People

CEOS

• Johnson Institute Foundation (St. Paul, MN): William C. Moyers has been named president. Previously, he was vice president of public affairs for the Hazelden Foundation.   
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, MO): Louis W. Smith, president and CEO, will retire in September 2002. Mike Helmer was promoted from senior director to vice president of program and administrative services.   
• John M. Olin Foundation (New York City):  George J. Gillespie III, a partner at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, has succeeded the late William E. Simon as president.

STAFF

• Alliance Healthcare Foundation (San Diego): Lynda Heaney was promoted from planned giving officer to interim director of development.   
• Boston Foundation: Diane Elenbaas, former manager of public services for the Massachusetts Bar Association, was appointed director of donor services.   
• California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland): David Pockell, formerly a program development consultant, is the first chief program officer.   
• CDC Foundation (Atlanta): Melody Travis, former Coxe Curry and Associates research manager, is a research specialist.   
• Colorado Trust (Denver): Peter Konrad, vice president of administration, is retiring.   
• Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (Tucson): Donna Grant, executive director, is retiring.   
• Houston Endowment Inc.: Domingo Barrios, former executive director of CHRISTUS Galveston Ministry, joined the staff as a grant officer.   
• Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Sidney R. Sidwell joined the foundation as a research analyst after leaving her position as a senior information specialist at the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Jennifer Phillips, former program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, is program officer for employment. Shelley Davis, former program associate at the Ford Foundation, is associate program officer.   
• Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation (Chicago): Jason Heeney, formerly part of the administrative team at North Lawndale College Preparatory High School, is a program officer focusing on education. Hope Cooper was promoted from program associate to arts program officer.   
• Marin Community Foundation (Larkspur, CA): Chantel L. Walker was appointed program officer in the area of community development. Previously, Walker served as chief programs and administrative officer at PowerUP: Bridging the Digital Divide.   
• McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Gretchen Bonfert was named program officer for the environment. She was deputy director of the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission. Denise Mayotte, formerly a general manager of KFAI, Fresh Air Radio, was named program officer for the arts.   
• Ms. Foundation for Women (Boston): Dagmar Kohring, founder of International Fund Raising & Management Consulting, Inc., was named vice president for development and communications.   
• Northland Foundation (Duluth, MN): Mary Robillard was promoted from program associate to grant program manager.   
• Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, CA): Ellen Clear, former financial analyst at Alex. Brown & Sons, was named director of programs. Marjorie Fujiki, formerly a program officer with the Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, was named senior program officer. Srija Srinivasan, former director of member and information services at Gateway Purchasers for Health, was named program officer. Frank Lalle, who previously served as an attorney at Senior Advocates, Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, was named program officer. Joseph A. Cronin, Jr., former independent consultant, lecturer and therapist, was named manager of professional services. Jennifer Kim, former deputy director of development at the Nature Conservancy in San Francisco, was named senior development officer. Jennifer McDonald, former national program coordinator for Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, is manager of the Raising a Reader Program. Margot Mailliard Rawlins, former director of marketing communications at Scripps College, was named program manager for the Center for Venture Philanthropy.   
• Philadelphia Foundation: Pierre DaRagon was named director of grantmaking services. DaRagon founded Revisions, Inc.   
• Pittsburgh Foundation: Kimberley Hammer, former interim vice president of development, was promoted to director of development and donor relations.   
• Polk Bros. Foundation (Chicago): Deborah Reznick, formerly associate regional director of the New Israel Fund, is a program officer.   
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York City): Annette U. Rickel, former clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, was named program officer for education.   
• Saginaw Community Foundation (MI): David K. Swenson was named vice president. Previously he served as vice president for programs at the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.   
• St. Paul Foundation (MN): Lisa D. Winkler was named director of marketing/ communications. She was formerly marketing services director for the St. Paul Companies/MetLife Auto & Home.   
• San Francisco Foundation: Christine Searson, former controller, is chief financial officer. Geol Leonard Weirs, senior program officer for arts and culture at the Dayton Hudson Foundation, was named program officer for arts and culture. Ronald M. Rowell, former executive director for the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, was appointed program officer for social justice.   
• Woods Fund of Chicago: Former Suburban Job Link Corporation Director of Development Phillip Thomas succeeded Joelle Simpson as program officer.

TRUSTEES

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC): The following people joined the board: Jerome A. Cohen, partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Susan Eisenhower, cofounder and chairman of the Center for Political and Strategic Studies; William W. George, chairman and CEO of Medtronic; and Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s economics correspondent in Washington, DC.   
• Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, NY): Chairman of the Board Annie Dyson recently died of cancer. Dyson was a pediatrician and a nationally recognized advocate working to improve the life opportunities of children.   
• Greater Houston Community Foundation: The following people were elected to the board: Robert D. Duncan, chairman and founder of the Transwestern Group; William F. Galtney, CEO of the Galtney Group, Inc., and director of the Galtney Foundation; Lee Hogan, an active participant in the Houston nonprofit and civic community; and Paul Murphy, CEO and president of Southwest Bank of Texas.   
• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Paul Grogan, vice president for government, community and public affairs at Harvard University, and Cesar Alvarez, president and CEO of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, were elected to the board.   
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): John Seely Brown, chief scientist of the Xerox Corporation and chief innovation officer of 12 Entrepreneuring, was elected to the board.   
• Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington, DC): Maria S. Gomez was appointed to the board. Gomez is currently executive director of Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc.   
• Sonoma County Community Foundation (Santa Rosa, CA): J. Barrie Graham was re-elected as chairman. Graham is a senior vice president of Exchange Bank. Mary Colhoun, a partner in Landmark Vineyard, and Herb Dwight, former chairman and CEO of Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc., were both elected to three-year terms, and Jeanne Martin Buckley, retired Superior Court commissioner of the Sonoma County Juvenile Court, was elected to a special third, one-year term.   
• Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago: Katherine H. Miller will serve as the foundation’s new chair. Miller currently serves as the director of development for the Cancer Wellness Center.   
• Western Services Foundation (Newport Beach, CA): David Aponik, superintendent of the Burbank Unified School District; Gary Vatcher, president, National Healthcare Services; Carol Dunn Trussell, producer, 20th Century Fox Television; John Hooper, president, Curtis Nash & Associates, an investment banking firm; and Vicki Clark, president of WSF, are directors.

PHILANTHROPY GROUPS

• Grantmakers Concerned with Care at the End of Life (Valley Center, CA): Sandra Lund, former executive director and vice president of FHP Foundation/Archstone, was named executive director.   
• Minnesota Council on Foundations (Minneapolis): Senior Vice President Bill King was promoted to succeed Jackie Reis as president. Sandy Lucas, former communications coordinator for the St. Paul Area Council of Churches, was named communications associate.

Interview: Michael H. Levine
I Am Your Child Foundation
Michael H. Levine has been named executive director of the I Am Your Child Foundation. Levine previously oversaw the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s work in reforming early childhood development and primary grades. He also served as senior assistant to the chancellor of the New York City Board of Education and was responsible for developing programs for troubled youth.
What attracted you to I Am Your Child?
I saw this as an opportunity to extend the work I was doing on research and policy analysis at Carnegie into the work of actually advancing policy by working with state and national policymakers and early childhood organizations.
How will the office you plan to open in Washington, DC, serve the two existing offices in meeting I Am Your Child’s goals?
We plan to have offices in both New York and Washington that will focus on policy and communications strategies. In the West Coast office, we will continue to focus on production of videos and collateral materials. The Washington office will be our national policy arm. We intend to work with coalitions of child advocacy groups to inform national policymakers about the evidence of the importance of early childhood years. We want to sharpen federal policy as well as state-level and local-level policy by using national leadership organizations based in DC.
You said that you want to “promote enduring solutions that will make a real difference for America’s families and their young children.” How do you hope to do this?
Over 100 years ago we designed a public school system in order to invest in human capital so that we could compete with the rest of the world. The time has come now to rethink the traditional ways in which education and healthcare are developed in the U.S. We hope to put onto the public agenda some new ideas about how support for families and young children can be redesigned with the needs of contemporary America in mind. If you were starting to design a new school system, you absolutely would begin with a strong early childhood component.