Kafi Benz (born 1941) is an American author and artist who began participation in social entrepreneurship through environmental preservation and regional planning in 1959 as a member of the Jersey Jetport Site Association, which opposed plans by the New York Port Authority to found a new airport in the Great Swamp, the central feature of a massive 55 square mile watershed in New Jersey bounded to the south and east by the Watchung Mountains, 25 miles west of Manhattan.[1]
During the 1980s she also became very active in historic preservation, founding a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, Friends of Seagate Inc., for that purpose. The organization later was expanded to include concerns for additional areas in the arts and sciences. At the same time she founded the official web site of the sculptor Jim Gary. In 2001 it was moved to another web site she created that may feature other artists as well, Kafi Benz Productions.[2]
- ^ Great Swamp in New Jersey, Donated to Government as Wildlife Area, to be Dedicated Archived September 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, May 25, 1964, P.N.46917-64
- ^ Kafi Benz Productions is a web site that in 2001 succeeded the Jim Gary Web Site by Kafi Benz