June 2, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO – Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) today announced the hiring of Elizabeth Orlin as its new Chief Operating Officer. Her start date is June 26, 2006. In this position, Orlin will be responsible for managing the internal functions of TNDC to ensure the fulfillment of its organizational mission.

“We’re delighted to have recruited someone with the experience, skills and stature in the community development world as Liz, and think that she will make a big contribution to the quality and effectiveness of TNDC’s programs,” said TNDC Executive Director, Don Falk.

"During my last eight years working on supportive housing in the Bay Area, I have gained enormous respect for TNDC, and for all the people connected with it,” Orlin commented. “I am thrilled to be joining such a dedicated, impressive and successful organization."

Most recently, Orlin served as Associate Director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing in Oakland, a national nonprofit intermediary helping communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. Orlin also served as one of the organization’s program officers and assistant program officers, from 1998 through early 2003.

Prior to that, Orlin worked for the Trustees of Columbia University’s CSS Program in New York, a community-based mental health services agency that provides day treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation, case management, and supportive housing to seriously mentally ill adults in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods of New York. There she served as a program director and program supervisor, as well as a senior case manager. Additionally, Orlin completed social work internships from the CSS Program and the Sunset Park Mental Health Clinic in Brooklyn, and began her career in social work at the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia in 1988.

Orlin received her Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University in 1994. In 1991, she received her Master of Social Work degree from New York University. Orlin earned her BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Haverford College in 1988.