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Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Jo-nette Arms, child-abuse-prevention project manager at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s Child Protection Center (Milwaukee), to be project director of the New Age of Aging program.

America’s Second Harvest (Chicago): Appointed George Braley, associate administrator of the Food Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington), to be senior vice president of government relations and public policy, and William McGowan, president and chief operating officer of Flying Food Group (Chicago), to be chief operating officer.

American Lung Association (New York): Appointed Bernadette A. Toomey, executive vice president for strategic partnerships and development at the American Legacy Foundation (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds John L. Kirkwood, who has retired.

American Lung Association of California (Oakland): Appointed Jim Wilgus, executive vice president at the American Heart Association’s Pacific Mountain Affiliate (Dallas), to be president and chief executive officer.

American Red Cross, South Central Connecticut Chapter (New Haven): Appointed Charles Frey, chief development officer, to be chief executive officer.

BoardSource (Washington): Appointed Linda C. Crompton, president and chief executive officer of the Investor Responsibility Research Center (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Deborah Hechinger, who has retired.

Christian Service Charities (Annandale, Va.): Appointed Thomas L. Youngblood, senior vice president at the International Bible Society (Colorado Springs), to be chief executive officer.

Columbia Business School (New York): Appointed Francine Lynch, director of the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund (New York), to be director of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.

Frazier International History Museum (Louisville, Ky.): Appointed Madeleine Burnside, executive director of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society (Key West, Fla.), to be executive director.

International Sephardic Education Foundation (New York): Appointed Sheldon Weiner, executive director of Sutton Place Synagogue (New York), to be executive director. This organization provides educational opportunities and scholarships for poor Israeli youths.

Izaak Walton League of America (Gaithersburg, Md.): Appointed David W. Hoskins, vice president for government affairs and general counsel at the Ocean Conservancy (Washington), to be executive director. He succeeds Paul Hansen, who has been appointed director of the Greater Yellowstone Program at the Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.). The Izaak Walton League of America is a conservation group.

Lumity (Chicago): Appointed Richard Kurtz Jr., senior vice president and chief operating officer at the National Able Network (Chicago), to be executive director. Lumity was formerly known as the IT Resource Center and offers technological assistance to charitable groups in Chicago.

Menlo Park Atherton Education Foundation (Atherton, Calif.): Appointed Lois Giovacchini, development director for the Central Pacific Region at the Anti-Defamation League (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Mental Health Association of Westchester (Elmsford, N.Y.): Appointed Amy Kohn, chief executive officer of the YMCA of White Plains and Central Westchester (N.Y.), to be executive director. She succeeds Carolyn S. Hedlund, who has retired.

Minnesota Council on Foundations (Minneapolis): Appointed Melissa Eystad, director of member services, to be vice president of member services.

Narsad: the Mental Health Research Association (Great Neck, N.Y.): Appointed Geoff Birkett, global vice president of marketing at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (Wilmington, Del.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Constance E. Lieber, who has become president emeritus.

National Public Radio (Washington): Appointed Annie Callaway Davis, senior director of development at the Brookings Institution (Washington), to be vice president for development and executive director of the organization’s foundation.

New Teacher Project (New York): Appointed Ariela Rozman, vice president, to be chief executive officer. She succeeds Michelle Rhee, who has been appointed chancellor of the D.C. Public Schools (Washington).

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers: Appointed Ronna D. Brown, president of the Better Business Bureau Center (New York), to be president.

Northern Virginia Health Foundation (Alexandria): Appointed Patricia N. Mathews, interim executive director and a former consultant for grant-making policies, to be executive director.

Philanthropic Initiative (Boston): Announced the death of Joe Breiteneicher, president and chief executive officer, on June 22. He was 62. The Philanthropic Initiative creates and evaluates philanthropic programs for corporations, families, foundations, and individual donors.

Seva Foundation (Berkeley, Calif.): Appointed Mark Lancaster, coordinator at the Presbyterian Hunger Program (Louisville, Ky.), to be executive director. Seva Foundation collaborates with other organizations on efforts to reduce poverty and disease around the world.

Southern California Counseling Center (Los Angeles): Appointed Marilyn Johnson, executive director of Job Starts (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

U. of California at Berkeley: Appointed David Blinder, vice president for resources and public affairs at Wellesley College (Mass.), to be associate vice chancellor for university relations, chief development officer, and vice president of the university’s foundation.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Scot Weiner, director of development for the Eastern region at the U. of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Ann Arbor), to be director of development for the Anderson School of Management.

United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.): Appointed Jim Alston, senior vice president for the Northeast regional office, to be senior vice president for northern field operations; Anthony Caldwell, regional development director for workplace giving (Newark, N.J.), to be New Jersey-area development director (Newark); Deborah Dolsey, chief external-affairs officer at the Charles Wright African American Museum (Detroit), to be regional development director for northern field operations; Deborah T. Graham, area development director (Minneapolis), to be regional development director for the northern region (Minneapolis); Paulette Jackson, area development director for Washington, to be regional development director overseeing offices in the metropolitan Washington area and Philadelphia; Renee Jenkins, area development director for foundations and workplace giving (New York), to be regional director of workplace initiatives for northern field operations (New York); Monica McCluney, principal at Stratica (Leesburg, Va.), to be national director of strategic alliances; Fred Mitchell, area development director for New Jersey (New York), to be regional development director for northern field operations (New York); and Warren Williams, area development director for corporations (New York), to be regional director of corporations in the northern field operations (New York).

United Way of New York City: Appointed Gordon J. Campbell, chief executive officer of Safe Horizon (New York), to be president and chief executive officer, effective October 1. He will succeed Lawrence Mandell, who has retired.

U.S. Fund for Unicef (New York): Appointed Caryl M. Stern, chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Charles J. Lyons, who is now director of special initiatives and adviser to the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle).

Yellowstone Park Foundation (Bozeman, Mont.): Appointed Paul Zambernardi, managing director of SCS Inc., a consulting firm in Farmingdale, Me., to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Akron Community Foundation (Ohio): Announced the retirement of Jody Bacon, president, effective July 31, 2008.

Battle Creek Community Foundation (Mich.): Appointed Kimberly Holley, vice president of marketing and communications, to be senior vice president.

Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Deborah Schwab, director of new product development at Blue Shield of California (San Francisco), to be director of the health and technology program.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Roy Allen, a wealth adviser at Morgan Stanley (Beverly Hills, Calif.), to be investment analyst.

California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed William Nicholas, a senior research analyst at First 5 LA (Los Angeles), to be director of research.

Carl M. Freeman Foundation (Olney, Md.) and Joshua M. Freeman Foundation (Fenwick Island, Del.): Appointed Jean Shaughnessy Hodges, president of Pathwise Partners (Vienna, Va.), to be executive director. She succeeds Cheryl C. Kagan, who resigned as executive director of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation in May.

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Christopher B. Smith, chief operating officer at the Southeast Michigan Community Alliance (Taylor), to be program officer.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Meka Sales, a program officer at the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund (Raleigh), to be a program officer in the health-care division.

Edwin Gould Foundation (New York): Appointed Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Michael Osheowitz, who has retired.

Ford Foundation (New York): Announced the death of F. Champion Ward, former director of the Overseas Development Program for the Middle East and Africa and former vice president for education and research, on July 2. He was 96.

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Jessica A. Brown, a recent graduate of the U. of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, to be a program analyst.

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Donna Bandelloni, vice president and senior director of charitable gift services covering the Western United States at Mellon Financial Services, based in San Francisco, to be director of gift planning.

Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Kari Schlachtenhaufen, vice president of corporate affairs at United Health Group-Ovations (Minnetonka, Minn.) and former president of the Skillman Foundation (Detroit), to be interim president and chief executive officer.

Oregon Community Foundation (Portland): Appointed Julie Gregory, a lawyer in Bend, Ore., to be a charitable gift planner for central and eastern Oregon.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed David C. Colby, interim vice president for research and evaluation and deputy director for research and evaluation, to be vice president for research and evaluation.

Vermont Community Foundation (Middlebury): Appointed Peter Espenshade, executive director of the Lake Champlain Land Trust (Burlington, Vt.), to be vice president for philanthropic giving.

Winston-Salem Foundation (N.C.): Appointed Michael Clements, director of the Downtown Health Plaza of Baptist Hospital (Winston-Salem), to be vice president for community investment; Robin Burr DeVane, business office assistant at Salem Academy and College (Winston-Salem), to be grants manager; Andrea Falden, regional program manager for Prince William County at Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers (Culpeper, Va.), to be a program officer; Cici Fulton, campaign associate at Capital Development Services (Winston-Salem), to be director for marketing and communications; Jonathan Halsey, project manager at New River Community Partners (Sparta, N.C.), to be donor-services officer; and Tari Hanneman, principal of Metis Consulting (Winston-Salem), to be Women’s Fund coordinator.

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Joseph D. Crocker, director of operations, to be interim executive director. He succeeds Thomas W. Ross, who has been appointed president of Davidson College (N.C.).

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Akron Community Foundation (Ohio): Elected to the Board of Directors: Mark Allio, chief executive officer of CFBank (Fairlawn, Ohio); Olivia Demas, a community volunteer in Richfield, Ohio; and Mike Sweeney, a lawyer at Brouse McDowell (Akron).

Center for Public Integrity (Washington): Elected Geneva Overholser, a journalism-studies professor at the U. of Missouri School of Journalism, based in Washington, and former editor of the Des Moines Register, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Clowes Fund (Indianapolis): Elected Douglas S. Clowes, a technical writer at Clowes Information Design (Bolton, Mass.), to the Board of Directors. Mr. Clowes is a grandson of the fund’s founders, George H.A. Clowes and his wife, Edith Whitehill Clowes.

Edwin Gould Foundation (New York): Elected Mark Bieler, president of Mark Bieler Associates (Scarsdale, N.Y.), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Foundation for the Zoological Society of San Diego: Elected Joanne C. Warren, a community volunteer in San Diego, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.): Elected Bob Dugas, president and chief executive officer of Goodwill Industries of San Antonio, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice (Fla.): Elected Norbert Donelly, owner and president of Tervis Tumbler Company (North Venice, Fla.), and R. Elton White, former president of NCR Corporation (Dayton, Ohio), to the Board of Directors.

Hillel Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit: Elected Gary Snyder, managing director of Nonprofit Imperative (West Bloomfield, Mich.), to be president of the Board of Governors.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Elected Kenneth Spirer, former assistant general counsel at Merrill Lynch (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Wendy J. Wolf, president and chief executive officer of the Maine Health Access Foundation (Augusta).

Metropolitan Opera (New York): Announced the death of Beverly Sills, former chairman of the Board of Directors, on July 2. She was 78.

National Trust for the Humanities (Washington): Elected Robert G. Perry, former chairman and chief executive officer of BSI Americas (Reston, Va.), to be president and chairman of the Board of Directors.

Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul): Elected Daniel Kemmis, a senior fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West (Missoula, Mont.), to be chair of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board: Natalie Camacho Mendoza, a lawyer in Boise, Idaho; Sally Pederson, former lieutenant governor of Iowa (Des Moines); and Sarah Vogel, a lawyer at the Sarah Vogel Law Firm (Bismarck, N.D.).

Provail (Seattle): Elected Douglas McFarland, accounting manager at the Starbucks Coffee Company (Seattle), to be chair of the Board of Directors. This group provides services for people with disabilities.

Washington Area Women’s Foundation: Elected Deborah Gandy, director of Citi Private Bank, based in Washington, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

X Prize Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.): Elected Ray Kurzweil, founder and chief executive officer of Kurzweil Technologies (Wellesley Hills, Mass.), to the Board of Trustees.

YMCA of Greater New York: Elected Janice Reals Ellig, co-chief executive officer of Chadick Ellig (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Amergent (Peabody, Mass.): Appointed Mark Connors, director of business development, to be vice president. Amergent is a direct-marketing firm.

Auctionpay (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Mary Ann Neidert, vice president and chief financial officer of the prepaid-services division at First Data, based in Denver, to be chief financial officer. Auctionpay helps nonprofit organizations handle auction fund raising at special events.

CreateHope (Washington): Appointed Robert J. Meagher, executive vice president of emerging businesses at Digital Insight Corporation (Calabasas, Calif.), to be chief executive officer. CreateHope helps nonprofit groups manage online giving efforts.

Dewey & Kaye (Pittsburgh): Appointed Mary Phan-Gruber, executive director of the Birmingham Foundation (Pittsburgh), to be a senior nonprofit consultant. Dewey & Kaye offers executive-search and planning services to nonprofit organizations and foundations.

Marts & Lundy (Lyndhurst, N.J.): Appointed Martha H. Keates, vice president for college advancement at Scripps College (Claremont, Calif.), to be a senior consultant. Marts & Lundy assists charities with fund-raising and communications efforts.

Nevins & Associates (Hunt Valley, Md.): Appointed Cheryl Knauer, media-relations director at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), to be an account executive. Nevins & Associates is a marketing and public-relations firm for charities, government groups, and businesses.