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| The Partnership for Student Advancement (PSA)
helps financially underprivileged high school students, particularly
minorities, identify and pursue a career path. PSA's life skills
training and career development programs include skill and
aptitude matching and support services, which smooth the school-to-work
transition. |
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| We're committed to assisting students to achieve professional
success and personal fulfillment, as well as to building tomorrow's
workforce. |
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| Staff |
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| Anne Bonfiglio, Founder and Executive Director |
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| Anne Bonfiglio's life-long goal has been to help underprivileged minority youth improve their future through a career. |
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| She has taught high school students preparing girls for the New York State Regents exams, and has tutored in remedial English classes at Kingsborough College . |
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| All my life I have been concerned and sympathetic towards
young people who are members of families in the poorer segment
of our society, and who do not have the financial ability to
support the education of their children. In bringing up and
educating my five children here in New York City 's public
schools, I was constantly aware of this problem. |
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| One major factor that prompted me to start this charity was
the pro bono work of my late husband, an attorney. He was an
inspiration to me since he was always giving legal advice to
poor families and representing them at little or no charge. |
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| Personally, I believe that every child here in America deserves
the opportunity for a bright future. I am passionate about
helping as many young people as possible through PSA to identify
jobs and careers, find personal fulfillment and make a life
for themselves. |
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| BOARD |
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| Anne Bonfiglio, Executive Director, Founder |
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Anne Bonfiglio's life-long goal has been to help underprivileged
minority youth improve their future through finding a suitable career.
She has taught high school age students preparing the girls for the New York State Regents exams, and also taught remedial English at Kingsborough College. |
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| Bonfiglio spent 22 years in computer technology, moving up
the ladder from programmer to manager to director to Information
Technology Auditor. She worked in the public and private sectors.
In her last position, she managed the computer systems supporting
the general ledger, investment systems and treasury systems
at MetLife, for which she led and successfully completed a
major re-engineering project. Bonfiglio is a Certified Internal
Systems Auditor (CISA) and has managed large teams of people
and projects. |
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| Peter Bonfiglio, Board Member and Secretary |
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| Peter Bonfiglio has been a Finance Director for Delia*s,
Inc., a direct marketer and retailer primarily focused on teenage
consumers, since October 2000,
where he has worked on several acquisitions,
office consolidations and divestitures. |
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| Previously Mr. Bonfiglio has held various financial reporting,
planning and analysis positions with media and entertainment
entities such as The New York Times Company, Sony Music Entertainment,
Fox Television and The Maier Group. |
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| Mr. Bonfiglio graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College in
1991 with a BS in Accounting and from the NYU Stern School
of Business with an MBA in Finance in 1999. |
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| Having gained insight into his own career path during high
school, he is a firm believer that discovering strengths and
aptitudes early in life is important to achieving success.
This is one of the major benefits PSA brings to students. |
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| Geraldine Curulli, Board Member |
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| Geraldine Curulli received her BS from Quinnipiac University and certificate in Medical Technology from Yale-New Haven Hospital . Before teaching she worked for 3 years in the Hematology Lab at Yale and 7 years at New York/Cornell Hospital Blood Bank. At Brooklyn College , she completed her MS in Biology and General Science Education. |
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| Geraldine Curulli is currently a retired high school science teacher with 22 years of service in the New York City school system. Most of her teaching career was spent at James Madison High School in Brooklyn where she was involved in a variety of academic and social activities, focused on enhancing the students' potential and improve the school environment. |
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| Geraldine Curulli's experience is as follows; she is a member of the Principal's Advisory Committee which later became the School Based Support Team, which also included parents and students, created to discuss current school issues, member of the Mentoring Committee which reviewed applications of colleagues to mentor new teachers, also a member of NYC/Lehman College Writing Consortium to help teachers create better writing skills in their classrooms and a member of a group of Brooklyn science teachers sent by the NYC Dept. of Education to Berkeley, Cal. to develop a laboratory group-based science curriculum with the theme of global sustainability. In addition she is also an assistant coach of the girl's softball team. |
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| Susan Grossman Greenwood, Board member |
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| Susan Grossman Greenwood is currently President and CEO of
DDD Enterprises, an international marketing firm with clients
including major firms in the profit and not-for-profit sectors.
Before joining the company, she was President/CEO of the Association
of Graphic Communications (AGC), the nation's premier organization
representing major publishing, graphic arts, and advertising
and new media member companies. |
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| Previously, Ms. Greenwood was a Senior Vice President at
Marine Midland Bank and a senior executive at Chemical Bank.
She managed and was accountable for substantial growth in the
Private Banking, Personal Trust and Marketing divisions. |
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| She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Society of Association Executives (NYSAE) for 5 years and a member of the organization's Executive Committee for 3 years. She served as both Vice Chair, and in the past year as Chair-Elect. |
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| She served as President of the International Women's Forum
and its Leadership Foundation and the Columbia Business School
Alumni Association and was also a member of Columbia Business
School's Board of Overseers. She was a presidential appointee
to the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Small Business
Administration and a mayoral appointee to the WNYC Foundation.
Her fund-raising talents contributed substantially to the growth,
vitality and visibility of these and many other organizations.
She has also won numerous awards for these accomplishments.
Currently, she is Chair-elect of the New York Society
of Association Executives. She recently
served as President of the Friends of Sheba Medical Center,
the largest medical center in the Middle East . |
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| She is pleased to be a member of the PSA board and believes
strongly in the organization's mission and ability to make
a difference in the lives of tomorrow's future leaders. |
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| Howard Inman, Board member |
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| Howard Inman served as the Director of Diversity and Work
Environment for Merck & Co. Inc. He has more than 20 years
of experience as a diversity advocate both in and outside of
Merck. |
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| Mr. Inman served as Chair of Merck's Black Employee Network
(BEN) and helped create and guide the creation of Merck Employee
Development Day. He served as Chairperson of the Political
Action Committee of the New York Branch of the NAACP. |
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| As leader of the New York Antiapartheid Coordinating Committee,
he was one of 850 international delegates at the first Anti-apartheid
conference in Johannesburg. He was also New York coordinator
of the Children of War Tour, which brought young people to
America to speak about their lives as children of war. |
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| Mr. Inman's activities have netted him numerous awards including
the Harry Foulkrod Humanitarian Award fr om Merck, Recognition
Award from the Religious Action Task Force and a Certificate
of Recognition from The National Council of Churches in the
USA . |
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| Phillip H. Sorace, Board member |
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| Phillip Sorace is banking executive ( Chief Executive Officer (proposed) of a bank in the NYS approval process) with over 35 years experience developing organization structure and strategic marketing plans for banks and other financial institutions and in managing credit risk process and directing sales and relationship teams serving both high level global and community based businesses. He demonstrates a proven track record in the preparation, structuring, presentation and closing of complex financings, restructurings and merger and acquisitions. |
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| He has performed as a senior lending and credit officer, manager of credit audit and as a National Bank Examiner for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States . Consequently, Mr. Sorace is well experienced in managing portfolio risk, developing and implementing credit policy and risk rating classifications, supervising loan quality migration and the art and science of allocating the Allowance for Loan and Lease Loss Reserves. Credit trained at Chase Manhattan Bank, he has a Bachelors Degree from NYU, an MBA from Fordham University , and has completed the NatWest Corporate Finance Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. |
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| As a banker and executive manager his direct contributions resulted in improvements in cost reduction, increased revenues, improved efficiency and enhanced quality of service while training and developing professional staff. As a Division Executive and Corporate Banking Department Head at two world class banks (Chase and NatWest USA ) he was responsible for overall sales strategies and business development in the highly competitive corporate and institutional national and global markets. |
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| In addition, he opened the Wall Street Office for a fixed income institutional boutique broker/dealer from bare walls to full operations in eleven Northeastern states.. |
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| Augmenting a distinguished banking career, Mr. Sorace was also the Managing Director for Business Development and Corporate Finance at one of the top twenty-five accounting firms in the United States . |
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| Most recently, Mr. Sorace was appointed the Chief Credit and Lending Officer for a troubled community based minority owned commercial bank with headquarters in the Bronx, New York . In this capacity Mr. Sorace was charged with stabilizing a deteriorating relationship with the bank's regulating authority, establishing satisfactory loan loss reserves, encouraging a demoralized staff to effectively market and build quality banking relationships and to restore confidence in the institutions ability to make and monitor loans through improved policies, procedures and management attention. Subsequently, he was the focus for the day to day management of the bank and for the due diligence process leading to its sale to a stronger institution at a premium. |
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| Ann Trupin, Board member |
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| Ann Trupin has worked for many years assisting youth make
the transition from school to work. |
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| For many years she was the Summer/Coop Program Coordinator
for Consolidated Edison. In various training and recruitment
capacities, Ms. Trupin helped the company prepare the work
force with skills needed to meet the challenges of job demands.
As a member of the Advisory Council for the Department of Education,
she assisted the council in its mission to ensure that career
and technical education issues were given priority in the school's
agenda. |
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| She has a Master's and Bachelor's in business education.
Her work with youth and adults has included assessing career
skills, aptitude and interests, providing counseling that has
assisted many in making important career decisions. |
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| Dr.Jennifer White, Board member |
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| Dr.Jennifer White is the founder of WhiteWave Consulting, LLC
and has over 15 years experience helping organizations improve
their people talent through research and assessment.
She has worked with many large organizations including ABN
AMRO, Cargill, Deloitte, E&Y, HP, IBM, JPMorgan Chase,
KPMG, MasterCard, Pfizer, PWC, UPS, and Xerox. |
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| Over the last few years, the company was engaged in conducting
best practices in executive governance, assessing Board effectiveness,
and measuring sales capability. |
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Dr. White has a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Alliant University and a B.A. in psychology and business
administration from UCLA.
She serves on the Board of PSA, the
Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management and the Wally
Foundation, a non-profit organization that recognizes innovative
leaders. |
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| Dr. White lives in midtown Manhattan with her husband
and son and enjoys skating, opera, and ipod fitness. |
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| Dr. White joins PSA because she believes strongly in
providing underserved youth with the career/job planning resources
to give them a leg up in their pursuit of meaningful and enjoyable
work. “You can lose a job, but you can't lose an education
or the skills of a trade.” |
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| TREASURER: Paul Ribaudo, Principal, Berdon LLP |
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360 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 331-7447
Fax: (212) 371-1159 |
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| PRibaudo@berdonLLP.com |
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| ADVISORY COUNCIL |
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| The board of the Partnership for Student Advancement (PSA)
has decided to form an Advisory Council to expand the support
base for the organization and its' important work. A major
function of the Council will be to reach out and engage others
in PSA's cause and urge them to attend events and/or donate. |
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| Current members include: |
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| Paul J. Brignola |
| Robin Fisher |
| Dave Gardner |
| Roxana Gheorghe |
| Graciela Flores |
| Judy Katz |
| Rosalie Kaufman |
| Francine Port |
| Madeline Wisnowski |
| Paul Wrablica |
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| CURRENT EVENTS AND NEWS |
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| The Partnership held its major yearly fundraiser recently at Con Edison's headquarters in NYC again this past April 25th, 2007. Highlights were an Antiques Roadshow- type antique and treasure evaluation of attendees' possessions by Helene Fendelman of the Antiques Association of America, music by Norman Hedman's 7 piece Jazz band, and a large varied Silent Auction. |
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The Partnership Board has had discussions with the management staff of the High School of Leadership and Public Service on Trinity Place in NYC about bringing the PSA program to that school in September, 2007.
The Principal of that H.S. has agreed to host our program, so we will be taking in a large group of students from the school in September.
The Principal and staff at this school are very enthused about what our program brings to the students and the school as a whole.
PSA has been able to place its current students in various job shadowing
opportunities this summer in medicine at Brookdale Hospital, and in journalism in several companies and publications.
This will confirm the students' career choices. |
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| A full page color ad for the Partnership was published in Business Week's Northeast edition of June 4, 2007, detailing our mission and asking for support. This is the first major advertising the charity has obtained to date. |
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| STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE EVENTS AND NEWS |
