Hartford Business Journal

18 Hartford Business Journal • March 7, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com NONPROFIT NOTEBOOK NONPROFIT PROFILE Greater Hartford Legal Aid 999 Asylum Ave., Hartford | www.GHLA.org MISSION To achieve equal justice for poor people, to work with clients to promote social justice, and to address the effects and root causes of poverty. TOP EXECUTIVE SERVICES Jamey Bell, Executive Director Provides legal services to people with low incomes. FY 2014 SUMMARY 2013 2014 Total Employees 37 40 Total Assets $4,115,423 $4,046,818 Total Liabilities $331,132 $299,057 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $4,633,322 $4,253,570 Program Service Revenue $14,382 $1,300 Investment Income $8,111 $10,904 Other $0 $0 TOTAL $4,655,815 $4,265,774 EXPENSES Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $3,478,756 $3,465,763 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $897,653 $837,422 TOTAL $4,376,409 $4,303,185 MARGIN $279,406 $(37,411) TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY 2014) Base Salary Total Compensation & Benefits Jamey Bell, Executive Director $125,657 $151,841 Jill Davies, Deputy Director $123,199 $141,382 Susan Garten, Managing Attorney $113,528 $143,019 S O U R C E : G U I D E S T A R I R S 9 9 0 T A X F O R M Frontier Communications names GM for Hartford region Frontier Communications Corp. has appointed Debra Zampano as area general manager for the company's Hartford region. Zampano will oversee the business and custom- er experience: provision of broadband, voice ser- vices and video, including FrontierTV and Frontier Secure, as well as data-security products. She will lead the Hartford region team on the development and implementation of business, sales and market- ing strategies, field operations, and engaging em- ployees and key community stakeholders. Prior to joining Frontier, Zampano was at Sikor- sky Aircraft, where she held several leadership posi- tions, most recently as program director. Mark Twain House & Museum selects CFO The Mark Twain House & Museum recently named Deb Cohen as chief financial officer after an extensive search. Cohen, who became a CPA in 1993, most recently was vice president of finance for One Beacon Insurance Group. She serves as vice chair of the West Hartford Historic District Commission and is a historic preservation advo- cate with a love of historic architecture and local history. First Niagara promotes executive to senior vice president First Niagara Financial Group has promoted Rob- ert Dellatorre to senior vice president, middle market banking for the New England region. Delatorre man- ages the bank's relationships with middle-market companies located throughout New England. Dellatorre joined First Niagara in 2011 as vice president/relationship manager, charged with de- veloping new business relationships and expanding the bank's corporate banking portfolio. Prior to join- ing First Niagara, he spent 20 years with JPM Chase middle market banking. CareCentrix announces chief medical officer Hartford-based CareCentrix, which connects pa- tients with care at home through a national network of more than 8,000 provider locations, announced that Dr. Michael Cantor has joined the company as chief medical officer. Cantor will develop new partnerships with healthcare providers and payers to accelerate pa- tients' transition from hospital to home. Cantor, a geriatrician and attorney, brings almost 20 years of experience in designing and implement- ing population-health and quality improvement pro- grams for health plans and healthcare providers. Cantor most recently served as chief medical of- ficer for the New England Quality Care Alliance, the 1-800-physician network for Tufts Medical Center in Boston, where he managed network population health and post-acute care management programs, as well as quality improvement programs. Center for Latino Progress announces new director of advancement and marketing The Center for Latino Progress, a Hartford-based nonprofit serving the Latino community through em- ployment training, job development services, civic engagement and immigration services, recently hired Samantha Slade as director of advancement and mar- keting. Slade will be responsible for planning and imple- menting the center's fundraising efforts, as well as pro- moting and expanding its presence in the community. Previously, Slade was development manager at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. C.M. Smith Agency promotes analyst to director of data analytics Hartford-based C.M. Smith Agency Inc., an em- ployee-benefits and retirement-services broker, re- cently promoted Michael Martin to director of data analytics. Martin's responsibilities include enhance- ments to reporting content and quality. Martin joined C.M. Smith in 2014 as a senior data analyst and previously worked as a senior data en- gineer for SCIO Health Analytics. Malloy nominates four CT residents to Board of Pardons and Paroles Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently announced the ap- pointment of four Connecticut residents — Patricia Thomas Camp of Bloomfield, Jeff L. Hoffman of Madison, Christopher Lyddy of New Haven and Carmen Sierra of New Britain — to fill full-time va- cancies on the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Camp is a part-time member of the Board of Par- dons and Paroles and is the treasurer of the board of the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, a nonprofit that provides clinical training for law students and legal services to nonprofit agencies in the region. Hoffman works as a contract court security of- ficer at the U.S. District Court in New Haven for the U.S. Marshals Service and is employed by Inter-Con Security, a government contractor. Lyddy serves as chief operating officer of Ad- vanced Trauma Solutions in Farmington, where he provides training, consultation and quality assur- ance services in the dissemination and implemen- tation of trauma-informed policies and programs to state agencies and treatment providers. Sierra is a court-based victim services advocate with the state of Connecticut Judicial Branch Office of Victim Services. Leadership Greater Hartford appoints new board Leadership Greater Hartford has welcomed eight executives to its board of directors. They are: David Brandwein, a retired attorney and founder and princi- pal of Environmental Risk Limited; Tammy Casey, vice president of underwriting operations at UnitedHealth- care; Bernard Kavaler, managing principal for Express Strategies; Matt Necci, partner at Halloran & Sage LLP and chair of the firm's workers' compensation practice group; Brenda Pabon, community relations and urban marketing program consultant for Aetna; Taryn Stejs- kal, director of leadership development and assess- ment at Cigna; Rob Torres, vice president for Webster Bank; and Gioia Zack, a commercial/investment real estate specialist for O,R&L Commercial and co-owner/ vice president for Luna Blu LLC. S/L/A/M Construction Services president joins board of CT builders group Glastonbury-based design-build firm S/L/A/M Con- struction Services said its President Eugene Torone has joined the Associated Builders and Contractors of Connecticut board of directors. Torone has more than 30 years of experience in planning and managing construction projects, with 19 years managing design- build projects. Torone currently serves on Connecticut ABC's member-recruitment committee. MOVERS & SHAKERS Debra Zampano Samantha Slade Robert Dellatorre Michael Martin Patricia Wrice, executive director of Operation Fuel, has announced her retire- ment after 18 years, effective June 30. Under Wrice's leadership, the Bloomfield nonprofit's annual financial assistance has grown sevenfold from $500,000 to more than $3.6 million in energy assistance. When she started, Wrice was the orga- nization's sole employee and the fuel bank's assistance was restricted to the winter. It has now expanded to be a full-year operation. Operation Fuel has evolved into a statewide, year-round energy assistance program with more than 100 fuel banks throughout Connecticut. Operation Fuel is conducting a search for the next executive director and expects to make an announcement by late June. • • • The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) awarded a total of $11,000 to four students from UConn's School of Busi- ness, all majoring in real estate and urban economics. The scholarships are funded from the Chapter sponsored Samuel F. Pierson and Carl F. Traub scholarships, with matching dollars provided by The SIOR Foundation. • • • The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the community foundation for 29 communities in Greater Hartford, awarded more than $33.1 million in 2,135 grants to the region's nonprofit agencies and educa- tional institutions in 2015. Foundation president Linda J. Kelly said both numbers were records. The foundation invested 30 percent of its grants in education from birth through high school, and new and renewed college scholarships. Grants for family and social services received 20 percent; health, 4 per- cent; arts and culture, 11 percent; housing and economic development, 19 percent; and summer programs, 4 percent. According to the latest estimated, unaudited numbers, the foundation ended 2015 with assets of $888.3 million in 1,120 funds. The Foundation received gifts total- ing $17.5 million with 29 new funds, includ- ing a new "Black Giving Circle Fund," to address issues facing Greater Hartford's black community. Since its founding in 1925, the founda- tion has awarded approximately $654 mil- lion in grants. During 2015, more than $1.5 million was awarded to three Greater Hartford school districts, Bloomfield, East Hartford and Windsor, for implementation grants follow- ing the districts' strategic planning. Another $3.95 million was granted to support the Career Pathways Initiative, to provide resi- dents with education and workforce training. • • • The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded a $100,000 one-year grant to Leadership Greater Hartford to support Hartford Decide$. The program will allow Hartford citizens to propose project ideas to improve their neighborhoods. Residents will then vote on their favorite projects to receive $1.3 million in capital improvement funds.

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