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16 Hartford Business Journal • November 7, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com NONPROFIT NOTEBOOK NONPROFIT PROFILE Hartford Business Improvement District 31 Pratt St., Hartford | www.hartfordbid.org MISSION To bring positive and lasting change by enhancing the economic vitality and quality of life within Hartford's central business district. TOP EXECUTIVE SERVICES Jordan Polon, Executive Director Special services district that encompasses downtown Hartford and Asylum Hill. FY 2015 SUMMARY 2014 2015 Total Employees 3 4 Total Assets $270,909 $166,492 Total Liabilities $208,573 $171,837 REVENUES Contributions & Grants $1,131,006 $1,131,945 Program Service Revenue $158,948 $125,107 Investment Income $- $0 Other $1,250 $865 TOTAL $1,291,204 $1,257,917 EXPENSES Grants $0 $0 Member Benefits $0 $0 Salaries/Employee Benefits $221,631 $271,501 Fundraising Fees $0 $0 Other $1,025,312 $1,054,097 TOTAL $1,246,943 $1,325,598 MARGIN $44,261 $(67,681) TOP PAID EXECUTIVES (FY2015) Base Salary Total Compensation & Benefits Michael Zaleski, Former Executive Director $89,832 $97,800 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 Governor's Prevention Partnership appoints new program manager The Governor's Prevention Partnership has an- nounced the appointment of Carlos Reinoso Jr. as pro- gram manager of prevention services and partnerships. Reinoso, fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, will provide support across the organization, as well as manage The Partnership's relationship with the Hartford Public Schools and launch a Latino youth and family prevention initiative in Hartford. Bike Walk CT names executive director Adina Giannelli is the new executive director at Bike Walk Connecticut. She has a decade of ex- perience in program administration, advocacy and leadership, most recently serving as president of the University of Massachusetts Graduate Student Senate. She's an experienced commuter cyclist and brings enthusiasm for coalition-based advocacy. Burns & McDonnell announces principal in Wallingford Design-build firm Burns & McDonnell has promoted Tarkan Yuksel, project controls group manager, to prin- cipal in its New England office in Wallingford. Yuskel, who joined Burns & McDonnell in 2008, has more than 16 years of experience in project controls and management. As the project controls group manager, he oversees all project controls op- erations and staffing needs for Burns & McDonnell's New England office. He specializes in providing guidance, direction and assistance with resolving complex project controls issues. QU's online master of science in special education program gets director Quinnipiac University named Judith Falaro direc- tor of its new online master of science in special edu- cation program. Prior to coming to Quinnipiac, Falaro, an assistant teaching professor for the School of Education, served in a variety of roles for New Haven Public Schools, from 1971 to 2004. Specialist in hospital medicine joins St. Francis Dr. Joseph D. Fusco, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as a hospitalist with St. Francis Medical Group. Fusco completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. Prior to entering medical school, Fusco worked as a research assistant at St. Francis, collecting and interpreting data to identify strategies for increased patient satisfaction. Comcast names regional HR VP Comcast has named Adwoa Dadzie as vice president of human resources for the company's Western New England Region, which is headquar- tered in Berlin and includes more than 300 commu- nities in Connecticut, Vermont, western Massachu- setts, New York and western New Hampshire. In this role, Dadzie and her team will support more than 1,700 employees and oversee all of the region's HR functions, including staffing, recruiting, payroll, benefits and training through Comcast Uni- versity — the company's internal training and lead- ership development program. Although she spent the past year in Orange County, Calif., Dadzie has long-standing ties to Con- necticut, having worked in North Haven from 2013 to 2015 as director of HR for the East Division of Nestle Waters North America. UConn Health announces new Department of Neurology chair Dr. L. John Greenfield has joined UConn Health as its new Department of Neurology chair. He arrived from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, where he also was chair of neurology. Greenfield also will serve as the academic chair of neurology at Hartford Hospital. Greenfield is board certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology. Pediatric endocrinologist and his Glycogen Storage Disease program coming to UConn, CT Children's Leading pediatric endocrinologist and scientist Dr. David A. Weinstein and his world-renowned Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) program will join the UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Chil- dren's Medical Center in early 2017. Weinstein's GSD program, currently based at the University of Florida, is the largest clinical and re- search program of its kind in the world. He will serve as professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and director of the GSD program, a joint venture of UConn Health and Connecticut Children's. Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute names bone marrow transplant coordinator Silvia Willumsen is the new bone marrow trans- plant coordinator for the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute, assuming oversight of the institute's evolv- ing bone marrow transplant program as part of its membership in the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Alliance. Willumsen, a registered nurse, has a background in bone marrow and stem cell transplant that includes the past 11 years as stem cell transplant coordinator for the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Stem Cell Transplant at the University of Miami/Jackson Memo- rial Hospital in Miami. MOVERS & SHAKERS Carlos Reinoso Jr. Dr. Joseph D. Fusco Tarkan Yuksel Dr. L. John Greenfield Adina Giannelli Adwoa Dadzie Judith Falaro Dr. David A. Weinstein As cold temperatures approach, Hart- ford's Mark Twain House & Museum has become a natural gas customer for the first time since the famed author lived there. The museum signed a contract recently with Connecticut Natural Gas (CNG) to sup- ply the fuel for its heating system, which previously ran on oil. Museum officials decided on the switch several years ago, citing attractive prices and the anticipation they will remain stable. "As a not-for-profit organization, it's important that we make prudent choices about how we budget our energy dollars so that we can focus on our mission of educat- ing the public and preserving Mark Twain's legacy," Executive Director Cindy Lovell said in a statement from CNG. "Natural gas is attractively priced, and rates are stable and consistent. It also makes sense from a historical perspective. It's a good fit." Though Twain found gas at the time to be unreliable for heat, he did rely on it for gas lights in the 25-room Hartford home he built in 1874. Gas lights were considered a modern luxury at the time, with the spread of elec- tric lights in the area still at least a decade away. Twain was a customer of the Hartford Gas Co., a predecessor company of CNG, which today is owned by Avangrid. While switching a customer to gas is commonplace for CNG, which converts thousands of properties a year, the com- pany saw a marketing opportunity in its historical connection with Twain, which it detailed in a recent press release about the museum's switch. "Mark Twain and his family chose the convenience of gas at their home, and 143 years later it's still a convenient and cost- effective choice for Connecticut families," said Terri Eller, director of commercial and industrial sales at CNG. CNG is one of several Connecticut gas utilities pushing to add customers, follow- ing the 2014 launch of a state plan to convert 280,000 customers to gas by 2024. So far, low oil prices have been a hurdle for the program, which is opposed by oil dealers. The Connecticut Energy Market- ers Association sued the state, and man- aged to get the Connecticut Supreme Court to review the matter. • • • Connecticut Children's Medical Cen- ter received a $50,000 grant from Verizon Wireless to support its newest program, The Children's Center on Family Violence. The grant will support the Center's mission to improve outcomes for children exposed to family violence. • • • CRIS Radio's 19th Annual Golf Clas- sic raised $24,000 with the help from title sponsor New Country Motors. Eighty- eight golfers participated in the tourna- ment held at Tunxis Plantation in Farming- ton. The total funds raised were 70 percent higher than last year's event. • • • Hartford nonprofit Operation Fuel has elected three new board members: Chuck Anderson, a public-assistance consultant for the Department of Social Services; Dan- iel Canavan, regulatory counsel for Avan- grid; and Camilla Jones, director of social/ youth services for the town of Bloomfield.