Honorees from left to right: Seth Edwards, Vice President in J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Community Relations; Rev. Kanyere Eaton, Executive Director, The Sister Fund; Larry Mandell, Former President of the United Way of New York City; State Senator Velmanette Montgomery; Elwanda Young, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the United Way of New York City.; Valerie Oliver-Durrah, President and CEO, Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic; June Jee, Director of External Affairs at Verizon and Verizon Foundation; Brenda Scott, Director of Community Affairs for Macy*s East; Cesar Claro, Executive Director of Richmond County Savings Foundation (RCSF); Rev. Emma Jordan Simpson, Executive Director of the Children’s Defense Fund New York; Rev. Dr. Gary V. Simpson, Pastor Concord Baptist Church of Christ. |
Honorary Chairs
Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
Adolfo Carrión, Jr., Bronx Borough President
Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President
Helen Marshall, Queens Borough President
James Molinaro, Staten Island Borough President
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Honorary Co-Chairs
Congresswoman Yvette Clark
Congressman Ed Towns
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
State Senator Kevin Parker
State Assemblyman Darryl Towns
State Assemblywoman Annette Robinson
New York City Councilmember, Leroy Comrie
Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Yvonne Graham
Deputy Manhattan Borough President, Rose Pierre-Louis
Gordon Campbell, President United Way NYC
James Durrah, Asst. Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Health
Hazel Dukes, President Greater New York NAACP
Hon. C. Virginia Fields, National Black Commission on AIDS
Rev. Dr. David A. Hampton, Bethany Baptist Church
Mrs. Hope Y. Hampton, Bethany Baptist Church
Dr. Marcella Maxwell, The Links, Inc.
Dr. Megan McLaughlin, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, retired.
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Event Chairs
Elwanda Young, United Way of NYC
Kim L. Jasmin, JP Morgan Chase
Brenda Scott, Macy’s
Aldo Bianchi, Verizon
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Benefit Committee
Chaya Abelsky, Nonprofit Help Desk
Jennifer Jones Austin, United Way NYC
Carlton Brown, Full Spectrum Dev. Corp.
Melba Butler; Butler Consulting
Ruth Clark, Support Network
Brooke Remel Durrah, NTAC
William Oliver Durrah, Office of Sen. Velmanette Montgomery
Colvin Grannum, President Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Fred Price, Medgar Evers College
Valerie Rainford, JPMorgan Chase
Coreen Simpson, Support Network
Troy Taylor, Johnson & Johnson
Patricia White, NY Community Trust
Lawrence Whiteside, Brooklyn Community Board 2
Rev. Alphonso Wyatt, Fund for the City of New York
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Benefiting Organizations
LifeCamp Inc., Queens
Sesame Flyers, Brooklyn
Harlem Dowling, Manhattan
NAACP, Bronx
Sundog Theatre, Staten Island
