The John A. Hartford Foundation has announced the appointment of TERRY FULMER as president and CEO. Fulmer, who will join the foundation in May, is a recognized expert in geriatrics and currently serves as distinguished professor and dean of Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences and professor of public policy and urban affairs in the university's College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Earlier, she was founding dean of New York University's College of Nursing, where she was also Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing. In addition, she served as co-director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU, which the foundation has supported since 1996. Fulmer has held faculty appointments at Boston College, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard, and currently serves as an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Executive Nurse Fellows Program national advisory committee. She will succeed CORINNE H. RIEDER, who is retiring after having led the foundation for eighteen years.

The Roy A. Hunt Foundation has announced the appointment of JENNY KELLY as executive director. For the past fourteen years, Kelly has worked as a program officer at the DSF Charitable Foundation. Earlier, she managed programs at Leadership Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. She will succeed TONY MACKLIN, who is leaving after four years to relocate with his wife for her new job.

Points of Light has announced the appointment of TRACY HOOVER as chief executive officer. Hoover has served the organization in a variety of management roles since 2008, including as president for the past eighteen months, and has been active in the volunteer movement for twenty years. Prior to that, she led business and financial operations for Episcopal Children's Services in Jacksonville, Florida. Hoover is an America's Promise Alliance trustee and a member of the Voices for National Service steering committee, the Presidio Trust's Fort Scott Council, and the advisory board of L'Arche Atlanta. The organization also announced that former CEO MICHELLE NUNN, who was on a leave of absence as she ran for the United States Senate, will return as a board member.

The American Parkinson Disease Association has announced the election of DAVID J. BUTLER to its board and the appointment of J. TIMOTHY GREENAMYRE and CLEMENS R. SCHERZER to its advisory board. Butler, a retired partner and audits specialist with KPMG, began his association with APDA in 2013 when he joined the board of its St. Louis chapter. Greenamyre, Love Family Professor and vice chair of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, is also director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the APDA Advanced Center for Parkinson's Disease Research at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as a former recipient of APDA's Cotzias Fellowship. Scherzer is associate professor of neurology, head of the neurogenomics lab, and director of the Parkinson Personalized Medicine Program at Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and also is a former recipient of the Cotzias Fellowship.

Commonfund has announced the appointment of JACK H. FOSTER as managing director, private equity specialist, a new position. Previously, Foster served as senior vice president of Capital Dynamics, as director of private capital at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co./CastleOak Securities, and as vice president of corporate finance/mergers and acquisitions at Blaylock & Company and held positions at J.P. Morgan Securities, SONY Music Entertainment, and Coopers & Lybrand. He currently serves as New York regional vice president for the Robert A. Toigo Foundation.

The Philanthropy Workshop has announced that its CEO, GLEN GALAICH, was elected to the board of GuideStar in January. Galaich, CEO of Philanthropy Workshop West from 2009 until its merger with the London-based Institute for Philanthropy last year, has worked on behalf of human rights and philanthropy for more than a decade. His career in strategic philanthropy started with the Global Philanthropy Forum, where he was responsible for launching the first and second Conferences on Borderless Giving. He also served Human Rights Watch as deputy director of development for North America. "Glen's deep experience in the nonprofit sector and leadership in philanthropy education makes him an asset to the team," said Guidestar president Jacob Harold. "We are very much looking forward to watching how [his] leadership supports GuideStar's continued evolution."

In other news, the Health Foundation of South Florida has announced the appointment of LOREEN CHANT as board chair. Chant, president and CEO of Easter Seals South Florida, previously worked for twenty-two years at Johnson & Wales University, most recently as president of the north Miami campus. "Loreen's leadership, significant contributions, and experience on [our] board, including chairing the committee which oversees our grantmaking, makes her ideally suited to take on the responsibility of board chair," said foundation president and CEO Steven E. Marcus. "She has also been involved with our Healthy Community Partnerships initiative with the city of Miami Gardens and the neighborhood of Little Havana."