Laura Graham COO of William J Clinton Foundation, President Bill Clinton, Nancy Vomero President CEO of Seamen’s Society

 

Founded in 1846, Seamen’s Society for Children and Families has been serving Staten Island for a very long time. “We are actually Staten Island’s oldest charity,” says President and CEO Nancy Vomero, who acknowledges that there is some friendly dispute with Snug Harbor involving technicalities  over who actually holds the title. As its name suggests, the agency was established to “afford relief and protection to the destitute children of seamen… by providing an asylum for them with proper arrangements for their health, comfort and education.”

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