Hires, promotions, appointments

Girl Scouts of Maine appointed new members to its board of directors and senior leadership team: Deirdre Clifford will be the vice president of development. She was previously director of donor engagement and marketing for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine. Tiffany Dembowski of Portland was added as an at-large member. She is the Maine State Counsel and vice president for the FNF Family of Companies and serves on the board of directors for MEREDA. Colleen Golden of Falmouth is an at-large member at GSME and the director of ecommerce applications at L.L.Bean and facilitator for the Center for Grieving Children. Cheryl Sommer was named vice president of finance. She has consulted for nonprofits in Missouri and served as an association endowment accounting manager for the Gateway Region YMCA.

Hospice of Southern Maine hired Monica Carver of New Gloucester and Alexis Harris of Old Orchard Beach as hospice aides, Jamie Cyr of South Portland as finance manager, Timothy George of Cape Elizabeth as a chaplain, Keirsten Littlefield of Saco and Christine Turner of Hollis as clinical nurse managers, David Patterson of Scarborough as IT manager, Lydia Pepi of South Portland, Bryndi Richards of New Gloucester and Anne Taylor of Cape Elizabeth as RNs, Nancy Pezzullo of Cape Elizabeth as a team support nurse, and Heather Rogers of Portland as a social worker in the home hospice program.

Giving back

Norway Savings Bank donated $5,000 to the nonprofit therapeutic riding center Riding to the Top in Windham.