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EPISODE SUMMARY:
The audience will learn about another gem on Long Island! There is so much to do and learn about right in our own neighborhoods. LIMEHOF celebrates Long Island's musical heritage - which is extensive and exciting!
This week on Philanthropy in Phocus, Tommy DiMisa welcomes Judi Veeck from the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF). Judi shares the story of LIMEHOF, a cultural gem celebrating Long Island’s rich musical heritage while supporting arts and music education. From honoring local legends like Billy Joel to offering scholarships, educational programs, and senior initiatives, LIMEHOF is dedicated to inspiring future generations through the power of music. Tune in to discover the impact of this vibrant nonprofit and learn how they’re preserving and celebrating creativity across Long Island.
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Tommy DiMisa kicks off Philanthropy in Phocus with high energy, welcoming Judy Lach Veeck, Executive Director of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, to discuss the organization's impact and its role in preserving Long Island's rich musical legacy. They explore Judy’s extensive nonprofit background, highlighting how relationship-building and storytelling are at the heart of successful fundraising and community engagement. Tommy also emphasizes the importance of strengthening the nonprofit sector, encouraging supporters to contribute through time, talent, and resources to sustain the vital work of organizations making a difference.
Tommy DiMisa continues his conversation with Judy Lach Veeck, diving into her extensive nonprofit experience and the power of relationship-building in fundraising. They discuss the importance of storytelling and peer-to-peer engagement in spreading awareness and inspiring support for nonprofit organizations. Highlighting creative donor engagement strategies, Judy shares how small, intimate gatherings can foster meaningful connections, while Tommy emphasizes the need for nonprofits to rethink traditional events to keep supporters engaged and excited about their mission.
Judy Lach Veeck shares her excitement about leading the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame, emphasizing how music fosters connection, wellness, and education. She highlights the organization’s partnerships with Catholic Health and PSEG Long Island, which support programs like Health and Harmony, promoting music’s impact on well-being, and concert series that engage the community. Tommy and Judy discuss the museum’s growing outreach efforts, encouraging schools, community centers, and veterans’ organizations to get involved and experience the power of Long Island’s rich musical history.
The Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame has grown from an idea sparked by passionate music lovers into a thriving physical institution, now welcoming over 20,000 visitors. Through exhibits like the Billy Joel showcase, live Sunday concerts, and educational programs such as Health and Harmony, the Hall is dedicated to preserving Long Island’s rich musical history while promoting the arts' impact on well-being. With upcoming events like its first documentary film festival and ongoing partnerships with sponsors, the Hall seeks to expand access to underserved communities, inviting supporters to visit, engage, and help amplify its mission.
00:00:49.080 --> 00:01:09.809 Tommy DiMisa: Focus your boy, Tommy D, the nonprofit sector connector coming at you. Lots of coffee, lots of caffeine going. Just got a fresh cup. I just I am so excited. Listen! What do the Ramones? Lou Reed? Run, Dmc. Ll. Cool J. Salt and Pepper twisted Sister the Shangri-las.
00:01:10.310 --> 00:01:33.430 Tommy DiMisa: Gene Simmons from kiss. What do they all have in common? Strong Island baby, Long Island, now geographically, Long Island consists of Nassau and Suffolk County, Brooklyn and Queens counties right part of New York City geographically, though that is Long Island, so people might say. Wait a minute, Tommy. Those folks might be from Brooklyn, or those folks might be from Queens. We will get there. Long Island music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.
00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:34.970 Tommy DiMisa: Judy.
00:01:35.230 --> 00:01:42.900 Tommy DiMisa: What is going on? Judy Latch Beck, my new friend, executive director of the organization. Hello!
00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:44.410 Judi Lach Veeck: Hello!
00:01:44.410 --> 00:01:46.980 Tommy DiMisa: What is up. I saw you yesterday. I saw you last night.
00:01:47.010 --> 00:01:49.084 Judi Lach Veeck: I know, I tell you.
00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:50.269 Tommy DiMisa: Us, now.
00:01:50.270 --> 00:01:51.570 Judi Lach Veeck: Few hours ago. Right?
00:01:51.570 --> 00:01:53.949 Judi Lach Veeck: We hang around together, man, there's a lot.
00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:54.390 Judi Lach Veeck: Hi.
00:01:54.390 --> 00:02:10.739 Tommy DiMisa: Things going on really. Yeah, I mean some of those names I'm dropped, but we're going to get into. But Count Basie right? I mean Pat Benatar, my guy, Tony Bennett. I went and saw Tony Bennett in in California, at a place called Paula. Which was it? Which is like
00:02:11.611 --> 00:02:19.440 Tommy DiMisa: a casino in between La and San Diego somewhere out in in space. And I saw Tony Bennett back when
00:02:20.090 --> 00:02:32.089 Tommy DiMisa: God, like 2,005, 2,006. So it's just incredible. So, Ken, this is not a local show today. It just so happens. All of these people hail from Long Island, and
00:02:32.210 --> 00:02:50.339 Tommy DiMisa: they are big big Megastars, and I think Long Island's biggest Megastar son. Right? Is a guy from Oyster Bay right? Shout out to Billy, Joel. I mean, there's a big exhibit at the Museum. So we're going to talk about that. That's part of the show. That's what we're going to get into. But what do we do on this show. We do this.
00:02:50.800 --> 00:03:09.560 Tommy DiMisa: I bring on a leader of a nonprofit organization. I help that organization, tell their story and amplify their message. Not because I'm such a great storyteller, although I think I am, but not. That's not the reason. It's because I want to ask curious questions, because I want you all to find out about the organization before we get into that. A couple of things. 1st thing is this.
00:03:10.130 --> 00:03:27.640 Tommy DiMisa: they say, like to that little boy, you know. Be careful what you wish for, because you might get everything you want. So let me shout this out to you after Judy and I do this show. Today, I'm recording 2 shows of Long Island change makers at North Shore TV out here on Long Island, followed by 2 episodes of
00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:52.840 Tommy DiMisa: hashtag ending the stigma together, because we must must capital. MUST. Normalize the conversation around mental health and mental illness. We must be compassionate. We must show love. So that so that's 5 shows in one day. Judy, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. I'm riled up right now, talking to me 5 30 this afternoon. We'll see how I'm feeling. Then got to take my sweatshirt off really quick, so I could show you all the back of my sweatshirt so.
00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:53.250 Judi Lach Veeck: Love it.
00:03:53.250 --> 00:04:10.850 Tommy DiMisa: I cannot hook up and hang out one of my nonprofits and not get some gear. I can't do it. I just can't do it. So the back of the sweatshirt for those of you watching the video right there Long Island Rocks, Long Island Rocks, baby. And I mean, this organization has been around for 20 some odd years, right
00:04:10.850 --> 00:04:11.550 Tommy DiMisa: years. Yeah.
00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:25.920 Tommy DiMisa: years. I have the website pulled up because I keep looking at all of these faces on the website of all these people, the love and spoonful who knew Mariah Carey right? I mean, I had to look at Mariah Carey because I didn't even realize she's from Huntington.
00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:27.310 Judi Lach Veeck: Right, right.
00:04:27.310 --> 00:04:32.287 Tommy DiMisa: Didn't even know this stuff. I I and again I've lived here my whole life, you know.
00:04:32.890 --> 00:04:34.900 Tommy DiMisa: I don't know if I did. I tell you the story
00:04:35.290 --> 00:04:36.509 Tommy DiMisa: I'll tell you a quick story.
00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:39.324 Tommy DiMisa: and then we'll get into the show.
00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:46.909 Tommy DiMisa: ll cool. J. Was at Benihana in Manhasset like
00:04:47.020 --> 00:05:08.539 Tommy DiMisa: 15 years ago one night we're there for my Buddy Chris's birthday, and there's like 10 of us, and Ll. And I guess his family are in the other corner. My buddy, Nicky Bugleone shout out to Nicky Bugleone. Nikki Bugleone walked over and said, Mr. Cool, J. We're big fans. Thank you so much for everything you've done for us, and it was, you know he didn't call him Ll. He was very formal, Nikki that night, he said, Mr. Cool. J. So
00:05:09.330 --> 00:05:09.830 Tommy DiMisa: so.
00:05:09.830 --> 00:05:25.130 Tommy DiMisa: you know I it's just. It's incredible when you think of it. Such a wealth of of entertainers that came from this part, this this geography. So I promise we're going to get into all that we're going to hear about the museum, and what I will say is
00:05:25.380 --> 00:05:43.159 Tommy DiMisa: the reason why Judy and I met is because the organization is a semifinalist in the Long Island. Imagine awards 2025, Long Island. Imagine awards. So when you're Tommy D, it all sort of rolls back to the imagine awards and things like that. So let's get into this, Judy. I always say I want to know
00:05:43.280 --> 00:06:13.150 Tommy DiMisa: how my guest found their way to the nonprofit sector. I ask that because I'm curious. I ask that because I think it's a great way to tell stories, and I also ask it because people might not realize how many opportunities there are in the nonprofit sector to do work and to have a profession. You know it doesn't. You don't have to be in development right? Or you don't have to be in social services. There's so many options and so many ways you can get involved in the nonprofit sector. So for me, it makes it's always curious for me, or I'm always curious.
00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:15.379 Tommy DiMisa: I was a very curious man, Judy.
00:06:15.380 --> 00:06:16.150 Judi Lach Veeck: There you go!
00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.050 Tommy DiMisa: Tell. Take us down that path, please.
00:06:19.050 --> 00:06:29.389 Judi Lach Veeck: Sure. Well, I went to college. My major was communications, so I was heading for the Pr. World and my 1st job was for a chiropractor.
00:06:29.390 --> 00:06:50.659 Tommy DiMisa: And kind of in sales. I was the person calling you at 7 o'clock, asking if you were in pain, and on a scale of one to 10. So and then I actually fell into a job at Brookhaven Hospital, which is now Long Island Community Hospital in the Pr department, and I was there for about 10 years, doing Pr.
00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:52.100 Judi Lach Veeck: And development.
00:06:52.470 --> 00:07:00.970 Judi Lach Veeck: And it was really there that I realized I had a love for the fundraising for the development, basically because
00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:02.969 Judi Lach Veeck: of the connection to people
00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:14.269 Judi Lach Veeck: working with the volunteers, the board members. And then, you know, being a nonprofit, everybody has a beautiful story of how? Why they support
00:07:14.470 --> 00:07:15.809 Judi Lach Veeck: that nonprofit.
00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:17.300 Tommy DiMisa: And so that's.
00:07:17.460 --> 00:07:29.669 Judi Lach Veeck: I stayed in nonprofit after there. From from the hospital I went to Cornell cooperative extension and spent 20 years. So my career over 30 years has been a nonprofit.
00:07:29.670 --> 00:07:51.900 Tommy DiMisa: I love that I mean. Last night we were at the Afpli event for the Association of fundraising professionals, Long Island again. It's not a hyper local show gang. But this kid's from Long Island. It is what it is. Sometimes we're just going to be focused on where we're at, you know. I mean, this show goes internationally. I'm sure it goes to other stratospheres. It might go to other universes, so I don't know how all you Martians are listening to me. But hey, Hello! I'm Tommy D.
00:07:52.900 --> 00:07:58.189 Tommy DiMisa: Some people think I'm an alien to be honest with you, Judy. Sometimes I'm not sure. So so
00:07:58.390 --> 00:08:26.869 Tommy DiMisa: it's interesting because we're hanging out with a bunch of fundraisers last night, and we saw we saw some friends of our getting awards and getting recognition from Afpli for the great work they're doing. And I just made a post on Linkedin earlier today because the gang from Jovia had invited us. You know, we were sitting at the same table together, Jody Financial Credit Union, and they good friends, Ray Schwetz, Joe, Prinzo, and Peter Papura had invited us out, and actually, Ray Schwetz is coming on Long Island changemakers this afternoon. So all worlds just kind of coming.
00:08:26.870 --> 00:08:27.949 Judi Lach Veeck: Oh, good morning. Yes.
00:08:27.950 --> 00:08:33.970 Tommy DiMisa: So it's it never stops. Pr and fundraising right
00:08:34.260 --> 00:08:41.530 Tommy DiMisa: development. We talked a lot about development, you know. Catherine Fritz was here last week from Long Island cares and
00:08:42.270 --> 00:08:55.089 Tommy DiMisa: development is sales. Development is relationship building, right development is connections and storytelling. Yeah. So so from Brookhaven Hospital, the Cornell extension. We're going to get into all that. Tell me
00:08:55.550 --> 00:09:02.240 Tommy DiMisa: what that looks like from your lens like through your lens, like one of your people who might say, oh, but I'm not a fundraiser.
00:09:02.380 --> 00:09:05.449 Tommy DiMisa: Well, can you tell stories? Can you engage people.
00:09:05.630 --> 00:09:14.019 Judi Lach Veeck: You know. Yeah, you're you're so right. It's it's storytelling. And I really think, most importantly, it's relationship building, because
00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:30.409 Judi Lach Veeck: you think of who you support, and it's there's a trust you you support, you know it's peer to peer. It's knowing somebody knowing that your time your resources are going someplace that you trust that
00:09:30.580 --> 00:09:41.450 Judi Lach Veeck: going for good, we all want our activities, whether it's money or our time to go to something good. And building those relationships is just key to that.
00:09:41.680 --> 00:10:02.809 Judi Lach Veeck: And that's why I really fundraising is more than just the numbers and doing the event. It's having those relationships. And it's being interested. It's being interested in. Why, why volunteer is choosing your organization to spend their time or to give their money? There's a story behind that.
00:10:02.810 --> 00:10:06.130 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, you know. Listen, gang. At the end of the day you got
00:10:06.260 --> 00:10:16.360 Tommy DiMisa: average 85, 90 years on this run at this run on this planet right? I mean, I've been tempting fate because I say, I still got 50 years left, which I've been saying 4 years, so I guess I just keep getting healthy
00:10:16.890 --> 00:10:34.719 Tommy DiMisa: every single day. But the reality of it is, you have this limited amount of time, and I've seen some of these memes where, like this, this guy draws these circles for every month in your lifetime, and like shows like how limited our life really is. And I bring that up just to speak about a term I learned
00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:54.489 Tommy DiMisa: in college when which is like really to be honest, not to be self-deprecating, but it's like one of the things. The only things that really stuck with me from studying finance in college was opportunity, cost and opportunity cost, as far as I have $10,000 to invest. And if I invested over here, what is the cost of all the other opportunities that I'm giving up on?
00:10:54.490 --> 00:11:05.219 Tommy DiMisa: I like to view opportunity calls from a perspective of my and your, our number one and limited resource that is moving like this, literally. Second by second, our time
00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:12.909 Tommy DiMisa: and our focus of. Where do we put that? So when you talk about trust and relationships, you know, I think about being intentional and saying like.
00:11:13.050 --> 00:11:29.789 Tommy DiMisa: what are they interested in is so critical to what you say. So from the perspective of like engaging with board members engaging with donors. Why are you involved with this like? There was these 2 women last night. Right not. Why are you, Judy? But why are you involved? There was these 2 women who told this story about a family foundation. They were one of the award recipients.
00:11:29.890 --> 00:11:33.719 Tommy DiMisa: and I apologize. I don't have the name, but I can get it. They were.
00:11:34.390 --> 00:11:36.179 Tommy DiMisa: They talked about their grandparents.
00:11:36.180 --> 00:11:36.670 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes.
00:11:36.670 --> 00:11:41.849 Tommy DiMisa: Built this foundation and wanted to build this legacy and their mom.
00:11:42.040 --> 00:11:45.130 Tommy DiMisa: I believe it was their mom. They lost their mom to cancer right?
00:11:45.130 --> 00:11:45.600 Judi Lach Veeck: Anyway.
00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:52.080 Tommy DiMisa: And these were, relatively speaking, young women. I think they lost their mom like 25 years ago. If I remember the math. Maybe more than that.
00:11:54.150 --> 00:11:58.999 Tommy DiMisa: there's a commitment. There's a reason there's heart in these things. So talk about some of that. If you could.
00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:08.959 Judi Lach Veeck: You know I it's funny you mention them. Because one of the young ladies said such a powerful quote, she she said, if you can give you should.
00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:25.359 Judi Lach Veeck: And and that's so true. And and it's not just money. It's like we said, your time, your efforts, your storytelling, spreading the word for organizations. If you know an organization that is doing good, spread the word, help them.
00:12:25.730 --> 00:12:29.419 Judi Lach Veeck: And I loved that when she said that because it's it was right on.
00:12:29.420 --> 00:12:51.839 Tommy DiMisa: It's so true right time, treasure, talent, gang, everybody can. You can always be a part of this, and let's be honest. I try to keep this show pretty much evergreen. But let me be real. It's January 31, st 2025. It has been a challenging week for the nonprofit sector period. Right? It has been, you know, Federal funds, we were told on Tuesday we're going to be gone, and by 5 o'clock they were going to be all.
00:12:51.840 --> 00:13:00.319 Tommy DiMisa: You weren't going to be able to access all these monies which you know, if you, if you're not aware of this Google Federal Funds nonprofit, you know. January 2025
00:13:00.624 --> 00:13:05.499 Tommy DiMisa: it was scary, and it had been scary, and and as yesterday morning I was at
00:13:05.520 --> 00:13:27.920 Tommy DiMisa: Long Island business news is state of the nonprofit sector, who knew when they booked that because they didn't book it earlier this week that event had been booked months in advance, who knew how critically important it was going to be to address the state of the nonprofit sector. So I started my morning there and finished my evening with Afpli, you know, if I didn't know any better I would think I was the nonprofit sector connector.
00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:30.276 Judi Lach Veeck: I would think so.
00:13:30.670 --> 00:13:46.040 Tommy DiMisa: Funny thing, Joe Prinzo, my buddy from Jovia had given me like a name Tag, and I hate to wear name tags because I want to look in somebody's face. I don't want them to look at my, you know name Tag, so I was like I hide them and put them away in my pocket, but I looked at it this morning because I never even put it on. It was like on a string. Remember, last night.
00:13:46.090 --> 00:13:47.020 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes, yes.
00:13:47.250 --> 00:13:56.900 Tommy DiMisa: So I found it in my pocket. I looked at it and it said, Tommy Demisa hashtag, the nonprofit sector connector, and I don't even think I set that up. So I guess we're. I guess it's happening. It's all happening.
00:13:56.900 --> 00:13:57.560 Judi Lach Veeck: Happening.
00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:18.789 Tommy DiMisa: And it's all happening. So it's critically important that we that we realize that that nonprofits need help, need support. And I say, I came up with a new hashtag hashtag nonprofit strong. That's what we got to be now. We got strong as a sector. Nonprofit is the grassroots organization on the corner that has a $4,500 budget.
00:14:18.890 --> 00:14:41.530 Tommy DiMisa: And it is the health system that has a I don't know how many 1 billion dollar budget. Right? That's the sector. It's very disparate, very different opportunities there, however, all doing important work. And that's what we do to feature them on the show. So, Judy, I want to go back. We're going to take a break in a second here when we come back. I want to get into kind of your journey a little bit. Tell me, like you know, if you start.
00:14:41.530 --> 00:15:01.369 Tommy DiMisa: let's talk a little bit about the work you did at the hospital. Let's talk about Cornell and what that was all about. And as we promised, we're going to be talking about. Actually, the funny story, too, is, I was talking to somebody like the day I was coming out, or the day before I was coming out to see you. And I just looked down at your website, which I'll share in a second everybody, which is Long Island Music Hall of fame.org
00:15:01.500 --> 00:15:25.879 Tommy DiMisa: Debbie Gibson, my 1st ever concert Radio City Music Hall, 1985. I believe it was, but because I've googled this before I was born in 78 I was like 6 or 7 years old. My uncle Buddy got 4 tickets like randomly from my 2 cousins, my cousin Mickey, my cousin Vinny, and I. We went to see Debbie Gibson. She is from Long Island, so I was joking around with a friend of mine who was coming on another project we're working on.
00:15:26.250 --> 00:15:33.360 Tommy DiMisa: and I was like, Oh, my God! You know, Debbie Gibson, she goes. You were probably a big Debbie Gibson, Fan Tommy and I was like, you have no idea that's the 1st concert I went to
00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:34.209 Tommy DiMisa: the shout out.
00:15:34.210 --> 00:15:39.810 Tommy DiMisa: Debbie Gibson, if you hear me, Debbie Gibson, and shout out to Paul Abdul, too, because that was what I listened to when I was a kid.
00:15:40.920 --> 00:15:44.789 Tommy DiMisa: All right, we'll take a quick break. We come back. We're gonna hear more of your story. How's that sound?
00:15:44.790 --> 00:15:45.840 Judi Lach Veeck: Sounds good.
00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:53.367 Tommy DiMisa: You all get to listen to me. Sing. So let's just sing a song today. All right, all right, I'll stop. I'm not going to get inducted into this particular hall of Fame. But I am sharing the website right now, showing all the inductees. I mean, this goes back, you know. It's it goes. It's not only
00:17:54.010 --> 00:17:59.229 Tommy DiMisa: It's not only performers, but it's also executives and folks in the music profession. Right?
00:17:59.230 --> 00:18:00.420 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes, yes.
00:18:00.690 --> 00:18:15.010 Tommy DiMisa: Going to get into all that later on. I keep asking these questions, and then I'm like, but hold hold on, not yet, Judy, so. So tell me, Judy, tell me about your things. You've walked around in business, wise in the sector, the things you've done like. Give us a day in the life or a month in the life.
00:18:15.830 --> 00:18:38.259 Judi Lach Veeck: Sure like, I said when I was at the hospital, you know I was in the Pr. I then was at Cornell cooperative extension for 20 years. And that was, that's an educational agency doing informal education. So I did the Pr and the development. So did the events started their fundraising activities.
00:18:38.350 --> 00:18:46.150 Judi Lach Veeck: And so it was there, really, that I got to build relationships with board members with the volunteers and realized.
00:18:46.420 --> 00:18:54.070 Judi Lach Veeck: you know through the years how important those relationships were to me personally and professionally, and to the organizations.
00:18:54.070 --> 00:18:58.740 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, tell me about the Cornell Cooperative extension. Tell us what that was.
00:18:59.050 --> 00:19:17.009 Judi Lach Veeck: Sure. That's that is, is a Cornell cooperative extension in every county, and I worked in Suffolk County, and they do programs in with 4 H. Agriculture marine. So it's really it's informal education through Cornell University.
00:19:17.010 --> 00:19:17.440 Tommy DiMisa: I love that.
00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:24.809 Judi Lach Veeck: So I work to publicize that and to do their nonprofit. So to do events, to to fundraise for those programs.
00:19:24.810 --> 00:19:28.476 Tommy DiMisa: You know, I've pulled up the website. Everybody, if you it's
00:19:28.840 --> 00:19:56.200 Tommy DiMisa: actually, maybe I should just show everybody. But it's cals, dot cornelledu forward Slash, Cornell Dash, cooperative dash extension or just Google it. That's what I did. But I think, you know, in my experience, there's so many nonprofit organizations. For instance, I've seen, if I'm not mistaken, the Cornell Cornell Cooperative Extension application over the years at the Long Island. Imagine awards! I'm pretty sure I saw the. And you know
00:19:56.540 --> 00:20:02.400 Tommy DiMisa: sometimes a name tells you exactly what something does like the nonprofit sector connector. And sometimes it doesn't.
00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:03.650 Judi Lach Veeck: It doesn't right.
00:20:03.650 --> 00:20:14.479 Tommy DiMisa: To be more storytelling. So there's so many organizations that that are doing great work and need to constantly like, I'll give you an example. 1st time I ever met
00:20:14.983 --> 00:20:21.500 Tommy DiMisa: Rene Daniel Flagler, who is my friend, and the executive director of girls Inc. Of Long Island.
00:20:22.650 --> 00:20:24.050 Tommy DiMisa: I go. I get it
00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:34.630 Tommy DiMisa: like in the name. I got it like I was it. And then strong, smart, and bold, got it right. So like it's I think sometimes we all have to create the way to tell our story. Right?
00:20:34.630 --> 00:20:35.480 Tommy DiMisa: Yes, yes.
00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:43.549 Tommy DiMisa: and I want to ask you, too, about that, but also like about educating board members on taking their why and how to tell that story like that's what you know.
00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:51.980 Tommy DiMisa: Not. Everybody's on the board for the same reason, not to say anybody's there for negative reason, but not everybody's there, like. For instance, I'm on the Board of Forceability.
00:20:52.090 --> 00:21:15.889 Tommy DiMisa: My cousin Linda passed away a number of years ago, and we have a Lindy Lou foundation and we support horseability. That's how I got connected to horseability, right? But other people got connected in different ways. So I wonder if you could share a little bit about like your experience? Pr, talk about public relations. Right? So let's talk a little bit about communications and and maybe some of the campaigns you've done, and then we'll roll that into the organization you're at. Now.
00:21:16.560 --> 00:21:40.590 Judi Lach Veeck: Sure, you know, in terms of communications again, it's all getting the brand awareness like you said with the name. Sometimes the name of the organization says it all. And people know, you know, with Cornell, it doesn't people. They don't know what that means. So it's all about getting the word out, and whatever way that is. And I've always found you know you mentioned board members.
00:21:41.280 --> 00:21:48.639 Judi Lach Veeck: It's peer to peer. Communication is so important because you listen to those people you know that you're friends with. So if
00:21:48.820 --> 00:21:58.640 Judi Lach Veeck: if they're involved in an organization, and they, you know, spread it to their network, talk to their friends to their colleagues. That's key. So that's 1 of the things.
00:21:58.760 --> 00:22:18.310 Judi Lach Veeck: When I, when I talk to my boards, always encourage them. Don't keep it a secret, you know. You think it's no big deal. You go to these board meetings. It's a huge deal, and it's a huge deal to your friends they want to know. And that's how you spread spread the brand awareness, spread the mission.
00:22:18.310 --> 00:22:44.950 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, yeah, like gang folks will come out. So you you're on the board right? And you do the. And I'm trying to just sound humdrum, because, like, I don't, because I'm trying to say what I'm gonna say shortly will be the opposite of that. But you buy the obligatory table and you bring your 10 guests and wah! Wah! And yes, that's important. But what are the next steps? How do we elevate from there? Gang like? What do we do so? If I was to bring a bunch of my friends to an event, here's why this organization is important to me.
00:22:45.070 --> 00:23:08.369 Tommy DiMisa: Here's why this organization is important to my family. Not just hey? Saturday, March 21.st I'm bought a table. I want you to come as my guest. But how? Why, I need you there. Why, it's not because your point, Judy, about peer to peer, and that connection is no kidding, Tommy D. Is that why it's important to you. Oh, you know what I have! A family member who was affected by that same fill in the blanks, cause right.
00:23:08.370 --> 00:23:08.850 Judi Lach Veeck: Exactly.
00:23:08.850 --> 00:23:16.840 Tommy DiMisa: That's like, and I I mean I have friends for like that. I've been friends for 20 years, and I don't know things that
00:23:17.010 --> 00:23:20.200 Tommy DiMisa: I not that I should know everybody's and everybody should know myself? But
00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:23.330 Tommy DiMisa: I go. Oh, my God! That's important to you that cause.
00:23:23.550 --> 00:23:24.550 Judi Lach Veeck: Why?
00:23:24.970 --> 00:23:25.830 Tommy DiMisa: Really
00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:40.900 Tommy DiMisa: tell me more like that's the let's so so vice versa, when we can share that. And we want to support our friends right. We might not know about Xyz organization, but I know my friend Johnny's on the board, or my friend Susie's on the board, or they're connected, or they're a volunteer there.
00:23:41.130 --> 00:23:44.330 Tommy DiMisa: and I want to know more, because it's it's about that relationship.
00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:53.819 Judi Lach Veeck: Exactly like you said. You never know. You don't know people's backgrounds, so when you start sharing it, may, it may hit a note with someone and it.
00:23:54.050 --> 00:23:56.109 Judi Lach Veeck: Then they have the same experience.
00:23:56.110 --> 00:23:57.290 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:22.649 Tommy DiMisa: What? What have you found? That? Maybe something that's been like very creative or something that you were surprised about from an engagement perspective, you know, at Cornell or at Brookham before that, like what? And then certainly, you know, in your shorter time here at the Museum, like something where you tried out like a marketing campaign, a strategy for for donor engagement, or to access new donors
00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:23.640 Tommy DiMisa: that.
00:24:23.950 --> 00:24:29.160 Tommy DiMisa: you know, was either a real surprise, that it worked. And like, Wow, we should have thought of that a long time, or.
00:24:29.270 --> 00:24:30.800 Tommy DiMisa: okay, tell me about something like that.
00:24:31.530 --> 00:24:34.729 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah. Well, you know, we've in the past. We've had
00:24:35.270 --> 00:24:45.030 Judi Lach Veeck: board members and other volunteers bring people to their homes and small groups, and I'll that it's an intimate setting.
00:24:45.310 --> 00:24:56.449 Judi Lach Veeck: but that I was surprised. It just really it. I going back to your storytelling. It opens people up because there's no intimidation. It's a small group of 10 friends.
00:24:56.670 --> 00:25:02.870 Judi Lach Veeck: and I think that worked in getting people involved in the organization at the time, because
00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:16.059 Judi Lach Veeck: people got to share, and they felt comfortable. Instead of having an event with 200 people. We had smaller, intimate events with 10 people in someone's living room.
00:25:16.330 --> 00:25:19.849 Judi Lach Veeck: and it it paid off, and in many ways.
00:25:19.850 --> 00:25:21.219 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, that's
00:25:21.630 --> 00:25:28.430 Tommy DiMisa: and I do know, organizations do things like that. But it's I'm I'm at least in my experience, or
00:25:28.810 --> 00:25:31.210 Tommy DiMisa: maybe maybe nobody invites me to those events. Maybe that's.
00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:32.379 Judi Lach Veeck: I don't know much about it.
00:25:32.380 --> 00:25:44.849 Tommy DiMisa: But either, in my experience, everybody's like, we gotta do. The gala gotta do the gala gotta do the event. Gotta do the event right? So I I want to get your feedback on that, because, yeah, we all do these events. And
00:25:45.010 --> 00:25:51.229 Tommy DiMisa: do we gotta do the event like, do we really? Or should we be analyzing the effectiveness of of that
00:25:51.370 --> 00:25:54.100 Tommy DiMisa: golf outing, or that Yawa.
00:25:54.620 --> 00:26:08.730 Judi Lach Veeck: And you're right. There's an expectation. And you know I always say events, they're great, but events are. They're time consuming, and it takes a lot of effort takes a lot of staff time. However.
00:26:08.990 --> 00:26:29.110 Judi Lach Veeck: you get a lot of Pr out of an event. You meet corporate sponsors that. So there's really a give and take, so you can look at it both angles. You know. It gives a lot to do an event. You give a corporate sponsor or an individual donor an opportunity to get their name out there to speak to a room full of people
00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:53.170 Judi Lach Veeck: and people have fun. So you do remember those events that you were with your friends. You had a good time. When I do these events, I always try to find something that might be a little different. So you know it's a golf tournament. Throw something in there. You do your annual gala. Throw something in there that that will be different than everybody else's.
00:26:53.170 --> 00:27:03.350 Tommy DiMisa: You have to be, because I and I love to go to these galas because I well, because I know a lot of people in the room, and that's always fun for me, although I do have a lot of fun when I walk in, and I know no one that's even more exciting.
00:27:03.350 --> 00:27:03.836 Judi Lach Veeck: Oh! That!
00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:07.780 Tommy DiMisa: That's that's that's more exciting. I
00:27:08.840 --> 00:27:13.621 Tommy DiMisa: there needs to be something unique. There needs to be something different and exciting, you know.
00:27:15.070 --> 00:27:18.989 Tommy DiMisa: because I was just talking to a friend of mine this morning runs an organization, and
00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:39.640 Tommy DiMisa: I was like these events got to be fun has to be something different, because I, I personally cannot sit and listen for an hour and a half of speeches and stuff like that can't do it not, and not because I have Adhd, because I'm bored because I got, you know, engage me, and I don't think I'm unique in that. In that regard. I think we.
00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:42.469 Judi Lach Veeck: So, yeah, I think a lot of people are on that same page.
00:27:42.470 --> 00:27:47.341 Tommy DiMisa: Challenge me, man, get me excited. Not like, you know, droning on, you know.
00:27:47.850 --> 00:28:11.730 Tommy DiMisa: and you know what I think is cool, and I don't know why visuals pop into my head all the time, you know. I think it's cool, like the airport tables. The high top tables, instead of sitting down at a table. Let's just like Schmooze, and let's walk around the room, and you can. I believe you can set. And I've been to events like it. So I know it is. You can set that up where I'm standing at a table, you know, having my my non alcoholic beer right? And and we're talking. We're chatting, and the
00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:16.459 Tommy DiMisa: and we're and then the presentation part comes and we're still standing.
00:28:16.600 --> 00:28:35.349 Tommy DiMisa: you know. Now some, I think in some cases some folks might, you know, depending on their needs, might need to sit, or whatever, but not where everybody has to. Okay. Now, folks, it's time to sit at the table of 10 or the table of 12. Look, some people going, Tommy D. You don't know what you're doing. You're out of your League, I'd say, maybe you're right. But I'm telling you this.
00:28:35.990 --> 00:28:38.280 Tommy DiMisa: people get bored. What do you say about that?
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:45.489 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah, no, I I agree. And it's it's really finding that that point that you can.
00:28:46.050 --> 00:28:55.610 Judi Lach Veeck: you know, meet everyone's needs and and do something just a little different that will make your event look different than the 3 other events they have
00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:56.310 Judi Lach Veeck: that month.
00:28:56.310 --> 00:28:57.574 Tommy DiMisa: That or that week.
00:28:57.890 --> 00:28:59.100 Judi Lach Veeck: And over that week.
00:28:59.100 --> 00:29:01.930 Tommy DiMisa: Used to be. Some nights I'd go to 3 events in a night, but.
00:29:01.930 --> 00:29:03.340 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah, that's yeah.
00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:12.329 Tommy DiMisa: Tommy D. He was much younger. So what's cool about what you have at the Long Island music and entertainment Hall of Fame?
00:29:12.340 --> 00:29:33.969 Tommy DiMisa: Is that by definition. What you do is super cool, super, exciting, and unique, and that to me is like a winner. Winner. Chicken dinner, you know, you get to have something. I mean, it's contained in what you do. I mean, I was out there when we when I came for the visit. Maybe it's 2 and a half 3 weeks ago. Yeah, and that Billy Joel thing is so freaking cool.
00:29:33.970 --> 00:29:34.770 Judi Lach Veeck: It's cool.
00:29:34.770 --> 00:29:36.350 Tommy DiMisa: And he was there right.
00:29:36.350 --> 00:29:36.860 Judi Lach Veeck: It's like.
00:29:36.860 --> 00:29:45.560 Tommy DiMisa: So I got to get my wife and the kids to come out and see that the whole exhibition there, because that's really cool stuff, so
00:29:45.810 --> 00:29:49.780 Tommy DiMisa: we'll take a break in a moment. Here. When we do, we'll come back, and I want to.
00:29:49.800 --> 00:30:04.079 Tommy DiMisa: Why did you leave for now what happened here like, why did you go to this organization? What's the move and and tell me about? I know it's been. It's pretty new situation for you. So I want to hear, like what it is that you're doing.
00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:22.899 Tommy DiMisa: what the organization's all about the history of the organization and some storytelling. I mean, you. Probably, you know, like I want to bring one of my daughters out there. I mean, they're all invited, but I think she'd be most interested. On a Sunday. We were talking about this on Sundays. You have the concert series upstairs, and it's an intimate room. I don't know. Maybe you could fit 60 people.
00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:24.040 Judi Lach Veeck: 60 yep.
00:30:24.340 --> 00:30:29.450 Tommy DiMisa: Which is great to go see a show, and there was a young lady that I might have missed. No, I think it's in February.
00:30:29.450 --> 00:30:31.840 Judi Lach Veeck: She's coming up in a couple of weeks, I think. Yeah.
00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:50.870 Tommy DiMisa: Weeks, so we'll get the name. But she was maybe she's 1516 years old. You can tell me that story. We come back, because I think she was there with another group, and and I think you had approached her and said, Do you do something right? We'll do that story when we come back, but I want my younger daughter there, because my younger daughter is a singer, and I want her to see that, because.
00:30:51.540 --> 00:30:54.600 Tommy DiMisa: excuse me like I was telling you when I when I came for the tour that day.
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:56.849 Tommy DiMisa: It's all about representation
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:20.759 Tommy DiMisa: and right. It's about getting confident my daughter performed in a musical last weekend, and I think the more and more we get that confidence boost, and we see people who look like us, and you know in her case a girl who's 4 or 5 years older than her right, that's going to inspire her to go. I can do this man, you know. It's 1 thing to see Taylor Swift, you know, doing the heiress tour, and you know.
00:31:20.950 --> 00:31:24.129 Tommy DiMisa: selling, I guess millions of tickets. I don't even know.
00:31:24.370 --> 00:31:25.140 Judi Lach Veeck: Right, right.
00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:43.370 Tommy DiMisa: Hundreds of millions of tickets, lots of tickets. But it's another thing to see somebody from your neighborhood, your island, who's up there doing this thing in front of people. Right? So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the organization. And really, we're going to get into what's upcoming for the organization. How can we help? What can we do? So how's that sound so far? You ready to roll again.
00:31:43.370 --> 00:31:44.225 Judi Lach Veeck: Ready to roll.
00:31:44.510 --> 00:31:49.059 Tommy DiMisa: All right. Time out flag on a play. We'll be right back. Break time. Judy and Tommy d.
00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:33.879 Tommy DiMisa: A man, but through the static joined Tommy in his attic. That's like what you all are supposed to do. It's funny. That's my friend Brendan Levy, who's originally from Astoria Queens. He's the singer from a band called
00:33:34.090 --> 00:33:52.970 Tommy DiMisa: the Goods, was what they used to be called back in the day when they were young men, and now they call themselves damaged goods, and they play a lot on Long Island. But Brendan and I wrote that song together. So we're sharing the website again. Gang. It's Li Music Hall of fame.org Li music, Hall of fame.org, as in Long Island.
00:33:53.040 --> 00:34:22.639 Tommy DiMisa: and music and entertainment hall of Fame. But they left off the entertain part in the web. Address. Billy Joel. My life! A piano man's journey! So that's what's going on out there at the Music Hall of Fame. Right now. There was a really cool bust of Ll. Cool jag. I don't know if it's on the website. But I took a picture with that I had a show off that I was making a visit out to the museum. So, Julie, let's get into it executive director of the organization? How did this even happen? How did you end up at the Long Island music and entertainment Hall of Fame?
00:34:22.810 --> 00:34:31.709 Judi Lach Veeck: Okay. Well, you know, I heard of an opportunity there, and I was really intrigued, you know, having been in the education
00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:35.339 Judi Lach Veeck: area of the nonprofits for over 20 years
00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.080 Judi Lach Veeck: to be a part of the Arts
00:34:38.409 --> 00:34:42.459 Judi Lach Veeck: sector was intriguing to me. So that's
00:34:42.600 --> 00:34:52.039 Judi Lach Veeck: and then I spoke with them. That's what really got me interested. And then, when I heard their mission, I just feel so strongly. And when we spoke there about
00:34:52.400 --> 00:35:08.109 Judi Lach Veeck: about music in the arts, and particularly music, how that can really impact people. And I, just I. So this is like an opportunity. It's it's fun, you know, and who doesn't want to have fun, but and it's just a way of
00:35:08.300 --> 00:35:24.439 Judi Lach Veeck: spreading the word. They've been there 20 years, but in this building only a few years, and it's so many volunteers that are so dedicated. So we're building the the Hall of Fame Building, the organization and
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:44.200 Judi Lach Veeck: the opportunity to tell people about music from Long island all the fabulous artists. But then the impact music has on people, on people's mental health, on children. How it some children learn so much better if you incorporate music, and
00:35:44.570 --> 00:35:48.250 Judi Lach Veeck: it's I just think that's an important message to get out there.
00:35:48.250 --> 00:36:03.829 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah. And I'm looking for the write up. I did for the Long Island. Imagine Award, because it's been a few weeks since we met, and there was some of the things that I wanted to pull out of that write up. So I'm gonna try and get it while working together here, but like it's like a working show. We do. We do work while we do the show. This is how.
00:36:03.830 --> 00:36:04.280 Judi Lach Veeck: Too.
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:08.929 Tommy DiMisa: Freestyle man, you know one of the things, you know, and we'll get into the
00:36:09.550 --> 00:36:11.640 Tommy DiMisa: The partnership with Catholic health right?
00:36:11.640 --> 00:36:14.289 Judi Lach Veeck: Catholic health. Pscg. Long Island. Yes.
00:36:14.290 --> 00:36:21.989 Tommy DiMisa: We're gonna get into all that but something you said to me and I was trying to get to the quote. It was, it's just about like how
00:36:22.220 --> 00:36:23.980 Tommy DiMisa: music brings us together.
00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:29.169 Tommy DiMisa: And you know the arts certainly bring us together. But specifically, music brings us together, and in.
00:36:29.170 --> 00:36:40.260 Judi Lach Veeck: It does. The and the intergenerational aspect is something that I noticed when I was, you know, 1st was going to the museum, and and I realized.
00:36:40.770 --> 00:37:02.090 Judi Lach Veeck: you know this is the Hall of Fame is someplace. A grandparent can bring their child, and they can both have a blast because there's something for everybody. And there's not that many opportunities where the age, you know, difference really isn't a difference there, because there's something for everyone. And I thought, that's nice when you see that.
00:37:02.090 --> 00:37:22.230 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, I not to just focus on on Billy Joel. However, his music is basically timeless. I mean my kids who range from 15 down to 9, and my wife and I, who are in our I hate to say late, but late forties I mean I'm 47. So like is that late ish? I mean
00:37:22.810 --> 00:37:23.350 Tommy DiMisa: ish
00:37:23.890 --> 00:37:24.830 Judi Lach Veeck: Meet us.
00:37:25.850 --> 00:37:41.390 Tommy DiMisa: And certainly, you know people of of older years, you know, and I'm sure there's probably some 5 year old who who digs listening to Billy, Joel, and stuff like that, I mean. And then you think of other groups like the Beatles, and you know, groups that are just timeless. Now the Beatles are from Liverpool gang. It's not a Long Island accent.
00:37:41.390 --> 00:37:42.940 Judi Lach Veeck: That's all. Okay.
00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:45.340 Tommy DiMisa: My point about music is just.
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.715 Tommy DiMisa: It is intergenerational and connect on it. And I know you know my own
00:37:52.610 --> 00:38:11.799 Tommy DiMisa: varied tastes in music, you know, very, very from, you know, classic rock music like to. I was very and still am into hip, hop music, and you know. So that's where the the thing, the funny anecdote about meeting Mr. Cool, J. At the Benihana in Manhasset. Although I sat at the table, I didn't go over that with Nikki that went over and said, Hello.
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:12.690 Judi Lach Veeck: But.
00:38:13.353 --> 00:38:17.310 Tommy DiMisa: It's that music changes our mood.
00:38:17.310 --> 00:38:17.650 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah.
00:38:17.650 --> 00:38:47.300 Tommy DiMisa: Literally my I can. If I'm not feeling, and if I'm not feeling great I can listen to the right tunes, and I start to feel better, and I don't know about you. Sometimes I like being melancholy, and sometimes I like to listen to music that will kind of just mellow me out. And it's okay, because that's, you know, emotions are emotions doesn't mean we have to like, well, happy is the only one that works like other ones are cool, too, right? And it's like music can put you in these different moods and mindsets. And and then certainly.
00:38:47.710 --> 00:38:55.200 Tommy DiMisa: if we're trying to get fired up for something. There's music that can get us fired up and and really engage. So you know, did you
00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:02.299 Tommy DiMisa: growing up was there? And and right now, are there certain genres of music, certain artists that were very important to you?
00:39:02.770 --> 00:39:04.479 Judi Lach Veeck: Well, you know, I'm an eighties girl.
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:05.030 Judi Lach Veeck: Okay?
00:39:05.030 --> 00:39:09.449 Judi Lach Veeck: So the eighties music can't help myself. So.
00:39:09.870 --> 00:39:17.060 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah. So I I like, give me an give me like somebody, something that you put on you like. Oh, my God! I'm rocking out again! Man! Like what.
00:39:17.220 --> 00:39:20.850 Judi Lach Veeck: Oh, yeah. Oh, the the B 50 two's, you know all the yeah. It's
00:39:21.090 --> 00:39:25.270 Judi Lach Veeck: Billy over Billy Joel, obviously. But yeah, that's.
00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:26.130 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, you know.
00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:28.580 Judi Lach Veeck: Tin blossoms. That was, that was later, but still.
00:39:28.580 --> 00:39:35.529 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, no, but that was. And you know, for me it was like, so I was born in 78, right? So I've already shared with everybody.
00:39:35.530 --> 00:40:02.110 Tommy DiMisa: you know, which is not a guilty pleasure, but that Debbie Gibson was my 1st concert right. I shared that with you, so that should set the stage, but I was a little too young at the time for the stuff I listen to now like the cure, like the like, you know. Stuff like that that I totally dig. But I was a little too young like when it was happening right. But I plug into all that music right now I'm looking at. So I found my notes and what I wrote, and it and I wrote in my discussion with Judy.
00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:26.189 Tommy DiMisa: she brought up, this music is bonding. Music truly connects us, and there, and there's so much to acknowledge here on Long Island, when we think about the entertainers and musicians from our region so like that was just some of the stuff that I had written up gang. What's he talking about? So when you're a semifinalist in the Long island. Imagine awards, or the New York City. Imagine awards, for that matter, those of us on the committee go out and get this incredible opportunity to interview
00:40:26.190 --> 00:40:40.689 Tommy DiMisa: the semifinalists and do a write up. So what's the Long Island? Imagine awards, I can't tell you that right now go to Longisland. Imagine awards.com, and or send me an email, Tommy D. At philanthropy and focus PHOC. us.com. And we could talk with imagine awards. So
00:40:41.180 --> 00:40:50.069 Tommy DiMisa: you see this as a cool opportunity, you start to go out there. You're you know you're in the interview process what stood out for you? And you said, Oh, this is really an area of opportunity.
00:40:50.710 --> 00:40:58.620 Judi Lach Veeck: You know what stood out for me actually was when I met with the board and hearing of their
00:40:58.970 --> 00:41:01.929 Judi Lach Veeck: their expertise, their passion.
00:41:02.170 --> 00:41:07.689 Judi Lach Veeck: You know this all started. I'll just tell you quickly. 2 of the Board members
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:25.380 Judi Lach Veeck: both had a passion for music. And they there was an email. And they just basically said, Why doesn't Long Island have a hall of fame? Because Long Island artists always got grouped into New York City, you know, which isn't bad, but they're Long Island is not New York City.
00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:26.030 Tommy DiMisa: Alright!
00:41:26.030 --> 00:41:34.830 Judi Lach Veeck: And and it all started just so informally, and where it's it is now, they never would have imagined. So.
00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:44.360 Judi Lach Veeck: hearing their passion, and they each bring something. You know, there's a classical music artist. There's the hip hop.
00:41:44.680 --> 00:42:00.189 Judi Lach Veeck: It's just amazing. And their contacts, it's amazing. So when you listen to that enthusiasm. You can't help but get excited and realize there is something here. This is. This is a fun place. This is worth it.
00:42:00.190 --> 00:42:03.446 Tommy DiMisa: So you said to me, Thank you. So you said to me that it was like
00:42:03.970 --> 00:42:09.520 Tommy DiMisa: Originally there was not a building. It was like not a place. So where was everything? Tell me about that.
00:42:09.530 --> 00:42:32.030 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah. Well, actually, there's a mobile. There's a bus. So there was like a mobile museum that went around. But they slowly. They were getting artifacts, you know, the Memorabilia, and so forth. And then this opportunity presented itself. So this only happened in 2022, so prior to that they were founded in 2,004.
00:42:32.290 --> 00:42:46.079 Judi Lach Veeck: So there was. There were many years there where it they did induction ceremonies, but there was no physical building, so there was outreach, you know, we out to schools and so forth, which we still do. And we're looking to grow that program.
00:42:46.080 --> 00:42:49.839 Tommy DiMisa: So talk to me about that. You're looking to grow that program. What's that program? Look like.
00:42:50.460 --> 00:43:10.140 Judi Lach Veeck: Looking to grow programs, going into schools, going into community centers and growing the program in our building for children's, for children's concerts, doing more along those lines. You know we are connected to Stephen Van Zandt's. Teach rock.
00:43:10.140 --> 00:43:11.040 Tommy DiMisa: Little Steven.
00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:25.890 Judi Lach Veeck: So we're and they have that program. We're partners with them. So we do programs at the Museum for teach rock as well. And that's just for people that don't realize that focuses on
00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:33.490 Judi Lach Veeck: teaching the professionals, teaching the teachers to incorporate music into all of the curriculum.
00:43:33.490 --> 00:43:36.260 Tommy DiMisa: Is he from Long Island, Stevenson.
00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:39.249 Judi Lach Veeck: Yep, he was Yup, and he was with the E Street band.
00:43:39.250 --> 00:43:44.149 Tommy DiMisa: Yes, yes, right? That's Bruce. Yeah, he was on the sopranos.
00:43:44.860 --> 00:43:54.790 Tommy DiMisa: So I want to. I'm moving things around on my screen because I wanted to share something on the website. Let's talk. We're gonna extend this segment a little bit. Let's talk about
00:43:55.305 --> 00:43:59.799 Tommy DiMisa: Harmony. Excuse me, health and harmony. And what that program is all about.
00:44:00.710 --> 00:44:20.240 Judi Lach Veeck: That's our program with Catholic health. One of our sponsors who we're so so proud to work with that is a program that really stresses, wellness and how music has such an impact on people's wellness. We go out and do programs. People can come into the Hall of Fame.
00:44:20.330 --> 00:44:32.699 Judi Lach Veeck: We have playlists. You talked before about how music, you know, affects emotions and so forth. So we offer playlists. And there's a whole website. Folks can go onto our website and be connect. Oh, there you go!
00:44:32.700 --> 00:44:47.489 Tommy DiMisa: There it is. Yep. So go to. Once you go on the website. There's a big list on the right hand side, and you can, but if you want to just hear it, it's or I'll just say it to you. Li. Music hall of fame.org, forward, slash, health and harmony
00:44:47.860 --> 00:44:49.520 Tommy DiMisa: slash. But please continue.
00:44:49.520 --> 00:45:03.259 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah. And so it it just really focuses on the impact music has on health. And how you can different. We have playlists for different emotions for children. How important it is as well
00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:07.389 Judi Lach Veeck: in helping them learn. There's there's many studies about that.
00:45:07.570 --> 00:45:18.749 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah. And there's a cool video on here. I watched the other day that talks about that program again. You could check that out, and then the other thing is there's some work you do with veterans. Is that am I right?
00:45:19.650 --> 00:45:23.490 Tommy DiMisa: As it relates to health and harmony with veteran community? Or am I mistaken?
00:45:23.950 --> 00:45:28.099 Judi Lach Veeck: No, we we do go out to to different veteran sites. Yes.
00:45:29.384 --> 00:45:50.180 Tommy DiMisa: I want to talk more about what's upcoming for the organization. What do you need? Are there certain relationships? And what? And as you talk about schools? How do the schools get plugged in a little bit more like, who do they reach out to? Is that you that they would reach out to. Is it somebody else on the team like, if I want you to come out? If I wanted either my kids, my North Shore schools to come out to you all, or vice versa. Have the have the team come out to us.
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:54.600 Judi Lach Veeck: You call the Hall of Fame, and we we will make the arrangements absolutely.
00:45:54.600 --> 00:45:57.110 Tommy DiMisa: What's the number? Where are they calling? Who do they want to talk to.
00:45:57.110 --> 00:46:02.969 Judi Lach Veeck: They are calling. 631-68-9588.
00:46:02.970 --> 00:46:06.390 Tommy DiMisa: Perfect. And you go to the website, Li Music Hall of.
00:46:06.390 --> 00:46:06.970 Judi Lach Veeck: Happy.
00:46:06.970 --> 00:46:30.220 Tommy DiMisa: All right. We come back. Here's what I want to do. I want you to tell me anything else you need us to know about the organization. And always I want to know is, what do you need? What does the organization need? Who do you want to plug in with? Are there certain companies you want to shout out for the work you've done together. Certainly Catholic health for what they're doing with you. I think you mentioned pse. And G. What was that? Let's talk about that real quick before we go.
00:46:30.220 --> 00:46:36.129 Judi Lach Veeck: They're a sponsor as well, and they sponsor our music stage in our Hall of Fame. So they help our concerts.
00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:38.450 Judi Lach Veeck: That's what we gotta talk about a great partner.
00:46:38.450 --> 00:46:50.799 Tommy DiMisa: That's what we got to talk about. We come back. I want to talk about that Sunday thing that the music, and then we can shout out the you know who's performing coming up, and I want to be out there. I believe it's like the 12th or something, but we'll look at. We'll check it while we go to break. Sounds good.
00:46:51.070 --> 00:46:51.730 Judi Lach Veeck: Sounds good.
00:46:51.730 --> 00:46:53.110 Tommy DiMisa: Alright, Judy, we'll be right back.
00:48:32.370 --> 00:48:52.099 Tommy DiMisa: The Long Island music and Entertainment Hall of Fame was founded 20 years ago by a group of passionate music enthusiasts, and has evolved into a physical establishment, opening its doors in 2022, and welcoming 20,000 visitors. The Hall has seen tremendous growth and is still growing to date. The organization has inducted more than 130 musicians
00:48:52.100 --> 00:49:10.590 Tommy DiMisa: and music industry executives. They offer educational programs, scholarships to Long Island students and recognize music educators in the annual educator of note award. Obviously, we talked at length about the Billy Joel exhibit. So you got to get out and check that out. You're open. How many is it every day of the week.
00:49:10.590 --> 00:49:12.130 Judi Lach Veeck: Closed. Monday and Tuesday.
00:49:12.130 --> 00:49:13.580 Tommy DiMisa: Well, Monday and Tuesday. Alright.
00:49:13.580 --> 00:49:19.769 Judi Lach Veeck: I just have to give a shout out because you mentioned the educator of note, and we're actually having a ceremony tomorrow.
00:49:19.770 --> 00:49:20.440 Tommy DiMisa: Okay.
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:25.569 Judi Lach Veeck: For a rocky point. Teacher, Craig Knapp, so we're proud of that.
00:49:25.820 --> 00:49:29.319 Tommy DiMisa: Got out. Craig Knapp. Congratulations. I'm Tommy D. Hi Craig.
00:49:29.680 --> 00:49:50.150 Tommy DiMisa: Catholic Health Pseng, and then the Claire Friedlander Foundation country carpet, the d'adario Foundation, Hogling group, etc. There's a bunch more on the website. If you go to sponsors, you can check out those groups. So that's important, because it's all about that connection between the for-profit nonprofit. Let's talk about what goes on on Sundays, the concert series. Let's talk about that.
00:49:50.150 --> 00:50:18.629 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah, we every Sunday we have a concert at 3 Pm. And it can be an established band, an established individual, or up and coming, and you mentioned about your daughter, and that's actually a Cameron Quinlan. And she's, I think, 17. So it's just a great. It's great for for young artists to. It's a place for them to come out, and people just on a Sunday afternoon to listen.
00:50:18.820 --> 00:50:25.049 Tommy DiMisa: I love that. And I'm trying to pull up on the website. So I got the concert calendar. So you have actually.
00:50:25.210 --> 00:50:28.040 Tommy DiMisa: let's see, let's see, February 1st
00:50:29.430 --> 00:50:31.769 Tommy DiMisa: is that actually, February 1st is tomorrow. That's the event.
00:50:31.770 --> 00:50:34.090 Judi Lach Veeck: And that's our educator of note.
00:50:34.090 --> 00:50:34.889 Tommy DiMisa: Break, now.
00:50:34.890 --> 00:50:35.530 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes.
00:50:35.530 --> 00:50:39.340 Tommy DiMisa: And Craig. Let's just go down. When would Sunday be the second
00:50:40.970 --> 00:50:49.899 Tommy DiMisa: tribute to Queen? Oh, this is oh, this is actually the whole con. This is not just your stuff. You have a Long Island concert calendar, not just stuff that you have. So you're talking.
00:50:49.900 --> 00:50:52.089 Judi Lach Veeck: Yeah, there's ours is on maybe another page.
00:50:52.090 --> 00:51:07.250 Tommy DiMisa: I'll find out. But you see, like you're showing stuff at the Paramount, the patch theater till the center. That's really cool, because you're a hub for what's going on on Long Island in the music world. So that's that's really important stuff. I'll find that. And we'll what was the young lady's name? Cameron? Quinley.
00:51:07.250 --> 00:51:08.290 Judi Lach Veeck: Cameron, Quinlan.
00:51:08.290 --> 00:51:18.350 Tommy DiMisa: Aaron Quinlan. We're going to come out and see you, my daughter and I, because I'm excited to to, just as I say, have her. I don't think, aside from like neighborhood stuff.
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:26.549 Judi Lach Veeck: I haven't taken my kids to to a concert yet. They haven't been to a concert. Yeah, they want. They want to see Taylor swift. Obviously they want to see like.
00:51:26.670 --> 00:51:34.080 Tommy DiMisa: I think, Sza, I think my other daughter wants to see Sza. I'm not. I've been to many, many concerts, and I'm just not sure
00:51:34.250 --> 00:51:36.640 Tommy DiMisa: there's a lot that goes on at a concert.
00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:41.480 Tommy DiMisa: Oh, so a concert in your place, I think, is where we start. I think.
00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:43.434 Judi Lach Veeck: I think that's a good start.
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:47.967 Tommy DiMisa: A good entryway into seeing some some live stuff for sure.
00:51:48.770 --> 00:51:49.260 Tommy DiMisa: But I'm.
00:51:49.260 --> 00:52:05.569 Judi Lach Veeck: I also, I want to throw out there while we're talking about this, all we're doing our 1st film festival this year. So that's something exciting in August, August. I think it's 8th through 10.th And it's a documentary film festival. So it's our inaugural. Our 1st time doing this so.
00:52:05.570 --> 00:52:10.050 Tommy DiMisa: And what and and do the documentaries are they gonna be connected to music? Is that.
00:52:10.050 --> 00:52:11.820 Judi Lach Veeck: Music, documentaries, yes.
00:52:11.820 --> 00:52:13.360 Tommy DiMisa: Oh, my God, I mean, yeah. So I just.
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:18.600 Judi Lach Veeck: It's our 1st time, so it'll be interesting to see how that rolls. So we're excited to offer that.
00:52:18.810 --> 00:52:41.019 Tommy DiMisa: All for entries. Deadline may 1st on film freeway. This is all on the website gang. When you talk about the organization, you and the founders and the board. Do you call it Limehof? Because that's the acronym, because that's where I'm seeing it, and it even says LIME. HOF. Music, Documentary Film Festival. Is it kind of nicknamed Limehof? Do you guys say that or no?
00:52:41.020 --> 00:52:53.659 Judi Lach Veeck: You know, I think. Yes, that's the nickname I haven't, because I'm the Newbie. I still call the Hall of Fame. So when I come back on in in a few years, maybe I'll be saying it.
00:52:53.660 --> 00:53:07.260 Tommy DiMisa: I'll have a good. Don't threaten me with a good time saying you're coming back on the show. You know I'm going to do 5,000 episodes of this here program. So I was talking to somebody yesterday, actually our friend Vanessa Beard Streeter, who's at the Health and Welfare Council, Long island.
00:53:07.510 --> 00:53:20.289 Tommy DiMisa: I was like, Look, man, we gotta get you on social. I know Tommy DI know. And I know. I said, I know you're busy. I said, I'm gonna hit 200 episodes next month. So somewhere between 205,000, you just gotta find an hour of your data. One time.
00:53:20.290 --> 00:53:21.625 Judi Lach Veeck: There you go!
00:53:22.070 --> 00:53:42.239 Tommy DiMisa: So you got a long time to figure that. But I'd love to have you back, and and you know I love for me. It's like, you know, like seeing you last night. Seeing our other friends last night in the nonprofit sector is critically important that we support each other for these events and things like that. So look, do I like the fact that I get hugs all where, everywhere I go? Of course I do. So that's like. So I like to have more and more friends. So it's.
00:53:42.240 --> 00:53:42.819 Judi Lach Veeck: You go.
00:53:42.820 --> 00:53:48.339 Tommy DiMisa: That's important. But it's all for a great cause for all these important organizations. You know.
00:53:48.530 --> 00:53:58.270 Tommy DiMisa: arts and culture is critically important for us as a society, and we sometimes like when even I'll give you an example from my understanding of the Long Island. Imagine awards
00:53:59.100 --> 00:54:20.300 Tommy DiMisa: for years in the beginning of the imagine awards. There was not an arts and culture category. There was, you know, and the arts and culture organizations, when they were in same categories as other organizations had a difficult time, because when you're solving food, insecurity, and solving homelessness and dealing with people's health, sometimes these organizations, you know, got
00:54:20.310 --> 00:54:34.019 Tommy DiMisa: move to the side. But that's why, with the imagine awards, I think it's important that the arts and culture category is so important because you and I know this in our schools, in certain communities, there's less money for these types of resources, less money for these programs. Right?
00:54:34.020 --> 00:54:34.710 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes.
00:54:34.710 --> 00:54:35.069 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah.
00:54:35.430 --> 00:54:53.340 Judi Lach Veeck: And yeah, so that's why it's so important. You know, we're looking to to sponsors, to individuals, if to come and see and enjoy. And if they have, if they're able to give and to support, because I would love. You know I have a passion to
00:54:53.450 --> 00:55:16.389 Judi Lach Veeck: to get stuff out to communities that don't have the opportunity. Underrepresented schools, underrepresented communities. I really, I want to grow the Hall of Fame. So we can offer programs to a school district that may not be able to come otherwise. So for individuals companies that want to help us support that. I welcome you to come and and we'll chat
00:55:16.750 --> 00:55:18.960 Judi Lach Veeck: and get some exciting stuff going.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:34.490 Tommy DiMisa: Here's what we're gonna do. You and I sort of threatened each other. We were going to get together and do this, and I think we should do it in is have some sort of networking. I don't know what this word. I'm not even sure I know what this word means. I'll google it. But soiree! Well, we have a little bit of folks come through. And again, I'm sure I'm not.
00:55:34.490 --> 00:55:54.329 Tommy DiMisa: I'm sure I'm not blazing any trails. I'm sure you guys have utilized the space that space that way before. However, right, we haven't had Tommy d part of it. So I would love to bring people in my world I'd love to. I told you this when we met in person. Love to bring the nonprofit resource hub through gang. If you don't know. Nonprofit resource hub go to nonprofitresourcehub.org.
00:55:54.380 --> 00:55:58.330 Tommy DiMisa: and would love to do. Maybe you know, a networking event. In fact, February 10.
00:55:58.330 --> 00:55:59.579 Judi Lach Veeck: Do it definitely.
00:55:59.580 --> 00:56:08.469 Tommy DiMisa: February 10.th We're doing something at the Long Island Children's Museum. Nyrekia White mentioned that to me last night at the event, and it'd be really cool to do something out by you guys, because it's fun.
00:56:08.470 --> 00:56:08.950 Judi Lach Veeck: Yes.
00:56:08.950 --> 00:56:15.249 Tommy DiMisa: Cool place. It's our hometown, Strong Island baby. Where do we? What do we leave them with any final words? You have.
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:30.770 Judi Lach Veeck: You know. Just I welcome people to come, come out and visit us and check us out and come see the Billy Joel Museum, the Billy Joel exhibit. It is there at this point till the end of March, so come on over and go check it out.
00:56:30.770 --> 00:56:33.220 Judi Lach Veeck: What are you waiting for gang. Let's go.
00:56:33.220 --> 00:56:34.170 Judi Lach Veeck: Let's go.
00:56:34.220 --> 00:56:43.800 Tommy DiMisa: Let's go uptown, girl. Let's go, man, all right. Check it out. This show is philanthropy and focus. I am the nonprofit sector, connector. Judy, thank you for being here.
00:56:44.070 --> 00:56:44.650 Judi Lach Veeck: Thank you.
00:56:44.650 --> 00:56:45.970 Tommy DiMisa: Latch, vec.
00:56:46.120 --> 00:56:47.410 Judi Lach Veeck: You got it.
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:50.220 Tommy DiMisa: Out there. I did it very slowly and intensely.
00:56:51.180 --> 00:57:16.389 Tommy DiMisa: This is your boy, Tommy D. I'm signing out. I got to go. Do 3. Don't. 4 more shows this. I don't got to. I get to go do 4 more shows this afternoon. I'm fired up. I appreciate you all tuning in. If you need me, Tommy d at philanthropyandfocus.com, or hit me up on the Instagram Tommy d dot nyc the nonprofit sector Connector, or ending the stigma together on Instagram. This has been another in focus production. Thanks, folks make it a great day bye. Now.
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