Charles and Eva Rappaport to be posthumously honored.Charles and Eva Rappaport, co-founders of the Federation of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Housing Cooperatives and Condominiums, will be inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame on April 20, 2005 at the Washington National Press Club, announced Gregory J. Carlson, the Federation's executive director. For more than 40 years, Charles and Eva Rappaport were influential leaders in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and national housing cooperative community. Charles Rappaport served as president of the Federation of 213s, the precursor to the Federation, until his death in August 1997. At that time, his wife Eva stepped up from her position as executive director to president, a position she continued to hold until her death three years later. With most of their focus on New York City, where one third of all home ownership is cooperative, Charles and Eva directed their attention to the national level where they led a successful campaign to separate 213 premiums from all other Federal Housing Authority insurance funds and created the Cooperative Management Housing Insurance Fund. It is a testament to their effort that, more than 40 years later, the fund is still returning patronage dividends to Section 213 cooperative housing cooperative housing n. an arrangement in which an association or corporation owns a group of housing units and the common areas for the use of all the residents. corporations. "It has been nearly 20 years since multi-family housing sector inductees have been chosen by the organization," said Mr. Carlson. "Recognition in this field has been long overdue and the NCBA NCBA National Cattlemen's Beef Association NCBA North Carolina Bar Association NCBA National Cooperative Business Association NCBA North Carolina Biomedical Association NCBA National College of Business and Arts couldn't have picked two more deserving candidates to pay tribute to than Charlie and Eva Rappaport." The Cooperative Development Foundation administers the Cooperative Hall of Fame that was established in 1974 and is housed in the offices of the National Cooperative Business Association Founded in 1916 as the Cooperative League of America, the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) is a United States membership organization for cooperatives, businesses that are jointly-owned and democratically-controlled. in Washington. Nominations are received annually and reviewed by two committees, each composed of current leaders from the various sectors of the U.S. cooperative movement cooperative movement, series of organized activities that began in the 19th cent. in Great Britain and later spread to most countries of the world, whereby people organize themselves around a common goal, usually economic. . |
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