The J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles has announced the appointment of DEBORAH MARROW as interim president and CEO. Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, originally joined the Getty in 1983 and subsequently served as interim director of the Getty Research Institute and as dean for external relations of the Getty Trust. She also served as interim director of the trust during the search that resulted in the hiring of James N. Wood, whose death earlier this month left the position vacant.

The Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, has announced the appointment of MARGARITA MARÍA PARRA as a program officer in its environment area. Parra, currently a program associate at the ClimateWorks Foundation, earlier was a consultant on policy and research issues for environmental organizations, including Greenpeace International, the Climate Action Reserve, and the Rainforest Action Network.

The Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation has announced the appointment of AIMEE WITTEMAN as environment program officer and BILE DAAD as accounting assistant. Witteman, most recently executive director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, earlier worked at Oxfam America and the Northwest Service Academy and was a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow. Daad, most recently an accountant at Soma Financial Services, earlier worked as an interpreter at SGS, Inc. and at Big Lots retail corporation; he emigrated to the United States from Somalia in 2000.

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma, has announced the appointment of E. CHARLES BRUMMER as senior vice president and director of its Forage Improvement Division. Brummer, most recently a professor of forage and biofuel crop breeding and genetics at the University of Georgia, has more than twenty years of experience in genomics, plant breeding, and forage development.

The DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation has announced the appointment of ELLEN LONDON as president and CEO. London, interim president and CEO of the trust since November, previously served as its vice president of communications and community engagement. Before joining the trust, she was vice president of community service and vice president of administration at the Bay Area chapter of Volunteers of America.

The San Francisco-based New Schools Venture Fund has welcomed GLORIA LEE as a partner/entrepreneur in residence. Lee, most recently Bay Area superintendent for Aspire Public Schools, earlier was a consultant for McKinsey & Company and founded the Bay Area office of UCLA's School Management Program.

The Tiffany and Co. Foundation in New York City has announced the appointment of ANISA KAMADOLI COSTA as president. Costa, currently director of the foundation, earlier was a program officer there and was director of community affairs for Tiffany & Co. Before joining Tiffany, she worked at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The Cherokee Preservation Foundation in Cherokee, North Carolina, has announced the appointment of CHARLES MYERS as associate director for strategic initiatives and planning. Myers, most recently director of casino operations at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel, earlier was executive director of the economic and community development division of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education has announced that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has appointed one of its board members, BELLE WHEELAN, to the Committee on Measures of Student Success. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges, is one of fifteen committee members who will work to develop recommendations for college compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act.

The Brooklyn-based Ms. Foundation for Women has announced the appointment of CATHY RAPHAEL as board chair. Raphael is a longtime philanthropist who helps direct her family's donor-advised funds at the Pittsburgh Foundation as well as her own Danu Fund. She has been associated with the Ms. Foundation for Women for more than fourteen years and created its Fairy Godmother Fund.

The New York City-based Paul Rapoport Foundation has announced the election of DAVID ENG and SUNG WON PARK to its board. Eng is vice president of public affairs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and founder of David Eng Communications. Park works at Intersections, a social justice and peace initiative organization underwritten by the Collegiate Church of New York, and manages a national social marketing campaign to advance the rights of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals within the Protestant church.

The D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced the appointment of STEPHANIE MEEKS as president. Meeks, president and CEO of Counterpart International, held several leadership positions during her seventeen-year career at the Nature Conservancy.

The New York City-based Women's Refugee Commission has announced the appointment of SARAH COSTA as executive director. Costa, New York regional director of the Global Fund for Women, earlier served as a program officer for the Ford Foundation in Brazil and New York and was a professor of women's health at the National School of Public Health in Brazil.

The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced that the Investigative News Network, a collaboration of thirty-two nonprofit news organizations producing public service journalism, has selected KEVIN L. J. DAVIS as its inaugural chief executive officer. Davis, chief operating officer of The Wrap News, earlier served as president and chief operating officer of Hollywood.com and held a series of high-level publishing positions at Variety Group.

The D.C.-based International Center for Research on Women has announced the appointment of SARAH DEGNAN KAMBOU as president. Kambou, recently chief operating officer and interim president of the organization, earlier worked for CARE in Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Sudan and Somaliland, and served as a director of international health in the School of Public Health at Boston University.

The League of Women Voters of the United States has announced the election of ELISABETH MACNAMARA as national president. MacNamara, a member of the organization since 1983, formerly was the organization's first vice president, president of its Georgia League, and a member of the LWVUS national board.

In other news, Brooklyn-based StoryCorps has announced the election of GARA LaMARCHE to its board. LaMarche, president and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies, earlier was vice president and director of U.S. programs at the Open Society Institute, associate director of Human Rights Watch, director of the PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write program, executive director of the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and associate director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.