Howard Dressner: NPCC founder dead at 83. (Memorial).Family and friends are remembering Howard Howard, English noble family. Landowners in Norfolk from the 13th cent., the Howards obtained the duchy of Norfolk through the marriage of Sir Robert Howard to Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk. Dressner, who was instrumental in creating the Nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Coordinating Committee 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 (NPCC NPCC National Prostate Cancer Coalition NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council NPCC National Park Community College (Hot Springs, AR) NPCC National Petroleum Construction Company (Abu Dhabi, UAE) ) and a former general counsel of the Ford Foundation, also in NewYork City. "He was a very caring person," said Peter Swords, a former executive director of NPCC who worked with Dressner for more than 20 years. "He was somebody who was extremely pleasant to work with. When you had a meeting that Howard was going to be at you would perk up perk 1 v. perked, perk·ing, perks v.intr. 1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk. 2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner. ." Dressner died in late December, 2002 at the age of 83. During his lengthy career in the nonprofit sector, Dressner was founding president of NPCC in 1984 and remained president until 1991. The NPCC has more than 1,100 members 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. metropolitan area. Its goal is to protect and help New York city's nonprofits through monitoring government activities at all levels, offering management services to members, and holding workshops. The organization started with a budget of less than $100,000, Swords said. It now has a budget of roughly $650,000. Swords remembered Dressner's untiring effort to recruit new members and urging others to do the same when the organization began. "The NPCC never would have happened without his vision," Swords said. "He had a vision of nonprofits being an important part of the New York society," said Howard Mantel, an NPCC board member who knew Dressner for many years. "He had a marvelous ability to talk with people and, in this case, get them to understand what nonprofits were about. His greatest asset was his ability to communicate with people." Dressner started at the Ford Foundation in 1964, was appointed general counsel in 1971, and retired from the foundation in 1984. Early in his career Dressner taught at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the . He also started the Gallatin Associates Program during that time. Dressner's legacy continues at NPCC. "We all loved him," Swords said. "He was like a founding father. NPCC was a family, and we all came up together. It's hard to believe that he won't be around anymore." |
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