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American Heart Association, Great Rivers Affiliate (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed John Meiners, executive vice president at the association’s Ohio Valley Affiliate (Columbus), to be executive vice president.

American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Susan G. Braun, president and chief executive officer of CURE Media Group (Dallas), to be executive director.

Artpace San Antonio: Appointed Matthew J.W. Drutt, chief curator at the Menil Collection (Houston), to be executive director.

Associated Black Charities (Baltimore): Appointed Diane Bell McKoy, a senior fellow at the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore), to be president and chief executive officer. Ms. McKoy succeeds Gary Officer, who resigned in July.

The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore: Appointed Michelle Gordon, assistant director of marketing, to be director of corporate relations.

Baylor U. (Waco, Tex.): Appointed Dennis A. Prescott, vice president for external affairs at Mississippi State U. and chief executive officer of the Mississippi State U. Foundation, to be vice president for development.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York): Appointed Keith L. Stubblefield, chief financial officer and vice president of finance at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York), to be chief financial officer.

Catholic Charities CYO (San Francisco): Appointed Giles Miller, director of alumni relations at Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga), to be major-gifts officer.

Center for Public Integrity (Washington): Appointed William E. Buzenberg, senior vice president of news at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul), to be executive director. The center conducts research on news-media and public-policy issues.

College of St. Catherine (St. Paul): Appointed Pamela McNulty, gift-planning officer, to be director of gift planning; Rebecca Rizzio, a specialty-sales representative at Eli Lilly and Company, based in Minneapolis, to be a gift-planning officer; and Kristine Wyant, director of development, marketing, and communications at Chrysalis (Minneapolis), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Community Residences (Chantilly, Va.): Appointed Dennis J. Manning, president and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse (N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Manning succeeds Jill Gruver, who has retired.

Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center (Mountain View, Calif.): Appointed Jeffry William Walker, chief arts administrator at Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.), to be executive director.

Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix): Appointed MaryLynn Mack, interim director of education and former garden volunteer-recruitment manager, to be director of education.

Family & Children Services (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed James J. Welsh, executive director of Pathways (Holland, Mich.), to be president and chief executive officer.

FutureChurch (Cleveland): Appointed Julie A. Weagraff, director of development at Crossroads (Mentor, Ohio), to be director of development.

Girl Scouts — Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (Phoenix): Appointed Mary Lee Hoffman, senior vice president for fund development at the Girls Scouts of the USA (New York), to be director of major gifts and planned giving.

Helen Keller International (New York): Appointed Victoria Quinn, director of the Center for Nutrition at the Academy for Educational Development (Washington), to be senior vice president for programs.

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus: Appointed Rachel Fine, director of development at the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), to be executive director.

National Association of Evangelicals (Washington): Appointed the Rev. Leith Anderson, senior pastor at Wooddale Church (Eden Prairie, Minn.), to be interim president. He succeeds the Rev. Ted Haggard, who has resigned.

National Constitution Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Emily Davis, director of development at the Discovery Place (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of individual giving.

New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (Trenton): Appointed Andrea Spencer-Linzie, executive director of the YWCA Eastern Union County (Elizabeth, N.J.), to be executive director.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Newark): Appointed André Gremillet, president of Casavant Frères (St. Hyacinthe, Canada), to be president.

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers: Appointed Tamara Kreinin, a fund-raising and public-relations consultant in New York, to be interim executive director.

Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Michael Calhoun, vice president for strategic planning and marketing at Stanford Hospital & Clinics at Stanford U. (Calif.), to be vice president for planning and development.

Partners in School Innovation (San Francisco): Appointed Debbi D’Angelo Garcia, headmaster and chief executive officer of Horizons Academy of Maui (Haiku, Hawaii), to be district-partnership director for the San Jose Unified School District (Calif.); Laura Post, director of the curriculum and teacher-education master’s program at the Stanford U. School of Education (Calif.), to be school-partnership director for the San Francisco School District; Frances Teso, resident at New Leaders for New Schools (Oakland, Calif.), to be school-partnership director for the Oak Grove School District (San Jose); and Bernie Vidales, principal at Selby Lane Elementary School (Redwood City, Calif.), to be district-partnership director for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Quinnipiac U. School of Business (Hamden, Conn.): Appointed Melinda Formica, a major-gifts officer at Cheshire Academy (Conn.), to be director of development and alumni affairs.

Salem State College (Mass.): Appointed John H. Barnhill, executive director of North Carolina Campus Compact (Elon), to be assistant to the vice president of institutional advancement.

San Diego Fireman’s Relief Association: Appointed Mike Kirkeby, training coordinator at the San Diego Fire Department, to be executive director.

Schott Foundation for Public Education (Cambridge, Mass.): Announced the resignation of Rosa A. Smith, president and chief executive officer, effective May 1.

St. Mary’s Foundation for Children (Bayside, N.Y.): Appointed Jan Mittan, executive director of the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, N.Y.), to be vice president for development.

Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.): Appointed Marjorie H. Everitt, acting vice president and former associate vice president for development and external affairs, to be vice president for development and university communications.

Suicide Prevention Action Network (Washington): Appointed Jason H. Padgett, suicide-prevention program administrator at the Kentucky Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services (Frankfort), to be field-development coordinator.

Texas Public Radio (San Antonio): Appointed Dan Skinner, general manager of WBAA-AM/FM at Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.), to be president.

United Way of Southeastern Connecticut (Gales Ferry): Appointed Kenneth L. Hinrichs, president and chief executive officer of the Capital Area United Way (Baton Rouge, La.), to be president.

U. of California at Berkeley: Appointed Scott Biddy, associate vice chancellor for university relations, to be vice chancellor for university relations. Mr. Biddy succeeds Donald McQuade, who is resigning.

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers: Appointed Tamara Lucas Copeland, national president of Voices for America’s Children (Washington), to be president.

WGBH Boston: Appointed Jamie Parker, senior vice president for brand communications at Arnold Worldwide (Boston), to be vice president for marketing and communications.

WITF (Harrisburg, Pa.): Appointed Clare Garfield, director of foundation relations at Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York), to be director of institutional giving. WITF is a public radio and television station.

Women’s Foundation of Minnesota (Minneapolis): Appointed Patricia Schulz, vice president of development at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities (St. Paul), to be director of development.

World Hunger Year (New York): Appointed Noreen Springstead, program director, to be director of fund raising and marketing. This group supports community-based organizations that seek to alleviate hunger and poverty.

World Resources Institute (Washington): Appointed Robin Murphy, vice president of communications, marketing, and education at Conservation International (Washington), to be vice president of external relations. WRI is an environmental think tank.

YMCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley (Calif.): Appointed Dianne M. Segura, founder and president of Segue Enterprises (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Announced the resignation of Tom Vander Ark, executive director of education initiatives.

Bush Foundation (St. Paul): Announced the resignation of Anita M. Pampusch, president, effective December 31, 2007.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Appointed Kathy Palumbo, community-services director at the Atlanta Community Food Bank, to be director of programs.

Dayton Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Lisa Bruder, a lawyer at Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz (Dayton, Ohio), to be senior development officer.

Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed Guillermina Hernandez-Gallegos, program director and policy coordinator for youth and education programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.), to be senior program officer.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix: Appointed Roberta Scharf, director of planned giving for Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada at the American Cancer Society (Atlanta), based in Phoenix, to be director of development.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Art Institute of Chicago: Elected Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman and chief executive officer of the Pritzker Organization and Global Hyatt Organization (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), to the Board of Trustees.

Catholic Charities of California (Sacramento): Elected Brian Cahill, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO (San Francisco), to be president of the Board of Directors.

ClearWay (Minneapolis): Elected Kirby Erickson, former executive vice president of Health Partners (Bloomington, Minn.), to be chair of the Board of Directors. ClearWay promotes antismoking efforts by supporting community-development projects, intervention, and research.

Dayton Foundation (Ohio): Elected Vicki Pegg, former Montgomery County commissioner (Dayton, Ohio), to the Governing Board.

Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Miami Lakes, Fla.): Elected Barbara Weinstein, executive director of Family Central (Coral Springs, Fla.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Independent Sector (Washington): Elected to the Board of Directors: Stanley S. Litow, president of the IBM Foundation (Armonk, N.Y.) and vice president for global community relations at IBM (Armonk); Andrew D. Plepler, president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and global community-impact executive at Bank of America (Charlotte); Lorie A. Slutsky, president of the New York Community Trust; Kelvin H. Taketa, president and chief executive officer of the Hawaii Community Foundation (Honolulu); and Judy Vredenburgh, president and chief executive officer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (Philadelphia).

Literacy Partners (New York): Elected Peter Brown, president of Brown Lloyd James (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Council of Nonprofit Associations (Washington): Elected Samir Singh, mayor of East Lansing, Mich., to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Saint Joseph Ballet (Santa Ana, Calif.): Elected Frank Foster, president and chief executive officer of Fieldstone Communities (Newport Beach, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Scholarship America (Minneapolis): Elected Jamie Merisotis, founder and president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Triangle Community Foundation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Elected Thomas Staab II, chief financial officer and treasurer at Inspire Pharmaceuticals (Durham, N.C.), and Carl Webb, a partner at Greenfire Development (Durham), to the Board of Directors.

William G. McGowan Charitable Fund (Chicago): Elected to the Board of Directors: Mary Alice Gin, Lee McGowan Rosica, Sebastian Rosica, and John Worthington, all community volunteers.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Craver Mathews Smith & Company (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Ellen Cobb Church, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer. This firm helps nonprofit groups raise money and run advocacy campaigns.

Goettler Associates (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Dick Lofgren, executive director of resource development at Ivy Tech Community College (Indianapolis), to be a senior consultant. This company provides fund-raising and marketing consulting services.

Harvey Hohauser & Associates (Troy, Mich.): Appointed William V. Weatherston, chief development officer at the Michigan Humane Society (Southfield), to be vice president. This firm provides executive-search services for companies and nonprofit groups.