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The Fresh Air Fund launched its 142nd summer on June 28 with Executive Director Fatima Shama (center right) and former Fresh Air child, Israel Dudley, (center left) in attendance. Photos by Bradley Afroilan and Shutterstock, Illustration by Zach Williams
Kathleen Riddle has retired as president of the Queens-based Outreach. A June 28 press release states that Riddle will continue to serve the nonprofit substance abuse treatment organization as part-time advisor to the organization, which she had worked at for 39 years. Debra Pantin, the former CEO of VIP Community Services formally succeeded Riddle on June 30, according to the press release.
The New York City Department of Homeless Services has given a $565,000 contract to Acacia Network Housing. The funds will pay for emergency shelter services for homeless families at the Ramada Inn located at 164-40 Hillside Avenue in Queens through June 30, 2018, according to the City Record. Geel Community Services has landed a $1.11 million contract with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide "mental hygiene services." New York County Health Services Review Organization has received a $1.95 million contract with the Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration. The three-year contract will fund "physician review services for home care programs through 2021," according to the City Record.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has elected John Richardson, Yvonne Riley-Tepie, and Sharon Volckhausen to the organization’s board of directors at the conservancy’s June 28 meeting, according to a press release. John Richardson joined Ionic Capital Management LLC (“Ionic”) pre-launch in 2006 and oversees all aspects of the firm. Ionic is a $3 billion alternative asset manager founded in 2006 and currently manages multiple private investment vehicles employing different investment strategies including long volatility, event driven and credit. Ionic consists of 46 employees, 24 of whom are investment professionals, and is based in New York City with an office located in San Francisco. Sharon Volckhausen is a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former clerk for Judge Denny Chin at the Southern District of New York.
City Harvest has received a $540,000 grant from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation. The money will fund delievers of rescued food in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of Manhattan, according to a June 27 press release. That work will allow the nonprofit to rescue more than 1 million pounds of food to ten food pantries and soup kitchens in those areas.
The Fresh Air Fund launched its summer program on June 29, according to a press release. About 3,000 campers will go to five Fund camps in Fiskkill, New York. This is the 142nd summer for the nonprofit organization which helps children from low-income communities, as well as year-round support programs.
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