MARGE PETRUSKA is retiring from the Heinz Endowments after thirty-two years of service, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Petruska, currently senior director of the endowments' Children, Youth & Families Program, came aboard when the endowments operated jointly with the Pittsburgh Foundation. Since then, she has helped develop several initiatives, including A Better Start (which served as a model for public-private partnerships like the federal government's Healthy Start program), the endowments' early childhood program, and the Pre-K Counts initiative. Before joining the endowments, Petruska worked in state and county government on a range of policy issues, including child abuse, children's mental health, and substance use. Over the years, she has been honored by Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families; the Families and Work Institute; and the Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children, which created an award in her name — the Margaret Petruska Transforming Communities Award.

The CDC Foundation has announced the appointment of JUDITH MONROE as president and CEO, effective February 1. Monroe currently serves as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's office for state, tribal, local, and territorial support, which is responsible for supporting the public health system and health departments across the country. Earlier, she served as Indiana's health commissioner and worked for St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis in a senior administrative role. Monroe began her career as a member of the National Health Service Corps at the Morgan County Medical Center in Tennessee and later joined the family medicine faculty at Indiana University. She will succeed CHARLES STOKES, who is retiring after serving as the foundation's founding executive director since 1995.

The Barr Foundation has announced the appointment of JENNY CURTIN as senior program officer for education. Curtin, most recently coordinator for high school initiatives at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, has worked in the education field as a grantmaker, program evaluator, and trainer. "Her expertise on a variety of secondary school topics, as well as her deep knowledge of the education policy landscape, will be valuable as [we] explore opportunities in Massachusetts and New England to align with broader efforts focused on secondary success for all students," said Leah Hamilton, director of the foundation's education program.

The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced the appointment of SYDNEY SIDWELL as director of its Education and Arts Learning Programs. Sidwell currently serves as associate director of data and advocacy at nonprofit Ingenuity, which works to bring the arts to Chicago public school students; while there, she launched the Creative Schools Fund, the only program in Chicago that provides direct grants to schools in support of arts education. Previously, Sidwell served as senior program officer and director of administration at the Fry Foundation, in which role she directed its Education Program and Arts Education program, and before that was a program officer and research analyst at the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, where she supervised the first two years of the Joyce Awards.

JANE MOGAVERO has been named executive director of the Patrick P. Lee Foundation, Buffalo Business First reports. Mogavero, most recently director of client relations at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, previously was development director at the Hospice Foundation of Western New York and the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. Her ten years of experience in the philanthropic sector also includes board service at Artpark & Co., the Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center, and the Western New York Planned Giving Consortium. She will succeed MARK O'DONNELL, who led the foundation for four years while serving in an executive capacity at Lee Capital Acquisition LLC.

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation has announced a new slate of officers, including JACK BETTS as board chair, CYNTHIA EVANS TESSIEN as vice chair, and OLSON HUFF as secretary. Betts, most recently associate editor of the Charlotte Observer, retired in 2011 after a nearly forty-year career in North Carolina journalism. Evans Tessien is a Reznick Group Faculty Fellow and professor of practice at Wake Forest University’s business school. Huff is a children's health advocate and semi-retired pediatrician at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. The foundation also announced the election of two new trustees, ALFRED ADAMS and CRAIG LANCASTER.

In other news, crowdfunding platform Catapult has hired JANET MORGAN as its first CEO, Crowdfund Insider reports. Morgan, previously president of the Restore the Earth Foundation and CSRwire, has served as a project leader for several organizations, including Lighthouse International, UN Friends of the World Food Programme, and American Express. She joins Catapult as the organization is scaling its efforts to achieve greater impact in gender equality.

PND also notes the passing of HENRY M. ROWAN, an industrialist and philanthropist, at the age of 92. Rowan and his wife, Betty, created global conglomerate Inductotherm Group from a metal-melting furnace he invented in their basement in 1953. In 1992, Rowan and his wife made a gift of $100 million gift to Glassboro State College in New Jersey — now Rowan University — at the time, the largest individual gift ever made to a public college or university in the United States. The gift allowed the college to establish an engineering school, graduate programs, professorships, and scholarships for Rowan employees. "I wouldn't want to mislead you into believing this is a habit," Rowan said at the time; through his family foundation and companies, he subsequently donated an additional $26 million to the school. Asked why he chose Glassboro over his alma mater, Rowan said, "Without a doubt, MIT is the finest engineering school in the world. But a gift of this magnitude would not have the impact at MIT that it will have at Glassboro."