.), to be policy director.

World Wildlife Fund (Washington): Appointed Carter S. Roberts, chief conservation officer and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer, effective July 1. He will succeed Kathryn S. Fuller, who is resigning after serving as president for 16 years.

YMCA of the USA: Appointed Jonathan Lever, chief executive officer of the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida (Jacksonville), to be director of operations for Activate America.

GRANT MAKERS

Baltimore Community Foundation: Appointed Kyleigh Helfrich, executive assistant to the president, to be associate development officer, and Ann Myers, senior associate director of development at the Johns Hopkins U. School of Nursing (Baltimore), to be senior development officer.

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Washington): Announced the retirement of Anne Allen, executive director. Kathleen Hallahan Zeifang, senior program officer, will serve as acting executive director.

Community Foundation of Broward (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.): Appointed Sheri S. Brown, director of the foundation’s Non-Profit Resource Center, to be vice president of strategic community initiatives; Arlene Connelly, director of student services at Keiser College (Fort Lauderdale), to be director of the Non-Profit Resource Center; and Ilana Lipson, director of mission communications at the March of Dimes Greater New York Chapter, to be director of community relations.

Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Anne M. Baunach, community-development coordinator and resource-development director at Green River Community College (Auburn, Wash.), to be fund-development director.

S.H. Cowell Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Ann Alpers, senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (San Francisco), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Mary Metz, who is retiring.

Draper Richards Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Anne Marie Burgoyne, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate (Oakland, Calif.), to be portfolio director.

Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund (San Francisco): Appointed Robert Bray, founder of the SPIN Project (San Francisco), to be director of communications.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Rogeair D. Purnell, a research associate at MDRC (Oakland), to be program officer for the youth program; Jeanne Sakamoto, program associate for the arts, to be program officer for the arts; and Latonya Slack, executive director of the California Black Women’s Health Project (San Francisco), to be senior program officer for the California Perspectives program.

McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Victoria Shire Dinges, senior vice president for corporate communications at R.R. Donnelley (Chicago), to be vice president of external affairs.

Ms. Foundation for Women (New York): Appointed Alice Whitman Leeds, national director of communications at Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Washington), to be director of external communications.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Announced that Kathryn J. Engebretson, president, died of breast cancer on February 10. She was 48.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Appointed Juliet Martin, director of marketing communications at the Heard Museum (Phoenix), to be director of communications.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Sammye Pokryfki, executive director of the United Way of Mat-Su (Alaska), to be a program officer.

Stuart Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Rhonnel Sotelo, director of the San Francisco Foundation’s West Oakland Initiative and the multicultural fellowship program, to be senior program officer for the youth and communities program.

Tides Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Randall Miller, director of grant programs at the Vanguard Public Foundation (San Francisco), to be associate director of philanthropic services.

Triangle Community Foundation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Announced the resignation of Shannon St. John, president, effective this summer. She has led the foundation since 1983.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Advocates for Homeless Families (Frederick, Md.): Elected Olivia White, vice president for student life and dean of students at Hood College (Frederick), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit): Elected Shauna Ryder Diggs, medical director for cosmetic services at the Laser Surgery Institute at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital (Detroit), to be chairwoman of the Board of Directors.

California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Elected Douglas X. Patiño, president of the Patiño Group (San Rafael, Calif.) and vice chancellor emeritus of the California State U. System (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Directors. The foundation also elected to the board David S. Barlow, executive director of the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, and Elizabeth M. Gomez, executive director of the Los Angeles Youth Network.

Casey Family Programs (Seattle): Elected Sharon McDaniel, founder and chief executive officer of A Second Chance (Pittsburgh), to the Board of Trustees.

Coast Guard Foundation (Stonington, Conn.): Elected Ross E. Roeder, chairman of the board at Smart & Final (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

S.H. Cowell Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Donald D. Roberts, a partner at Thelen Reid & Priest (San Francisco), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (Dublin, Ohio): Elected Debra S. Waller, chief executive officer of Jockey International (Kenosha, Wis.), to the Board of Trustees.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Elected Joseph P. Tomain, a dean and a professor of law at the U. of Cincinnati College of Law, to the Governing Board.

Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.): Elected Teresa Alvarado, government- and community-relations representative at the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (San Jose), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Joslin Diabetes Center (Boston): Elected Kevin E. Conley, president and chief executive officer of Conley & Company (Boston), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (New York): Elected Charles MarLett, associate general counsel and corporate secretary at AMR Corporation (Dallas), to be co-chair of the Board of Directors.

Learning Leaders (New York): Elected Iris Weinshall, commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Life After the Ford Foundation Society: Elected Peter F. Geithner, an adviser at the Ash Institute at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be president. The society comprises people who have worked at the Ford Foundation.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected to the Board of Directors: Donald R. Hopkins, associate executive director for health programs at the Carter Center (Atlanta); Will Miller, chairman and chief executive officer of Irwin Financial Corporation (Columbus, Ind.); and Marjorie M. Scardino, chief executive officer of Pearson (London).

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Elected to the Board of Directors: David C. Dixon, an attending surgeon at Franklin Memorial Hospital (Farmington, Me.); Anne O. Jackson, co-founder and board chair at the Board Network (Portland, Me.); Betty D. Robinson, a professor of leadership and organizational studies at U. of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College; and Peter Rothschild, a founding principal of Quennell Rothschild & Partners (New York).

Minnesota Community Foundation (St. Paul): Elected Ann Huntrods, a lawyer and shareholder at Briggs and Morgan (Minneapolis), to be chair of the Board of Directors, and Mark L. Wilson, president of Weisman Enterprises (Minneapolis) and the Kettle River Company (Sandstone, Minn.), to be a member of the board.

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (D.C.): Elected Maxine B. Baker, president and chief executive of the Freddie Mac Foundation (McLean, Va.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Women’s Fund of New Hampshire (Concord): Elected Mary Rauh, a former organizational consultant, to be chair of the Board of Directors.