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Abigail J. Franklin, MFA, has joined The New York Academy of Medicine as Vice President for Development and Communications. Ms. Franklin is an accomplished non-profit executive with more than 20 years experience in fundraising, communications, and marketing for a variety of institutions including the New York Common Pantry, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Columbia University, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Ms. Franklin most recently served for three years as Director of Development and Communications for the newly rebranded East Harlem-based New York Common Pantry (formerly Yorkville), the city’s largest single-site emergency food provider. As a fundraising executive for the Pantry, she designed and successfully carried out strategies to increase gifts from individuals by two percent and increased the number of institutional grants the Pantry received. As a marketing executive, she introduced social media techniques to expand the Pantry's reach, resulting in a two-percent increase in the number of community volunteers engaged in the Pantry's work. The Pantry received extensive media coverage, including NBC Nightly News, Fox 5 News, and New York 1 "New Yorker of the Week" for its executive director.
“We are pleased and fortunate to have Abigail join NYAM. She brings a deep knowledge fundraising and communications expertise necessary in every aspect of our work,” said Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, NYAM President. “We will draw on her invaluable expertise in these and other areas as we continue to further NYAM’s efforts to advance the health of all New Yorkers and people in cities across the nation and around the world.”
"I am pleased to be joining NYAM's executive team under Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford's inspired leadership at such an exciting time in the development of urban public health. NYAM is a major thought leader in the area of urban health, focused on addressing critical issues related to aging, disease prevention and health promotion, and health disparities,” Ms. Franklin said.
Ms. Franklin previously served as Vice President for Endowment Resources where she brought leadership and strategy to the foundation's historic $35 million endowment campaign. She also served briefly as interim Vice President for Communications. From 1990 to 2003, Ms. Franklin had a long association with Columbia University, where she was promoted to successively more responsible positions, including Director of Development for the School of the Arts, Director of Development for Columbia College, and Senior Development Officer for the Arts and Sciences during Columbia's $4 billion capital campaign.
Prior to her tenure at Columbia, Ms. Franklin served as Associate Director of Development for the internationally renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music and produced tours for BAM's NextWave Festival. She also produced award-winning theater productions Off-Broadway.
Ms. Franklin is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale University. She and her family live in Harlem.
Posted on April 23, 2013
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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