Her Mission: Giving a Younger Generation Reasons to Stay on the Island
The New York Times
Nancy Douzinas is president of the Rauch Foundation, a family philanthropy based in Garden City that for each of the last four years has produced the Long Island Index, a study of economic and social trends. Ms. Douzinas has been busy examining the Island’s woes and the lack of “stickiness” that extends way beyond her own front door. The Island, Ms. Douzinas said, needs to be a place “that you want to return to and that sticks the young people.”
According to the foundation’s latest report, “In a Tough Spot: Jobs, Taxes and Affordability on Long Island,” released last month, Ms. Douzinas’s far-flung clan is not unusual. Sixty-nine percent of people ages 18 to 34 are somewhat or very likely to leave the Island in the next five years, the report stated.