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Advertising Council (New York): Appointed George Perlov, senior vice president, to be executive vice president of research and innovation.

American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (Leawood, Kan.): Appointed Craig Doane, chief development officer at the National Kidney Foundation, based in Kansas City, Mo., to be executive director and vice president of development at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He succeeds Sandra Panther, who has retired.

American Health Assistance Foundation (Clarksburg, Md.): Appointed Kelly Herberger, an international-programs specialist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington), to be a communications associate.

ArtSpan (San Francisco): Appointed Thérèse F. Martin, interim executive director and former development director at Young Audiences of Northern California (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco): Appointed Ken Ikeda, interim executive director and former director of next-generation programs, to be executive director.

Bethany Homes (Fargo, N.D.): Appointed Shawn Stuhaug, president and chief executive officer of Rosewood on Broadway (Fargo), to be executive director. This organization is a retirement residence.

California Academy of Sciences, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization (San Francisco): Appointed Ryan Wyatt, who creates pictorial data sets and develops curriculums for students and teachers at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), to be director.

Campbellsville U. (Ky.): Appointed Benji Kelly, director of alumni relations, to be director of planned giving.

Chicago Zoological Society (Brookfield, Ill.): Appointed Carl Bendorf, vice president of development at the Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis), to be senior vice president of institutional advancement.

Colorado Youth Corps Association (Denver): Appointed Jennifer Freeman, associate director, to be executive director. She succeeds Ann Baker Easley, who has become executive director of Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (Denver).

Cottage Health System (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Appointed Brenda Hahn, development director at Computers for Families (Santa Barbara), to be major-gifts officer for foundation and corporate relations.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Matthew Nelson, manager of community relations at Ameriprise Financial, based in Minneapolis, to be managing director for corporate services.

Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County (Hempstead, N.Y.): Appointed Iris A. Johnson, executive director, also to be chief executive officer. She succeeds John L. Kearse Sr., who died in March.

Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center (New York): Appointed Patricia A. Tursi, executive director, to be chief executive officer.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. (Daytona Beach, Fla.): Appointed Daniel Montplaisir, director of alumni relations and development for the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Family & Children Services (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Barbara Pugliese, chief financial and administration officer at Kehillah Jewish High School (Palo Alto), to be chief operating officer.

GAVI Fund Campaign for Child Immunization (Washington): Appointed Andrew Maguire, former president and chief executive officer of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide (Washington) and a former U.S. representative from New Jersey, to be executive director.

Grand Valley State U., Grantmaking School at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (Grand Rapids, Mich.): Appointed Kenneth L. Gladish, former president and chief executive officer of the YMCA of the USA (Chicago), to be director.

Greater Europe Mission (Monument, Colo.): Appointed Henry L. Deneen, executive director of the Center for Global Strategies (Columbia, S.C.), to be president, effective September 1. He will succeed Ted Noble, who is resigning. This group promotes Christianity in Europe.

Helen Keller Services to the Blind (New York): Appointed Deborah Rodriguez-Samuelson, a public-relations associate, to be director of resource development, and Geralyn Zuzze, assistant director of the organization’s Braille Center, to be director of government relations and foundations.

International Youth Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Laura Treat Harvey, director of development for the division of student affairs at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be director of major gifts.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties (San Francisco): Announced the resignation of Thomas A. Dine, chief executive officer, effective June 30.

Kids Hope United (Miami): Appointed Emilio Vento, program administrator for the Division of Protective Investigations at the Department of Children and Families (Miami), to be senior vice president.

Lambi Fund of Haiti (Washington): Appointed Leonie Hermantin, director of research and strategic planning at the Santa La Haitian Neighborhood Center (Miami), to be deputy director. This organization promotes democracy and economic justice in Haiti.

Leader’s Challenge (Denver): Appointed Gil Jones, lead pastor at Flatirons Community Church (Boulder, Colo.), to be chief executive officer. He succeeds Thomas Spaulding, founder, who has become president and chief executive officer of Up With People (Denver). This organization offers leadership training to high-school students.

Legal Services for New York City: Appointed Victor Olds, a vice president and senior attorney at Morgan Stanley (New York), to be director of Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services, and Steven B. Telzak, interim director of Legal Services New York City-Bronx, to be project director for Legal Services New York City-Bronx.

Library Foundation of Los Angeles: Appointed Jeffrey Burbank, employee-communications manager at Northrop Grumman (Los Angeles), to be director for communications and marketing.

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: Appointed Adam M. Wilhelm, assistant director for advancement, to be director for advancement.

MCC Theater (New York): Appointed Blake West, director of development, to be executive director. He succeeds John Schultz, who has resigned.

National Senior Citizens Law Center (Washington): Appointed Michael Kelly, a senior fellow at the Center for Applied Research (Philadelphia), to be executive director.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark): Appointed Peter H. Hansen, director of external affairs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.), to be vice president of development.

Night Ministry (Chicago): Appointed Nicole Saulter, a senior policy associate at Women Employed (Chicago), to be government-relations coordinator. This group provides health care, housing, and other services to poor and homeless youths and adults.

Oregon Health & Science U. (Portland): Appointed Nancy Benavente, director of advancement services at the U. of California at Davis, to be vice president for development services, and Constance French, director of the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be senior vice president of development.

Parkland Foundation of the Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas): Appointed Anne P. Leary, interim vice president of development and former vice president of development at the Center for Nonprofit Management (Dallas), to be vice president and chief development officer.

Phi Beta Kappa Society (Washington): Appointed Jared B. Hughes, director of corporate relations at the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network (Washington), to be director of legacy planning.

Pioneer Human Services (Seattle): Appointed Steve Schwalb, deputy director at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Washington) and chief operating officer at Federal Prison Industries (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. This group offers job training and counseling for people who have been released from prison.

RSI Catholic Services Group (Dallas): Appointed Michael Halloran, associate athletics director for development at the U. of Minnesota (Minneapolis), to be vice president of sales.

Rutgers U. (Camden, N.J.): Appointed Megan L. Kintzer, director of development at the Touchstone Theatre (Bethlehem, Pa.), to be associate director of development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Sacred Heart Hospital (Allentown, Pa.): Appointed Michelle C. Allen, campaign director at the Historical Society of Philadelphia, to be vice president of institutional advancement.

Sojourner Truth House (Milwaukee): Appointed Erin Smith, program-services coordinator at the March of Dimes, Wisconsin Chapter (West Allis), to be director of development and public relations. This organization aids victims of domestic violence.

Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (Owatonna): Appointed Timothy Penny, a senior counselor at Himle Horner (Minneapolis), to be president.

St. Mary’s U. of Minnesota, Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership (Winona): Announced the death of Tim J. Burchill, executive director, on February 20. He was 59.

United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.): Appointed Marilyn Richards, area development director, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., to be regional director for the North Carolina and Virginia offices, based in Charlotte, N.C.

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta: Appointed Milton J. Little Jr., president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (Boston), to be president, effective June 30. He will succeed Mark O’Connell, who is retiring.

Voices for America’s Children (Washington): Appointed Timothy P. Snyder, executive director of the Parental Stress Center (Pittsburgh), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

GRANT MAKERS

The California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Beatriz Maria Solís, an adjunct professor of Central American and Chicano studies at California State U. at Northridge and California State U. at Long Beach, to be Los Angeles regional senior program officer.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (N.Y.): Appointed Sally Crowley, vice president and segment marketing manager at HSBC Mortgage Corporation (Depew, N.Y.), to be communications director.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Angelle C. Fouther, marketing manager at the Denver Botanic Gardens, to be communications officer.

Foundation for the Carolinas (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Brian Collier, vice president for marketing and development at Kaboom (Washington), a nonprofit group that builds community playgrounds, to be senior vice president of community philanthropy.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Dave Montez, a research-development coordinator at the U. of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, to be associate program officer.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Damian Thorman, assistant prosecuting attorney and deputy director of the Family Support Division of the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office (Kansas City, Mo.), to be national program officer.

Kalamazoo Community Foundation (Mich.): Announced the retirement of Jack Hopkins, president and chief executive officer, effective July 31, 2008.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Vickie Benson, vice president at the Jerome Foundation (St. Paul), to be arts-program director.

Open Society Institute (Baltimore): Appointed Victor Capoccia, senior program officer and team leader of the addiction-prevention and treatment team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.), to be director of the National Drug Treatment Initiative.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Phyllis Searles, owner and operator of Organizing Anchorage, to be director of operations.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): Appointed Karen DeMers, director of administration at Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.), to be vice president for facilities and services; Frank A. Lalle, senior program officer at Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be director for grant making; Mauricio Palma, project manager for the Community Schools Initiative at Peninsula Community Foundation, to be director for early-learning initiatives; Debbie Silveira, donor-services manager at Community Foundation Silicon Valley, to be senior director for grants and gifts administration; Leigh Stilwell, senior program manager for donor resources at Peninsula Community Foundation, to be director for donor learning and connection; and Jennifer M. Wood, director of development for the annual fund and colleges at the U. of California at Santa Cruz, to be director for individual giving.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association of Direct Response Fundraising Counsel (Washington): Elected Judy Maneval, president of Sanky Communications (New York), to be chair and president of the Board of Directors.

Baltimore Community Foundation: Elected Richard W. Cass, president of the Baltimore Ravens football team; Laura L. Gamble, president of Bank of America Maryland (Baltimore); and Stuart O. Simms, a partner at Brown Goldstein Levy (Baltimore), to the Board of Trustees.

Children for Children (New York): Elected Kevin J. Arquit, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.): Elected Donald W. Stever, a partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Leader’s Challenge (Denver): Elected Thomas Spaulding, president and chief executive officer of Up With People (Denver) and founder of Leader’s Challenge, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Long Island Children’s Museum (Garden City, N.Y.): Elected Scott Rechler, chief executive officer of RexCorp Realty (Uniondale, N.Y.), to be co-chair of the Board of Trustees.

Notices of personnel changes and board-member appointments may be sent to people@philanthropy.com.