April Edition 2010 - New York Nonprofit Press
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16 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Nonprofit</strong> <strong>Press</strong> www.nynp.biz <strong>April</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE<br />
Garza to Succeed Middleton-Jeter<br />
as ED at Henry Street Settlement<br />
WWW.<br />
NYNP.<br />
BIZ<br />
David Garza will<br />
be the new Executive<br />
Director of Henry<br />
Street Settlement, effective<br />
July 1, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Garza, currently Chief<br />
Administrator of Henry<br />
Street’s Workforce Development<br />
Center (WDC), is<br />
succeeding Verona Middleton-Jeter<br />
who is retiring<br />
after 38 years at the<br />
Settlement, seven of them<br />
as Executive Director.<br />
David Garza<br />
Garza began at the<br />
WDC in July 2001 and<br />
became its Chief Administrator in 2005.<br />
Prior to joining Henry Street, he worked as<br />
a retail management executive and an independent<br />
producer for film, television and<br />
corporate marketing projects.<br />
“David’s<br />
success in building<br />
the WDC into<br />
one of the city’s<br />
preeminent centers<br />
and his deep<br />
understanding of<br />
the Henry Street<br />
NYUSilver<br />
Silver School of Social Work<br />
advancing professionals,<br />
advancing the profession<br />
community will serve<br />
the agency well going<br />
forward,” said Robert<br />
Harrison, Chairman of<br />
Henry Street’s Board of<br />
Directors, which elected<br />
Garza at its February<br />
22, <strong>2010</strong>, meeting<br />
following a six-month<br />
national search. Dale<br />
Burch, Henry Street<br />
Board President, lauded<br />
David’s passion for the<br />
agency and his ability to<br />
motivate and inspire.<br />
“Today, the services<br />
Henry Street provides are more vital than<br />
ever,” said Garza. “I am honored and quite<br />
thrilled with the opportunity to build on<br />
the Settlement’s remarkable legacy as we<br />
move into the future.”<br />
“I know that I’m leaving Henry Street<br />
in good hands,” said Middleton-Jeter. “I’m<br />
confident that David will excel at leading<br />
the Settlement in the years ahead.”<br />
Garza graduated from Harvard College<br />
in 1986 and later from the Institute<br />
for Not-for-Profit Management at Columbia<br />
Business School.<br />
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Gunn Named President/CEO at Seedco<br />
Barbara Dwyer Gunn<br />
has been named President<br />
and Chief Executive Officer<br />
of the Structured Employment<br />
and Economic<br />
Development Corporation<br />
(Seedco), the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
City-based national nonprofit<br />
organization.<br />
Gunn will join Seedco<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 1, <strong>2010</strong>, succeeding<br />
Diane Baillargeon,<br />
who announced last year<br />
that she would step down<br />
as Seedco’s President and<br />
Barbara Dwyer Gunn<br />
Seedco is a national<br />
nonprofit organization<br />
that develops and oversees<br />
programs to create<br />
new economic opportunities<br />
for low-income<br />
people and communities,<br />
as well as those<br />
recovering from disasters.<br />
The organization<br />
is involved in workforce<br />
development and assetbuilding<br />
programs in six<br />
states, as well as important<br />
anti-poverty initiatives<br />
CEO after 12 years at the organization.<br />
Gunn comes to Seedco from the<br />
American Museum of Natural History<br />
in <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. There she served nearly 15<br />
years as the Senior Vice President for Operations<br />
and Government Relations. Gunn<br />
began her tenure at the Museum as the<br />
Vice President of Finance where she managed<br />
financial operations and the issuance<br />
of the Museum’s first bond financing.<br />
Gunn also brings to Seedco extensive<br />
public service experience, working in numerous<br />
capacities in the administration of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Mayor Edward I. Koch, including<br />
Director of the Mayor’s Office of<br />
Operations from 1986 to 1989.<br />
“Barbara is an acknowledged nonprofit<br />
leader who has shown strong and<br />
effective management skills in complex<br />
organizations. Both her work at the worldfamous<br />
American Museum of Natural<br />
History and her public service career have<br />
demonstrated a deep commitment to the<br />
people and communities Seedco serves,”<br />
said Dr. George A. Pruitt, Chairman of the<br />
Seedco Board.<br />
such as the innovative Opportunity<br />
NYC conditional cash transfer program in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City.<br />
“It is a privilege to be asked to serve<br />
as chief executive of Seedco, which has<br />
become an important leader in asset building<br />
and economic development in the nonprofit<br />
world,” Gunn said.<br />
Gunn received a B.A. in English<br />
literature at the College of St. Rose in<br />
Albany and a Masters of Public Administration<br />
from the University of North<br />
Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Manhattan<br />
resident, currently she is a member of<br />
the Board of Visitors for the University<br />
of North Carolina.<br />
Diane Baillargeon has been with<br />
Seedco since 1998 and served as chief<br />
executive since 2005. She will remain<br />
actively involved with Seedco as a senior<br />
policy fellow, continuing to play an important<br />
role in shaping and developing<br />
the organization’s respected policy work.<br />
She will also continue to serve in President<br />
Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and<br />
Neighborhood Partnerships.<br />
Corriero to Step Down<br />
at Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC<br />
The Honorable Michael<br />
A. Corriero has announced<br />
that he will step<br />
down from his post as Executive<br />
Director of Big<br />
Brothers Big Sisters of <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> City at the conclusion<br />
of the fiscal year to focus<br />
his efforts as an advocate<br />
for children and juvenile<br />
justice reform locally and<br />
nationally.<br />
Judge Corriero recently<br />
served on the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong><br />
State Task Force on Transforming<br />
Juvenile Justice;<br />
Judge Michael A. Corriero<br />
he will continue to work for reforms that<br />
improve the opportunities of children living<br />
in the poorest communities.<br />
“My work with Big Brothers Big<br />
Sisters of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City, first as a board<br />
member and then more recently as its<br />
executive director, has been a phenomenal<br />
experience,” said Judge Corriero. “I<br />
am extremely grateful<br />
for the opportunity to<br />
serve such a noble organization<br />
and for the<br />
trust placed in me by<br />
the Board of Trustees. I<br />
will always consider it<br />
an honor to have served<br />
as executive director of<br />
the agency.”<br />
“Judge Corriero<br />
brought a unique perspective<br />
to the agency,”<br />
said Jon May, President<br />
of the BigsNYC Board<br />
of Trustees. “The Board<br />
of Trustees looks forward to his work in<br />
finding national and international solutions<br />
to better guide juveniles in trouble.”<br />
BigsNYC will launch a national<br />
search for a new executive director.<br />
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