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Newsday

Seeing is believing and when you look at the newly released Long Island Zoning Atlas, the picture one sees is both clear and disturbing. The new zoning maps expose powerfully and visually the story and details behind the very limited construction of any kind of multifamily housing on Long Island.

Newsday

Long Island comprises a wealth of assets — plentiful natural resources, updated transportation infrastructure, growing industries, and academic, research and medical institutions offering excellent employment opportunities to rising generations of Long Islanders.

Newsday

The opening of the Third Track can transform Long Island’s economy in a way few other singular projects have. Rising home values. New high-paying jobs. Growing companies. And, as Gov. Kathy Hochul emphasized, more time and opportunities for commuters. 

Newsday

The Rauch Foundation, which has provided millions of dollars in funding to Long Island organizations, will leave big shoes to fill as it shifts its focus to New England, people who worked with the foundation said Tuesday.

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)

COVID-19 has forced business, government, and philanthropy to combine forces quickly to respond to community needs. Here are five principles for making organic, public-private alliances an ongoing force for change.

To move a $2.6 billion infrastructure project, in the face of strong opposition, takes a daunting amount of power. How is a regional foundation to tap so much force? For us it took time—almost two decades, starting with our decision to break from traditional funding and venture in a new direction.

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

Joining Rob on the show is Nancy Rauch Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation and Dave Kapell, a consultant to the Foundation. The Rauch Foundation, a Long Island-based family foundation that invests in ideas and organizations that spark and sustain systematic change in our communities.

CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Patrick Foye presented Rauch Foundation President Nancy Rauch Douzinas with the Making it Happen Award for championing the Long Island Rail Road’s Third Track project.

A decade since the recession, Long Island has moved on and rebounded. Many people are earning more and the region has generated many jobs. But the recession is far from in the rear view mirror for many others.

The final Long Island Index report was released on Thursday, April 19. The presentation of the report included remarks from Nancy Rauch Douzinas and Ann Golob.

In this "Exit 10/55" segment, TV 10/55's Richard Rose interviews Nancy Rauch Douzinas of the Rauch Foundation and Dave Kapell of the Right Track for Long Island Coalition.

Adelphi President Robert A. Scott hosts John Cameron, Chairman of the Long Island Regional Planning Council and Managing Partner of Cameron Engineering & Associates, David Kapell, former mayor of Greenport, LI, of the Rauch Foundation, Dr. Nancy Douzinas of the Rauch Foundation, and David Colone, Chair of the Suffolk County Planning Commission to discuss critical issues facing Long Island, New York.

Economists project that Long Island’s economy will stagnate over the next 25 years, with jobs growing at an overall lower rate than the past two decades. Nancy Rauch Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation and Publisher of the Long Island Index discusses how targeted actions and region-wide initiatives could address some of the Island’s most intractable economic issues.

Long Island Business News has enjoyed many conversations with Nancy Rauch Douzinas, including a Two Minutes Q&A in February 2010. Her focus never waivers: improving Long Island, through tools such as the Build a Better Burb website.

Susan Fuhrman, Teachers College, Columbia University and Nancy Rauch Douzinas, Trustee, Teachers College and President, Rauch Foundation

The Wall Street Journal

For years, Long Island's leaders have dreamed of transforming the suburbs east of New York City into a Silicon Valley-esque hub of technological innovation.

Can Long Island be a world class innovation powerhouse? That is the question that the Long Island Index is asking. Watch the video below to learn how Long Island has the necessary assets, which if properly managed, could redefine the region into a major economic and innovation powerhouse.

Environmentalists and developers getting together to forge a plan that protects the Carmans River and promotes downtown housing? If this keeps up, people are going to think Long Island is getting its act together.

The formation of “Accelerate Long Island” is cause for celebration. All Long Islanders should join in savoring this achievement and the exceptional vision and cooperative spirit that made it possible. These qualities especially should we pause to recognize and applaud, for they will be greatly needed on the difficult journey ahead.