Founding BAE Members

Arthur H. Barnes: President & CEO; New York Urban Coalition
Hon. Dr. James R. Dumpson: Commissioner; NYC Human Resources Administration
Jane Edwards: Executive Director; Harlem Dowling
Livingston S. Francis: Senior Vice President; The Greater New York Fund (then Executive Director of Associated Black Charities and Board Chair of, North General Hospital)
Solomon Goodrich: Executive Director; Southern Queens Park Association
Joseph Jenkins: Executive Director; United Neighborhood Houses
Horace W. Morris: President & CEO; The New York Urban League (President & CEO of The Greater New York Fund, then Senior Fellow of the United Way of NYC, Board Chair, Human Services Council)
John Patterson: President & CEO; Southern Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SOBRO)
Rev. Calvin O. Pressley: Executive Director; Opportunities Industrial Corporation (then Executive Director of NYC Mission Society, Founder Atlanta University Faith Training Center)
Morton Rogers: Executive Director; Spence Chapin
T. George Silcott: Executive Director; Forestdale Neighborhood House