People

American Refugee Committee (Minneapolis): Appointed Karen Frederickson, chief of staff for U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) (Washington), to be director of development.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (New York): Appointed Jeanne Baker Driscoll, director of major gifts at the Institute for Student Achievement (New York), to be assistant director of membership and development.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Khadijah A. Tribble, volunteer program manager at the American Red Cross Blood Services-Alabama Region (Birmingham), to be volunteer-services coordinator.

Catholic Medical Mission Board (New York): Appointed Barbara Wright, a technology and telecommunications consultant in New York, to be director of communications.

Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Rose Ann DiCola, chief development officer at the Watson Institute for International Studies (Providence, R.I.), to be executive director.

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay (Tampa, Fla.): Appointed Dennis M. Ross, president and chief executive officer of Celotex Corporation and the Jim Walter Corporation (Tampa), to be president and chief executive officer.

Epilepsy Foundation (Landover, Md.): Appointed William A. Allen, vice president for development at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington), to be vice president of development.

Gilda’s Club Chicago: Appointed Cheryle Dobnikar, senior representative at the American Cancer Society-Chicago Region, to be development manager. Gilda’s Club Chicago provides emotional and social support to people with cancer.

Givat Haviva Educational Foundation (New York): Appointed Robert B. Levy, executive director of the Northeast region of the Israel Humanitarian Foundation (New York), to be executive director. Givat Haviva organizes educational programs that promote positive dialogue between Arabs and Jews.

Heifer International (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Nancy Newell, former owner of the Ten-Mile House and St. Pascual’s Kitchen restaurants (Little Rock), to be coordinator of cottage industries at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Ark., and Christi Woodworth, assistant director at the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation, to be major-gifts officer.

Iowa State U. Foundation (Ames): Appointed Raymond L. Klein, founder and president of Won Up Productions (Ames), to be director of development for the College of Agriculture.

Marygrove College (Detroit): Appointed Randall J. DeVelbiss, account executive at National City Corporation (Cleveland), to be director of development.

Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Judiann McNulty, assistant country director for programs for CARE in Tajikistan (Duschanbe), to be director of health programs.

National Ability Center (Park City, Utah): Appointed Cindy Kaiser, director of entertainment and special events and sponsorship liaison at Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort (Snowbird, Utah), to be marketing director.

National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (Washington): Appointed Barbara Bennison, Washington-based director of federal relations for the California State U. System (Long Beach), to be vice president for government relations and public affairs, and Margaret Camarena, former director of evaluation research at Kansas Health Institute (Topeka), to be vice president for programs and analysis.

National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Appointed Geoffrey Galt Harpham, a professor of English literature at Tulane U. (New Orleans), to be director. He will succeed W. Robert Connor, who is retiring in December.

North Carolina Central U. (Durham): Appointed Johnnie Southerland, program director at the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits (Raleigh), to be director of major gifts.

North Park U. (Chicago): Appointed Wesley E. Lindahl, assistant dean and director of development at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.), to be director of the School of Business and Nonprofit Management.

Person to Person (Minneapolis): Appointed Leila J. Erlandson, manager of public affairs at American Express (Minneapolis), to be executive director. Person to Person provides educational and housing support services to low-income families in Minneapolis .

South Florida Annenberg Challenge (Miami): Appointed Dawn Wilson, director of development at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida (Fort Lauderdale), to be vice president of educational advancement.

Suffolk U. (Boston): Appointed Kathryn Battillo, chief development officer at the Boston Ballet, to be vice president of development.

U. of California at Berkeley: Appointed Scott Biddy, associate vice president for university development at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be associate vice chancellor for university relations.

U. of North Texas, North Texas Exes (Denton): Appointed David Layton, vice president at First State Bank of Texas (Denton), to be executive director. The North Texas Exes is the university’s alumni association.

U. of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.): Appointed Louis M. Nanni, vice president for public affairs and communication, to be vice president for university relations.

Women & Philanthropy (Washington): Appointed Kimberly Otis, former executive director of the Rauch Foundation (Garden City, N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Cleveland Foundation: Appointed Marlene Casini, vice president of advancement and communications at the Denver Foundation, to be vice president for gift planning and donor relations.

General Mills Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Chris Shea, president of the New Ventures division, to be president. She succeeds Reatha Clark King, who retired May 31.

Glaucoma Foundation (New York): Appointed Scott R. Christensen, vice president and director of foundation advancement, to be president and chief executive officer.

Kavli Foundation and the Kavli Institute (Oxnard, Calif.): Appointed David Auston, former president of Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland), to be president.

Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Michelle Humphrey, marketing manager at the Owners Club at Barton Creek Country Club (Austin), to be assistant vice president of community affairs, and Cade Thornton, a coach at Southwest Texas State U. (San Marcos) and the U. of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Belton, Tex.), to be assistant vice president of academic affairs.

Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation and the Schott Center for Public and Early Education (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Theresa Mayberry-Dunn, an Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Fellow and former chief operating officer at the Center for New Horizons (Chicago), to be program director for both organizations.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Carol A. Goss, senior program officer, to be vice president of program.

Teagle Foundation (New York): Announced the retirement of Richard W. Kimball, president and chief executive, pending completion of the foundation’s strategic-planning process.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

America’s Second Harvest (Chicago): Elected William A. Rudnick, a partner at Piper Rudnick (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Association of Philanthropic Counsel (Charlotte, N.C.): Elected John R. Mercier, principal of the JM Advancement Organization (Sarasota, Fla.), to be chair of the Executive Committee.

Boston Foundation: Elected the Rev. Ray Hammond, founder and pastor of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Boston) and chairman of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, to the Board of Directors.

Child Care Action Campaign (New York): Elected Judith Kauffman Fullmer, former vice president of employee relations at Citigroup (New York), and Douglas W. McCormick, chief executive officer of iVillage (New York), to be co-chairs of the Board of Directors.

Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati: Elected Gloria S. Haffer, co-founder and an attorney at Buechner, Haffer, O’Connell, Meyers & Healey (Cincinnati), to be president of the Board of Directors.

New England Conservatory (Boston): Elected Jack Vernon, former managing director of Russell Reynolds Associates (Boston), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Parent-Child Home Program (Port Washington, N.Y.): Elected Charles L. Butts, a retired professor at the State U. of New York at Stony Brook and a former Ohio state senator, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Salvation Army (Alexandria, Va.): Elected Edsel B. Ford II, former president of Ford Motor Credit Company (Dearborn, Mich.), to be chairman of the National Advisory Board.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Crossector Solutions (Chicago): Appointed Christiane S. Wilczura, director of community affairs at GATX Corporation (Chicago), to be president of this recently established consulting firm.

Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates (Franklin, Ind.): Appointed Kris Kindelsperger, senior associate, to be president.

Phillips & Associates (Los Angeles): Appointed Edward E. Birch, executive vice president at Westmont College (Santa Barbara, Calif.), to be of counsel for selected clients.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed Doug Bauer, former president of the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund (New York), and A. Richardson Love Jr., former director of education programs at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami), to be senior philanthropy advisers; and Judy Belk, former vice president of global public affairs at Levi Strauss & Co. (San Francisco), and Bill Dietel, president of the Pierson-Lovelace Foundation and of the Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization (Los Angeles), to be senior advisers.

Schultz & Williams (Philadelphia): Appointed Samantha Bloom, founder of Blooming Inspirations (Philadelphia), to be vice president of development systems; Marleen Livingstone, director of development and communications at Methodist Home for Children Foundation and Methodist Services for Children and Families (Philadelphia), to be development consultant; Nancy Page, director of marketing for the Philadelphia and Princeton, N.J., offices of Morgan Lewis, to be vice president; and Carol Richter, vice president for development at Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia), to be senior associate.