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Save the dateNovember 16, 202211:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)

Organizer

Organizer: Queens Chamber of Commerce, Queens Borough President's Office, Art Transforms, Forestdale, Queens Center for Progress, NYC Plover Project, SAYA - South Asian Youth Action, Garra

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Jef Gross

Email: jgross@queenschamber.org

Event Details

Queens Chamber Not for Profit committee presents: " The Strength of Queens Nonprofits". Our nonprofit organizations are indispensable partners with government in the delivery of essential services, and they contribute significantly to our local economy. Susie Tanenbaum, Director of Nonprofit Opportunities at the Queens Borough President's Office, will provide an overview of the local nonprofit landscape.

She will be joined by a panel of Queens nonprofit leaders from diverse service sectors who will share their expertise. During the Q&A, attendees will have a chance to ask the nonprofits questions and also explore ways that small businesses and nonprofits can forge productive and mutually beneficial collaborations.

Our featured nonprofit: Forestdale, Inc., Lucia Coffey, Senior Community Engagement Office will provide an overview of their organization.

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Speakers

Susie Tanenbaum

Director, Nonprofit Opportunities of Queens Borough President's Office

Susie Tanenbaum

Director, Nonprofit Opportunities of Queens Borough President's Office

https://queensbp.org/nonprofits

Susie J. Tanenbaum has worked at the Queens Borough President’s Office for 20 years. She builds borough-level networks, bringing hundreds of community stakeholders to the table to solve problems and find common ground.

In her former role as the Borough President’s Director of Immigrant & Intercultural Affairs, Ms. Tanenbaum promoted immigrant integration through the Immigration Task Force, and she launched an intergroup dialogue project called the Queens General Assembly, which continues to this day.

Currently, as the Borough President’s Director of Nonprofit Opportunities, she runs the Nonprofit Network, which helps close to 300 Queens-serving nonprofits to diversify their funding sources and access capacity-building resources. Ms. Tanenbaum coordinated the Queens Complete Count Committee (QCCC) during both the 2010 and 2020 U.S. Census efforts; the QCCC has been singled out as a model of coalition building during the decennial census.

Prior to her government service, Susie J. Tanenbaum was a nonprofit leader in Northwest Queens. She is a published author and a doctoral candidate in the sociology program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Chris Allieri

Founder of NYC Plover Project

Chris Allieri

Founder of NYC Plover Project

https://nycploverproject.org

Chris Allieri is the founder of NYC Plover Project a non-profit organization he began in March 2021 upon seeing a need to protect endangered Piping Plovers in New York City, who were otherwise left to fend for themselves. In under two years, the organization has grown to a force of 75 volunteers who have performed more than 5,000 volunteer hours protecting nesting plovers and their chicks on the busiest beaches in the city.

NYC Plover Project was awarded the 2021 Hartzog Award, as the non-profit volunteer group of the year for the entire National Park Service, with whom they have a partnership. Chris is also founder of Mulberry & Astor, a communications firm focused on climate tech startups. A long-time resident of NYC, Chris grew up on the beaches of southern New Jersey where he first saw a Piping Plover at a young age with his late father, Carl.

Wanda Best

Founder/Executive Director of Art Transforms, Inc.

Wanda Best

Founder/Executive Director of Art Transforms, Inc.

https://www.arttransforms.org

Ms. Best believes Art is a way to interpret the world. Through art she communicates social injustices that plague communities of color. Art is a non-threatening way to express the traumatizing pain of poverty, hyper-incarceration, environmental racism and other social ills that are present in urban areas.

Growing up in Harlem during the 1960's she experienced poverty firsthand and felt its traumatic impact. She also saw the beauty of people who made something out of nothing and the innocent happiness of families who were bonded together simply by love. Her paintings are from imagination or memory. Each painting is inspired by an event or an emotional experience. She not only captures the images with her brushes and colorful strokes, she educates the viewer with her conceptualized paintings.

She is Founder and Executive Director of “Art Transforms, Inc.” Her mission is to offer art appreciation to the community to distract from the crime generative factors that can lead to criminal justice involvement, while building character and self-esteem. The organization also facilitates Healing and Relaxing with visual art painting groups. Programs include workshops on gender-based violence and healthy family relationships.
The newest program provides safe and secure roundtrip transportation to legal appointments for victims of domestic violence.

She teaches visual art at Rochdale Village Community Center. She also facilitates healing art groups for women who experience abusive relationships. Participants are exposed to art education, technique development and a workshop on the profitable artist/entrepreneur. She organizes Social Justice art exhibits as a way of educating the community. She is also the Vice President of The Friends of Cambria Heights Library. She continues to advocate for equality for women.

Lucia Coffey

Senior Community Engagement Officer at FORESTDALE INC.

Stephanie Mulcock

Executive Director of Garra

Stephanie Mulcock

Executive Director of Garra

https://www.garrabr.org

Stephanie is a first generation Brazilian-American working to improve public policy and the current immigration system. She is the Executive Director of Garra, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing the economic and political power of Brazilian immigrant women in New York. Stephanie is also a consultant for the Brazilian General Consulate in New York's newly founded Women's Space, specializing in legal service providing for vulnerable communities.

Stephanie is a graduate of New York Law School and is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey. In 2011, she created the first immigration law clinic providing language specific and culturally appropriate pro bono immigration law consultations to Brazilian immigrants in New York City. The clinic is still in operation as a Garra program. Since 2021 Stephanie has partnered with the Brazilian Consulate in NY and the Brazilian Law Society students from NYU in order to expand the provision of pro bono legal services to low income community members.

Stephanie also speaks Spanish, dances NY-style salsa, and has her hands full with her first dog, a mixed-breed puppy named Charlie.

Wendy Phaff Gennaro

Director of Development at Queens Centers For Progress

Wendy Phaff Gennaro

Director of Development at Queens Centers For Progress

https://www.queenscp.org

Wendy Phaff Gennaro is the Director of Development at Queens Center for Progress (QCP), a nonprofit agency in Jamaica, New York that provides services to people with developmental disabilities. Ms. Gennaro joined QCP in 2010 and became the director of development in 2018. Through her strategic efforts, QCP has experienced a 300% increase in its annual fundraising over the past five years -through its signature events and initiatives spearheaded by Ms. Gennaro.

Prior to joining QCP, Ms. Gennaro was a consultant at Be the Example, where she created and implemented social media marketing, enhanced the organization’s online presence and created their donor database. Community-minded, she has served in many organizations, including: President/Co-Founder of the Make a Difference Club in Garden City; a member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program; Outreach Associate for the Long Island Volunteer Center; a current committee member on the Queens Chamber of Commerce’s Not-for-Profit committee, and current board member on Community Board 8, Queens.

In 2016, Ms. Gennaro founded the Queens Chapter of Achilles International, an organization whose mission is to enable people with disabilities to participate in mainstream athletic events to promote personal achievement, enhance self-esteem, and lower barriers to living a fulfilled life. Since its inception, Queens’ Achilles athletes have crossed the finish line in dozens of marathons in New York City and as far away as Paris. The group meets weekly in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Ms. Gennaro’s philosophy is to engage as many people in the community as possible to achieve the results you are looking for. Be a resource to others and share your knowledge so as to help those around you. Creating relationships in all facets of the community- individuals, businesses, other nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies and elected officials, is paramount to success. She is always looking for ways QCP can collaborate with others in the community and strives to promote our wonderful borough of Queens!

Sonia Bhuta Sisodia

Executive Director of SAYA South Asian Youth Action

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