Hartford Business Journal

16 Hartford Business Journal • August 1, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com NONPROFIT NOTEBOOK NONPROFIT PROFILE New England Air Museum 36 Perimeter Road, Windsor Locks | www.neam.org MISSION To present the story of aviation and the human genius that made it possible. TOP EXECUTIVE SERVICES Jerry P. Roberts, Executive Director Aviation exhibits and educational programs. FY 2014 SUMMARY 2013 2014 Total Employees 28 29 Total Assets $5,580,470 $5,319,091 Total Liabilities $26,844 $48,974 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $1,449,416 $775,265 Program Service Revenue $526,521 $693,678 Investment Income $33,345 $84,060 Other $104,255 $119,578 TOTAL $2,113,537 $1,672,581 EXPENSES Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $791,777 $790,390 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $783,848 $1,122,644 TOTAL $1,575,625 $1,913,034 MARGIN $537,912 $(240,453) TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY 2014) Base Salary Total Compensation & Benefits Michael Speciale, Executive Director $232,510 $252,630 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 Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain names executive director John W. Kukulka has been appointed executive di- rector of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain after most recently serving as interim executive director. Kukulka has nearly completed building four homes on Beaver Street in New Britain, the organization's first new construction in several years, and recently obtained a Housing Tax Credit Contribution Program commitment from the state of Connecticut for $361,349 to close the funding gap for this project. Kukulka has developed affordable housing proj- ects in Connecticut and California. Susan G. Komen Southern New England adds area residents to board Susan G. Komen Southern New England has add- ed several new members to its board of directors, including Nancy Meyer of Hartford and Lori Rodden of Glastonbury, both breast cancer survivors. Meyer is a media consultant for the newspaper in- dustry focusing on audience diversification and digital transformation. Prior to returning to Connecticut, she was publisher and CEO for Orlando Sentinel Media, which publishes the Orlando Sentinel. Before that, she was publisher of the Hartford Courant Media Group. Rodden is vice president of human resources for The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Rodden supports the property and casualty and group benefits business- es, as well as claims and actuarial. South Windsor chamber announces executive director The South Windsor Chamber of Commerce has named Kathleen Brady as its new executive director. Brady is a community relations manager, having worked at Cigna for more than 22 years in the civic-af- fairs department and the Cigna Foundation. Brady's ca- reer includes working as an underwriter for The Hartford. Pullman & Comley adds counsel in labor, benefits department Pullman & Comley announced the addition of Me- linda B. Kaufmann to the firm as counsel in the labor, employment law and employee-benefits department in Hartford. Kaufmann practices in education law, and labor and employment. She advises boards of education on all aspects of their operations and represents boards of education before state and federal courts and agencies. Cantor Colburn elects partner Cantor Colburn LLP has elected Michelle Ciotola to partner. Ciotola also will become the firm's trade- mark and copyright department vice chair. Ciotola concentrates her practice on counseling, protecting and enforcing trademark, trade dress, copy- right and related intellectual property rights, as well as counseling clients in unfair competition, Internet, ad- vertising and promotions law. Quisenberry Arcari Architects names marketing director Farmington-based Quisenberry Arcari Architects recently announced the addition of Beth Taylor as the firm's new director of marketing. Taylor has 15 years of marketing and communica- tions experience in print and digital communications, public relations, technical writing, event planning, branding and market research for professional service firms, having held marketing positions at BVH Integrat- ed Services, JCJ Architecture and KBE Building Corp. Tecton Architects expands leadership team Hartford-based Tecton Architects has announced the promotion of Nina Lapinski to associate princi- pal and Justin Hopkins to associate. Lapinski is an interior designer and project man- ager, supporting Tecton's high-profile corporate cli- ents for more than five years. She lead's Tecton U, the firm's in-house training program, with a focus on staff coordination, team organization and long- term client partnerships. Hopkins, since joining Tecton in 2013, has worked closely with firm leadership to expand the presence of Tecton's Rhode Island studio, leverag- ing his independent school and higher-education experience. Lapinski and Hopkins are now part of a broader leadership team made up of four principals, six as- sociate principals and four associates. National health underwriters board includes VP from Southington The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) recently installed its 2016-17 board of trust- ees, including Paul Smith of Paul E. Smith Insurance LLC, a full service health and life insurance agency in Southington, as Region I vice president. Avid Marketing Group adds five to team Avid Marketing Group, a marketing and sales promotion firm in Rocky Hill, has hired five new em- ployees: Lindsey Fries, Josh Olsen, Emily Tracey, Kelly Lindell and Michael DeMato. Fries joins as an assistant account coordinator. Olsen joins from Mindshare in New York City. He will provide creative solutions to maximize client marketing spends and partnerships. Tracey is a senior analyst. Previously, she worked as a research analyst for LIMRA in Windsor and fo- cused on research in the financial services industry. Lindell is a new project manager who comes from Whole Foods Market, where she developed shopper marketing initiatives in the Northeast division. DeMato has joined as vice president of client ser- vices and will oversee shopper marketing planning and strategy. He was formerly vice president, group account director at Match Marketing Group. MOVERS & SHAKERS John W. Kukulka Michelle Ciotola Lori Rodden Nina Lapinski Nancy Meyer Beth Taylor Kathleen Brady Justin Hopkins The Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth & Fam- ily Center received a $3,500 grant from the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation to support its Y Achievers Program. Y Achievers fosters academic success and career development for youth in grades five through 12. Pictured (from left) are: Gary Wolff, president of GTW Financial Services; and Clinton Hamilton, executive director of the Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth & Family Center • • • Middletown's Wesleyan University said it recently wrapped its most success- ful fundraising campaign ever, a multi-year effort that netted $482 million. That surpassed the private school's origi- nal goal of $400 million, officially set in 2013. President Michael Roth reported in March of that year that the university had already raised $283 million towards its goal. Its larg- est single year was fiscal year 2016, when it raised $79 million in gifts and pledges. Officials said the biggest portion of the haul was $274 million from the "This Is Why" campaign, to be used for student financial aid, including the creation of 152 new endowed scholarships. The funds will also help recruit and retain faculty. More than 34,000 donors gave to the campaign, with 80 percent of alumni donat- ing, according to Wesleyan. The school said Wesleyan parents donated $51 million. The campaign included multiple events featuring big-name alums and parents like Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, Seinfield and Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the creators of the Broadway musical "Hamil- ton," Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail. • • • Connecticut Humanities will provide more than $175,500 in major grants to sup- port 10 nonprofit organizations. Grants will support the Connecticut Dance Alliance, Goodwin College, the Butler-McCook House & Garden and New Britain's Klingberg Fam- ily Centers. Funding for these grants is pro- vided by money allocated to Connecticut Humanities in the 2015-16 state budget. • • • The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has given a $36,000 grant to The Urban League. The grant will be used towards the publication of "The 2016 State of Black Hartford," a comprehensive book on the history of African and Caribbean- Americans in Hartford. • • • The First Niagara Foundation has donated $10,000 to Hartford's new Youth Service Corps, an organization that pro- vides unemployed young people, ages 16 to 24, with part-time employment completing community service projects. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D

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