The Henry Luce Foundation has announced the planned retirement of JOHN DALEY, vice president for finance and administration and the foundation's treasurer, at the end of December. The foundation also announced the appointments of SEAN BUFFINGTON as vice president, effective February 1, 2015, and STACI SALOMON as chief financial officer and treasurer, effective January 1, 2015; both are new positions at the foundation. Daley has overseen the foundation's financial operations since 1996 and during that time also served as a director of the New York Foundation and as a director and officer for the Foundation Financial Officers Group; earlier, he was senior vice president at Outreach Project in New York City. Buffington currently is president of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and earlier worked for thirteen years as an administrator at Harvard University. Salomon joined the foundation as controller four years ago; earlier, she was a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as vice president of finance at the YMCA of Greater New York.

The Burton D. Morgan Foundation in Hudson, Ohio, has announced the appointment of EMILY BEAN as program officer, the Hudson Hub-Times reports. Bean, who joined the foundation on October 6, previously served as community investment officer at the Akron Community Foundation. Earlier, she worked in fundraising, strategic planning, and program development roles at the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority.

The Northland Foundation has announced the appointment of TONY SERTICH as president, effective January 1, 2015. Sertich, currently commissioner of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, previously served for ten years in the Minnesota House of Representatives and before that managed his family's ambulance service business. He currently is an instructor in the University of Minnesota Duluth's Master of Advocacy and Political Leadership program and has served on the boards of several community organizations, including the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, UMD's Natural Resources Research Institute, and the Center for Rural Policy and Development. Sertich will succeed TOM REINER, Northland's founding president, who is retiring in December after leading the organization for more than twenty-eight years.

Opportunity Finance Network has announced the appointment of LIZ LOPEZ as executive vice president of public policy. Lopez, most recently of counsel for Barnes & Thornburg LLP, has more than ten years of public and private sector experience in government relations, advocacy, policy, and legal work. She also has worked with and for congressional and Senate leadership and other Washington stakeholders and has served in leadership positions at several nonprofit institutions, including the Hispanic Lobbyists Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Philanthropy Southwest has announced a new slate of board members and officers. TIMOTHY SCHULTZ, president of the Boettcher Foundation in Denver, Colorado, will serve as president, succeeding JOHN E. BROWN, executive director of the Windgate Charitable Foundation in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, who will assume the role of immediate past president. COLEITH MOLSTAD, executive director of the Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation in Austin, Texas, has been elected treasurer, and TERRI LEON, a program officer with the Phoenix-based Virginia G. Piper Foundation, has been elected secretary. New board members for 2014 are TOM EARLY, president of the San Angelo Health Foundation in Texas; LEONARD KRASNOW, president of the M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation in Dallas; and LISA TRAHAN, director of communications at the St. David's Foundation in Austin.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the election of JAMES W. BREYER, HOWARD S. MARKS, BEATRICE STERN, and CAROLINE DIAMOND HARRISON to its board. Breyer, founding CEO of investment and venture philanthropy firm Breyer Capital and a long-time partner at the venture capital firm Accel Partners, also is a director of 21st Century Fox, Etsy, Circle Financial, and Legendary Entertainment, and is a long-time trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Marks, co-chair and co-founder of asset management firm Oaktree Capital Management, previously held leadership positions at Citicorp Investment Management and the TCW Group, and serves on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania and the Prince's Drawing School in Great Britain. Stern, daughter of Metropolitan Museum trustee emeritus Michel David-Weill, most recently was a vice president at Sotheby's and has worked for galleries and museums in Paris and New York. She also serves at the board level at several organizations, including New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

In other news, nonprofit agricultural company GrainPro, Inc. has announced the appointments of ARLENE MITCHELL and LINDA HABGOOD to its board. Mitchell, currently executive director of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation, previously served as a deputy director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle and has served in leadership roles at the United Nations World Food Programme and the United States Department of Agriculture. Habgood, a director at financial consulting firm Delphos International, earlier served as a senior investment officer for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was an associate in Chase Manhattan Bank's North American Corporate Finance Group.