Wallace Foundation Names New President; Other Personnel News in the Nonprofit World

Alliance for Community Trees (College Park, Md.): Appointed Carrie Gallagher, vice president for programs and strategic outreach at Keep America Beautiful (Stamford, Conn.), to be executive director.

Baylor U. (Waco, Tex.): Appointed Jerry T. Haag, president of Florida Baptist Children’s Homes (Lakeland), to be vice president for university development.

Boston Children’s Museum: Appointed Karin Blum, senior director of philanthropy programs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston), to be senior director of development.

Breast Cancer Action (San Francisco): Appointed Karuna R. Jaggar, executive director of the Women’s Initiative for Self Employment, East Bay (Oakland, Calif.), to be executive director.

Bucknell U. (Lewisburg, Pa.): Appointed Scott Rosevear, interim vice president for development and alumni relations, to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

DC Cancer Consortium (Washington): Appointed YaVonne Vaughan, deputy director and program director, to be executive director. Also appointed: Robert M. Grom, director of outreach and marketing at the U. of Pittsburgh Community-University Partnerships, Schools of Medicine and Education, to be chief development director and deputy director.

East Meets West Foundation (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Tom Low, a partner at Bridges SF, an executive search firm in San Francisco, to be executive vice president of this organization that carries out projects in health care, clean water and sanitation, education, and community development in southeast Asia.

FilmAid International (New York): Appointed Liz Manne, an independent film and television producer in New York, to be executive director of this group that helps refugees and war victims through film screenings and training.

GenerationOn (New York): Appointed Matthew W. Shapiro, senior director for business development at the United Way of New York City, to be vice president for development of this organization that is the youth division of the Points of Light Institute, which promotes volunteerism.

Hamlin Fistula USA Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Sarah Sagely Klotz, a legislative aid for U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, to be executive director of the fund-raising arm of the Hamlin Fistula Hospitals and Midwifery College, in Ethiopia.

Independent Sector (Washington): Announced the death of Brian O’Connell, co-founder and president from 1980-95, on March 21. He was 81. (See article.)

Internews (Arcata, Calif.): Appointed Jeanne Bourgault, chief operations officer, to be president. (See article.)

Lambi Fund of Haiti (Washington): Appointed Marie Marthe Saint Cyr, former executive director of Iris House (New York), to be executive director.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter: Appointed Cathy Brown, executive vice president of ConferenceDirect (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.): Appointed Melanie Harmon, associate vice president for alumni and development at Trine U. (Angola, Ind.), to be executive director of development.

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Bob Kendrick, vice president of marketing, to be president.

OHEL Children’s Home & Family Services (New York): Appointed Robert Katz, executive vice president at American Friends of Migdal Ohr (New York), to be director of development.

Oregon State U. Foundation (Corvallis): Appointed Marie Jennings, director of development for the university’s College of Health and Human Sciences, to be director of development in central initiatives, focusing on fund raising for the university’s alumni association.

Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles): Appointed Carrie Stewart, associate vice president for university advancement at California State U. at Fullerton, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Pew Research Center (Washington): Appointed James Bell, director of opinion research at the U.S. Department of State (Washington), to be director of international survey research, and Matt Farrey, director of corporate and foundation relations at American U. (Washington), to be director of development.

U. of California at Riverside: Appointed Launa Wilson, director of development for the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at the U. of Nevada at Las Vegas, to be director of development for the Graduate School for Education.

U. of Hawaii Foundation (Honolulu): Appointed Carolyn Ogami Fuller, assistant director in the office of gift planning at the U. of California at Berkeley, to be director of development for the William S. Richardson School of Law (Manoa).

Grant Makers

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Announced the retirement of Deborah Whitehurst, interim chief executive officer and chief operating officer.

The California Endowment (Los Angeles): Appointed Jennifer L. Chheang, a senior program officer for the Planning, Development & Policy Department at First 5 LA (Los Angeles), and Tamu F. Jones, a program officer for health care at the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles), both to be program managers for the Building Healthy Communities plan.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Neal R. Hegarty, director of the foundation’s Flint-area grant-making program, to be vice president and associate director of programs.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Appointed Nitin Kotak, chief financial officer and treasurer at Technest Holdings (Bethesda, Md.), to be vice president and chief financial officer.

Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Kelly C. Medinger, director of corporate, foundation, and government relations at Stevenson U. (Md.), to be a program and communications associate.

Sodexo Foundation (Gaithersburg, Md.): Announced the death of Stephen Brady, president, on March 5. He was 66.

Wallace Foundation (New York): Appointed William I. Miller, chairman of Irwin Management, an investment firm in Columbus, Ind., to be president. He succeeds M. Christine DeVita, who will retire in June.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Ruth Levine, a deputy assistant administrator in the Bureau of Policy, Planning, and Learning at the United States Agency for International Development (Washington), to be director of the global development and population program.