The Commonwealth Fund has announced the appointment of KATHLEEN REGAN as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective January 1, 2015. A venture partner at health care-focused venture capital firm Radius Ventures, Regan has spent thirty years in senior management and advisory roles at a variety of agencies and organizations, including the U.S. State Department, Citigroup, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Warburg Pincus. She currently serves as a trustee of Lutheran HealthCare in Brooklyn, is an adviser to New York Presbyterian's Minimally Invasive New Technologies Program, and is a guest lecturer at the Mailman School. She will succeed JOHN E. CRAIG, who is retiring after a thirty-three-year career at the foundation.

The McKnight Foundation has announced the appointment of ELIZABETH McGEVERAN as impact investing program director, a new position. Most recently a consultant for nonprofit capacity-building network Confluence Philanthropy, McGeveran previously served as senior vice president of governance and sustainable investment at F&C Asset Management in London, as managing director of nonprofit consumer and investor education organization Co-op America (now Green America), and as media director of the U.S. Social Investment Forum. She also chaired the investment committee for Amnesty International USA and served as a life skills coach at the Jeremiah Program, a Minneapolis-St. Paul campus community for single mothers.

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, has announced that LAURA PACKER, the longtime director of its arts program, is leaving to become executive director of the New York City-based Howard Gilman Foundation.  Before joining Dodge, Packer worked in managerial roles at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (now the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) , the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, and ArtPride. She currently serves on the boards of the Community Foundation of South Jersey and Grantmakers in the Arts.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research has announced the appointment of ROB STEEGER as vice president of cause and event marketing. Steeger, most recently director of partnership marketing at the United States Tennis Association, earlier served as vice president of global sponsorships at MasterCard and was director of global partnerships at American Express. "Rob's wealth of experience and 'don't ever give up' attitude will be an asset in every way," said V Foundation CEO Susan Braun.  "We look forward to introducing Rob to our partners around the country and to adding more events and corporate partners to the V Foundation's efforts to put an end to cancer."

The Ruth Mott Foundation will welcome HANDY LINDSEY, JR. as its new president on September 1, MLive.com reports. Lindsey is a philanthropic leader with over thirty years' experience at a variety of organizations, including the Chicago Community Trust, the East St. Louis Community Foundation, the Field Foundation in Chicago, and the Cameron Foundation in Petersburg, Virginia. "Handy has a wealth of knowledge about family foundations, community foundations, and the larger world of philanthropy, where he is regarded as a mentor and trailblazer,” said Maryanne Mott, the foundation's board chair.

WILLIAM D. ADAMS has been confirmed as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Grantmakers for the Arts reports. Adams, newly retired as president of Colby College in Maine, was a Fulbright Scholar before beginning his career in higher education. He taught political philosophy at Santa Clara University in California and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and subsequently coordinated the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University. He subsequently served as as vice president and secretary of Wesleyan University and as president of Bucknell University, and became president of Colby College in 2000.

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the appointment of RAVI VENKATESAN to its board. Venkatesan, former chair of Microsoft India and currently founding chair of Social Venture Partners India, is also a venture partner at impact investment company Unitus Seed Fund. "Our century of investment in Asia has focused on addressing our dual goals of promoting more inclusive economies and building greater resilience against shocks and stresses," said Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "Ravi, with his commitment to philanthropy along with his eye for solutions and relentless drive for innovation, will provide essential guidance to our work in the years ahead."

The Grameen Foundation has announced the appointments of NELSON MATTOS and ELEANOR WAGNER to its board, as well as changes to its leadership team, with HILLARY MILLER-WISE, CAMILLA NESTOR, and STEVE WARDLE taking on new roles. Miller-Wise, who previously led the foundation's information services team, was named regional CEO for Africa; earlier, she served as a regional manager in Africa for TechnoServe and was a senior consultant at Development Alternatives Inc. Nestor, previously the foundation's vice president for financial services, has been appointed senior vice president for global solutions; before coming to Grameen, she worked in structured corporate finance at Citigroup and spent five years working with microfinance institutions and rural banks in Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and Africa. Wardle, previously the foundation's regional CEO for Africa, has been named vice president of strategic partnerships and business strategy; earlier, he was acting CFO of Haitian microfinance entity Sevis Finansye Fonkoze. Mattos, currently an independent technical consultant, has had a thirty-year career as a technical executive at a variety of tech companies, including Google and IBM. Wagner spent most of her professional career with Citigroup, most recently serving as chief risk officer for Asia.

In other news, PND notes the passing of C. DAVID CAMPBELL, president and CEO of the Detroit-based McGregor Fund, on July 7 at the age of 61. Campbell, who had served the fund in executive roles for nineteen years, earlier was vice president of program at the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan and dean of students at the College for Creative Studies. He also served on the boards of the Council on Foundations and the Council of Michigan Foundations and was a founding board member of Learning to Give, a national program designed to integrate the concept of philanthropy into the K-12 curriculum. At the local level, Campbell was a founding board member of the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, City Year Detroit, City Connect Detroit, the Detroit Local Initiatives Support Coalition, Excellent Schools Detroit, and Michigan Future Schools, and served on the boards of New Detroit, the New Economy Initiative of the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan, and the Greater Downtown Partnership.

PND also notes the passing of philanthropist RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE on July 4 at the age of 82. Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, was known for his support of right-wing causes and was considered a generative influence on the modern conservative movement in the United States. While Scaife had little involvement in his family's business, which was controlled by his uncle, R.K. Mellon, he bought and transformed several Pittsburgh-area newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, with the goal of winning readers over to conservative views and largely conducted his philanthropic giving through the Sarah Scaife, Carthage, and Allegheny Foundations.