Relief International Names New Chief Operating Officer; Other Personnel News From the Nonprofit World

Alliance for Housing and Healing (Los Angeles): Appointed Rafael Cosio, director of development and public relations at Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (Hollywood), to be director of development.

American Technion Society (New York): Appointed Jerome A. Kleinman, senior director of development at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (Great Neck, N.Y.), to be director of the metropolitan New York region.

Ann Arbor Spark (Mich.): Appointed Paul Krutko, president and chief executive officer of Peloton Development, his own consulting firm in San Jose, Calif., to be president and chief executive officer of this organization that promotes economic development in Ann Arbor.

Boston Public Library Foundation: Appointed David M. McKay, vice president for institutional advancement at the Berklee College of Music (Boston), to be executive director.

Cancer Support Community Central Indiana (Indianapolis): Appointed Linh Preston, former manager of research and proposal development and campaign strategy for the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (Indianapolis), to be vice president for fund development and community relations.

Council on Foundations (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Kisha Green Dimbo, vice president for member services, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Matthew Nelson, assistant vice president for member services, to be vice president for member services.

Dallas Museum of Art: Announced the resignation of Bonnie Pitman, director, for health reasons.

EngenderHealth (New York): Appointed Daniel Doucette, vice president of finance and operations at the Rainforest Alliance (New York), to be chief operating officer of this group that works to improve the reproductive health care of poor people around the world.

Global Health Frontline News (Atlanta): Appointed David Lindsay, former executive producer at CNN (Atlanta), to be managing editor.

Greater Baltimore Medical Center Foundation: Appointed Jenny Coldiron, vice president of campaign development at the American Cancer Society, South Atlantic Division (Baltimore), to be president and vice president of development for GBMC HealthCare.

Initiative for Global Development (Seattle): Appointed Shamra Clark, vice president of development at the Cascade Land Conservancy (Seattle), to be vice president for development.

La Pietra Coalition (Washington): Appointed Sandra E. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Sustainable Business International (Washington), to be senior director of this organization that works to promote economic growth for women.

Lighthouse International (New York): Appointed Barbara Gydé, executive director of business development for executive education at Columbia Business School (New York), to be chief external affairs officer of this organization that works to prevent and treat vision loss.

Lipscomb U. (Nashville): Appointed Mark Meador, senior director for alumni relations, to be senior development director.

Montgomery County Community College (Blue Bell, Pa.): Appointed Sharon Beales, vice president at the St. Mary Medical Center Foundation (Langhorne, Pa.), to be vice president of development and external relations.

National Bone Health Alliance (Washington): Appointed David B. Lee, deputy director of the Biomarkers Consortium at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be director.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Karen Wayland, senior adviser on energy and environmental issues to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to be director of climate-change policy.

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest: Appointed Miranda Massie, director of litigation and training, to be legal director.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Patricia Nicklin, managing director for Share Our Strength (Washington), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Rabbis for Human Rights-North America (New York): Appointed Rabbi Jill Jacobs, founding director of Ma’aseh: the Center for Jewish Social Justice Education (Cincinnati), to be executive director.

Relief International (Los Angeles): Appointed Patricia Powers Thomson, senior governance adviser for the United States Department of State, based in Diyala, Iraq, to be chief operating officer.

Research!America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Eleanor Dehoney, legislative director for U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, to be vice president of policy and programs of this group that seeks to make research to improve health a higher national priority.

State U. of New York, Alfred State College: Appointed Derek Wesley, executive director of the Alfred State Development Fund, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Dallas): Appointed Leslie M. Aun, vice president of public relations at the World Wildlife Fund (Washington), to be vice president of marketing and communications, and Karen Handel, Secretary of State for the state of Georgia, to be senior vice president of public policy.

Three Square (Las Vegas): Appointed Brian Burton, executive director of the Wilkinson Center (Dallas), to be president and chief executive officer of this food bank.

Tulane U. (New Orleans): Appointed David W. Kinahan, director for major and planned gifts at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Boston), to be vice president for development for the School of Medicine.

Welcoming America (Decatur, Ga.): Appointed Jessy Molina, national coordinator at Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, to be outreach director.

Grant Makers

Atlantic Philanthropies (New York): Appointed Eric Ward, field director at the Center for New Community (Chicago), to be a program executive in its Reconcilitation & Human Rights Program, and Ben Wyskida, publicity director at The Nation magazine (New York), to be a communications executve.

Miami Foundation: Appointed David R. Ekey, controller at the Pittsburgh Foundation, to be chief financial officer. The Miami Foundation was formerly known as the Dade Community Foundation.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed Mariko Tada, communications manager at Acumen Fund (New York), to be director of donor resources.