#36: Jess Dannhauser // President and CEO of Graham Windham
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In 1806, Eliza Hamilton, Isabella Graham, and Johanna Bethune started the first private orphanage in New York City known as the Orphan Asylum Society. Over the last 210 years it has evolved into Graham Windham and this week we are proud to welcome President and CEO Jess Dannhauser to tell us all about Eliza's living legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome back to the Hamelcast I am Jillianian. I'm Bianca. Today we are joined by |
| 0:14.2 | Jess Dan Howzer, the president and CEO of Graham Windham. Hi. Hi, thanks for |
| 0:18.7 | having me. Thanks for being here in the room where the podcast happens. |
| 0:22.1 | A. K. aka my apartment. |
| 0:25.0 | What is Grand Wyndham? |
| 0:26.0 | Is it something we may have heard of or have any relation to? |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, can I show you what I noticed of? |
| 0:35.0 | The Orphanage. |
| 0:39.0 | I established the first private orphanage in New York City. |
| 0:45.0 | It might have heard of it. |
| 0:46.1 | Graham Windham was started in 1806 by The Eliza Hamilton and three other women. |
| 0:52.6 | That's right. |
| 0:53.4 | And today we serve about 4,000 kids |
| 0:56.1 | in New York City and Westchester, |
| 0:57.7 | carrying her legacy on, doing all sorts of things |
| 1:01.0 | to help kids and families really be their best. That's really |
| 1:04.9 | incredible. It says it's the nation's oldest nonprofit? It is the oldest one |
| 1:10.0 | serving kids longest standing so there was ones that were open before us but they've |
| 1:14.4 | closed so wow the longest serving not profit in the nation so I guess this episode |
| 1:19.6 | we're telling Eliza's story as much as we can. Some people would argue that maybe Burr |
| 1:24.3 | is the star of the show, but I think everyone |
| 1:27.1 | can agree that it's almost possibly |
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