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Foundation Focus: News of the Trinitas Health Foundation
by Kathryn Salamone
THE TRUSTEES OF THE TRINITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION:
CHANNELING DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS INTO A COMMON GOAL
Professional accomplishment
coupled with a desire to strive to
improve the community are qualities
that define the members of the Trinitas
Health Foundation Board. Another
quality is stamina as reflected in our
spry and committed 87-year old
Board member.
“Serving on the Trinitas Health
Foundation Board requires dedicated
time and energy that our trustees give
so willingly,” notes Nadine Brechner,
Executive Director of the Foundation.
“By drawing from their personal and
professional knowledge and their depth
of experience, Board members combine
their talents to help establish goals
and identify ways to meet the challenges
that face non-profit organizations
such as ours in today’s economic
climate. Board participation is more
than meeting on a regular basis to
review current circumstances. It
requires keen insight, teamwork, and
dedication to the hopes and dreams
that we hope to realize, even in the
face of harsh economic realities.”
The primary responsibilities of the
Trinitas Health Foundation are to raise
funds and to invest and monitor the
assets of the Foundation. In addition,
the Board members approve disbursements
to Trinitas to meet specific
equipment or program needs.
In previous issues of HealthyEdge
we have introduced members of the
Trinitas Health Foundation Board of
Trustees. We conclude these introductions
in this issue.
Carroll Keating
Carroll Keating has been a marketing and sales
professional in the metropolitan New York and
Washington, DC, areas for the last 25 years. While
marketing manager at Source One International in
New York, NY, Ms. Keating generated business in
sales and service equivalent to 25% of the company’s
overall sales. She completed her bachelor’s degree
in psychology in three years at Hollins University in
Roanoke, Virginia. Her community work includes
association with Habitat for Humanity, Susan G.
Komen for the Cure, American Cancer Institute, and
AmeriCare. She is enjoys golf, tennis and squash and
serves as the Westfield, New Jersey Lacrosse coach.
Sol Kramer
A post-World War II Polish émigré, Mr. Kramer
has a lifetime of varied experience in the divergent
fields of dental hygiene, law enforcement, and real
estate development. He is passionately devoted to
fundraising for his adopted causes, the latest of
which is Trinitas Regional Medical Center where he
was a recent patient whose life-threatening illness
was successfully treated. Mr. Kramer serves on the
Board of the Jewish Educational Center in Union,
the Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Service and the
YMHA/YWHA located in Union. He and his wife
have been married for nearly six decades.
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