Philanthropy in Phocus

The act of lighting a candle will not only honor those who have died in service to our country but bring recognition to PTSD awareness month in June. To raise public awareness about issues related to PTSD and help ensure that those suffering from the invisible wounds of war receive proper treatment. We will discuss how VYP’s Mindful Resilience tools, rooted in yoga and grounded in science, are helping transform post-traumatic stress into post-traumatic growth.

About Org:

Veterans Yoga Project is a grassroots educational and outreach organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of military veterans. Veterans Yoga Project is on a mission to support recovery and resilience among veterans, military families, and communities. 

About Deb Jeannette: 

Deb has been President of the Board since 2015 and has been an integral and invaluable part of the growth of VYP. She has engaged in all aspects of that growth from the formalization of the group structure and instrumental in the development of the fund-raising activities of VYP.

Website: https://veteransyogaproject.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veteransyogaproject.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veteransyogaproject/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veterans-yoga-project/

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About Hit The Books: 

Hit the Books (“HTB”) provides after-school educational programs, mentorship, and mixed martial art classes to kids in Harlem aged 6-13 to help our Students progress outside of the classroom intellectually, emotionally, and physically. HTB exposes its Students to educational and professional opportunities that may otherwise pass them by, fostering an environment of educational equality. In addition to enhancing the educational resources available to children, HTB serves as a community within a community, where children feel safe and view the facility as a second home.

About Kazz Alexander Pinkard:

Kazz is an experienced executive with 20 years of experience in nonprofit management and education. Before joining HTB, he served as the Chief Program Officer at The Boys' Club of New York and as Deputy Director at Ramapo For Children. Kazz holds a B.A. in history and has also earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Virginia, as well as post-graduate certificates from FordhamUniversity, Baruch College, and NYU. As an independent consultant, Kazz founded Teachable NYC, an organization whose mission is to help support the creation of diverse and inclusive programs for children.

Name of your organization: HIT THE BOOKS 

Website: http://www.hitthebooksnyc.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kazz-alexander-pinkard-5b446779/

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The Backyard Players & Friends are living proof that the kindness, generosity and support of a community can change and challenge the trajectory of a local non-profit organization.

Ellen White is co-founder and Executive Director of Backyard Players and Friends. Ellen serves as an integral resource for children with developmental disabilities on the South Shore of Long Island.

Typically, students with developmental disabilities attend school until 21 and then “age out.” Ellen and her sisters, Cristine Daly and Joan Kelly, along with Ryan Delaney, created BackYard Players and Friends as a resource to address the needs of these individuals.

About Backyard Players & Friends:

Backyard Players & Friends is a local, inclusive arts-based community program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Many of our participants attended High School until the age of 21 when they graduated from the traditional education system. Most families have the opportunity to send their children off to college or the work force after graduation.

Parents of students with developmental disabilities don't usually have those options and they are left to find classes & programs for their children to attend...These students are then at risk to lose their network of friends, their social interactions and their community involvement.

Young adults with developmental disabilities spend the first two decades of their lives preparing to be full members of our communities. We should not break that promise just as it's about to be achieved. The focus at BYP is to simply include.

Website: https://www.bypandfriends.com/

Instagram: @bypandfriends

Facebook: BackYard Players & Friends

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The way how to support this amazing initiative and how you can do the same in your community

About Michael Partis: 

For seven years, he led social enterprise incubation and equitable community development programming at Young Movement Inc. As Director of South Bronx Rising Together, he facilitated a collective impact initiative dedicated to improving health, grade-level reading and math, and post-secondary outcomes in the Melrose, Morrisania, and Crotona Park West neighborhoods. 

Michael is also an experienced educator and researcher. He’s been an Instructor at CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at CUNY Brooklyn College, and an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at LIU Brooklyn. He is the co-founder of The Bronx Brotherhood Project, a community-based college success program for Black and Latino teens at the New Settlement College Access Center.

About the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative: The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) is a community-led effort to build an equitable, sustainable, and democratic local economy that creates wealth and ownership for low-income people of color—what we call economic democracy.

Website: https://bcdi.nyc/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bronx-cooperative-development-initiative/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bronxfuture/ 

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The audience will learn what binge drinking & high-intensity drinking is along with how to avoid them from happening. Learning to identify alcohol poisoning symptoms is key to helping someone in need- make a call and save a life! Underage folks must be confident knowing that they can make a call for help without the fear of getting in trouble if someone is exhibiting the symptoms. Don't Stall, JustCall!

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Mary Ciammetti is the Founder of The CTC Wellness Foundation and Don’tStall, JustCall, an alcohol poisoning education and prevention mission for students and families. In 2015, Mary experienced a great tragedy—the death of her beloved youngest child, Christian, a 20-year-old thriving college student. He died from complications of alcohol poisoning due to binge drinking. Through grief, her purpose became clear: Don’t Stall, Just Call was created along with the nonprofit The CTC Wellness Foundation, a 501C(3) that focuses on alcohol education, anxiety reduction strategies and wellness opportunities for students to incorporate healthy lifestyle choices on campus and beyond. Under Mary’s vision, The CTC Wellness Foundation has established an endowed scholarship at Temple University.

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Name of your organization: The CTC Wellness Foundation dba Don't Stall, Just Call

Website: https://www.dontstalljustcall.org

Facebook: Don't Stall, Just Call

Instagram: @dontstalljustcall

LinkedIn: Mary T Ciammetti or The CTC Wellness Foundation

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The audience will get a true sense of Linda's dedication to gun safety and ending the epidemic of senseless and preventable gun violence in our country. Linda has turned the ultimate tragedy of the loss of a child into a call for action. Linda believes in celebrating Scott's life, not mourning his death. Ending the epidemic of gun violence is twofold; legislation and education. Linda does this through both her legislative efforts in the passing of landmark gun safety legislation and through education with the Scott J Beigel Memorial Fund. It was once said that someone who saves a child, saves the world. Linda's goal is to save as many children as possible to make the world a better place. People should listen because senseless and preventable gun violence can only be eradicated with the community and national effort. We need the help of your listeners to support the cause of ending gun violence in this country. As Linda has said, "We all have the right to be safe" "We all have the right to live without fear"

Linda Beigel Schulman is the mother of Scott J. Beigel, the geography teacher and cross-country coach who sacrificed his life while saving the lives of 31 of his students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland Florida on February 14, 2018. 

Linda lives in Dix Hills, New York. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education from the University of Arizona and her Master’s Degree in Science from Long Island University. Linda is a licensed teacher and has taught in Arizona and abroad. 

Linda is a strong and staunch advocate for reasonable gun safety legislation on both a State and Federal level. Linda has chosen to turn the senseless murder of her son into her life’s mission on multiple levels. 

Linda was instrumental in the passage of the “Red Flag Law” in Florida right after the killing of her son Scott. Within weeks of Scott’s murder, Linda flew to Tallahassee to speak before both the Florida Senate Appropriations Committee and the Florida House Appropriations Committee. Linda has also met with various Florida state legislators to help ensure the passage of Florida's Flag Law.

In March of 2020, the Town of Huntington, New York recognized Linda as a Woman of Distinction for her dedication and work on behalf of the Scott J Beigel Memorial Fund.

In 2021, the New York State Senate and Assembly passed the “Scott J Beigel Untraceable Receiver Act” which was signed into law by Gov. Hochulon on October 28, 2021. The law will ban the possession, manufacture, or sale of “Ghost Guns”. A Ghost Gun is a Do It Yourself firearm that can be purchased online, assembled in less than an hour, and does not have a serial number, thereby making it untraceable. 

Org: Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund, Inc

Website:

www.sjbmf.org 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindaBeigelSchulman 

https://www.facebook.com/scottbeigelmemorialfund 

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/lindabeigelschulman/ 

https://www.instagram.com/scottjbeigelmemorialfund/

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The audience will get a high-energy view of how the arts are making a big comeback after covid and the excitement of the returning audiences. Not only will they learn about the importance of supporting live performing arts, but they also hear about the importance of supporting a highly successful and well-respected international film festival. Listeners will become energized by this conversation with Alan Inkles as he shares his 38 years of experience and enthusiasm for the arts and how that translates to organically generating critical support for the Staller Center for the Arts and the Stoney Brook Film Festival at Stony Brook University.

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Alan Inkles has been the Director of Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University for the past twenty-nine years and the Founder/Director of The Stony Brook Film Festival for the past twenty-seven years. Prior to serving as the Director, Alan served in various capacities at Staller including Acting Director, Managing Director, Associate Director of Programming, and Director of Operations. During his 38 year tenure at Staller, he founded and created the award-winning and long-running International Theatre Festival, introducing dozens of International Theatre Troupes to America and producing many first American tours for these Internationally renowned companies.

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Name of your organization: Staller Center for the Arts

Website: https://www.stallercenter.com//

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stallercenter/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stallercenter/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-inkles-20031967/

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More than likely, at some point in a child’s life, they will need to visit an emergency room or hospital clinic. The statistics on health disparities across the country based on factors such as race, zip code, socioeconomic status, and language spoken are staggering, and for many children, challenges that existed before March 2020 became magnified during the pandemic, particularly in low-income communities that were hardest hit by the virus. enCourage Kids is helping to spread awareness of the challenges many hospital systems are facing in addressing these disparities and how we are supporting the child life community in meeting the needs of their communities, including those of your audience members and their friends and families.

Our special guest, Michele Hall-Duncan's career at enCourage Kids began as a volunteer and joined the staff full-time in 1996. She has always felt a deep connection to the mission and quickly rose within the organization to her current position as President and CEO. 

During her tenure, Michele has cultivated strong relationships with the child-life community and all levels of healthcare administration, as well as a comprehensive, integral understanding of trends in creative therapies, while identifying and meeting the needs of our hospital partners. These attributes have helped Michele to position enCourage Kids at the forefront of state-of-the-art programming in pediatric healthcare. 

enCourage Kids Foundation helps humanize healthcare for children and their families by resourcing impact-driven pediatric programs and supporting the Child Life Community.

Org: enCourage Kids 

Foundation Website: www.encourage-kids.org 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encouragekidsfoundation/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/encouragekids/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/encourage-kids-foundation/

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Michael Magro Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization founded by Paul and Terrie Magro to honor the life of their son Michael, who passed away from leukemia at the age of 13. 

The Foundation works with the Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Langone LI Hospital, Stony Brook Children’s CancerDivision, Cohen's Children's Hospital, and other pediatric specialties where treatment of chronic diseases is ongoing. 

Terrie Magro is a Registered Nurse. She started her clinical career at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn. Completed her graduate degree in nursing from NYU and transitioned into a Clinical Nurse Specialist role part-time and accepted an adjunct faculty position at Adelphi's undergraduate school of nursing. 

"The opportunity arose to move into the corporate sector and I joined a medical supply company and diabetes supply company in a sales capacity. I have recently retired from NYU Langone Long Island where I worked as a physician liaison in the department of pediatrics. In 2004 when my boys became sick and Michael passed away I started with my husband Paul a 501c3 in Michael's memory; Michael Magro Foundation. I am the VP of the organization, we incorporated in 2005 and are in our 17th-year as a non-profit. I now run the foundation along with my all-volunteer board full-time."

Name of your organization: Michael Magro Foundation Website: www.michaelmagrofoundation.com

Facebook: Michael Magro Foundation

Instagram: @michaelmagrofoundation

LinkedIn: Michael Magro Foundation

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They will understand the process that allowed the development to create the system that will change policing in the most positive way in decades.

‍Robyn Cannariato

‍Post Tour Processing is an independent not-for-profit group of committed and concerned retired police officers and police professionals, formed to address a gap in the services available for law enforcement.

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Tommy tells his listeners about his mission to tell stories about the nonprofit sector and amplify their message. He reminds his listeners that NYC Imagine Awards applications are out now for anyone working in a nonprofit organization that’s involved in the five boroughs in NYC. Tommy introduces his guest Psychologist Jean Cirillo and Police officer Robyn Cannariato. Robyn shares some of her experience working in the field and the different units she’s transferred to throughout her career. She talks about her most memorable unit, Early Intervention Unit, where she had to review and possibly terminate problematic officers. Robyn expressed her concerns for the unit because it didn’t give the officers a chance to identify their problem. She says it was better for peers to run the unit so officers in distress could have someone who can understand and relate to their troubles.

Robyn continues to talk about the traumatic experiences police officers face and how it can affect their life outside of work. She discusses the difficulties officers face when it comes to emotionally processing a traumatic event. This anonymous program is designed to help officers share what they are experiencing with their peers. If the situation boils into something more severe they are referred to a psychologist. Tommy references his previous episode where his guests run an agency, Transitional Services of NY, where they’ve served over 4,000 individuals with mental health issues. Before the break, Tommy and his guest discussed how we are in a state where we can all use a little more compassion and support.

Tommy and his guest continue to discuss the benefits of the program established by Robyn. It’s an outlet for officers under distress who want to keep their matters anonymous in fear of losing their job security. This program was designed to create a space for officers and their peers to share their experiences and support each other. Tommy asks Robyn the future of the organization and if they plan on expanding. She is focused on funding at the moment and looks to license the program to share with other departments around the nation.

Tommy and his guest discuss the struggles officers face when they are out of uniform. It can be hard to turn off and live a normal life when you are consistently met with intense situations as a police officer. Jean talks about the effects of PTSD and how it can lead to a more severe situation. Tommy connects the current conditions since the start of the pandemic and how we all have been under greater stress. Before the end of the show, Tommy informs his listeners that they can find him on TikTok and Instagram at TommyD@Philanthropy in Phocus. You can also find him at TommyD.NYC. Check out more information on Post Tour Processing on their website at TTMPT.com