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Marilyn Gelber
Marilyn Gelber is the president of the Brooklyn Community Foundation. She was the founding Executive Director of the Independence Community Foundation, and established it as Brooklyn’s leading philanthropy; she then led its transformation into the Brooklyn Community Foundation. A lifelong New Yorker and current resident of Boerum Hill, Ms. Gelber served 28 years in NYC’s public sector, including positions as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, Executive Assistant to the Brooklyn Borough President, and Director of Neighborhood Strategy Planning for the NYC Department of City Planning. Marilyn serves on various public and private nonprofit boards and has received several awards and honorary degrees from Brooklyn institutions.
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Articles, Investigations and Blogs
The environmental progress New York City—and Brooklyn especially—have made reflects federal legislation and local infrastructure. But it's also been a story of community groups working to make their neighborhoods healthier.
Detailed data confirm that today's Brooklyn is different. An inclusive civic infrastructure is what's needed to turn mere change into real progress.
While others have Paris and Rome, we'll always have Brooklyn. But justifiable pride of place should not make us reluctant to look deeper and examine serious challenges to Brooklyn's well being.
The director of Brooklyn's leading foundation writes that the borough's indisputable successes bring an obligation to look out for those whom recent changes haven't favored.


