People

American Heart Association (Dallas): Appointed Bill Achenbach, vice president for human resources at Sears, Roebuck and Company (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), to be vice president of human resources, and Nancy Brown, executive vice president of the New England affiliate in Framingham, Mass., to be executive vice president in the office of science operations.

Battle Ground Academy (Franklin, Tenn.): Appointed Jay W. Howard Jr., director of development and alumni relations at the Meadows School (Las Vegas), to be vice president of development.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, chair of the executive committee of the Divinity School at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Terri Y. Montague, a principal at Lend Lease Real Estate Investments (Boston), to be president and chief operating officer, effective September 4, and Jim Polcaro, vice president of information technology at Americom Wireless Services (Lutherville, Md.), to be chief technology officer.

Florida Blood Services (St. Petersburg): Appointed Jane Riley Leach, director of major gifts at the American Heart AssociationFlorida/Puerto Rico Affiliate (St. Petersburg), to be vice president of development and the executive director of the Florida Blood Services Foundation.

Loyola U. of Chicago: Appointed Kent Stucky, former vice president for institutional advancement at Goshen College (Ind.), to be associate vice president for university development.

Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, Va.): Appointed Lisa D. Boyce, a former staff member at the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (Va.), to be director of annual giving.

National Conference for Community and Justice (New York): Appointed Brian E. Foss, senior vice president and vice president of public policy, to be executive vice president, based in the Washington office; Danielle Glosser, senior public-policy strategist, to be director of public policy; and Scott Marshall, director of programming strategies, to be vice president of programming strategies.

U. of Kansas (Lawrence): Appointed Janet Murguia, former deputy campaign manager for Al Gore, to be executive vice chancellor for university relations.

U. of Texas at Arlington: Appointed Mark Martin, professor and chairman of military science, to be vice president for development.

United Way Community Services (Detroit): Appointed Mary Szymanski Tindall, vice president for external relations at the Center for Creative Studies-College of Art and Design (Detroit) and a former unit director at this United Way, to be vice president of leadership giving and estate planning.

USA Tennis Foundation (White Plains, N.Y.): Appointed Karen Martin-Eliezer, senior vice president at Graham-Windham Services to Families and Children (New York), to be executive director. This charity is the philanthropic arm of the United States Tennis Association.

GRANT MAKERS

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (Mich.): Appointed Cheryl Elliott, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds George Cress, who retired.

Broad Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Julie Jo Baker, a manager at Grant, Tani, Barash & Altman (Los Angeles), to be director of finance.

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Bridgett Lomax, a program associate, to be a program officer, and Clarita Mays, a consultant based in Lathrup Village, Mich., and former assistant dean of the School of Social Work at U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be a program officer.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Jaime Garcia, vice president of community services at the United Way of King County (Seattle), to be senior program officer for the Pacific Northwest grant program.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Bridget Hardgree, coordinator, to be program associate for the Youth Advisory Board; Brian Mann, research associate, to be senior research associate for the youth-development division; and Gwen Richtermeyer, senior research associate, to be manager of research and evaluation.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Announced the resignation of Lincoln C. Chen, executive vice president for strategy, effective at the end of this year. Mr. Chen will begin a new initiative on philanthropic partnerships for global equity, to which the foundation will contribute. The foundation also appointed Susan Sechler, director of the global-inclusion program, to be senior adviser for biotechnology policy, and Julia I. Lopez, director of the working-communities program, to be vice president for program administration and interim director for working communities and global inclusion. Ms. Lopez will be based in the San Francisco office starting January 2002.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Appointed Candace Bell, a program coordinator at the U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be program officer for children, youth, and families; Andrew Johnson, senior vice president and chief operating officer at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (Philadelphia), to be program officer for environment and communities; and Lise Ragbir, program assistant in arts and culture at the WallaceReader’s Digest Funds (New York), to be program associate for arts and culture.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Academy for Educational Development (Washington): Elected Edward W. (Peter) Russell, senior vice president for government affairs at J.P. Morgan Chase & Company (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh): Elected Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board (New York) and a former governor of West Virginia, to be a trustee.

CARE (Atlanta): Elected Lincoln C. Chen, executive vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), to be chair of the U.S.A. Board of Directors.

Federation of Burn Foundations: Elected James A. Floros, executive director of the Burn Institute (San Diego), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Elected David Dechman, partner managing director of the Goldman Sachs Group (New York), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Elected Joseph M. Stewart, recently retired senior vice president for corporate affairs and chief ethics officer at the Kellogg Company (Battle Creek), to be a trustee.

United Jewish Communities (New York): Elected James S. Tisch, president and chief executive officer of Loews Corporation (New York) and president of the UJAFederation of New York, to be chair of the board.

USA Tennis Foundation (White Plains, N.Y.): Elected Pam Shriver, director at large and a professional tennis singles and doubles champion, to be president of the board.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Charlie Cumbaa, executive vice president of Intertech Information Management (Atlanta), to be vice president of professional services.

Grant Thornton (Chicago): Appointed Melissa Kahn, a management consultant in the Boston office of BDO Seidman (Chicago), to be a manager, and Thomas A. McLaughlin, a senior manager in the BDO Seidman’s Boston office, to be senior manager. Both appointments are in the not-for-profit practice of Grant Thornton’s Boston office.

Sinclair, Townes & Company (Atlanta): Appointed the following to be consultants: Lauren Hammond, assistant regional director of the Southeastern region of Girls Incorporated (New York), based in Atlanta; Cathy LaClaire, communications manager at the Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach, Fla.); and Dan Shelles, a consultant based in Elmira, N.Y.