She was named to PoliticsNY Power Women of 2022, was City & State’s 2022 & 2021 Nonprofit Power 100 leader, the Top 40 Most Fascinating Women in Westchester and Fairfield Counties alongside Glenn Close and Hilary Clinton, and the recipient of the 2020 SUNY New Paltz Professional Achievement Award. In February 2023, Leslie was announced as an honoree at New York Nonprofit Media’s first ever Nonprofit Trailblazers Award. Leslie is Chair of the Board of Directors of Feeding New York State, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hunts Point Cooperative Market. She also served under General Colin Powell as National Director of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth where she partnered with CSuite leaders at FORTUNE 500 companies to launch global corporate social responsibility programs. Prior to that she was Executive Director of Best Buddies Pennsylvania and the Founding Director of Made in the Hudson Valley. Leslie previously served as the Senior Director of Program Strategy and Operations at City Harvest, where she helped pioneer a new strategy that positioned the organization to double the amount of food distributed annually, led the organization’s “Healthy Neighborhoods” program and oversaw the growth of its volunteer program from 6,000 to nearly 20,000 volunteers. Leslie also forged cutting-edge, strategic alliances with non-food partners – specifically with health institutions – large and small to help address diet-related diseases. Under Leslie’s leadership, the organization increased the amount of fresh produce to more than 40 percent and upped the amount of food distributed by 20 percent – more than the average food bank in the nation. Leslie led the charge to rebrand the county’s leading nonprofit hunger-relief organization from “Food Bank for Westchester” to “Feeding Westchester” to better communicate the breadth of its work. This guide is your lifeline for almost all of your cravings, from a stiff drink at that neighborhood haunt to the fancy cocktail bar where it's actually worth paying 15 for something with a giant. Most recently she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Feeding Westchester, Westchester County’s largest anti-hunger organization.ĭuring her tenure at Feeding Westchester, Leslie took the organization to new heights by challenging the team to think boldly as they chart a course for the future, and creating a special culture that is highly collaborative and inclusive. For more than a decade, Leslie has led efforts to feed our neighbors in need and help lift them out of poverty in New York City and surrounding communities. She assumed this post at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and led one of the nation’s largest Food Bank’s to double its annual output of food from 70 million lbs. Ice & Vice 221 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002 Get Directions Phone: 64 0 Reviews This experimental ice-cream shop based in New York City’s Lower East Side. Leslie Gordon is Food Bank for New York City’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
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