Mayor Eric Adams, Fund President Lisette Nieves, Fund Govt VP Aldrin Bonilla, Fund Board Chairman Michael Arad. Photograph Credit score: Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Images Workplace
Mayor Adams, Dr. Mitchell Katz, President /COO at NYC Well being+Hospitals & Verna Eggleston, Bloomberg Philanthropies, all honored with FUND public service awards
— Lisette Nieves, President Fund for the Metropolis of New York
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, July 26, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — In the course of the reception, the Fund honored Mayor Adams with its first-ever Public Sector Visionary Award and introduced each Dr. Mitchell Katz, President and Chief Working Officer at NYC Well being + Hospitals, and Verna Eggleston, Program Lead, Girls’s Financial Growth at Bloomberg Philanthropies, with the Fund’s Public Service Innovation Award.
On Tuesday, the Fund for the Metropolis of New York (Fund) celebrated its 55th anniversary at a Gracie Mansion reception hosted by Mayor Eric Adams. In the course of the reception, the Fund honored Mayor Adams with its first-ever Public Sector Visionary Award. The award honors a frontrunner whose visionary management considerably improves authorities perform and companies, and fosters collaboration throughout sectors for the general public good.
“Eric Adams is a profession public servant who has devoted his life to working for the residents of New York Metropolis,” says Lisette Nieves, President of the Fund for the Metropolis of New York. “He’s a real champion of New Yorkers, with an unwavering dedication to public service.”
Since its founding in 1968, the Fund has constantly served as a trusted and confirmed anchor establishment, collaborating with native authorities and nonprofit businesses to pioneer progressive insurance policies, packages and practices that improve the general high quality of life of each New York Metropolis resident. Because the Fund commemorates its 55th anniversary, it has been acknowledging the quite a few partnerships, packages and achievements of public service leaders. The Fund advances excellence in public service, helps and funds social entrepreneurship, facilitates cross-sector management improvement, acknowledges and elevates public highschool STEM training, facilitates cross-sector management improvement and enhances organizational capability and financial stability. To this point this 12 months, the Fund has hosted the Cross-Sector Innovation Convention, launched the True Value of Dwelling Report with the United Manner of New York Metropolis and introduced the fiftieth annual 2023 Sloan Public Service Awards.
In the course of the 55th Anniversary reception, together with Mayor Adams, the Fund honored two lifelong public servants: Dr. Mitchell Katz, President and Chief Govt Officer of NYC Heath + Hospitals, and Verna Eggleston, Program Lead for Girls’s Financial Growth at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Each honorees obtained the Fund’s Public Service Innovation Award, which the Fund is awarding a choose few as a part of its 55th anniversary 12 months celebrations.
Of the honorees, President Nieves stated, “Mayor Adams, Dr. Katz and Verna Eggleston are all inspiring public servants who’ve contributed immeasurably to the functioning, development and vitality of our metropolis. These awards are a gesture of gratitude and appreciation for his or her distinctive service to the town all of us love and name dwelling.”
Aldrin Rafael Bonilla, Govt Vice President of the Fund for the Metropolis of New York, added, “The outstanding expertise that exists in New York Metropolis authorities and authorities businesses is embodied by these unimaginable honorees, who’re tremendous civil servants going above and past the decision of responsibility. Dr. Katz shepherded New York Metropolis via the AIDS disaster within the 80s with no roadmap from earlier public well being emergencies to assist his work. Not solely did he succeed then, however he has served New York Metropolis over the previous 40 years since and used his learnings to assist the town throughout the COVID pandemic.”
About Ms. Eggleston, President Nieves stated, “Verna Eggleston has devoted her life to New York Metropolis, guaranteeing that metropolis authorities is working to make life higher for the residents of New York. Previous to becoming a member of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Eggleston labored for greater than 4 a long time in human and social improvement, each in authorities and the non-public sector. Eggleston returned to authorities because the Commissioner for New York Metropolis’s Human Assets Administration (HRA) for the Bloomberg Administration.”
To commemorate the Fund’s 55th anniversary and its many cross-sector contributions, the mayor introduced a proclamation to Fund management recognizing July 18th as Fund for the Metropolis of New York Day.
About The Fund for the Metropolis of New York
The Fund for the Metropolis of New York was established by the Ford Basis in 1968 with the mandate to enhance the standard of life for all New Yorkers. For 55 years, in partnership with
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