Check the
event photos on our  Facebook
Page!
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2009 Award Sponsors
Visionary
- Capital One Bank
-Brooklyn Community
Foundation
Benefactors
-Dunn Development
-L+M Development Partners
Developers
-Bank of NY Mellon
-Citibank
-Goldstein Hall PLLC
-JP Morgan Chase
-Lettire Construction Corporation
-M&T Bank
-Title Associates - A Stewart Company
-Vargas, Ghigliotty & Rivera
LLP
Builders
-Clinton Hill Dental
-David Rowe and Tom Eastman, PACC Board
-Enterprise Community Partners
-HSBC
-Lincoln Restler & Family
-Nomad Architecture
-Seble Tareke & Family
-Strook & Strook & Lavan LLP
Navy
Green Design Team:
-Architecture in Formation
-Curtis+Ginsberg Architects LLP
-GACE Goldstein Associates
-Landscape Architecture LLC
-Todd Rader + Amy Crews Architecture
-Rodkin Cardinale Consulting
Engineer P.C.
-William Vitacco Associates Ltd.
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Dinner Committee
-Mariadele
Priest,
Dinner Chair, Capital One Bank
-NYS
Senator Velmanette Montgomery,
18th District
-NYC
Council Member Letitia James,
35th District
-NYS
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries,
57th District
-Anne
M. Bush,
A. M. Bush Consulting
-Mark
Castle,
Bank of NY Mellon
-Eva
Daniels,
Eva Daniels Realty
-Martin
Dunn,
Dunn Development
-Steve
Flax,
M and T Bank
-Marilyn
Gelber,
Brooklyn
Community Foundation
-Mark
Ginsberg,
Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP
-Judith
Goldiner,
Legal Aid Society
-David
Goldstein,
Goldstein Hall PLLC
-Dr.
Charles Grannum,
Clinton Hill Dental
-Kathleen
Hayek,
South of Navy Yard Artists, SONYA
-Naima
Oyo,
M and T Bank
-Damon
Strub,
Nomad Architecture
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-Deb Howard,
Pratt
Area Community Council
-Melissa
Lee,
Mayor's
Office, CNED
-Sukanya
Paciorek,
Vornado
Realty Trust
-Sujatha
Raman,
Pratt
Area Community Council
-Lincoln
Restler,
NYC
Office of Financial Empowerment
-Seble
Tareke-Williams, Emmes
Asset Management
-Claire
O. Wood,
Wood,
Rafalsky & Wood, LLP
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Board of Directors
Mariadele Priest, President
Keith Getter, Treasurer
Lynn Tollett, Secretary
Seble Tareke-Williams
Althea N. Watson
Rev. Curtis Whitney
David A. Rowe
Jabir Suluki
Tom Eastman
Lincoln
Restler
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45th
Celebration Spotlight Newsletter- Vol.4
A post celebration thank you from The Board of Directors, Dinner
Committee, and Staff of Pratt Area Community Council. |
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Hundreds
of PACC's friends,
supporters and colleagues turned out to Celebrate 45 Years of Building
Community
Together on Wednesday, October 21st. At the event, PACC honored
Capital One Bank with a Corporate Leadership Award and Brooklyn
Community Foundation
with a Community Leadership Award.
The festive evening included a
silent auction featuring Brooklyn artists and
professional services; a performance by Creative Outlet Dance Theatre
of
Brooklyn; magical entertainment from the Artifice Group; organic,
sustainable
food catered by DUMBO-based Yum Yum; and a dessert bar with favorites
from local
bakeries and restaurants. The celebration continued with dancing at the
Sapphire Soiree after party with music by DJ Basiq.
Thank you to all of our 45th
anniversary sponsors, supporters, guests and volunteers. We hope you
enjoyed
yourselves as much as we did!
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Program Highlights:
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Inside
the stunning Irondale
Center, the crowd gathers
for a delicious meal catered by Yum Yum.
Jamie
Ruddy, Capital One; Paulette Gonzalez, Capital One; Dale Charles, PACC
Economic
Development Director; Phillip Kellogg, FAB Alliance Director;
Wellington
Sharpe, FAB Alliance.
"Pratt
Area Community Council is a model  of
the truly transformative effects a local
neighborhood nonprofit can have in the lives of residents it empowers
and how
much Brooklyn's civic life becomes more
vibrant in the process," said Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz.
Accepting the Community Leadership Award on
behalf of
Brooklyn Community Foundation, Marilyn Gelber, BCF President, said,
"PACC has
demonstrated exceptional leadership in community development field
fighting for
an economically and socially integrated Brooklyn
where families can take root and businesses can prosper. BCF is proud
to have
supported PACC over the years and we're honored to receive the
Community
Leadership Award."
Lynn
A. Pike, President, Capital One
Bank, accepted the
Corporate
Leadership Award on behalf of Capital One. Deb Howard, PACC Executive
Director; Lynn A. Pike;
Mariadele Priest, Dinner Committee Chair, PACC Board President
& VP of Community Development, Capital
One.
Guests
were treated to an inspiring
performance by the Young
Artists
of Jamel Gaines & Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn.
PACC
Board Members (l-r): Tom Eastman,  Treasurer
Keith Getter, President Mariadele
Priest, Executive Director Deb Howard, Secretary Lynn Tollett, Seble
Tareke-Williams, Lincoln Restler, David Rowe. Missing: Althea Watson,
Rev. Dr.
Curtis Whitney and Jabir Suluki.
Council
Member Letitia James, 35th District, and Rochelle Felder, PACC Case
Manager.
Delicious
desserts from Abu's Bakery, Desserts by Michael Allen, Madiba
Restaurant, The
Bakery, Tillie's of Brooklyn
PACC staff enjoyed mingling with our
guests and volunteered
their time to make the event run smoothly.
1) Home Services Director Pat Julien,
Social Services Director Nicole Gilbert. 2) Fundraising Director
Sujatha Snyder, Project
Manager Danise Malqui, Assistant Counselor Charrisse Smith, Bookkeeper
Pauline
Myrie, Accounts Payable Rudo Raymo. 2) Rudo Raymo, Economic Development
Director Dale Charles, CFO Tien Wang.
Winning bids in our Silent Auction were generously matched
by Brooklyn Community Foundation.
L-R: Karen Wright, Gala Coordinator, and Peter Hatzakos,
HSBC, winner of a signed bottle of Wayne Gretzky Wine; Gardening
Consultation
from root stock and quade; tickets to the Next Wave
Festival at BAM.
Entertainment included live music from Eric Salazar &
Tor Snyder and close-up magic from Prakash Puru and Asi Wind of the
Artifice
Group.
State
Senator Velmanette Montgomery
presented Fundraising Director Sujatha Snyder
with a $350,000 check for PACC, designated as capital support for
affordable
housing preservation and development in the 18th State Senate District.
After the program ended and the lights faded to blue, guests
and staff caught up and got down at
the Sapphire Soiree. Clockwise from left:
Clockwise from Left: 1) PACC staff members on the dance
floor: Property Management Director Stephanie Blue, Pauline Myrie, Home
Owner
Counselor Bonita Dowling 2) Executive
Director Deb Howard PACC 3) PACC homeowners Suki and Greg Paciorek
4)Reporter Steve Witt, PACC Lead Community Organizer
Juanita Edwards, Daisy James of MoCADA take a picture before drinking
their sapphire cocktails.
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