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Junior Achievement Of New York Honors Chris Levendos Of Crown Castle At Annual Lower Hudson Valley Champions Celebration
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Tuesday, May 18, Junior Achievement of New York - the leading provider of real world education for K-12 students in New York City, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley - honored Chris Levendos, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer-Fiber of Crown Castle, with the 2021 Lower Hudson Valley Champions Award during the virtual Champions Celebration.
The 2021 Lower Hudson Valley Champions Celebration, presented by Crown Castle and PepsiCo, raised over $100,000 to provide access to financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work readiness programs for K-12 students across Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam Counties.
The Board of Directors at Junior Achievement of New York announces retirement of President and CEO Joseph Peri
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NEW YORK, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Joseph Peri, President and CEO of Junior Achievement of New York (JA New York), has announced his plans to retire from the organization, effective June 30, 2020.
Joe will leave JA New York with a significant record of accomplishment and impact. Appointed President and CEO in February 2011, Joe led the post-financial crisis reinvigoration and subsequent growth of the organization in a number of significant ways, including: increasing annual student experiences in JA programs from 60,000 in 2010 to over 100,000 (pre-pandemic); growing annual revenue and generating cumulative operating surpluses of over $2 million during this period that have created a solid base for future growth; and leading a merger with the former standalone Junior Achievement of the Hudson Valley organiz