Celebrate Women’s Participation and Leadership
in the Bronx’ Economic Revival!
Bronx Neighborhood Dinner Awards Honoring
Josephine Infante
CEO, Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation
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In 1988, Josephine Infante founded the Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation (HPEDC) with local Hunts Point businesses to revitalize the Hunts Point Chamber of Commerce and the industrial business zone establishing linkages with government and the residential community to access employment. She has been recognized by the City of New York for her creative initiatives. Her organization administers the Hunts Point Industrial Business Zone, assisting more than 700 businesses in accessing technical and financial assistance from multiple government agencies at the City, State and Federal levels. Since 1994, HPEDC has managed the Empire Zone program helping more than 200 businesses create over 3000 jobs and leveraging in excess of $200 million in private investment. HPEDC successfully assisted the city in expanding the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center including the relocation of the Fulton Fish Market. The corporation has established micro–enterprise programs and computer service center for the community and most recently developed Hunts Point Works, a placement and training program that has placed and trained over 1,000 jobseekers in two years.
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and
Nurah Amat’ullah
E.D., Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development
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Nurah W. Amat’ullah (Rosalie P. Jeter) was born in Trinidad and Tobago and immigrated to the U.S. in 1987. In1997, Ms. Amat’ullah founded the Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development (MWIRD). MWIRD currently distributes food to 3,500 people monthly, primarily low–income African and Latino immigrants, makes referrals to job training, housing, health services and provides assistance in processing immigration documents. MWIRD also advocates for the needs of Muslims, Africans and other new immigrants as a member of several citywide coalitions. MWIRD encourages interfaith dialogue among women and has organized several symposiums that have examined the status of Muslim women in New York and played an important role in educating and building bridges with other religious communities. Ms. Amat’ullah currently serves as a manuscript librarian in the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a New York Public Library Research Center.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse,
at 165th St., Bronx
Join us for Historic Bronx Trolley Ride
5:00 to 6:30 pm
For more information: Madeline Lamour Holder:
212.261.4637 or mholder@nywf.org
$75, $150, $300 and a grantee rate of $50.
Bronx Neighborhood Dinner
Each year since 1994, the Neighborhood Dinner, held across the city, honors women community leaders for their commitment, dedication and work on behalf of women and girls.
This year we are in Da Bronx where we will honor the achievements of two extraordinary leaders working in the South Bronx. The recipients of the 2009 Neighborhood Leadership Award are Josephine Infante, CEO of the Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation and Nurah Amat’ullah, Executive Director of the Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development. In their respective fields, Nurah and Josephine have commended praise from their colleagues, supporters, and communities for their strong and transformational leadership building and improving the lives of women, families and their communities.
For more information contact Madeline Lamour Holder:
212.261.4637 or mholder@nywf.org
DIRECTIONS
Take the D or B train to 167th street. Exit at the rear of the station. Walk south two blocks along the Grand Concourse. Take the number 4 train to 161th St. at Yankee Stadium walk east three blocks to the Grand Concourse then walk north four blocks to 165th Street and Grand Concourse.
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