Hazel Alvarado

Startup Grind is dedicated to fostering the growth of early-stage companies from bootstrapped beginnings through Series A rounds. To give startups everywhere the education and opportunities they need to build, grow, and scale their companies.
Founded in Silicon Valley with 600+ chapters in 125+ countries with 1K+ Team Chapter Members helping 5 mln+ members worldwide!

BCS is committed to ensuring the digital journey is safe and positive for everyone, by raising standards of competence and conduct across the IT industry and tackling the ethical challenges we face along the way.
As a charity with a royal charter, our agenda is to lead the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.

Class Reunion Committee - Planned, organized and executed 4 reunions.

Project Accepted - Mentor since program started in 2014.

Project Accepted is an event devoted to alumni conducting practice college interviews with Bronx Science seniors. Project Accepted is an opportunity for students to meet with alumni for personalized help on how to prepare, practice and finesse their interview skills, develop their personal brand and hone their strategy for applying to college.

Founder & Organizer Emeritus of Books That Make You Go Hmmm…! Meetup
Established February 2011 and passed the Lead Organizer mantle in August 2021
Hosted 126 events with a membership of 3.1k Bibliophiles
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NYC CBS Local as first of 5 Best Book Clubs To Join In New York (2012(
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/5-best-book-clubs-to-join-in-new-york/
Books That Make You Go Hmmm…! Meetup
NYC Meetups
Location changes with each… Show more

Founder & Organizer Emeritus of Books That Make You Go Hmmm…! Meetup
Established February 2011 and passed the Lead Organizer mantle in August 2021
Hosted 126 events with a membership of 3.1k Bibliophiles
.
NYC CBS Local as first of 5 Best Book Clubs To Join In New York (2012(
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/5-best-book-clubs-to-join-in-new-york/
Books That Make You Go Hmmm…! Meetup
NYC Meetups
Location changes with each Meetup
meetup.com/HmmmBooks

For those with eclectic tastes, this book club reads selections from such varied authors as Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. With 991 members as of this writing, there are sure to be some intriguing viewpoints. Members rave about the wonderful balance between deep, insightful discussion about the books and time spent just socializing. Check out the website to see when and where the next meetup is. Show less

The Water of Life charity event is an annual charity whisky event with proceeds supporting The Life Raft Group (LRG).
The LRG has a simple focus: to cure a form of cancer — gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) — and to help those living with it through research, patient support & education, and advocacy.

Annual whisky charity event with proceeds going towards a charity dedicated to the research and cure for Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
From the American Cancer Society:
GISTs is a type of cancer that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract and belongs to a class of diseases called sarcomas. The exact number of people diagnosed with these tumors each year is not known. Until the late 1990s, not much was known about these tumors (and doctors didn’t have good ways of identifying… Show more

Annual whisky charity event with proceeds going towards a charity dedicated to the research and cure for Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
From the American Cancer Society:
GISTs is a type of cancer that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract and belongs to a class of diseases called sarcomas. The exact number of people diagnosed with these tumors each year is not known. Until the late 1990s, not much was known about these tumors (and doctors didn’t have good ways of identifying them with lab tests), so many of them ended up being classified as other kinds of GI cancers. Show less

Coordinated race team
Hosted fundraising events (bake sale, guest bartending)

The Gloria Awards is the Ms. Foundation for Women’s largest annual event, celebrating activists, innovators, and philanthropists who ignite policy and culture change on behalf of women and their communities nationwide.

Named after the Ms. Foundation's Co-Founder Gloria Steinem, the event pays tribute to the remarkable achievements of those moving us toward our shared vision of a just and inclusive democracy.

~400 guests enjoyed this annual celebration and over $750,000 was raised.