Suzy Dalton Sonenberg

Suzy Dalton Sonenberg has served as Executive Director of the Long Island Community Foundation since March 1988.  Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Sonenberg was Program Officer at the New York Foundation, a mid-sized private foundation that makes grants in New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

After receiving a Master's Degree in Social Work from Adelphi University in 1976, Ms. Sonenberg spent 8 years as a nonprofit administrator in Manhattan before joining the funding community in She has taught social policy on a graduate and undergraduate level at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, and often appears as a guest lecturer on 'fundraising from foundations' at various institutions of higher learning in the New York Metropolitan area. 

Ms. Sonenberg is a founder of the Long Island Fund for Women & Girls, and a founding (and current) board member of ERASE Racism and Sustainable Long Island.  She currently also serves on the President’s Advisory Council at Adelphi University, the Executive Board of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, the Board of Long Island’s United Way, and the Advisory Committees of the Nassau Partnership for After School Education and Herstory Writers Workshop.  Most recently, she was appointed by the County Executive to the newly created Nassau County Empire Zone Advisory Board.

Ms. Sonenberg has been honored by the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women, the Harry Chapin Foundation, the Nassau County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Adelphi University, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Dominican Sisters Family Health Service, and the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island.

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