Governance
The Governance of the Bloomingdale Family Program reflects the successful partnership between parents and professionals that characterizes the program’s long history.
The Bloomingdale Family Program is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Governing Board is responsible for setting overall goals and direction for the program and overseeing its financial health. Board members are drawn from the program and its community and from New York City’s financial and other institutions.
Parents have a strong voice in the program. They serve on Policy Committees that represent both individual classrooms and the entire program. The role parents assume in governance, which distinguishes the Head Start program today, was pioneered by Bloomingdale when it began in 1960, and was adopted by the Federal Head Start program from the Bloomingdale model.
The Board and the Parent Policy Committee work together in support of the program.
Board Members
Georgia Levenson-Keohane, Board Chair
President, Social Impact Foundation, Navab Holdings
Sandra Roche, Board Chair emeritus
Educator
Principal (Retired) Little Red School House LREI
A Bloomingdale founding parent
Molly Goldfarb, Vice Chair
Director
BlackRock
Stephen B. Wax, Vice Chair
Director, Head of Credit Tax Compliance and Reporting
Angelo, Gordon & Co.
Michael McGee, Treasurer
Partner
KPMG LLP
Grace Offutt, Secretary
Former University Administrator
Nancy Watt Rosenfeld
Editor/graphic designer
Former teacher
Shirley Ariker
Empire State College SUNY (Professor Emeritus)
Elizabeth Brodie David
Emily Balter Jennings
Attorney, Cleary Gottlieb
Barbara Malpica
Director of Construction and
Asset Management (Retired)
Settlement Housing Fund
Former Bloomingdale parent
Jerée Matherson
Director of Special Projects
Office of the President, Teachers College,
Columbia University
Dennis McCarthy
Former Partner, Retired
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Elizabeth Oppong
Investment Banking Associate
Evercore Partners
Sue Sekar
Associate Director
Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc.