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Alliance for Nonprofit Mailers (Washington): Announced the resignation of Ellenor Kirkconnell, associate director of operations and postal affairs.

American Association of Museums (Washington): Appointed Ford W. Bell, president and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, to be president and chief executive officer.

American Community Gardening Association (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Amy DeShon, executive director of the Eastside Neighborhood Association (Kalamazoo, Mich.), to be executive director.

American Technion Society (New York): Appointed Gerald Kleinman, director for leadership and chapter development, to be associate vice president for campaign, and Seth Moskowitz, executive director of the American Friends of the Israel Democracy Institute (Jerusalem), to be senior vice president for campaign.

Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (Va.): Appointed Nina Janopaul, an affordable-housing consultant for Enterprise Community Investment (Columbia, Md.), to be executive director. She succeeds Douglas Peterson, who is resigning.

California Voter Foundation (Sacramento): Appointed Will Barrett, program coordinator at Community Services Planning Council (Sacramento), to be program manager.

Cares Foundation (Union, N.J.): Appointed Marjorie J. Bromberg, chief executive officer of the American Lung Association of New Jersey (Union), to be executive director. This organization raises money and advocates on behalf of people affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a hormone disorder.

Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Announced the death of John F. Schultz, former president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2006, on April 27. He was 63.

Citi Performing Arts Center (Boston): Appointed Nancy Sullivan Skinner, principal at Jaques & Company (Danvers, Mass.), to be chief development officer.

College Access Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Jay S. Sherwin, senior program officer and initiative manager at Nellie Mae Education Foundation (Quincy, Mass.), to be vice president for programs.

Columbia U. (New York): Appointed Peter Harsham, a development consultant in New York, to be major-gifts officer for libraries and information services.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Peggy Sandgren, vice president for institutional advancement at Marian College (Indianapolis), to be vice president for development.

Episcopal Community Services (San Diego): Appointed Alyssa Ceniza Osian, director of donor relations at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities (San Diego), to be director of development and marketing.

Fight for Children (Washington): Appointed John (Skip) McKoy, executive vice president at the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (Washington), to be director for programmatic initiatives. This organization seeks to help poor children in the metropolitan Washington area gain access to education and health care.

Foundation Center (New York): Announced the retirement of Sara L. Engelhardt, president, effective in 2008.

Girl Scout Council of Greater St. Louis: Appointed Marcia Barber, chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts Trillium Council (Pittsburgh), to be chief executive officer.

Harlem School of the Arts (New York): Appointed Kakuna N. Kerina, interim president and chief executive officer and former senior program director and senior adviser for Africa at the International League for Human Rights (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Jewish Theological Seminary (New York): Appointed Marion Dienstag, executive director of the Dance Theater Workshop (New York), to be national director of major gifts at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education.

John Marshall Law School Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Scott M. Kruger, director of development and associate director of institutional advancement at the Southern Illinois U. School of Law (Carbondale), to be director.

Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center (Indianapolis): Appointed Clark W. Lienemann, director of development at Easter Seals Crossroads (Indianapolis), to be executive director.

Maryland Lawyers for the Arts (Baltimore): Appointed Marcia Mjoseth Semmes, director of development at the American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore), to be executive director.

Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (Boston): Appointed Janice Halpern, director of environmental and not-for-profit accounts at Classic Communications (Foxboro, Mass.), to be director of public relations and fund raising.

Massachusetts Service Alliance (Boston): Appointed Jean E. Seigle, vice president for civic leadership at City Year (Boston), to be chief executive officer.

Milwaukee Ballet Company: Announced the resignation of Amy Marshall, executive director, effective July 31.

National Council for Research on Women (New York): Appointed Vivienne Heston-Demirel, senior information officer for strategic communications at the United Nations (New York), to be director of communications.

Neighborhood Service Organization (Detroit): Appointed LaNeice Jones, unit director for the organization’s Emergency Telephone Service/Suicide Prevention Center, to be vice president of programs, and William Weld-Wallis, vice president of community programs, to be chief operating officer.

Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York): Appointed Joanne Bursich, manager of the organization’s Child Care Initiative for Southeastern Pennsylvania, based in Philadelphia, to be director of the Philadelphia office.

Nordic Heritage Museum (Seattle): Announced the retirement of Marianne Forssblad, executive director.

Ohio Wesleyan U. (Delaware): Appointed Mayme H. Norman, senior development director at the American Cancer Society (Columbus, Ohio), to be director of annual giving; Joshua M. Quicksall, a recent graduate of Ohio State U. (Columbus), to be assistant director of the annual fund; and Matthew D. Ufferman, assistant vice president at Red Mortgage Capital (Columbus), to be assistant director of annual giving.

Orange County Performing Arts Center (Costa Mesa, Calif.): Appointed Tom West, vice president of development at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), to be vice president of development.

Pathways Hospice Foundation (Sunnyvale, Calif.): Appointed Trish Telesco Morgan, interim executive director and former associate director, to be executive director.

Portland Art Museum (Ore.): Appointed John Stuart May, chief development officer at the Portland Public Schools Foundation, to be director of development.

Pro Mujer International (New York): Appointed Rocio Cavazos, senior associate of financial products and services at Women’s World Banking (New York), to be chief financial officer. This group provides business training, small loans, and preventive health-care services to needy women in Latin America.

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, Ohio): Appointed Kathy Boukissen, director of development at St. Joseph Central Catholic High School (Fremont), to be director of development.

Sabin Vaccine Institute (Washington): Appointed Peter Hotez, director of the organization’s Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Saint Joseph Mercy Saline Hospital (Saline, Mich.): Appointed Sarah McCallum, director of development at High/Scope Educational Research Foundation (Ypsilanti, Mich.), to be director of development.

Seedco Financial Services (New York): Appointed Peter H. Chapman, economic-development policy adviser to Mayor John Hickenlooper of Denver, to be executive director of the Denver office. This organization offers lending programs for community groups.

Seeds of Peace (New York): Appointed Nicolla Hewitt, a producer for CBS Evening News With Katie Couric (New York), to be president. Seeds of Peace provides leadership training for young people who live in war-torn regions of the world.

Sharsheret (Teaneck, N.J.): Appointed Eillene Leistner, associate executive director of development at Dorot (New York), to be executive director. Sharsheret helps young Jewish women with breast cancer.

SRI International (Bayport, Minn.): Appointed Sandra K. (Sam) Fleitman, foundation manager for the Star Tribune Foundation (Minneapolis), to be program officer in the philanthropic-services department. This group is a nonprofit scientific-research institute.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Matthew Chin, associate producer for California Connected (Los Angeles), to be director of marketing and development communications for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

U. of New Haven (West Haven, Conn.): Appointed Timothy Stanton, executive director of development and alumni relations at Sacred Heart U. (Fairfield, Conn.), to be executive director of development and alumni relations.

U. of Rochester (N.Y.): Appointed Jonathan Schwartz, assistant vice chancellor for development at Washington U. in St. Louis, to be associate vice president for advancement and director of university campaigns.

U. of South Florida (Tampa): Appointed Steve Blair, vice president for institutional advancement at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City), to be chief development officer and associate vice president for development and alumni affairs.

Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education (Chicago): Appointed Perry Gunn, executive director of Leap Learning Systems (Chicago), to be chief operating officer; Jeryl Levin, director of development for the Hyde Park Day School at the U. of Chicago, to be development director; and Akilah Williams, external-relations coordinator at the Chicago Public Schools Office of New Schools, to be program-marketing manager.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed Hope C. Groves, senior director of finance and controller, to be chief financial officer.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Stanford, Calif.): Announced the retirement of Lee S. Shulman, president, effective August 2008.

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Short Hills, N.J.): Appointed Peter Wilderotter, vice president of development, to be president.

Eden Hall Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Sylvia V. Fields, program director, to be executive director.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, Md.): Appointed Michael S. Marcus, principal at Consultants for Community Resources (Chicago), to be a program officer.

Jewish Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Dan Rothblatt, deputy director of development at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, to be senior vice president of philanthropic services.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Barry Lowenkron, assistant secretary of state at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (Washington), to be vice president for international programs, effective September 1.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Lorenzo Lebrija, senior director of marketing at the New World Symphony (Miami Beach), to be Miami program director.

Lincoln Financial Foundation (Fort Wayne, Ind.): Appointed Nancy Todd, manager of the corporate-giving program at the ConAgra Foods Foundation (Omaha), to be program officer for the organization’s Omaha office.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Chris Peacock, vice president of membership and marketing at the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce (Calif.), to be vice president of marketing and communications.

Vermont Community Foundation (Middlebury): Appointed Donna Germain Rader, vice president for grants and initiatives at the Winston-Salem Foundation (N.C.), to be executive vice president for community philanthropy.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies of North America (East Brunswick, N.J.): Elected Lee Sherman, director of strategic development in the community-services division of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Commonwealth Fund (New York): Elected James R. Tallon Jr., president of the United Hospital Fund (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Elected to the Board of Directors: Doug Bereuter, president of the Asia Foundation (San Francisco); Sherry Salway Black, executive director of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (Washington); Diane S. Kaplan, president and chief executive officer of the Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage); Lance E. Lindblom, president and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York); Elsie Meeks, executive director of the First Nations Oweesta Corporation (Rapid City, S.D.); Kevin K. Murphy, president of the Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.); and Kathleen Odne, executive director of the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

Jewish Child Care Association (New York): Elected Barbara Salmanson, former senior policy adviser to the Comptroller of the City of New York, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Miami City Ballet: Elected Karen Mitchell Curran, a partner at KPMG (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Sabin Vaccine Institute (Washington): Elected Michael W. Kempner, founder and chief executive officer of MWW Group (East Rutherford, N.J.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Elected Bobby Moser, vice president for agricultural administration at Ohio State U. (Columbus), and Ramón Murguía, a director at Country Club Bank (Kansas City, Mo.), to the Board of Trustees.

World Jewish Congress (Washington): Announced the resignation of Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., president.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Cone (Boston): Appointed Jeff Terry, director of corporate commitment and strategic relationships at the Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Mich.), to be a vice president of cause branding. Cone is a strategy and communications firm that specializes in helping organizations promote their causes.

Fundraisinginfo.com (Atlanta): Appointed Jay Frost, chief strategy officer at WealthEngine (Bethesda, Md.), to be a vice president. This company provides online fund-raising services for nonprofit organizations.

Mindshare Interactive Campaigns (Washington): Appointed M. Sue Woodward, former director of direct-response fund raising at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be senior consultant and director for fund-raising services. This group helps charities raise money online.

Scofield Company (Chicago): Appointed Gregory G. Simoncini, senior vice president for the Midwest region at the Alford Group (Chicago), to be vice president of fund raising and operational consulting to not-for-profits. This company, formerly known as Scofield Communications, provides fund-raising and public-relations services.

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