People in the News (4/10/05): Appointments and Promotions

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Faith in Action program, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has named TOM BROWN as national director. Brown, who has served the program as director of grant operations for four years, was previously special assistant to the chancellor at the North Carolina School of the Arts, company manager of North Carolina Dance Theater, and a staff assistant at the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Oakland-based California HealthCare Foundation has named CLAUDIA PAGE as senior program officer. Page, who joined the foundation seven years ago and helped establish its Medi-Cal Policy Institute, previously worked for the San Francisco Department of Health, Advocates for Youth, and Planned Parenthood.

The Wilmington-based Delaware Community Foundation has named HUGH D. LEAHY JR. senior vice president of its southern Delaware office. A thirty-five-year veteran of the financial services industry, Leahy recently retired as executive vice president of personal financial services for Wilmington Trust. He serves on the boards of the Reading ASSIST Institute, Padua Academy, and the Delaware Center of Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has elected STEPHEN B. HEINTZ to its board. Heintz, president of the New York City-based Rockefeller Brothers Fund, had previously been a member of the center's advisory board. Prior to joining RBF in 2001, he served as founding president of Demos, a public policy research organization in New York City, as executive vice president of the Prague-based EastWest Institute, and as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance (Social Welfare).

In other news, the Capital Area Asset Building Corporation in Washington, D.C., has named COLLEEN DAILEY as executive director. Dailey, a former board member for the organization, recently had been working as an independent consultant to a number of national policy organizations and private foundations looking to invest in low-income D.C. neighborhoods. She previously coordinated startup of the financial services program D.C. CASH Campaign.

"Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen B. Heintz Joins Board of Directors of the Center for Effective Philanthropy." Center for Effective Philanthropy Press Release 04/04/2005. "Claudia Page Promoted to Senior Program Officer for California HealthCare Foundation" California HealthCare Foundation Press Release 04/01/2005. "Hugh D. Leahy Jr. Named to Lead Delaware Community Foundation's Southern Office" Delaware Community Foundation Press Release 04/07/2005. "New National Director Announced for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program at Wake Forest University" Faith in Action Press Release 04/04/2005. "CAAB Names New Executive Director" Capital Area Asset Building Corporation Press Release 03/25/2005.