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About the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS, Inc.

100 State Street, Suite 710

Albany, NY 12207

Tel: (518) 432-6757; Fax: (518) 432-6758

www.npcnys.org

Founded in 1989, NPCNYS is strengthened by a network of community-based organizations that are creating

social change and ensuring the supply of safe, decent affordable housing, and in revitalization, economic de-

velopment, and historic preservation in neighborhoods struggling with disinvestments, poverty, abandon-

ment, environmental hazards and displacement. NPCNYS is supported primarily through membership, fed-

eral and state government contracts and charitable donations. The organization’s 149 members in the State

include affordable housing and community development organizations, college and university professors;

planners, architects, and many individuals committed to ensuring vibrant communities throughout NYS.

Staff

Paula Gilbert, Executive Director

Deborah Clayton-Trudeau, Program Coordinator

Cara Long, Urban Policy Associate

Brian Rabitz, Housing Policy Intern

Board of Directors

Joseph Sluszka, President

Albany Housing Coalition

Joseph G. Barden, Downstate Vice President

Margert Community Corp.

George Moses, Upstate Vice President

North East Area Development

Michael Skrebutenas, Treasurer

Community Preservation Corporation

Sondra Cochran

Wyandanch Community Development Corp.

Linda S. Goodman

Midwood Development Corporation

Derrick Lovett

MBD Community Housing Corp.

Dennis Hanratty

Mt. Vernon United Tenants

Roger Markovics

United Tenants of Albany

Kimberley McLean

Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica

Rebecca Newman

Housing Visions Unlimited, Inc..

Cassandra Perry

163rd Street Improvement Council, Inc.

Letter from the Executive Director, Paula Gilbert

I would like to personally welcome each of you to the 2015 Neighborhood Preserva-

tion Coalition of NYS Annual Meeting and Conference! The theme of this year’s confer-

ence is Crossroads: Re-envisioning the Future. At this two-day event, participants will

have the opportunity to attend interactive sessions, discuss the challenges they face, share their successes,

explore how others are using innovation in their communities to create solutions that help reduce the af-

fordable housing crisis in New York State, and establishing a working community of collaboration.

Let’s take a moment to go over what you can expect and what we hope to achieve over the next day and a

half. We’ll kick off the conference with a plenary discussion about the role of health in housing and commu-

nity development. Our breakout sessions will focus on best practices, nonprofit management and innovation

that can be replicated elsewhere. The new HCR Commissioner, Jamie Rubin will join us for lunch on Thurs-

day, giving you an opportunity to meet our newest partner. We’ll close conference with an open discussion

about our advocacy as we gear up for another legislative session in 2016.

Let me give you a brief update on where we are today. After a year of significant transition, the Coalition is

the midst of a lot of change. We have a new website, new staff, and new ideas on how to best serve our

membership. A major success was helping secure the settlement funding that brought each of our members

over a $19,000 increase in 2015. We will be rolling out a membership survey (details you can find in this pro-

gram) and will be putting a new membership database on our website in the coming months. We hope to

continue evolving and changing as we finish 2015.

Before I close, I’d like to thank each of you for attending our conference and brining your expertise to our

gathering. You, as organization leaders, have the vision, knowledge and the experience to help us pave the

way into the future. Throughout this conference, I ask you to stay engaged, keep us proactive and help us

shape the future of affordable housing and community development.

THANK YOU TO OUR CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Neighborhood Level

Community Preservation Corp.

M & T Bank

Block Level

Margert Community Corporation

Wyandanch Community Devel-

opment Corp.

Home Level

Key Bank

North East Area Development &

Group 14621

CONFERENCE AGENDA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration & Breakfast [Courtyard]

9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks [Fort Orange 5 & 7]

9:15 - 10:45 AM Plenary 1: Health & Housing [Fort Orange 5 & 7] Victor Bach, Senior Housing Policy Analyst, Community Service Society (CSS) Miriam Axel-Lute, Editor, Shelterforce and Associate Director, National Housing Institute Melissa M. Frisbie, Research Scientist, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health

11:00 - 12:30 PM Dealing with Blight [Fort Orange 9 ] Tarik Abdelazim , Associate Director of National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress

Katelyn Wright, Executive Director, Greater Syracuse Land Bank M/WBE Compliance [Shaker] Terry Owens, Compliance Specialist, New York State Homes and Community Renewal

. 12:30 - 2:00 PM KEYNOTE, ANNUAL MEETING & AWARDS LUNCHEON [Fort Orange 5 & 7] Opening Remarks Paula Gilbert, Executive Director, Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State (NPCNYS)

Keynote Address James S. Rubin, Commissioner, NYS Homes and Community Renewal

Nominations and Election of the 2015-2016 NPCNYS Board Joseph Sluszka, Board President, NPCNYS

LUIS ARCE SUCCESS AWARD

Nancy Manfredonia, Central Islip Civic Council

2:00—3:30 PM Sustaining Your Organization Through Collaboration [ Fort Orange 9] Catherine M. Hedgeman, Esq., Catherine Hedgeman Law; President and CEO, The Stakeholders Tell Your Story: Working with the Media [Shaker] Ron Deutsch, Interim Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute

Community-driven Art for Community-driven Revitalization [Town Hall] Judie Gilmore, Project Manager , Breathing Lights;

Linda Goodman, Executive Director, Midwood Development Corp.; Board Member, NPCNYS Barbara Nelson, Executive Director, TAP; Principal Architect , Breathing Lights Noah Sheroff, Founder and Director, 501 See Streets

CONFERENCE AGENDA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 & FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

3:45 - 5:15 PM Fair Housing: What You Need To Know [Shaker] Lorraine Collins, Assistant Commissioner/Director Fair and Equitable Housing Office , New York State Homes and Community Renewal Sally Santangelo, Executive Director, CNY Fair Housing Volunteers: How Do They Fit In? [Fort Orange 9] Catherine M. Hedgeman, Esq., Catherine Hedgeman Law; President and CEO, The Stakeholders Engaging the Community Through Organizing and Conversation [Town Hall] George Moses, Executive Director, North East Area Development/Group 14621; Board Vice President, NPCNYS OCTOBER 9 8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast - Sponsored by M & T Bank [Courtyard] 9:15 - 10:45 AM Boardroom Brainstorm—bring your questions and challenges [Shaker] Paula Gilbert, Executive Director, NPCNYS

Cara Long, Urban Policy Associate, NPCNYS Business Improvement Districts and Small Business Development [Town Hall] Anthony Capece, Executive Director, Central District Management Association Nonprofit Governance: Board Development [Fort Orange 9] Jeremy N. Ingpen, Principal, Strategic Philanthropy Advisors Jason Labate, Associate, Goldstein Hall LLC 11:00 - 12:30 PM The Rental Affordability Crisis [Shaker] Corianne Scally, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute *virtual presentation

Participatory Planning [Fort Orange 9] Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, LEED-AP, Principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning

12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch Plenary 2 [Fort Orange 5 & 7] Advocacy in Action: setting the 2016 state legislative priorities Paula Gilbert, Executive Director, NPCNYS

Cara Long, Urban Policy Associate, NPCNYS

2:00 - 2:15 PM Closing [Fort Orange 5 & 7]

Luis Arce Success Award The Luis Arce Success Award honors the memory of Luis Arce, who was a tireless

advocate for the rights of low-income families in his neighborhood. His dedica-

tion to those less fortunate in his neighborhood and the meaningful work he ac-

complished throughout his short lifetime is a statement of Luis’ courage, convic-

tion and passion for social justice.

While working at Community Service Society, Solidaridad Humana and then as

Director of the Manhattan Valley Management Company, Luis was a tireless ad-

vocate and a natural leader. Luis continued his commitment to Manhattan Valley Development Cor-

poration as a member of the Board while also serving as the Director of Housing at Sinergia, champi-

oning the integration of persons with disabilities and their families into mainstream housing.

Luis had the skills and personal traits to bring people together around a common cause. It is these skills, as a founding Board Member of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS and then as an active supporter, that Luis lent to the Coalition until his death in June 23, 1994. In remembering Luis’ compassion, energy, zeal, and dedication, we created the Luis Arce Success Award to celebrate the contributions of neighborhood activists in the area of affordable housing and community development.

The Luis Arce Success Award honors an individual who has made a difference in the lives of low- and moderate-income families and who embodies Luis Arce’s compassion, energy,

zeal, and dedication.

The Board and Staff of the

NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION COALITION OF NYS

Honors NANCY MANFREDONIA

Of

CENTRAL ISLIP CIVIC COUNCIL

With the

2015 LUIS ARCE SUCCESS AWARD

SPEAKER BIOS (IN ORDER OF PRESENTATIONS)

Miriam Axel-Lute is editor of Shelterforce, the Voice of Community Development and Associate Di-

rector of the National Housing Institute. Based in Albany, N.Y., she is a board member of

the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region, the Community Development Alliance of the Capi-

tal District, and the Community Advisory Committee for the Albany Land Bank, and writes Looking

Up, an award-winning column for Albany’s alt-weekly, Metroland.

Victor Bach directs CSS housing policy research and advocacy, and provides technical assistance to

resident and community groups. His current work focuses on the preservation of the city’s afford-

able housing resources, particularly public housing and Section 8 housing vouchers, on rent burden

trends among low-income New Yorkers, and on the role of HUD funding, under Section 3, in promot-

ing job and training opportunities. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from M.I.T. Prior to joining

CSS, he was at the Brookings Institution and on the faculties of the New School for Social Research

and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Melissa M. Frisbie is a research scientist and communications coordinator for New York State De-

partment of Health’s Center for Environmental Health, in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupa-

tional Epidemiology. Ms. Frisbie works on several ATSDR sponsored brownfields projects throughout

New York State, using her skills in community engagement to help prioritize community health in

brownfield/ land reuse projects. Ms. Frisbie is also a member of the ATSDR Brownfields and Land Re-

development Opportunities Working Network, a national consultative steering committee which

provides communities with assistance in incorporating health into the redevelopment process.

Ms. Frisbie has developed special interest and experience in community engagement tools for these

projects, she has worked with communities in New York State to complete several Photovoice pro-

jects, public participatory GIS, and walkability assessments. Ms. Frisbie is also a member of New York

State’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program as its communications coordinator.

She works to develop communications, health messaging, health education materials and completes

outreach activities for EPHT. Ms. Frisbie attended Siena College and received her M.P.H. from the

State University of New York at Albany’s School of Public Health.


Tarik Abdelazim joined the Center for Community Progress in July 2014 to serve as the Associate Di-

rector of National Technical Assistance. Prior to joining Community Progress, Tarik had completed

eight years of public service in Binghamton, New York under two different executive titles in City

Hall. For four years, he served as Deputy Mayor, leading high-priority interdepartmental teams, driv-

ing innovative IT/IM reform, and directing award-winning blight prevention initiatives – which twice

won first place distinction in Public Administration and Management from the New York Conference

of Mayor's Local Government Achievement Awards. Tarik then served for nearly four years as Direc-

tor of Planning, Housing and Community Development, and spearheaded a variety of cross-sector

collaborations around a set of livability and sustainability goals, again winning national distinction

for inclusive, bold community development programs. In his capacity as Director of PHCD, Tarik

managed and oversaw the implementation of an expansive and diverse portfolio of federal and state

grants awards from housing and community development programs. He was also instrumental in

building interest in and support for the creation of the Broome County Land Bank, one of the first

eight land banks established in NY under the state’s 2011 Land Bank Authorization Act.

Tarik received his Masters in Arts and Humanities from New York University, with an interdiscipli-

nary focus on politics, ecology, and philosophy. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College in

biology.

Katelyn Wright is the founding Executive Director of the Greater Syracuse Land Bank, which was in-

corporated in 2012 and is acting in partnership with the City and County to address tax-delinquent,

vacant, and abandoned properties. The Land Bank takes ownership of vacant and abandoned prop-

erties in order to stabilize and assemble properties and facilitate their return to productive use in a

coordinated and planned manner.

Prior to her role with the Land Bank, as a planner for the City of Syracuse, Katelyn conducted data

and policy analysis related to vacant, abandoned, and tax-delinquent property and led the team

which developed the land bank's business model and the City’s revised tax collection policy—a

phased approach to addressing these challenges which, combined, affect nearly one in five proper-

ties within the City of Syracuse. As a Land Use Planner for the City of Syracuse she was the primary

author of the Land Use & Development component of the City’s recently adopted Comprehensive

Plan 2040.

Katelyn earned her MRP from Cornell University in 2010 and has a professional background in land

use planning and historic preservation. She grew up in California’s Central Valley and earned her

bachelors at the University of Washington in Seattle.


Terry L. Owens is a Compliance Specialist with the Office of Economic Opportunity & Partnership

Development with the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Agency in Albany, NY. A

contributor to corporate enhancement she is responsible for promoting Minority and Women

Owned Businesses; the review and analysis of utilization reports; MWBE participation goals and

provides technical assistance to contractors assuring that they, along with localities, comply with

Minority Business participation.

James S. Rubin is Commissioner of NYS Homes and Community Renewal. In May 2015, Governor

Andrew M. Cuomo announced the appointment of James (Jamie) Rubin as Commissioner of NYS

Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the agency charged with carrying out the Governor’s $1

billion House NY plan and financing the development and preservation of affordable housing

statewide. HCR’s portfolio includes issuing billions of dollars in bonds, providing grants, loans and

bonding authority to local municipalities, and awarding low income housing tax credits and

mortgages for thousands of low- and moderate-income homebuyers. In New York City and adjacent

counties, HCR also oversees rent regulation and works on behalf of tenants facing landlord

harassment or rent overcharges.

Jamie comes to HCR from the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) where he served as the

Executive Director, overseeing and creating programs to disburse $4.4 billion in disaster recovery

funds allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). GOSR assists

homeowners, small businesses and entire communities in building back from damage caused by

Hurricanes Sandy and Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, emphasizing the State’s commitment to long-

term resiliency and growth. Under his leadership, GOSR has grown to a full-time staff of 135, hun-

dreds of contractors, and offices across the state.

Prior to being tapped to lead GOSR, Jamie was New York Director of the President’s Hurricane Sandy

Recovery and Rebuilding Task Force and a Senior Advisor to then-HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

Jamie was previously a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Pol-

icy Program, working with cities including Buffalo and Detroit to identify and implement innovative

economic development strategies. Until May 2012, he was a Senior Partner with BC Partners (BCP), a

global private equity fund managing over $17 billion across two funds.

He joined BCP in May 2008 to establish the firm’s first US office and

subsequently built a team and directed over $1 billion of direct invest-

ment in the US. Before BCP, Jamie was a Partner with One Equity Part-

ners, JP Morgan’s private equity fund, where he was one of the found-

ing partners in 2001.


James S. Rubin (continued) Jamie has served as the Chairman of the Board of Common Ground

Communities, the country’s largest developer and manager of supportive housing for the formerly

homeless.

In 2008 he co-founded Greater New York in an effort to prevent the economic crisis from destroying

New York’s most promising community organizations. He holds a law degree from Yale University

and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

He is a born and raised New Yorker who resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Catherine M. Hedgeman, Esq. A Native of Albany, New York, Catherine Hedgeman is a magna cum

laude graduate of Union College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with

Department Honors in 1996. After college Catherine pursued a career in government relations on

Capitol Hill in Washington DC, when she decided to return to her hometown to attend law school.

Catherine received a Juris Doctorate degree from Albany Law School in 2000 where she was an asso-

ciate editor of The Albany Law Review and was awarded the Dominick Gabrielli award for excellence

in Appellate Moot Court. After graduation, Catherine practiced in several of New York’s prestigious

law firms as an associate and lobbyist.

She is admitted to practice before the courts in the State of New York, U.S. District Courts, Northern

District of New York and Southern District of New York. Ms. Hedgeman is also admitted to practice

before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the U.S District Court, District of Columbia, and the

United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the District of

Columbia Bar Association, and the Capital District Women’s Bar Association.

Ms. Hedgeman is the recipient of the 2002 Gabrielli Memorial Award for commitment, dedication,

support and volunteerism to the Moot Court Program at Albany Law School, and has presented past

lectures including Marketing 101 for Young Lawyers, New York State Bar Association Annual Meet-

ing, January 2003, Marketing for Young Lawyers, New York State Bar Association Women on the

Move Seminar, Albany, New York 2004, and The SEQRA (State Environmental Quality Review Act)

Process, Lorman Seminar in 2005.

In 2004, Ms. Hedgeman founded GenNEXT, a business council of the Albany-Colonie Chamber of

Commerce for business professional ages 23-40. As chair of the council, she focused on preventing

the Capital Region’s “brain drain” and on providing meaningful networking and business opportuni-

ties for young professionals.

In January of 2007, Ms. Hedgeman started her own law firm, the Law Firm of Catherine M. Hedge-

man which is located in Albany.


Catherine M. Hedgeman, Esq. (continued) She specializes in Real Estate, Land Use/Development &

Zoning, Commercial Litigation and transactions, Labor and Employment, Nonprofit Law, Corporate

Law and Government Relations.

In September of 2007 Ms. Hedgeman founded The Stakeholders. The Mission of The Stakeholders is

to empower people to stake their claim in the future of their community through volunteerism. The

Stakeholders is a regional volunteer center for eight counties in New York’s Capital Region.

In 2008, Ms. Hedgeman was appointed to the New York State Young Leaders congress by the Spitzer

administration to advise the administration on economic development issues pertaining to the at-

traction and retention of young people in New York, and how to build sustainable communities. Ms.

Hedgeman was also featured in the March 2008 edition of Success Magazine, and is also the recipi-

ent of the 2008 Woman of Distinction Award: Junior Trailblazer from the Girl Scouts of Northeastern

New York, the 2005 Capital District Business Review 40 Under 40 Award and the 2005 Albany-

Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce Women of Excellence Award for the Emerging Professional.

In November of 2008, Ms. Hedgeman appeared in O Magazine as one of 80 Women who received a

Women’s Leadership Award for her work on economic development issues, philanthropy and volun-

teerism, from the White House Project and O Magazine, The Oprah Magazine.

In August 2010, Ms. Hedgeman was appointed to the New York State Commission on National and

Community Service by Governor Patterson.

Over the past ten years, Catherine has served on a number of civic and nonprofit board of directors

including, the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District Public Relations Committee, the Al-

bany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Center For Economic Growth, the Community

Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, and the Tech Valley Civic Forum, which involved stake-

holders from all sectors – business, government, nonprofit, education, in creating the vision for Tech

Valley. As a member of the forum, Catherine assisted in creating a Community Progress Report with

key indicators of the quality of life and community well-being in the Capital Region. The Report fo-

cused on the human side of economic development and included indicators reflecting key social, en-

vironmental and economic factors affecting the community’s well-being and long term sustainabil-

ity.

Ron Deutsch was recently named the Executive Director of the Fiscal Pol-

icy Institute and has been a tireless advocate for working families for over

20 years in Albany. He led the Statewide Emergency Network for Social

and Economic Security (SENSES, a statewide anti-poverty advocacy organi-

zation) for 13 years and has been the Director of FPI’s sister 501(c)(4)

2105 East 22nd Street

Mailing Address:

2107 East 22nd Street

Brooklyn, NY 11229

GREATER SHEEPSHEAD BAY DEVELOPMENT

CORP.

ELLEN SUSNOW

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

HOUSING EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS

FORECLOSURE PREVENTION SERVICES

HOUSING RELATED SOCIAL SERVICES


Ron Deutsch (continued) organization, New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness for the past 8 years. Deutsch

is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany. He also leads an all volunteer non-profit

(www.thegivingcircle.org) that works to help improve the lives of families in the Capital District, na-

tionally and internationally.

Judie Gilmore is a writer and consultant based in upstate New York where she works with arts and

community development organizations. She develops public art installations, as well as consults with

organizations and individuals on projects and programs that use art to build a shared

value and vision in communities facing the greatest challenges.

Through project development, relationship building and grant writing, she has raised over $8 million

for art projects and organizations. She currently serves as the Project Director of the Breathing Lights

project, a region-wide partnership among three cities to harness the Capital Region’s creative assets

to address systemic vacancy in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods through an evocative

and inclusive public art experience.

Judie was formerly the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (2006

– 2012) where she developed large-scale programs and projects including Philly Painting (2013), with

the artists Hass&Hahn, The Porch Light Initiative (2011-2014), a $1.5 million behavioral health pro-

gram using collaborative art-making to improve individual and community health, and The Guild

(ongoing), an art-based workforce development program for at-risk young adults and individuals

leaving prisons. She has a B.A. in Art History from the Johns Hopkins University, and an M.P.A., con-

centrating in arts and cultural strategies and community development, from New York University

where she was a Public Service Fellow.

Linda Goodman Linda joined Midwood Development Corporation in 1993. She has a Masters in Ur-

ban Planning from Hunter College and a Masters in Special Education from Yeshiva University. Prior

to joining MDC, she worked for FDC, another Neighborhood Preservation Company as a housing

counselor.

In addition to being MDC's chief administrative officer, Linda provides one-on-one counseling to first

-time homebuyers and to homeowners facing foreclosure. She is a Board member of the Neighbor-

hood Preservation Coalition of New York State.

Barbara Lynne Nelson is the new executive director of TAP Inc. the nonprofit community design cen-

ter for the Capital Region. TAP works to educate and advocate for the value of good design, commu-

nity preservation, planning and public policy collaborating with public and private agencies to


Barbara Lynne Nelson (continued) promote livable communities and encourage sustainable commu-nity development efforts.

She has practiced architecture for thirty five years with a special interest in urban planning, commu-nity design, and participatory public art. Nelson is also is the lead architect for Breathing Lights, a Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge project, recently awarded to the Capital Region. Co-founder of Troy Alley Action (www.troyalleyaction.net) she has facilitated dozens of public art projects throughout Troy, engaging communities in participatory installations which enhance public space.

She has served as chair of the Troy Planning Commission at a time when Troy is experiencing an in-

flux of economic development inspired by the creative community which has set roots here.

Through the Realize Troy comprehensive planning process she hopes to see public art policies devel-oped. She spent 24 years as an architect and campus planner at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During 6 of those years she also enjoyed teaching community design and professional practice as an adjunct. Barbara has served ten years each as trustee on the non-profit boards of Capital Roots, the Children’s Museum of Science and Technology and the Troy Booster Club.

Nelson received bachelor degrees in Building Science and Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1980. Her intern years were spent at TAP. She launched her own practice in 1986, then joined RPI’s Administrative Division in 1991. Noah Sheroff is the founder and Executive Director of 501 See Streets, a nonprofit organization that works with community groups to assist in the revitalization and beautification of neighborhoods through the use of art. He is a graduate of St. John's University in Queens, NY and New York Univer-sity's Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is a street art aficionado who has trav-eled across the East Coast photographing and documenting pieces. The organization has worked with groups to complete projects within the NYC boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Lorraine Collins is Assistant Commissioner and Director of the Fair and Equitable Housing Office (FEHO) for New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR). In her role she is responsible for leading FEHO and is charged with creating and implementing fair housing policies, programs and ser-vices. The mission of FEHO is to ensure New Yorkers have an equal opportunity to live in housing they de-sire and can afford regardless of race, color, familial status, religion, sex, disabilities, national origin, marital status, age, and sexual orientation. Previously, Lorraine served as HCR Albany – Syracuse Regional Represen-tative where she was liaison to the Commissioner/CEO and the HCR pro-gram offices. She represented HCR on several statewide initiatives,


Lorraine Collins (continued) including Governor Cuomo’s Community Opportunity Reinvestment (CORe); the NYS Council on Returning Veterans and Their Families; the Governor’s Task Force on the Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning; and the Governor’s Interagency Environmental Justice Task Force. Lorraine was also a member of the HCR Integration Steering Committee which assisted in bringing the State’s housing agencies under the HCR umbrella. She began her public sector career in 2006 as a Governor Hugh L. Carey Fellow at the New York State Division of the Budget (DOB) where she was the lead examiner for Private Activity Volume Bond Cap and senior researcher for affordable housing policies and programs. Earlier in her career, Lorraine was a Financial Analyst at Carrier Corporation. Lorraine graduated cum laude from Howard University and received dual Master degrees in Public Administration and Business Administration from Syracuse University. Sally Santangelo is the Executive Director of CNY Fair Housing, a more than two decades-old local non-profit organization dedicated to the enforcement of our country’s fair housing laws. Sally started with the organization as a Fair Housing Investigator and later became the Director of En-forcement. During her tenure as CNY Fair Housing’s Executive Director, Sally has expanded the agency’s service area, increased all program activities and worked to promote public policy changes that expand access to housing opportunity throughout the region. Prior to her work at CNY Fair Housing, she performed constituent services in the district office for Congressman Dan Maffei.

Sally is a graduate of Onondaga Community College and SUNY New Paltz and has her Masters in Po-litical Science from SUNY Albany. She serves as the Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee of the Human Services Leadership Council of CNY and the Chair-Elect of the Housing and Homeless Coalition of CNY, and serves on the Board of Home HeadQuarters, the Enforcement Advisory Committee of the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Syracuse Refugee Alliance. Sally currently lives in Liverpool with her husband and three young boys. George Moses serves as Executive Director of North East Area Development, Inc.(NEAD) and Group 14621 Community Association Inc.; both organizations are non-profit 501(c) 3 and members of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State. The mission of both organizations is to im-prove the quality of life for residents in the northeast areas of the City of Rochester.

George brings over 30years of experience in grass roots community development, a proven and well-documented history of leadership, guidance and service evidenced by his strong commitment and involvement at all levels of the community.

George has also served as a contributor to the Democrat and Chronicles’ Editorial Board, and is


George Moses (continued) president of the Parent Teacher Organization at John James Audubon School #33. Honors include: 2003 Monroe County Democratic Committee Volunteer of the Year, ABC’s Lena Gantt Distinguished Community Service Award, MCC Alumni making a difference in the community award, Beechwood Neighborhood Coalition Leadership Award and City of Rochester Un-sung Heroes Award.

George’s philosophy is that community development is rooted in the 4 P's:

People-Our # 1 asset Place-Based strategies that develop & renovate current neighborhoods Partnerships-In the age of dwindling resources, partnerships or alliances are key to survival Policies-To achieve systemic change, we must address policies that will enable organizations to per-form their work more efficiently.

A product of the Rochester City School District, George graduated from Monroe Community College, and proudly served his country in the United States Navy. George is a lifelong resident of Rochester, NY; where he and his wife are raising 5 children. Anthony Capece currently serves as the Executive Director for the Central District Management As-sociation, Inc. The CDMA, Inc. is the largest physical Business Improvement District in the United States. The Central Albany district exceeds 3 miles within the City of Albany just on Central Avenue alone. The Central BID’s programs include a 7 day a week sidewalk litter program, a 4 season aes-thetics and seasonal decorations program, a business recruitment program, and an 8 person staff. The Central Avenue BID consists of over 400 businesses and has an operating budget of just over 500 thousand dollars year. The Central Albany BID is one of three business improvement districts in the Capital City of Albany. Anthony has and currently serves on numerous regional and state wide advisory boards that relate to economic development efforts. Anthony advises local and regional business groups that work to-wards not only Central business interests but those more globally, from career development efforts as Chair of the Workforce Development Institute at Hudson Valley Community College to Vice President of regional groups such as the New York State Urban Council and several other main Anthony was born in White Plains, New York and lived there until 1983 when he left to at-

tend Buffalo State College where he received a degree in Communica-tions/Public Relations. He is street councils and advisory boards.

Prior to arriving in Albany, Anthony served as the Executive Director of the Canandaigua BID. The Canandaigua Business Improvement District is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region of New York State. Canandaigua serves as a tourism hub and retail shopping destination for thousands of visitors every year in the Finger lakes region of the State.


Anthony Capece (continued) also a graduate of the Center for Media Arts in New York City, with a technical certification in Broadcast Engineering. Anthony has also worked in corporate event plan-ning and not for profit management. Jason Labate practices in the areas of not-for-profit law, affordable housing and community devel-opment, banking and finance, and general real estate law. Jason represents a wide range of for-profit, not-for-profit and public organizations in various corporate, tax-exemption and real estate matters. Prior to joining Goldstein Hall, Jason attended Brooklyn Law School with a focus on eco-nomic empowerment and community development. He participated in Brooklyn Law School’s Com-munity Development Clinic, where he advised local groups on not-for-profit corporate formation, corporate governance, and tax issues. He also interned with various government, nonprofit and pri-vate organizations including Staten Island Legal Services Homeowner Defense Project, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. He was a Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow from 2009 – 2012.

Before obtaining his law degree, Jason worked in public service for seven years, including as the ad-ministrative director at a not-for-profit research center and as the director of program support and development at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). He was a New York City Urban Fellow from 2004-2005 and a Mayor’s Graduate Scholar from 2006-2008. Jeremy N. Ingpen is a Senior Advisor to Non-Profits and Non-Profit Boards with Strategic Philan-thropy Advisors, LLC. Jeremy’s consulting focus is on strategic and business planning, board govern-ance, capital attraction and reallocation, and cost reduction. He has served as executive director of two housing non-profits, Washingtonville Housing Alliance, Mamaroneck, NY and Randolph Area Community Development Corporation, Randolph, VT. He has served on the boards of Community Housing Innovations, Inc., First Baptist Housing Development Finance Corporation, Hartsdale Gardens Owners Corporation, and the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of NYS.

Before entering the world of non-profit management, he had a twenty year career in management consulting, concluding as director of strategy and restructuring consulting for Deloitte & Touche CIS, Moscow, Russia. Clients included privately-held companies, regional banks, local and state govern-ments, and publicly quoted multinationals. Corianne Scally is a senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her areas of expertise include federal, state, and local affordable housing policies and programs that focus on rental housing, housing finance and development, housing instability and mobility, and housing for vulnerable populations including people with dis-abilities and grandparents raising grandchildren.

Scally’s past research has explored the complexities of interagency and cross-sector state and local implementation of affordable housing policy, finance, and development. It includes policy


Corianne Scally (continued) innovation within state housing finance agencies and local public hous-ing authorities, nonprofit housing advocacy and outcomes, and local barriers and community opposi-tion to affordable housing development and fair housing opportunities. Additional work has focused on measuring and improving housing outcomes for vulnerable households and on comparing inter-national rental housing policy and implementation.

Currently contracted to the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service, Scally supports in-house research and policy and program development for its rural rental housing and community ser-vices programs. Before joining Urban, she was a professor of urban planning at the University at Al-bany, SUNY, from 2007 to 2014, where she taught courses and conducted research on affordable housing and community development. In 2014, Scally launched her own research consulting firm, HOUSERS, LLC. She has also worked in nonprofit affordable housing development.

Scally received her BA in international affairs and MSP from Florida State University, and her PhD in urban planning and policy development from Rutgers University. Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, LEED-AP is an architect and urban planner who specializes in sustainable participatory community design and development. Her work includes design of high-performance housing, main street revitalization, structuring green initiatives, resilience and technical assistance to not-for-profit organizations and public agencies.

She received a Harvard Loeb Fellowship and is past chair of the AIA Housing Knowledge Community, the Association for Community Design and the AIA Housing and HUD Secretary’s Awards Juries. Ms. Dorgan is active in volunteer groups and is a frequent speaker, instructor and writer about green de-sign and incremental community renewal.

Thank you to the 2015 Crossroads Conference speakers who gave generously of their time and helped make this event a success!

The Board and Staff of the

NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION COALITION OF NYS

Congratulates & Extends Gratitude to

JOSEPH SLUSZKA

Recipient of the

2015 NPCNYS SERVICE AWARD

Linda Goodman

Executive Director

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Best wishes and thanks to

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MEMBER NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Members

There is no greater asset to this organization than you and the work you do to help revitalize neighborhoods and preserve affordable housing all across New York State. In order for The Coalition to do its job effectively, we need your help. We have created a comprehensive Member Needs Assessment survey and we need each of you to complete one. The chief objectives of this survey are to:

Determine member satisfaction with The Coalition’s services

Better understand the work members are doing in their communities

Enable The Coalition to more effectively advocate for the needs of its members The survey is available online and we ask that while you are here at conference, you take some time to complete it. The total time commitment is approximately 15-20 minutes.

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Better Neighborhoods, Inc.

Brighton Neighborhood Association, Inc.

Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing

Services

Brooklyn Neighborhood Improvement Assoc.

Carroll Gardens Association, Inc.

Central Islip Civic Council, Inc.

Citizens' Alliance, Inc.

CODE, Inc.

Community Land Trust of Schenectady, Inc.

Concourse Area Housing Corp.

Cooper Square Committee

Cypress Hills LDC

Downtown Manhattan CDC

East Harlem Council for Community

Improvement, Hellgate Management Corp.

East New York Urban Youth Corp, Inc.

Ellicott District Community Development

Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc.

Good Old Lower East Side, Inc.

Gowanus Canal CDC

Greater Sheepshead Bay Development Corp.

Group 14621 Community Assoc., Inc.

Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc.

Highland Community Revitalization

Committee, Inc.

Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Center

Hope Community, Inc.

Housing Conservation Coordinators, Inc.

Housing Help, Inc.

Housing Visions Unlimited, Inc.

Hudson River Housing, Inc.

Human Development Services of Westchester

Interfaith Council for Action, Inc.

Kimmel Housing Development Foundation

La Fuerza Unida, Inc.

Los Sures Community Development Co., Inc.

Lower East Side Coalition Housing

Development, Inc.

Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center of

Western New York

Manhattan Valley Development Corp.

Margert Community Corporation

Marketview Heights Association, Inc.

MBD Community Housing Corporation

Metro Interfaith Housing Management Corp.

Midwood Development Corporation

Morrisania Revitalization Corp.

Mt. Vernon United Tenants

NCS Community Development Corp

Near Westside Neighborhood Association, Inc.

NEHDA, Inc.

Neighborhood Association for Intercultural

Affairs

Neighbors of Watertown, Inc.

NeighborWorks Rochester

NERVE, Inc.

NHS of Jamaica, Inc.

NHS of South Buffalo, Inc.

NHS of Staten Island, Inc.

North Brooklyn Development Corp.

North East Area Development, Inc.

North Yonkers Preservation & Development

Corp.

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp.

Northfield Community LDC of Staten Island

Northwest Queens Housing Corp.

Old First Ward Community Association, Inc.

Pratt Area Community Council

Regional Economic Community Action

Program, Inc.

Richmond Senior Services, Inc.

Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corp.

Sinergia, Inc.

South East Area Coalition, Inc.

South End Improvement Corp.

South Wedge Planning Committee, Inc.

St. Nick's Alliance

Suburban Housing Development & Research,

Inc.

Syracuse United Neighbors

TAP, Inc.

Troy Rehabilitation & Improvement Project,

Inc.

UNHS NeighborWorks

United Jewish Council of the East Side, Inc.

United Tenants of Albany, Inc.

University District Community Development

Assoc.

Washington Heights Inwood Preservation &

Restoration Corp

West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood

Resource Center, Inc.

West Side Federation For Senior and

Supportive Housing, Inc.

Wilson Major Morris Community Center, Inc.

Wyandanch Community Development

Corporation

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