HAUPPAUGE, NY — David Herold was elected as president of the Long Island Cares Board of Directors in December, the Hauppauge-based food bank announced.
He replaces Dave Cassaro, who was elected in 2019 and served a four-year term.
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Herold began his relationship with Long Island Cares in 2006, after reading an article about food insecurity among children on the island, according to the charity. He joined as a volunteer shortly after and has been a board member since 2009.
“I am truly honored and humbled by my election as board president,” Herold told Patch. “I don’t take this position lightly and will approach it with the same diligence and passion that Long Island Cares employees and volunteers exhibit every day.”
Herold won Long Island Cares Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award in 2019.
“Most of us don’t think twice when we look in the cupboard for a snack or a meal,” Herold said. We just take it for granted that there is something waiting to satiate that pang of hunger. For more than 234,000 people on Long Island (over 65,000 of them children), on any given day that trip to the cupboard may end in disappointment. I hope those statistics are as unacceptable to everyone reading this as they are to me. So, let’s fix it together.”
His personal goal as board president, he said, is to dig deeper into each area of the organization so he can understand their needs and help them obtain the resources they need to continue their work and achieve Long Island Cares’s mission of a hunger-free Long Island.
He said he would also like to continue the growth of the board of directors, so it has a deep bench with a variety of experience and perspective.
He plans to “work hard and care harder” to achieve his goals.
Herold is a partner in the East Meadow law firm of Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP. He co-chairs the Banking and Commercial Lending Department and serves on the firm’s executive committee. He also serves as a board member of The Real Estate Institute at Stony Brook University.
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