Dr. Marc Hurlbert directs the breast cancer research and access to care grant programs of the Avon Foundation. In his role, Dr. Hurlbert oversees Avon’s $40+ million annual grant-making budget; develops overall strategy, funding guidelines, manages review committees, and monitors and evaluates the progress of grant awardees. The Avon Foundation and Avon Products has raised and awarded more than $525 million for the breast cancer cause since 1992. He serves on the board of the Health Research Alliance and on numerous NIH/NCI panels. Dr. Hurlbert received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and completed his training with a fellowship at New York University Medical Center. After completing his training, Dr. Hurlbert began a career in the nonprofit, grant-making sector with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) International prior to Avon.
Wilma Montañez, Program Officer for Reproductive Rights Since 1974, Wilma has been a reproductive health and rights advocate, community organizer, educator, doula and administrator in Rhode Island, New York City and California. She joined the Foundation in 1996 after serving as Executive Director of the Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights, a former Noyes grantee. Wilma has served on the boards of the Women’s Funding Network, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, and Women and Philanthropy. During her tenure at the Foundation, Wilma has been an active member of the Funders Network’s Women of Color Working Group that has worked to leverage more funds for women of color reproductive rights and justice organizations nationwide with an emphasis on new and young leadership. Wilma has also ardently advocated on behalf of, and provided technical assistance to, smaller state-level advocacy groups with limited access to foundation resources.
Yvonne Moore is the Executive Director of the Daphne Foundation, a family foundation supporting programs that confront the causes and consequences of poverty in the five boroughs of New York City. Yvonne received her BA from Texas Tech University and her MS in Nonprofit Management from Milano The New School for Management & Urban Policy. Before joining the Daphne Foundation Yvonne was a program associate at The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, and before relocating to New York she was director of the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program in Midland, Texas. Yvonne serves as vice-chair of the Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy Committee for the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (NYRAG) and also serves on the Grants Advisory & Allocations Committee for the New York Women’s Foundation, the New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards Committee and is a member of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.
Julie Wong is the coordinator of new project development at the William T. Grant Foundation. The Foundation supports research and other activities to understand and improve the settings of youth, ages 8 to 25, in the United States. Julie works with the president to launch new programs and improve processes at the Foundation. Among her current responsibilities, she oversees the Youth Service Improvement Grants program, which funds efforts by community-based organizations to improve the quality of services for young people in the New York metropolitan area. Julie joined the Foundation in September 2003.
The Summit will take place at NYU's Kimmel Center located at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The Kimmel Center is just minutes away from subway and train lines (see directions below). The full address is: Kimmel Center Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Directions by Subway Lexington Avenue Subway (6 Train) Local to Astor Place Station. Walk west on Astor Place to Broadway, then south on Broadway to Waverly Place, and west on Waverly Place to Washington Square. Broadway Subway (R,W Trains) Local to Eighth Street Station. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place, then west on Waverly Place to Washington Square. Sixth or Eighth Avenue Subway (A, C, E, F, V Trains) Express to West Fourth Street-Washington Square Station. Walk east on West Fourth Street or Waverly Place to Washington Square. Seventh Avenue Subway (1 Train) Local to Christopher Street-Sheridan Square Station. Walk east on West Fourth Street to Washington Square. By Bus Fifth Avenue Bus Buses numbered 2, 2A, 3 and 5 to Eighth Street and University Place. Walk South to Washington Square. Bus numbered 1 to Broadway and Eighth Street. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place and west to Washington Square. Eighth Street Crosstown Bus Bus numbered 8 to University Place. Walk south to Washington Square. Broadway Bus Bus numbered 6 to Waverly Place. Walk west to Washington Square. By PATH Train Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) To 9th Street Station Walk south on Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) to Waverly Place, then east to Washington Square. By Car From Brooklyn Take the Manhattan Bridge. Off the Bridge, take Canal Street West to Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue). Take 6th Avenue North to West 4th Street and travel East to Washington Square. From Queens Take the 59th Street Bridge. Travel West to Fifth Avenue. Turn South on Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue ends at Washington Square. From Staten Island Take the Staten Island Express across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge crossing into Brooklyn. Take the Belt Parkway (West). Continue on the Belt Parkway to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (East). Take the Manhattan Bridge exit and follow the instructions above to Washington Square. From the Bronx, Westchester County, and Upstate N.Y. Take The New York State Thruway (I-87), which becomes the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. Continue to the Willis Avenue (Third Avenue) Bridge. Then cross to the FDR Drive in Manhattan. Travel South on FDR Drive to Houston Street, then west to La Guardia Place and North 3 blocks to Washington Square. From New Jersey by way of the New Jersey Turnpike Holland Tunnel: Travel North on the Avenue of the Americas (also known as 6th Avenue) to West 4th Street. Turn Right onto West 4th Street to Washington Square. Lincoln Tunnel: Travel East to 5th Avenue; turn Right, going South. Fifth Avenue ends at Washington Square. From George Washington Bridge Take the Henry Hudson Parkway South to 14th Street. Then East to 5th Avenue. Turn South on 5th Avenue which ends at Washington Square. From Long Island Take the Long Island Expressway (also known as the L.I.E. or I-495) to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Drive East on 37th Street to 5th Avenue. Take 5th Avenue South to Washington Square
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