34. Nancy Rauch Douzinas

She oversees the dispersal, almost entirely to LI organizations, of roughly a million dollars annually from the nonprofit Rauch Foundation, established with family wealth, for families and children, the environment and leadership development. For comparison, the largest secular human-services organizations in Nassau and Suffolk give less than $500,000 in goods and services each year. PRAISE the power of her purse. FEAR that the resources might run dry.