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AACSB International-the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (St. Louis):

Appointed Jim Bast, assistant dean and director of graduate programs in the College of Business Administration at the U. of Cincinnati, to be director of corporate relations.

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (Washington): Appointed Chris Collins, principal at Progressive Health Partners (Washington), to be executive director.

Arts & Education Council (St. Louis): Appointed James F. Weidman, director of development at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to be president.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation (Dallas): Announced the retirement of Charles M. Cooper, president, effective in October, after which he will serve as president emeritus.

CDC Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Adelia P. Thompson, assistant vice president for development at Agnes Scott College (Decatur, Ga.), to be vice president for development.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Don Tharpe, executive director of the Association of School Business Officials International (Reston, Va.), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Easter Seals (Chicago): Appointed Shirley Sexton, director of nonprofit services in the Falls Church, Va., office of Commerce One (Pleasanton, Calif.), to be director of Internet marketing.

GuideStar (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Robert G. Ottenhoff, a consultant based in McLean, Va., and former executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.), to be president. He succeeds Buzz Schmidt, the group’s founder, who will now serve as chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors.

Humane Society of Indianapolis: Announced the resignation of Marsha Spring, president, after 13 years in the position.

Independent Sector (Washington): John W. Gardner, co-founder and chairman emeritus, died February 16 at age 89. Mr. Gardner was also a former president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, founding chairman of Common Cause (Washington), and U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Johnson administration.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Robert R. Swaney, director of development at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, to be director of major and planned gifts.

Lincoln U. (Pa.): Appointed Michael C. Taylor, director of admissions at Saint Paul’s College (Lawrenceville, Va.), to be director of alumni relations, and Sandra D. Yates, former development officer at Swarthmore College (Pa.), to be director of development and major gifts.

Migration Policy Institute (Washington): Appointed Kimberly Hamilton, senior program officer at the Alcoa Foundation (Pittsburgh), to be director of strategic planning and managing editor of Migration Information Source.

National Association of Service and Conservation Corps (Washington): Announced the resignation of Kathleen Selz, president. Harry Bruell, vice president for field services, and Andrew Moore, vice president for government relations and public affairs, will assume her duties until a successor is named.

Nature Conservancy-Arizona Chapter (Phoenix): Appointed Susan Waschler, vice president of development and director for the Phoenix metropolitan region of the American Heart Association (Dallas), to be director of philanthropy.

North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (Charlotte): Appointed Donna Meindt Mitchell, vice president for development and marketing at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science (Durham), to be vice president of development.

ONE/Northwest (Seattle): Appointed Kerry Howell, former director of development for the School of Public Affairs at the U. of Washington (Seattle), to be development director.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Marcia Marsh, practice leader for integrated solutions at Watson Wyatt Worldwide (Washington), to be vice president for strategic human-resource planning.

Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.): Appointed Pamela Peters, a consultant in Winter Park, to be director of the Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center.

Southern Environmental Law Center (Charlottesville, Va.): Appointed James K. Gilliam, director of development, to be senior development officer, and E. Marie Hawthorne, campaign director, to be director of development.

Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington): Appointed Ellen Laipson, vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. The center conducts research to promote international security and peace.

U. of Maryland at Baltimore: Appointed Patrick Madden, former vice president for institutional advancement at U. of Maryland University College (College Park), to be chief development officer and associate dean for development for the School of Medicine.

United Way Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Mark Walker, external-affairs general manager at SBC Pacific Bell (San Jose, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs: Appointed Da’aga Hill Bowman, a legal editor for the Labor Relations Reporter at the Bureau of National Affairs (Washington), to be director of foundation outreach.

World Wildlife Fund (Washington): Appointed Suzanne Mink, vice president and senior consultant in the Washington office of Campbell & Company (Chicago), to be vice president of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Community Foundation of St. Clair County (Port Huron, Mich.): Appointed Randy Maiers, director of the Education Foundation of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Dearborn, Mich.), to be executive director.

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky (Louisville): Appointed Rita Moya, president and chief executive officer of the National Health Foundation (Los Angeles), to be executive director of this group created following the merger of the nonprofit Kentucky Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the for-profit Anthem Blue Cross.

Koret Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Sheila Baumgarten, development director at A Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco), to be program officer for Jewish life and arts and culture, and Juli Weiss, a consultant for Test Kitchens (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be program officer for educational programs.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Judith F. Helzner, director of sexual and reproductive health at the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London), to be associate director for population and reproductive health in the program on global security and sustainability, effective July 1.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Elected to be members of the Governing Board Paul W. Chellgren, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.); Johnathan M. Holifield, executive director of CincyTechUSA and vice president for new economic enterprise at the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce; and William C. Portman III, president and chief executive officer of Portman Equipment Company (Cincinnati).

International Center in New York: Elected Jeannie Diefenderfer, group president of advanced networks at Verizon Communications (New York), to be president of the board.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor of education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Migration Policy Institute (Washington): Elected Mary McClymont, president and chief executive officer of InterAction (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.