Leadership
REVEREND LINDA TARRY-CHARD is the founder and president of Project People Foundation. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and served as the Minister for Social Justice at Broadway United Church of Christ. Tarry-Chard holds a Master of Science in Education from Fordham University and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Most recently, she held the position of Associate Minister for Membership, Care and Parish Life at The Riverside Church in New York City.
Linda Tarry-Chard has been involved in public service for over 40 years and has held executive positions in voluntary child-care agencies and with the New York City Human Resources Administration. Her career has focused on the welfare of disadvantaged urban children and their families, diversity and social justice issues.
In 1995, she broadened the population she serves to include women and children living in the townships and rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the founding President of Project People Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that develops training, employment and educational programs for women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.
Linda Tarry-Chard has been involved in public service for over 40 years and has held executive positions in voluntary child-care agencies and with the New York City Human Resources Administration. Her career has focused on the welfare of disadvantaged urban children and their families, diversity and social justice issues.
In 1995, she broadened the population she serves to include women and children living in the townships and rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the founding President of Project People Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that develops training, employment and educational programs for women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.
Officers of the PPF Giving Circle
DOROTHY TANANBAUM is a Co-Chair of Project People Foundation. She is also the General Planning chair of UJA Federation of New York, the Board of Governor Member of the Jewish Agency of Israel and a Board Member of Facing History and Ourselves, and The Jewish Funders Network
KENNETH WALKER Ken is an ever-evolving dynamic, visionary, dreamer, and doer of the work, purposeful, mission work that he enthusiastically carries out at Per Scholas. He thrives on relationships with 21st leaders who are self-aware and embrace the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity Ambiguity (VUCA) mindset needed to succeed in today's environment.
Ken is a diversity and inclusion champion and Special Advisor to the CEO, helping to lead Per Scholas' DEIB & Culture, Diverse by Design, and Inclusion by Intention efforts. Per Scholas, staff believes in sharing best practices and working collaboratively across sectors to ensure that America's workforce represents our nation's diversity. To that end, Ken helped launch Diverse by Design (DxD) in partnership with the Information Technology Senior Management Forum, the nation's most prominent African American senior technology executives association. The DXD platform aims to discover and unleash new ideas and best practices that companies can use today to increase tech workforce diversity and inclusion. Ken also launched Inclusion by Intention (IxI), an internal platform to discuss staff experiences relevant to equity and inclusion and seek improvements with "patient urgency."
Ken is a technology sector veteran with 30+ years of sales, business development, and non-profit executive experience across the media and entertainment, government, and telecommunications sectors, three years in business development at start-up organizations in Silicon Valley after transitioning from an 18-year career at IBM as a Client Executive in the media sector. Ken's transition to the non-profit sector has been incredibly fulfilling. Ken loves live, positive energy, the simplicity of decency, and seeing others' humanity. He lives in Manhattan with his spouse of 12 years.
Ken is a diversity and inclusion champion and Special Advisor to the CEO, helping to lead Per Scholas' DEIB & Culture, Diverse by Design, and Inclusion by Intention efforts. Per Scholas, staff believes in sharing best practices and working collaboratively across sectors to ensure that America's workforce represents our nation's diversity. To that end, Ken helped launch Diverse by Design (DxD) in partnership with the Information Technology Senior Management Forum, the nation's most prominent African American senior technology executives association. The DXD platform aims to discover and unleash new ideas and best practices that companies can use today to increase tech workforce diversity and inclusion. Ken also launched Inclusion by Intention (IxI), an internal platform to discuss staff experiences relevant to equity and inclusion and seek improvements with "patient urgency."
Ken is a technology sector veteran with 30+ years of sales, business development, and non-profit executive experience across the media and entertainment, government, and telecommunications sectors, three years in business development at start-up organizations in Silicon Valley after transitioning from an 18-year career at IBM as a Client Executive in the media sector. Ken's transition to the non-profit sector has been incredibly fulfilling. Ken loves live, positive energy, the simplicity of decency, and seeing others' humanity. He lives in Manhattan with his spouse of 12 years.
Board of directors
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JO RENEE FINE, Ph.D., is the former Director of Training and Content Development at Harris, Rothenberg International. She is a trainer and educator with over 35 years of program development and management experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Human Relations and Social Policy from New York University, where she taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education. She also is a published photographer whose work includes the photo-documentary book, The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side. Dr. Fine is involved in numerous community activities and currently serves or has served on the Board of Directors of several nonprofit organizations, including the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Community Relations Council of NY.
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CLARENCE GRIER has a background in Television Production, Cable TV Industry and Advertising Sales. As Director of Leased Access Programming for Time Warner cable, Mr. Grier was instrumental in launching several premium services of Ethnic Programming in Brooklyn and Queens. For the past 10 years, he has been intimately involved in the creation and preservation of resident- controlled affordable housing. He has also collaborated with numerous non-profit and community based organizations throughout New York City to support their mission and enhance visibility. Mr. Grier holds a BA from the College of New Rochelle and is a graduate of WNET Film and Television Training School.
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FREDRIC M. SANDERS, Esq. Fredric M. Sanders advises individuals and businesses on tax aspects of business deals, estate planning and business succession planning for closely held companies. Fred has been involved in structuring domestic and international transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers. These have included taxable and tax-free acquisitions and divestitures of businesses, focusing on the business objectives of the participants as well as their shareholders and employees. This has included investments by foreign investors in real estate projects in the United States as well as offshore tax and estate planning.
In recent years, Fred has been involved in tax issues concerning Internet and high-tech businesses including those related to venture capital investments and employee compensation. Fred represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service. These clients include individuals with foreign bank accounts or foreign assets, working with accountants to bring clients into FBAR compliance and establish proper reporting of offshore income on U.S. tax returns. Fred also represents clients before the New York State Tax Commission and the New York City Department of Finance. He has also advised on corporate and tax issues of closely-held businesses, including S corporations, partnerships and LLCs, succession issues, and estate planning for the owners and shareholders of those businesses. Fred is a director and President of the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group, a director and member of the Executive Committee of UrbanGlass, a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Penland School of Crafts and a director and officer of Project People Foundation, a tax-exempt organization involved in projects in South Africa. He advises private foundations on tax and related matters. |
LAURA J.C. NURSE has a background in education, psychology and business. She is especially passionate about education, having run a daycare center, taught every grade level, taught psychology at the university level and served as headmistress of a boarding school. Ms. Nurse was also a psychotherapist for a number of years working with adolescents and families. In the business sector, Nurse worked at NBC providing employee mental health services until she moved into sales management. Mrs. Nurse holds a B.A. and M.A. from Rhode Island University and completed her doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is currently retired.
RUBY SPROTT is a native New Yorker who is a retired Queens elementary school teacher, SUNY Old Westbury College professor, Adelphi University professor and Director of the Langston Hughes Homework Assistance Program. She holds an Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her work career has spanned over forty years. Currently, she volunteers with social justice programs at The Riverside Church in New York City. At The Riverside Church, she also works on programs related to South Africa, Cuba and Black Lives Matter. She has one adult son.