GALE BREWER

Gale A. Brewer is the project manager for the New York City Nonprofits Project, a two-and-a-half-year census of the economic and service impact of the nonprofit sector in the five boroughs. The results, which will include a citywide analysis and a nonprofit Service Atlas, will be available in directories, CD-ROM, and an interactive web site.

Previously, Gale Brewer was a Project Coordinator for the Telesis Corporation, a Washington-based private firm that builds affordable housing and plans for quality communities. Telesis has a contract with the New York City Housing Authority to manage a $67 million HUD grant in Far Rockaway, Queens. Gale Brewer focused on housing marketing surveys and initiating service programs for residents of the developments. She was successful in securing a $2.7 million federal grant for improving schools and the surrounding community.

From 1994-1998, Gale Brewer was Deputy Advocate for Intergovernmental Affairs. The Public Advocate presides over the City Council, monitors service delivery, and provides ombudsman service. She advocated for legislation, wrote policy on government technology, and monitored democracy issues such as implementation of the National Voter Registration Act. She coordinated a survey of NVRA and wrote a report on the lack of implementation that was the basis of a federal lawsuit against the state and the city. She staffed the Commission on Public Information and Communication and sat on the Voter Assistance Commission and the Community Action Board of the Department of Youth and Community Development. Her web site was the first in city government and won an award form New York Magazine.

From 1990-1994, Gale Brewer was Director of the Mayor’s Federal Office in New York City. It assists agencies with their legislative agenda and is a liaison with the NYC Washington, DC office. She initiated private funding for a technical assistance program for community-based organizations seeking federal funds. She coordinated policy events, such as the Urban Summit, a conference of big city mayors; the 1992 March on Washington for Children and Cities; and the 1993 US Conference of Mayors held in New York City with 1000 mayors. She wrote the Mayor’s presentation on urban issues for President Clinton and his cabinet. From 1991-1992, Ms. Brewer was also Acting Director of the NYC Commission on the Status of Women, and she served from 1986-1989 as Chair of the National Women’s Political Caucus of New York State, an organization known as the political arm of the women’s movement.

Gale Brewer has taught at Hunter, Brooklyn, Baruch, Barnard, and Queens Colleges. Before taking a year off to obtain a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, she served for over a decade as Chief of Staff to NYC Council Member Ruth Messinger. Ms. Brewer did her undergraduate work at Columbia University.

Ms. Brewer has received numerous awards, including one of the Women’s History Month Honorees in 2000, courtesy of NYC Comptroller Alan Hevesi, and NOW’s Susan B. Anthony award. She was honored by Brooklyn Council members Una Clarke and Annette Robinson, and in 1993, by Asian Americans for Equality. Newsday and the Village Voice have written tributes about her work. She serves on Community Board 7 in Manhattan, and on many nonprofit boards.

The New York Nonprofits Project
The Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Phone: 212.817.8727
Fax: 212.817.1533

http://www.nycnonprofits.org

gbrewer@gc.cuny.edu