People

Afterschool Alliance (Washington): Appointed Jen Rinehart, project officer for the 21st Century Community

Learning Centers program at the U.S. Department of Education (Washington), to be associate director.

American Association for Cancer Research (Philadelphia): Appointed David M. Goodman, director of foundation relations at Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia), to be corporate- and foundation-relations officer.

Arizona’s Children Association (Phoenix): Appointed Yvette Johnson, executive assistant at the Anti-Defamation League (Phoenix), to be assistant director of development, and Beth McCoy, regional director of development at the Anti-Defamation League (Phoenix), to be senior vice president of development.

Aspen Institute (Washington): Appointed Walter Isaacson, chairman and chief executive officer of CNN (Atlanta), to be president and chief executive officer, effective later this year.

Autism Coalition (Port Chester, N.Y.): Appointed Michael J. Brogioli, director of advocacy at Prevent Child Abuse America (Chicago), to be executive director.

Bellevue Art Museum (Wash.): Appointed Susan Todd, associate director of development for major gifts and planning at the Seattle Opera, to be director of development.

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Maribel Andonian, head of communications and biomedical graphics at DNAX Research (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be director of communications, and Gabrielle Vest, a recent graduate of Santa Clara U. (Calif.), to be community- and parish-relations manager.

Center for Community Change (Washington): Appointed Rachel Gragg, a principal policy adviser to the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Democrat of Minnesota, to be a senior policy analyst.

Central Michigan U. (Mount Pleasant): Appointed Dennis Washington, senior consultant at Public Sector Consultants (Lansing, Mich.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Central Washington U. (Ellensburg): Appointed Paul C. Baker, assistant vice president for university advancement at Northern Arizona U. (Flagstaff), to be vice president for university relations.

Connecticut Institute for the Blind/Oak Hill (Hartford): Appointed Patrick J. Johnson Jr., executive director of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Hartford, to be president and executive director.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Tim Spinder, corporate credit manager at ConAgra Foods (Downers Grove, Ill.), to be director of alumni relations, and Kate Sutfin, evaluator and monitor at the Purdue U. Telefund (West Lafayette, Ind.), to be director of the annual fund.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids (Washington): Appointed David Kass, deputy assistant secretary for legislation at HUD (Washington), to be vice president; Jeff Kirsch, deputy executive director at Families USA (Washington), to be vice president; and Meredith Wiley, a writer on children’s issues based in New York, to be New York State director, based in Albany.

Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.): Appointed Keith A. Orris, sales and marketing manager at New Holland Concrete (Pa.), to be executive director of alumni programs and external relations.

Frick Collection (New York): Announced the resignation of Samuel Sachs II, director, effective in September.

Fund for American Studies (Washington): Appointed Charles Brockner, international programs coordinator, to be director of the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems; Robert Callahan, vice president for finance and administration at the Free Congress Foundation (Washington), to be vice president for finance and administration; Shane Goldsmith, vice president of legal affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom (Alexandria, Va.), to be director of the Center for Leadership in Philanthropy; and Heather Hosford, event coordinator at Morgan Meredith Associates (Chantilly, Va.), to be development-operations manager.

Get America Working (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Robert Walker, executive director of the Common Cause Education Fund (Washington), to be president. Get America Working promotes structural changes in the U.S. economy designed to create large numbers of well-paying jobs.

I Have a Dream Foundation (New York): Appointed Lai-Wan Wong, special assistant to the deputy chancellor for instruction at the New York City Board of Education, to be director of programs.

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House (New York): Appointed Warren B. Scharf, vice president at the Partnership for the Homeless (New York), to be executive director.

Liberty Resources (Philadelphia): Appointed Thomas Earle, a lawyer at the Disabilities Law Project (Philadelphia), to be executive director. Liberty Resources provides advocacy, skills training, information, and other services to disabled people in Philadelphia.

Lighthouse International (New York): Appointed Evelyn Friedman, executive director of development at Hunter College (New York), to be managing director of major and planned gifts.

Loyola U. Chicago: Appointed Jonathan R. Heintzelman, associate vice president for development and director of planned and major gifts at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.), to be vice president of advancement.

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation (Quantico, Va.): Appointed Susan L. Hodges, executive director, to be vice president for administration and finance, and Col. Raymond A. Hord (Ret.), senior vice president for development at the United Service Organizations (Washington), to be vice president for development and marketing.

Myers U. Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed David H. Holt, senior vice president of student and university affairs at Myers U., to be president.

National Corporate Theatre Fund (New York): Appointed Christopher Wynn, development manager at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (New York), to be director of development.

New York Medical College (Valhalla): Appointed Stephen L. White, vice president for development at Saint Francis College (Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.), to be director of major gifts.

Nontraditional Employment for Women (New York): Appointed Patricia C. Jones, executive director of Sirius Thinking (New York), to be executive director.

Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.): Appointed Scott Peters, director of annual giving at Eastern Kentucky U. (Richmond), to be director of annual giving.

Seattle Opera: Kathy A. Magiera, administrative director, died of cancer on December 14. She was 54.

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art (Washington): Appointed Sharon F. Patton, director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College (Ohio), to be director.

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History (Washington): Appointed Brent D. Glass, executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission (Harrisburg), to be director.

Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati): Appointed Anita Cory Weimer, development director at the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, to be development director.

Texas College (Tyler): Appointed Glenn C. Best, a consultant for Global Business Enterprises (Washington), to be vice president for institutional development.

U. of St. Francis (Joliet, Ill.): Appointed Robert Wilson Black, vice president for institutional advancement at Meadville Lombard Theological School (Chicago), to be vice president for development.

United Cerebral Palsy of Westchester (Rye Brook, N.Y.): Appointed Katie Meskell, executive vice president at HeartShare Human Services of New York, to be executive director.

United Neighborhood Houses (New York): Appointed Nancy Wackstein, executive director of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House (New York), to be executive director.

United Way of Central Ohio (Columbus): Appointed Janet E. Jackson, city attorney for Columbus, to be president and chief executive officer.

Van Cliburn Foundation (Fort Worth): Appointed Eric Meyer, vice president for development at the Pittsburgh Symphony, to be director of development.

Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell U. (New York): Appointed Mindy S. Miller, director of development at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (New York), to be director of the capital campaign.

WFYI (Indianapolis): Appointed Rena Barraclough, director of communications, to be vice president of communications.

Whitman-Walker Clinic (Washington): Appointed Roberta Geidner-Antoniotti, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Maryland (Baltimore), to be managing director for operations.

William Penn Charter School (Philadelphia): Appointed Bruce H. Begin, director of planned giving at Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.), to be chief advancement officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Atlanta Women’s Foundation: Appointed Malkia M’Buzi Moore, executive director of creative organizational development and staff director at the Sierra Club, Appalachian Region (Atlanta), to be director of programs.

Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth): Appointed V. Neils Agather, president of Vallis Form Service (Glendale Heights, Ill.), to be executive director.

Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Dana Vickers Shelley, a senior vice president at Fenton Communications (Washington), to be director of strategic communications.

Walter and Elise Haas Fund (San Francisco): Appointed Pamela H. David, (Read an interview with Ms. David) director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Koret Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Sharon Collins, director of development at the International Diplomacy Council (San Francisco), to be program officer. (This corrects an item that appeared in the January 9 issue.)

Maine Health Access Foundation (Augusta): Appointed David Steven Rappoport, principal of Development Solutions Group (Bowdoinham, Me.), to be senior program officer.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Stephen K. Urice, program officer for the national culture program, resigned in December to direct the Project for Cultural Heritage Law and Policy at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The trusts intend to suspend indefinitely grant making for national cultural projects.

Seattle Foundation: Announced the retirement of Anne V. Farrell, president and chief executive officer since 1985, effective in June.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Elected Kenneth Lundgren, senior vice president of the American Bank (Grand Rapids), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and Helen Klassen, founder and president of White Earth Tribal and Community College (Mahnomen, Minn.), to be a trustee.

Commonwealth Fund (New York): Elected Samuel O. Thier, professor of medicine and health-care policy at Harvard Medical School (Boston) and former president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System (Boston), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Erie Community Foundation (Pa.): Elected M. Peter Scibetta, former chief executive officer of the Regional Cancer Center (Erie), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and Philip M. Tredway, president and general manager of Erie Molded Plastics, to be a trustee.

Greater Everett Community Foundation (Wash.): Elected to the Board of Trustees: John E. Corbally, director emeritus of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago); David Duskin, an attorney at Bailey, Duskin, Peiffle, and Canfield (Arlington, Wash.); and Jo Noack, an attorney at Bell and Ingram (Everett).

International Women’s Media Foundation (Washington): Elected Marcy McGinnis, vice president for news coverage at CBS News (New York), to be co-chair of the Board of Directors.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Elected to the Board of Directors: Michael Brewer, president of Drug Innovation and Design (Waltham, Mass.); Howard Fuller, a professor of education and director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette U. (Milwaukee); Valerie Jarrett, executive vice president of the Habitat Company (Chicago); and Daniel P. Kearney, a financial consultant in Chicago.

Kalamazoo Community Foundation (Mich.): Elected Jeffrey L. DeNooyer, general manager of Metro Toyota (Kalamazoo), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

KQED Public Broadcasting (San Francisco): Elected James E. Canales Jr., vice president and corporate secretary at the James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Minneapolis Foundation: Elected to the Board of Trustees: Jon R. Campbell, president and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo Minnesota (Minneapolis); Michael R. Francis, senior vice president of marketing at the Target Corporation (Minneapolis); and Weiming Lu, president of Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation (St. Paul).

National Consumers League (Washington): Elected Sam Simon, founder and president of Issue Dynamics (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Nevada Public Radio Corporation (Las Vegas): Elected Louis Castle, general manager of Westwood Studios (Las Vegas), to be chairman of the board.

Paul Rapoport Foundation (New York): Elected Jessica Mates, deputy director of the Youth Development Institute at the Fund for the City of New York, to the Board of Trustees.

San Francisco Foundation: Elected Hugo Morales, executive director of Radio Bilingue (Fresno, Calif.), to the Board of Trustees.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Elected Lillian Bauder, vice president of corporate affairs at Masco Corporation and pres-ident of the Masco Corporation Foundation (Taylor, Mich.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

IFF Advisors (Irvine, Calif.): Appointed Nancy Stern, a corporate-philanthropy consultant in Palo Alto, Calif., to be director of foundation services in Northern California, based in the San Jose office.

Ketchum (Dallas): Appointed Gail E. Bromley, research coordinator at the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland), and Ronda J. Johnson, vice president and executive director of the U. of Cincinnati Foundation, to be consultants at this fund-raising consulting firm.