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Biographies

Lorie Slutsky, President

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Ani Hurwitz, Vice President of Communications

Pat Jenny, Program Director, Community Development & the Environment

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.

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.    

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.

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.

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.

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

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.