The Woodland Hills-based California Endowment has named JAMES KEDDY and MAURICE LIM MILLER to its board. Keddy, director of PICO California and executive director of its Sacramento affiliate, Sacramento Area Congregations Together, was previously executive director of Oakland Community Organizations. He serves on the board of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, and previously served on the board of the California Budget Project and as a Peace Corps trainer. Miller, founder of the Family Independence Initiative, was previously executive director of Asian Neighborhood Design. He serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Corporation for Enterprise Development and Public Private Ventures.

The Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, has promoted REBECCA FEDEWA and YAZEED MOORE to associate program officers. Fedewa, a program assistant with the foundation's environment program since 2000, will work on grantmaking aimed at conservation of freshwater ecosystems. She was previously coordinator for the Lake Monroe/Salt Creek watershed. Moore, who joined the foundation's Pathways Out of Poverty team in 2002, will be responsible for vulnerable youth grantmaking within the Improving Community Education program area. He was previously director of research and foundation relations at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

The Bush Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota, has named JUNE NORONHA to the new position of strategic planning officer. Noronha, associate dean for multicultural education at the College of St. Catherine, has worked on the college's administrative staff since 1978, and has served as president and board chair of Directors of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, as board chair of Asian-American Renaissance, and as a trustee of Carondolet LifeCare Ministries, the Minnesota International Center, and the St. Paul Foundation's St. Paul Public Education Fund.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation in Atlanta has elected JAMES HAGEDORN to its board. Hagedorn, CEO and board chair of lawn and garden products maker Scotts Company, formerly served as a captain and F-16 fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He currently serves as an associate trustee of the North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, New York, and is board chair of the Farms for City Kids Foundation.

In other news, the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Family Philanthropy has named DIANNA SMILEY as program director for education and outreach. Smiley previously developed educational programs at the Oregon Community Foundation and the Northwest Giving Project, served as executive director of the Tektronix Foundation, and worked in planned giving development for Reed College in Portland, Oregon.