The California Wellness Foundation has announced the departure of president and CEO DIANA M. BONTÁ, effective June 14, and the appointment of COLBURN S. WILBUR as interim president. Wilbur, a seasoned philanthropic and business leader, previously served as president of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where he is currently a trustee, and as interim president and CEO of the Council on Foundations.

The Lilly Endowment has announced the appointment of JESSICAH KREY DUCKWORTH as director of its Religion Program, effective August 1. Duckworth, assistant professor of congregational and community care leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She previously served as assistant professor of Christian formation at Wesley Theological Seminary and was involved with several Lilly Endowment-funded projects as a Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellow and a researcher for the Princeton Theological Seminary's Faithful Practices Project.

In conjunction with the appointment of MARK DIENHART as its president and CEO, the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation has announced that its founder plans to increase the foundation's endowment from $100 million to $1 billion. Dienhart, formerly executive vice president and COO of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, also has served as athletic director at the University of Minnesota. The foundation has been led by Schulze's daughter, NANCY TELLOR, who will continue to serve on the board.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced the return of JANE LUBCHENCO to its board. Lubchenco, a respected marine ecologist and environmental scientist who served on the foundation's board from 2001 to 2004, is the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University and the first woman to serve as administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She previously served as president of the American Association for Advancement of Science, the International Council for Science, and the Ecological Society of America, and began her academic career as a professor at Harvard University. Lubchenco has been honored with numerous awards over the course of her career, including a MacArthur "genius" award in 1993.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the election of CYNTHIA BARNHART and MICHAEL PURUGGANAN to its board. Barnhart is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering systems and associate dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Purugganan is the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, professor of biology, and dean for science at New York University; he received a Sloan fellowship earlier in his research career.

The Kresge Foundation has announced the planned retirement of JANE DELGADO from its board after sixteen years of service. Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, helped guide the foundation's transition from a national funder of capital projects to its current focus on expanding opportunities for America's urban poor. Earlier, she served as a senior policy advisor to the U.S. secretary for health and human services and was a director of child casting for Sesame Street.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the appointment of WILLIAM P. KELLY as board chair. Kelly, currently president of the City University of New York's Graduate Center, will become CUNY's interim chancellor on July 1. He has served on the foundation's board since 2009 and will succeed JOSEPH A. RICE, who is stepping down after nineteen years.

The Parkinson's Disease Foundation has announced the election of HOWARD D. MORGAN as board chair and CONSTANCE WOODRUFF ATWELL as vice-chair. Morgan, a senior partner at private equity firm Castle Harlan, has served on the foundation's board for nine years. He succeeds PAGE MORTON BLACK, widow of foundation founder Bill Black. Atwell, retired director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, also has served on the foundation's board for nine years.

The Philadelphia Cultural Alliance has announced the departure of its president, TOM KAIDEN, effective July 26. Kaiden, who has led the organization since 2009, is stepping down to take the position of COO at the Alexandria (Virginia) Convention and Visitors Association. The organization also announced that MICHAEL NORRIS, executive vice president for external affairs, will serve as interim executive director until a new president is named, and that SEAN BUFFINGTON, president of the Philadelphia University of the Arts, will head the search committee tasked with finding Kaiden's successor.

The National Council of Nonprofits has announced the election of TRISHA LESTER, vice president of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, to its board. Lester has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than thirty years and has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Nonprofits Mutual Risk Retention Group, the Latino Community Development Center, the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, Leadership America North Carolina, and Volunteers for Youth.

In other news, PND notes the passing of international shipping magnate and philanthropist PAUL SOROS. Soros, the older brother of financier/philanthropist/author George Soros, made his fortune in port design and construction. With his wife, Daisy, Soros endowed the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and helped fund a variety of cultural organizations and events, including Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, which the couple underwrote for eighteen years.

PND also notes the passing of former Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation executive director ANNE D. ALLEN. Allen, who led the foundation from 1989 until she retired in 2005, earlier led the Stern Foundation and the Public Welfare Foundation. She arrived in Washington, D.C., in the early 1960s as a freelance journalist and later founded Washington Independent Writers. She also accompanied her husband George Allen, a correspondent for the NBC and ABC broadcast news operations, on assignments around the world, including Vietnam from 1966 to 1968.