Blank Slate Media will host a virtual forum on the state of not-for-profit organizations in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, more than ever, not-for-profit organizations are facing lost or reduced revenues due to the pandemic. With these agencies facing no shortage of challenges every day, Blank Slate Media Publisher Steven Blank will moderate a conversation with prominent not-for-profit figures Regina Gil, Paule T. Pachter, Jeffrey Reynolds and Rebecca Sanin.
Gil, recently named one of Blank Slate Media’s Top Business Leaders of Nassau County, is the founder and executive director of the Gold Coast Arts Center, a not-for-profit organization in Great Neck. Now in its 25th year, the center is a dynamic regional cultural organization featuring music, art, dance, dramatic arts and film.
Its mission has always been to promote and support the arts through education, exhibition, performance and outreach, which the arts center does through its renowned School for the Arts, free public art gallery, Arts-in-Education outreach program, year-round film screening and discussion series and annual Gold Coast International Film Festival, among many other programs.
Pachter is chief executive officer of Long Island Cares Inc., the Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank. Founded by the late singer, Grammy Award-winning songwriter, and social activist Harry Chapin, Long Island Cares brings together resources for the benefit of the hungry and food insecure on Long Island, and provides to the best of its ability for the humanitarian needs of communities. Pachter also serves on the St. Joseph’s College faculty, teaching a graduate course on Executive Leadership and Models of Innovation.
Reynolds is the president and CEO of the Family and Children’s Association. He is a man of many missions and one vocation: to help the underserved and the at-risk. Throughout his 25-year career, Reynolds has committed his efforts to strengthening not-for-profit organizations and creating programs that serve vulnerable and often invisible members of the Long Island community. FCA is one of Long Island’s largest health and human organizations with 340 staff members, 200 volunteers and more than 30 programs. Reynolds, who was also named one of Blank Slate Media’s Top Business Leaders in Nassau County, has experience in fortifying not-for-profit organizations through management and securing increased funding.
Sanin, another Top Business Leader of Nassau County recipient, is the president/CEO of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, an umbrella organization for the nonprofit sector in the region that advances social justice and equitable human service delivery systems. Prior to this position, she served for five years as an assistant deputy county executive for Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone and has extensive experience in the nonprofit and government sector working on critical issues that impact community development. Sanin has also taught courses in psychology at Dowling College, Suffolk Community College and Iona College.
The free, virtual event will take place on March 18 at 7 p.m. Those interested in tuning in can register on islandnow.net, or directly join the Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87922230298.
