People

American Craft Council (New York): Appointed Sue-Ellen M. Wright, assistant vice president for corporate development and sponsorship marketing at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark), to be director for institutional advancement.

American Indian College Fund (Denver): Appointed Dina Horwedel, managing editor of UWyo magazine (Laramie, Wyo.), to be director of public education.

Art With a Heart (Baltimore): Appointed Laurie Hare, events coordinator at the Women’s Housing Coalition (Baltimore), to be development coordinator, and Jamie Kaufmann, annual-fund and special-events coordinator at School 33 Art Center (Baltimore), to be program director. This group provides art classes for poor people.

Coalition for Clean Air (Los Angeles): Appointed Alberto B. Mendoza, Southern California regional director at the Drug Policy Alliance (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Common Cause (Washington): Appointed Robert William Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Common Cause helps citizens become engaged in the political process.

Community Concepts (South Paris, Me.): Appointed James L. Wilkins, associate director of community services, to be director of corporate advancement. This organization provides low-cost housing, counseling, and other social services to people in western Maine.

CornerHouse (Minneapolis): Appointed Thomas Frost, interim executive director and a former assistant county attorney for Hennepin County (Minn.), to be executive director. CornerHouse provides evaluation and other services for victims of domestic abuse.

Cultural Tourism DC (Washington): Appointed Linda Donavan Harper, principal at LHarper & Associates (Arlington, Va.), to be executive director.

Emory U. (Atlanta): Appointed Susan Cruse, associate vice president for development and alumni relations at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore), to be senior vice president for development and alumni relations.

Episcopal Charities (New York): Appointed Mary Beth Sasso, director of North American marketing at Booz Allen Hamilton (New York), to be executive director.

Island Harvest (Mineola, N.Y.): Appointed Kim Keller, program-services coordinator for eastern Suffolk County (N.Y.), to be director of program services; Doreen Principe, program-services administrator, to be program-services coordinator; and Elissa Weick, director of catering at the Hilton Long Island/Huntington (Melville, N.Y.), to be development manager. Island Harvest collects and distributes food to needy people on Long Island.

Kimmel Center Inc. (Philadelphia): Appointed Anne Ewers, president and chief executive officer of Utah Symphony & Opera (Salt Lake City), to be president and chief executive officer.

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago: Appointed Diana White, deputy director of special projects, to be executive director.

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (Baton Rouge): Appointed Kermit (K.C.) Burton, chief operating officer and also a senior associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore), to be acting chief executive officer. He succeeds Sherece West, who is now president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.). (See an article on Ms. West on Page 54.)

McQuade Children’s Services (New Windsor, N.Y.): Appointed David E. Jacobsen, president and chief executive officer of the Children’s Home of Cromwell (Conn.), to be chief executive officer.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Appointed Suzanne E. Brenner, deputy chief investment officer and associate treasurer, to be chief investment officer, and Lauren A. Meserve, senior investment officer, to be deputy chief investment officer.

Milwaukee Art Museum: Announced the retirement of David Gordon, director and chief executive officer, effective in March 2008. He will become a museum and arts consultant, lecturer, and writer.

Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration (Conn.): Appointed Stephen M. Coan, chief operating officer, also to be president.

National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (Washington): Appointed Mary Jane Gallagher, chief operating officer at the Public Education Network (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

New England Sinai Hospital Foundation (Stoughton, Mass.): Appointed Bettyann McKenzie, manager of member development and services at WGBH (Boston), to be executive director.

Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York): Appointed Joanne Bursich, manager of the organization’s child-care initiative, based in Philadelphia, to be site director of the Philadelphia office.

Opportunity Finance Network (Philadelphia): Appointed Donna Fabiani, manager for financial strategies and research for the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Washington), to be executive vice president of knowledge sharing.

Orme School (Orme, Ariz.): Announced the death of Charles H. Orme Jr., founder and former headmaster, on May 4. He was 88.

RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed Lindsey Kozberg, a vice president for development at Rothbart Development (Los Angeles), to be vice president for external affairs.

Robert Morris U. (Moon Township, Pa.): Appointed Teresa Gregory, a senior partner at Pinnacle Fundraising Consultants (Pittsburgh), to be director for foundation and government grants; Erin Larkin Ramsay, an assistant director of annual giving at Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), to be director of annual giving; and Michelle Schmidt, a government-affairs consultant at GSP Consulting (Pittsburgh), to be major-gifts officer.

Schott Foundation for Public Education (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed John H. Jackson, chief policy officer at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore), to be president. He succeeds Rosa A. Smith, who has become a senior adviser for New Leaders for New Schools, based in New Orleans.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Greater New York City Affiliate: Appointed Donna Lawrence, vice president for national field operations and executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund New York, to be executive director.

U. of Rochester (N.Y.): Appointed Darnell Hines Jr., director of donor relations and stewardship for the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State U. (Columbus), to be director of stewardship.

United Way of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh): Appointed Robert Nelkin, director of policy initiatives at the U. of Pittsburgh Office of Childhood Development, to be president and chief professional officer.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation (Park City, Utah): Appointed Janine Alfano, director of development, to be vice president of fund raising.

Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (Richmond): Appointed Scott L. Hippert, vice president and chief operating officer at Ready 4 K (St. Paul), to be president.

GRANT MAKERS

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Boston): Appointed Jarrett Barrios, a Massachusetts state senator, to be president. He succeeds Nancy Turnbull, who has become associate dean for educational programs in the department of health policy and management at the Harvard U. School of Public Health (Boston).

Carl M. Freeman Foundation (Olney, Md.): Announced the resignation of Cheryl C. Kagan, executive director.

Community Foundation of Southern Indiana (New Albany): Appointed Mike Waiz, former vice president at Your Community Bank (New Albany, Ind.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Laura Hansen Dean, who has become executive director of gift planning at the U. of Texas at Austin.

First Community Foundation of Pennsylvania (Williamsport): Appointed Sheryl A. Hoff, chief financial officer, to be acting president. She succeeds Frank J. Concino Jr., who has retired.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice (Fla.): Appointed Scott Anderson, senior account executive for the custom-publications department at the Herald-Tribune Media Group (Sarasota, Fla.), to be gift-planning officer.

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York): Appointed Christopher Langston, program executive for grants to programs that serve elderly people at the Atlantic Philanthropies (New York), to be program director.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed Kevin Corcoran, an investigative reporter at The Indianapolis Star, to be communication director for media and policy.

Medtronic (Minneapolis): Appointed David Etzwiler, senior director of the Medtronic Foundation and government affairs, to be executive director of the foundation and vice president of community affairs. He succeeds Penny Hunt, who has retired.

Minnesota Community Foundation and the Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Jean Vukas Roberts, director of gift planning, to be vice president for development.

Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Gary Cunningham, chief executive officer of NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center (Minneapolis), to be vice president of programs.

Pittsburgh Foundation: Appointed Jeanne Pearlman, senior program officer for arts and education, to be vice president for program and policy.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Yvette Buck, director of human resources at the Child Welfare League of America (Washington), to be director of administration, and Elaine Shannon, a foreign-affairs correspondent for Time magazine, based in Washington, to be communications officer.

William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York): Appointed Lynn DeSmet, program associate, to be deputy director for its U.S. Senate Youth Program, based in San Francisco; Rayne Guilford, deputy director of the Digital Promise Project (Washington), to be program director for the U.S. Senate Youth Program, based in Washington; Katie Mahoney, office and events manager, to be program manager for the U.S. Senate Youth Program, based in San Francisco; and Teri Yeager, program officer, to be senior program officer, based in San Francisco.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Daniels Fund (Denver): Elected Daniel L. Ritchie, chairman and chief executive officer of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Greater Bridgeport Area Foundation (Conn.): Elected John P. Chiota, probate judge for the Trumbull District (Conn.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Health Sciences South Carolina (Columbia): Elected Michael C. Riordan, chief executive officer of Greenville Hospital System (S.C.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Frances Daly Fergusson, an art professor and former president of Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.); Paul LeClerc, president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library; and Neil Leon Rudenstine, former president of Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.).

Kalamazoo Community Foundation (Mich.): Elected Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, president of Kalamazoo College (Mich.), to the Board of Trustees.

Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital: Elected John D. Hussey, a lawyer at Sheppard Mullin, based in Los Angeles, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Elected Frank D. Alvarez, president and chief executive officer of TMC Healthcare (Tucson), and Laura Palmer Noone, former president of the U. of Phoenix, to the Board of Directors.

Mass Mentoring Partnership (Boston): Elected Jim Connolly, vice chairman of corporate banking at Citizens Financial Group (Boston), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Panasonic Foundation (Secaucus, N.J.): Elected Robert (Skipp) M. Orr, former president of Boeing Japan (Tokyo), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Robert Wood Johnson U. Hospital Hamilton Foundation (Hamilton, N.J.): Elected Gregory S. Blair, a partner and vice president at Nottingham Insurance (Hamilton Square, N.J.), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Shepherd’s Center of Charlotte (N.C.): Elected Julian Albergotti, former medical director at BellSouth (Charlotte), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, Calif.): Elected Frank P. Quattrone, former head of the global technology group at Credit Suisse First Boston (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (King of Prussia, Pa.): Elected Barbara McCabe, former director of business support services at Merck & Co., based in West Point, Pa., to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Advanced Solutions International (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Ed Beck, vice president of information technology at Prison Fellowship Ministries (Lansdowne, Va.), to be a senior account executive; Dan Germain, a vice president and general manager for product management and marketing in the nonprofit-solutions business unit at Sage Software, based in Austin, Tex., to be senior executive for strategic business development; Debbie Gordon, director of sales at Certus (Cupertino, Calif.), to be senior account executive; and Gail Judd, regional-sales manager for the Southwest territory at GetActive Software, based in Austin, Tex., to be senior account executive. Advanced Solutions International creates software for nonprofit organizations.

Crowe Chizek and Company (Chicago): Appointed Stuart Miller, an executive for not-for-profit services, to be executive-in-charge of not-for-profit services. Crowe Chizek and Company is an accounting and tax-consulting firm.

Grenzebach Glier & Associates (Chicago): Appointed Kathryn Kane, senior vice president for brand management and marketing at the Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago), to be vice president for marketing, and Terry Larkin, deputy chief operating officer at the Department of Central Management Services for the State of Illinois (Chicago), to be chief administrative officer. Grenzebach Glier & Associates provides fund-raising advice to nonprofit organizations.

Ketchum (Dallas): Announced the retirement of Bob Carter, president. Ketchum helps nonprofit organizations conduct fundraising and marketing campaigns.

Notices of personnel changes and board-member appointments may be sent to people@philanthropy.com.