People

American Farmland Trust (Washington): Appointed Jennifer Small, senior development officer at Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.), to be associate director for major gifts, based in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

American Humane Association (Denver): Appointed David C. Hall, senior director of planned giving at the Intermountain Division of the Salvation Army (Denver), to be senior development officer for planned giving, and Caren Kaplan, director of child and family protection at the Child Welfare League of America (Arlington, Va.), to be director of child-protection reform.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Kevin M. Brown, acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (Washington), to be chief operating officer, and Suzanne C. DeFrancis, assistant secretary of public affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Washington), to be chief public-affairs officer.

Beth Abraham Health Services (New York): Appointed Linda Wagner, director of media relations and public affairs at the Associated Press (New York), to be associate executive director of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function.

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (Colorado Springs): Appointed Janet Carlson Powell, director of the organization’s Center for Research and Evaluation, to be executive director. She succeeds Rodger W. Bybee, who has retired. Biological Sciences Curriculum Study works to improve science education by developing curricular materials, providing professional development for teachers, and conducting research

Catholic Charities of Boston: Appointed Tiziana Dearing, executive director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be president.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed the Rev. Clarence Williams, director of black Catholic ministries at the Archdiocese of Detroit, to be director of racial equality and diversity initiatives.

Children’s Medical Center Dallas: Appointed Terry Smith Morgan, academic-grants officer at Samford U. (Birmingham, Ala.), to be director of development for donor relations and stewardship, and Lori Waggoner, director of communications for the office of development, to be director of development for annual and community support.

Children’s National Medical Center (Washington): Appointed Mark Miller, a vice president at the Case Foundation (Washington), to be director of philanthropic marketing and communications.

Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Cincinnati): Appointed Robin L. Usalis, vice president of program services, to be president and chief executive officer.

Common Sense Media (San Francisco): Appointed Anne Kallin Zehren, president of sales and marketing at Current TV (San Francisco), to be president. Also appointed: Kevin Kosik, deputy chief development officer at the Sierra Club (San Francisco) and director of operations at Sierra magazine, to be director of development.

Commonweal Institute (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Barry Kendall, managing director of 7 Stages (Atlanta), to be executive director. This think tank promotes environmental protection and economic and racial justice.

CompuMentor (San Francisco): Appointed Rebecca Masisak, vice president and general manager of CompuMentor’s TechSoup Stock, and Marnie Webb, vice president of knowledge services, to be co-chief executive officers. They join Daniel Ben-Horin, the founder of CompuMentor, who will continue serving as co-chief executive officer and president.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Ark.): Appointed Sandra K. Edwards, associate vice chancellor for development at the U. of Arkansas (Fayetteville), to be associate director.

Emma Norton Services (St. Paul): Announced the retirement of Nelda Rhoades Clarke, executive director, effective January 1, 2008. This group provides drug treatment, mental-health services, and housing for homeless women.

EngenderHealth (New York): Appointed Terrence Jezowski, vice president of development and marketing, to be vice president for external relations; Isaiah Ndong, director of the organization’s Action for West Africa Region-Reproductive Health, based in Accra, Ghana, to be vice president for programs; and Mark Trozzi, chief financial officer, also to be vice president for operations.

FEGS Health and Human Services System (New York): Appointed Gail A. Magaliff, chief operating officer for human services, to be chief executive officer.

Hands On Atlanta: Appointed Cheryl P. Dixon, financial-development director at the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead (Atlanta), to be director of development. Hands On Atlanta helps individuals, groups, and companies find volunteering opportunities.

Hilo Art Museum (Hawaii): Appointed Steve Davey, public-relations coordinator, to be associate director.

History San Jose (Calif.): Appointed Alida Bray, acting president and chief executive officer and former director of collections and exhibitions, to be president and chief executive officer.

Israel Cancer Research Fund (New York): Appointed Michael Feinman, director of development for the New York region at the Anti-Defamation League (New York), to be executive director.

Kids Hope United (Cutler Bay, Fla.): Appointed Judi Pasternac, director of program and mental-health services, to be fund-development director.

KOCE-TV (Huntington Beach, Calif.): Appointed Lisa Mayeda-Nichols, senior director of corporate relations at the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

League for People With Disabilities (Baltimore): Appointed David A. Greenberg, vice president at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (Baltimore), to be chief executive officer.

Lighthouse International (New York): Appointed Sandra Bernstein, director of development at the Family Service Society of Yonkers (N.Y.), to be director of development for Westchester and the Hudson Valley regions, based in White Plains, N.Y., and M. Stephen Soltis, a financial consultant in New York, to be chief financial officer and chief administrative officer.

Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences (Washington): Announced the death of Daniel E. Koshland Jr., founder of the museum and a former professor of biochemistry at the U. of California at Berkeley, on July 23. He was 87.

Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.): Appointed Glenn Miller, vice president for major and planned gifts at the Eastern Division of the American Cancer Society (New York), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Mercy Services Corporation (Denver): Appointed Cheryll O’Bryan, executive vice president at Empirian Property Management (Columbus, Ohio), to be president, and Christopher Reed, regional vice president of property management, education, and marketing at Empirian Property Management (Atlanta), to be regional vice president.

National Staff Development Council (Oxford, Ohio): Appointed Joellen Killion, director of special projects, to be deputy executive director, and Joan Richardson, director of publications, to be director of communications. National Staff Development Council provides professional-development opportunities for educators.

New America Foundation (Washington): Appointed Steve Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker and former managing editor at The Washington Post, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds the founder of this think tank, Ted Halstead, who has resigned.

New Brunswick Cultural Center (N.J.): Appointed David Gray, interim executive director and former president of Finance Arts (Princeton, N.J.), to be executive director.

New York City Outward Bound (Long Island City): Appointed Richard Stopol, executive director, to be president.

Portland Community College Foundation (Ore.): Appointed Rick Zurow, a fund-raising consultant based in Portland, to be executive director.

Presbyterian Foundation (Jeffersonville, Tenn.): Appointed Daniel Johnedis, investment coordinator and director at the Air Line Pilots Association (Herndon, Va.), to be chief investment officer.

ProLiteracy Worldwide (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed David C. Harvey, executive director of AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Public Interest Registry (Reston, Va.): Appointed Alexa A.S. Raad, chief marketing officer at DotMobi (Dublin), to be chief executive officer. The Public Interest Registry manages the dot-org Web domain used by nonprofit organizations.

REDF (San Francisco): Appointed Jason Trimiew, director of corporate and foundation relations at Catholic Charities CYO (San Francisco), to be development director. REDF, formerly known as the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, supports nonprofit groups that help homeless and poor people.

Roundabout Theatre Company (New York): Appointed David A. Miller, education-program manager, to be director of education.

Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Appointed Tom Ott, president of Smithsonian Publishing, to be acting chief executive officer of Smithsonian Business Ventures. He succeeds Gary M. Beer, who has resigned.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York): Announced the resignation of Lisa Dennison, director.

Sonoma County Museum (Santa Rosa, Calif.): Appointed Maria Collette Sundeen, president of MuseWorks (Petaluma, Calif.), to be director of development.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Corey Falter, manager of individual giving at the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, to be assistant manager of Telefund for the annual-giving office, and Jeffrey Sperber, founder and creative director of VEII Limited (New York), to be regional director of development for metropolitan New York.

U. of Central Missouri (Warrensburg): Appointed H. Lawrence Cowan, associate vice president for development and alumni affairs at Lynn U. (Boca Raton, Fla.), to be vice president for university advancement.

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg): Appointed Mark L. Begly, regional director of major gifts, to be director of development for the Pamplin College of Business.

Washington National Cathedral: Appointed Bonnie Hourigan, director of planned giving at the National Gallery of Art (Washington), to be director of major and planned gifts.

WCNY Public Broadcasting (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Ann W. Madsen, chief advancement officer at Catholic Charities of Onondaga County (Syracuse), to be vice president of corporate advancement.

YMCA of Greater New York, Harlem Branch: Appointed Tiffeny Forrest, executive director of the Oak Park Branch YMCA (Lansing, Mich.), to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Joseph (Jody) Brooks, a fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (Atlanta), to be program officer of Inspiring Spaces, a program that aims to develop parks throughout Atlanta.

Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Karen A. Miller, executive director of the Pennsylvania Economy League (Harrisburg), to be executive director of the Pennsylvania Outreach Project.

Boston Foundation: Appointed Robert Lewis Jr., executive director of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families, to be vice president for program.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Announced the retirement of Enriqueta Bond, president, effective in June 2008.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Shannon E. Polk, director of leadership programs at the Resource Center (Flint), to be an associate program officer for the Flint area.

East Bay Community Foundation (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Nicole Taylor, managing director at Stanford U.’s Haas Center for Public Service (Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Michael Howe, who is now the chair of the National Task Force on Community Leadership at Stanford U.’s John W. Gardner Center.

Greater Houston Community Foundation: Appointed K.C. Eynatten, executive director of the Rothko Chapel (Houston), to be vice president for marketing and development.

Healthcare Initiative Foundation (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Karen Green, director of governing-board programs at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be executive director.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Jeffrey Malloy, general manager at the American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco), to be director of finance and administration.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed Suzanne Walsh, a program officer for the Innovation Economy Program at the Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh), to be program director.

Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento): Appointed Chet Hewitt, director of the Alameda County Social Services Agency (Oakland, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Len McCandliss, who has retired.

Stanley Foundation (Muscatine, Iowa): Appointed Vladimir P. Sambaiew, a senior foreign-service officer at the U.S. Department of State (Washington), to be president. He succeeds Richard H. Stanley, who will remain as chair of the Board of Directors.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Lung Association of California (Oakland): Elected Gwendolyn W. Young, president of the Young Communications Group (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Yvonne Cheek, president of Millennium Consulting Group (Minneapolis); Martin Jennings, director of development at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Corporate Commission (Onamia, Minn.); Joe Maher, senior vice president and general manager for the UPM-Kymmene/Blandin Paper Mill (Grand Rapids, Minn.); and Bonnie Besse Rietz, former mayor of Austin, Minn.

Carmel Public Library Foundation (Calif.): Elected William H. Tyler III, chairman of the Board of Directors at Resource Management Group (Kansas City, Mo.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Center for Women’s Business Research (Washington): Elected Margaret A. Smith, chief executive officer of Domus (Los Gatos, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation of Calhoun County (Anniston, Ala.): Elected Glenda Barker, vice president and trust officer at Wachovia Bank (Anniston), to the Board of Trustees.

Discount Foundation (Boston): Elected Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work (Washington), to the Board of Directors.

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (New York): Elected Anthony C. Gooch, a former partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (New York), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (New York): Elected to the Board of Directors: Betty Emarita, founder and president of Development and Training Resources (Minneapolis); Jenifer Getz, a flight instructor based in Albuquerque and a great-great-granddaughter of the foundation’s founder, Charles F. Noyes; and Belvie Rooks, vice president for special projects at Carrie Productions (Berkeley, Calif.).

Jewish Museum (New York): Elected Joshua Nash, president of Ulysses Management (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Junior Achievement of New York: Elected Anré Williams, president of global commercial card at American Express (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Lawyers Alliance for New York: Elected Edward F. Greene, general counsel of Citi Markets and Banking (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation (Cleveland): Elected Victor Gelb, a community volunteer in Cleveland, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

World Monuments Fund (New York): Elected W.L. Lyons Brown, former ambassador to Austria, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Grizzard Communications Group (Atlanta): Appointed Todd Baker, manager of integrated marketing at World Vision (Federal Way, Wash.), to be vice president and senior strategist. Grizzard Communications Group advises charities on direct marketing and fund raising.

Hartsook Companies (Wichita, Kan.): Appointed Terry Snapp, executive director of the Truman Medical Center Charitable Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.), to be executive vice president. This company assists nonprofit organizations with conducting fund-raising campaigns.

Russ Reid and Company (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Alan Hall, senior vice president of account management, to be executive vice president. Russ Reid and Company provides marketing and fund-raising services for charities.