Wildlife Conservation Society Head Announces Retirement; Other Personnel Moves in the Nonprofit World

Brain Research Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Joseph L. Flint, development manager at the Dermatology Foundation (Evanston, Ill.), to be director of development.

Care Ring (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Susan Furtney, career-development-services director at Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont (Charlotte), to be executive director. Care Ring was formerly Community Health Services.

Computers for Youth-Los Angeles: Appointed Michelle Hahn, executive director of Students Run LA (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (Washington): Appointed Colleen Zakrewsky, vice president of individual gifts at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be vice president of development and marketing.

Global FoodBanking Network (Chicago): Announced the death of Bob Forney, founder and president, on August 29. He was 69. (See article.) Chris Rebstock, vice president and chief operating officer, will serve as interim president.

Global Kids (New York): Appointed Evie Hantzopoulos, deputy director and director of programs, to be executive director. She succeeds Carole Artigiani, founder, who will become a senior adviser to the organization. Global Kids offers leadership and volunteering programs for children.

Greensboro College (North Carolina): Appointed Carolyn Kozuch DeFrancesco, former director of leadership giving, to be executive director for institutional advancement.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (Chicago): Appointed David Grazman, a senior director at the Advisory Board Company, in Chicago, to be executive director of Heartland Health Outreach.

Hudson Valley Community College Foundation (Troy, N.Y.): Appointed Rachel Matzkin Kimmelblatt, director of major gifts at the U. of Connecticut Foundation (Storrs), to be chief development officer.

Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis: Appointed Julie Hatcher, associate director for the Center for Service and Learning at the university, to be director of the undergraduate program in philanthropic studies.

Jewish Funders Network (New York): Announced the resignation of Mark Cherendoff, president and chief executive officer, effective on December 31.

League of American Orchestras (New York): Appointed Robin J. Roy, director of development for the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia U. (New York), to be vice president for development.

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston): Appointed Jeffrey G. Fischer, senior corporate-relations officer at the Arizona State U. Foundation (Phoenix), to be a director of development at its cancer center.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Michael D. Farley, chief operating officer at the Lupus Foundation of America (Washington), to be chief development officer.

Native Americans in Philanthropy (Minneapolis): Appointed Carly Hare, director of development at the Native American Rights Fund (Boulder, Colo.), to be executive director.

New York Restoration Project: Appointed Amy Freitag, U.S. program director at the World Monuments Fund (New York), to be executive director.

Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis): Appointed Scott Elmshaeuser, assistant director for alumni programs at the Oregon State U. Alumni Association, to be executive director of the Oregon 4-H Foundation and director of development, and Michele Erickson, donor-relations and major-gifts officer at Lane Community College (Eugene, Ore.), to be director of development for the university’s Linus Pauling Institute.

San Francisco State U.: Appointed Robert Nava, associate vice president for institutional advancement at the U. of Texas at El Paso, to be vice president for university advancement.

St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wis.): Appointed Jennifer Allen, a gift officer at Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.), to be director of the St. Norbert Fund.

Western Michigan U. (Kalamazoo): Appointed James S. Thomas, chief development officer at the U. of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor), to be vice president for development and alumni affairs.

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York): Announced the retirement of Steven E. Sanderson, president and chief executive officer, effective in July 2012.

Grant Makers

Clowes Fund (Indianapolis): Appointed Katherine Souchet-Moura, graduate assistant, to be a program officer.

National AIDS Fund (Washington): Appointed Vignetta Charles, senior research associate at ETR Associates (San Francisco), to be vice president of programs and evaluation, overseeing grant making.

Peter G. Peterson Foundation (New York): Announced the resignation of Elizabeth Wilner, director of public affairs. She is now associate dean for communications and external relations for the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia U. (New York).

Southern California Edison (Rosemead): Appointed Tammy Tumbling, senior manager for its community involvement unit, to be director of philanthropy and community involvement.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Margot Fahnestock, project and research manager at Futures Group (Washington), to be an officer for the foundation’s population program, and Christopher Shearer, associate executive director at the National Geographic Education Foundation (Washington), to be an officer for the foundation’s education program.