Adaptive Sports Center (Crested Butte, Colo.): Appointed Ella Fahrlander, development coordinator, to be development director.
Bryn Mawr College (Pa.): Appointed Donna Hooven Frithsen, vice president for development and alumni relations at Drew U. (Madison, N.J.), to be chief development officer.
CJ Foundation for SIDS (Hackensack, N.J.): Appointed Linda McNeil Tantawi, former vice president for development and communications at Volunteers of America-Greater New York, to be executive director and chief executive officer.
Common Impact (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed John McGeehan, chief administrative officer of global operations and services at Morgan Stanley (New York), to be a managing director. Common Impact matches professionals from global companies with nonprofit groups that need help overcoming key business challenges.
Covenant House (New York): Appointed Virginia S. Bauer, former chief executive officer of the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth, and Tourism Commission and currently a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (New York), to be senior vice president.
Cradles to Crayons Philadelphia: Appointed Kelly Clarke, director of programs and operations, to be executive director. This organization provides basic essentials at no cost to homeless and low-income children.
DePaul U. (Chicago): Appointed David Lively, interim vice president for development and former associate vice president and director of campaign fund raising, to be vice president for development.
Eastside Catholic School (Sammamish, Wash.): Appointed Kris Galvin, chief financial officer and vice president at Celebrate Express (Kirkland, Wash.), to be executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Faith and Politics Institute (Washington): Appointed Jeffrey N. Stinehelfer, director of major gifts at Sojourners (Washington), to be vice president for institute advancement.
Florida State U. Foundation (Tallahassee, Fla.): Appointed Lori M. Chorey, chief of staff, to be executive vice president.
Hillside Family of Agencies (Rochester, N.Y.): Appointed Christie Englehart, manager of special events at Crestwood Children’s Foundation (Rochester) and Hillside Children’s Center Foundation (Rochester), to be director of major gifts and planned giving, and Heather VanDyne, donor specialist at Crestwood Children’s Foundation and Hillside Children’s Center Foundation, also to be volunteer coordinator.
Ida Crown Jewish Academy (Chicago): Appointed Carol Levenberg, senior consultant at the Levenberg Consulting Group (Chicago), to be director of development.
Japan Society (New York): Appointed Motoatsu Sakurai, ambassador and consul general of Japan, based in New York, and former president of Mitsubishi International Corporation, USA (New York), to be president.
Kansas State U. (Manhattan): Appointed Bob Krause, athletic director and former vice president for institutional advancement, to be development director for its Olathe Innovation Campus.
Keene State College (N.H.): Appointed Maryann LaCroix Linberg, executive director of the Bloomsburg U. Foundation (Pa.), to be vice president for advancement.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York): Appointed Annie Polland, vice president of education at the Museum at Eldridge Street (New York), to be vice president for education.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: Appointed Luis Croquer, overseer of special projects at El Museo del Barrio (New York), to be director.
Nevada Cancer Institute (Las Vegas): Appointed John C. Ruckdeschel, president and chief executive officer of the Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit), to be director and chief executive officer.
Orange County United Way (Irvine, Calif.): Appointed Susan Caumiant, vice president of marketing, also to be vice president of community investments.
Prevent Blindness America (Chicago): Appointed Jacinda D. Adams, director of marketing at United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, to be vice president of marketing and development; Andrea M. Densham, senior director of public health and government affairs, to be vice president of public health and government affairs; Jerome D. Desserich, controller at Local Launch (Chicago), to be vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer; and Jeff P. Todd, vice president, to be chief operating officer.
Public Health Accreditation Board (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Kaye Bender, dean of the School of Nursing at the U. of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson), to be president and chief executive officer.
Room to Read (San Francisco): Appointed Erin Keown Ganju, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer. Also appointed: Joanne Chou, managing director of finance at MacFarlane Partners (San Francisco), to be chief financial officer, and Steven Zimmerman, senior vice president of programs at Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.), to be chief of operations. Room to Read provides educational opportunities for children in developing countries.
Rush U. Medical Center (Chicago): Appointed John Lowenberg, associate vice chancellor for development at the U. of Illinois at Chicago and associate vice president at the U. of Illinois Foundation (Urbana), to be vice president of philanthropy.
Service Coordination (Frederick, Md.): Appointed Marcy Hyatt, community-liaison director, to be operations director; Renae Kosmides, centralregion director, to be community-liaison director; Cari Oleskewicz, executive assistant to the executive director, to be communications director; and Allan Sheahen, quality-assessment manager, to be central-region director. Service Coordination helps adults and children with developmental disabilities obtain services that meet their specific needs.
St. Luke’s House (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Cindy E. Ostrowski, program director at St. Luke’s Outpatient Mental Health Clinic (Bethesda, Md.), to be president and chief executive officer.
Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Rebecca Reynolds, research director at the World Wide Workshop Foundation (New York), to be communications coordinator and senior grant writer for the School of Information Studies.
U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Anne Baumfeld, national communityinvestment manager at Operation Hope (Los Angeles), to be associate director of development for the School of Public Affairs; Lisa Feldman, associate director for principal and major gifts at the Alzheimer’s Association (Los Angeles), to be executive director of development for the UCLA Fund; Tamara Keough, director of development for the Policy Circle at the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.), to be director of development for the Theater, Film, and Television Archives; and Leti McNeil, director of annual and special giving for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, to be director of major gifts for the school.
U. of New Haven (Conn.): Appointed Elizabeth Erbach Lew, associate director of gift planning at Tufts U. (Medford, Mass.), to be director of development.
U. of San Diego: Appointed Elisa Lurkis, development analyst at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the U. of California at San Diego, to be director of development for the Joan Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg): Appointed Kimberly Blair, director of development at Roanoke College (Va.), to be development director for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Wildlife Trust (New York): Appointed Peter Daszak, executive vice president of health, to be president. Mr. Daszak succeeds Mary C. Pearl, who will become dean and vice president at the new Southampton campus of the State U. of New York at Stony Brook.
World Craniofacial Foundation (Dallas): Appointed Cameron Hernholm, director of development at the National Kidney Foundation Serving North Texas (Dallas), to be vice president of development.
Wyoming Catholic College (Lander): Appointed Mark Randall, director of institutional advancement at the St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to be vice president of development.
GRANT MAKERS
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Elias Zerhouni, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be a senior fellow. The foundation also announced the resignation of Heidi Sinclair, chief communications officer. Ms. Sinclair is starting her own consulting business in Seattle.
Bush Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Gülgün Kayim, co-founder of the Skewed Visions performance company (Minneapolis) and former coordinator of the Public Art on Campus Program at the U. of Minnesota, to be assistant director of the Bush Artist Program, and Jaime A. Pinkham, leader of outreach and education efforts to the U.S. Congress at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (Portland, Ore.) to be vice president and native nation-building team leader.
Chicago Community Trust: Appointed Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Rush U. Medical Center (Chicago), to be senior program officer for health.
Eleos Foundation (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Appointed Andy Lower, North American advisory manager at Geneva Global (St. Davids, Pa.), to be executive director. The foundation supports organizations that work to improve access to health and education in poor communities.
Global Greengrants Fund (Boulder, Colo.): Appointed Terry Odendahl, president of the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers (Santa Fe), to be chief executive officer. The fund provides small grants to grass-roots environmental groups.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Mayur Patel, a doctoral candidate at the U. of Oxford (England) and former project associate for the university’s Global Economic Governance Program, to be director of strategic assessment and impact.
McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Lee Sheehy, chief of staff for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, to be director of its region and communities grant-making program.
WellMed Charitable Foundation (San Antonio): Appointed Carol Zernial, director of the Bexar Area Agency on Aging at the Alamo Area Council of Governments (San Antonio), to be executive director. Ms. Zernial will also be vice president for community relations at the WellMed Medical Group.
BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York): Elected Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York U., to the Board of Trustees.
Catholic Community Foundation (St. Paul): Elected to the Board of Directors: Gerald D. Brennan, first vice president for investments at UBS Financial Services (St. Paul); the Rev. Lee Piché, vicar general and moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and pastor at Saint Andrews Church (St. Paul); Sean O. Regan, president of Premier Bank’s Roseville office (Minn.); and Harold J. Slawik, co-founder and partner at New Counsel, a Minneapolis law firm.
Charles H. Revson Foundation (New York): Elected Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic (Washington), to the Board of Directors.
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Elected Ginger Lew, head of a private consulting firm based in Washington, and former chief executive officer and managing director of the Telecommunications Development Fund (Washington), to the Board of Directors.
Giving Institute (Glenview, Ill.): Elected Nancy L. Raybin, managing partner of Raybin Associates (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors. This organization represents fund-raising consultants.
McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Elected Robert J. Struyk, senior vice president at Dorsey & Whitney Trust Company (Minneapolis), to be chair of the Board of Directors.
Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Elected David M. Hirsch, chairman and chief executive officer of Vertex Distribution (Pawtucket, R.I.), to be chairman of the board. Also elected to the board: Lorne Adrain, vice president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (Milwaukee).
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Elected Thomas Gorrie, former corporate vice president for government affairs and policy at Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.), to the Board of Trustees.
United Way of Greater St. Louis: Elected Douglas H. Yaeger, chief executive officer of the Laclede Group (St. Louis), to be chair of the Board of Directors.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program (Malvern, Pa.): Elected Kathleen Gubanich, managing director of human resources at the Vanguard Group (Malvern), to the Board of Trustees.