September Edition 2004 - New York Nonprofit Press
September Edition 2004 - New York Nonprofit Press
September Edition 2004 - New York Nonprofit Press
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> . Volume 3 . Issue 8 . www.nynp.biz serving people who serve people<br />
JOBS JOBS JOBS<br />
Employment<br />
Opportunities<br />
Start on Page 21<br />
<strong>New</strong> Faces<br />
at the Top<br />
FREE<br />
NEWS<br />
Leadership Changes<br />
at NYANA<br />
Page 7<br />
FOUNDATIONS<br />
NY Women’s Foundation<br />
Seeks Grant Proposals<br />
Page 15<br />
FINANCE<br />
A Ten Point Check List<br />
Page 18<br />
During the first half of this year,<br />
several executives have taken over the<br />
top leadership spots at some leading local<br />
nonprofit organizations. Three are<br />
relatively new either to the area, nonprofits,<br />
or the human service sector in<br />
particular.<br />
Jack Lund (pictured above right)<br />
traveled the longest geographic distance<br />
to take the helm as<br />
President/CEO of the YMCA of Greater<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. A life-long nonprofit professional,<br />
Lund previously served as CEO<br />
of the Milwaukee YMCA and had been<br />
Chief Operating Officer for the “Y” in<br />
Chicago. He is confident that his 30-<br />
year history with the “Y” and experience<br />
in building partnerships with local<br />
community leaders will serve him well<br />
in his new role.<br />
Patrick Foye (pictured above left)<br />
made the seemingly perilous transition<br />
from one world to another when he became<br />
President/CEO of United Way of<br />
Long Island. An attorney who grew up<br />
in Queens and has lived his adult life<br />
on Long Island, Foye comes from the<br />
for profit sector where he has served as<br />
mergers and acquisitions partner for a<br />
top law firm and Executive Vice President<br />
of a <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Stock Exchangelisted<br />
real estate investment trust.<br />
Luckily, Foye’s experience as head of<br />
his firm’s Brussels, Budapest and<br />
Moscow offices has already trained him<br />
in the art of crossing broad cultural divides.<br />
Theresa A. Bischoff (above center)<br />
only traveled across town and slightly<br />
north to take over as Chief Executive<br />
Officer at the American Red Cross in<br />
Greater <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. Bischoff previously<br />
served as President at NYU Medical<br />
Center, a position she held for the past<br />
16 years. While no newcomer to the<br />
nonprofit sector, Bischoff’s role at the<br />
Red Cross should still offer a whole<br />
new set of challenges for someone just<br />
getting out of the hospital.<br />
All three of these new CEOs have<br />
taken over well established organizations<br />
with important roles in the community<br />
and long histories of accomplishment.<br />
Like most nonprofits,<br />
however, they also face their own particular<br />
challenges. Now that they have<br />
settled into their new positions,<br />
Bischoff, Foye and Lund were kind<br />
enough to share their thoughts with<br />
NYNP on what they’ve learned and<br />
what the see as their most important<br />
agenda items. The three interviews begin<br />
on page 8.<br />
(Photo Credit: Theresa Bischoff’s picture was taken by<br />
Lou Manna .)<br />
AGENCY OF<br />
THE MONTH<br />
Big Brothers Big Sisters<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
P.O Box 338<br />
Chatham, NY 12037<br />
PRSRT STD<br />
U.S Postage<br />
PAID<br />
Pittsfield, MA 01201<br />
Permit # 137<br />
Page 12
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
serving people who serve people<br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
Calendar of<br />
<strong>Nonprofit</strong><br />
Events<br />
<strong>September</strong> 9, 10, 11 – Self-Advocacy Association<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State presents its 13th Annual<br />
Conference at the Albany Marriott Hotel, 189 Wolf Road,<br />
Albany. For information call 518-382-1454 or 1-866-<br />
42SHARE or email: sanys@capital.net.<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
<strong>New</strong> Faces at the Top 1<br />
CALENDAR 3<br />
POINT OF VIEW<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s Budget Process 5<br />
NEWS 6<br />
AGENCY OF THE MONTH<br />
Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC 12<br />
FOUNDATIONS 15<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s Foundation Seeks<br />
Grant Proposals<br />
FINANCE 16<br />
A Ten Point Check List<br />
PEOPLE 17<br />
EVENTS 20<br />
Interboro Foundation<br />
CLASSIFIEDS 21<br />
<strong>September</strong> 10 - The Federation of Organizations<br />
will host its 23rd Annual Long Island Community<br />
Mental Health Awards Luncheon featuring Patricia E.<br />
Deegan from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. at the Huntington<br />
Hilton. For information call 631-669-5355 or visit www.fedoforg.org.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 - Suffolk Community Council's<br />
Educational Seminar Series - Pursuing <strong>New</strong><br />
Revenue Sources for Your Agency, featuring Weyman<br />
Jones, Dick Oehmler & Charlotte Lee of the National<br />
Executive Service Corps. 9:00AM - 11:00AM at Suffolk<br />
Community College Brentwood Campus, Captree<br />
Commons Bldg, Room C114. $25 fee includes a light breakfast.<br />
Visa/MasterCard accepted. To register at (631) 434-<br />
9277.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 14 – Turning the Tables on AIDS will<br />
feature Chef Marc Weiss and benefit the Long Island<br />
Association for AIDS Care. For information visit<br />
www.liaac.org.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 20 – United Hospice of Rockland will<br />
hold its 4th Annual Golf and Tennis Classic at<br />
Dellwood Country Club in <strong>New</strong> City. For information contact<br />
CJ Miller or Connie Grunfeld at 845-634-4974 or visit<br />
www.hospiceofrockland.org.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 22 – So Help Me God: Substance<br />
Abuse, Religion and Spirituality, a special CASA CON-<br />
CALENDAR OF EVENTS continued on page 23<br />
Program<br />
Announcement<br />
Child and Adult Care<br />
Food Program<br />
The Citizens Advice Bureau Family Childcare Network is<br />
pleased to announce the sponsorship of the Child and<br />
Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Under this program<br />
all children in attendance will be offered the same meals<br />
at no separate charge, with no physical segregation of, or<br />
other discriminatory action against, any child because of<br />
race, color, age, national origin, sex or disability.<br />
If you want more information regarding the inception of<br />
this important program please call CAB at (718) 742-1402.<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
FRED SCAGLIONE, Editor<br />
MARCIA RODMAN KAMMERER, Art Director<br />
ROBERT LONG, Publisher<br />
editor@nynp.biz<br />
art@nynp.biz<br />
publisher@nynp.biz<br />
SUSAN AXELROD, BRUCE A. HURWITZ, PH.D. Contributing Writers<br />
MARY JASCH, VALERIE L. MERAHN<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> is published monthly. Subscriptions are free. Editorial Office: P.O. Box 338, Chatham, NY 12037 Tel.: 888-933-6967.<br />
Advertising and Circulation Office: 86 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Tel.: 866-336-6967. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to: 86 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572<br />
Vol. 3, No.8<br />
Editor Fax: 518-392-8327 www.nynp.biz Publisher Fax: 845-876-5288
4 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
The Dead Horse Just Twitched<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
For the past several months, we have been<br />
using this editorial space to beat the dead horse<br />
of our State government’s absolute fiscal irresponsibility<br />
in failing to pass a budget. Every day<br />
establishes a new record for failure as our leaders<br />
ignore their governance responsibility to<br />
agree upon and fund the services which will be<br />
provided to <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’s citizens. The effects of<br />
this ongoing travesty on nonprofit human service<br />
agencies -- and the vulnerable clients they serve<br />
– are easy to see. They are the bloody spot<br />
where that rock keeps hitting the hard place.<br />
On August 12th, the Senate and Assembly<br />
followed a course similar to last year’s when they<br />
joined to pass their own legislative budget without<br />
input or agreement from the Governor. The legislative<br />
budget, which exceeded the Governor’s<br />
original proposal by over $1.8 billion, was largely<br />
seen as a positive by the nonprofit community in<br />
that it restored many of his original program cuts.<br />
It even added a few new initiatives, like a Tuitition<br />
Forgiveness Program for social workers and funding<br />
to support higher congregate care rates for<br />
NYC foster care providers.<br />
Advocates, however, were far from ecstatic<br />
since it seemed clear that the Governor would<br />
merely veto large portions of the legislative submission.<br />
The legislature’s action might best be seen as<br />
throwing you know what on the wall which stands in<br />
the way of good government. Sure, it was a nice<br />
gesture, but the real question is what will stick.<br />
On August 20th, the day before we went to<br />
press, Governor Pataki made good on his<br />
threats and vetoed $1.8 billion in spending<br />
increases and borrowing from the Legislature's<br />
budget. In the end, the budget still wound up<br />
coming in at $101.3 billion, only a few hundred<br />
million below the legislative submission, and<br />
well above his own January proposal of $99.8<br />
billion. Still, the impacts on human service programs<br />
are severe.<br />
The Governor’s nearly 200 line item vetoes<br />
read like a litany of essential services: $12.5<br />
million for the Nursing Home Facility viability<br />
adjustment; $10 million for foster care rates;<br />
$4.5 million for mental health community services;<br />
$1.2 million for Youth Development and<br />
Delinquency Prevention; $1.4 million for<br />
“Settlement House Programs” and on and on<br />
and on.<br />
"The programs that I'm vetoing I love,"<br />
Pataki said in announcing his cuts. "But the reality<br />
has got to set in."<br />
Last year, the legislature simply overrode<br />
the Governor’s vetoes and pushed virtually their<br />
budget into law. This year, that outcome seems<br />
less certain.<br />
As a result, we are now more than one-third<br />
of the way through the fiscal year and no one<br />
knows what services, contracts and programs<br />
are budgeted and what aren’t.<br />
Yes, it would be nice if Albany got real.<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
We wanted to express our appreciation<br />
for your wonderful article on<br />
High 5 in the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong><br />
<strong>Press</strong>. I thought you might like to<br />
know that we have gotten at least four<br />
new youth group customers from the<br />
article.<br />
A new catalogue with more $5 events<br />
will be ready in mid-<strong>September</strong> and<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
My advice to your readers is always<br />
read the job classifieds to the end.<br />
With such a bounty of opportunities<br />
for social service professionals,<br />
readers may very well find what<br />
they're looking for in the beginning<br />
or the middle. But don't forget the<br />
end. I'm grateful for that one line at<br />
two TRaC programs are gearing up for<br />
October.<br />
Thank you for promoting our services.<br />
Ada Ciniglio<br />
Executive Director<br />
High 5 Tickets to the Arts<br />
the bottom that caught my eye and<br />
made my day. Thanks,<br />
Carl Blumenthal<br />
Brooklyn, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 5<br />
Any business person knows that planning<br />
is the key to successful management,<br />
and that budgeting is an indispensable part<br />
of the planning process. Yet, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City’s budgeting process routinely prevents<br />
not-for-profit providers of human services<br />
from following these basic principles, wasting<br />
the scarce resources allocated to this vital<br />
support system – a reality that is particularly<br />
ironic given Mayor Bloomberg’s<br />
former role as a highly<br />
effective CEO.<br />
Unlike most other<br />
services funded by<br />
the City, much of the<br />
City financing to support<br />
critical human<br />
services is not included<br />
in the Mayor’s<br />
long-term spending<br />
plan. His proposed<br />
plan automatically<br />
fails to renew or<br />
“baseline” funding<br />
for some services for<br />
seniors, at risk and<br />
abused children,<br />
youth, immigrants,<br />
the mentally ill, the<br />
homeless, the disabled,<br />
and others at<br />
the end of every fiscal<br />
year, leaving both the<br />
providers and recipients<br />
with an unclear<br />
picture of the future.<br />
According to a<br />
spokesperson for<br />
Mayor Bloomberg,<br />
this funding is “not<br />
baselined because the<br />
[City] Council’s priorities<br />
shift year to<br />
year” (Jewish Week,<br />
7/2/04). This statement is baffling to human<br />
services providers not only because<br />
many such programs were actually originated<br />
by the executive branch of City government,<br />
but also because these ongoing<br />
services are critical to the overall health<br />
and safety of the City. Contrary to what the<br />
Mayor’s spokesperson would seemingly<br />
have us believe, the programs he sees fit to<br />
cut were created because of long-term and<br />
deep-seated need.<br />
POINT OF VIEW<br />
NYC's Budget Process Must Protect<br />
- Not Politicize- Human Services<br />
These comments reflect the<br />
point of view of the following<br />
organizations:<br />
• Catholic Charities BK/ QNS<br />
• Child Care Inc.<br />
• Coalition of Voluntary Mental<br />
Health Agencies<br />
• Council of Family and Child Caring<br />
Agencies<br />
• Council on Homeless Policies and<br />
Services<br />
• Council on Senior Centers and<br />
Services<br />
• Day Care Council<br />
• Federation of Protestant Welfare<br />
Agencies<br />
• Human Services Council<br />
• Neighborhood Family Services<br />
Coalition<br />
• NYC Employment and Training<br />
Coalition<br />
• <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Immigration Coalition<br />
• United Jewish Appeals-Federation<br />
• United Neighborhood Houses<br />
The Mayor’s long-term plan, for example,<br />
cuts $9 million dollars for child care<br />
slots. Though the need for child care will<br />
certainly not disappear at the end of the<br />
fiscal year, the City is unwilling to make<br />
support of this program a permanent part<br />
of the City’s budget. Similarly, $7.8 million<br />
for services to prevent children from entering<br />
the foster care system will vanish at the<br />
end of June, despite the fact that these programs<br />
save the City<br />
millions of dollars<br />
by focusing on prevention<br />
rather than<br />
aftercare. In the case<br />
of foster care, a mandated<br />
City responsibility,<br />
$19.4 million<br />
are now automatically<br />
eliminated<br />
from future budget<br />
plans. Other such<br />
on-going citywide<br />
priorities include,<br />
Beacon Schools for<br />
youth, food programs<br />
for seniors,<br />
mental health services,<br />
homeless prevention,<br />
and more.<br />
The exclusion of<br />
these and other programs<br />
from the<br />
City’s budget each<br />
year forces<br />
providers that contract<br />
with the City to<br />
devote precious resources<br />
and time to<br />
advocating City<br />
Council members<br />
during the highly<br />
politicized budgetary<br />
process, pulling<br />
their focus from management, planning,<br />
fundraising, and most importantly, the delivery<br />
of services to the poor and vulnera-<br />
port their clients. Some not-for-profit<br />
providers have had to layoff staff, restrict<br />
access to services, or even close their doors<br />
because of the budgetary uncertainties they<br />
face each Spring. Over the last three years<br />
alone more than 600 families in the child<br />
welfare preventive system have been<br />
forced to change providers or stopped receiving<br />
services for some period of time because<br />
of program closures resulting from<br />
unstable City funding.<br />
While campaigning for office, Mayor<br />
Bloomberg recognized the insensible nature<br />
and harmful effects of this process and<br />
promised not to engage in it. Further, after<br />
taking office, Mayor Bloomberg claimed that<br />
any necessary reductions in the City budget<br />
would be made equitably across City government.<br />
This year, however, cuts will fall,<br />
once again, disproportionately on human<br />
services. Providers of human services are<br />
alarmed because approximately $180 million<br />
in human services funding is already missing<br />
from the Fiscal 2006 budget and there is<br />
a projected deficit of some $3 billion. Services<br />
to the poor and vulnerable are then,<br />
more clearly at risk of elimination than those<br />
services that have been baselined.<br />
The human services sector has united<br />
to highlight the impractical nature of this<br />
ble. This process severely hampers<br />
providers’ ability to develop the strategic<br />
budgetary and programmatic plans needed<br />
to direct their scarce resources to best<br />
meet client needs. Each Spring providers<br />
spend countless hours meeting with elected<br />
officials to ensure that their funding is<br />
renewed so that they may continue to supaspect<br />
of the City’s budgeting process and<br />
is urging the Mayor to permanently include<br />
this sector’s critical programming in<br />
his Financial Plan. This effort will be challenging,<br />
in part because of the lack of public<br />
awareness about these damaging cuts.<br />
Last year, for example, the preliminary<br />
budget was presented (and reported on) as<br />
a “good news” budget despite the glaring<br />
absence of funding for several vital human<br />
services. The media did not understand<br />
that the practice of not baselining human<br />
service funding actually left many programs<br />
without a guarantee that services<br />
would still be funded.<br />
It is not only bad business practice to<br />
exclude essential human services funding<br />
from the City’s long-term spending plan,<br />
but also profoundly disruptive. Each program<br />
exists to meet a real and often longterm<br />
need. Without these services many<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers would have nowhere to turn,<br />
swelling the City’s social problems, and<br />
gravely impacting the quality of life enjoyed<br />
by all residents. Just as we need to<br />
maintain roads, fire and police services, we<br />
need to maintain human services. They<br />
are simply too important to be subject to<br />
the yearly political battles that rage each<br />
Spring on the steps of City Hall. We respectfully<br />
ask Mayor Bloomberg to put all<br />
human service funding streams included<br />
in the City’s adopted Fiscal Year 2005 Budget<br />
in his Fiscal Year 2006 January Financial<br />
Plan.<br />
Let NYNP<br />
Tell Your Story<br />
Call<br />
NYNP<br />
Custom<br />
Publishing<br />
888-933-6967<br />
• Annual Reports<br />
• <strong>New</strong>sletters<br />
• Agency Histories
6 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
NEWS<br />
VESID to Hold Town Meetings<br />
to Plan Service Delivery System<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Office of Vocational and<br />
Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities<br />
(VESID) will hold nine town meetings and a virtual<br />
town meeting. As part of the State Plan development,<br />
VESID will seek public comment on a proposed<br />
process for designing a future vocational<br />
rehabilitation service delivery system that will:<br />
- meet VESID's quality standards while<br />
ensuring fiscal accountability;<br />
- foster collaboration among State and community<br />
partners; and<br />
- support personnel planning that allows for<br />
creative use of staff skills and regional partnerships.<br />
VESID staff will facilitate the discussion and<br />
collect public comment on the State Plan.<br />
Individual oral comment will not be scheduled.<br />
Until November 12, <strong>2004</strong>, a Virtual Town<br />
Meeting will be held at http://discus.nysed.gov/discus-vesid/<br />
The other meetings are scheduled as follows:<br />
• <strong>September</strong> 9 - State Rehabilitation Council<br />
(SRC), Albany Best Western, 1228 Western<br />
Ave. Albany, NY 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.<br />
• <strong>September</strong> 10 - Self-Advocacy Association<br />
Conference, Albany Marriott, 189 Wolf Road,<br />
Albany. This town meeting is only open to conference<br />
attendees 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.<br />
• <strong>September</strong> 10 - <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Independent<br />
Living Council (NYSILC) Conference, Holiday<br />
Turf Inn, 205 Wolf Road, Albany, 9:00 a.m. to<br />
10:00 a.m.<br />
• <strong>September</strong> 20 – Two Sessions at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State Independent Living Council (NYSILC)<br />
Conference, Holiday Turf Inn, 205 Wolf Road<br />
Albany, 9:00 a.m.to 10:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.<br />
to 2:45 p.m.<br />
• <strong>September</strong> 21 - <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Rehabilitation<br />
Association (NYSRA) Conference, The<br />
Desmond, 660 Albany-Shaker Road, Albany,<br />
3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. [4:45-5:00 Break] 5:00<br />
p.m. to 6:00 p.m.<br />
• Week of October 18, NY Association of<br />
Training and Employment (NYATEP)<br />
Professional Conference, Adam's Mark and<br />
Conference Center, 120 Church Street<br />
Buffalo, Time and date to be announced.<br />
• October 25 - Cerebral Palsy Association of<br />
NYS Conference, The Desmond, 660 Albany-<br />
Shaker Road, Albany, 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.<br />
• November 8 - NYS Association for Persons in<br />
Supported Employment Conference<br />
(NYAPSE), Lake Placid Hilton, Lake Placid,<br />
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.<br />
While the VESID town meetings are held this<br />
year in conjunction with professional conferences,<br />
the meetings are open to the public (except where<br />
noted) during the scheduled times listed above.<br />
The public comment period extends from<br />
<strong>September</strong> 9, <strong>2004</strong> through November 12, <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
Individual recommendations can be submitted in<br />
writing to VESID, VR Policy and Partnerships Unit-<br />
Room 1603 (OCP), NYS Education Department,<br />
Albany, NY 12234. Electronic submission can be<br />
sent to VRpolicy@mail.nysed.gov or through the<br />
Virtual Town Meeting,<br />
http://discus.nysed.gov/discus-vesid/.<br />
Interpreters will be provided only<br />
upon request. Copies of materials are<br />
also available upon request in alternate<br />
format. To request accommodations<br />
contact VESID by calling 1-800-<br />
222-5627 (voice or TTY) at least 10<br />
days in advance of the meeting and<br />
referencing "State Plan meeting.<br />
Day Care Workers Greet <strong>New</strong><br />
ACS Commissioner on First Day<br />
John Mattingly, the new Commissioner of<br />
the Administration for Children’s Services,<br />
showed up on his first day at work on August<br />
16th only to be greeted at the front door by<br />
day care workers who have been without a<br />
contract since December 2000.<br />
“We wanted the<br />
Commissioner to know that former<br />
Commissioner Bell left<br />
some unfinished business on<br />
his desk,” said Michael Green,<br />
Director of Day Care Head<br />
Start for District Council 1707.<br />
Mattingly reportedly<br />
chatted with the workers<br />
and their union representatives<br />
and indicated a willingness<br />
to listen to their concerns.<br />
The City is offering a<br />
5% increase to cover a 4<br />
Local Providers Receive<br />
Federal Mentoring Grants<br />
Six local nonprofits are among 168<br />
provider organizations throughout the country<br />
to receive $35 million in federal grants supporting<br />
mentoring programs for the children of prisoners.<br />
The grants are part of a three-year initiative<br />
outlined by President Bush during his<br />
2003 State of the Union Address.<br />
Locally, the grant recipients are:<br />
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ulster County,<br />
$417,000;<br />
• <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Mission Society, $200,000;<br />
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City,<br />
$150,000;<br />
• Phoenix House of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, Inc.<br />
$124,000;<br />
• Puerto Rican Family Institute, $120,000;<br />
year period during which the cost of living<br />
has gone up over 13%, a union<br />
spokesman stated. DC1707 represents<br />
public Day Care employees who care for<br />
nearly 50,000 children in 350 centers<br />
throughout the City.<br />
• Family Services of Westchester,<br />
Inc.,$90,000.<br />
“It is great,” said Andre Pabon, Director of<br />
the Juvenile Justice Mentoring Project at Big<br />
Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. “We are<br />
now going to be reaching out to more children<br />
whose parents have been incarcerated.”<br />
The grantees were selected from over 500<br />
proposals which were submitted.<br />
In addition, two <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City agencies<br />
funded during last year’s initial round of grants<br />
received their second year grant allocations of<br />
$75,000. These were:<br />
• Edwin Gould Services for Children and<br />
Families; and<br />
• The Osborne Association.<br />
Photo credit:David Buxenbaum
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 7<br />
BREAKING NEWS<br />
Breaking <strong>New</strong>s<br />
As we went to press, the following stories were unfolding.<br />
For continuing developments on these and other Breaking <strong>New</strong>s stories go to our website at www.nynp.biz.<br />
To receive our regular Email <strong>New</strong>s Updates, simply email us at editor@nynp.biz<br />
Governor Vetoes Budget Submission<br />
Final Outcome Uncertain<br />
On August 20th, Governor Pataki vetoed<br />
$1.8 billion worth of spending increases from the<br />
$101.6 billion State budget for FY<strong>2004</strong>-2005<br />
which had been passed jointly by the Assembly<br />
and Senate a week earlier. The vetoes reinstated<br />
significant cuts to human services which had been<br />
included in the Governor’s original $99.8 billion<br />
budget proposal.<br />
The Governor’s actions consisted of 195<br />
separate line item vetoes striking down specific<br />
appropriations. Last year, when the Governor<br />
struck down elements of a similar joint legislative<br />
budget submission, the Senate and Assembly<br />
simply overrode the vetoes. This year, a similar<br />
outcome is less certain. Neither the Senate nor<br />
Assembly had indicated what steps they would<br />
take in response to the Governor’s vetoes.<br />
The Governor’s list of vetoes impacted<br />
many human services programs. Among the<br />
most significant vetoes were:<br />
• Nursing Home Facility Viability Adjustment<br />
$12.5 million<br />
• Foster Care Funding for NYC Congregate Care Rates<br />
10.0 million<br />
• Temporary Assistance Programs<br />
4.4 million<br />
• SSI Increase<br />
3.0 million<br />
• Mental health community services<br />
4.5 million<br />
• VESID Case Services<br />
2.0 million<br />
• Extended Day/School Violence Proram<br />
1.5 million<br />
• Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention<br />
1.2 million<br />
• Settlement House Programs<br />
1.4 million<br />
• Licensed Social Worker Loan Forgiveness<br />
1.0 million<br />
• Family Preservation Centers 560,000<br />
• Independent Living Centers 536,600<br />
• Expanded In-Home Services for the Elderly 528,030<br />
• Education and Assistance Corporation 450,000<br />
• Runaway and Homeless Youth 307,800<br />
• Child Advocacy Centers 307,800<br />
• Elder Abuse Prevention Project 300,000<br />
• Domestic Violence Training Program 135,000<br />
Handelman Leaves NYANA<br />
Mark Handelman resigned his position as<br />
President and CEO of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Association<br />
for <strong>New</strong> Americans (NYANA) on August 13th after<br />
leading the organization for more than 25 years.<br />
Handelman “decided to leave NYANA in order to<br />
start his own consulting firm to assist non-profits in<br />
the area of management, strategic planning, and<br />
fundraising,” the agency reported in a statement<br />
issued on August 20th. “Mark is particularly interested<br />
in working with organizations that serve children<br />
with disabilities and special needs.”<br />
Jose Valencia, formerly NYANA’s Chief<br />
Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has<br />
replaced Handelman as President and CEO.<br />
NYANA, which had resettled 250,000 Jewish<br />
refugees from the former Soviet Union, had seen<br />
a sharp decline in this program in recent years as<br />
a result of tightened federal refugee policies following<br />
<strong>September</strong> 11th. An August 20th article<br />
published by The Jewish Week, a newspaper<br />
serving the Jewish community, tied Handelman’s<br />
resignation to this decline and resulting financial<br />
and organizational pressures on the agency. The<br />
article went on to state that “Handelman’s sudden<br />
resignation is said to have caused consternation<br />
among some staffers, who fear that NYANA, a<br />
venerable social service agency founded in the<br />
aftermath of World War II to resettle Holocaust<br />
survivors, may not survive much longer.”<br />
Handelman refuted the article’s assertions in<br />
a written response to The Jewish Week editor.<br />
“The article would lead the reader to believe that I<br />
left due to frustration with the organization and that<br />
the agency’s future is doubtful. Nothing could be<br />
further from the truth,” he stated. “Despite a dramatic<br />
downturn in refugee arrivals, NYANA annually<br />
provides important culturally sensitive social<br />
services to over 8000 immigrants, many of them<br />
former resettlement clients from the Soviet Jewish<br />
émigré community. After being at the helm of this<br />
wonderful organization for twenty-five years, I simply<br />
felt that it was the right time to seek new professional<br />
challenges for myself and thus decided<br />
to separate from the agency.”<br />
Valencia stated that NYANA had significantly<br />
expanded the range of services it offers to its<br />
existing refugee client base. “The target<br />
popoulaiton has remained the same but this is a<br />
multi-service agency now,” he said. “We have two<br />
clinics – a substance abuse clinic and a mental<br />
health clinic. We have ESL, legal services,<br />
domestic violence programs. We have one of the<br />
largest employment services contract with the City<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and training programs with the State.”<br />
Free E-<strong>New</strong>sletter<br />
email editor@nynp.biz
8 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
NEW FACES F<br />
AT THE TOP<br />
Theresa A. Bischoff<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
American Red Cross in Greater <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
The American Red Cross in Greater <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> is always there at times of crisis. “We<br />
have a history of responding to eight emergencies<br />
or disasters a day here in the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> area,” says Theresa A. Bischoff who<br />
joined the organization as CEO in January. Yet<br />
the events of <strong>September</strong> 11th have made the<br />
Red Cross’ mission even more important as<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers face the need to prepare for<br />
calamities ranging from hurricanes to terrorist<br />
attacks of almost incomprehensible scale.<br />
“After 9/11, there was a lot of listening to<br />
what people felt the needs were and what the<br />
Red Cross had to do,” says Bischoff. “The<br />
‘preparedness’ mission is key.<br />
“We are committed to working with our<br />
government, other nonprofits and corporate<br />
partners to ensure that all 8.5 million people<br />
in our area are prepared for whatever emergency<br />
or disaster might happen. Whether it is<br />
a house fire, a blackout or a terrorist event, we<br />
want people to be prepared. That is a new focus<br />
and challenge for us.”<br />
In late February, ARC-GNY commissioned<br />
a survey to assess the state of readiness<br />
of individuals and small businesses for future<br />
crises. There was good news and bad news.<br />
“Over 90% of the people we surveyed said<br />
they knew they should be prepared,” says<br />
Bischoff. “About 40% said they had done<br />
something to prepare but only 22% had gotten<br />
fully prepared with a plan and a kit.”<br />
Why aren’t people taking steps to prepare<br />
for potential emergencies when they<br />
know how important it can be?<br />
“They told us they didn’t know what<br />
they were preparing for,” explains Bischoff.<br />
“We can help them with that. Preparing is<br />
something we can do for a whole range of<br />
things that might happen to us, anything<br />
from a single family fire or a water main<br />
break to a larger scale event like a blackout or<br />
a terrorist event. We can help them get over<br />
that barrier.”<br />
Bischoff stresses that fear of terrorism isn’t<br />
the only reason to plan ahead. “We got<br />
wonderful letters after the blackout from people<br />
who were prepared – people who had water,<br />
flashlights and comfortable shoes in their<br />
offices so they could walk home that night.<br />
They had taken our preparedness course in<br />
response to 9/11 but it was so helpful to them<br />
in dealing with the blackout.”<br />
The Red Cross survey also showed that<br />
people wanted hands on training to take<br />
them through the process of emergency planning.<br />
Since October of 2001, ARC-GNY has<br />
taught “Preparing for the Unexpected”, a free<br />
Photo Credit: Lou Manna<br />
60-minute class which teaches families what<br />
steps to take prior to and during an emergency,<br />
how to develop a plan and put together<br />
a disaster kit.<br />
“We offer it every week here at our headquarters<br />
and at our chapter locations,” says<br />
Bischoff. “We offered it to the City Council, to<br />
our State government supporters and we are<br />
participating with other groups to get the<br />
word out. We are probably offering it<br />
through every route you can imagine.<br />
“We are now partnering with corporations<br />
to offer it as ‘lunch and learn’ programs<br />
so their employees will have opportunities to<br />
get prepared,” Bischoff continues. “We are<br />
doing more and more of that.”<br />
ARC-NYC is also working closely with<br />
government organizations in its preparedness<br />
campaign. “We partner with OEM (<strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City’s Office of Emergency Management)<br />
in finding opportunities,” says<br />
Bischoff. “In <strong>September</strong>, as part of the Preparedness<br />
Month, we will be doing eight<br />
evenings of ‘Ready <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’ around the<br />
five boroughs, bringing all the programs we<br />
talk about -- making a plan, preparing a kit,<br />
getting trained in things like CPR, volunteering<br />
and giving blood.”<br />
In order to accommodate its enhanced<br />
disaster preparedness training effort, ARC-<br />
GNY’s has refined its organizational focus, divesting<br />
some programs less central to this<br />
new mandate. Until FY2003, homelessness<br />
shelters and programs accounted for approximately<br />
25% of ARC-GNY’s programmatic<br />
expenditures. “Over the past year, we have<br />
transitioned our homeless programs to other<br />
organizations,” says Bischoff. “So, we were<br />
able to assure that those programs got transferred<br />
as whole vital programs while allowing<br />
us to focus on our core mission.” While<br />
the strategic decision to divest these programs<br />
came prior to Bischoff’s arrival, she is<br />
fully supportive of the move. “Clearly, our<br />
new focus was going to take a lot of organizational<br />
energy. I think these were very good<br />
decisions.”<br />
Bischoff believes that ARC-GNY’s $30<br />
million annual budget fails to convey the true<br />
scope of the organization’s activity. “What<br />
you don’t see in that budget is the thousands<br />
and thousands of hours of volunteer time and<br />
in kind support we get,” she explains. “This<br />
organization is quite unique and extraordinary<br />
in the role that volunteers<br />
play. We have 7,000 volunteers,<br />
many of them highly trained and<br />
many of them who actually go<br />
out and do the core work of the<br />
organization. When we have a<br />
fire, it is very often only volunteers<br />
who, after very significant training, go<br />
out to provide the services that people expect<br />
from the Red Cross.”<br />
Bischoff is also confident that the work of<br />
these volunteers and the relief they provide to<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers in crisis connects with potential<br />
donors. “The stories really are compelling,”<br />
says Bischoff. “On Father’s Day, we had a<br />
large fire in northern Manhattan and suddenly<br />
30 families were out on the street watching<br />
their building burn. Within minutes, the Red<br />
Cross was there making sure that people had<br />
blankets and clothes to put on and starting<br />
the process of thinking about how they would<br />
recover after losing their home and possessions.<br />
When you arrive on the scene of these<br />
disasters, wearing that Red Cross jacket, those<br />
we are there to help feel the sense of relief that<br />
help has arrived.”<br />
Now, Bischoff wants to get the word out.<br />
“Next year is our 100th birthday so it gives us<br />
an opportunity to re-acquaint ourselves with<br />
a lot of the audiences in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> who recognize<br />
the symbol but may not be as familiar<br />
with the work that we are doing today,” she<br />
says.<br />
And, she maintains, ARC-GNY needs<br />
that support. “We are able to do our work<br />
only because of the generosity and contributions<br />
of our donors,” she says. And, the<br />
fundraising environment has become more<br />
challenging. “What we saw substantially<br />
across all nonprofit organizations after 9/11<br />
was donor exhaustion and then, of course, the<br />
economic slowdown. I think we experienced<br />
that in a way that was consistent with other<br />
nonprofits. We are looking forward to the economic<br />
recovery and seeing more opportunities<br />
to fundraise.”<br />
Bischoff, who came to ARC-GNY after<br />
serving as President of NYU Medical Center,<br />
also wants to ramp up the organization’s<br />
own fundraising efforts. “In the past,<br />
a substantial amount of our funding had<br />
come through the United Way campaign.<br />
They have made some changes so we need<br />
to have that direct connection to our communities<br />
so they can provide us with the<br />
support we need.<br />
“We are looking forward to our centennial<br />
year as an opportunity to both share our<br />
work and engage corporations, individuals<br />
and government in supporting us in our mission<br />
to help all <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers.”
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 9<br />
NEW FACES F<br />
AT THE TOP<br />
Patrick Foye<br />
President/CEO<br />
United Way of Long Island<br />
Five months into his new position as<br />
President/CEO of United Way of Long Island,<br />
Patrick Foye admits that he is having<br />
fun. “It has been a real learning experience<br />
for me given that I come out of the legal and<br />
corporate worlds. This is a terrific organization.<br />
United Way of Long Island has been at<br />
this for 40 years and it has been doing terrific<br />
things for all that time. I think we are at the<br />
point of taking it to the next level.”<br />
Despite UWLI’s record of accomplishment,<br />
Foye was recruited to help energize an<br />
organization experiencing tough times. The<br />
Long Island Campaign, UWLI’s own local<br />
fundraising effort, had produced declining<br />
revenues since 2000. “It has been a challenging<br />
period for United Way of Long Island and<br />
for United Way of America generally,” says<br />
Foye. “That was exacerbated by 9/11 which<br />
had an effect on a lot of charities, both here<br />
and in the tri-state area. The trends are down<br />
for a number of years. I think my predecessor<br />
worked hard and effectively through that and<br />
I think we have some momentum.”<br />
In fact, UWLI may well have turned the<br />
corner already by stemming the tide of declining<br />
local campaign contributions. “We<br />
think this will be the first time in a number of<br />
years that the LI Campaign will be up,” Foye<br />
explains, based on preliminary results for the<br />
2003-<strong>2004</strong> campaign which ended earlier this<br />
summer. “I have had very little to do with<br />
that. It is really due to the work of Mike<br />
Cooney, Senior Vice President of Resource Development,<br />
and his team. Hopefully this will<br />
be a platform for growth in the future. We are<br />
looking for double digit growth in the <strong>2004</strong>-05<br />
Campaign which we are just beginning. That<br />
is ambitious, but I think doable.”<br />
Expanding UWLI’s base of contributions<br />
is Job One for Foye, who recognizes the difficulties<br />
faced by Long Island’s nonprofit community.<br />
“Since I have been here, four or five<br />
of our agencies have gone out of business,” he<br />
says. “It is very challenging time. There have<br />
been funding cutbacks at all levels and the<br />
only reasonable expectation is that those cutbacks<br />
are not likely to be reversed. If anything<br />
they are likely to continue at the State and local<br />
level.” As a result, UWLI’s member agencies<br />
are looking more and more towards private<br />
sources of funding. “It is incumbent on<br />
us to do whatever we can to increase our revenue<br />
base.”<br />
Workplace payroll campaigns are the key<br />
to UWLI’s fundraising efforts and, like United<br />
Way organizations everywhere, UWLI has<br />
struggled in recent years with both declining<br />
enrollments and increasing donor designations<br />
of their gifts to nonprofits of their own<br />
choosing.<br />
In response, UWLI stresses two key messages<br />
as part of its campaign. “One is that, despite<br />
the perceived affluence, there are very<br />
significant health and welfare issues here on<br />
Long Island,” says Foye. “There are some<br />
very significant pockets of poverty and homelessness.<br />
Forty thousand children go to bed<br />
hungry every night. Donors need to think<br />
about investing their money in what matters<br />
here on Long Island.—how we can change<br />
people’s lives for the better”<br />
Secondly, Foye wants to emphasize that<br />
donations to UWLI are a smart, philanthropic<br />
investment. “We deliver value and we will<br />
help, together with our community impact<br />
partners, to address these issues.”<br />
In this context, UWLI, like United Ways<br />
across the country, is considering a transition to<br />
a Community Impact model for its own grant<br />
allocations. The basic strategy targets United<br />
Way funding to selected “Community Impact”<br />
projects where it hopes to achieve specific and<br />
measurable outcomes. As a result, United<br />
Ways hope to attract increased<br />
donations based<br />
on a proven ability to<br />
make a difference. (See<br />
“A <strong>New</strong> Way at United<br />
Way,” NYNP, March<br />
2003.)<br />
“This is something<br />
that has been talked<br />
about here since before I<br />
joined,” says Foye. “My<br />
predecessor, Willie Edlow<br />
had introduced the<br />
concept and it has been<br />
germinating for some<br />
time.” (See “On Long<br />
Island: Building a Consensus<br />
for Change,”<br />
NYNP, March 2003.)<br />
“Exactly what<br />
Community Impact<br />
means on Long Island and for UWLI is unclear.<br />
We are still at an early stage in the<br />
process. I think it is likely that there will be<br />
four or five focus areas of which Community<br />
Health Issues will probably be one. Early<br />
Childhood Education will probably be<br />
another. There has been a Success by Six<br />
United Way initiative that I think we can<br />
take to the next level. We are also looking at<br />
programs for families of Long Island-based<br />
reservists who have been called off to service<br />
in Iraq or Afghanistan. Those families<br />
are suffering temporary financial pressure<br />
or other issues as a result of that and we are<br />
trying to figure out how we can be helpful<br />
in that arena. We are looking at a couple of<br />
other areas that are consistent with the mission<br />
of UWLI and United Way generally for<br />
the past 40 years.”<br />
What a transition to Community<br />
Impact will mean for UWLI’s 170 member<br />
agencies who traditionally receive<br />
basic grants to support their efforts in a<br />
wide range of programmatic areas is also<br />
unclear. A full-fledged Community Impact<br />
model does away with the basic<br />
membership grant and can leave many<br />
nonprofits hanging if they fall outside<br />
the funding focus.<br />
“One of the things we are seriously<br />
considering is some hybrid model in which<br />
we continue to have relationships with our<br />
member agencies -- including funding relationships<br />
-- but also focus on these four or<br />
five community impact areas,” says Foye<br />
who goes on to emphasize that “We are not<br />
about to get into the direct service delivery<br />
business. It is not what we are. It is not what<br />
we are good at. It is not a core competency.”<br />
Foye expects the process of defining<br />
how UWLI will adapt Community Impact<br />
to the needs of Long Island to play out over<br />
the next six to nine months. “We have developed<br />
a task force of representatives from<br />
FOYE continued on page 10
10 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
NEW FACES F<br />
AT THE TOP<br />
FOYE continued from page 9<br />
the board. We are going to have input from<br />
the Agency Executive Council which includes<br />
representatives of member agencies.<br />
We are going to be reaching out to public officials<br />
in both counties and talking to our<br />
member agencies directly.”<br />
UWLI is already taking steps to incorporate<br />
Community Impact principles in some<br />
of its existing grant programs. In the past,<br />
UWLI’s Targeted Care Grant program was a<br />
pool of approximately $300,000 which was<br />
allocated into small grants for a large number<br />
of member agencies. “Starting in the fall,<br />
we will be making 12 or so grants of about<br />
$25,000 each,” says Foye. “The grants will be<br />
much more focused. This is a way for us to<br />
dip our toe in the Community Impact pool<br />
while we are still developing the strategy<br />
overall.”<br />
Foye also intends to broaden the ways<br />
in which UWLI reaches out to potential<br />
donors. One step was the recent recruitment<br />
of Sean Phillips as Senior Vice President of<br />
Major Gifts. Phillips comes to UWLI from<br />
Family and Children’s Association where he<br />
served in a similar capacity. “Sean’s joining<br />
us gives us another leg to the stool,” says<br />
Foye. “He is a major presence on Long Island<br />
in the major gifts and planned giving areas.<br />
He has a tremendous amount of experience<br />
and credibility as well as relationships with<br />
major players in the philanthropic world on<br />
Long Island.”<br />
In addition, Foye hopes to ramp up<br />
UWLI’s special events fundraising. “Except<br />
for the Long Island insurance event, which is<br />
celebrating its 10th anniversary, we haven’t<br />
had a major presence in special events and<br />
we are looking to change that on a selective<br />
basis,” he says. “We are doing a special gala<br />
celebration of our 40th anniversary in October.<br />
Attorney General Spitzer is the keynote<br />
speaker and John Durso, President of Local<br />
338 of the Retail Wholesale Department Store<br />
Union/United Food Commercial Workers<br />
on Long Island, is the honoree. That is another<br />
arrow in our quiver.”<br />
Community Impact also means increased<br />
coordination in terms of grant making<br />
and service delivery. “One of the things<br />
that have struck me as a newcomer to this<br />
world is how fragmented it is,” says Foye.<br />
“We want to figure out an appropriate way<br />
to coordinate our activities, which is an easy<br />
thing to say but not an easy thing to accomplish.”<br />
He cites the existing work of the<br />
Long Island Funders’ Exchange in this area<br />
and looks forward to expanding partnerships<br />
with key grant makers including the<br />
Long Island Community Foundation, the<br />
Rauch Foundation and others. One possibility,<br />
he explains, might be an effort by the<br />
philanthropic community to “adopt” selected<br />
villages or towns in Nassau and Suffolk<br />
for targeted grant-making projects.<br />
UWLI’s new President/CEO acknowledges<br />
his status as a relative novice in the<br />
nonprofit arena. “Frankly everybody in this<br />
world has more experience and knowledge<br />
than I do,” he says.<br />
However, Foye brings valuable corporate<br />
experience and business contacts to his<br />
new position. He has been Executive Vice<br />
President of Apartment Investment and<br />
Management Company, a <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Stock<br />
Exchange-listed multi-family real estate investment<br />
trust. Previously, he was a Mergers<br />
and Acquisitions Partner at Skadden, Arps,<br />
Slate, Meagher & Flom and Managing Partner<br />
of the firm’s Brussels, Budapest and<br />
Moscow offices.<br />
“I am a Long Islander,” says Foye. “I<br />
have spent my entire life in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City or<br />
Long Island, except for three years when I<br />
was exiled to Europe by my law firm. I<br />
know the community and I know the business<br />
community. I am Vice Chairman of the<br />
Long Island Power Authority and I think<br />
that has been helpful in exposing me to opinion<br />
leaders on Long Island. I am hopeful that<br />
these business strengths will outweigh my<br />
weaknesses as I get up to speed on the health<br />
and human service world”<br />
So far, Foye feels that he has received a<br />
warm reception from a community eager to<br />
see the UWLI re-energize its fundraising efforts.<br />
“The <strong>Nonprofit</strong> community has a stake<br />
in the success of UWLI. They recognize it<br />
and we recognize it. I think it is our job to<br />
work together to be more effective.”<br />
Jack Lund<br />
President/CEO<br />
YMCA of Greater <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
Jack Lund may have been new to the<br />
region when he took over as the YMCA of<br />
Greater <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’s President on April 1st,<br />
but he is certainly not new to the field.<br />
“I have been a nonprofit professional<br />
for almost 35 years,” he says.<br />
Nor does the size and scope of the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> “Y”, with 4,500 employees and a<br />
total budget of $115 million, scare him. “I<br />
have run some pretty large and diverse organizations<br />
before,” says Lund who was<br />
Chief Operating Officer for the Chicago<br />
YMCA and most recently CEO in Milwaukee,<br />
which had 17 branches, only two shy<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>’s total of 19. “Each time I enter<br />
a city, I take a pretty similar approach --<br />
the full immersion strategy,” says Lund. “I<br />
get out and connect with people, learn<br />
about the organization and how we are<br />
seen, who the leaders are. Certainly in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, that is challenging because the<br />
leadership network is wider and deeper.<br />
Right now, I am doing a 100 day listening<br />
tour.<br />
“I also have the comfort of knowing<br />
how YMCAs work,” he explains. “Having<br />
done this for about 30 years, I can walk into<br />
a “Y” and instantly tell you whether things<br />
are good or not -- and why.”<br />
So far, Lund likes what he sees.
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 11<br />
NEW FACES F<br />
AT THE TOP<br />
“The YMCA of Greater <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> has a<br />
lot of strengths and a very good foundation<br />
of financial resources, people and properties,”<br />
says Lund.<br />
“Our branch staff is very proud of<br />
what we do, particularly the work we do<br />
with kids which was a real hallmark of the<br />
last president and the last administration.”<br />
Lund has heard a desire for greater emphasis<br />
on staff development. “Helping people<br />
to build their careers and get the appropriate<br />
academics and other kinds of support,”<br />
he explains. “Since that is a priority for<br />
them, it is a priority for me.”<br />
“With our board, we have a great<br />
group of people that are very passionate<br />
about our work,” he continues. Nevertheless,<br />
he says that there is a consensus<br />
among its members that the board can go<br />
from “good” to “great”. With several existing<br />
board vacancies, “we want to be strategic<br />
about developing the board,” says<br />
Lund. “We want to really begin to think<br />
about leadership succession planning. That<br />
will be a priority.”<br />
“One of the other things the board feels<br />
very good about is the success we have had<br />
with corporate and foundation fundraising,<br />
but they acknowledge that there is still lots<br />
of upside. There are still a lot of untapped<br />
resources and the fact that we have such an<br />
enormous appetite for serving kids -- and<br />
serving kids in programs that are almost<br />
100% subsidized -- means that we have to<br />
find a continual renewable source of funds.<br />
“We have a very diverse and somewhat<br />
fragile funding mix that works for<br />
us,” says Lund, “a combination of earned<br />
revenue, contributed income, support from<br />
the public sector and some endowment<br />
earning. Some of our branches generate<br />
revenues over expense and share resources<br />
with those branches that, by design, do not<br />
generate revenue over expense.”<br />
Looking forward, Lund sees three major<br />
issues on the horizon.<br />
“One is that we continue to focus on<br />
our work with kids. We want to reach<br />
everybody, but we particularly want to emphasize<br />
our work with kids. We want to<br />
continually find more ways to reach kids<br />
and reach them in more effective ways.<br />
“Second, during the last several years,<br />
this organization has begun what can be<br />
called the first true strategic comprehensive<br />
recapitalization program in 100 years.<br />
When we opened up McBurney, it is my<br />
understanding that that is the first new “Y”<br />
we have opened up in 50 years. So, we are<br />
somewhat behind the trends in the country<br />
in terms of having contemporary capital assets.<br />
Continuing that process of renewing<br />
our facilities and making sure they are up<br />
to date will be a priority for us.<br />
“The final thing is, as we look out over<br />
a map of the city, what are the neighborhoods<br />
where the “Y” should really have a<br />
presence and at this time doesn’t. I am particularly<br />
interested in partnering with organizations<br />
and having a presence in the<br />
South Bronx, Washington Heights and a<br />
couple of neighborhoods in Brooklyn.”<br />
Lund has experience expanding the<br />
“Y’s” presence. “While I was in Milwaukee,<br />
we opened seven new YMCAs in low<br />
income neighborhoods,” he says. “Philosophically,<br />
we have a mission to serve<br />
everybody. That is saying a lot, but I don’t<br />
know any other organization that has a<br />
presence in as many diverse communities<br />
as we do in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. We are in those<br />
neighborhoods by design. The things we<br />
do will vary from neighborhood to neighborhood<br />
because the needs are very different.<br />
What comes along with that is a financial<br />
formula that allows us to generate<br />
revenue in one neighborhood and have it<br />
available to be consumed in another neighborhood.<br />
That will continue to be fundamental<br />
to the success of the “Y” in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City.”<br />
For Lund, talk of new branches and programs<br />
doesn’t only mean added bricks and<br />
mortar. “We have 19 branches but we are in<br />
340 locations,” he says. “We operate out of<br />
several hundred schools. There is a duality of<br />
our geography. I don’t ever see us not being<br />
a branch and facility-based organization, because<br />
it is a model that continues to work for<br />
us, but I think the really great “Ys” are the<br />
ones that are willing to get outside their walls<br />
and find other ways to serve.”<br />
Lund also has some thoughts about<br />
program areas he sees the YMCA exploring.<br />
“We are very well positioned to have a<br />
more positive impact on kids’ health than<br />
we are currently,” he says. “At a time<br />
when kids’ health numbers – obesity, diseases<br />
of childhood -- are just collapsing,<br />
what can we do to begin to turn some of<br />
those around?<br />
A lot of resources that had traditionally<br />
been available just aren’t there. I am<br />
thinking about health programs and gym<br />
class. Is there a role for the “Y” to<br />
play, either as the ‘gym teacher’ for<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City schools or as a place<br />
the schools can take advantage of<br />
by using our expertise and facilities?”<br />
In Milwaukee, Lund developed a charter<br />
school as a partnership between the “Y”<br />
and a small academic institution. “We<br />
brought the administrative strength; they<br />
brought the academic strengths,” he says.<br />
“We already are very much in an educational<br />
support role through our after-school<br />
programs and some other things we do.<br />
We want to continue figuring out how we<br />
can support not only public education, but<br />
education broadly defined.”<br />
YMCA membership is something<br />
Lund wants to make available for all <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City children. “One of the things we<br />
have done in other cities is to create a Youth<br />
City Membership. For $5, a kid can become<br />
a member of the Y,” he explains, noting that<br />
they were usually willing to waive the $5<br />
fee. “The amazing thing to me was that all<br />
these kids got membership cards with their<br />
picture on them. For kids living in low income<br />
communities, that was the first thing<br />
they ever had in their possession that said<br />
they were important and they were connected<br />
to something. We didn’t know that<br />
was going to happen but it was wonderful<br />
experience and we kept doing it. Maybe<br />
we should do that here.”<br />
Flexible, Diverse, Professional,<br />
Available, Quick…<br />
Key attributes describing a<br />
Social Work p.r.n. relationship.<br />
Settings and social workers<br />
nationwide have found they have a<br />
friend in Social Work p.r.n. A partner<br />
who understands the business side<br />
yet also cares about the well-being<br />
of social workers and clients.<br />
Social Work p.r.n. is a national social<br />
work company, run by social workers<br />
for social workers, offering<br />
innovative products and services<br />
designed to meet the changing<br />
needs of social workers and settings.<br />
So whether you’re a setting<br />
looking to fill temporary,<br />
temp-to-perm or permanent<br />
positions or a social worker looking<br />
to affiliate with a quality agency,<br />
look to Social Work p.r.n.!<br />
We have the reputation and the<br />
attributes that are key to a<br />
long-lasting relationship.<br />
Social Work p.r.n. has two office<br />
locations in the Greater NY Metro<br />
area. The Manhattan office serves<br />
Manhattan, Brooklyn & Staten<br />
Island, call 212-267-2914. The<br />
Westchester office serves the Bronx,<br />
Queens, Long Island, Westchester<br />
and surrounding areas, call<br />
914-637-0442. Or visit us at<br />
socialworkprn.com.<br />
Manhattan: 212 -267-2914 • Westchester: 914-637-0442 • socialworkprn.com
12 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
AGENCY OF THE MONTH<br />
Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC<br />
A Hundred Years Young<br />
“Mentoring has become one of the<br />
‘in’ buzzwords in social services,” says<br />
Allan Luks, Executive Director of Big<br />
Brothers/Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
(BBBS). “Bush talked about mentoring<br />
in his State of the Union address. Clinton<br />
had a giant meeting on mentoring<br />
when he was president. Right now, we<br />
are ‘in’, but who knows for how long.”<br />
That is OK. BBBS has been involved<br />
with mentoring since before it was ‘in’.<br />
In fact, BBBS established the movement<br />
100 years ago when its founder, Ernest<br />
K. Coulter, a clerk in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Children's<br />
Court, called upon a local men’s<br />
club to work with the youngsters he<br />
saw every day. Over the intervening<br />
century, Big Brothers/Big Sisters has<br />
become synonymous with mentoring –<br />
a brand name like Coca Cola or Xerox<br />
which effectively defined this specific<br />
form of youth development program.<br />
Today, BBBS directly connects 3,000<br />
children from low income, single parent<br />
homes with carefully-screened adult<br />
companions. It also serves as a vanguard<br />
for research and advocacy on<br />
mentoring issues as well as providing<br />
technical assistance and training for<br />
other mentoring programs. “We like to<br />
think of ourselves as a ‘training hospital’,”<br />
says Luks.<br />
The Big Brother/Big Sister service<br />
model is remarkably straight forward.<br />
“Bigs” commit to spend several hours<br />
with their Little Brothers or Sisters at<br />
least twice a month for a minimum of<br />
one year. The pairs go to ball games and<br />
museums, go bowling, spend time at<br />
the park, and talk. In the process, the<br />
Bigs offer a simple, yet powerful combination<br />
of friendship, guidance, support.<br />
Every relationship is monitored and<br />
supported by a social worker.<br />
This relatively straightforward program<br />
also has proven to be surprisingly<br />
successful. An independent and randomized<br />
1992 national study of the Big<br />
Brother/Big Sister movement found<br />
that it reduced first time drug use by 46<br />
percent, cut school absenteeism by 52<br />
percent, and lowered violent behavior<br />
by 33 percent. And, this sample population<br />
was no collection of cream puffs.<br />
Over 80 percent of the kids came from<br />
impoverished families, and almost all<br />
were being raised by a single parent.<br />
Approximately 40 percent were from<br />
homes with a history of drug or alcohol<br />
abuse and nearly 30 percent came from<br />
families with a record of domestic violence.<br />
In fact, the simpler the form of the<br />
relationship, the more valuable is the<br />
experience. Another long term study<br />
found that those “Bigs” who merely offered<br />
friendship and support -- rather<br />
than those trying to “straighten kids<br />
out” -- were far more likely to gain the<br />
trust necessary to create a positive influence.<br />
For most of its hundred year history,<br />
BBBS has offered its “traditional”<br />
program. Parents, typically low-income<br />
single moms or dads, learned<br />
about Big Brothers/Big Sisters through<br />
TV, subway ads or roadside billboards.<br />
The parents call and then come in to enroll<br />
their kids.<br />
Volunteers learn about the program<br />
the same way – through a broad-based<br />
advertising campaign as well as word<br />
of mouth from other volunteers. They<br />
attend general orientation meetings<br />
which are held regularly and, if still interested,<br />
go through an in-depth interview<br />
with a BBBS social worker. “It<br />
takes about an hour and a half,” says<br />
Vidhya R. Kelly, M.S.W., Director of<br />
BBBS’ Borough and Special Priority<br />
Programs. “It is a full psycho-social.<br />
We ask the volunteers everything about<br />
their background, their relationship history,<br />
their academic history, their family<br />
history, how they grew up, their occupation,<br />
what they do.”<br />
Volunteers who make it through<br />
the interview must then provide references.<br />
“We ask for three -- at least one<br />
from an academic advisor or work supervisor,”<br />
says Kelly. “We get a national<br />
background check. Then we check<br />
the sex offender list. It is expensive at<br />
the front end.”<br />
Roughly 60% of those who come in<br />
for the orientation go on to the interview,<br />
says Luks. Then about 60% of<br />
those will go on to be accepted. It leaves<br />
us about 36% who go on to become Big<br />
Brothers or Big Sisters. Most of the falloff<br />
results from self selection on the part<br />
of volunteers.<br />
“Usually it is not our rejection,”<br />
says Luks. “They will drop out once<br />
they learn about the level of commitment.<br />
It is four hours every other week.<br />
In a terrible economy when people are<br />
worried about losing their jobs or<br />
falling behind, that is real.<br />
“The biggest thing you worry about<br />
is whether the man or woman is going<br />
to continue the relationship,” he continues.<br />
“These kids all have problems. The<br />
last thing you want is for the Big Brother<br />
or Big Sister to walk away two<br />
months later.”<br />
In fact, while BBBS asks volunteers<br />
and kids for a one year commitment,<br />
the average match currently lasts two<br />
years, six months. “We have alumni<br />
networks where matches have gone on<br />
for 25 and 35 years and they still come<br />
back to different events,” says Kelly.<br />
The screening also is designed to<br />
guard against any risk to the child.<br />
“You are always worried about a pedophile,”<br />
says Luks, who maintains<br />
that BBBS has not experienced any<br />
abuse cases during its 100 year history.<br />
The pairing of Bigs and Littles is<br />
based on a variety of factors and BBBS<br />
social workers, typically MSWs, supervise<br />
the initial meetings when potential<br />
matches are broached to the parents,<br />
the Bigs and the Littles. All parties have<br />
to agree and a Mentoring Agreement<br />
spells out the requirements and responsibilities<br />
of the program. Social Workers<br />
offer lots of up front support to help the<br />
new relationship take root and provide<br />
ongoing oversight throughout the life<br />
of the match. “For the first several<br />
Allan Luks, Executive Director, Big Brothers/Big<br />
Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
months there is involvement by the social<br />
worker on a weekly basis,” says<br />
Luks. “They call the volunteer, call the<br />
kid, call the mother. Then, they may go<br />
to monthly contacts.”<br />
All volunteers take a mandatory<br />
five hour training program on mentoring<br />
skills, and BBBS offers lots of other<br />
events and services to help support volunteers,<br />
kids and parents.<br />
“There are agency events where all<br />
the matches come together,” says Kelly.<br />
“We just had our Annual Picnic with<br />
1,300 people in Central Park. It is a time<br />
to meet other matches so the Bigs don’t<br />
feel all alone and the kids who have<br />
been isolated can see that there are other<br />
kids doing this -- that it’s OK and it’s<br />
cool. We offer events like that all<br />
throughout the year. We also do kids<br />
events separately from the Bigs where<br />
the social worker will take the kids out<br />
by themselves and do things so they<br />
can make connections with other kids<br />
in program.”<br />
BBBS arranges many group trips,<br />
helps volunteers identify inexpensive<br />
and appropriate activities and even<br />
runs groups for parents.<br />
Luks joined BBBS 15 years ago and<br />
has been building a whole new tradition<br />
of innovative programming ever
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 13<br />
AGENCY OF THE MONTH<br />
Mentoring <strong>New</strong> Americans<br />
BBBS’ special 9/11 Program brought together<br />
Little Brother Daniel Palombo and Big Brother<br />
Paul Barbara. Both of their fathers were firefighters<br />
who perished on <strong>September</strong> 11th.<br />
since.<br />
“In the traditional program, the<br />
parents call us and, of course, it is the<br />
parents who are most together who<br />
call,” says Luks. “We want to take on<br />
the kids who are least likely to call us.<br />
We want to reach out to kids from the<br />
most troubled families, families who<br />
themselves do alcohol or drugs or<br />
where the parents have been arrested.<br />
They are not going to call.”<br />
A first step in this new direction<br />
was development of the Juvenile Justice<br />
Mentoring Project (JJMP) which started<br />
in 1992. “It began as a pilot with one<br />
police precinct – the 84th– in Brooklyn,”<br />
says Luks. “We got the Community Affairs<br />
officer and asked them to give our<br />
information to parents when kids were<br />
arrested. Of course they still never<br />
called. Then we got the Precinct to ask<br />
parents if it would be OK if we called<br />
them. That worked.”<br />
Today, JJMP is a City-wide program.<br />
“At this point, we get our referrals<br />
directly from law enforcement officers<br />
and professionals who are working<br />
with these youth,” says Andre Pabon,<br />
Director of the program. “We collaborate<br />
with precincts, judges, probation<br />
officers and other social work professionals<br />
who refer them specifically for<br />
mentoring services.” (See “Juvenile<br />
Justice Mentoring Program Reaches<br />
Kids Who Need it Most,” page 13.)<br />
Since then, BBBS has developed a broad<br />
range of similarly targeted programs<br />
which reach out to underserved groups<br />
of youngsters.<br />
In 2001, BBBS began its <strong>New</strong> Americans<br />
program which matches Bigs with<br />
children of immigrant families. “It<br />
started in Queens, the most ethnically<br />
diverse county in the nation,” says Kelly,<br />
who developed the project. “Right<br />
now the matches in this program represent<br />
50 different nations. We were finding<br />
that a lot of these kids were feeling<br />
really isolated. There were language<br />
barriers. They looked different. They<br />
sounded different. Their parents were<br />
working 24/7 struggling for a better<br />
life. The kids just weren’t feeling supported.<br />
There were also higher suicide<br />
rates in this population.”<br />
“She tells people that I am her ‘aunt’ which means that I am an older<br />
person who commands respect,” says Maeve Pryce, who actually is a Big<br />
Sister to Dan Dan, a 16 year old Chinese girl living in Queens. “It is very<br />
unusual to see a Chinese child with a non-Chinese adult so other Asian people<br />
always ask her who I am.”<br />
The question of her cultural role is just one of the special issues confronting<br />
Maeve, Dan Dan and the 90 other ‘Big’/ ‘Little’ matches in the <strong>New</strong><br />
Americans program offered by Big Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City.<br />
The program began in Queens two and a half years ago in an effort to serve<br />
children of immigrant families. Many of these kids struggle with a strong<br />
sense of personal and social isolation.<br />
“She is an only child and her parents are working 27 hours a day,” says<br />
Maeve. “She is not allowed to go anywhere by herself.”<br />
These family stresses are then compounded as youngsters try to adapt<br />
to an entirely new culture.Vidhya Kelly, Director of Borough and Special Programs for BBBS, recalls her own challenges growing up in a<br />
first generation South Asian immigrant family. “I looked different.My parents dressed different. My parents wanted me to have an arranged<br />
marriage.”<br />
Allowing a stranger into their child’s life is not something which comes naturally to most immigrant families. “Most of these families<br />
are very insular,” says Kelly. “They don’t want to go outside to ask for help.You aren’t supposed to tell other people about your problems.”<br />
BBBS reaches out to these immigrant families through a network of community-based partners.Among the groups they have worked<br />
with are SAYA (South Asian Youth Action), Queens Child Guidance Center which has an Asian Outreach Center and the South Asian<br />
Women’s Center.<br />
The <strong>New</strong> Americans program staff is as diverse as the groups it serves. “We have staff from India, Singapore, China, Ecuador,” says<br />
Kelly. “We rotate. If we are going to a group that is Indian, I will speak because they will feel closer to me. I know how to greet them.<br />
I know their values. Maeve’s social worker, Jennifer Chang, is Chinese. She goes to Chinese organizations and can speak to parents. Senior<br />
Program Coordinator Tamanna Vaswani grew up in Singapore and is fluent in Malay, Hindi and Italian, making it easier for her to connect<br />
and communicate with other groups”<br />
Language barriers are an issue of particular importance for volunteers in the <strong>New</strong> Americans program. “I have very little contact<br />
with Dan Dan’s parents because they don’t speak any English,” says Maeve, who relays messages through Dan Dan. “I always try to be<br />
very clear about when I will pick her up, what we will be doing and when I will drop her off so there won’t be any misunderstandings.”<br />
BBBS provides its <strong>New</strong> Americans volunteers with special cultural sensitivity training to help bridge some of these issues.<br />
Maeve also had some initial security about whether she could meet the emotional and cultural needs of a 15-year-old Chinese girl<br />
new to this country. “Her English was good, but it wasn’t great,” she explains. “The first weekend I went home exhausted. I didn’t know<br />
if I could do this. How was I going to translate <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City for this young girl?”<br />
Then, Maeve went back to the BBBS basics. She was there simply to be a friend and supporter. “I relaxed. After two or three<br />
weeks, she just started to talk and she hasn’t stopped since. She is loving <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and her English is getting better every hour.”<br />
Here, too, there is a new focus on<br />
outreach and partnerships with other<br />
human service providers. “For most of<br />
our programs, the families are coming<br />
to us,” says Kelly. “This program is different.<br />
We have been going out to other<br />
social service programs<br />
that already work with these<br />
populations, whether it is in<br />
counseling, recreation or academic<br />
activities. We are<br />
coming in knowing that<br />
there are already some barriers<br />
that have been broken<br />
down because families are<br />
engaging in some kind of<br />
services.” (See “Mentoring<br />
<strong>New</strong> Americans”, above.)<br />
A similar pilot is BBBS’<br />
Young Mothers program<br />
which focuses on the mentoring<br />
needs of teens who already<br />
find that they themselves<br />
are parents. “It is<br />
untraditional, but it is<br />
great,” says Kelly. “These<br />
are kids who, right after<br />
school, go home to take care<br />
of their kids. Then they are<br />
up all night with them. This<br />
program is different in that<br />
we spend time with the kids<br />
but also time with the babies.<br />
The volunteers act as<br />
kind of an advisor, a resource<br />
on dealing with housing,<br />
child care, job training and education.”<br />
Based in the Bronx, the Young<br />
Mothers program currently has 36<br />
matches.<br />
BBBS also developed specialized<br />
programming for victims of <strong>September</strong><br />
BBBS’ <strong>New</strong> Americans Program matched Big Sister Kazumi<br />
Ogawa, born in Japan and raised in the US, with Sarina Sherpa,<br />
who was born in Nepal and lives in Brooklyn.<br />
11th. “We have one program for kids<br />
who lost a parent and one for kids who<br />
lived or went to school downtown and<br />
saw what happened and, for example,<br />
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER continued on page 14
14 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
AGENCY OF THE MONTH<br />
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER continued from page 13<br />
may be fearful about going outside,”<br />
says Kelly. In a particularly moving partnership<br />
with the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Fire Department,<br />
BBBS also matches firefighters<br />
and firefighter families with kids who<br />
lost a firefighter father. A total of 400<br />
kids participate in 9/11 programs.<br />
Luks has overseen the expansion of<br />
BBBS programming beyond its traditional<br />
30th Street headquarters on the East<br />
Side of Manhattan. “We found that the<br />
majority of the kids on our wait lists were<br />
coming from the outer boroughs,” says<br />
Kelly. The agency opened a Bronx Office<br />
in 1997 and a Queens office in 1999 to<br />
make the program more accessible. Another<br />
office, focusing on foster care prevention,<br />
is in East <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, Brooklyn.<br />
The agency has also built a new institutional<br />
infrastructure for its matches<br />
through school-based and work-place<br />
programs. The school-based programs,<br />
which began in 2000, bring adult volunteers<br />
to the Littles’ school once a week<br />
during their lunch hour. The program<br />
focuses on children specifically referred<br />
by teachers and school guidance counselors<br />
and several Manhattan schools<br />
are currently participating.<br />
Luks is excited about the Work-<br />
Place Mentoring programs which BBBS<br />
runs in cooperation with 32 local corporations.<br />
The program brings kids to<br />
corporate offices for a few hours twice a<br />
month where they can do homework,<br />
learn about careers and acquire life<br />
skills. Kids benefit from the experience.<br />
And, so do the participating corporations<br />
and their employee volunteers. In<br />
a 2003 study, a great majority of volunteers<br />
reported positive feelings regarding<br />
the program’s effect on their work<br />
life, interaction with co-workers, loyalty<br />
to their corporation and self esteem.<br />
“This is going to be an area of major<br />
growth,” says Luks. “We have to convince<br />
more and more companies that<br />
these statistics are real.” The program,<br />
which is 14 years old, currently serves<br />
600 children. Its staff currently occupies<br />
the major part of BBBS’ new office<br />
space on Fifth Avenue and 28th street.<br />
In addition to running its own mentoring<br />
programs, BBBS has become a<br />
primary source of training and technical<br />
support for other social service<br />
agencies wanting to add mentoring<br />
components.<br />
In 1992, the agency opened its Center<br />
for Training and Professional Development<br />
and began offering one-day<br />
workshops for other agencies interested<br />
in learning more about mentoring.<br />
Over time, interest grew and in 1998<br />
BBBS partnered with Fordham University<br />
School of Social Work to offer a semester-long,<br />
32 hour Mentoring Supervisor<br />
Certificate Program. The<br />
program covers such topics as volunteer<br />
screening, liability and insurance<br />
issues, matching adults and youth, supervision<br />
of volunteers, identifying risk<br />
factors, group work and how to close<br />
out the Big-Little relationship.<br />
“Initially, we had one group of students<br />
each fall and spring,” says Karen<br />
Heindel, Director of the Center. “That<br />
grew into two groups each fall and<br />
spring and then we added a summer<br />
session. We currently run five different<br />
sessions each year training 125 individuals.<br />
Since the fall of 1998, we have<br />
trained 592 individuals, representing<br />
386 agencies.”<br />
BBBS also offers a range of technical<br />
assistance for other mentoring programs<br />
as well. “Once people take the<br />
course, we are available to them for ongoing<br />
TA at no charge if they want us to<br />
sit down and review their recruitment<br />
materials, their interview forms, their<br />
application or help them develop their<br />
curriculum for training their volunteers.”<br />
BBBS will even provide on-site<br />
training for volunteers at other mentoring<br />
agencies.<br />
The agency also operates Borough<br />
Mentoring Networks in each of the boroughs<br />
where staff of mentoring programs<br />
can meet monthly to share<br />
knowledge, skills and resources. A Professional<br />
Development Workshop Series<br />
geared to the needs of professionals<br />
offers sessions on a variety of mentoring-related<br />
topics.<br />
BBBS supports an additional 4,000<br />
volunteer/child matches at other mentoring<br />
agencies through these training<br />
and technical assistance programs, says<br />
Luks.<br />
Juvenile Justice Mentoring Program Reaches Kids Who Need it Most<br />
When Big Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City (BBBS) began its<br />
Juvenile Justice Mentoring Program (JJMP) as a pilot project in 1992, it was<br />
something different. Historically, parents reached out to BBBS seeking<br />
supportive adult role models that might help keep their kids out of trouble.<br />
JJMP turned this approach on its head. The new program went out<br />
looking for reluctant parents and kids who already were in trouble.<br />
“The negative thing is that the kids have been in trouble,” says<br />
Andre Pabon, Director of the program. “The positive thing is that they<br />
have been caught. So, we know who we are working with. We are able<br />
to identify and address the problems. Everything is out in the open.”<br />
JJMP serves four separate types of youngsters – kids who are<br />
already involved in the court system and are adjudicated, kids who are<br />
delinquent and acting out, siblings of court-involved youth and children of<br />
incarcerated parents.<br />
“The kids in our program are usually first time offenders,” says<br />
Pabon, “with offenses ranging from robbery and assault to weapons possession.”<br />
Ricardo Torres was referred to JJMP and his Big Brother Jimmy<br />
Crespo after getting into trouble. Ricardo looks to Jimmy<br />
as a positive role-model.<br />
Pabon acknowledges that working one-on-one in an unsupervised situation with a teen who has already been convicted of a<br />
crime might seem pretty intimidating to potential volunteers.<br />
“This program also isn’t right for every kid,” explains Pabon.“These are kids who have been caught up with groups of friends.<br />
They are followers who want to be in the ‘in-crowd’ and don’t know how to say no.We are trying to get them back on the right<br />
path so they don’t get re-arrested.”<br />
JJMP provides extra training for volunteers and lots of additional social work support. “Every social worker has a beeper where<br />
parents, youth and volunteers can contact us at anytime of the day -- 24 hours -- to help deal with issues and problems.” At JJMP,<br />
social workers supervise only 35-40 mentor pairs compared to 55 or 60 in the traditional BBBS program.<br />
“We get a really great cluster of volunteers who feel this is something where they can make a bigger impact in turning a kid’s<br />
life around,” says Pabon. “It is much more of a challenge for some volunteers.<br />
“We joke around that volunteers don’t have to have been arrested themselves to be in this program,” Pabon continues. “It is a<br />
plus if a volunteer has grown up in the inner city and understands what youth are going through. But, if someone just has the capacity<br />
to relate with youth, we will help them with training and support from the social workers and these relationships work just as well.”<br />
Youth are usually somewhat skeptical about an initial referral to JJMP. “Most of the time the youth are reluctant at first,” says<br />
Pabon. “That is something we have come to accept.” JJMP actively sells the program to the youth and families who are referred<br />
by police, judges, and the Departments of Probation and Juvenile Justice. “We do our orientations one on one with the youth and<br />
their parent,” says Pabon.“We take them through it step-by-step and show them what is in it for them.” In the end, Pabon believes<br />
that most kids and parents come to see the program an opportunity.<br />
As with the traditional BBBS programs, participation in JJMP pays off. BBBS reports that rearrest rates for those previouslyarrested<br />
youth who came to JJMP was less than 20% compared to 78% for youth released from state facilities run by the Office of<br />
Children and Family Services.
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 15<br />
AGENCY OF THE MONTH<br />
FOUNDATIONS<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s Foundation<br />
Seeks Grant Proposals<br />
Council Member Magarita Lopez (left) with BBBS Board Chair Ed Gardner and Board President Laura<br />
Parsons. celebrate the renaming of 30th Street as Big Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Way<br />
in honor of the organization’s 100th anniversary.<br />
The work with these widely varied<br />
mentoring efforts has lead Luks and<br />
BBBS to be strong advocates for the development<br />
of standards to accredit mentoring<br />
programs and mentoring supervisors.<br />
“This is a field involving intimate relationships<br />
but without standards,” says<br />
Luks. He cites United Way estimates that<br />
there are as many as 25,000 volunteers<br />
working in mentoring relationships<br />
mostly as add-on components to local after-school,<br />
recreational and youth development<br />
programs. “When we ask them<br />
how they match kids and adults, they tell<br />
us that Mr. Jones down the street is a nice<br />
guy and Johnny doesn’t have a father,”<br />
says Kelly.<br />
“When a mother drops her child off<br />
at a program, she should know that the<br />
staff have skills and the volunteer has<br />
had a background check,” says Luks. He<br />
emphasizes his point by noting that outside<br />
research showed 90% of programs<br />
completing the Mentoring Supervisor<br />
Certificate Program go back and change<br />
their method of screening volunteers.<br />
The answer? Training, staff certification<br />
and program accreditation, says<br />
Luks. To this end, BBBS has been a<br />
leading advocate, as part of a 140 member<br />
statewide coalition, for the Safe<br />
Mentoring Act legislation introduced<br />
by State Senator Nicholae Spano (R-<br />
Yonkers) and Assemblywoman Vivian<br />
Cook (D-Queens). The bill would establish<br />
a voluntary certification program<br />
for mentoring supervisors, and<br />
require mentoring programs to conduct<br />
criminal background checks for all potential<br />
mentors. The certification program<br />
would be administered by the Office<br />
of Children and Family Services,<br />
while individual agencies would be responsible<br />
for ensuring that criminal<br />
background checks are conducted.<br />
Despite the growth in mentoring<br />
programming at BBBS and elsewhere,<br />
there is still a strong need for additional<br />
mentoring opportunities. “We support<br />
3,000 matches ourselves and 4,000<br />
through other agencies for a total of<br />
7,000,” says Luks. “In <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
alone, there are 650,000 kids living in<br />
single parent homes of which 365,000<br />
are below the poverty line.”<br />
For information about Big Brothers<br />
Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City programs<br />
contact 1-888-BigsNYC or<br />
www.Bigsnyc.org.<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s foundation<br />
(NYWF) is accepting applications<br />
for its <strong>2004</strong>-2005 grant year. Programs<br />
that help low-income women and girls<br />
and that are focused on community<br />
organizing, economic security, girls’<br />
positive development, health and<br />
reproductive rights, or violence against<br />
women will be considered for grants of<br />
up to $35,000 each.<br />
“The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s<br />
Foundation funding makes a difference<br />
in the lives of women and girls in <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City. NYWF’s grants promote<br />
innovate solutions to problems low<br />
income women and girls face—solutions<br />
developed by the women and<br />
girls themselves,” said Angie Wang, the<br />
Foundation’s Program Director.<br />
The deadline to submit an application<br />
is Septembr 21, <strong>2004</strong>. More information<br />
is available at NYWF’s website,<br />
www.nywf.org.<br />
The Foundation is frequently the<br />
first institution to offer significant support<br />
to women-led community-based<br />
nonprofits. Last year the Foundation<br />
gave away over $1 million to 40 organizations.<br />
Since its inception, the NYWF<br />
has given away over $8 million.<br />
Advertise with NYNP<br />
It’s Effective, Inexpensive and Fast!
16 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
FINANCE<br />
A Ten Point Checklist to Evaluate<br />
Your Financial Management<br />
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to read about financial<br />
failings at even well known and well established nonprofits. At<br />
these times, a question often arises: how do board members<br />
and executive directors, many of whom do not have financial<br />
backgrounds, determine if their finances are managed well. Finances<br />
are, after all, the life-blood of nonprofits.<br />
I believe that boards and CEOs can quickly assess the<br />
strength of their agency’s financial management by rating the<br />
efficiency of their accounting or finance department. While this<br />
simple checklist may not reveal deep seated financial flaws i.e.<br />
structural deficits or revenue risks, it is based on the truism that<br />
how an accounting or finance department functions determines<br />
how well their finances are managed.<br />
Sanjay Shah<br />
HOW DOES YOUR AGENCY STACK UP?<br />
❑ 1. Does your accounting department give you timely and accurate “bird’s eye view”<br />
reports every month?<br />
These should be 3 or 4 pages long, with the first page comparing monthly<br />
and year-to-date operations with budget targets, followed by “drilleddown”<br />
reports of either groups of programs or funds and a page of notes<br />
explaining the “variances.”<br />
❑ 2. Are these reports automated, coming right out of the accounting system?<br />
In many instances, accounting/finance personnel spend inordinate<br />
amounts of time preparing reports because their accounting systems don’t<br />
or can’t produce them in the format they or their board want. Besides the<br />
time savings, reports coming right from accounting systems help to assure<br />
the integrity of the numbers.<br />
❑ 3. Does your accounting department prepare monthly reports within 10 days after<br />
a month ends?<br />
Unless there is a specific and compelling reason for delays, your accounting/finance<br />
department should be able to give “timely” reports. Regular<br />
delays of more than 10 days may be due to problems with basic “processing”<br />
functions i.e. payroll, accounts payable, etc.<br />
❑ 4. Do the reports prepared by your accounting department give a clear sense of<br />
what’s going on and where the problems lie?<br />
Clarity & brevity, as opposed to volumes of tiny details, are more important,<br />
especially when it comes to reports for the board of directors.<br />
The reports should show overall results (surplus or deficit), where the<br />
problems lie – i.e. Program A caused 71% of deficit because of higher<br />
salaries (39%), rent (11%) & lower revenue (21%) - and what management<br />
intends to do about it. More often, the reports and discussions get<br />
bogged down in questions like “Why is our telephone bill $200 higher<br />
than last month?” and miss the big picture.<br />
❑ 5.<br />
Does your accounting department provide quick answers to your questions?<br />
Ideally, they should anticipate the questions and provide explanations.<br />
However, if they take 2 hours to answer a question like “how did we do<br />
in Program A for July compared with last year?”, then you have a problem<br />
❑ 6. Does the accounting department provide a Statement of Activities (Revenue<br />
& Expense Report) and a Statement of Position (Balance Sheet) at the same time?<br />
A well-run accounting/finance department is up-to-date with all processing<br />
functions, monthly closings, adjustments, bank reconciliations,<br />
etc., essential to producing Statement of Activities & Statement of Position<br />
reports simultaneously. A department that is on top of their financial<br />
statements is also likely to be on top of financial matters concerning<br />
their organization.<br />
❑ 7. Does your accounting department provide you cash flow projections and analyses<br />
of accounts payable and receivable?<br />
Many nonprofits struggle with cash flow and one way of managing it is<br />
to have regularly updated cash flow projections so you can appropriately<br />
manage accounts receivable, accounts payable and working capital<br />
needs. Cash flow projections should be based on historical data and adjusted<br />
for the knowledge about current events.<br />
❑ 8. Can your accounting department complete an external CPA audit in 3 months<br />
after a fiscal year ends and do your final audited numbers differ substantially<br />
from the unaudited numbers?<br />
An independent CPA audit is the ultimate test of your financial reports.<br />
How quickly is your accounting department ready to meet with outside<br />
auditors? Not many nonprofits of any size actually complete a CPA audit<br />
within three months, but a well-functioning department should be<br />
prepared for one at that point. Also, while there is always some variation<br />
between internal financial reports and final audited results, substantial<br />
differences are a sign of trouble.<br />
❑ 9. Does your accounting department provide you with financial projections – for the<br />
current year as well as next year?<br />
An ability to create financial projections, depending on the complexity of<br />
the operations, may require financial modeling and/or advanced<br />
spreadsheet skills. The payoff is an ability to manage your finance<br />
“proactively.”<br />
❑ 10. Does your accounting department follow FASB 116 requirements regarding<br />
unrestricted, temporarily restricted and permanently restricted funds in recording<br />
all receipts?<br />
It is extremely important to delineate unrestricted funds from temporarily<br />
and permanently restricted funds at the transaction level, for the simple<br />
reason that nonprofits have discretion over where, when & how they<br />
can spend these funds and they should correctly record and track these<br />
receipts.<br />
CHECK YOUR RESULTS:<br />
Yes to 5 or less – Needs significant improvements<br />
Yes to 6 or 7 – Needs some improvements<br />
Yes to 8 or more – Needs marginal improvements<br />
What can you expect if you meet all or 8 or more tests? Four major benefits:<br />
a) Good financial management and planning<br />
b) Well-educated decisions to meet your short-term and long-term goals<br />
c) Proactive management to avert impending problems<br />
d) Efficient use of all of your resources – time, people, and money<br />
What do you need to pass these tests? Three things as follows:<br />
• Clearly defined and automated processes with checks and balances<br />
•Well implemented systems to meet your organization’s needs & goals<br />
•Trained staff – both in the processes and the systems, and knowledgeable in financial/accounting<br />
matters<br />
Sanjay Shah is the President of Paragon Management Group. He has worked as CFO and<br />
consultant for many large and small nonprofits. He can be reached at sshah@paragon.mgt.com
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 17<br />
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Mattingly <strong>New</strong> Commissioner at<br />
Administration for Children’s Services<br />
Abbott House Names Meyers<br />
<strong>New</strong> Executive Director/CEO<br />
John B. Mattingly has been appointed<br />
Commissioner of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s Administration<br />
for Children's Services. Mattingly was<br />
previously Director of Human Service Reforms<br />
at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.<br />
Over the past five years, he has worked closely<br />
with ACS, serving as a member of the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City Special Child Welfare Advisory<br />
Panel which has helped to resolve the Marisol<br />
and Wilder federal class action lawsuits.<br />
"John Mattingly is well-known to the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City children's services community<br />
of practitioners and advocates, and we are<br />
incredibly fortunate that he has decided to<br />
join our team," said Mayor Bloomberg.<br />
"Knowing from personal experience the<br />
business of child welfare both in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
and other cities around the country, I have no<br />
illusions that this will be an easy task,” said<br />
Mattingly. “On the other hand, I also have<br />
seen the progress made by Commissioner<br />
Scoppetta and Commissioner Bell in the past<br />
eight years, and I hope to build on that work<br />
in the coming years."<br />
“We have worked with him in the past<br />
and look forward to working with him<br />
again,” said Jim Purcell, Executive Director of<br />
the Council of Family and Child Caring<br />
Agencies (COFCCA). “We are very impressed<br />
with his vision and his knowledge of<br />
the child welfare system.”<br />
"John Mattingly is clearly the right person<br />
for the job, coming to <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City with<br />
a demonstrated record of accomplishments<br />
John Mattingly<br />
and expertise in the field and a long history<br />
of success in national child welfare reform<br />
efforts," said Gail B. Nayowith, Executive<br />
Director, Citizens' Committee for Children<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>.<br />
At the Annie E. Casey Foundation,<br />
Mattingly designed and managed the<br />
"Family to Family" foster care initiative, and<br />
was also the Foundation's team leader for<br />
child welfare policy. "Family to Family" focuses<br />
on strengthening the network of families<br />
available to care for abused and neglected<br />
children in their own communities;<br />
and tracking outcomes for children and<br />
families. He also mediated a class action<br />
case against the State of Tennessee in 2001.<br />
Claude B. Meyers<br />
Claude B. Meyers has been selected to<br />
be the new Executive Director and CEO of<br />
Abbott House, located in Irvington, <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong>. She will succeed Denis Barry who had<br />
announced his intention to retire earlier this<br />
year.<br />
Meyers brings over 35 years of experience<br />
in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> social services to her new<br />
position. She has been both a top administrator<br />
with the Child Welfare Administration<br />
(now ACS) and a senior executive at<br />
two direct service nonprofit agencies.<br />
“I am most grateful to have been selected<br />
by the Board of Directors to succeed Denis,<br />
to continue his splendid and valuable<br />
work and, hopefully, to bring Abbott House<br />
to an even higher level of excellence,” said<br />
Meyers. “It gives me enormous pleasure to<br />
be associated with this caring community.”<br />
“Claude is a wonderful person with<br />
character, experience and leadership skills,”<br />
said Barry.<br />
For the past seven years, Meyers has<br />
served as Associate Executive Director of<br />
Episcopal Social Services of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
where she oversaw the agency’s operations<br />
and led its expansion into preventive services,<br />
special needs foster boarding homes, early<br />
intervention and federal Early Head Start.<br />
During a 30-year career with <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City government, Meyers rose to lead the<br />
Child Welfare Administration as Executive<br />
Deputy Commissioner in 1994. Prior to that,<br />
she served as Assistant Deputy Commissioner<br />
for Policy and Planning, Director of<br />
Foster Care Development, Director of<br />
Contract Management and in a variety of<br />
program management and direct service<br />
positions. After leaving CWA in 1995, she<br />
spent approximately two years with<br />
HeartShare Human Services.<br />
Meyers will join Abbott House on October<br />
18th. Barry will retire at the end of<br />
October.<br />
Abbott House provides care for over<br />
1,000 abused, neglected and developmentally-disabled<br />
children and young adults<br />
at its 16-acre campus, a foster boarding<br />
home program and 26 community-based<br />
group homes.<br />
Gutheil Next Executive Director<br />
at Episcopal Social Services<br />
Women’s Foundation Welcomes<br />
Cohen as Executive Director<br />
Robert Gutheil has been selected to<br />
become the next Executive Director of<br />
Episcopal Social Services. Gutheil will begin<br />
work at ESS on <strong>September</strong> 7 and take<br />
full title on January 1, 2005, when current<br />
Executive Director Stephen J. Chinlund retires<br />
after 16 years of service.<br />
Gutheil has over 30 years of experience<br />
in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> social services, most recently<br />
as Executive Director of The Salvation<br />
Army Social Services for Children.<br />
During his tenure Gutheil oversaw the expansion<br />
of high-quality programs into<br />
group homes for adolescents, residences<br />
for the developmentally disabled, foster<br />
boarding home care and adoption, day<br />
care centers, family preservation programs,<br />
and support services for people<br />
with HIV/AIDS.<br />
“I look forward with enormous enthusiasm<br />
to joining the outstanding Board<br />
and staff leadership team at ESS,” said<br />
Gutheil. “It’s an agency I already know<br />
well and consider one of the best in the<br />
field. We’ll move forward together to even<br />
higher levels of service to the children,<br />
families and individuals of our great city.”<br />
The Salvation Army has honored<br />
Gutheil with its prestigious National<br />
Award for Excellence in Social Work. He<br />
has also been presented with the Leadership<br />
Award by Life Services for the Handicapped<br />
and the Unsung Heroes Award by<br />
the Day Care Council of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>.<br />
Gutheil serves on the Boards of Day<br />
Care Council of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, United Neighbors<br />
of East Midtown, Life Services for the<br />
Robert Gutheil<br />
Handicapped, The Open Congregation,<br />
and Episcopal Charities. Previously he<br />
has been a member of the National Advisory<br />
Council of Executives for the<br />
Child Welfare League of America and<br />
served on both the Board and Downstate<br />
Steering Committee of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State Council of Family and Child Care<br />
Agencies.<br />
ESS, which traces its history back to<br />
1831, operates 16 separate programs including<br />
foster boarding homes, adoption<br />
services, group homes and foster care<br />
prevention; community residences for<br />
the developmentally disabled, early<br />
head start; early intervention; the Murray<br />
Hill Senior Center and a prison services<br />
network.<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s Foundation<br />
has welcomed Hollis Cohen as its new Executive<br />
Director. Cohen comes to the Foundation<br />
with 20 years of experience working<br />
for nationally-recognized organizations<br />
helping underserved populations.<br />
“The Foundation’s work in the communities<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City and its in-depth<br />
knowledge of the issues facing low-income<br />
women and girls contribute to its profound<br />
effect upon poverty in this city,” said Cohen.<br />
“I am looking forward to being part of<br />
the Foundation as its position in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City grows even stronger.”<br />
Before joining The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women's<br />
Foundation (NYWF), Cohen was Lighthouse<br />
International’s Vice President for Development<br />
and later served as their Vice President<br />
for Technology Enterprises and Special Assistant<br />
to the President for Program Development.<br />
At the Lighthouse, she developed<br />
and funded cutting-edge initiatives to ensure<br />
access to new technologies for those who are<br />
blind or visually impaired. Through innovative<br />
partnerships in the public and private<br />
sectors, she developed new resources for efforts<br />
aimed at ensuring equality for disabled<br />
individuals of all ages.<br />
Cohen developed some of the first<br />
“cause-marketing” campaigns, bridging<br />
corporate marketing interests with not-forprofit<br />
goals. She consulted to American Express<br />
on its “Charge Against Hunger” campaign.<br />
For the Association for a Better <strong>New</strong><br />
Hollis Cohen<br />
visit our website at www.nynp.biz<br />
<strong>York</strong>, she developed the first co-op marketing<br />
program to support the City’s cultural<br />
institutions. She began her nonprofit<br />
career at Citymeals-on-Wheels,<br />
where she ultimately served as Executive<br />
Director, developing model programs in<br />
order to provide annual funding to over<br />
100 community organizations across the<br />
city delivering meals and emergency food<br />
supplies to the frail and homebound elderly.<br />
During her tenure, she oversaw the<br />
organization’s move from a program of<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Department of the Aging<br />
to an independent non-profit in “public/private”<br />
partnership with the City.
18 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Rosenberg Replaces Josephson<br />
as Head of Charities Bureau<br />
Gerry Rosenberg is taking over as Chief<br />
of the Charities Bureau of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State Department of Law, replacing William<br />
Josephson who has held the position since<br />
1999.<br />
Rosenberg is a long-time partner at the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> law firm, KMZ Rosenman, where<br />
he specialized in litigation, trusts and estates,<br />
non-profit corporation law and tax<br />
law. Before joining the law firm, Rosenberg<br />
was an Assistant United States Attorney in<br />
the Southern District of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. Rosenberg,<br />
a graduate of Yale College and Harvard<br />
Law School, is a member of the American<br />
Law Institute, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Lawyers for<br />
the Public Interest, the Parks Council and<br />
the Central Park Conservancy. He is founding<br />
director of the Non-Profit Coordinating<br />
Committee of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and a director of<br />
the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under<br />
Law.<br />
"He is person of impeccable credentials<br />
and integrity,” said Attorney General Eliot<br />
Spitzer of Rosenberg when announcing the<br />
appointment in June. “I am confident that<br />
he will continue and enhance the office's<br />
reputation as a national leader in the field of<br />
not-for-profit regulation."<br />
Josephson, a pioneer in the development<br />
of the Peace Corps and other federal<br />
programs, was long-time partner at Fried,<br />
Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen prior to<br />
joining the Attorney General's office. He<br />
United Way of Long Island Names<br />
Phillips Senior Vice President<br />
Sean J. Phillips has joined United Way<br />
of Long Island as Senior Vice President of<br />
Major Gifts. Phillips comes to UWLI from<br />
Family and Children’s Association where<br />
he served for seven years as Vice President<br />
and Director of Resource Development and<br />
Public Relations. At Family and Children’s,<br />
Phillips was responsible for all fundraising<br />
activities and public relations. During his<br />
time with Family and Children’s, he successfully<br />
completed a $6 million<br />
Capital/Endowment campaign and<br />
achieved an annual $2 million fundraising<br />
goal. Prior to his work at Family and Children’s,<br />
Phillips was Development Director<br />
at Catholic Medical Center, a 1400-bed multi-hospital<br />
system, for seven years. Phillips<br />
has found time for pro bono work with the<br />
Hagedorn Cleft Palate Institute at<br />
Northshore/LIJ Healthcare System and<br />
Long Island Council on Alcoholism and<br />
Drug Dependence.<br />
“I am excited to have the opportunity to<br />
help advance the mission of United Way of<br />
Long Island through major, endowed and<br />
planned gifts,” said Phillips. “With greater<br />
generosity from the community, greater results<br />
can be achieved, positively changing<br />
Tell Us About YOUR People<br />
email editor@nynp.biz<br />
Tell Us About YOUR People<br />
was widely regarded for his work in representing<br />
public and private foundations.<br />
He is a well-known author of articles on<br />
tax exempt organizations, legal ethics and<br />
other issues. He served as counsel to leading<br />
public agencies and was a member of<br />
numerous civic groups.<br />
"Over the past five years, the Charities<br />
Bureau has brought precedent-setting<br />
enforcement actions and undertaken significant<br />
legislative and policy initiatives.<br />
Bill Josephson, as the leader of those efforts,<br />
has served the people of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
with vigor and distinction," Spitzer said.<br />
Gerry Rosenberg<br />
the lives of many Long Islanders.”<br />
“We're delighted to have Sean join<br />
United Way of Long Island as we enhance<br />
our ability to make a greater impact in solving<br />
some of Long Island's pressing social issues,”<br />
said Patrick Foye, UWLI’s President<br />
and CEO. “Sean's track record of success in<br />
mobilizing people and resources will enable<br />
us to do more to help Long Islanders<br />
help those in need."<br />
Sean J. Phillips<br />
email editor@nynp.biz<br />
Tell Us About YOUR People<br />
email editor@nynp.biz<br />
LESC Appoints Sullivan<br />
Executive Vice President<br />
Judith Cohen has joined UCP Suffolk<br />
as Assistant Executive Director for Development.<br />
The new position has been created<br />
to enhance the agency’s development<br />
programs. Cohen will be<br />
responsible for major and special gifts;<br />
foundation and planned giving; major<br />
donor development and recognition;<br />
board development and stewardship and<br />
foundation and corporate and government<br />
grants.<br />
Cohen has spent the past 11 years with<br />
UJA Federation of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, most recently<br />
in the position of Co-Campaign Director.<br />
Cohen has also been a UCP Suffolk board<br />
member for the past 12 years. During that<br />
period, she has served as Vice President of<br />
Government Activities and Advocacy and<br />
has been a long-time member of the Yearbook<br />
Committee.<br />
Dr. Martha Adams Sullivan<br />
Dr. Martha Adams Sullivan has assumed<br />
the new position of Executive Vice<br />
President of Program Services at LESC. Previously,<br />
Sullivan was with the NYC Department<br />
of Health and Mental Hygiene where<br />
she served as deputy commissioner of the<br />
Bureau of Community Liaison and Training.<br />
“Martha’s diverse professional experience<br />
will enhance our ability to accomplish<br />
the LESC vision expressed in our <strong>2004</strong>-2005<br />
Strategic Plan,” said Alan Mathis, President<br />
and CEO of LESC. “Additionally, Dr. Sullivan’s<br />
tenure as director, Department of Behavioral<br />
Health at Gouverneur Diagnostic<br />
and Treatment Center, where she had oversight<br />
responsibilities for mental health and<br />
substance abuse, has built her understanding<br />
of the varied needs of LESC clients.”<br />
Sullivan has published many articles<br />
on family systems theory, mental health and<br />
alcoholism, social workers and the chemically<br />
dependent, developing family oriented<br />
mental health programs, and the mental<br />
health of people of color, women and the<br />
elderly.<br />
She has also been the recipient of numerous<br />
social awards for her contributions<br />
to social justice, and her service to the elderly<br />
and the community.<br />
Sullivan earned her doctorate of social<br />
welfare in 1991 from the City University<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, and a master of social<br />
work in 1976 from Hunter College. In addition<br />
to her academic work, she has also<br />
earned a Clinical Fellow from the Council<br />
on Social Work Education, and an Advanced<br />
Certificate in Family Therapy/Supervision<br />
from Minuchin Center for the<br />
Family.<br />
Cohen Joins UCP Suffolk as<br />
Assistant Executive Director<br />
DeRidder Promoted to Clinic Director<br />
Nelly De Ridder, PhD, of White Plains<br />
has been promoted to Clinic Director for the<br />
Family Mental Health Clinics operated by<br />
Westchester Jewish Community Services<br />
(WJCS) in <strong>New</strong> Rochelle and Mamaroneck.<br />
Dr. DeRidder has been with WJCS since<br />
1990 first working as a clinician in the AIDS<br />
Satellite Program at ARCS and then at the<br />
Mt. Vernon Family Mental Health Clinic.<br />
Most recently she was a counselor in the<br />
WJCS Treatment Center for Trauma &<br />
Abuse in Hartsdale.<br />
Dr. DeRidder earned an BS from Mercy<br />
College and an MSW and PhD in Clinical<br />
Social Work from <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> University.<br />
Judith Cohen<br />
Cohen has a BA in special education<br />
from Boston University.<br />
Nelly De Ridder, PhD
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 19<br />
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
<strong>New</strong> Chief Operating Officer at<br />
Neighborhood Housing Services<br />
Bernell Grier has been appointed the new<br />
Chief Operating Officer for NHS. Grier brings<br />
more than 30 years of banking experience to<br />
her new post. Her career includes service<br />
with CHASE and NatWest USA. She most recently<br />
served as an Executive Vice President<br />
at Fleet.<br />
“Her evident passion for NHS’ mission<br />
will assist us in further improving our programs<br />
to meet the needs of the underserved,” said<br />
Sarah Gerecke, NHS’ Chief Executive Officer.<br />
Grier currently serves as the chair of the<br />
Harlem YMCA Board of Directors and is a<br />
member of the board of Harlem Congregations<br />
for Community Improvement, Neighborhood<br />
Restore and Operation HOPE. A graduate of<br />
the City University of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, Grier received<br />
The Network Journal Top 25 Women of<br />
Influence Award, the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Women’s<br />
Agenda STAR Award, among others.<br />
Grier coordinated the training of 100 loan<br />
officer trainees when managing NatWest’s<br />
Loan Officer Development Program. She was<br />
a Senior Vice President and Director of Community<br />
Development for Fleet where she<br />
Bernell Grier<br />
achieved outstanding CRA ratings for the<br />
bank and managed the Metro <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>,<br />
<strong>New</strong> Jersey and Florida Community Development<br />
Unit. While at Fleet, Ms. Grier successfully<br />
started up a 67-branch Fleet Community<br />
Bank network.<br />
Covenant House <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Names<br />
Egan Director of Development<br />
Mary Egan has been named the Director<br />
of Development for Covenant House<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, and is now responsible for<br />
fundraising and donor relations for the organization.<br />
Egan's non-profit experience includes<br />
six years at the United Way of Greater Toronto,<br />
where she served as Senior Manager of<br />
Promotion and Special Events from 1994-<br />
2000. She moved to <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> in November<br />
2000 to join the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> branch of the United<br />
Way as a Senior Director of Marketing.<br />
Egan helped to develop and organize the<br />
United Way <strong>September</strong> 11th Fund program,<br />
which raised over $10 million to assist victims<br />
of the World Trade Center Attacks.<br />
Felix Lopez has been named General<br />
Counsel of Safe Horizon. An outspoken advocate<br />
for the under-represented throughout<br />
his career, Lopez will lead Safe Horizon's signature<br />
legal assistance programs for people<br />
experiencing crime, torture, and abuse and<br />
direct corporate and government affairs.<br />
Mr. Lopez was most recently the Executive<br />
Director of the National Latino Council<br />
on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention in<br />
Washington, DC. Previously, he served as<br />
Director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs<br />
Administration, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Region. Lopez<br />
was also Director of the Arthur Liman Policy<br />
Institute of the Legal Action Center in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, where he was a vocal proponent<br />
for people with HIV, those in recovery,<br />
and ex-offenders.<br />
Lopez received his Juris Doctor from<br />
the Yale Law School in 1991, where he was<br />
appointed the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and<br />
Visiting Lecturer in Law in 2001. His undergraduate<br />
studies were completed at the<br />
Egan has also worked as a personal<br />
marketing consultant to various<br />
non-profit organizations and businesses,<br />
including the Canadian<br />
Prostate Cancer Research Foundation.<br />
She also worked at George Brown College<br />
in Toronto, Ontario, Rogers Cantel<br />
Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia<br />
and Baker Lovick Advertising in<br />
Calgary, Alberta.<br />
Covenant House <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> assists<br />
over 9,000 runaway, at-risk and homeless<br />
young people between the ages of 18-21,<br />
24 hours a day, through its Crisis Center<br />
and community outreach programs located<br />
in all five boroughs.<br />
Safe Horizon Selects Lopez<br />
to be General Counsel<br />
Felix Lopez<br />
University of Michigan.<br />
Safe Horizon is a leading non-profit<br />
victim services organization which assists<br />
350,000 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>ers each year.<br />
Long Island Head Start Appoints<br />
Fiorentino Director of Operations<br />
JoAnn C. Fiorentino has been named<br />
Director of Operations for Long Island<br />
Child & Family Development Services –<br />
Long Island Head Start. Fiorentino previously<br />
served as Senior Vice President of<br />
Marketing and Communications at United<br />
Way of Long Island which she joined in<br />
2001.<br />
Fiorentino will be responsible for<br />
Marketing, Building and Grounds, Finance,<br />
Human Resources and MIS at the<br />
Patchouge-based agency which operates<br />
Head Start programs at 14 sites in Suffolk<br />
County.<br />
Prior to United Way of Long Island,<br />
Fiorentino worked for Allstate Insurance<br />
Company, where she rose through a series<br />
of management positions and was named<br />
to the newly created position of Community<br />
Affairs Manager in 1992.<br />
She served as a chairperson for the<br />
Allstate Foundation of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State.<br />
She is the former chairperson for Suffolk<br />
County Crime Stoppers and currently<br />
serves on their Board of Directors. She<br />
was also the former chairperson of the<br />
Long Island Insurance Services Committee<br />
for CDC of Long Island.<br />
She is a graduate of St. Joseph’s college<br />
with dual certification in elementary<br />
and special education.<br />
Janet Palazzolo has been appointed<br />
Administrator of Residential Services<br />
at the Wartburg Adult Care Community.<br />
Palazzolo had previously worked<br />
at Wartburg from 1996 through 1998 as<br />
a social work case manager. Since then,<br />
JoAnn C. Fiorentino<br />
Fiorentino was awarded the Women<br />
of Distinction Award by State Senator<br />
Caesar Trunzo in 2000. She has worked<br />
as a volunteer with Suffolk County<br />
Emergency Medical Council, Long Island<br />
Network for Community Support,<br />
Friends Assisting Nassau Seniors, <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> Coalition for Transportation Safety,<br />
Mothers Against Drunk Driving and<br />
Suffolk County Anti-Graffiti Task Force.<br />
She was also the former chairperson of<br />
the Long Island Insurance Services Committee<br />
for CDC of Long Island.<br />
Palazzolo <strong>New</strong> Administrator of<br />
Residential Services at Wartburg<br />
Lisa Fulgoni, RN, has been appointed<br />
assistant director of admissions<br />
at Sarah Neuman Center for Healthcare<br />
and Rehabilitation. She is responsible<br />
for supervising patient review instruments,<br />
managing nurses in the field,<br />
maintaining census, conducting tours<br />
and meeting with families.<br />
Fulgoni joined the staff in January<br />
2001 and previously served as registered<br />
nurse coordinator and supervisor<br />
of the Admissions Department at the<br />
300-bed nursing home and rehabilitation<br />
center, the Westchester Division of<br />
The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare<br />
System.<br />
Ms. Fulgoni earned her bachelor of<br />
science in nursing at the College of<br />
<strong>New</strong> Rochelle and previously worked<br />
she has been Director of Career Development<br />
and a Counselor at Concordia<br />
College in Bronxville.<br />
She received her MSW form<br />
Fordham University and a BSW from<br />
Concordia where she graduated<br />
Magna Cum Laude.<br />
Assistant Director of Admissions<br />
at Sarah Neuman Center<br />
Tell Us About YOUR People<br />
Lisa Fulgoni<br />
at <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Hospital in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City.<br />
email editor@nynp.biz
20 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Emerging Social Entrepreneurs<br />
Honored by Echoing Green<br />
Five leaders of three regional nonprofits<br />
have been honored as the world’s “Best<br />
Emerging Social Entrepreneurs” based<br />
upon their innovative efforts to use entrepreneurial<br />
practices to create lasting social<br />
change. The groups were among nine organizations<br />
selected to receive <strong>2004</strong> Echoing<br />
Green Fellowships. The local honorees are:<br />
• Furman Brown of Generation Schools in<br />
Brooklyn;<br />
• Patricia Kakalec and Daniel Werner of<br />
the Workers’ Rights Law Center of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> (WRLC) in Kingston; and<br />
• Tameka Robinson and Risë Wilson of The<br />
Laundromat Project (TLP), Brooklyn, NY<br />
The Fellows, which were chosen from<br />
nearly 700 applicants in 37 countries, receive<br />
grants of $60,000 for individuals or<br />
$90,000 for partners. All fellows receive<br />
technical support, an invitation to fellowship<br />
conferences and consulting assistance<br />
as they launch their nonprofit organizations.<br />
Founded in 1987 with the support of<br />
General Atlantic Partners (GAP), a private<br />
Got <strong>New</strong>s?<br />
equity firm, and The Atlantic Philanthropies<br />
(USA), Inc., Echoing Green has<br />
invested $22 million to help more than<br />
380 leaders create positive change in 30<br />
countries.<br />
Generation Schools is planning to pioneer<br />
a new primary school model that<br />
offers a 6-to-1 student-teacher ratio by<br />
partnering veteran lead teachers with nationally<br />
recruited new teacher fellows<br />
WRLC is a workplace justice project<br />
for low-income and immigrant workers<br />
which includes an innovative Small<br />
Claims Court project and increased immigrant<br />
worker involvement in unions.<br />
The Laundromat Project is establishing<br />
a laundromat-based arts center in the<br />
working class neighborhood of Bedford-<br />
Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.<br />
“The <strong>2004</strong> recipients represent a new<br />
type of community leader that uses entrepreneurial<br />
practices to transform communities.”<br />
said Dr. Cheryl Dorsey, Echoing<br />
Green’s President.<br />
Email editor@nynp.biz<br />
UWNYC <strong>Nonprofit</strong> Leadership<br />
Development Institute Names<br />
Junior Fellows<br />
The United Way of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City’s<br />
<strong>Nonprofit</strong> Leadership Development Institute<br />
(NLDI) has announced its first class of<br />
Junior Fellows. The Fellows will participate<br />
in a 10-week seminar series starting in <strong>September</strong><br />
and covering such topics as Mission,<br />
Strategy and Management, Budgets and Accounting,<br />
Boards and Governance, Human<br />
Resources, Performance Evaluation, etc.<br />
The 25 Junior Fellows are:<br />
• Ms. Kristy Apostolides, Program Coordinator,<br />
Just Foods;<br />
• Ms. Tinisha L. Beckles, Marketing and<br />
Customer Service Manager, Neighbors<br />
Helping Neighbors, Inc.;<br />
• Ms. Kathleen Bielsa, Deputy Executive<br />
Director, Northfield Community Development<br />
Corp. of Staten Island;<br />
• Ms. Meggan Jayne Christman, Policy Advocate,<br />
Coalition of Voluntary Mental<br />
Health Agencies;<br />
• Ms. Colleen M. Devery, Director of Special<br />
Events, Girls Incorporated;<br />
• Ms. Jessyca D. Feliciano, Assistant Director<br />
of Childcare Services and Outreach<br />
Coordinator, Committee for Hispanic<br />
Children and Families;<br />
• Mr. Julio C. Grajales, Finance Associate,<br />
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans<br />
Frontieres;<br />
• Ms. Annie P. Huang, Associate Program<br />
Director, Queens, The Bridge Fund of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City;<br />
• Ms. Steffie Kinglake, Director of Operations,<br />
Project FAIR;<br />
• Ms. Ilana Rae Miller, Communications<br />
Coordinator, Independent <strong>Press</strong> Association<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>;<br />
• Ms. Nancy Miranda, Director of Quality<br />
Assurance; Damon House of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong>, Inc.;<br />
• Ms. Rolinda Ordonez, Residence Director,<br />
YWCA of Brooklyn;<br />
• Ms. Kathleen A.M. McTigue, The City<br />
Farms Program Coordinator, Just<br />
Food;<br />
• Ms. Anne Rascon, Director of Training,<br />
Nontraditional Employment for<br />
Women;<br />
• Ms. Michele Rattien, Director of Programs,<br />
Catholic Big Brothers for Boys<br />
and Girls;<br />
• Ms. Jacqueline L. Redd, Human Resources<br />
Specialist, Steinway Child and<br />
Family Services, Inc.;<br />
• Ms. Alison L. Ross, Board Relations,<br />
Volunteer Services and Special Projects<br />
Associate, City Harvest, Inc.<br />
• Ms. Amanda V. Sabicer, Senior Project<br />
Manager, Brooklyn Workforce Innovations;<br />
• Ms. Erica C. Shipstead, Development<br />
Assistant, inMotion, Inc.;<br />
• Mr. Mark L. Thiry, Assistant Administrator,<br />
Project Renewal, Inc.;<br />
• Ms. Jill A. Vertes, Program Manager,<br />
American-Italian Cancer Foundation;<br />
• Mr. Marcus F. Walton, Program Manager,<br />
Highbridge Community Life<br />
Center;<br />
• Ms. Ursula M. Watson, Social Worker,<br />
Cobble Hill Health Center;<br />
• Mr. Stephen D. Weyer, Director of Outreach<br />
Ministry, St. Francis Xavier Mission;<br />
• Ms. Alia D. Winters, Assistant to the<br />
President/Board Relations, Community<br />
Service Society of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>.<br />
EVENTS<br />
Interboro Foundation<br />
Raises Money for College<br />
Photo credit: Steve Butera<br />
On August 16th “Interboro at the Apollo” featured performing artists Ashford &<br />
Simpson, Deborah A. Cox, Meli’sa Morgan, Stephanie Mills and George Faison in a<br />
benefit concert for the Interboro Foundation to support “Making College a Reality<br />
for Everyone.”
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 21<br />
JOBS<br />
JOBS<br />
JOBS<br />
MSWs<br />
Leake and Watts Residential Treatment Center seeks the following:<br />
SOCIAL WORKER<br />
You will work with a multidisciplinary treatment team,<br />
serving as primary therapist and case manager for emotionally<br />
disturbed adolescents and their families.<br />
These opportunites require basic computer knowledge.<br />
Our southern Westchester campus is conveniently<br />
located to <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. We offer a competitive salary<br />
and benefits. Please send resume indicating position of<br />
interest to:<br />
Mr. John Albert Rivera,<br />
Recruitment Mgr.<br />
Leake and Watts Services, Inc.<br />
463 Hawthorne Ave.<br />
Yonkers, NY 10705<br />
Fax: 914-375-8901<br />
Email: jrivera@leakeandwatts.org<br />
Project Hospitality, a growing nonprofit serving the<br />
homeless and HIV+ populations on Staten Island,<br />
NY, located near the ferry, is expanding our administrative<br />
infrastructure and seeks committed professionals<br />
for the following positions:<br />
DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
PROGRAM AND CONTRACT<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
<strong>New</strong> opportunity for highly skilled full time administrator, CSW or related<br />
Master's with at least twelve years of management experience, preferably in<br />
homeless and housing services. Looking for multi-talented manager with<br />
progressively greater responsibilities in program supervision, contract and<br />
fiscal management, quality improvement and program evaluation. Must<br />
have background with multiple federal, state, city, government funding<br />
streams. Fast paced environment requiring excellent written skills as well<br />
as decision making and negotiation capabilities. Self directed professional<br />
capable of motivating others toward program and clinical excellence as part<br />
of a team. Position is part of the executive management structure of the<br />
agency. Send cover letter with salary requirements and resume.<br />
DIRECTOR OF PLANNING<br />
AND EVALUATION<br />
We seek a Psy.D/Ph.D OR Ph.D candidate for an exciting management<br />
opportunity to establish outcome measures/benchmarks and audit program<br />
services to enhance our quality of care. Experience in statistical<br />
testing/analyses required. Experience working with mentally ill, chemically<br />
dependent and HIV/AIDS pops. Success with health/mental health care outcome<br />
projects important. Computer literacy a must. Salary to $70-80K<br />
based on experience.<br />
We offer a comprehensive benefits package. Send resume to Fax #<br />
718-720-5476 Email Judeutsch@Projecthospitality.org or mail to Project<br />
Hospitality HR Director, 100 Park Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10302,<br />
EOE M/F/V/H.<br />
COMMUNITY WORKER<br />
F/T – NYC OFFICE<br />
Experienced in child welfare and community services. Must have a BA/BS<br />
degree. Bi-lingual a plus. Must have valid NYS drivers license. Some<br />
weekends required.<br />
YOUTH COUNSELORS<br />
FULL TIME DAYS P/T WEEKEND SHIFTS<br />
Experienced in residential setting.<br />
TRAINER – P/T FOR HR DEPARTMENT<br />
Flexible Hours – Duties include staff development and training – Prior<br />
experience required.<br />
NURSE COORDINATOR – F/T<br />
Health Center – 2 yrs. Nurse management. Experience including directing<br />
and developing staff. RN/BSN required. Must be able to promote a<br />
positive professional attitude.<br />
Forward resume w/salary requirements to<br />
Human Resources,<br />
P.O. Box 600, Lincolndale, NY 10540<br />
Fax 914-248-6193<br />
or e-mail Mkrzos@lincolnhall.org<br />
LINCOLN HALL<br />
Registered<br />
Nurses<br />
(P/T & F/T)<br />
Various positions available<br />
in our Group Homes for<br />
Teens on S.I., Manhattan,<br />
& Bronx. Low caseloads and clinical<br />
team approach. Candidate possess<br />
NYS RN license & valid driver’s license.<br />
Competitive salary for all positions,<br />
excellent benefits for F/T. Send<br />
resume: Ed Higgins, Director of<br />
Human Resources, Catholic Guardian<br />
Society, 1011 First Ave, NY, NY 10022,<br />
Fax: 212-421-1709 or email: ehigg@<br />
catholicguard.org<br />
Equal Opportunity Employer<br />
The Children’s Village, a nationally renowned Childcare Agency, has the<br />
following position available:<br />
TRAINING SPECIALIST<br />
The Training Specialist supports the Director of Training and Staff<br />
Development in the design and delivery of key training programs. The<br />
specialist will help design, facilitate and have accountability for training<br />
programs, communicate training activities and deliver assigned in-house<br />
training sessions (e.g. CVOT, TCI, etc). The Training Specialist will be the<br />
lead TCI instructor and will facilitate other trainings as required by the needs<br />
of the agency, while under the direct guidance and support of the Director<br />
of Training.<br />
Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Psychology, Educ, Org Dev or other<br />
rel field. Min1-2 years exp in adult training, group facilitation, and instructional<br />
design, or a Master’s degree and some exp. Residential treatment exp and<br />
certification in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention highly preferred. Other certifications<br />
(CPR, defensive driving instruction etc.) desirable.<br />
Excel benefits, (medical effective 1st of month following employment),<br />
on-site day care, excel training. Bilingual (Spanish) a plus. Please send res<br />
w/salary req to:<br />
HR, TCV, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.<br />
Fax: 914-674-4512<br />
email: recruiter@childrensvillage.org.<br />
Visit our website: www.childrenvillage.org.<br />
EOE. Encouraging a diverse workforce.<br />
Agency: THE MENTAL HEALTH<br />
ASSOCIATION OF NYC<br />
Position:<br />
JOB DEVELOPER<br />
Program/Locations: Bronx and<br />
Manhattan<br />
Description:<br />
MHA of NYC seeks experienced,<br />
committed, consumer-centered vocational<br />
rehabilitation professional with<br />
excellent interpersonal skills for an<br />
award winning individualized placement<br />
and support (IPS) model program<br />
and a new VESID supported<br />
employment initiative.<br />
Market supported employment programs/participants<br />
to the business<br />
community. Develop individualized<br />
job placements for adults in recovery<br />
from psychiatric and/or co-occurring<br />
disabilities. Must be able to develop<br />
jobs through cold calling if needed.<br />
BA/S strongly preferred, ability to<br />
function as part of a team necessary.<br />
Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation<br />
and ability to lead employment<br />
skills groups required. Bi-lingual a<br />
plus. Having current referral/job bank<br />
strongly preferred.<br />
Email/Fax/Mail cover letter/resume to:<br />
SDudasik@mhaofnyc.org<br />
Fax: (212) 964- 7302<br />
Mailing Address: 157 Chambers<br />
Street, 9th floor, NY, 10007<br />
c/o Steve Dudasik<br />
MHA OF NYC IS AN EO EMPLOYER<br />
Adver<br />
ertise with NYNP It Works! W<br />
23 PEOPLE NEEDED<br />
IMMEDIATELY !<br />
Work from your home ONLINE.<br />
flexible schedule. Great pay.<br />
$1500 - $7800 per month.<br />
PT/FT<br />
Email me @ tcruz246@aol.com<br />
EDUCATIONAL<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
The Montessori Day School of<br />
Brooklyn provides high-quality early<br />
education and nurturing care to over<br />
100 children, aged 8 months to 6<br />
years.<br />
Responsibilities include: Developing<br />
curriculum with teachers, coordinating<br />
staff schedules, supervising<br />
teachers, organizing in-service training/staff<br />
development and steering<br />
the school through NAEYC accreditation.<br />
Qualifications: MA in Early<br />
Childhood Education, NYS certification,<br />
four years preschool teaching<br />
experience, demonstrated leadership<br />
qualities, and ability to work with<br />
a diverse mix of staff and families.<br />
Send resume, cover letter and<br />
salary requirements to:<br />
Mike Fagan, Executive Director,<br />
MDS of Brooklyn, 30 Third<br />
Avenue, POB 170556, Brooklyn,<br />
NY 11217. mikef@mentalhelp.net<br />
CHILDREN’S CENTER GROUP TEACHER<br />
Chelsea-based multi-service organization seeks a Group Teacher in our<br />
Early Childhood Program for participants ages 2-5. Must have a Master’s<br />
Degree in Early Childhood Education, N-6 NYS certification and experience<br />
working with children ages 2-5. Salary based on education and<br />
experience.<br />
MSW GROUP SERVICES COORDINATOR<br />
Hudson Guild, a not-for-profit settlement house located in Manhattan’s<br />
Chelsea community, seeks an experienced, creative and motivated candidate<br />
for group services coordination responsibilities at its Adult Services<br />
Program. This unique job will provide an opportunity to impact the lives of<br />
hundreds of older adults (55+). Position responsibilities include developing/facilitating<br />
groups, increasing roster of enrichment activities and conducting<br />
outreach for participation, especially among residents of public<br />
housing. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. Salary commensurate with<br />
experience.<br />
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL<br />
RELATIONS (F/T)<br />
Hudson Guild, a non-profit social service agency in the Chelsea section of<br />
Manhattan, seeks Associate Director of External Relations to be fully<br />
responsible for day-to-day running of the department; coordinate fundraising;<br />
manage staff and consultants. Build strong relationships with donors;<br />
create and manage Annual Fund appeal, including trustee solicitations<br />
and direct mail appeals; create and oversee all special events. Must have<br />
5-7 years experience in fundraising with specific experience in individual<br />
cultivation, institutional gift solicitation, communications, volunteer programming<br />
and special events. Excellent writing/verbal skills and strong<br />
management capacity. Salary commensurate with experience.<br />
IAC/HUDSON GUILD<br />
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR<br />
Hudson Guild, a <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City settlement house serving more than<br />
11,000 individuals in Chelsea, and IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), a leading<br />
multi-brand interactive commerce company with future corporate headquarters<br />
in Chelsea, seek an individual to develop and run a volunteer<br />
program for Hudson Guild. Design and implement specific IAC volunteer<br />
program activities for the benefit of Hudson Guild, as well as the Guild’s<br />
ongoing volunteer program. Help develop goals, objectives and policies<br />
for volunteer program. Interview, screen and assign individual volunteers.<br />
Develop and implement strategies for volunteer recruitment on corporate<br />
and individual basis; develop resources for volunteer programs; serve as<br />
liaison between agency and community to promote volunteerism. B.A.<br />
degree; 3 years+ related experience in a not-for-profit community service<br />
based setting, must be able to handle multiple projects, work both independently<br />
and flexibly as part of a team and meet deadlines. Good interpersonal<br />
and communications skills required. Experience in coordinating<br />
volunteer-related events a plus. Should have Word and Excel skills.<br />
Competitive salary and full benefits. Only qualified individuals will be contacted.<br />
Please include salary requirements.<br />
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE SPECIAL<br />
EVENTS, ANNUAL FUND APPEAL<br />
AND COMMUNICATIONS<br />
Hudson Guild, a <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City settlement house in Chelsea, seeks creative<br />
Development Associate to coordinate Special Events, Annual Fund<br />
Appeal and Communications within busy 6-person development team.<br />
Work with Director of Development to plan and coordinate agency’s special<br />
events, coordinate production of internal and external agency communications,<br />
including agency newsletters, promotional materials for special<br />
events, fundraising letters, and other items. Update Web site copy, produce<br />
appeal mailings and handle daily administrative tasks. B.A. degree,<br />
demonstrated ability to coordinate a range of special events, write clearly<br />
and persuasively. Must be able to handle multiple projects, work both<br />
independently and flexibly as part of a team and meet deadlines. Minimum<br />
of 2 years related experience in community service non-profit setting.<br />
Should be skilled in Word, Excel and Outlook, knowledge of Publisher and<br />
HTML a plus. Competitive salary and full benefits. Only qualified individuals<br />
will be contacted. Please include salary requirements.<br />
Send cover letter and resume to:<br />
jobs<strong>2004</strong>@nyc.rr.com or fax: 212-924-6872<br />
UNITED WAY is seeking an I & R DATABASE MANAGER<br />
to build and maintain a 7-county regional database of health and<br />
human service organizations for use by I&R professionals. Position<br />
will also be responsible for identifying emerging service needs<br />
based on trends analysis. BS in Health and Human Svcs and/or<br />
Libríy Sciences with 3+ yrs relíd exper. Windows & Microsoft Off.<br />
applications, to include Access required, w/working knowledge of<br />
REFER a +. Send res w/ salary requirements to UWWP, Attn. HR-<br />
DM, 336 Central Avenue, White Plains, 10606. Fax 914-949-6438.<br />
E/O/E<br />
orks! CALL 866-336-6967<br />
"
22 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong><br />
JOBS<br />
JOBS<br />
JOBS<br />
SECRETARY<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
<strong>Nonprofit</strong> psychiatric rehabilitation<br />
program seeks a Secretary/Admin.<br />
For its fund raising team.<br />
Only candidates with relevant professional,<br />
job history assisting executive<br />
level staff will be considered (at least<br />
three years secretarial and administrative<br />
experience). Must be a team<br />
player.<br />
Duties include working closely with<br />
Director of Development; scheduling<br />
and organizing meetings, assisting w.<br />
all fundraising activities and special<br />
events; processing foundation proposals;<br />
heavy contact with Board of<br />
Directors, ect. Draft correspondence,<br />
memos, create spreadsheets, ect.<br />
And secretarial duties. Some managing<br />
of electronic donor records.<br />
Must be mature, detailed oriented,<br />
extremely organized, a self-starter with<br />
excellent grammer – spoken and written;<br />
and a graceful communicator –<br />
tactful, diplomatic and professional at<br />
all times. Must know work processing,<br />
spreadsheets and various softwares.<br />
Excellent Sal and ben. in a thriving,<br />
supportive and energetic work environment.<br />
BA pref’d. Fax or send<br />
resume to:<br />
Hilarie Mahon<br />
FOUNTAIN HOUSE<br />
425 W. 47th St.NY, NY 10036<br />
(212) 977-5396, fax<br />
No phone Calls Please. EOE<br />
PART-TIME<br />
SOCIAL WORKER<br />
Geriatric mental health agency in<br />
Manhattan seeks Clinical Social<br />
Worker 20 hrs/wk for dementia adult<br />
day program. CSW & exp. with elderly<br />
required. Fax resume to 212-787-1230<br />
or e-mail SPOPamyberg@aol.com<br />
QUALITY<br />
CONTROL MANAGER<br />
For-Profit is seeking to add a Quality<br />
Control Manager, with Human<br />
Services background and good<br />
communicaton skills are necessary.<br />
Experience with NYCWAY system<br />
an asset. College backround preferred.<br />
Contact: Tammi Meyers, at<br />
tmeyers@arbornyc.com or fax resume<br />
with coverletter to (212)967-2735.<br />
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE<br />
Expanding <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City for-Profit<br />
company is seeking an seasoned<br />
Account Excutive. This position is<br />
located in Midtown Manhattan and<br />
offers an opportunity to work with businesses<br />
on assessing their human<br />
resourse needs and matching qualfications<br />
to our customers. Marketing and<br />
Sales backround with good communication<br />
skills, computer skills an asset.<br />
College backround is prefered.<br />
Contact: Nancy Ramos, Director-<br />
Arbor E&T E-mail resume to<br />
nramos@arbornyc.com or Fax resume<br />
with cover letter(646) 733-9191<br />
EDUCATION<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Year-round Early Education Program<br />
seeks a qualified and motivated educational<br />
leader. The Candidate will possess<br />
a strong foundation in early childhood<br />
education and child development.<br />
Must have a Masters in Education and<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Certification N-6. Join a<br />
dynamic and professional team in a recognized<br />
quality early education program<br />
in the Bronx. Bi-lingual a+ please FAX<br />
Resume and Cover Letter to (718) 839-<br />
1187. Salary and benefits competitive.<br />
www.nynp.biz<br />
<strong>2004</strong><br />
Human Service Referral<br />
Directory of NYC<br />
Comprehensive Guide to Health and Human Services in NYC<br />
Better Than Ever…<br />
• Thousands of listings arranged by categories<br />
and subcategories<br />
• At-a-glance table of contents makes it easier to locate the<br />
most convenient resources<br />
$6900 + shipping, handling & tax<br />
nynp.biz<br />
Call to Order 866-336-6967<br />
CONTROLLER<br />
The Children’s Village, a nationally renowned Childcare Agency, has an<br />
immediate opening for a Controller. This position is a highly visible accounting<br />
management position reporting to the Vice President Administration and<br />
Finance. Responsibilities include managing the overall accounting activities<br />
of the agency, including ensuring that all accounting transactions are properly<br />
authorized and recorded, that all financial reporting is timely and accurate;<br />
monitoring, reporting, and assisting in cash forecasting, and continuously<br />
reviewing operating and internal control procedures.<br />
The successful candidate will have demonstrated exp with the specifics of<br />
not-for-profit accounting and reporting and child welfare funding. Experience<br />
with Medicaid, foster care, federal, state, and city funding agencies is desirable.<br />
Bachelor’s Degree in accounting with CPA or 5 – 7 years experience.<br />
Excel benefits, (medical effective 1st of month following employment), onsite<br />
day care. Please send res w/salary req to:<br />
HR, TCV, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Fax:<br />
(914) 674-4512,<br />
email: recruiter@childrensvillage.org.<br />
Visit our website:<br />
www.childrensvillage.org .<br />
EOE. Encouraging a diverse workforce.<br />
Social Work Supervisor<br />
Group Home Services (GHS)<br />
QUEENS<br />
Dynamic & highly-involved individual<br />
needed to supervise case-planning of<br />
adolescent males in foster care. Train<br />
& supervise staff. Ensure compliance<br />
w/govt mandates. MSW + 2 yrs post-<br />
MSW paid similarexp req. CSW/LMSW<br />
req. within 1 yr. IL exp & NYS driver’s<br />
lic. pref. Flexible/evening hrs req. In~<br />
volves travel between sites. Generous<br />
benefits pkg incl Medical/Dental/Life<br />
ins + 4 wks vac + personal days & holi~<br />
daysoff, pension, 401(k) & 403(b)plans,<br />
flex-spending plans, & a dedicated,<br />
professional, family environment.<br />
Mail/fax resume to Personnel Director,<br />
ST. VINCENT’S SERVICES<br />
66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
Fax: (718) 422-2312. EOE M/F/D/V<br />
Diversity is part of our mission.<br />
SOCIAL WORK<br />
ST. VINCENT’S SERVICES<br />
Foster Care Caseworker<br />
Opportunity on Staten Island<br />
Provide casework and permanency<br />
planning to adolescents in foster care<br />
group homes, preparing them for Inde~<br />
pendent Living. Maintain supportive<br />
relationships with youths and natural<br />
families. Assess their needs and make<br />
appropriate referrals. Schedule & com~<br />
plete field visits. Maintain all pert~<br />
inent documentation. BA/BS plus one<br />
year similar paid exp. req’d. MSW<br />
pref’d; salary commensurate w/educa~<br />
tion & exp plus extensive benefits<br />
pkg. Mail resumes to:<br />
Personnel Director<br />
ST. VINCENT’S SERVICES INC.<br />
66 Boerum Place<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
(718) 422-2312<br />
M/F/D/V<br />
Diversity is part of our mission.<br />
PSYCHOLOGIST<br />
MR/DD ADULTS -BROOKLYN, NY<br />
Eval/prepare plans for MR/DD adults.<br />
Participate in treatment team meet~<br />
ings & maintain OMRDD-required doc~<br />
umentation. Train direct care staff.<br />
MS in Psychology req, exp w/MR/DD<br />
pref. 21 hours/week. Medical/Dental<br />
benefits + pension. Send resume to:<br />
BOX RP-649, 71 Fifth Avenue<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10003<br />
Social Work Supervisor<br />
Group Home Services (GHS)<br />
Social Work Supervisor<br />
Family Foster Services (FFS)<br />
Two dynamic & highly-involved indivi~<br />
dual needed to supervise case-plan~<br />
ning & IL development of adolescents<br />
in foster care. Train & supervise<br />
staff. Ensure compliance w/govt man~<br />
dates. MSW + 2 yrs post-MSW paid<br />
similar exp req. CSW/LMSW req.<br />
within 1 yr. IL exp & NYS driver’s<br />
lic. pref. Flexible/ evening hrs req.<br />
Generous benefits pkg incl Med/Den~<br />
tal/Life ins + 4 wks vac + personal<br />
days & holidays off, pension, 401(k) &<br />
403(b) plans, flex-spending plans, & a<br />
dedicated, professional, family environ~<br />
ment. Mail/fax resume to:<br />
Personnel Director<br />
ST. VINCENT’S SERVICES<br />
66 Boerum Place<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
Fax: (718) 422-2312<br />
EOE M/F/D/V<br />
Diversity is part of our mission.<br />
The Visiting Nurse Service of NY (VNSNY) is a nearly $1 billion, not-forprofit<br />
health care organization with 10,000 employees. We are currently<br />
seeking talented individuals for our growing internal consulting unit –<br />
Performance Improvement. Focusing on senior management’s top agenda,<br />
Performance Improvement works on a range of issues that directly impact<br />
VNSNY’s bottom line as well as the quality of service we deliver to our<br />
patients.<br />
INTERNAL CONSULTANTS<br />
Performance Improvement is seeking talented mid- and junior-level consultants.<br />
Responsibilities will encompass research and data collection, financial<br />
analysis, business process analysis, performance measurement and operational<br />
risk/control analysis. You will also handle day-to-day management of<br />
projects, create/track/monitor project work plans, and develop and deliver<br />
presentations. Ideal candidates will have experience in management consulting,<br />
strong analytical skills, and excellent written and verbal communication<br />
skills. Strong proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is also<br />
required. MBA, MPA, or graduate degree in a related field preferred<br />
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume to<br />
Attn: G. Gangadeen<br />
With AD Code NYP083004<br />
Online:www.vnsny.org (preferred) E-mail:careers@vnsny.org<br />
Fax: 212-504-7938 Call: 1-866-VNS-TODAY EOE M/F/D/V<br />
DIRECTOR OF GRANTSMANSHIP<br />
The Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service, a 134 year old not-forprofit<br />
providing vital services to families, children and adults with disabilities<br />
in need, seeks fund-raiser to oversee the solicitation of private<br />
and corporate foundations, and governmental entities to raise substantial<br />
revenues for general support and critical private initiatives. Position<br />
will supervise research; write and oversee development of proposals;<br />
prepare annual fundraising strategy; liaise with Board, foundations, government<br />
agencies and collaborative organizations; and hold key role in<br />
program development process, managing a staff of two<br />
writer/researchers. Candidate must posses superior writing, interpersonal,<br />
organization and analytical skills , be an effective collaborator;<br />
be able to meet many deadlines; handle multiple tasks; and cultivate<br />
productive liaisons with a variety of constituencies. B.A., supervisory<br />
experience, success in grantsmanshhip and minimum 5 years development<br />
experience with progressively increasing responsibilities required.<br />
M.A. preferred. Please send resume, salary history and/or requirements<br />
and writing samples to: Norma Martin, BBCS, 285 Schermerhorn<br />
St., Brooklyn, NY 11217. E-mail: nmartin@bbcs.org. EOE<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> AIDS Coalition<br />
(NYAC) seeks a dynamic and wellorganized<br />
individual to serve as its<br />
Office Coordinator.<br />
This individual must possess stellar<br />
administrative skills and be able to<br />
work in a demanding and fast-paced<br />
environment. This person must be<br />
computer savvy and must be proficient<br />
in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word and<br />
should have training in database management.<br />
Should have experience<br />
with special event planning and implementation.<br />
Please direct all resumes<br />
with cover letter to Keith Wayne at<br />
kwayne@nyaidsc.org or via fax to<br />
212-629-8403 no later than Friday,<br />
Sept. 24th. You can also mail info to<br />
NYAC, 231 W. 29th Street, #1002,<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10001 attn: K. Wayne.<br />
PHONE CALLS WILL NOT BE<br />
ACCEPTED. Salary: Low $30s.<br />
BOROUGH NETWORK<br />
MANAGER/TRAINING<br />
FACILITATOR<br />
Prominent youth organization seeks<br />
individual to coordinate coalitions of<br />
youth service providers in all 5 boroughs,<br />
coordinate volunteer program<br />
that links volunteers with business<br />
skills to nonprofit organizations, and<br />
facilitate a variety of workshops.<br />
Excellent community organizing,<br />
advocacy, organization, presentation<br />
skills, ability to multi-task, and attention<br />
to detail a must. Experience in<br />
youth services and mentoring helpful.<br />
Master's degree and 2-3+ years experience<br />
preferred. Submit appropriate<br />
cover letter, resume, and salary<br />
requirement to:<br />
K. Heindl,<br />
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS<br />
OF NYC,<br />
245 5th Ave. Suite 702 NY, NY<br />
10016, fax 646-274-6073 or email to<br />
kheindl@bigsnyc.org.<br />
No phone calls please. EOE<br />
VOCATIONAL<br />
REHABILITATION<br />
SPECIALIST<br />
Description: The Mental Health<br />
Association of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City seeks<br />
an individual to perform educational and<br />
vocational assessments to SPMI/MICA<br />
consumers. Refer consumers to appropriate<br />
educational, vocational, and/or<br />
employment services. Assist with<br />
VESID applications. Maintain stipend<br />
component of Recovery Works. Act as<br />
liaison to MHA’s Work Services<br />
Programs to facilitate inter-agency referrals<br />
and establish communication<br />
between programs.<br />
Qualifications:<br />
Minimum AA degree, BA preferred. 2<br />
years experience in vocational rehabilitation<br />
programs serving persons with<br />
psychiatric, substance abuse, or cooccurring<br />
disabilities. Individual and<br />
group counseling skills, rehabilitation<br />
goal development and planning skills<br />
required. Knowledge of community<br />
resources strongly preferred. Team oriented<br />
with good communication skills<br />
necessary. Basic computer knowledge<br />
(Word) required.<br />
Contact:<br />
Cover letter/Resume to Louise<br />
Lasson, LLasson@mhaofnyc.org<br />
Fax: (212) 860-3658<br />
DIRECTOR OF<br />
FINANCE &<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
Leading provider of pro bono business<br />
law services to nonprofits seeks<br />
a Director of Finance & Administration<br />
with 5+ years experience working in<br />
finance and administration in the nonprofit<br />
sector, including supervisory<br />
experience. Please visit the <strong>New</strong>s<br />
section of www.lany.org for details.<br />
Send resume to: SCD, Lawyers<br />
Alliance for <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, 330 Seventh<br />
Avenue, 19th Floor, NYC 10001. Fax:<br />
(212) 941-7458. No phone inquiries.
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz 23<br />
CLASSIFIEDS/RESOURCE CE DIRECTOR<br />
ORY<br />
Social Work<br />
PROGRAM DIRECTOR,<br />
Chemical Dependency Services<br />
St. Vincent’s Services, anestablished &<br />
innovative social services organiza~<br />
tion, is seeking a Program Director for<br />
Chemical Dependency Services. Have<br />
full managerial authority over all as~<br />
pects of rapidly-expanding OASASlicensed<br />
program w/multiple sites in<br />
Brooklyn, Queens & S.I. Oversee pro~<br />
gram operation. Set & implement stan~<br />
dards for treatment provided to clients<br />
w/Alcohol/Sub Abuse issues, & monitor<br />
quality. Maintain treatment policies in<br />
accordance w/OASAS mandates while<br />
maintaining cost-effectiveness. Select,<br />
supervise & evaluate professional<br />
staff. Maintain linkages w/local orgs.<br />
& arrange outreach programming.<br />
Req: CSW and CASAC + 10 yrs. post-<br />
MSW exp, incl. min. 6 yrs mgt exp in<br />
multi-site prgm of similar type & size.<br />
Valid NYS driver’s lic. req’d & fluency<br />
in Spanish pref’d. Salary commensur~<br />
ate w/exp. Very extensive benefits pkg.<br />
Mail/fax resume to Personnel Director,<br />
ST. VINCENT’S SERVICES<br />
66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
Fax: (718) 422-2312. EOE M/F/D/V<br />
Diversity is part of our mission.<br />
YOUR AD HERE<br />
YOUR AD HERE<br />
YOUR AD HERE<br />
RESOURCE DIRECTORY<br />
REAL ESTATE<br />
MISC.<br />
SOCIAL WORK<br />
Child Advocate in D/V shelter.<br />
BA + experience with children.<br />
Licensed driver with car.<br />
Spanish speaking a must.<br />
Excellent Benefits. FAX: LINDA<br />
@ 516-572-0715. E-mail:<br />
contacts@cadvnc.org<br />
SOCIAL<br />
SERVICES<br />
PROGRAM<br />
MANAGER<br />
Creative MSW to direct services (case<br />
management, counseling, group<br />
work, referrals) and staff in permanent<br />
supportive housing and provide leadership<br />
in multi-program setting. Must<br />
have: MSW or Masters in<br />
Counseling/Psychology; experience<br />
with special needs populations<br />
(homeless, substance abuse,<br />
HIV/AIDS, mentally ill); housing<br />
knowledge; patience; energy; excellent<br />
interpersonal, writing, and case<br />
recording skills; computer literacy;<br />
commitment to diverse work environment.<br />
$65K & benefits. Upper<br />
Manhattan location. Fax resume &<br />
introductory letter highlighting related<br />
experience to: 718-602-9107. EOE<br />
www.nynp.biz<br />
Wanted: Space in Lower Manhattan/Chinatown<br />
3,500 sq feet for evening training classes; need two, secure rooms asap.<br />
Will lease or sublease for 2-3 years. 212-366-6160x100<br />
FINANCE EXECUTIVE<br />
Assignment or Special Projects<br />
CFO/CONTROLLER with 15 years in nonprofit Financial Management.<br />
• Accounting • Audit • Controls • Process Improvements • Reporting<br />
• Forecasts • Budget • Contracts • Software • Cash Flow •<br />
Phone: 212-866-8178<br />
Email:rcharlson@acedsl.com<br />
CPA @ REASONABLE RATES<br />
Audits, Accounting & Bookkeeping/Software, Taxes,<br />
Grant/Contract Management and Budget<br />
SKD Partners LLP<br />
212-868-1175 - rsatyadeo@skdpartners.com<br />
BRUCEHURWITZ.COM<br />
A NON-PROFIT CONSULTANCY<br />
Specializing in...<br />
Fundraising Campaigns and Events • Grantsmanship • Management •<br />
Marketing • Planned Giving • Public Relations • Volunteer/Board<br />
Development • Employment Search Services for Professionals<br />
555 Gorge Road, 5G, Cliffside Park, NJ 07010<br />
Phone/Fax 201-313-7019 Cell: 201-674-8858<br />
E-mail: bh@brucehurwitz.com www.brucehurwitz.com<br />
P/T CHILD<br />
ADVOCATE IN<br />
D/V SHELTER<br />
Spanish speaking a +. 1 weekend<br />
day and 1 weekday. Fax<br />
resume: Linda @ 516-572-0715.<br />
E-mail: contacts@cadvnc.org<br />
SOCIAL SERVICES<br />
RESIDENCE MANAGER<br />
HOME FOR MR/DD ADULTS-BKLYN<br />
Manage home for MR/DD adults. Su~<br />
pervise & coordinate their program~<br />
ming. Supvse staff. BA/BS or QMRP<br />
pref + NYS Driver’s lic. & 2 yrs exp.<br />
Salary commensurate w/educ. & exp.<br />
Medical/Dental benefits + pension.<br />
Send resume to: BOX RP-650, 71Fifth<br />
Avenue, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10003<br />
YOUR AD HERE YOUR AD<br />
HERE YOUR AD HERE YOUR<br />
AD HERE YOUR AD HERE<br />
PRINITING<br />
PRINTING<br />
Events Organizers and your Agencies can benefit by receiving timely service,<br />
the highest quality and the best price in the developing and printing of your<br />
events collateral material.<br />
At Wescan, fast turnarounds is our specialty. Call Sam or John at<br />
212-924-3600 to discuss your Journals, Program Books and Invitation printing.<br />
Wescan Color Inc., 175 Varick Street, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY 10014<br />
Tel: 212-924-3600. Fax: 212-924-1080. Email: wescan@aol.com<br />
MAGIC CIRCLE PRINTING<br />
Environmentally<br />
recycled<br />
papers<br />
Responsible<br />
COBRA SITE<br />
MANAGER<br />
Supervise case mgmt staff; monitors<br />
all client services; conducts case<br />
reviews; provides direct client svcs.,<br />
exp working w/HIV infected clients,<br />
strong supervisory & interpersonal<br />
skills. Cobra exp. A +Reqs Master in<br />
Social Work Brooklyn location. If interested<br />
please forward/fax your resume<br />
to the Human Resources Department<br />
at 79 Madison Avenue <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY<br />
10016 www.chnnyc.org or fax to (212)<br />
807-0250. (no phone calls please)<br />
Your Ad Here<br />
Call 866-336-6967<br />
Your Ad Here<br />
Call TOLL FREE 866-336-6967<br />
Your Ad Here<br />
Call 866-336-6967<br />
Your Ad Here<br />
Call TOLL FREE<br />
866-336-6967<br />
(NYNP)<br />
For Late Breaking <strong>New</strong>s & The Latest Job Listings<br />
Subscribe for the NYNP Email <strong>New</strong>s Updates<br />
EMAIL:EDITOR@NYNP.BIZ<br />
Stationery<br />
Booklets<br />
Flyers<br />
<strong>New</strong>sletters<br />
Business cards<br />
Office: (212) 675.3043<br />
Printshop: (973) 746.5354<br />
89 Walnut Street Montclair, NJ 07042<br />
magiccircleprint@aol.com<br />
CONSULTING SERVICES<br />
Experienced nonprofit executive<br />
available for consultations on<br />
strategic planning, program development,<br />
grant writing, financial<br />
management, rate reviews and<br />
speech writing.<br />
Call 888-933-6967<br />
For Resource Directory Prices Call Toll Free 1-866-336-6967<br />
or email publisher@nynp.biz<br />
CALENDAR OF EVENTS continued from page 3<br />
FERENCE, will be held at CASA's Zena and Michael A.<br />
Wiener Conference Center in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City. For full<br />
conference and registration information, log on to<br />
www.casacolumbia.org<br />
<strong>September</strong> 23 – The United Way of Long<br />
Island will benefit from the Long Island Insurance<br />
Community’s 10h Annual Gala, 4:30 at the Bourne<br />
Mansion in Oakdale, NY. Honorees will be Michael D.<br />
Davidson, Vice President and Senior Officer of<br />
Independent Agents Organization from MetLife Auto &<br />
Home and Joseph DiBetta, National Director of Claims<br />
from CNA Specialty Lines. For more information about<br />
this event please call Lois Grant at 631-940-3746 or visit<br />
www.unitedwayli.org<br />
<strong>September</strong> 28 – The Federation of Protestant<br />
Welfare Agencies Center for Professional<br />
Development will host a Workshop on Beginner<br />
Basics of Proposal Writing. Fee is $65 for members<br />
and $80 for non-members. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 281<br />
Park Avenue South, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, NY. For information contact<br />
Marie C. Paul at 212-801-1336 or visit<br />
www.fpwa.org.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 29 - The Suffolk Community<br />
Council will hold a Legislative Reception and<br />
Public Forum with Special Guest Speaker Suffolk<br />
County Executive Steve Levy and Department<br />
Heads.8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Stonebridge<br />
Country Club,N.Veterans Hwy.,Hauppauge.Registration<br />
is $30 for Council members, $40 for non-members and<br />
includes breakfast. Contact the Council office at 631-<br />
434-9277 to register.<br />
Sept. 29-Oct. 3 - The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Association of<br />
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services will hold its<br />
22nd Annual Conference, ‘"The Recovery<br />
Revolution: Reformation and Transformation Through<br />
Collaboration" at the Nevele Grand Resort in Ellenville,<br />
NY. For information go to www.nyaprs.org.<br />
October 3 - Support Connection, a not-for-profit<br />
organization that offers free and confidential<br />
support services to people affected by breast and<br />
ovarian cancer, is planning it 10th Annual support-A-<br />
Walk. at FDR State Park, located off the Taconic Parkway<br />
on Route 202 in <strong>York</strong>town Heights. The Walk will begin<br />
at 10:00 am with pre-Walk activities beginning at 9:00<br />
am.Anyone interested in becoming a Walk sponsor, placing<br />
an advertisement in the Walk Journal, or forming a<br />
team should contact Walk Chairperson Donna Corti at<br />
(914) 962-6402.<br />
October 6-7 - Camp Finance,a two-day retreat for<br />
Executive Directors,Key Fiancial Staff ,Development<br />
Directors and Board Members will be hosted by the<br />
Council of Community Services of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State at<br />
Mohonk Mountain House. For information contact Traci<br />
Adkins at tadkins@ccsnys.org or call 800-515-501C ext.108.<br />
October 7 - United Way of Long Island’s 40th<br />
Anniversary Celebration will feature Special Guest:<br />
The Honorable Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General State of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and honor John R. Durso, President Local 338<br />
Retail Wholesale Department Store Union/United Food<br />
Commercial Workers, 6:00 p.m., Oheka Castle, Cold Spring<br />
Hills. For more information, contact Julie Dade-Howard at<br />
631.940.3750.<br />
To submit calendar items for publication, send information by<br />
mail to: Editor, NYNP, P.O. Box 338, Chatham, NY 12037 or<br />
via email to editor@nynp.biz. Include a contact name and<br />
phone number. For information call 888-933-6967.