People

The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Barbara Leshinsky, associate dean for institutional advancement at the New York Law School, to be executive vice president for development.

American Cancer Society-Illinois Division (Chicago): Appointed Donna Baker, a sales representative at Grainger (Chicago), to be associate distinguished-giving officer.

Atlanta Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Appointed Nina Harrison, director of the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia (Atlanta), to be executive director.

Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Region (Jenkintown, Pa.): Appointed Andrew L. Demchick, national development director at Maccabi USA/Sports for Israel (Philadelphia), to be associate director.

Center for American Progress (Washington): Appointed John S. Irons, senior economic research and policy analyst and staff economist at OMB Watch (Washington), to be associate director for tax and budget policy.

City Theatre (Pittsburgh): Appointed John Federico, director of development at the Pittsburgh Opera, to be director of development.

Columbia College Chicago: Appointed Kenda Hallman, manager of prospect tracking at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.), to be development manager for the office of community-arts partnerships.

Community Service Society (New York): Appointed Jeffrey F. Rizzo, controller at Marble Collegiate Church (New York), to be vice president and chief financial officer.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Brian Flahaven, public-policy fellow at the Council of Michigan Foundations (Grand Haven), to be interim coordinator for government relations and public policy; Keesha Porter, an executive assistant at Systems Integration and Development (Rockville, Md.), to be administrative coordinator for finance and administration; and Paul Ust, marketing and membership manager at the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (Alexandria, Va.), to be manager of exhibits.

Duke U. (Durham, N.C.): Appointed Christopher Clarke, director of development and leadership gifts at Purdue U.’s School of Mechanical Engineering (West Lafayette, Ind.), to be associate dean for development and principal giving for the School of Engineering.

Forum for Youth Investment (Washington): Appointed David Moore, director of community initiatives at the Harwood Institute (Bethesda, Md.), to be chief operating officer.

Foundation for Jewish Camping (New York): Appointed Jerry Silverman, president of the Stride Rite Children’s Group and the Keds Corporation, to be executive director.

Friends of McHenry County College Foundation (Crystal Lake, Ill.): Appointed Joseph A. Like, acting vice president for development and former director of major gifts and planned giving at the Newberry Library (Chicago), to be executive director.

J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles): Announced the resignation of Deborah Gribbon, effective October 18. William Griswold, associate director for collections, will serve as acting director and chief curator.

Grace Cathedral Episcopal Church (San Francisco): Appointed Cortlandt B. Fengler, an arts and education consultant, to be chief development officer.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Paul Leonard, managing director, to be interim chief executive officer. Millard Fuller, former president and chief executive officer, will continue to serve as founder-president.

Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County (Gaithersburg, Md.): Appointed Jane Hughes, former regional director of the center for organizational learning at Adventist Health Care (Rockville, Md.), to be executive director.

The Home for Little Wanderers (Boston): Appointed Mark Holman, associate executive director for marketing, communications, and resource development at the West Suburban YMCA (Newton, Mass.), to be director of individual giving and gift planning.

Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps (Baltimore): Appointed Tamara W. Zavislan, director of development at the American Music Therapy Association (Silver Spring, Md.), to be director of development.

Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (New York): Appointed Pamela Linton, director of development and alumni affairs, to be assistant dean of institutional advancement.

Lambi Fund of Haiti (Washington): Appointed Karen Ashmore, interim executive director and former development director, to be executive director.

Maine Development Foundation (Bangor): Appointed Laurie Lachance, state’s economist at the State Planning Office (Augusta, Me.), to be president.

Marygrove College (Detroit): Appointed Mitchell Rosenzweig, regional operations manager at the Wellness Plan (Detroit), to be director of funds development.

N-TEN (San Francisco): Announced the resignation of Ed Batista, executive director, effective at the end of the year. N-TEN helps other nonprofit organizations use information technology to meet community needs.

National Council of La Raza (Washington): Appointed Janet Murguia, executive director and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 1. She will succeed Raul Yzaguirre, who is retiring.

National Women’s Studies Association (College Park, Md.): Appointed Allison Kimmich, director of precollege programs and a professor of women’s studies at Barnard College (New York), to be executive director.

Neuropathy Association (New York): Appointed Donald Jacob, president of the Patient Advocates Group (New York), to be executive director.

Opera Colorado (Denver): Appointed Gregory Carpenter, manager of development at the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), to be director of development.

Palliative CareCenter and Hospice of the North Shore (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Anne Rossiter, capital-campaign director, to be senior director of philanthropy.

Sesame Workshop (New York): Appointed Janet Robertson, former international vice president at PanAmSat (Greenwich, Conn.), to be executive vice president of international business development.

St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Carla Arbushites, manager of annual-support programs and development communications, to be assistant vice president for development; Jane George, director of development for St. Luke’s Allentown campus, to be assistant vice president for government relations and capital development; and Jim Waters, a planning-giving officer, to be assistant vice president for major and planning giving.

Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation (New York): Appointed Steven R. DiSalvo, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Junior Achievement of New York, to be executive director. This organization works to raise public awareness of the effects of domestic violence on children.

U. of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor): Appointed Todd M. Baily, associate chair for philanthropic support at the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.), to be assistant dean for development and alumni relations.

Vaccine Fund (Washington): Appointed Nicole King, director of media and public affairs at Georgetown U.’s Health Policy Institute (Washington), to be director of communications.

Veterans Village of San Diego: Appointed Douglas Frost, assistant director of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State U., to be director of development.

VolunteerMatch (San Francisco): Appointed Deborah Dinkelacker, interim president, to be president.

Ways to Work (Milwaukee): Appointed Jeff Faulkner, executive vice president at Durkin Associates (Milwaukee), to be president.

WBUR (Boston): Announced the resignation of Jane Christo, general manager.

GRANT MAKERS

Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks, and Region (Grand Forks, N.D.): Appointed Sheila Bruhn, director of the Region IV Children’s Services Coordinating Committee (Grand Forks), also to be executive director.

Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Priscilla Enriquez, co-director of the California Telehealth and Telemedicine Center (Sacramento), to be senior program officer.

Arnold P. Gold Foundation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.): Appointed Nadine Heusner, director of special events and media publications at Boys and Girls Harbor (New York), to be director of development.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed James S. Marks, former acting director of the Coordinating Center for Health Information and Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta), to be senior vice president and director of the health group.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Judith Cone, vice president of knowledge management, to be vice president of entrepreneurship.

KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Cincinnati): Appointed Harold Brown, director of the school-improvement program, to be vice president of the school-improvement program; Barbara Diamond, director of the communities and school-facilities program, to be vice president of the communities and school-facilities program; Monica R. Martinez, project director for the national clearinghouse for comprehensive school reform at the Institute for Education Leadership (Washington), to be a senior fellow; and Brett Visger, program director of the college and career access program, to be vice president of the college and career access program.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Eric Price, deputy mayor for planning and economic development (Washington), to be senior vice president for neighborhood markets.

National Credit Union Foundation (Madison, Wis.): Appointed Stephen M. Delfin, worldwide director of community relations at Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean, Va.), to be executive director.

Piton Foundation (Denver): Appointed Lisa Roy, a program officer at the Daniels Fund (Denver), to be a program officer for early-childhood education programs.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Victoria Lord, senior curator of programs at the Ketchikan Museum (Alaska), to be a program associate.

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (Springfield, N.J.): Announced the death of Christopher Reeve, founder and chair of the Board of Directors, on October 10. He was 52.

Rosenberg Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Benjamin Todd Jealous, director of the U.S. domestic human-rights program at Amnesty International (Washington), to be president, effective February 1. He will succeed Kirke Wilson, who is retiring.

Sacramento Region Community Foundation: Announced the retirement of Janice Gow Pettey, chief executive officer, at the end of the year.

Santa Barbara Foundation (Calif.): Appointed Tanya G. Gonzales, director of development at California State U.-Channel Islands (Camarillo), to be vice president of development, and Phylene Wiggins, human-resources and volunteer manager at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, to be a program officer.

Charles R. Wood Foundation (Glens Falls, N.Y.): Announced the death of Charles R. Wood, founder and president on September 30. He was 90.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (Falls Church, Va.): Elected Paulette Roberts, president of Meridian Health Affiliated Foundations (Wall, N.J.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Elected Charles C. Lucas III, a partner at the McAulay Firm (Charlotte), to the Board of Trustees.

Jessie Ball DuPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Leroy Davis, executive director of Voorhees College’s Center of Excellence in Rural and Minority Health (Denmark, S.C.); Robert M. Franklin, a professor of social ethics at Emory U. (Atlanta); Thomas H. Jeavons, general secretary of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends; and Audrey McKibbin Moran, interim president and chief executive officer of the IM Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless (Jacksonville, Fla.).

Field Foundation of Illinois (Chicago): Elected Christina Tchen, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Arnold P. Gold Foundation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.): Elected Robert M. Berkowitz, a former senior partner at Deloitte & Touche (New York), and Stuart D. Cook, former president of the U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark), to the Board of Trustees.

Les Turner ALS Foundation (Skokie, Ill.): Elected to the Board of Directors: Matthew Brown, a partner at Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman (Chicago); John T. Culliton, president of Global Solutions (Chicago); Vicki Flahaven, senior global account manager at Oak Brook Hills Resort and Conference Center (Ill.); William N. Haarlow, director of college-admission relations and a lecturer in the American-studies program at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.); and Joan A. Parker, director of government relations at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.

National Council of La Raza (Washington): Elected Monica Lozano, publisher and chief executive officer of La Opinión (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington): Elected Jonathan Kemper, chairman of the Commerce Bank (Kansas City), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Pennsylvania Ballet (Philadelphia): Elected Kathy Z. Anderson, a former consultant at the Eastern Technology Council (Philadelphia), to be chairperson of the Board of Trustees.

Public Interest Registry (Reston, Va.): Elected Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors. The Public Interest Registry manages all .org Web sites.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Bridget Carmichael, director of advancement at the Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts (New Haven), to be a Raiser’s Edge consultant, based in New Haven; Heather Ghelf, development-data specialist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation (La Crosse, Wis.), to be a fund-raising consultant; Robert Goodman, a Web developer at the Catawba Science Center (Hickory, N.C.), to be a Raiser’s Edge and NetCommunity consultant; and Kyle McElfresh, a project manager and software-application consultant at Kronos Software (Seattle), to be a Financial Edge consultant, based in Seattle.

Community TechKnowledge (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Scott Smith, chief information officer at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Boston), to be professional-services director. This company produces performance-monitoring software for nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

Corporate DevelopMint (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Robert P. Bartlett, vice president of advancement at the U. of Memphis; Gregory S. Bowden, senior campaign director at Custom Development Solutions (Mount Pleasant, S.C.); and G. Lee Mikell, senior principal at Peter’s Point Consultants (Columbia, S.C.), to be senior consultants at this fund-raising consulting firm.

DMW Worldwide (Plymouth, Mass.): Appointed Mark Jacobson, senior consultant at Strategic One (Overland Park, Kan.), to be vice president of fund raising of this direct-marketing firm that serves nonprofit groups.

Foundation Source (Fairfield, Conn.): Appointed Matthew L. Cone, chief marketing officer at the Corillian Corporation (Hillsboro, Ore.), to be managing director of the Northwest region, based in Seattle. Foundation Source provides management-support services to private foundations.

Schultz & Williams (Philadelphia): Appointed Patricia Van Allen Voigt, director of external affairs at the Springside School (Philadelphia), to be a senior associate of this development, marketing, and management-consulting firm that serves nonprofit groups.

Correction

The names of two organizations were rendered incompletely in the October 14 People section. They are Council on Foundations Community Foundations Services (Washington), not Community Foundations Services, and the Council on Foundations Community Foundations Leadership Team (Washington), not the Community Foundations Leadership Team.