IntraHealth International opens D.C. office

Marilynn Montenegro, former advertising manager, Fayetteville Observer, named resource development director, United Way of Cumberland County; Brian Allen, former director of annual giving, Louisburg College, named director of marketing and communications.

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Capital Community Foundation, Raleigh, reappointed to its board Adrian N. Wilson,  president, Square 1 Ventures, Durham; Richard "Dickie" Thompson, executive, J.M. Thompson Company, Raleigh; and Thomas H. Fetzer, Jr., public relations consultant, Raleigh.

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Smart Start to host 2011 National Smart Start Conference in Greensboro, May 2-5, 2011; calling for workshop proposals; deadline Aug. 30, 2010; submit online at http://www.smartstart.org/.

Jerry Allsbrook, senior vice president of marketing, Boddie-Noel Enterprises, Rocky Mount, re-elected to one-year term as a national vice president, Muscular Dystrophy Association.

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Easter Seals UCP of North Carolina and Virginia renewed annual retainer with communications firm Topics Education, Charlotte, for 2010-11 fiscal year.

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With funds from private donors, Conservation Trust for North Carolina purchased 35-acre tract of forested land near Browning Knob from group of investors represented by Boodleville LLC of Sylva, and plans to convey tract to National Park Service for inclusion in boundaries of Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Community Workforce Solutions, Raleigh, received honorable mention, 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in category of workplace flexibility.

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Triangle ArtWorks, Raleigh, launched website at www.triangleworks.org and series of events to link creative community of Triangle and public.

Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County will name its new arts center in downtown Winston Salem "Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts" in honor of its current president and CEO.

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Marsha Basloe, executive director, Durham's Partnership for Children, a Smart Start Initiative, named executive director New York State Early Care & Learning Council, Albany.

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Connie Campanaro stepped down June 30 as CEO of Carolina Theatre, Durham, after nearly 11 years of service.

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BrdsNBz Text Message Warm Line, service of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, selected as 2010 winner of Outstanding Emerging Innovation Award, Healthy Teen Network.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County named seven new board members -- Hooker Manning, Duke Realty; John Ward, Wachovia Wells Fargo Bank; Mark Medlin, Captrust; Timothy Humphrey, Lenovo; Erica Wilson, community volunteer; Ben Kilgore IV, CB Richard Ellis, and Hamilton Sloan Jr., Carquest.

John R. Anderson Jr., business development manager, global product management, Monsanto Company, named executive director of corporate and foundation relations, North Carolina State University, effective Aug. 16.

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Alan Briggs named first executive director, North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food Banks, and will be based at Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, Raleigh.

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Sandra Good, former staff attorney, Mortgage Foreclosure Project, Legal Aid of North Carolina, joined The Capital Community Foundation, Raleigh, as director of planned giving. 

Special Children's School and The Children's Center for the Physically Disabled merging to form The Centers for Exceptional Children, Winston-Salem.

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AmeriCorps alumni of Habitat Charlotte raised over $60,000 for new Habitat House and on July 17 will kick off blitz-build construction the house.

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Junior League of Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools partnering to provide free immunizations and health assessments, including vision, hearing and dental; last year, over 500 children received immunizations.

North Carolina Zoo's attendance for fiscal 2009-10 hit 750,000 mark for first time in 13 years and ranked as its fourth-highest annual total ever.

Smart Online signed Street Soccer USA as customer of its LoyaltyClicks nonprofit support division, Research Triangle Park.

Jill Busick, Regina Gause and Donese Stultz of Winston Salem and Chris Hawkins, Matthew McClellan, Lynda Montgomery and Elise Wilkinson of Charlotte received volunteer leave awards from Wells Fargo to complete  projects with local nonprofits.

John Thoma, CEO, Hospice of Wake County, elected board president, Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Services, Winston-Salem, gave 15 volunteers President's Volunteer Service Award, national honor.

High Point Historical Society named Terry Aiken chair, board of trustees, and Mary Powell DeLille chair-elect, and named Bill Phillips, Charles Simmons and Elaine Swift to board.

Rodney D. Carpenter, Scout Executive, South Plains Council, Boys Scouts of America, Lubbock, Tex., named Scout Executive, Old North State Council, Greensboro, effective July 9.

Compete for Your Cause, Winston-Salem, raised over $12,000 for local nonprofits, including CHANGE, or Communities Helping all Neighborhoods Gain Empowerment; El Buen Pastor Latino Community Services; The Forsyth County Humane Society; and Big Brothers Big Sisters.  

Laila Bell, formerly with The Center for Public Policy Priorities, Texas, named director of research and data, Action for Children North Carolina.

NPower Charlotte Region named to board Joe Fuqua, North Highland Consulting; Carol Lynn Hardison, Crisis Assistance Ministry; Leslie Ennis, Piedmont Natural Gas; Onyeka Nchege, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated.