OUR PEOPLE
STAFF
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Board of Directors
SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL
Eliza Factor - Founder, Extreme Kids & Crew, and Board Chair Emeritus
Jamie Luft - Dean of Academic Advisement, Origins High School
Nyasha Manigault - Senior Director, Finance
Melissa Morgenlander - Adjunct Professor of Children and Youth Studies at Brooklyn College
Eric Nicklas - Vice President, Quality, Performance and Compliance, New York Foundling
Ghita Schwarz - Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Author
Kelly Symons - SVP, Data Management & Governance, Mastercard
Micaela Walker - Archivist
Patricia Wolff - Marketing Consultant
Liz Wollman - Associate Professor of Music, Baruch College, CUNY
Program Advisory Council and Consultants
Emily Antoniades - Senior Grant Writer
Julie Cavanagh - Principal, P.S. 15
Rachel Howard - River House Consulting
Amy Weber - Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Speak, Learn, & Play
Grants and Foundations
The Stephen Colbert Americone Dream Fund
BNY Mellon
Brooklyn Community Foundation
City Council District 38 (Carlos Menchaca) Discretionary Funding
City Council District 39 (Brad Lander) Discretionary Funding
Department of Youth & Community Services
The FAR Fund
The Ford Foundation Good Neighbor Committee
The Joseph H. Flom Foundation
Investors Foundation
Magic Pebble Foundation
Meringoff Family Foundation
New York Community Trust
New York Women's Foundation
The O'Connell Organization Family Foundation
Planet Fitness
Cowan Slavin Foundation
Select Equity Group Foundation
SMPS Family Fund
South Wind Foundation
SparkYouth NYC
The Sunshine Foundation
The Valentine Perry Snyder Fund
Walentas Foundation Ltd.
Youth INC Bridgefund