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David R. Jones
President and Chief Executive OfficerDavid R. Jones is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Community Service Society of New York (CSS), a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that promotes economic advancement and full civic participation for low-income New Yorkers.
Mr. Jones, an outspoken advocate for low-income New Yorkers, writes bi-weekly newspaper columns in the New York Amsterdam News and El Diario/La Prensa and a weekly blog on the Huffington Post website that serve to educate the public and government officials on issues of importance to minority and poor communities.
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Steven L. Krause
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating OfficerSteven L. Krause has been the Chief Operating Officer of the Community Service Society since 1986. Before coming to CSS, Mr. Krause served as Deputy Executive Director of the New York City Youth Bureau. As Deputy Executive Director he was responsible for administration of the Finance and Management program operations, program planning, Management Information Services, and Intergovernmental Relations. Read Steven's full bio >>
Jeffrey F. Rizzo
Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerJeffrey F. Rizzo joined the Community Service Society (CSS) in June 2004 as Chief Financial Officer. His overall responsibilities include management of all finance and accounting activities for CSS, including payroll; budget preparation and monitoring; long-range financial planning; management of daily cash flow; bank relations with depository and custodian banks; monitoring the performance of and maintaining contact with CSS's investment advisors and external auditors; and working with the Investment, Finance, Audit and Strategic Planning Committees of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Rizzo also oversees the areas of Information Technology, Facilities and Office Services, the Print Shop, and Human Resources. Read Jeffrey's full bio>>
Alina Molina
Vice President, Program Services
Alina Molina is currently Vice President, Program Services, at CSS. She oversees all of the direct services of the organization, including the Voluntary Initiatives – the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Experience Corps – the Center for Benefits & Services, the Medicaid Choice Education Project, and the Center for Program Demonstration and Innovation – Workforce Advocacy Support Initiative (WASI Project).
RSVP is a nationally-acclaimed program that enlists older adults and retirees to serve as volunteers in their communities. It is the largest older adult volunteer program in the nation with more than 7,000 volunteers who contribute one and a half million hours of service annually working in 600 organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Read Alina's full bio >>
Elisabeth R. Benjamin
Vice President of Health InitiativesElisabeth Benjamin is the Vice President of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society, where she supervises health policy, the Community Health Advocates (CHA) program, and the Medicaid Choice Education Project (MCEP). CHA and MCEP each provide consumer assistance, navigational support, health education and outreach to consumers through a network of community-based organizations throughout the state and all five boroughs of New York City. Ms. Benjamin was the author of the feasibility study for the Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program, CSS's original consumer asistance program, founded in 1998. She is also a leader of the New York State Health Care for All Campaign (HCFANY), a statewide coalition of more than 80 organizations devoted to securing affordable, quality health care for all New Yorkers (the HCFANY blog and website can be viewed at: www.hcfany.org). Read Elisabeth's full bio >>
Nancy Rankin
Vice President for Policy, Research and AdvocacyAs Vice President for Policy, Research and Advocacy, Nancy Rankin leads CSS’s research and uses it to advance policies that increase economic security and upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers. Ten years ago she inaugurated The Unheard Third, an annual survey that tracks the hardships and views of low-income New Yorkers. The findings have helped shape CSS’s agenda and been cited by Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the ethnic press, and in New York Daily News editorials supporting minimum wage increases. Nancy recently rejoined CSS after a four-year stint with A Better Balance, where she was one of the leaders of the campaign to pass paid sick days in New York City and Family Leave Insurance in Albany. While at ABB, she co-authored a report with CSS called Sick in the City: What the Lack of Paid Leave Means for Working New Yorkers, which has been widely relied on by policy-makers, advocates and the media in making the case for paid sick days. Read Nancy's full bio >>
Judy Whiting
General CounselJudy Whiting joined the Community Service Society in December 2009 as Litigation Director. She develops litigation and non-litigation approaches to ending discrimination against people with criminal conviction histories, with a particular emphasis on employment and housing. Before coming to CSS, Judy was Senior Staff Attorney at the Legal Action Center, where she worked on anti-discrimination litigation and policy affecting people with criminal records, histories of drug or alcohol abuse, and/or HIV/AIDS. She formerly worked as Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and spent almost ten years as staff attorney with the Criminal, Civil, and Volunteer Divisions of The Legal Aid Society in New York. Judy also worked as clinical instructor at Hofstra Law School’s Housing Law Clinic. She is a graduate of Barnard College, and Cornell Law School, where she received the first Freeman Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Award. She is recipient of the New York City Bar Association’s 2008 Legal Services Award, is a member of the Association’s Nominating Committee and Council on Criminal Justice, and is immediate past chair of the Association’s Corrections Committee.