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Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community

Heir Dwellings Incorporated

Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community

Heir Dwellings Incorporated

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Georgette Grier- Key is the principal investigator and design committee chair of the Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee. In this current role as design chair her task consists of coordination of the design team and government liaison between the nonprofit and profit sectors. Dr. Grier- Key is a museum professional, preservationist, and historian with expertise in construction that brings a unique perspective to this project. As a founding member and lead organizer of the Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee her continued work is leading to the rebuilding of the formerly enslaved Pyrrhus Concer’s homestead in the heart of Southampton’s Village. She continues to work on preserving historic structures in Sag Harbor, Southampton Township and East Hampton Township. Dr. Grier-Key has been a diversity fellow with the Nation Trust for historic places.

Grier-Key is a well-regarded guest curator and consultant that has various appointments such as, New York History Advisory Board Member for the New York History Journal and she has been elected to various outlets that inform and further the study of history, preservation and culture, specifically the Preservation League of New York State and the Museum Association of New York to name a few. She is cultural partner for Sylvester Manor Educational Farm of Shelter Island. Dr. Grier-Key was a guest curator for the award-winning Long Island Museum’s 2019 Exhibition, Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island. Her work and expertise transcend to the Smithsonian’s newly introduced National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Her role is regional, local and multigenerational with a skill set and understanding that comes from academia, on the job training, lived experience, and working across disciplines.

As a practitioner, Professor Grier-Key teaches history at CUNY Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn NY. Her mission has raised awareness about and fights to protect endangered historic African American sites, presence, history, folklore, and survival on Long Island’s East End. She is also a third-generation licensed real estate broker and has certificates in nonprofit finance management, municipal planning and zoning, and serves on the Town of Brookhaven’s Historic District Advisory Committee.

Georgette contributes commentary regularly to local media outlets such as Newsday, Sag Harbor Express, Southampton Press, 27 East, Long Island Advance, East Hampton Star, Long Island Pulse, CBS New York and News 12; delivers lectures at CUNY Graduate Center, LIU Brooklyn, Hofstra University, and Suffolk County Community College; publishes her research in the Long Island History Journal and the Suffolk County Historical Society Register; serves on the Black History Commission of the Town of Brookhaven, Town of Brookhaven’s Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Committee and lends her services as an historian, educator, docent and special events manager to various private and public organizations including the Parrish Art Museum of Watermill, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and throughout New York State.

SPECIALIZATION:

Not-for-profit Management/ Leadership and Small Businesses Organizations in sectors of the Arts’, Culture, Humanities, Religion, Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Healthcare, and Environmental

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Management • Donor Development • Strategic Planning • Government & Foundation • Social Media and Direct Mail Marketing • Public Hearing Presentations • Multi-Million Dollar Budgets • Board Development • High End Event Planning • Grant Identification and Proposal Writing • Program Development • Major Gift Solicitation • Resource Development • Partnership, Collaboration and Coalition Building.

CONSULTING FACILITATION METHODOLOGIES:

♦ Intellectual Entrepreneurship ♦ Continuous Improvement ♦ Appreciative Inquiry ♦ Conflict for Positive Change ♦ Consensus-Based Decision Making ♦ Multi-Cultural Competence Capacity Building ♦ Dialogue across Differences

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Reconstructing the Black experience, the historic life and patterns of Africa Diasporas of the North America (particularly of Long Island, New York), with a focus on pre through post Northern slavery and Free Black communes. Through various disciplines retracing various intersections of multi-ethnicity, religious institutions, great migration, post civil war, art, advertisement, labor, war, publications, policy, material culture, gender, race, and class structure and its translation in education and preservation outlets today through advocacy.

♦ Not-for–Profit ♦ Small Business ♦ Academia

Not-for-Profit:

Board Assessment and Development; Corporate Services- Bylaws, Policies; Executive Director Assessment; Proposal Evaluations, Preparation, Identifications and Implementation; Strategic Planning Facilitation, and Institutional Sustainability.

Curatorial Services, Exhibitions, Archival Services, Interpretive Planning, Historical Research, and Collections Management.

Small Business:

Articles of Incorporation; Proposal management; RFP (request for proposal) planning and writing; RFQ (request for qualifications) planning and writing; Bid writing, management and coordination.

Real Property Services: Full Real Estate Brokerage; Historic Property Preservation & Restoration Planning, Research/Writing & House Histories; Property Management; Relocation Services; Facilitate appraisals, and Title searches.

Advocacy

Organize grassroots campaigns to help effect change at the local, state, and federal level. This includes advocating for preservation funding, saving historic places and influencing key legislation that protects cultural heritage.

Preservation

Historical documentation can be applied in several ways, in particular to evaluate significance for rehabilitation plans, interpretive programs, and preservation documentation for threatened property destruction. Work in conjunction with historians, researchers, preservationists, architects, and historical archeologists. Research is also used planning and to gather information needed to identify and evaluate properties. Preservation services include; developing historical documentation objectives,  research design,  methods, integrating results, reporting results , and recommendations.

Education / Courses Taught:

Nassau County: History and Government

Women Leaders in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

U.S.A. 1945- Present

History of the United States I

History of the United States II

The Afro-Caribbean World

History of the Black Woman

The African American Family

African American History I

African American History II

African Art and Culture

Peer Reviewed Publications:

https://lihj.cc.stonybrook.edu/2016/articles/preservation-update-the-case-of-the-pyrrhus-concer-homestead/

https://lihj.cc.stonybrook.edu/2013/articles/mapping-african-american-history-across-long-island/

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/article/902912

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/article/847009

https://mail.learntechlib.org/p/39067/

♦ DR. GRIER-KEY'S ♦ PROFILE ♦

Non- profit management specialist equipped with a wealth of experience from both business and non-profit management that provides consultant services to various organizations with insight, knowledge and capacity. Providing unique capabilities such as organizational and leadership development, strategic and business planning, board development and evaluation, fundraising, marketing, financial management and human resource development to small and medium sized organizations throughout the New York State area. Dr. Grier-Key effectively demonstrates process improvement initiatives skills an incorporation of systems modalities.

Leadership/Affiliations/ Service

Museum Association of New York, Board President

Preservation League of New York, Vice President

New York History Journal, Advisory Board Member

NAACP Brookhaven Town, Branch President

Long Island Housing Services Inc., Board Trustee

NYS Historian's Revolutionary NY 250th Work Group, Commissioner

Long Island Historical Societies, President Emerita

Hampton’s Art Network, Member

Jupiter Hammon Project Advisory Council, Member

Women's Rights Alliance of New York State, Vice President

Awards:

Schneps Media

Dan Papers Powerless of the East End, July 2021

New York State Senate, Brentwood, NY

Certificate of Recognition, February 2015

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Islip Branch, Brentwood, NY

Living Legacy Award, January 2015

Of Colors Art Collective, Patchogue, NY

Community Impact Achievement Award, February 2014

The Greater Gordon Heights Chamber of Commerce

Special Recognition for Service, May 2012

Brookhaven Rosa Parks Association, Inc., East Setauket, NY

Agent of Change Award for Leadership. November 2010

Scholarships:

National Trust for Preservation, Virtually

PastForward Diversity Scholar. October 2021

National Trust for Preservation, Denver, Colorado

PastForward Diversity Scholar. October 2019

New York Council for the Humanities

Invitational Facilitation Retreat Participant, February 2013

Museums In Conversation, Albany NY

Scholarship Award. April 2012

National Trust for Preservation, Buffalo NY

New York Scholar. October 2011

Immigration Delegation, Oaxaca, MX

Delegate. October 2011

Institute at Sagamore, Oneonta, NY

Accepted Applicant. September 2011

Feb. 22, 2025

San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood.

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Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane Southampton, NY 11968

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Feb. 22, 2025

San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood.

Hamptons Doc Fest & Southampton Arts Center celebrate Black History Month with a keynote discussion and film screening of San Juan Hill: Man...

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Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane Southampton, NY 11968

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Roots and Rise: A NYC Black History Celebration

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Museum of the City of New York, 1220 FIFTH AVENUE, NY, 10029

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Saturday, February 8, 2025

Roots and Rise: A NYC Black History Celebration

Join the Museum of the City of New York and the NYC Public Advocate's Office this Black History Month as we celebrate the rich and vibrant l...

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Featuring Dr. Georgette Grier-Key

Part 3 of #MyMark with @monogramappliances launches today. We’re hosting an intimate dinner party where Chef @marcuscooks connects with friends, breaks bread with members of the Sag Harbor community and celebrates the dishes he has created in his new Monogram kitchen studio. Watch #MyMark now exclusively on @Bonappetitmag

Don Lemon in conversation at The Church with Dr. Georette Grier-Key

The Social Justice Committee of Temple Adas Israel, in partnership with The Church, is proud to welcome Sag Harbor resident Don Lemon, host of CNN Don Lemon Tonight for a virtual book event in celebration of his new book, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon’s daily monologues on racism and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Lemon was the leading voice on CNN guiding viewers through the death of George Floyd and a summer of nationwide protests and riots. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Join us for a discussion moderated by local historian Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, the Executive Director of Sag Harbor’s Eastville Community Historical Society.

Juneteenth

To celebrate Juneteenth this year, Councilwoman Cartright and members of the Black History Commission met at the Mary E. Bell house to discuss the historical importance of Juneteenth as well as the importance of foods traditionally eaten on that day. Historian, Dr. Georgette Grier-Key and Diane Schwint, the Historic Cook from the Ketcham Inn, participate in a traditional Juneteenth cooking demonstration and food tasting.

Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community

Aligning Government, Not-For-Profits, Business, and Community

Preserve and Protect the Past for the Future

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♦ Not-for–Profit ♦ Small Business ♦ Academia

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San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood.

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Feb. 22, 2025

San Juan Hill: Manhattan's Lost Neighborhood.

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Roots and Rise: A NYC Black History Celebration

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Saturday, February 8, 2025

Roots and Rise: A NYC Black History Celebration

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