People

American Friends of Tel Aviv U. (New York): Appointed David A. Chodrow, senior executive director for capital gifts at the U. of Miami Miller School of Medicine, to be executive vice president for the Southeast region, based in Miami Beach.

American Jewish World Service (New York): Appointed Rabbi Ruth Gelfarb, program director for the Sophia Fund at the Chicago Foundation for Women, to be director of service, and Jodi L. Jacobson, former executive director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (Takoma Park, Md.), to be director of advocacy.

Aspen Institute (Washington): Announced the resignation of Alan J. Abramson, director of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, effective in January 2008. He will become a professor of government and politics at George Mason U. (Fairfax, Va.).

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (Bethel, N.Y.): Appointed Peter B. Lane, president and chief executive officer of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), to be chief executive officer.

Children’s Home of Detroit (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.): Appointed William Steele, director of the organization’s National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, to be executive director.

Claremont Graduate U., Drucker Institute (Calif.): Appointed Rick Wartzman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and former editor of West, the Sunday magazine of the Los Angeles Times, to be director. This group encourages efficient management and ethical practices among businesses and charities.

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.

Community Health & Hospice (Laconia, N.H.): Appointed Brian Winslow, director of development at the Animal Welfare Society (Kennebunk, Me.), to be director of development.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Kristin Lindsey, founder and principal of Intersector Consulting (Petersburg, Va.), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (New York): Appointed Marie A. Adolphe, human-resources director at Bookspan (New York), to be vice president of programming.

Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles): Appointed Thomas W. Gaehtgens, director of the German Center for the History of Art (Paris), to be director, effective November 1.

Hanford Reach Interpretive Center (Richland, Wash.): Appointed Kimberly Camp, president and chief executive officer of the Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pa.), to be executive director. This organization operates a visitor center for the Hanford Reach National Monument.

Health Sciences South Carolina (Columbia): Appointed Jay Moskowitz, associate vice president for health-sciences research at Pennsylvania State U. (University Park) and vice dean for research and graduate studies for Pennsylvania State U.’s College of Medicine (Hershey), to be president.

Living Cities: the National Community Development Initiative (New York): Appointed Ben Hecht, founder and president of One Economy Corporation (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

Mars Home for Youth (Mars, Pa.): Appointed Martin Harris, executive director of Peace Arch Community Services Society (White Rock, Canada), to be executive director.

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. This group is the property-management arm of Mercy Housing.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arizona Chapter (Tempe): Appointed Sheryl L. Keeme, vice president of development, to be president. Also appointed: Phil Carll, program director at the National Kidney Foundation based in Phoenix, to be program director; Jessica Feldman, a recent graduate of Arizona State U. (Tempe), to be program coordinator; McKenzie Simmons, purchasing coordinator at Hospitality Performance Network (Phoenix), to be development coordinator; and Brandee Wessel, development manager, to be director of development.

Orangewood Children’s Foundation (Santa Ana, Calif.): Appointed Cal Winslow, chief development officer, to be chief executive officer. This organization offers services for abused children and children in foster care.

Outreach Teen & Family Services (Pittsburgh): Appointed Michael A. Barfield, director of St. Thomas Health Care Management (V.I.), to be executive director.

Physicians for Human Rights (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Frank Donaghue, president and chief executive officer of YMCA of Philadelphia and Vicinity, to be chief executive officer, and Leonard S. Rubenstein, executive director, to be president.

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

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York): Appointed Marc Steglitz, chief operating officer at the museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, to be interim director.

Southeastern Council of Foundations (Atlanta): Announced the retirement of Martin Lehfeldt, president and chief executive officer, effective in 2009.

West Virginia U. Foundation (Morgantown): Appointed R. Wayne King, president of the Mercy Foundation (Des Moines), to be president and chief executive officer.

WETA Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Mary Kay Phelps, senior vice president at Development Resources (Arlington, Va.), to be vice president of membership.

WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease (Washington): Appointed Lisa M. Tate, vice president for public affairs at the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

YMCA of the East Bay (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Diane Mann, vice president for institutional advancement and operations at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Foundation (Oakland), to be senior vice president and chief development officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Paul Velaski, vice president and chief financial officer at the Make-a-Wish Foundation of America (Phoenix), to be chief financial officer.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Luis A. Ubiñas, a director at McKinsey & Company, based in San Francisco, to be president, effective in January 2008. He succeeds Susan V. Berresford, who plans to retire.

Hearst Foundation and William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York): Appointed Paul Dinovitz, vice president and Western director, based in San Francisco, to be executive director. He succeeds Robert M. Frehse Jr., who has retired and will serve as a consultant to the foundations.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed David Mills, vice president of business strategy at Bright Light (San Jose, Calif.), to be program director for San Jose and Boulder (Colo.), based in San Jose, and Pilar Guzman Zavala, a marketing and media-relations consultant based in Washington, to be national program associate.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (New York): Appointed George Thibault, vice president of clinical affairs at Partners HealthCare Systems (Boston) and a professor of medicine and medical education at Harvard Medical School (Boston), to be president, effective January 1, 2008. He succeeds June E. Osborn, who plans to retire.

Marguerite Casey Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Ludovic Blain, organization-services director at the New Progressive Coalition (San Francisco), to be national coordinator for the Equal Voice for America’s Families campaign.

Park Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.): Appointed Jon M. Jensen, senior program officer for the environment at the George Gund Foundation (Cleveland), to be executive director.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Kristen McDonald, chief of staff at the Michigan Department of Education (Lansing), to be senior program officer for education and early-childhood development.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (Detroit): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Ronald P. Marcinelli, executive vice president for the national business finance division at Comerica Bank (Detroit); Ellen V. Price, a community volunteer in Birmingham, Mich.; William W. Shelden Jr., president of the Elizabeth, Allan, and Warren Shelden Fund (Grosse Pointe, Mich.); and Sean K. Werdlow, managing director at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. (Detroit).

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington): Elected Cassie McVeety, vice president for university relations at Portland State U. (Ore.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (Hollywood, Fla.): Elected Thomas D. Stern, a managing director and principal at Chieftain Capital Management (New York), to be chairman of the national Board of Directors.

Donors Forum (Chicago): Elected Benna Wilde, managing director of Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Fair Labor Foundation (Washington): Elected Carol Bellamy, president and chief executive officer of World Learning (Brattleboro, Vt.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers (Washington): Elected Colin Lacon, president and chief executive officer of Northern California Grantmakers (San Francisco), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, S.C.): Elected Ruth L. Cate, a lawyer at the Cate Law Firm (Spartanburg), and James A. Littlefield, superintendent of the Spartanburg County District One Schools (Campobello, S.C.), to the Board of Trustees.

Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.): Elected Linda Mason, founder and chairman of Bright Horizons Family Solutions (Watertown, Mass.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

New York Public Library: Announced the death of Brooke Russell Astor, honorary chairman and former president of the Vincent Astor Foundation (New York), on August 13. She was 105.

Triangle Community Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Elected Julia Jones Daniels, a community volunteer in Raleigh, N.C., and Cécile Noël, a community volunteer in Raleigh, to the Board of Directors.