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Congratulations

Dr. David Goldstein Your leadership transforms lives.

Thank you for helping JCCA in its mission to repair the world, child by child.

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From the Trustees, Staff, and all your friends at 120 Wall Street, 20th Fl. New York NY 10005 212-558-9909 • jcca@jccany.org www.jccany.org

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Manhattan Penthouse New York Nonprofit Media is honored to celebrate 50 of New York’s most prominent and accomplished leaders in human services, health care, education and other nonprofits over the age of 50 who continue to make a positive impact on New York through their achievements, leadership abilities, philanthropic efforts and dedication to the betterment of the state.

Congratulations to the inaugural class of New York Nonprofit Media’s 50 Over 50 Awards!

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PAULETTE LoMONACO HAS held her position as executive director at Good Shepherd Services for the past 37 years. Under her leadership, the youth development, education and family services nonprofit has evolved from a small provider of out-of-home care to one of New York City’s largest and most respected multiservice organizations.

What’s the best part of your job?

I love our mission. We see the potential in our young people and in our communities. With the help of caring relationships from our amazing staff, our participants see the potential in themselves. When I see a former dropout graduate from high school and then college or a child reunited with their family, I am inspired and energized!

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

PAULETTE LoMONACO Executive Director Good Shepherd Services

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My first job at GSS as a residential program director in a group residence taught me the value and importance of forming positive relationships to foster growth and change and how to multitask. I learned that I enjoyed the combination of relationship building and administration.

VINTON THOMPSON BECAME president of the private, nonprofit Metropolitan College of New York in May 2008. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Between 1980 and 2004, he served at Roosevelt University in Chicago as a professor, department chairman, associate provost and provost. From 2004 to 2008, he was provost at Kean University in New Jersey. At Metropolitan College of New York, he has overseen growth, curriculum diversification and the financing and creation of new campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx.

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What’s the best part of your job?

Personally greeting every graduate at June commencement and celebrating with them and their families. Next is seeing our Bronx and Manhattan campuses bloom as real community centers.

VINTON THOMPSON President, Metropolitan College of New York

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My college years (1965-1974) coincided almost exactly with the Vietnam War and with the social upheavals of the times. They made me an activist.

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CONGRATULATIONS

MATT STURIALE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

UPON BEING RECOGNIZED AS 2017 NEW YORK NONPROFIT “50 OVER 50”

YOUR DEDICATION AND PASSION MAKE YOU AN EXEMPLARY LEADER AND A FORMIDABLE ADVOCATE EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

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ANDREW ACKERMAN HAS served as executive director of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan since 1990.

Under his direction, attendance has grown to 350,000 visitors annually, and museum programs at libraries, Head Start centers, homeless shelters and hospitals serve thousands more. Ackerman’s career began at The Exhibit Museum of Natural History in Michigan.

He returned to New York as director of education and subsequently assistant director of The Jewish Museum then served as director of the arts education program for the New York State Council on the Arts. Ackerman has a bachelor’s degree from Lehman College and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

What’s the best part of your job?

ANDREW ACKERMAN Executive Director Children’s Museum of Manhattan

I have worked closely with the community, including brainstorming with the Muslim community about an exhibition.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I’ve been mentored by wonderful leaders like Kitty Carlisle Hart.

AS HUFFPOST’S 2015 Woman of the Year in Art, Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène’s extraordinary programs – Opera ‘N Art, Arty Readers and CosiTV – are an engaging marriage of high and low art for very young children. An awardee of the Maxine Greene Foundation and the recipient of a 2018 Equal Justice Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Bellen-Berthézène’s commitment to equality, opportunity and access has changed the lives and learning of thousands of New York City’s youngest and most at-risk public school children.

What’s the best part of your job?

CYNDIE BELLEN-BERTHÉZÈNE Founder and Executive Director The Time In Children’s Arts Initiative @TIMEINKIDS

Changing the lives and learning about so many hundreds of deserving, amazing children.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Through my work with some of the city’s most chronically disadvantaged children, I’ve slowly learned what it is that I do better than anyone else.

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GREG BERMAN RUNS the Center for Court Innovation, a nonprofit that seeks to reform the justice system. He is the author of “Start Here: A Practical Guide to Reducing Incarceration,” which is expected to be released in 2018. He was one of the organizers of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.

What’s the best part of your job?

I work with people I like and respect.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

GREG BERMAN

I was a Coro fellow in my 20s and it changed the way I think about leadership.

Director Center for Court Innovation @GREGBERMAN50

JOANNE BERNSTEIN-COHEN has been executive director of The Little Orchestra Society since 2008.

Previously, she was the executive director of Young Audiences New York for nine years. She began her career as a high school music teacher and went on to work with the Cleveland Orchestra, the 92nd Street Y, ArtsConnection and the Columbia University School of the Arts. She is co-author of the children’s book “Stravinsky and the Firebird,” with Becca Ruben Smith.

What’s the best part of your job?

I connect young people with the best in live orchestral programming and education.

JOANNE BERNSTEIN-COHEN Executive Director The Little Orchestra Society/ Orpheon Inc.

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

It would be making connections with great innovators in the field and learning from them.

What’s the best part of your job?

Working with my amazing team at LIFT and helping litigants get the legal information and advice they need to be successful in Family Court.

CATHY CRAMER CEO Legal Information for Families Today

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CATHY CRAMER IS the CEO of Legal Information for Families Today, a nonprofit that provides legal information and advice to litigants in Family Court. LIFT works primarily in areas of child support, custody and visitation, and domestic violence. LIFT provides more than 30,000 families with an otherwise unavailable source of support as they self-navigate the court system to protect the health and well-being of their children and families.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

When I was in a legal clinic in law school, I worked in juvenile justice and worked with the adolescents and families who ended up in court. I learned a lot about different communities in New York City, traveled to places I had never been and began to understand the complexities of race, class and privilege.

RALPH DA COSTA NUNEZ is president and CEO of Homes for the Homeless, a nonprofit that provides supportive programs and houses homeless families in its three New York City shelters as well as the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, a public policy organization. He has worked on behalf of homeless families for more than 30 years in city and state government, and in the nonprofit sector.

What’s the best part of your job?

RALPH DA COSTA NUNEZ President and CEO Homes for the Homeless/Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness @HFH_NYC, @ICPH_HOMELESS

Harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit of the nonprofit sector to benefit New York’s most vulnerable children.

Almost 20 years ago, Homes for the Homeless began to develop an approach to help parents who did not know who to turn to or where (to) get the help when the stress of parenting is heightened by housing or financial instability.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The privilege to work with some of the brightest and most dedicated civic, government, academic and nonprofit leaders on poverty and homelessness issues early on in my career.

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SUSAN DAVIES IS the senior vice president and chief development officer at United Way of New York City.

She has held leadership positions at Rutgers University, Montclair State University, Barnard College, the American Cancer Society and the All Stars Project. She has served on the boards of Women in Development, the All Stars Project, Association of Fundraising Professionals-New Jersey Chapter and Leadership Newark. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University.

What’s the best part of your job?

SUSAN DAVIES Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer United Way of New York City @TRAVEL4LIFENOW

The mission to end poverty is most important to me.

Bringing people together from all walks of life and from all sectors to express their capacity to give back is a deeply gratifying experience.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I have been mentored by fantastic leaders and that has been key to my success. I try to give that back every day.

Volunteering and serving on boards has also taught me a great deal.

GLORIA DeNARD WAS raised in Brooklyn and born into a family of musicians. She began her musical journey at the age of 3, and continued her music education at The Juilliard School, where she concentrated on classical music, majoring in voice and piano. Consumed by the desire to improve the quality of life of the people in her community, DeNard established Manna House Workshops, now in its 50th year, which promotes jazz and serves the social and cultural needs of her talented neighbors.

What’s the best part of your job?

GLORIA DeNARD Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Manna House Workshops

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Singing, promoting and teaching jazz to all ethnicities and ages.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Inspiring self-esteem through music through creating, teaching and presentation. Having students return to tell me how we have saved them from the negative influences in the street. Also, greeting previous students who are now college professors.

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Mark L. Goldsmith President President and and Co-Founder Co-Founder

Thank than two two decades decades of of hard hard work work Thank you you for for more more than helping young men to further their education education and and get get jobs jobs that lead to careers. A much deserved recognition! recognition!

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LOUIS FARMER IS an openly gay HIV-positive writer, health professional, HIV/AIDS and mental health activist, community builder, social worker and mentor to youth of color of all sexual orientations. He works tirelessly to empower people of color, those affected by and infected with the HIV, ex-offenders, commercial sex workers and other minorities through mentoring, advocacy, social services and public speaking.

What’s the best part of your job?

LOUIS D. FARMER Program Director Urban Pathways

The best part of my job is empowering someone who has been taught that they are powerless or less than.

Everyone has a story before and after seeking social services. I try to encourage them to be an author of their story.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I treat a consumer as a person and not as a number or statistic. I know what it’s like to be prejudged and harshly treated, and I vowed as a social worker to never forget their basic humanity.

BETH FINNERTY HAS been with Cardinal McCloskey Community Services for 11 years, managing an organization that provides foster care services, at-risk services, residential services, specialized clinical services for children, services for persons with developmental disabilities and early childhood educational services in the metropolitan New York area. She has demonstrated skills in managing large organizations, strategic planning, organizational development, financial and operations management and management team building.

What’s the best part of your job?

BETH FINNERTY President and CEO Cardinal McCloskey Community Services

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I enjoy collaborating with the many individuals who impact our organization and being able to provide new program endeavors, such as our new charter school.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I am directly influenced by the people I have been lucky enough to work with, people who have been so generous with their time and expertise. I have learned from many people in the leadership positions I have held in the private, government and nonprofit sectors.

Congratulations to Elsie McCabe Thompson, President, NYC Mission Society, Mitchell Netburn, CEO, Project Renewal, and all the other honorees.

Without you, New York wouldn’t be New York.

Thank you!

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LAURA FREDRICKS is CEO and founder of The Ask, which trains people, nonprofits and businesses on asking for money. She combines the legal and philanthropic professions to show how anyone can raise unprecedented levels of money. She has written five books including “The Ask for Business, for Philanthropy, for Everyday Living.” She is considered to be a money wellness expert and media personality.

What’s the best part of your job?

When I can empower anyone at any age living anywhere to ask for what they need and deserve, it changes lives. I have had the privilege to be part of those journeys.

LAURA FREDRICKS CEO and Founder The Ask

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I learned that the hardest asks we make are the ones we ask of ourselves. Mine was, could I accept success when it comes? If I can’t embrace success, how can I possibly help hundreds of people to ask for what they want personally as well as professionally?

ROSA GIL HAS had a distinguished career in health, mental health, social services and higher education.

As the founder, president and CEO of Comunilife, a nonprofit founded in 1989, that provides culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing to formerly homeless New Yorkers. She also developed a unique suicide prevention program for Latina adolescents. She has served as a health policy adviser in New York City and worked to reduce health disparities.

What’s the best part of your job?

ROSA M. GIL Founder, President and CEO Comunilife @DRROSAGIL

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It is always exciting to welcome stakeholders, friends and colleagues to the grand opening of new residences because at Comunilife we believe that housing is a right not a privilege.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My work as health policy adviser to the New York City mayor and chairperson of the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation has enabled me to focus on reducing social determinants of health, such as housing.

What’s the best part of your job?

Every day I marvel at the extraordinary outcomes of extremely vulnerable, medically complex and behaviorally challenged children and families who work with my talented teams of dedicated social service and health care professionals.

ARLENE GOLDSMITH Executive Director New Alternatives for Children @NACKIDSCAN

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AS FOUNDING DIRECTOR of New Alternatives for Children, Arlene Goldsmith was inducted into the Columbia School of Social Work’s Hall of Fame, where she received her doctorate, and is a fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine. She has received numerous awards from entities like the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Thirty-five years ago, I found 100 medically complex children living in hospitals. I often wonder what would have happened to them if NAC hadn’t found loving families.

Today, these children are adults with master’s degrees, jobs, families and apartments, and are living productive lives that no one thought possible except at NAC.

Congratulations to Beth Finnerty, President and CEO of Cardinal McCloskey Community Services Your vision, hard work and compassion for all those in our care is an inspiration and you are a driving force in our mission to serve atrisk children and families so that they may lead safe, independent and fulfilling lives.

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Stable Families

Successful Lives

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MARK L. GOLDSMITH first visited Rikers Island more than 15 years ago as a volunteer for the Principal for the Day program at Horizon Academy, the jail’s high school. Immediately, he saw the potential for success in the young men assembled. He founded a mentoring program to guide young men aged 16-24 after they were released from Rikers. His organization now helps more than 1,500 young men each year.

What’s the best part of your job?

Seeing a smile come over the face of a formerly incarcerated participant after he has achieved something significant that he attributes solely to his involvement at GOSO.

MARK L. GOLDSMITH Co-founder, President and CEO Getting Out and Staying Out

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My first day volunteering on Rikers Island when I met a group of young men who did not know a single person to help them get a job – and a life – once they were released. I instantly knew that I could be that person.

What’s the best part of your job?

DAVID GOLDSTEIN Vice President, Child Health and Well-Being, JCCA @DGOLDSTEINPSYD

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DAVID GOLDSTEIN HAS been at the forefront of trauma-informed treatment for children in foster care for decades. He has worked for JCCA, formerly the Jewish Child Care Association, for 30 years and is an expert on the care and treatment of children, young people and families in child welfare, and he knows how managed care affects children’s behavioral health care. He was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children – New York.

I influence and develop policy that has a positive impact on the delivery of health and behavioral health services to children and families.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

In 1986, JCCA chose me as a doctoral level psychology intern and I was trained by several outstanding mentors. I have been in awe of the resilience and courage displayed by the children and families I have had the honor of working with.

KATHLEEN HALAS HAS served as executive director of the Child Care Council of Westchester Inc. since February 2003. The organization has been promoting safe, quality and affordable child care as a catalyst for family self-sufficiency and well-being, school readiness and workforce preparedness for nearly 50 years. She also serves as board president of Nonprofit Westchester and co-chairs the Westchester Families Task Force. She was recently appointed to the Eastern New York Citizen Review Panel by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to evaluate the extent to which state and local social services districts effectively discharge their child protection responsibilities.

KATHLEEN HALAS Executive Director Child Care Council of Westchester Inc. @CCCWNY

What’s the best part of your job?

Thanks to my colleagues at the council, I’m continually challenged to learn and try new things.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I never planned a particular trajectory. I tried to find work that was meaningful and aligned with my values. The bonus was all the wonderful colleagues along the way.

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TONY HILLERY FOUNDED Harlem Grown in 2011 to inspire youth to lead more healthy and ambitious lives through mentoring and hands-on education in farming, nutrition and sustainability. Today, Harlem Grown manages 10 urban farm sites and partners intensively with five local schools. Hillery has helped foster hope, form better habits and create job opportunities for lowincome residents throughout Harlem.

What’s the best part of your job?

TONY HILLERY Founder and Executive Director Harlem Grown @HARLEMGROWN

The children we serve at Harlem Grown on a daily basis are what keep me excited. I see improvements in their behavior and their outlook on their own futures and it’s not because of something you buy them. It’s simply about being a consistent and positive influence. Our approach works and our children are a testament to that.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Finding people drawn by the mission and working as hard as I am to make a difference has inspired me to continue growing this organization.

ALISON HUGHES-KELSICK was born in the Caribbean and graduated from CUNY with a bachelor’s degree in social work and earned her master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. After working a variety of jobs, she joined Catholic Charities as program director of the education outreach program for the past 20 years assisting more than 500 homeless and formerly homeless individuals who were addressing a broad range of challenges.

What’s the best part of your job?

ALISON HUGHES-KELSICK Education Outreach Program Director, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York

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Providing a safe and loving space for our program participants to realize their God-given dignity through community and care for each other, through the achievement of their goals, healing of their stories and learning of new skills.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I was influenced by a story that had shocked New York of domestic violence and the death of a child. I was deeply moved and the empathy that I felt triggered an immediate passion in me to serve individuals facing tragic circumstances. I wanted to be part of the solution.

What’s the best part of your job?

DAMYN KELLY President and CEO Lutheran Social Services of NY

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DAMYN KELLY WAS appointed president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of New York in February 2017.

He came to the organization with more than 18 years of experience as the chief executive officer of organizations providing educational, recreational, behavioral, residential and social services to the underserved. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Adelphi University School of Social Work doing research examining the disparities in African-American male leadership within the nonprofit sector.

It would be working with a diverse group of human services professionals whose main concern is to enhance the lives of our fellow New Yorkers in need.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

During my tenure as a staffer for a member of Congress, I became acutely aware of the lack of African-American males who led human services organizations (that) predominantly served people of color. I decided I wanted to lead an organization in the sector and concentrated my efforts towards achieving that.

Congratulations to this year’s 50 Over 50 Awards Honorees, especially Mitchell Netburn of Project Renewal, Liz Roberts of Safe Horizon, and Neal Shapiro of WNET—three incredible organizations we are so proud to represent!

Kasirer is a full-service New York lobbying and government relations firm.

We advocate on behalf of a wide range of clients who seek local expertise in navigating the City.

We advance our clients’ goals—building coalitions and consensus and influencing decision-makers in the dynamic political landscape that defines New York.

And our team of professionals, whose careers intersect at politics, policy and government, achieve victory on behalf of our clients with an unwavering commitment to the highest standard of ethics in the industry.

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ALICIA M. KERSHAW spent her early life around horses growing up on a farm. She is a certified PATH International instructor and a New York City Parks Enforcement Mounted Auxiliary Patrol Officer. During her 25-year legal career, she served on numerous nonprofit boards, including the Washington Historical Society and the Discovery Creek Children’s Museum of Washington, D.C., which primed her for a leadership role at GallopNYC.

What’s the best part of your job?

The people I meet – and the horses! I don’t allow myself to have favorites, except Mocha, our first horse.

ALICIA M. KERSHAW Executive Director GallopNYC @GALLOPNYC

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My family relocated to Hong Kong in 1998 for my husband’s job. Although I did not realize it at the time, the break from my career was liberating and allowed me to choose a new path in life. In Hong Kong, I discovered the power of therapeutic horseback riding. The combination of horses and children was irresistible.

What’s the best part of your job?

ALISA H. KESTEN

The moment of insight when a volunteer realizes the unexpected personal pleasure and/or professional value in giving back – from the front line to the boardroom – and credits Volunteer New York for inspiring the connection.

Executive Director Volunteer New York

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

@ALISAKESTEN

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ALISA H. KESTEN has an extensive multisector professional background, including stints in nonprofit management, communications, political management and early childhood education. She is a graduate of Leadership Westchester. Kesten is board member emeritus of the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation; board member of Nonprofit Westchester; member of two collective giving groups: Impact100 Westchester and The Giving Circle of Lower Westchester; and steering committee member of the Not-For-Profit Leadership Summit.

In 2005, through Leadership Westchester, I identified my purpose: to inspire, motivate and lead others to choose a life of community involvement that creates a positive and ongoing legacy of social action.

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BERTHA LEWIS IS the founder and president of The Black Institute, a nonprofit think-tank. Lewis founded TBI in 2010 to address persistent issues faced by people of color, both within the U.S. and throughout the diaspora. Lewis has been a leader within the nonprofit and political sector for more than 20 years. She is the former CEO and chief organizer of ACORN, a national community activist organization that mobilized the urban poor and fought for their needs. At TBI, Lewis has led the fight for citizenship and immigrant rights by advocating at the city, state and federal levels for Caribbean and other black immigrants.

BERTHA LEWIS Founder and President The Black Institute

What’s the best part of your job?

Fighting and beating the system.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Being an ACORN organizer and suffering the right wing, so-called progressive racial and economic attacks.

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SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES Lighting up lives with programs as diverse as the people we serve

It is with great pride that we salute our Executive Director

Judy Zangwill

for more than 30 years of commitment, leadership, and dedication in providing a continuum of care that lights up so many lives The Board of Directors and Staff

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What’s the best part of your job?

DIANNE MACK Executive Consultant Creative Social Solutions

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DIANNE MACK IS the executive consultant for Creative Social Solutions, a training, consulting and clinical group serving nonprofit and faith-based organizations. She is the lead catalyst for the Sustainable Parents Institute and Network project, an adjunct professor, experienced nonprofit administrator and a social work leader dedicated to kind and strategic leadership. She chairs the New York City Chapter of the Network for Social Work Management and is a board member of The Havens Relief Fund Society.

She is a candidate for New York City Council District 9.

It would be achieving success by helping people or agencies achieve their desired goals – whether that’s facilitating a move to an apartment after five years of family homelessness or getting children finally discharged from foster care.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My first full-time job taught me how the power of confident leadership, quality mentoring and positive employee morale influences excellent program outcomes and impacts lives.

MARIA MARTINEZ IS the director of advocacy and community organizing at the Domestic Violence Project, bringing more than 21 years of experience as a staunch leader and advocate in the movement against domestic violence. She believes that the potential for a survivor to succeed past the abuse is directly influenced by the collaborative strength found within the community of providers, and her tireless commitment for change is demonstrated through her engagement in trainings, conferences and community events in New York City.

What’s the best part of your job?

MARIA MARTINEZ Director of Client Services, Domestic Violence Project Urban Justice Center

I enjoy watching survivors of violence reclaim their lives.

I continue to learn from each and every client.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The collective experiences of the clients I have served over the last two decades; their strength, resilience and desire to grab hold of a violence-free future continues to be the reason why I continue advocating on their behalf.

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ELSIE McCABE THOMPSON is the president of the New York City Mission Society, one of the nation’s oldest anti-poverty organizations. Since joining the organization in 2014, McCabe Thompson has guided the centuries-old nonprofit into a new era, tripling the organization’s endowment, strengthening its educational and cultural enrichment programs and forging a partnership with the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance. She is the former president of the then-Museum for African Art and previously served as New York City Mayor David Dinkins’ chief of staff.

She graduated from Harvard Law School and Barnard College.

What’s the best part of your job?

Working with children to offer them greater educational opportunities.

ELSIE McCABE THOMPSON President New York City Mission Society @MISSIONSOCIETY

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I learned fearless resiliency from several amazing mentors: my mother, my college adviser, a managing partner in my former law firm, David Dinkins and Nelson Mandela. From each I learned to find a way to make possible the seemingly impossible!

SINCE JOINING THE Doe Fund 27 years ago, Harriet McDonald has managed the organization’s program development, personnel and statistical analysis and secured private funding as well as government contracts.

In her current role, McDonald oversees strategic program planning, advocacy and private fundraising campaigns.

Additionally, she works to bring the Ready, Willing & Able program to scale in cities across America, answering a call from many municipalities to find permanent, employmentbased solutions to homelessness and recidivism.

What’s the best part of your job?

It would be witnessing the incredible transformation that takes place when our clients rebuild their lives, regain their independence and reunite with their family and communities.

HARRIET McDONALD Executive Vice President The Doe Fund

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

McDonald learned of the suicide of April Savino, a 19-yearold homeless girl she had shadowed. She was moved by the passion of George McDonald’s eulogy for April, and later, they married and created Ready, Willing & Able.

What’s the best part of your job?

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KEITH MESTRICH IS the president and CEO of Amalgamated Bank. He has 25 years of experience working with the bank’s core constituencies in the labor movement and nonprofit organizations.

He is a leader in the movement for labor unions and nonprofit organizations to build wealth for a purpose, not just a profit. Mestrich currently serves on the boards of various organizations, including the Roosevelt Institute, Sidney Hillman Foundation and Hot Bread Kitchen. He is also a member of the Habitat for Humanity New York City Leadership Council.

Working with the absolute best clients and employees to truly be the pre-eminent bank for the nonprofit community.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

KEITH MESTRICH President and CEO Amalgamated Bank

I spent the middle part of my career working in various capacities at the union Unite. I gained experience working in both programmatic and administrative capacity at a nonprofit and it made me a much more well-rounded professional.

I am thrilled to join NYN Media in honoring David Pollock, Associate Executive Director and Director of Public Policy at the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York. As one of NYS’s preeminent experts in security and emergency preparedness, David graciously shares his invaluable expertise with hundreds of institutions across New York State, creating strong and lasting impact.

What sets David apart from so many with expertise in their fields is his passion for using that knowledge to educate and help everyone.

Thank you JCRC for the opportunity to be a Fellow. Thank you JCRC staff for giving me so many tools to lead. And thank you David for always being there for the community.

Rivkie Feiner, CEO UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, INC. Monsey, NY 10952 ucnny.com Celebrating 25 years of the “write” choice

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PROJECT RENEWAL IS a pioneering nonprofit that seeks to end the cycle of homelessness. Mitchell Netburn was appointed CEO in 2010 and he has more than 20 years of public interest experience, most recently as senior vice president at Federation Employment & Guidance Service, where he managed a performance-based welfare to work initiative serving 24,000 disabled clients annually.

Netburn has also worked for a variety of New York City government agencies, including the Department of Homeless Services.

What’s the best part of your job?

It would be seeing our clients express joy when they move into an apartment, obtain a job or reach a sobriety milestone.

MITCHELL NETBURN President and CEO Project Renewal

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My parents taught me to respect all people and to help those in need. Successfully obtaining justice for people who faced HIV/AIDS discrimination early in my career made me understand that the myriad challenges people face can be overcome through individualized services and partnerships with communities.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY SALUTE

ELSIE MCCABE THOMPSON AND THE CLASS OF 2017

50 OVER 50 HONOREES BOARD OF DIRECTORS John M. Bader • Peggy Jacobs Bader • Kim Bingham • Lloyd W. Brown, II • Laura Flavin • LTC Francis W. Kairson, Jr. • Norman Levy • Matthew W. Mamak • John U. Moorhead • Katrina L. Peebles • Tommie Pegues • James B. Peterson, Jr. • Stanley H. Rumbough • Jean Shafiroff • Derek E. Steinhiser • Patrick Vatel

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What’s the best part of your job?

The greatest part of my job is participating in our yearly graduation, where I get to witness and celebrate the accomplishments of our fellows.

VIVIAN NIXON Executive Director College and Community Fellowship @FEEDINGFAITH

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VIVIAN NIXON IS executive director of College and Community Fellowship, a nonprofit committed to helping formerly incarcerated women earn their college degrees. An alumna of CCF’s program, Nixon advocates nationally for the return of collegelevel education to our nation’s prisons and is an advocate for formerly incarcerated individuals impacted by mass incarceration.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

While incarcerated, I became intimately familiar with the lack of educational opportunity available for individuals with criminal justice involvement. I secured a tutoring position in the prison’s GED program, which sparked my passion for helping others achieve their educational goals.

Because of this experience, I was inspired to finish my own college education and ultimately help others do the same.

JEAN O’SHEA IS the executive director of the FDNY Foundation, which is the New York City Fire Department’s official nonprofit that funds FDNY fire and life safety projects for the public and training, equipment and education needs for FDNY members. Her career includes previous stints as executive director for Futures in Education, which serves New York City parochial schools and students and works with the March of Dimes and others. O’Shea is from New York and holds degrees from Hofstra University, St. Francis College, Baruch College and Columbia University.

What’s the best part of your job?

JEAN O’SHEA Executive Director FDNY Foundation

It would be working with the firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians in the FDNY.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Being raised in a large family where service, giving back and gratitude was encouraged and helping to make this world, city and state better is what motivates me.

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THE PARTNERSHIP FOR After School Education is a nonprofit that works with hundreds of communitybased organizations, higher education institutions and corporate partners to improve the quality of opportunities available to young people living in poverty in New York City. She serves as a trustee of Smith College and as a director of the Millennial Action Project. Overseth is a graduate of Smith College and the Columbia Business School.

What’s the best part of your job?

I get to work every day with really smart people on things that I think are really important. Doesn’t get better than that.

ALISON OVERSETH Executive Director Partnership for After School Education @AOVERSETH

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Not long after my first child was born, I became deeply aware of the incredible disparity of resources and opportunities available to children in New York City.

I moved from investment banking to youth services, and was inspired by leaders and mentors who were transforming the lives of young people.

AS THE DIRECTOR of public policy and security, David M. Pollock articulates Jewish communal concerns regarding community relations issues to federal, state and city officials. He is a liaison for the Jewish community with law enforcement officials and active in the development of security, emergency planning and community relations for the Jewish community. Pollock is also a research investigator at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He also served on the technical advisory committee of UJA-Federation of New York’s Jewish Community Study of New York in 2002 and 2011.

What’s the best part of your job?

DAVID M. POLLOCK Associate Executive Director and Director of Public Policy and Security Jewish Community Relations Council of New York @DAVIDPOLLOCK380

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I work on ways to make New Yorkers and their nonprofits safer and more secure.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The Jewish Community Relations Council enables me to bring the best of the public and nonprofit sectors together. We have entry into New York’s full spectrum of Jewish communities. To be here and to connect resources and needs is a gift.

What’s the best part of your job?

LIZ ROBERTS Deputy CEO Safe Horizon @LIZROBERTSSH

I love our monthly quality improvement meetings. We get to hear client voices and explore complex practice issues.

I am always impressed and moved by the passion and expertise of our program managers.

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LIZ ROBERTS JOINED Safe Horizon as chief program officer in 2010, and recently assumed the role of deputy CEO. During her tenure, she has implemented innovative training, supervision and quality improvement programs and expanded the agency’s programs by 50 percent. Throughout her career, she has empowered child and adult survivors of violence through direct practice, program management, education and policy development.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I started volunteering at a battered women’s shelter when I was 17. I took hundreds of hotline calls from survivors in crisis and spent many hours with young children who had witnessed horrifying violence. I quickly became determined to be part of the movement to end the epidemic of domestic violence.

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AS BOWERY RESIDENTS’ COMMITTEE leader for 17 years, Muzzy Rosenblatt is guiding the organization to achieve greater impact for the people and New York City by applying evidence-based management practices that drive innovation and articulating thoughtful perspectives that shape public policy and philanthropy. With an $80 million budget and 800 staff, BRC serves 10,000 people annually by offering housing and treatment services to homeless adults in New York City.

What’s the best part of your job?

MUZZY ROSENBLATT CEO and President Bowery Residents’ Committee @MUZZYNYC

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It would be working with extraordinary professionals who lovingly and effectively enable thousands of homeless individuals each year to achieve their potential and reclaim lives lost.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

At critical moments in my career, I’ve been fortunate to encounter people who believed in me and gave me an opportunity to show what I could contribute.

Remembering this enabled me to do the same for our staff and the people we serve.

What’s the best part of your job?

KATHRYN M. SALISBURY Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development Mental Health Association of NYC

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KATHRYN SALISBURY HAS more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, administrator, educator, consultant and policymaker and has spearheaded digital innovations at the Mental Health Association of New York City. She has played an instrumental role in developing other innovative programs, including NYC Well, Staying in Balance, the Coordinated Children’s Services Initiative and the organization’s Family Resource Centers. Salisbury is also assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in psychology at Yale University School of Medicine.

It would be engaging in creative problem-solving. Following Superstorm Sandy, I was involved in creating a program to bring evidence-based online cognitive behavioral health services to individuals who would not otherwise have had access to services.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My commitment to social justice issues has influenced my career trajectory by leading me to pursue positions that allow me to effect positive social change and utilize my clinical skills.

LAURIE SANDS HAS been devoted to working with and for the children and families of the New York City child welfare system, beginning with group homes, then onto Person in Need of Supervision diversion and mentoring, and several years working in preventive services programs. Despite my recent retirement, I continue to be a clinical consultant at Graham Windham and an adviser at the Columbia School of Social Work.

What’s the best part of your job?

The best part of my job has been empowering children and families, and teaching and guiding young workers to work effectively and compassionately with those children and families.

LAURIE SANDS Clinical Consultant, Graham Windham Adviser, Columbia School of Social Work

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Early in my work in group homes, I connected with a very aggressive adolescent girl. I then understood the importance of forming and using therapeutic relationships to effect change in another person.

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NEAL SHAPIRO IS an award-winning producer and media executive with a 30-year career spanning print, broadcast, cable and online media. As CEO, he oversees the operations of WNET, WLIW21 and NJTV. He was previously the president of NBC News, leading “Today,” “NBC Nightly News” and “Meet the Press” as well as “Dateline NBC.” Prior to NBC, Shapiro spent 13 years at ABC News. He has won 32 Emmys, 31 Edward R. Murrow Awards and three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.

What’s the best part of your job?

NEAL SHAPIRO President and CEO W NET @NSHAPIRO

The best part of my job is building the connections between our content and our communities to find ways we can use the power of public media to make our communities stronger.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

I was always interested in newspapers and current events. When I worked at a local radio station in college, my election night job was to retrieve the returns and get them on air. I became acutely aware of the power of electronic media to instantly report news that mattered.

Congratulations to David Woodlock, ICL President and CEO on receiving NYN Media’s “50 Over 50” Award honoring New York’s most prominent and accomplished non-profit leaders.

Your wisdom, passion and integrity continue to make ours a better and more caring world.

Here’s to many more years of great leadership!

With gratitude from the Board, Staff and Friends of the Institute for Community Living

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What’s the best part of your job?

PEGGY M. SHEPARD Executive Director, Co-founder West Harlem Environmental Action Inc. @WEACT4EJ

I am motivated to achieve tangible outcomes that improve sustainability, health, environmental protection and green benefits in uptown neighborhoods and to help develop capacity for the national environmental justice movement.

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PEGGY SHEPARD IS co-founder and executive director of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc., which is based in Harlem and Washington D.C. She works to organize members and residents in community-based planning and campaigns to address environmental protection and environmental health policy, locally and nationally.

She has received the Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Rockefeller Foundation.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Working for the first Jesse Jackson for president campaign under the tutelage of Bill Lynch was a turning point in my career, which began as a journalist and magazine editor. It resulted in me becoming Democratic district leader, running for New York City Council and the state Assembly, and ultimately co-founding WE ACT.

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MARY SONTHEIMER IS the assistant executive director for Astor Service’s education and early childhood programs. She has worked for Astor for more than 30 years and has held positions as a teacher, center director and deputy director.

Sontheimer earned a master’s degree in public administration from Marist College. She sits on numerous committees and boards in the community, working to advance programs and advocate for children and families who are most vulnerable.

What’s the best part of your job?

MARY K. SONTHEIMER Assistant Executive Director Astor Services for Children & Families

Seeing lives change!

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The Head Start philosophy and model that embraces children, families, colleagues and communities working together to change the world for the better.

MATT STURIALE IS a licensed clinical social worker with more than 35 years of experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. In January 2016, he was appointed president and CEO of Birch Family Services. Sturiale currently serves on the board of directors for the InterAgency Council of Developmental Disabilities Agencies Inc.

What’s the best part of your job?

Being able to have an impact. It is important to be able to lend your voice as an advocate and be able to influence public policy.

MATT STURIALE President and CEO Birch Family Services

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

First, my supervisor, as a social work intern, inspired me to see all that was possible in individuals with different abilities and our roles as advocates and agents of change. Second, the opportunity to establish a regional network of services for individuals and families afforded me the opportunity to cultivate partnerships.

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MONSIGNOR KEVIN SULLIVAN has been the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York since 2001. His first major task was coordinating the human services response to families and victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack as chairman of the 9/11 United Services Group. Sullivan is now directing initiatives that include a five-year $100 million fundraising campaign.

What’s the best part of your job?

Waking up in the morning trying to address two questions, along with caring, talented colleagues: How can we better help those we are already helping and who else can we help to live their lives in greater dignity?

KEVIN SULLIVAN Executive Director Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York @MSGRKSULLIVAN

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The experience of a high school student caught stealing multiple times in my church many years ago has been most influential. Frustrated by his repeated thefts, I asked him how we might help him. I paraphrase his response: I didn’t know that people helped each other. This was decades ago, but his response has stayed with me.

SUZANNE TIMMERHANS STARTED her career in the field of disabilities rather serendipitously, when she responded to a newspaper ad seeking substitute assistant teachers. The substitute position was followed by a series of academic degrees tied to a broader understanding of the field and positions that allowed her to execute this knowledge. And then an unexpected assignment to implement an agencywide electronic health record whetted her appetite for new challenges.

What’s the best part of your job?

SUZANNE TIMMERHANS

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Associate Executive Director for Management Services Interagency Council of Developmental Disabilities Agencies Inc.

It would be the opportunity to both learn new things, such as coding and online course development, and apply my experience and creativity to ventures that support others in achieving their goals.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The fiscal restraints inherent in nonprofit organizations acted as the catalyst for my career. Unlike for-profit companies, the nonprofit world is a perfect fit for my natural instincts, since it requires you to do it all, from human resources to technology.

Msgr. Kevin Sullivan

Executive Director, The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York &

Mary Sontheimer

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We are so proud of you both and appreciate all the work you do on behalf of children and their families.

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WILLIE THOMAS RECEIVED his bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College and his master’s degree from New York Theological Seminary. Currently, he serves as the project coordinator for the Arches Transformative Mentoring Program of Phipps Neighborhoods. Prior to Phipps, Thomas worked with Uth Turn, a program serving at-risk youth. Thomas also served as an executive board member of the Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Reentry and Employment, and has appeared on a number of radio talk shows in the New York City area.

What’s the best part of your job?

WILLIE THOMAS Project Coordinator Phipps Neighborhoods

The best part of my job comes from assisting young people to become the best at what they can possibly become.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

The trajectory of my career has been influenced by the interlocking spheres of social, racial and economic injustice that have systemically perpetuated poverty, violence and the mass incarceration of our most prized possession – our youth.

STEPHEN TOSH HAS devoted his professional life to helping our most vulnerable citizens: at-risk children.

He is dedicated to improving the lives and futures of the members of the Boys’ Club of New York by providing challenging and enriching programming and mentoring.

He came to BCNY after 10 years as executive director and CEO of the Phipps Community Development Corp., where he developed highly regarded early childhood, youth development and teen programs.

What’s the best part of your job?

STEPHEN TOSH Executive Director and CEO The Boys’ Club of New York @STEPHENTOSH1

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I enjoy seeing a group of BCNY boys and staff deeply and completely engaged in a program activity that fully engages and challenges them to dig down and really bring it.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My career trajectory was influenced most deeply by my father, who was a teacher, coach and community activist.

His honesty, dedication and commitment to his students provided me (with) a set of principles that have guided me throughout my personal and professional life.

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What’s the best part of your job?

SARAH E. WALZER CEO Parent-Child Home Program @SARAHWALZER

It would be the pride and empowerment parents find in preparing their children for success in school and life; the light in children’s eyes when they show you their favorite book and tell you their future plans and the smiles of our home visiting staff when they see families graduate.

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SARAH WALZER HAS been CEO of the Parent-Child Home Program since 1997. Before PCHP, she was counsel to the assistant secretary for legislation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that, she worked for U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman on children’s, education and poverty issues and for the Clinton-Gore domestic policy transition team.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My family has been my greatest influence – all three generations of them. My parents instilled in me the importance of making a difference. My husband and my children have been my partners and my inspiration.

FOR 40 YEARS, David Woodlock has provided exceptional leadership to mental health communities, including more than 30 years at the state Office of Mental Health where, as deputy commissioner for children, he generated the largest single-year investment in children’s mental health. Woodlock now leads the Institute for Community Living in bringing innovative and impactful services each year to some 10,000 New Yorkers living with significant challenges. He works to move the nation’s health care system toward more integrated services that result in better health outcomes for all.

What’s the best part of your job?

DAVID J. WOODLOCK President and CEO Institute for Community Living

I am gratified knowing that people do get better with us.

Because of an incredibly committed and multicultural staff, lives are improved every day at ICL.

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Starting out working directly with families and schools laid the foundation for me to be able to move back and forth from program to policy.

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JUDY ZANGWILL JOINED Sunnyside Community Services in 1986 and became executive director in 1990. At that time, SCS served 2,300 individuals and faced an uncertain future, but Zangwill transformed it into an organization with a combined budget of $69 million across three corporations serving 14,000 New Yorkers annually. She also sits on the boards of LiveOn New York and Unemployment Services Trust.

What’s the best part of your job?

Overcoming challenges, such as the unprecedented move to secure city capital funding to build a state-of-the-art senior center in a privately owned building that now welcomes 400 seniors daily.

JUDY ZANGWILL Executive Director Sunnyside Community Services @SCSNYC

What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

Attending a high school in Memphis, which was the first to be integrated, and meeting with African-American students to discuss racial polarization and ways to address it. That led me to a career in social work and is why I’m so connected to the settlement house movement, where community members are engaged to impact change.

LEW ZUCHMAN HAS been recognized as a significant 1960s civil rights activist, most notably as an original 1961 Freedom Rider. Zuchman earned distinction as commencement speaker of the 1974 Columbia University School of Social Work. This year marks Zuchman’s 50th year of consecutive service to the East Harlem community and 30 years as executive director of SCAN. Zuchman’s life has been the focus of two notable documentaries and a forthcoming movie.

What’s the best part of your job?

Interacting with our SCAN young people and with our East Harlem and South Bronx community folks.

LEW ZUCHMAN Executive Director SCAN New York

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What experience has most directly influenced the trajectory of your career?

My 1960s civil rights activism proved to be a transformative life experience, helping me to gradually turn from a nihilistic, organized criminal lifestyle to a human service career path. As I struggled to help inner city young people, I concomitantly discovered a positive life path for myself.

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METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CONGRATULATES

DR. VINTON THOMPSON

ON HIS NEW YORK NONPROFIT MEDIA 50 OVER 50 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Since 1980, Dr. Vinton Thompson has been leading success in higher education. For almost 10 years as President of Metropolitan College of New York, Dr. Thompson has championed for the growth and success of the college and its students through curriculum diversification and the creation of new campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx.

On behalf of everyone at MCNY, we congratulate Dr. Vinton Thompson on his Lifetime Achievement Award.

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