The East End Women’s Network has chosen Regina as their Woman of the Year.

The East End Women’s Network brings together women of diverse accomplishment and experience, directing women into policy-making positions through the dissemination and sharing of career opportunities; to educate members and the public on issues affecting women on the East End; and to promote the interests, conditions and positions of women in science, business, industry, labor, government, the arts, education and public service.

Regina will be the recipient of the Hon. Geraldine A. Ferraro Award at the Nassau Women’s Democratic Caucus and East End Dem Women PAC . The Hon. Geraldine A. Ferraro award will be bestowed upon Assemblywoman Michelle Schimmel and Regina M. Calcaterra. Featured speakers include Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, the Hon. Judith Jacobs and the Hon. Vivian Viloria Fischer.

The Smithtwon Democratic Club (a town where Regina lived with her siblings during her youth) has asked Regina to speak before the club in honor or Women’s History Month. Regina happily takes advantage of any opportunity to swing by the St, James Elementary School, Branch Brook School, the St. James General Store and Cordwood Beach.

Regina was asked by Gene Moreno, a Centereach High School (CHS) teacher, to serve as the Keynote Speaker to CHS Women’s History Month Celebration after she read that Regina was grateful to her CHS teachers for their help in inspiring her to go college. Regina was told that her “personal story is both inspirational and unique in that she beat all the odds” and became a female role model. Regina is looking forward to returning to CHS for the first time since she graduated in 1984.

Regina has been asked to speak at several Rotary Clubs on Long Island regarding her experiences growing up in Suffolk County foster care, aging out parentless and the need to get older foster children adopted through You Gotta Believe. Regina is a Board Member of You Gotta Believe, an award winning organization that gets older foster children adopted thus preventing them from facing the perils of homelessness.

Annually across the US, at least 20,000 to 40,000 teens are discharged from foster across alone with no place to go. As you can imagine, the circumstances these teens face are often perilous, and many end up homeless, incarcerated or worse- but there is a solution! You Gotta Believe!

Please come to our benefit to meet the extraordinary team from You Gotta Believe,the national teen adoption movement. You will learn how this non-profit is addressing the teen homelessness crisis by finding permanent families for teens here in New York and across the country.

In celebration of You Gotta Believe’s 15th Anniversary – I will be joining You Gotta Believe and Bravo’s Real Housewife of New York Countess Luann de Lesseps in ringing NASDAQ’s closing bell

You Gotta Believe and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Star of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York, to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell
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What:

You Gotta Believe, a non-profit organization committed to finding adoptive parents for pre-teens, teens and young adults, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square to celebrate its 15th year anniversary, which will take place on October 19th at CIBO Restaurant (767 Second Ave in New York City – 6:30-9:30pm).

In honor of the occasion Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, star of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York” and the recipient of You Gotta Believe’s Humanitarian Award at their Believer’s Benefit, will officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET

Company Contact

Pete Sanders
(646) 430-5643
psanders@js2comm.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

The entire Closing Bell is available from 3:50 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. on AMC-3/C-3 (dl 3760H). The feed can also be found on Ascent fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact Jen Knapp (212) 401-8916.

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Close, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market close of your choice.

About You Gotta Believe:

Founded in 1994, You Gotta Believe was started by Pat O’Brien and a group of adoptive parents of teens and young people who had aged out of foster care. You Gotta Believe has successfully placed over 400 teens with permanent families, and trained hundreds of prospective parents with their combination approach of general recruiting methods and their own developed “Finding Families Model”. To date, You Gotta Believe remains as the only organization in the United States with its sole mission to find permanent adoptive homes for teens. In continuing its mission, You Gotta Believe has recently developed its 2015 vision to place 25% of children aging out of foster care with an unconditionally committed, loving and permanent family. www.yougottabelieve.org
About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx).

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I will be testifying before the NYS Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research & Reapportionment today. My testimony and press release will be published soon on this website under the Policy Perspectives menu in the category of Redistricting.

Regina has been asked to speak at several Rotary Clubs on Long Island regarding her experiences growing up in Suffolk County foster care, aging out parentless and the need to get older foster children adopted through You Gotta Believe. Regina is a Board Member of You Gotta Believe, an award winning organization that gets older foster children adopted thus preventing them from facing the perils of homelessness.

Regina has been asked to speak at several Rotary Clubs on Long Island regarding her experiences growing up in Suffolk County foster care, aging out parentless and the need to get older foster children adopted through You Gotta Believe. Regina is a Board Member of You Gotta Believe, an award winning organization that gets older foster children adopted thus preventing them from facing the perils of homelessness.