The Miami-based Florida Philanthropic Network has named PAMELA PETERS as president and SHERRY P. MAGILL as board chair. Peters, recently executive director of the Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College, previously served as vice mayor and a city commissioner of Winter Park. Magill, president and CEO of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, is a senior moderator for the Aspen Institute and served as chair of the State of Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation has named RUTH BLANK as CEO. Blank, formerly a California regional vice president for Comcast, has served on the boards of local affiliates of the Urban League and United Cerebral Palsy.

The Nemours Foundation in Jacksonville, Florida, has named John F. Porter III as board chair. Porter, a member of the foundation's board since 1995, is the retired chairman and CEO of Delaware Trust Co. He previously served as a trustee of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust and is currently a director of the Glenmede Corporation and Glenmede Trust Company.

Austin-based Whole Foods Market has named ANNE MALLEAU as executive director of the newly formed Animal Compassion Foundation. Malleau previously was coordinator for the Colonel K.L. Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare in Guelph, Ontario, a member of the Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Steering Committee, and a presenter at the International Society for Applied Ethologists in Prague, Czech Republic.

World Learning in Brattleboro, Vermont, has named CAROL BELLAMY as CEO. Bellamy, who recently announced her decision to step down as executive director of UNICEF, was formerly director of the Peace Corps, a New York State senator, president of the New York City Council, a managing director of Bear Stearns & Co., and a principal at Morgan Stanley & Co.

In other news, BEVERLY SILLS has resigned as chair of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Sills, whose sixty-year career in the arts included performing as an opera diva, managing the New York City Opera, and serving as chair of Lincoln Center, plans to focus on her family and health.