The Walton Family Foundation has announced the appointment of BARRY GOLD as director of its environment focus area, effective June 30. In that role, Gold will help create the strategic plan for an environment portfolio that includes more than $90 million in grantmaking annually and that continues a vision for marine and freshwater conservation set by the foundation’s founders, Sam and Helen Walton. Gold, a longtime leader in environmental science and conservation, is currently program director of marine conservation for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Earlier, he managed the ecology program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, was chief of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, and served in senior positions for the National Biological Survey, the United States House of Representatives' Committee on Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Gold also has served as board president for the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, the leading affinity group for environmental foundations, and is currently board vice chair at the California Ocean Science Trust.

The Tiger Woods Foundation has announced the appointment of RICK SINGER as president and CEO. Singer most recently was vice president of client executive marketing at IBM, where he managed the company's sponsorships of major sports competitions, including the Masters golf tournament and the U.S. Open. Earlier, he served as director of marketing for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, as director and group manager for the National Basketball Association, and was vice president of consulting for Kemper Sports Marketing. "My charity work is extremely important to me, and I look forward to expanding our programs even further with Rick," Woods said in a statement. Singer replaces GREG McLAUGHLIN, who left the foundation in May after fourteen years for a position with the PGA tour.

The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative has announced the appointment of C. RICHTER "RICK" KING as director of research and development. King, most recently vice president of vaccine design for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, earlier served as vice president of research at GenVec, where he led the company's efforts to identify, select, and advance products for cancer and ocular and infectious diseases and, in partnership with MVI, helped advance multi-component approaches to the development of a vaccine for malaria. In his new role, King will lead work on transmission-blocking vaccines and will guide the organization's portfolio of evaluation technology projects.

The Ball Brothers Foundation has announced the death of its board chair, FRANK E. BALL, on May 27. Ball was an active member of several organizations in Indiana and Florida, chaired two philanthropic foundations (the Edmund F. & Virginia B. Ball Foundation and the Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation), and ran his business, Florida Golf.

Wider Opportunities for Women has announced the appointment of AMANDA ANDERE as president and CEO, effective June 30. Andere, most recently CEO of northern Virgina-based emergency shelter FACETS, currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit and community associations, including Nonprofit Northern Virginia, the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, and Leadership Fairfax. She also is involved in advocacy and policy coalitions in the areas of human services and affordable housing and teaches nonprofit management courses at George Mason University.

In other news, Indiana University's Lilly School of Philanthropy has announced the appointment of DAVID P. KING as the Karen Lake Buttrey Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving and the transition of WILLIAM G. ENRIGHT, the institute's first director, to the role of senior fellow, in which position he will be responsible for expanding its executive certificate in religious fundraising program. King, currently assistant professor of church history at Memphis Theological Seminary, is an ordained pastor and researcher of faith practice and philanthropy. In 2011, he was awarded the Lake Institute's doctoral dissertation fellowship in support of his dissertation on World Vision, the largest Christian humanitarian agency in the world.