The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles has announced the appointment of DAVID CARROLL as senior vice president of finance and administration/chief financial officer. Carroll joins the foundation from youth fitness nonprofit Playworks, where he served as chief financial officer.  Earlier, he held financial, administrative, and research positions at several organizations in northern California, including the Community Foundation of Sonoma County, the California Association of Food Banks, the California Budget Project, and the California Association of Public Hospitals.

The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality has announced the appointment of SCOTT D. BERNS as president and CEO. Berns, most recently senior vice president of chapter programs and deputy medical officer at the March of Dimes, is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University as well as a clinical professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown School of Public Health. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Progeria Research Foundation and continues to chair its board. Berns will replace CHARLIE HOMER, who stepped down earlier this year to accept a position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The New Britain Museum of American Art has hired MIN JUNG KIM as director, effective November 2, the Hartford Courant reports. Kim, currently deputy director for external relations at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, earlier served as managing director of exhibitions and programming at the Global Cultural Asset Management Group in New York and worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for more than twelve years. Prior to that, she held the role of assistant curator at the Samsung Foundation for Art and Culture and worked at Sotheby's in South Korea. She will succeed DOUGLAS HYLAND, who has led the museum for sixteen years.

The Lumina Foundation has announced the election of AUSTAN GOOLSBEE to its board. Goolsbee, the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, previously served in Washington, D.C., as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration and as a member of the president's cabinet. In addition, his research has earned him recognition as a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. Goolsbee currently serves on the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and previously served as an advisor to several federal government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Advisory Commission, and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

The Energy Foundation has announced the appointment of DAVID NIEH to its board. Nieh, a Chinese American business leader, urban planner, and architect, currently heads the China business practice of Australian development company Lendlease. Earlier, he served as a general manager of Shui On Land, was a founding director of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Shanghai office, and was chief architect for the City of San Jose, California. Nieh currently serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Global Reporting Initiative, the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, and the China chapter of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association. In addition, he is a director of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, a Shanghai executive committee member of the Urban Land Institute, and an appointed advisor to China Development Bank Capital, the China Nobel Forum, the U.S-China Clean Energy Forum, the Beijing University College of Architecture and Landscape, the Architectural Design program at Stanford University, and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

In other news, PND notes the passing of LYNN HUNTLEY, a trustee of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, at the age of 69 after a brief illness. Huntley, who had served on the fund’s board since 2008 and was its chair in 2012 and 2013, retired in 2010 as president of the Southern Education Foundation. She began her career as a law clerk for a federal judge and then served in roles with more responsibilities at a number of organizations and agencies, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1982, she joined the staff of the Ford Foundation and later directed its Rights and Social Justice Program. Huntley received many honors, including the Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Lucy Terry Prince Award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She also served on the boards of several organizations, including Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Grantmakers for Education, CARE USA, the Interdenominational Theological Center, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.