People

Actors’ Fund of America (New York): Appointed Ina Sorens Clark, senior director for external affairs at IFP/New York, an independent-film production group, to be chief development officer.

Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago): Appointed Harry Johns, executive vice president of strategic initiatives at the American Cancer Society (Atlanta), to be president and chief executive officer.

Alzheimer’s Association, San Diego Chapter: Appointed Merle Brodie, director of philanthropy at the Jewish Community Foundation (San Diego), to be president and chief executive officer.

American Ballet Theatre (New York): Appointed Amy Brown, director of membership, to be director of institutional support; Katie Diamond, manager of events, to be associate director of special events; Lyndsay Ruotolo, development associate, to be manager of donor events and services; and Leah Theriault, assistant director of membership, to be associate director of membership.

American Public Media (Los Angeles): Appointed Lauren W. Deutsch, director of development and communications at the Los Angeles Girl Scout Council, to be development manager for Los Angeles-based productions.

American Red Cross, Bay Area Chapter (San Francisco): Appointed Harris C. Bostic II, regional manager for the Peace Corps in San Francisco, to be director of the Prepare Bay Area program.

American Urological Association Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed John M. Huber, vice president of membership support services at Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.), to be executive director.

Amputee Coalition of America (Knoxville, Tenn.): Appointed Sandy Rees, development director at Second Harvest Food Bank (Knoxville), to be development coordinator.

Arizona State U. Foundation (Tempe): Appointed Jackie Norton, executive director of the Phoenix chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, to be executive vice president for development.

Armenia Fund USA (New York): Appointed Arnette Nazanee Topian, project manager for Armenia and manager of ministry projects and resource development at the Christian Broadcasting Network (Virginia Beach), to be director of major gifts.

Asian University for Women Support Foundation (New York): Appointed Stephen Whisnant, senior director of development and nonprofit initiatives at Vulcan (Seattle), to be vice president for development. This organization is raising money for the Asian U. for Women, which is scheduled to open in Bangladesh in 2007 and will focus on serving female students from underprivileged backgrounds.

Boy Scouts of America, Greater New York Councils: Appointed Craig H. Shelley, interim director of development and former assistant director of development for major gifts, to be director of development.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts (Tacoma, Wash.): Announced the resignation of Eli D. Ashley, executive director, effective December 31.

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.

Chicago Public Education Fund: Appointed Deane K.N. Mariotti, fiscal-policy intern at the School District of Philadelphia, and Veenay Singla, a project coordinator for the office of research, evaluation, and accountability at Chicago Public Schools, to be education-investments associates; and Amy Short, finance and operations associate, to be director of finance and operations.

Childhelp USA (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Appointed John Reid, president and chief executive officer of FamiliesFirst (Fresno, Calif.), to be executive director.

College of Saint Benedict (St. Joseph, Minn.): Appointed Stuart G. Lang, vice president for university advancement and executive director of the capital campaign at Lewis U. (Romeoville, Ill.), to be vice president for institutional advancement, and Joseph P. Vaughan, temporary executive director of development and senior planned-giving officer, to be associate vice president of development.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Steve Gunderson, senior consultant and managing director of the Washington office of the Greystone Group and a former Wisconsin Congressman, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Dorothy S. Ridings, who announced her retirement earlier this year. (See article on Page 15.)

Dartmouth Medical School (Hanover, N.H.): Appointed Anne de Cossy, regional director of major gifts at Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.), to be director of individual giving at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Eimago (Los Angeles): Appointed Carrie Gatlin, director of fund raising, public relations, and program-development activities at Midnight Mission (Los Angeles), to be vice president. Eimago is a public-benefit charitable corporation formerly known as the Union Rescue Mission Foundation.

Frick Collection (New York): Appointed Jessica W. London, vice president at Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselors (New York), to be vice director for external affairs.

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York): Appointed Neil G. Guiliano, a former four-term mayor of Tempe, Ariz., to be president. He succeeds Joan M. Garry, who stepped down in June.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Michael Brand, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond), to be director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. He succeeds Deborah Gribbon, who resigned in October.

Heartland Film Festival (Indianapolis): Appointed Peggy O. Monson, vice president and client-development officer at National City Bank (Indianapolis), to be vice president for advancement.

Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.): Appointed Leigh Lassiter-Counts, associate director of development at the U. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, to be major-gifts officer.

Holocaust Museum Houston: Appointed Tamara Savage, director of public programs, to be managing director, and Melissa Torres, a Ph.D. candidate at the U. of Texas at Austin, to be head of special collections.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Sherry Rockey, vice president at EnCompass (Potomac, Md.), to be vice president for resource development.

Jewish Guild for the Blind (New York): Appointed Barbara Klein, director of regional development for the Northeast, major gifts, and planned giving at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver), to be director of development.

The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center (Baltimore): Appointed Ellen Keats Stifler, director of principal gifts for divisional programs at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be director of development.

W.M. Keck Observatory (Kamuela, Hawaii): Appointed Debbie Goodwin, director of advancement at Humboldt State U. (Arcata, Calif.), to be director of advancement.

Kempe Children’s Foundation (Denver): Appointed Susan Swern, development specialist at the Colorado Physician’s Health Program (Denver), to be development director, and Lindsey Zimmerman, a partner at Z Design & Advertising (Denver), to be communications director.

Locust Grove, the Samuel Morse Historic Site (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.): Appointed Lydia Higginson, assistant director of development at Ramapo for Children (Rhinebeck, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pa.): Appointed Lynn E. Jackson, executive director of development at Kalamazoo College (Mich.), to be vice president for advancement.

Marin Community Health Foundation (San Rafael, Calif.): Appointed Lori Gremel, a development and public-relations consultant, to be senior development director.

Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Robert Wilson-Black, vice president for development at the U. of St. Francis (Joliet, Ill.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (New York): Appointed Jean Telljohann, interim director of development, to be director of development.

National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame (Morristown, N.J.): Appointed Adam Kerins, a marketing assistant, to be a development associate; Archie Manning, a public-relations consultant in New Orleans and a 1989 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame, to be co-chair of development; and Margaret Mason, president of the Mason Marketing Group (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of marketing.

New Life Rescue Ministries (Florence, S.C.): Appointed Tami Marine Glasco, an advertising representative at WFXB (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), to be director of development.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America (New York): Appointed Jack Irving, director of media at Saatchi & Saatchi (New York), to be director of national media.

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

Quinnipiac U. (Hamden, Conn.): Appointed Dianna Pategas, executive director of development, to be associate vice president for development.

Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps (Boston): Appointed Diane Newark, an account supervisor at LehmanMillet (Boston), to be campaign director, and Marisa Timmins, director of development at World Music (Cambridge, Mass.), to be director of the annual fund and special events.

Rome Memorial Hospital (N.Y.): Appointed Susan D. Smith, a consultant in Barneveld, N.Y., to be grants administrator.

Ronald McDonald House of New York City: Appointed Bill Sullivan, assistant scout executive of the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America, to be president and chief executive officer.

Sacred Heart U. (Fairfield, Conn.): Appointed Timothy R. Stanton, director of planning, administration, and operations for the development office at Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.), to be executive director of development.

San Francisco State U.: Appointed Lee Blitch, president and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, to be vice president for university advancement.

State U. of New York, Purchase College: Appointed Thom Collins, executive director of the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, to be director of the Neuberger Museum of Art.

Swarthmore College (Pa.): Appointed Stephen Bayer, director of capital giving, to be director of leadership giving; Ken Dinitz, endowment-campaign manager at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.), to be director of corporate, foundation, and government relations; Pat Laws, director of annual giving, to be director of alumni development; Alexis McCann, director of development services at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to be director of advancement services; and Danielle Shepherd, director of annual giving at the National Constitution Center (Philadelphia), to be director of parents programs.

U. of Arkansas at Little Rock: Appointed Don L. Riggin, former president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Foundation (Atlanta), to be senior development officer at the Clinton School of Public Service.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Alleen Deutsch, director of development and alumni relations at the Georgia State U. College of Law (Atlanta), to be director of development at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

United Cerebral Palsy (Washington): Appointed Tim Turnham, director of development at the Whitman-Walker Clinic (Washington), to be national director of development.

United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed J. Thomas Viall, executive director of the International Dyslexia Association (Baltimore), to be chief executive officer and executive director.

Virginia Living Museum (Newport News): Appointed Page Hayhurst, director of development at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Gloucester), to be executive director.

Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.): Appointed Lauren Malone, director of the Helen Hayes Hospital Foundation (West Haverstraw, N.Y.), to be vice president for development.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Gina Federico, director of individual giving and campaign director at the Boston Children’s Museum, to be director of development.

Wellesley Centers for Women (Mass.): Appointed Molly (Kenah) Sullivan, executive assistant and bookkeeper at Project Health (Boston), to be annual-giving coordinator.

Western Connecticut State U. (Danbury): Appointed G. Koryoe Anim-Wright, director of university relations, to be interim vice president for institutional advancement.

Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center (Los Angeles): Appointed Renée White-Stoeckle, development manager at the Intercommunity Child Guidance Center (Whittier, Calif.), to be development director.

World Food Prize Foundation (Des Moines): Appointed Amanda Gordon Fletcher, annual-giving and membership manager at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association (West Branch, Iowa), to be director of development.

YMCA of the Rockies (Estes Park, Colo.): Appointed Scott Carter, vice president at Event Transportation Associates (Denver), to be director of annual giving.

GRANT MAKERS

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Janita Gordon, executive director of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association (Phoenix), to be director of the Arizona Early Education Funds.

Arlington Community Foundation (Va.): Appointed Lora Pollari-Welbes, director of member relations and services at the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (Washington), to be program officer for the grants and scholarships programs.

Boston Foundation: Appointed James Davitt Rooney, director of policy and associate director at CEOs for Cities (Chicago), to be director of public affairs.

California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): Appointed Steven J. Birenbaum, a communications consultant, to be communications officer, and David D. O’Neill, chief executive officer of Alameda Hospital (Calif.), to be senior program officer for the hospitals and nursing-homes program.

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (Washington): Appointed Vicki Kirkbride, executive director of the Arlington Community Foundation (Va.), to be vice president for development and donor services.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Liane Szucs, a senior audit associate at Grant Thornton (Cincinnati), to be controller.

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Conn.): Appointed Linda J. Kelly, a commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (Hartford), to be president. She succeeds Michael Bangser, who is resigning.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Steven Hilton, president and a grandson of Conrad Hilton, to be chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Donald Hubbs, who has retired.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Sterling Speirn, president and chief executive officer of the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. He will succeed William C. Richardson, who is retiring on December 31. (See article on Page 40.)

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Linda Fitzgerald, deputy director of the community-partners program, also to be program officer for Myrtle Beach and Columbia, S.C., and Susan Patterson, program officer for Charlotte, N.C., also to be director of the community-partners program.

Woods Charitable Fund (Lincoln, Neb.): Appointed Angie Zmarzly, grant developer at the Madonna Foundation (Lincoln), to be a program associate.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York): Elected Samuel Davis, president of Sam Davis & Associates (New York) and a professor at Columbia U.’s School of Public Health (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, S.C.): Elected Marvin C. Woodson Jr., former superintendent of District V Schools (Duncan, S.C.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and Doris H. Tidwell, a community volunteer, and Robert H. Chapman III, chairman and chief executive officer of Inman Mills (Inman, S.C.), to be trustees.

Cascadia Revolving Fund (Seattle): Elected Erik Andersson, regional coordinator of the Governor’s Economic Revitalization Team (Salem, Ore.), 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.

Community Shares USA (Golden, Colo.): Elected Nondas Hurst Voll, executive director of the Fund for Community Progress (Providence, R.I.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Connecticut Health Foundation (New Britain): Elected Sanford Cloud Jr., president and chief executive officer of the Cloud Company (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), to the Board of Directors.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Elected Joanne Corday Kozberg, a partner at California Strategies (Los Angeles), to the Board of Trustees.

Holocaust Museum Houston: Elected P.N. Berkowitz, a consultant in Houston, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

KidsPeace: the National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis (New York): Elected Michael J. Vogel, executive vice president of ACCO North America (Lincolnshire, Ill.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (Newport Beach, Calif.): Elected Neil Brandom, a principal at Brooks Street (Vallejo, Calif.), to be chairman.

Pediatric Cancer Foundation (Tampa, Fla.): Elected Chad Harrod, vice president of Harrod Properties (South Tampa), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Elected Daniel L. Ritchie, chancellor of the U. of Denver, to the Board of Trustees.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation (Fort Myers): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Dawn-Marie Driscoll, president of Driscoll Associates (Cape Coral, Fla.); David Shellenbarger, former president of the Rochester Community Foundation (Mich.); and A. Scott White, a financial planner in Fort Myers.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Auctionpay (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Steve Sterba, president and chief executive officer of MyHealthBank (Portland), to be president.

Homrich & Berg (Atlanta): Appointed Mark Rogozinski, chief operating officer at Lydian Wealth Management (Rockville, Md.), to be chief operating officer. Homrich & Berg is a wealth-management firm.

Philanthropic Advisors (Boston): Appointed Cuong P. Hoang, program manager for the Artworks for Kids program at the Hunt Alternatives Fund (Cambridge, Mass.), to be director of programs.

Plexus Consulting Group (Washington): Appointed Hernando Caicedo, senior network engineer and consultant at Dataprise (Rockville, Md.), to be a senior adviser. Plexus offers marketing, management, and strategic-planning consulting services to for-profit, government, and nonprofit groups.

Douglas Shaw & Associates (West Chicago): Appointed Richard DeVeau, a marketing and fund-raising consultant in Chicago, to be creative director at this fund-raising consulting firm.