Marge Rogatz has been President and full-time unpaid CEO of Community Advocates, Inc. (CA) since 1986. A nonprofit organization founded in 1972, CA has concentrated on addressing homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. CA identifies gaps, inequities and injustices and mobilizes coordinated efforts to initiate and/or strengthen needed resources, programs and services.

 Ms. Rogatz helped found the Nassau-Suffolk Coalition for the Homeless in 1988 and served as an officer and on its executive board for 16 years. Since 1995, she has played a vital role in helping to bring some $70 million in HUD Homeless Assistance grants and other funding to nonprofit housing and service providers in Nassau County. She is a founding board member and officer of ERASE Racism; was a founder and an officer of Sustainable Long Island for 10 years; a founder of the LI Campaign for Affordable Rental Housing; and serves on the board of the Long Island Community Foundation. She serves on the Nassau County Task Force on Homelessness and the Nassau County Panel on Next Generation Housing. In 2007, the Nassau County Executive appointed her Chair of the Nassau County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. In January 2008, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of the State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA) and, in that capacity, she participates in key New York State housing finance and development decisions.

Previously, Ms. Rogatz carried out consulting assignments in fields related to community development and human services for NYC Mayor John Lindsay, Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson and Suffolk County Executive John Klein. She also consulted for NYC Head Start and for community hospitals and organizations in East Harlem and the South Bronx. During the civil rights movement, Ms. Rogatz served as Special Assistant to James Farmer, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).