People & Groups, U.S./World

Published on June 6, 2005

* David C. Contorer, former director of donor development and assistant campaign director, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, named director, donor relations, Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, Detroit. Foundation also promoted Cassandra L. Joubert, senior program officer, to vice president, program, replacing Mark Neithercut, who resigned after 10 years.

* Kintera, San Diego, launched Kintera GivingFund payment option  to let nonprofits provide donor-advised-fund financial services for donors and philanthropists.

* Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. honored two young musicians, pianist Tomoko Endo of Fairfax, Va., and pianist/vocalist Patrick Henry Hughes of Louisville, Ky., with the 2005 VSA arts Panasonic Young Soloists Award, including a $5,000 scholarship and the opportunity to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

* GuideStar, Williamsburg, Va., launched new version of website at guidestar.org, including the addition of 340,000 IRS-recognized exempt organizations; new search, retrieval and sorting options; and a new eDocs service to let nonprofits share documents beyond Form 990 with grantmakers and other supporters.

* James Keddy, director of PICO California, state affiliate of PICO National Network, association of faith-based community groups serving low-income communities, and Maurice Lim Miller, founder, The Family Independence Initiative, joined board of directors, The California Endowment.

* Foundation Source, Fairfield, Conn., provider of support services for private foundations, announced partnership to assist Seattle-based Social Venture Partners, national network of individual donors.

* Dianna Smiley, former director of gift planning, The Oregon Community Foundation, named program director for education and outreach, The National Center for Family Philanthropy, Washington, D.C.

* Deborah L. Holston, controller, Development Gateway Foundation, Washington, D.C., promoted to chief financial officer.

* Camp Brown, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, serving at-risk youth in District of Columbia region, is reopening, thanks to more than $300,000 raised from foundations, corporations and individual donors.

* Parents as Teachers National Center, St. Louis, launched redesigned website at parentsasteachers.org, using content-management-system tools from Kintera, San Diego.

* Canine Companions for Independence received its millionth dollar from The Iams Co.

* The Carter Center, Atlanta, named 17 new members to board of councilors, bringing its membership to 204.

* Board of America’s Promise, The Alliance for Youth, elected nine members.

* Click and Pledge, Blacksburg, Va., released “Empower” customer marketing program for nonprofits.

* Barbara Danbom, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Young Americans, Denver, named president and CEO.

* George A. Davidson Jr., retired board chairman, Dominion Resources, elected board chairman, The Pittsburgh Foundation.

* Alonzo Louis Plough, director and health officer, Seattle and King County Department of Public Health, named vice president of program, planning and e valuation, The California Endowment, Los Angeles.

* Donations to USO in 2004 totaled $30.9 million, up 50 percent from 2003 and a record high.

* Maureen H. Smyth, vice president for programs, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, Mich.; promoted to senior vice president for programs and communications, a new position; Lois R. DeBacker, program director, environment program, named associate vice president, civil society and environmental grantmaking; Kevin F. Walker, program director, poverty program, named associate vice president, Flint area and pathways out of poverty grantmaking.

* Peter Edelman, board president, National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, Calif., and law professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., received William J. Brennan Jr. Award, recognizing attorneys for outstanding work in furthering public interest and equal justice.

* Kathy Bushkin, executive vice president and chief operating officer, United Nations Foundation, received 2005 Lifetime of Idealism Award from City Year Washington, D.C.,

* OneWhoServes, computer company, Asheville, N.C., launched web-based fundraising software, GiftsFriends&Time, that manages relationships, donations and volunteer events for nonprofits.

* Verizon will sponsor 23rd annual Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl, June 7-9, Boston, event that has rasied more than $1 million for Jimmy Fund, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.

* Mutual Funds Against Cancer (MFAC) Expect Miracles Golf Classic, June 2, Plymouth, Mass., aims to raise $200,000 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, bringing total contribution over 11 years to more than $860,000.

* Wells Fargo & Co. received 2005 Corporate Leading by Example Award from Center for Women’s Business Research, Washington, D.C.

* Association for Computing Machinery joined IBM’s World Community Grid, technology humanitarian effort that encourages its 80,000 members worldwide to donate idle computing time to find answers to critical world challenges.

* GetActive Software, Berkeley, Calif., named in Entrepreneur magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 11th Annual Hot 100 for 2005, annual ranking of fastest-growing new businesses in U.S.

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