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Rose DeStefano

New York City,NY

Summary

Working with and uplifting communities most impacted by systemic racism, Rose's breadth of experience across different sectors allows her to move complex systems towards equity. She now leads systems change initiatives in the Bronx organizing communities to heal and drive solutions. She also co-chairs Children’s Aid’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council. In addition to her work at Children’s Aid, Rose volunteers for the Bronx Community Foundation overseeing their Food Insecurity portfolio.

Prior to this role, Rose led a citywide campaign working with small businesses to adopt high job quality practices and highlight the incredible ways small businesses power neighborhoods. Rose started her career as a social worker working nationally and internationally. Her GreenMBA provided a deep dive into social and environmental justice at the intersection of business.

She moved to NYC in 2015 and has not looked back, except to visit her grandma and family in California.

Work History

Senior Director of Collective Impact

Children's Aid
New York City, United States
09.2019 - Current
  • Launching and continuously adapt strategy for effective and collective community-led systems transformation in the Bronx
  • Fostering a culture of collaboration through a network mindset across collective impact partners in NYC
  • Developing joint-advocacy efforts across multiple institutions and grassroots organizations to build community greater community power
  • Driving narrative shift about the Bronx's power and resiliency through thoughtful and data-driven marketing and communications
  • Overseeing all grant funding and reporting responsibilities for Bronx Impact for five programs
  • Co-leading internal DEIB change work as Children's Aid's first DEI Co-Chair of the DEI Council, including the creation of internal systems for accountability and transparency, facilitating Council and Committee meetings, identifying training opportunities for shared learning, and visioning ways to help the organization live into its anti-racist mission

Food Insecurity Captain

Bronx Community Foundation
Bronx, New York
10.2020 - Current
  • Developed an efficient and equitable grant funding process for systems change leaders providing food to the community
  • Organized grassroots partners like Community Fridge operators to coordinate and collectively build funding proposals
  • Launched and managed Farm to Bronx, an economic development and food access program that sources organic food from BIPOC farmers in upstate New York and delivers freshly harvested food to neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic
  • Created the Bronx Food Sovereignty Network, a network of partners across sectors to tackle long-term food system issues

Director of Business Initiatives and Job

Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development
New York City, NY
06.2017 - 08.2019
  • Directed the Best for NYC, a campaign launched in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, and B Lab, resulting in the participation of 1,400 small and medium-sized businesses and 50+ partner organizations across the five boroughs
  • Partnered with workforce development city agencies to embed job quality metrics and impact measurement into existing systems to improve effectiveness and data tracking. Agencies included the Human Resources Agency, the Department of Youth and Community Development, Workforce 1, and the Center for Youth Employment at the Mayor’s Fund
  • Coordinated the Good Jobs and Wealth Creation Initiative, a Bronx-based small business program offered through collaboration between the Bronx Community Development Initiative and Business Outreach Center Network

Impact Economy Fellow, Senior Associate

B Lab
New York City, NY
07.2015 - 06.2017
  • Spearheaded the first three years of the Best for NYC campaign, supporting B Lab in furthering their reach to more BIPOC communities of business leaders across NYC
  • Created new service offerings including workshops and business peer groups that enable small businesses to measure their social and environmental impact
  • Directed all phases of the campaign from program design to post-execution evaluation
  • Defined clear targets and objectives were regularly tracked and shared to key stakeholders and leadership
  • Supervised a team, offering guidance, strategic direction, and constructive feedback on a regular basis
  • Coordinated meetings and decisions across four internal departments and external partnerships.

Education

Masters of Business Administration - Sustainable Business

Dominican University

Bachelor of Science - Social Work

Azusa Pacific University

Accomplishments

  • Sterling Network – Robert Sterling Clark Foundation rsclark.org/network
  • Impact Economy Fellow, Senior Associate – B Lab bcorporation.net
  • NYC-US Ambassador – Royal Society of Arts thersa.org

Certification

Data Analysis Circuit – General Assembly NYC

Timeline

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certification - eCornell University

03-2021

Food Insecurity Captain

Bronx Community Foundation
10.2020 - Current

Senior Director of Collective Impact

Children's Aid
09.2019 - Current

Director of Business Initiatives and Job

Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development
06.2017 - 08.2019

Data Analysis Circuit – General Assembly NYC

06-2016

Impact Economy Fellow, Senior Associate

B Lab
07.2015 - 06.2017

Systems Change Facilitator – Center for Systemic Leadership

05-2015

Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor - Kundalini Research Institute

01-2011

Masters of Business Administration - Sustainable Business

Dominican University

Bachelor of Science - Social Work

Azusa Pacific University

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