People

Brookings Institution (Washington): Appointed Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow in economic studies, to be vice president and director of the economic-studies program.

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston: Joseph Doolin, president since 1989, will retire later this year.

Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas (Wichita): Appointed Sue Elmer, quality-assurance director, to be vice president of the community-support-services division.

Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network: Appointed Elisabeth Solomon, a principal at Solomon & Associates (Chicago), to be executive director.

Children’s Defense Fund (Washington): Appointed Toby Chaudhuri, deputy press secretary for the presidential campaign of Al Gore (Manchester, N.H.), to be national press secretary; Kyle Good, a producer at CBS (New York), to be regional and state communications director, based in the New York office; Jim Jones, executive vice president of the Washington office of the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines (Geneva), to be vice president of programs and policy; Donna Lawrence, New York director, to be vice president for field operations and outreach; Donna Whitt, chief financial officer and treasurer at the Electronic Industries Alliance (Arlington, Va.), to be chief financial officer; Patricia Alford Williams, director of communications at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington), to be communications director; and Janice Wilson, vice president and chief marketing officer at Maryland Public Television (Owings Mills), to be vice president for development.

Coalition on Human Needs (Washington): Appointed Deborah Weinstein, director of the family-income division of the Children’s Defense Fund (Washington), to be executive director.

College Misericordia (Dallas, Pa.): Appointed Barbara Merdiushev, director of development at Cabrini College (Radnor, Pa.), to be director of development.

Colorado Health Institute (Denver): Appointed Pamela Hanes, associate professor of public health and preventive medicine at the Oregon Health & Science U. (Portland), to be president and chief executive officer.

Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Washington): Appointed Donald Falkenstein, acting vice president for business and finance, to be vice president for business and finance.

Council on Foreign Relations (Washington): Appointed Richard N. Haass, director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State (Washington), to be president. He replaces Leslie H. Gelb, who has been named president emeritus.

Dientes Community Dental Clinic (Santa Cruz, Calif.): Appointed Mark A. Riley, director of CrystalMind Consulting (Santa Cruz), to be executive director.

Doctors of the World-USA (New York): Appointed Thomas Dougherty, acting executive director, to be executive director.

Dos Pueblos, the Upper West Side-Tipitapa Sister City Project (New York): Appointed Dena Fisher, executive director of Seeds of Peace (New York), to be executive director.

Environmental Law Institute (Washington): Appointed Leslie Carothers, vice president for environment, health, and safety at United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Conn.), to be president. She succeeds J. William Futrell, who is retiring after 23 years.

Generations United (Washington): Appointed Kaja Snell, a research assistant at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging (Washington), to be manager of the National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children. Generations United supports programs that foster relationships between youths and elderly people.

Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio): Appointed William F. Stepp, vice president for institutional advancement at Sierra Nevada College (Lake Tahoe, Nev.), to be vice president of institutional advancement.

Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed Karla Shepard Rubinger, founding partner of Rubinger Associates (Chappaqua, N.Y.), to be executive director. Hello Friend promotes better understanding of dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties; it was created by the actor-comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, in honor of their son Ennis, a graduate student in special education who was murdered in 1997.

I Am Your Child Foundation (New York): Appointed Norman S. Rosenberg, executive director of the New Israel Fund (Washington), to be president, effective later this year.

Indiana U. Foundation (Bloomington): Appointed Sandra Bate, director of communications and marketing at the School of Public Affairs and Environmental Sciences at Indiana U. at Bloomington, to be executive director.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York): Appointed Lori G. Rabb, chief development officer at the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford (Conn.) and at the Endowment Foundation of Greater Hartford, to be director of development for the Northeast.

John Tracy Clinic (Los Angeles): Appointed Barbara F. Hecht, vice president of audiology, counseling, and teacher education, to be president.

Loaves & Fishes Centers (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Angel Pilato, founder and president of Nob Hill Investments (Seattle), to be volunteer manager. Loaves & Fishes delivers meals to elderly people.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Appointed Chris Hansen, executive vice president of marketing at Limited Brands (Columbus, Ohio), to be senior vice president and chief marketing officer.

MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Ill.): Appointed Tracy H. Branson, vice president for institutional advancement at Lyon College (Batesville, Ark.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (Washington): Appointed Susan K. Hattan, a former staff director at the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee (now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee) (Washington), to be senior consultant to the government-relations staff.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Christine Carroll, director of marketing at Matrix Group International (Alexandria), to be director of financial development.

National Executive Service Corps (New York): Appointed Marvin B. Berenblum, senior partner at Heidrick & Struggles (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. NESC recruits retired executives to lend their planning and management expertise to nonprofit organizations.

Northwestern College (St. Paul): Appointed Alisha Cora, grant-research specialist at U. of Wisconsin-Stout (Menomonie), to be director of grants.

Oceana (Washington): Appointed Andrew Sharpless, executive vice president at Discovery.com, a division of Discovery Communications (Silver Spring, Md.), to be chief executive officer. Oceana seeks to protect the world’s oceans through advocacy, public education, and research.

OMB Watch (Washington): Appointed John Irons, an assistant professor of economics at Amherst College (Mass.), to be senior economic-research and policy analyst.

Operation Respect: Don’t Laugh at Me (New York): Appointed Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland (Annapolis), to be president. The organization, founded in 2000 by Peter Yarrow, of the musical group Peter, Paul, and Mary, provides curriculums that include music, video, and other media to teach elementary-school children about respect and cooperation.

Orangewood Children’s Foundation (Santa Ana, Calif.): Appointed Cal Winslow, vice president of major gifts at the Los Angeles office of Volunteers of America, to be chief development officer.

Outreach International (Independence, Mo.): Appointed Matthew Naylor, director of development, to be president. Outreach International operates community-development, literacy, and other programs that promote economic self-reliance among poor people in 14 countries.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed John H. Hewett, vice president of development at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, to be vice president of development and marketing.

PKD Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Anne Roberts, manager of grant writing and a division researcher at the Heartland division of the American Cancer Society (Kansas City, Mo.), to be a grant writer. The PKD Foundation seeks to find a cure for and improve the treatment of polycystic kidney disease.

Prevent Blindness America (Schaumburg, Ill.): Appointed Jeff Todd, manager of programs at Analytical Sciences (Silver Spring, Md.), to be vice president of programs and public-health initiatives.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed Bruce R. Sievers, former executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund (San Francisco), to be a senior fellow, and Lori Vacek, a consultant to the Levi Strauss Foundation (San Francisco), to be an affiliated adviser. Both will be based in the Palo Alto, Calif., office.

Roger Williams U. (Bristol, R.I.): Appointed Barbara A. Lisbon, a consultant in Tiverton, R.I., to be events-planning coordinator in the office of the president.

Ronald McDonald House of Memphis: Appointed Leslie Gaskins, volunteer coordinator, to be development coordinator, and Lindy Shockley, a development assistant at Youth Home (Little Rock, Ark.), to be development director.

Save Venice (New York): Appointed Michael John Dagon, assistant director of major gifts at Barnard College (New York), to be executive director. Save Venice supports the restoration of artwork and architecture in Venice.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Appointed Stephen G. Gilmore, associate vice president for development and alumni relations at National-Louis U. (Evanston, Ill.), to be vice president of development and alumni affairs.

Seattle Arts & Lectures: Appointed Margit Dementi Rankin, associate director of the Center for the Humanities at the U. of Washington at Seattle, to be executive director.

Taproot Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Nancy Dickenson, general manager at Scient (San Francisco), to be managing director. Taproot recruits professionals to volunteer with charities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Transitions Family Violence (Hampton, Va.): Appointed Susan Thrash, manager of public relations and promotions at the Norfolk Botanical Garden (Va.), to be director of development and community relations.

United Jewish Communities (New York): Appointed Robert Hyfler, chief operating officer and associate executive vice president at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (Rockville, Md.), to be senior vice president for research and development.

United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington): Appointed Charles W. Anderson, president and chief professional officer of the United Way of Delaware (Wilmington), to be chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Akron Community Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Sandy K. Auburn, vice president for work-force development at the Greater Akron Chamber, to be vice president for development.

Boston Foundation: Appointed Terry Saunders Lane, director of policy, research, and evaluation, to be vice president for program, and Ruben D. Orduna, director of development, to be vice president for development.

Community Foundation of Southern Indiana (New Albany): Appointed Laura Hansen Dean, a lawyer at Barnes & Thornburg (Fort Wayne, Ind.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco): Appointed Anne Lang Frahn, a program officer for girls’ education, to be a program officer for Asia and Oceania, and Sande Smith, a senior account executive in the San Francisco office of Ruder Finn, to be communications officer.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Robert Litan, a vice president and director of the economic-studies program at the Brookings Institution (Washington), to be vice president for research and policy, effective August 1.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Herman Brewer, chief operations officer at the Center for New Horizons (Chicago), to be director of the Chicago Working Group.

Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Wash.): Bruce Brooks has resigned as director of Microsoft Community Affairs. He will become director of corporate and community affairs at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle.

Lawson Valentine Foundation (West Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Victoria Nimirovsky, director of resource allocation at the United Way of the Capital Area (Hartford, Conn.), to be administrative officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Brookings Institution (Washington): Elected John L. Thornton, president and co-chief executive officer at Goldman Sachs (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Thornton is leaving Goldman Sachs to become director of the new Global Leadership Program at Beijing’s Tsinghau U., effective in September.

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Elected Eugene A. Miller, retired chairman of Comerica (Detroit), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees. George F. Francis III, senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan (Detroit); William M. Hermann, managing partner at Plante & Moran (Southfield, Mich.); Robert C. Larson, chairman of the Larson Realty Group (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.); and Vivian Day Stroh, a community volunteer in Grosse Pointe, Mich., were also elected to the Board of Trustees.

Doctors of the World-USA (New York): Elected Daniel B. Brewster Jr., president and chief executive officer of Gruner+Jahr USA Publishing (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Elected Lanty L. Smith, chairman of the Board of Directors of Soles Brower Smith & Co. (Greensboro, N.C.), to the Board of Trustees.

Freddie Mac Foundation (McLean, Va.): Leland Brendsel resigned as chairman of the Board of Directors on June 13, one week after he resigned as chief executive officer of the Freddie Mac corporation, amid questions about the company’s accounting practices.

Markle Foundation (New York): Elected Lewis B. Kaden, a partner at Davis Polk and Wardwell (New York), to the Board of Directors.

National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (New York): Elected James Lyle, chief investment officer at Millgate Capital (New York), to be chairman of the National Board of Directors.

Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services (Los Angeles): Elected Bradley R. Tabach-Bank, a lawyer at Reish, Luftman, McDaniel & Reicher (Los Angeles), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

YMCA of the USA (Chicago): Elected David E. Epperson, dean and professor emeritus at the U. of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work, to be chairman of the National Board.

YouthBuild USA (Somerville, Mass.): Elected Charles J. Clark, senior vice president of commercial banking at the U.S. Trust and Citizens Bank of Massachusetts (Providence, R.I.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Capital Development Strategies (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Alexis Joyce, manager of special events at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington), to be client associate of this fund-raising consulting company.

Lighthouse Counsel (Franklin, Tenn.): Appointed Jeff Jowdy, senior vice president for development at the YMCA of Middle Tennessee (Nashville), to be president of this nonprofit-consulting firm.