Teresa Kemp Zielenski is vice president for Community Impact at United Way of Long Island. She oversees the distribution of more than $3 million in Community Impact grants, unrestricted grants, emergency food and shelter grants and scholarships to more than 169 community partners. She also manages United Way initiatives, including Success By 6, D.R.E.A.M.S. for Youth Scholarship Program and Military Reservists Family Aid Fund.

Before joining United Way, Kemp Zielenski spent a year in Germany and lectured at a German university on “Charity and Philanthropy in the USA,” where she provided insight on foundation management, fundraising, charity and philanthropic culture in the United States. Simultaneously, Kemp Zielenski was a consultant for the Children’s Global Umbrella Project for Peace, an international organization committed to promoting peace to children through art.

With an MALS in public policy from Georgetown University, Kemp Zielenski has extensive experience in nonprofit management and fundraising. She was executive director of the Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C., and assistant director of development, corporate and foundation relations at Georgetown University Medical Center. She was also a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and STI International, both located around the Washington, D.C. beltway. A native Long Islander, Kemp Zielenski was a member of the Volunteer Allocations Committee at United Way of National Capital Area and is a recipient of the 1987 Girl Scouts of America Gold Award.