Allow me to tell you about tomorrow’s guests.  Monster.com leads the pack in the realm of Job Boards, which is why I wanted to speak with Lew Karabatsos.

Lew Karabatsos

Lew Karabatsos is currently the Vice President, Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Communications for Monster Worldwide. He is responsible for the company’s global charitable giving strategy and programs as well as Monster’s internal/employee communications.

He is the former Executive Vice President of Client Relations for CreateHope (Washington, D.C.) and the former Director of Global Philanthropy for Hewlett Packard, headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.He also served as the Director of the Lowell (MA) Museum, a community-based, nonprofit, cultural organization that focused on textile, women’s and immigration history.

He is a current member of the board of the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals; the past chair of the International Advisory Board, Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College; past chair of the Conference Board’s Community & Public Issues Council; past member of United Way of America’s National Corporate Leaders’ Council; a past member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science and the boards of City Year Boston and the Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund. He currently serves as Treasurer of the Lowell (MA) Historical Society and is a Trustee of the Lowell (MA) Cemetery.

Lew holds an M.S. degree in Communications from Boston University and a B.A. degree in Secondary Education from the University of Massachusetts.  Monster’s philanthropic partners are:

CAREER GEAR:  Compassionate HR applauds-

John Kofi Sanful

John Kofi Sanful is the Executive Director of Career Gear, a national nonprofit organization. Career Gear provides economically disadvantaged men seeking to enter the labor market with the necessary tools, skills and attire to compete in the marketplace and become economically self-sufficient. Career Gear’s programs provide low-income men with appropriate business attire and proven outcome-based programming that increase their chances getting jobs, retaining employment, and moving themselves and their families from poverty to self-sufficiency.

John has worked in the private and nonprofit sectors. In the nonprofit world, he was program director of New York Community Voice Mail program a the Coalition for the Homeless, providing voicemail numbers to individuals who were homeless and without a telephone so they could keep in touch with potential employers, case workers, and family members. He was program director of the Morningside Area Alliance’s Job Connections program. John helped develop programming that moved Job Connections from pilot status to a fully implemented program. Job Connections worked with local institutions, including ColumbiaUniversity, to identify match Harlem residents with job opportunities.

He has presided over Career Gear’s growth in size and scope. Since taking an executive position with the organization, direct services has grown over 20% annually and a fully realized retention program- The Professional Development Series- became a permanent part of services offered to participants. John led efforts in implementing the quality-of-life survey and making it a part of how program and participant success are measured.

John is an active member on the board for The Fortune Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the fabric of our communities by promoting successful prisoner re- entry. John is also an active member on the board for WHY Hunger, which fights hunger and poverty around the world at a grassroots level.

He is the author of Russian Revolution: Exodus To The NHL, the story of the first Russians to play in the National Hockey League and the changes to the sport in North America andRussia. He was a contributor to the first edition of Total Hockey and The World of Hockey. He has written numerous articles in various hockey periodicals and remains a part-time senior correspondent for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

John attended Iona College and was a 2005 Coro Leadership New York Fellow and 2008 Tenenbaum Leadership Initiative Fellow and Milano School The New School of Management and Urban Policy.

DRESS FOR SUCCESS: Compassionate HR Applauds-

Suzanne Elliot
Suzanne Elliott serves as executive vice president of resource development and strategic marketing at Dress for Success Worldwide. Prior to joining Dress for Success, Suzanne served as vice president of marketing and strategy for a national nonprofit organization. Suzanne also has experience in strategic corporate communications and corporate social responsibility. She earned a B.A. in public policy studiessumma cum laude from Duke University and is currently enrolled in the executive MBA program at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Founded in New York City in 1997, Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization offering services designed to help our clients find jobs and remain employed. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and can return for a second suit or separates when she finds work.  This organization embodies the spirit of compassionate HR and career development.

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