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Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Diana Sciocchetti, vice president of external affairs, to be senior vice president of nonprofit and government affairs.

America’s Second Harvest (Chicago): Appointed Sandra S. Byrd, senior vice president of communications and development at Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), to be vice president of external relations.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Washington): Appointed Deborah A. Cloud, director of communications, to be vice president of communications, and Lisa Brown Morton, director of human resources, to be vice president of human resources.

American Cancer Society (Atlanta): Appointed Robert D. Mitchell, national vice president of major and planned gifts, to be national vice president of income development.

American Cancer SocietyEastern Division (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Donald Distasio, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer.

Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed Karen A. Lewis, senior director of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, to be executive director of this group, which promotes cultural development and events on Philadelphia’s North and South Broad Streets. She succeeds Ellen B. Solms, who resigned.

CARE (Atlanta): Appointed Peter Buijs, controller, to be senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington): Appointed Robert Nurick, senior political scientist at RAND (Santa Monica, Calif.), to be director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Carnegie Hall (New York): Announced the resignation of Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, executive director.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: Appointed Dee Jay Oshry, associate vice chancellor and director of the capital campaign at the U. of Pittsburgh, to be associate vice president for development and campaign director.

Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland): Appointed Charlene Harner, director of special projects, to be director of annual giving and special capital projects, and Traci Kugler, who recently received a master’s degree in social administration from the university, to be director of special projects.

Catholic Medical Mission Board (New York): Announced the retirement of Terry Kirch, executive director. John F. Galbraith, director of development, will serve as acting executive director.

Center for the New West (Denver): Appointed John Maddox, founding partner of the Maddox Group (Salt Lake City), to be president and chief executive officer of this public-policy research institute.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.): Appointed Robert B. Taylor, vice president and treasurer at Wesleyan U. (Middletown, Conn.), to be senior vice president for finance and administration.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies (Boston): Appointed A. David Scholder, director of planned giving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles), to be senior director of estate and gift planning.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York): Appointed Carla I. Javits, director of the California program based in the Oakland office, to be president and chief executive officer.

The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration (New York): Announced the retirement of Mary Jane O’Neill, executive director and chief executive officer.

Food for the Hungry International (Geneva): Appointed Randall L. Hoag, executive vice president, to be president. Food for the Hungry, the U.S. affiliate of this organization, which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., appointed Benjamin K. Homan, vice president for development at Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis), to be president. Both men succeed Ted Yamamori, who is retiring after serving as president of both groups since 1984.

Girl Scout Council of Greater New York: Appointed Susan M. Greenbaum, managing director of the Maloney Group (New York), to be executive director.

Girl Scouts of the USA (New York): Appointed Valerie Gilford, director of employee development at the Carrier Corporation (Farmington, Conn.), to be national director of leadership development and research, and Laurie A. Westley, senior vice president in the national policy office at Voyager Expanded Learning (Dallas), to be national director of government relations.

Arnold P. Gold Foundation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.): Appointed Laura Braff, former assistant director at the KinderCare Learning Center (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.), to be program and development associate, and Lester J. Scheinfeld, development director at the Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center (East Hills, N.Y.), to be vice president for development.

The Grace Centers of Hope (Pontiac, Mich.): Appointed Nancy Buck, former director of development at Bishop Foley High School (Madison Heights, Mich.), to be director of development for this group that recently changed its name from the Pontiac Rescue Mission.

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (Fort Pierce, Fla.): Appointed Philip Flynn, director of medical development at Food for the Poor (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), to be director of institutional advancement.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, Calif.): Appointed Suzanne R. Campi, president of Suzanne Campi and Associates (Gardena, Calif.), to be vice president for financial development.

Interstitial Cystitis Association of America (Rockville, Md.): Appointed David W. Jones, director of development and communication at Health Care for the Homeless (Baltimore), to be director of development.

Irving Healthcare Foundation (Tex.): Announced the retirement of Patricia Root Carnell, founding president for the past 22 years.

Kidspace Children’s Museum (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Elizabeth (Buff) Megaw, development director at the Frostig Center (Pasadena), to be development director.

Lifebeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS (New York): Appointed Eric Gribin, a consultant based in New York, to be executive director.

Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York): Appointed David G. Marwell, associate museum director of information and technology at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), to be director.

National Park Foundation (Washington): Appointed Jill Nicoll, executive vice president, also to be chief operating officer.

The Nature ConservancyColorado Field Office (Boulder): Appointed Melissa Grumhaus, associate director of development, to be director of development, and Colleen McGarry, program director for Camp Fire Boys and GirlsColorado Council (Denver), to be associate director of development.

North Carolina Dance Theatre (Charlotte): Appointed Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, artistic director, to be executive director. He succeeds Carl Powell, interim executive director, who will become managing director.

Pathways Awareness Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Kelli Moore, marketing and communications director, to be executive director of this organization that educates parents and teachers about children’s movement patterns.

Santa Monica College (Calif.): Appointed JoAnn McLin Ortiz, vice president for development at the Center for Healthy Aging (Santa Monica), to be director of institutional advancement.

Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles): Appointed Lori Starr, director of public affairs and communications at the J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles), to be vice president for external affairs.

Springfield Area Arts Council (Ill.): Appointed Christine Ramirez-Campbell, director of community education at Lincoln Land Community College (Springfield), to be executive director.

U. of Akron (Ohio): Appointed Charles D. Clark, a consultant based in Columbus, Ohio, to be director of corporate and government relations.

U. of Richmond (Va.): Appointed Dan Kalmanson, former executive director of media and external relations at the U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.), to be executive director of communications.

The Urban Institute (Washington): Appointed John R. Rogers, director of the applied-economics practice at KPMG/Barents (Washington), to be senior vice president and chief financial officer.

The Western Foundation (Bellingham, Wash.): Appointed Stephanie Bowers, director of development for the Smith School of Business at the U. of Maryland at College Park, to be executive director of the foundation and executive director of development at Western Washington U. (Bellingham), for which the Western Foundation raises funds.

WHYY (Philadelphia): Appointed Craig Robert Hamilton, director of marketing and communications at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, to be executive director of development.

WTTW/Window to the World Communications (Chicago): Appointed Donna Davies, vice president for development, to be senior vice president for development, and Parke Richeson, vice president for finance and business development, to be senior vice president for finance and business development.

GRANT MAKERS

Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed Curt S. Detjen, director of economic development for the City of Appleton, to be vice president of development and donor services, effective February 1.

Delaware Community Foundation (Wilmington): Announced the resignation of Collis O. Townsend, founding executive director, effective June 30.

Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Mary Kay Blake, vice president for partnerships and initiatives, to be senior vice president for partnerships and initiatives; Kathryn Kennedy, manager of news and staff recruiting at Gannett (Arlington, Va.), to be director of partnerships and initiatives; and Beth Tuttle, vice president for marketing and communications, to be senior vice president for marketing and communications.

Howard Gilman Foundation (New York): Appointed Arlene Shuler, senior vice president for planning and external affairs at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York), to be executive director.

William T. Grant Foundation (New York): Appointed Bob Granger, senior vice president at the Manpower Demonstration Reseach Corporation (New York), to be senior vice president for program.

Medtronic Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Penny Hunt, executive director of community affairs for the Medtronic company (Minneapolis), to be vice president for community affairs at the corporation and executive director of the foundation. The foundation also appointed David Etzwiler, senior manager of the foundation and of community affairs for the corporation, to be director of the foundation and of community affairs for the corporation.

Open Society Institute (New York): Appointed Maria Teresa Rojas, director of communications at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (New York), to be associate director of communications.

Pittsburgh Foundation: Appointed Beverly A. Portis, executive director of MetroArts of the Capital Region (Harrisburg, Pa.), to be senior program officer and director of the multicultural arts initiative.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Phillipa P. Taylor, vice president for finance and administration at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be chief financial and administrative officer.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Donna J. Dean, acting chief investment officer and assistant treasurer, to be treasurer and chief investment officer, and Raymund A. Paredes, associate vice chancellor at the U. of California at Los Angeles, to be director of the creativity and culture program.

Warner Foundation (Durham, N.C.): Appointed W. Billie Burney, project coordinator for the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers of the Durham Public Schools, to be a program director; Liana Humphrey, systems and development coordinator at El Centro Hispano (Durham), to be administrative director; and Athan L. Lindsay, assistant director of multicultural recruitment at Davidson College (N.C.), to be a program director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Charles A. Dana Foundation (New York): Elected Edward Bleier, president of domestic pay-television, cable, and network features at Warner Bros. (New York), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

Heifer International Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): Elected Carole Hillard, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota, to be chairperson of the Board of Trustees for this fund-raising arm of Heifer Project International, which provides food- and income-producing animals to needy families.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Elected Olivia P. (Libby) Maynard, president of the Michigan Project for Renewed Citizenship (Flint) and a regent at the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Cambridge, Mass.): Elected Judith Lloyd, executive director of the Brunswick Area Arts & Cultural Alliance (Me.), to be president of the Board of Directors of this human-rights organization.

Y.M.C.A. of Greater New York: Elected Robert Annunzia, chairman of the board at PF.Net Communications (Herndon, Va.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

The Alford Group (Chicago): Appointed Roderick L. Reinhart, director of development at the Sharp HealthCare Foundation (San Diego), to be vice president based in the San Diego office.

Bessemer Trust (New York): Appointed Karen H. Putnam, former president of the Central Park Conservancy (New York), to be principal and director of philanthropic services.

Goulston & Storrs (Boston): Appointed Julie Mott Toulmin, senior adviser at the Amelior Foundation (Morristown, N.J.), to be a senior adviser.