People

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Rosemont, Ill.): Appointed Karen L. Hackett, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the American College of Healthcare Executives (Chicago), to be chief executive officer and executive vice president.

American-Italian Cancer Foundation (New York): Appointed Federica de Iaco, marketing manager at Carpe Diem Worldwide (Trieste, Italy), to be manager of international programs.

Arthritis Foundation-Northeastern Ohio Chapter (Cleveland): Appointed John T. Petures Jr., development director at United Way Services of Greater Cleveland, to be president and chief professional officer.

Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)-New York: Appointed Jyll Taylor, president of JY Enterprises (New York), to be executive director. This nonprofit group, which has headquarters in Boston, provides education services to elementary-school children in Boston, New York, and Washington.

CareFirst Pregnancy Centers and Prevention Services (Chicago): Appointed Ryan Anderson, showroom sales manager at Turnstone (Chicago), a division of Steelcase (Grand Rapids, Mich.), to be director of development.

Child Trends (Washington): Appointed Karen Wise Jaffe, executive director of Kidsnet (Washington), to be vice president of external relations; Laura Lippman, a senior research associate, also to be director of the data and measurement content area; Richard Wertheimer, director of the data and measurement content area, to be director of the welfare and poverty content area; and Martha Zaslow, director of the welfare and poverty content area, to be director of the early-childhood-development content area.

Common Ground Community (New York): Appointed Mary McGreal, associate executive director of social services at Catholic Community Services (Newark, N.J.), to be executive director, and Rosanne Haggerty, founder and executive director, to be president.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Janne Gallagher, deputy general counsel, to be vice president and general counsel.

Dahesh Museum of Art (New York): Appointed Peter Trippi, assistant vice director for development for exhibitions and collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, to be director. This museum organizes exhibitions and programs that focus on art created in the 19th and 20th centuries by academically trained artists.

D.C. Central Kitchen (Washington): Appointed Cynthia G. Rowland, acting executive director, to be executive director. The organization also appointed Robert Egger, former executive director of D.C. Central Kitchen and interim executive vice president of the United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington), to be president, with responsibility for the national Campus Kitchen Project and Kitchens I.N.C.

Florida Atlantic U. Foundation (Boca Raton): Announced the resignation of Carla Coleman, executive director and senior vice president for university development.

Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind (Smithtown, N.Y.): Appointed Jeff Bressler, director of development, public relations, and marketing at the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County (Roosevelt, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Hearts and Homes for Youth (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Donna F. Crocker, deputy chief administrative officer for health and human services in the Office of the County Executive of Prince George’s County (Upper Marlboro, Md.), to be vice president for programs.

Independent Women’s Forum (Washington): Appointed Kristen Richardson, associate producer at KSAZ Fox 10 (Phoenix), to be campus-program manager.

International Youth Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Charles Dambach, senior consultant and coordinator of global programs at BoardSource (Washington), to be vice president for new-business development.

Iowa State U. Foundation (Ames): Appointed Dan Saftig, vice president of marketing and communications for the Minnesota Medical Foundation at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis), to be president and chief executive officer.

NAACP (Baltimore): Appointed Brandon T. Neal, mid-Atlantic youth field director and national youth-council coordinator, to be national director of the youth, college, and young-adult division.

New York Institute of Technology: Appointed Thomas Mauriello, vice president for institutional advancement at Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.), to be vice president for development and chief development officer.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital: Appointed Joseph Angeletti Jr., vice president for development and alumni affairs at Drew U. (Madison, N.J.), to be campaign director.

Oasis Institute (St. Louis): Appointed Marcia Kerz, chief operating officer, to be president. The institute provides education and other services to people who are 50 or older.

Overlake Hospital Foundation (Bellevue, Wash.): Appointed Steve Hettinga, assistant director of annual-giving programs at the U. of Washington at Seattle, to be director of annual giving.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Tali R. Stepp, director of human resources at the U.S. Department of Labor (Washington), to be a senior consultant for federal human-resources programs and policies.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed John A. Edie, longtime senior vice president and general counsel at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be a senior fellow, based in Washington.

Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga): Appointed Peter A. Mitchell, vice president for administration and treasurer at Notre Dame de Namur U. (Belmont, Calif.), to be vice president for finance.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Susan Anderson, an author based in Smethport, Pa., to be operations-communications specialist in the office of university advancement, and Clifford Ott, corporate director of staffing and human-resources communications at Adelphia Communications Corporation (Coudersport, Pa.), to be executive director of operations for the office. The university also appointed Barry A. Benson, owner of Benson Galleries (St. Augustine, Fla.), to be corporate- and foundation-project officer; Nelson Boyette, senior project manager at Automatic Data Processing (Jacksonville, Fla.), to be director of constituent relations; and Mary H. Vahl, co-owner of Enchanted Mountain Realty (Olean, N.Y.) and PeaceMaker Mediation (Olean, N.Y.), to be director of special events.

St. John’s College (Santa Fe, N.M.): Appointed Susan Patten, assistant director of communications, marketing, and public relations at the Pennsylvania State U. Alumni Association (University Park), to be director of the National Friends of St. John’s College program.

Tennessee State U. (Nashville): Appointed Anthony L. Holloman, director of corporate relations at North Carolina A&T State U. (Greensboro), to be assistant vice president for the division of university relations and development.

TreePeople (Beverly Hills, Calif.): Appointed Christopher Minnes, a strategic-planning consultant at Arts Consulting Group (Los Angeles), to be director of development. TreePeople helps Los Angeles-area residents plant and care for trees in their neighborhoods.

United Cerebral Palsy Associations (Washington): Appointed Stephen Bennett, president of Pallotta TeamWorks (Los Angeles), to be chief executive officer.

U. of California Press (Berkeley): Appointed Camille Crittenden, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at the San Francisco Opera, to be associate director of development and public relations.

U. of South Carolina (Columbia): Appointed T.W. Hudson Akin, executive director of university development at Ball State U. (Muncie, Ind.), to be vice president of university advancement.

Vanderbilt U., Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy (Nashville): Appointed Bill Ivey, a visiting scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington), also to be director.

Volunteers of America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Joyce Henderson, a professor at the U. of Maryland at Shady Grove, to be vice president for human resources, and Victoria Jones, associate director for communications at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be director of public relations and publications.

Volunteers of America-Greater New York: Appointed P. Joy Villalino, communications consultant at the Archer Group (San Francisco), to be associate director of marketing and public relations.

Westchester Jewish Community Services (Hartsdale, N.Y.): Appointed Aaron Newman, clinic director at the Center for Preventive Psychiatry (Yonkers, N.Y.), to be director of the Family Mental Health Clinic.

YWCA of the U.S.A. (Washington): Appointed Patricia Ireland, a counsel for labor and employment with the Washington office of Katz, Kutter, Alderman & Bryant (Tallahassee, Fla.) and former president of the National Organization for Women (Washington), to be chief executive officer. She succeeds Margaret Tyndall, who has resigned.

GRANT MAKERS

Broad Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Gregory McGinity, senior policy consultant at the California State Board of Education (Sacramento), to be director of policy.

Dental Service of Massachusetts (Boston): Appointed Bryan Spence, director of charitable giving at New England Financial (Boston), to be director of community benefit and philanthropy.

Flora Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed B. Stephen Toben, vice president, to be president.

Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation (Iowa): Appointed Kathy L. Hall, executive director of the Cedar Rapids Symphony, to be director of communications and fund development, and Jonna Higgins-Freese, environmental-outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center (Hiawatha, Iowa), to be director of programs.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Linda B. Fitzgerald, project manager and lead researcher in the Rio de Janeiro office of Development Alternatives (Bethesda, Md.), to be deputy director of the community-partners program.

San Francisco Foundation: Appointed John Killacky, executive director of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), to be program officer for arts and culture, and Arlene Rodriguez, senior program officer for the environment at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco), to be program officer for the environment.

Seattle Foundation: Appointed Phyllis Campbell, president of U.S. Bank of Washington (Seattle), to be president and chief executive officer, effective July 1. She succeeds Anne V. Farrell, who is retiring.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Carnegie Institution of Washington: Elected Michael Erwin Gellert, a partner at Windcrest Partners (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Cleveland Foundation: Elected John Sherwin Jr., president of Mid-Continent Ventures (Cleveland), to be chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Jack Guynn, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Bank of Atlanta; Dale Jones, managing partner of the Atlanta office of Heidrick & Struggles; and Michael Kay, chairman of the Magnatrax Corporation (Eufaula, Ala.), were elected to the Board of Directors.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Sherry Salway Black, senior vice president at the First Nations Development Institute (Fredericksburg, Va.); Joan P. Garner, executive director of the Southern Partners Fund (Atlanta); Cornelia Higginson, vice president of the American Express Philanthropic Program (New York); Diane Kaplan, president of the Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage); Maxwell King, president of the Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh); Olivia Maynard, a trustee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.); and Jeffrey R. Solomon, president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies (New York), were elected to the Board of Directors.

Denver Foundation: Laura Barton, a community volunteer; Christine Johnson, president of the Community College of Denver; Susan Kiely, chaplain and project manager at HUD Housed Seniors (Denver); and Robert Newman, a venture capitalist (Denver), were elected to the Board of Trustees.

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia): Elected William J. Avery, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Crown Cork and Seal Company (Philadelphia), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington): Elected Isher Judge Ahluwalia, a visiting professor at U. of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs (College Park) and former director of the Indian Council for Research on International Economics (New Delhi), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington): Announced the resignation of James A. Johnson, chairman of the Board of Trustees, effective in January.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Washington): Elected Teresa Odendahl, former executive director of the National Network of Grantmakers (San Diego) and senior program officer at the Wyss Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Oasis Institute (St. Louis): Elected Marylen Mann, former president and founder, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president of Brazil, and Thomas J. Healy, retired managing director of Goldman Sachs & Company (New York), were elected to the Board of Trustees.

Rockwell Fund (Houston): Barbara W. Bellatti, co-manager of Cimarron River (Houston); Gene Graham, director of the Allar Company (Graham, Tex.); and Margaret E. McConn, an accountant based in Houston, were elected to the Board of Trustees.

Woods Charitable Fund (Lincoln, Neb.): Elected Steve Sands, executive vice president at R.E. Meyer Company (Lincoln), to be president of the Board of Directors, and Lynn Roper, first vice president and resident manager at the Lincoln office of Merrill Lynch (New York), to be a member of the board.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

M Booth & Associates (New York): Appointed Diane H. Fusilli, a vice president, to be director of the public-issues division at this public-relations firm.

Burness Communications (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Colleen Chapman, advocacy manager at the American Cancer Society (Washington), to be associate for public policy, and Mitch Patterson, segment producer of Capital Report at CNBC (Washington), to be senior research associate for public policy.

Commonfund (Wilton, Conn.): Appointed Verne O. Sedlacek, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Robert L. Bovinette, who will retire in July. Commonfund manages investment funds for nonprofit institutions.

Creative Direct Response (Crofton, Md.): Appointed Jim McLachlan, creative director, also to be vice president at this direct-marketing company.

Innovation Network (Washington): Appointed Piers J.W. Bocock, founding partner and president of Stratecomm (Washington), to be director of technology development, and Patrick A. Corvington, a research associate at the Urban Institute (Washington), to be director of consulting and training services at this nonprofit-consulting company.

Schultz & Williams (Philadelphia): Appointed Sandra H. Bogle, director of advancement at the Agnes Irwin School (Rosemont, Pa.), to be senior associate. Schultz & Williams advises nonprofit groups about fund raising and management.

Victory Capital Management (Cleveland): Appointed Cheryl King, director of foundation, endowment, and health care at Dresdner RCM Global Investors (San Francisco), to be managing director for foundation, endowment, and health care in the San Francisco office. Victory provides investment services to nonprofit organizations.