The Koret Foundation in San Francisco has named JEFFREY A. FARBER as executive director. Farber, whose twenty-five-year career at Bank of America included service as the bank's executive vice president, has held executive positions at Shorenstein Realty Services, the Quellos Group, and San Francisco's Exploratorium museum. In addition, he has served on the boards of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; the American Friends of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds; the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

The Woods Fund of Chicago has named WILLIAM AYERS as board chair and LAURA S. WASHINGTON as board vice chair. Ayers, who has served on the fund's board for six years, is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a nationally known educator, author, and human rights activist. Washington, a Chicago journalist, was formerly editor of the Chicago Reporter. She currently is the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University and a fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center.

The Boston Foundation has named JERROLD MITCHELL as chief investment officer. Mitchell, formerly chief investment officer for the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, was also a partner at the Wellington Management Company, where he worked for twenty-seven years and founded its international department. After leaving Wellington to earn a doctorate in divinity, he became an investment advisor for the Alaska State Pension Investment Board and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.

The Foundation Center in New York City has named M. CHRISTINE DEVITA as board chair, SUSAN LAJOIE EAGAN as board vice chair, and RALPH R. SMITH and BARRON "BUZZ" TENNY as trustees. DeVita, president of the Wallace Foundation, was formerly deputy general counsel for the Reader's Digest Association. A Center trustee since 2003, DeVita is also a member of the Queens College Foundation's board of directors. Eagan, executive director of Case Western Reserve University's Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, previously served as executive vice president of the Cleveland Foundation. Smith, senior vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, was founding president and executive director of Philadelphia Children's Network, Inc. and associate professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. Tenny, executive vice president, secretary, and general counsel of the Ford Foundation, previously served as general counsel, vice president, and assistant secretary of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

New York-based Intermed International, formerly the Dooley Foundation, has named KATHRYN LIVINGSTON FORGAN as president. Forgan, a member of the foundation's board for twenty years, was formerly executive editor of Town & Country magazine and a member of the New York Commission for the United Nations and Consular Corps. She succeeds VERNE CHANEY, who established the foundation forty-five years ago and will stay on as chairman.

In other news, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has named C. MICHAEL ARMSTRONG as board chair. Armstrong, who retired last year as chair of Comcast Corporation, was formerly chairman and chief executive of AT&T and CEO of Hughes Electronics. He also worked for more than three decades at IBM, which required its senior executives to "adopt" a hospital; Armstrong's assignment was Johns Hopkins. Over the years, he has endowed stem cell research at the university and served as chair of its board of visitors.