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The staff of The Trust help donors make the most of their charitable giving; organize foundations around important issues; and help nonprofits make life better for New Yorkers. They are regularly tapped to shed light on complex problems and their potential solutions.

To set up an interview or speaking engagement, please contact Vice President of Communications Ani Hurwitz at afh@nyct-cfi.org or (212) 686-0010 x224. For other phone extentions, visit our directory>>

Staff Directory & Biographies

Phone: (212) 686-0010
Fax: (212) 532-8528

Office of the President

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Lorie A. Slutsky, President 257
   Barbara Wybraniec, Assistant to the President 229
  

Office of Communications

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Ani F. Hurwitz, Vice President of Communications 224
Amy Wolf, Communications Officer 234
   

Office of the General Counsel

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Jane L. Wilton, General Counsel 379
   Kathleen Wecht, Executive Assistant 322
   

Donor Relations

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Robert V. Edgar, Vice President of Donor Relations
373
Gay Young, Vice President of Donor Services
377
Maggie Murphy, Grants Manager 353
Anne M. Nally, Grants Administrator 301
   

Finance & Investment

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Alan Holzer, Chief Financial Officer 424
Mary Z. Greenebaum, Chief Investment Officer 464
Heidi Hotzler, Controller 444
Jannette Andaluz, Financial Assistant 429
Yahaira Ortiz, Accountant 463
Lora Rhames-Davis, Accountant 476
Raymond P. Salibur, Investment Administrator 455
Wen Weng, Manager, Financial Reporting & Budgeting 499
   

Administration

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Mercedes M. Leon, Vice President of Administration
265
Ayanna Russell, Director of Office Operations
227
Joan Reedy, Benefits Administrator 256
Tilackdharry Shievkumar, Office Assistant 667
Tonia Brewer, Records Assistant 636
Ilana Rudolf, Receptionist
0
Leon Bennett, Database Manager
340
  

Grants and Special Projects

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Joyce M. Bove, Senior Vice President 552
   Mary Gentile, Executive Assistant 554
Liza Lagunoff, Director of Grants Budgeting
559
   
Children, Youth & Families
Roderick V. Jenkins, Program Officer 527
Patricia A. White, Program Director
579
   Sheila Dinkins, Administrative Assistant
553
   
Community Development & the Environment
Patricia Jenny, Program Director 201
Patricia Swann, Senior Program Officer 530
   Janet Morgan, Administrative Assistant
539
  
Education, Arts & Human Justice

Kerry McCarthy, Program Officer 520
Shawn Morehead, Program Officer
557
   
Health & People with Special Needs
Irfan Hasan, Program Officer 573
Len McNally, Program Director 556
    Phoebe Scarborough, Administrative Assistant
525

 

Suburban Divisions

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Long Island Community Foundation
T: (516) 348-0575
F: (516) 348-0570


David Okorn, Executive 223
For a complete staff list, please visit www.licf.org.
   
Westchester Community Foundation
T: (914) 948-5166
F: (914) 948-5197


Catherine Marsh, Executive     3
For a complete staff list, please visit www.wcf-ny.org.
   
 
 
 

Biographies

 
 

Lorie Slutsky, President

Lorie has been the president of The Trust since 1990. She began her career at The Trust in 1977 as a grantmaker with responsibility for education, housing, government and urban affairs, and neighborhood revitalization. She was named executive vice president in 1987, when she assumed responsibility for strategic planning, personnel and budget management, and oversight of all departments.

Lorie received her B.A. from Colgate University, where she served for nine years as a trustee and chairman of the budget committee, and her M.A. from The New School, where she also was as a trustee. She sits on the Chief Judge’s Task Force To Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York State and chairs its RFP Work Group. She is a member of the board of Independent Sector and co-chairs its Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.

Lorie is a former board chairman of the Council on Foundations and BoardSource, and vice chairman of The Foundation Center. She also is a director of two for-profit companies: Alliance Bernstein Capital Management and AXA Financial.

In the Press

Lorie Slutsky on charitable giving in New York Times. 4/4/11

Lorie Slutsky quoted in Wall Street Journal piece on new leadership at Red Cross. 9/30/10

Lorie Slutsky answers readers questions on community philanthropy for The New York Times. 11/16/09

More recent press >>



Areas of Expertise:

  • Philanthropy
  • The nonprofit sector
  • Governance
  • History of The Trust

Joyce Bove, Senior Vice President for Programs and Special Projects

Before joining The Trust in 1978, Joyce held administrative and planning positions in health, mental health, and substance abuse agencies. She was the founding chair of the New York Academy of Medicine's School Health Programs Advisory Committee, serves on the board of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and is a visiting lecturer at New York Medical College's School of Public Health.

In 1989, Joyce received the Council on Foundations' Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking for her leadership in shaping the local and national philanthropic response to the AIDS epidemic. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, holds a Masters in Public Administration from Indiana University, and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • New York City issues
  • Health policy

Jane Wilton, General Counsel

Jane has been The Trust’s General Counsel for 20 years. As such, she is responsible for a broad range of legal issues relating to charitable contributions, donor-advised funds, board governance issues, unrelated business income tax, foreign grantmaking, commercial co-ventures, lobbying, and fiduciary duties of trusts and charitable corporations. In addition, she works with prospective donors and their professional advisors in connection with gifts and bequests. She also served as counsel to the September 11th Fund and was a member of the Legal Framework Work Group of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.

Prior to joining The Trust, she was in private tax practice at a New York City law firm. Jane lectures on various subjects involving charities and planned giving. She received a B.A. from Michigan State University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law, and an LL.M in taxation from New York University Law School.

In the Press

3/28/11, Financial Times: Jane Wilton on Donations of Artwork>>

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Estate planning
  • Charitable taxation and nonprofit law
  • Donor-advised funds

Alan Holzer, Chief Financial Officer

Before joining The Trust in 2008, Alan was controller of Partnership Accounting at the law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP. He also served as corporate controller of the New York Stock Exchange for 16 years. A native New Yorker, he holds a B.A. from Queens College, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and is a certified public accountant.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Accounting
  • Nonprofit fiscal management

Mary Greenebaum, Chief Investment Officer

Mary works with The Trust's Investment Committee to implement strategies for the approximately $1 billion held in The Trust's nonprofit corporate affiliate, Community Funds, and monitors an equivalent amount of assets held in trust at 11 New York City banks. Before joining The Trust in 2001, she spent 12 years as investment manager for the family that owns Continental Grain Company. Prior to that she worked as an investment analyst at C.J. Lawrence Management and Brown Brothers Harriman and wrote about investments for Fortune for several years. Mary holds a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

  Area of Expertise:
  • Institutional and charitable investing

Bob Edgar, Vice President of Donor Relations

With The Trust for twenty-six years, Bob is the principal contact for donors, helping them to identify and achieve their charitable objectives. He is also involved in The Trust's new business initiatives.

Bob currently is a board member of the Memton Fund and the Clinton Hall Association, the vice-chairman of Kingsborough Community College Foundation, a trustee of the Board of Foreign Parishes, an Episcopal foundation that supports several churches in Europe, and is on the advisory council of the Singapore Community Foundation. Bob was also a founding trustee of the Berkshire-Taconic Community Foundation.

Prior to The Trust, he was the director of development for an international eye-care nonprofit, and before that, was a development officer for a performing arts center.

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Family philanthropy
  • Donor-advised funds
  • Nonprofit board responsibilities
  • Community foundations
 

Gay Young, Vice President of Donor Services

Gay helps donors identify and achieve their charitable objectives, authorizes donor-advised grants, reviews potential grantee organizations, and organizes events to inform and cultivate donors and advisors.

She currently serves on the Community Foundations National Standards Board, and the board of Philanthropy New York and the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center.

She has a B.A. from Wellesley College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Prior to joining The Trust, she worked as a literary agent for six years and before that as corporate counsel at various financial services companies, including Merrill Lynch.

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Nonprofit governance
  • Community foundations
  • Donor-advised funds
 

Ani Hurwitz, Vice President of Communications

Before joining The Trust in 1989, Ani was director of communications at a private foundation in New York. She has worked for and consulted to a number of nonprofits in the areas of health and housing, and has done several stints in New York City government. She spent three years in exile in Los Angeles working with Legal Services Corp. programs throughout California on legislative and administrative activities in health and social services. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from New York University.

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Community foundation grantmaking
  • History of The Trust
  • Foundation communications

Pat Jenny, Program Director, Community Development & the Environment

Pat manages the national and New York City environmental grantmaking program and the local workforce development grants program. She has developed two funding collaboratives: New York City Workforce Funders, which is a partner with the City on innovative employment projects, and the One Region Fund, a tri-state metropolitan area funders group, which focuses on sustainable communities and transportation issues in the region.

Pat serves on the boards of the Environmental Grantmakers Association and Health and Environmental Funders Network and formerly served on the boards of Cause Effective and the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.

She holds a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has a B.A. from Brown University.

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Climate change
  • Habitat protection
  • Brownfield remediation
  • Chemicals policy and environmental health
  • Transportation
  • Land-use issues
  • Workforce development

Len McNally, Program Director, Health and People with Special Needs

Len's grantmaking portfolio includes health policy, biomedical research, aging, environmental health, and AIDS. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, board member of Grantmakers in Health, member of the Commission for an Aging Friendly New York City, and member of the advisory committee of the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence. He is a former board member of New York City HIV Planning Council, God’s Love We Deliver, and Funders Concerned About AIDS.

Prior to joining The Trust in 1989, he spent more than ten years planning community programs for chronically ill elders and people with AIDS, working to develop a capitation-financed program for highly disabled elders and the country's first day treatment program for people with AIDS. Len helped the September 11th Fund design and fund environmental health and health insurance programs for victims of the attacks.

Before embarking on a career in public health, he taught biology. He has a B.S. and Master's in biology from Northeastern University and a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Health systems and policy
  • AIDS
  • Biomedical research
  • Aging

Pat Swann, Senior Program Officer, Community Development and the Environment

Patricia Swann's grantmaking responsibilities cover the areas of Community Development, Civic Affairs, and Technical Assistance. She also serves as an advisory board member of Brooklyn Workforce Innovations and the New York City office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

She is a former board member of North Star Fund, a foundation providing grants to grassroots community organizing groups, and Central Brooklyn Partnership, a financial empowerment and economic development organization.  

Prior to The Trust, Pat directed economic development programs in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and worked for the Office of then-Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. She is also a recipient of a Revson fellowship at Columbia University.    

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Community development
  • Micro-enterprise
  • Affordable housing
  • Civic affairs
  • Nonprofit resources

 

Pat White, Program Director, Children, Youth & Families

Pat is a board member of the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services and an advisor to several policy boards, including the New York City Administration for Children's Services and United Way of New York City FEMA Allocation Board.

She came to The Trust with considerable program development and management experience and has worked at the South Bronx Development Organization, Greenleigh Associates, Murray & White Associates, and the New York City Council Against Poverty. She also has graduate level teaching experience at several universities. Pat has a Masters of Social Work from Marywood College and an Advanced Management Certificate in Business Administration specializing in nonprofit management from the Urban Business Assistance Corporation at New York University.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Hunger
  • Homelessness
  • Social services/child welfare/child care
  • Girls & young women
  • Families
  • Social work education, practice, & policy
 

Roderick Jenkins, Program Officer, Children, Youth & Families

Roderick manages grantmaking in the areas of Youth Development and Substance Abuse. Roderick is chair of the New York City Youth Funders Network, a board member of Advocates for Children, and represents The Trust on numerous citywide committees.

He has an Masters of Social Work from the Hunter College School of Social Work, and he has program development and management experience in both the nonprofit and private sectors.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Youth development
  • Substance abuse
  • Alternatives to incarceration


Kerry McCarthy, Program Officer, Arts and Historic Preservation

Before joining The Trust in 2009, Kerry ran a consulting company serving City nonprofit arts organizations. She has more than twenty years experience in museum and performing arts administration with organizations as varied as the Queens Museum of Art and Jim Henson Productions. She has curated exhibitions for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts.

Kerry holds an M.A. in Folk Art Studies from New York University and B.A. from Sewanee: The University of the South. She is a graduate of Coro's Leadership New York Program, and serves as co-chair of the City’s Dance Funders Group.

  Areas of Expertise:
  • Arts management
  • Historic preservation

Irfan Hasan, Program Officer, Health and People with Special Needs

Irfan covers The Trust's grantmaking in the areas of health services and health policy, children and youth with disabilities, mental health and mental retardation, and people with visual disabilities; he also manages the animal welfare grantmaking portfolio. Following September 11, 2001, Irfan was also instrumental in emergency mental health response grantmaking through The Trust's September 11th Fund. Before joining The Trust in 2000, Irfan spent eight years at Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services, developing and overseeing programs to help people with disabilities, chronic health problems, and other barriers to employment return to work.

He is a Mayoral appointee to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Community Service Board and a member of Grantmakers in Health’s Behavioral Health Funders and Philanthropy New York’s Health Policy working groups. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Disability Funders Network, serving as chairman from 2007 to 2011; a former co-chair of the United States Student Selection Committee for the United World Colleges; and has served on the planning committee for two Council on Foundations Annual Conferences.

Irfan earned a B.A. in sociology from Northeastern University and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Health services
  • Health policy
  • Children and youth with disabilities
  • Mental health
  • Mental retardation
  • Blindness & visual impairments
  • Animal welfare

 

Shawn Morehead, Program Officer, Education and Human Justice

Shawn manages the Education and Human Justice grantmaking programs. Prior to coming to the Trust, Shawn collaborated on recommendations to the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education to improve services for students with disabilities and prior to that was the Litigation Director at Advocates for Children of New York, where she managed a docket of systemic reform cases concerning education and civil rights on behalf of New York City public school students. Shawn received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and clerked for the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, then Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York. Before law school, she taught middle school special education in Shreveport, Louisiana.

   

Areas of Expertise:

  • Education
  • Legal services
   
 

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