SAMUEL L. DUNSTON
Samuel Dunston, Sr. is justly proud of his over 50 years of prominence in the insurance and employee benefits fields, but not nearly as proud of the opportunities his prominence brings the people around him. He is, in every sense of the word, a people person.
From his early years as an agent in North Carolina to the founding of his National Allotment Insurance Agency, Ltd., in 1977, an early home-based business, whose solidly steady growth today, places it among the recognized leading outstanding minority-owned and operated businesses in New York metropolitan area, Sam Dunston has been the consummate professional.
It is no accident that he is highly regarded in the business and civic communities; o accident that groups such as Local CWA Union – Local 1182, Local 1707, Local 389, Local 300 and numerous church councils are as eager for his counsel as are the Boards of Directors), to name a few. Sam Dunston works equally as comfortably with the neighborhood client who can afford only $3 a week as he does for an impressive list of companies on his client roster. And what a client roster it is:
Keyspan, Amalgamated Union, Social Concern Community Development Corp., Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, CABS Nursing Home and their affiliates, North General Home Attendant Agency, United States Military Academy at West Point – and the list goes on.
Like the name, National Allotment Insurance Agency, Ltd. Sam Dunston’s approach to the business may be a little misleading. For instance, although they come under the banner of insurance, Sam’s team provides full-service professional expertise in almost every phase of financial services. When a company gets a health or welfare benefits plan from National Allotment, it typically contains more than just the underwriting, actuarial, operational analysis and administrative parameters. Usually, there are cost containment alternatives, record keeping guidelines and employee communications publications and statements.
It may not seem like much, but those are the little extras that catch the eye of the people who value quality – the people who reach out to associate themselves with that person who exemplifies that quality. And who reached out to Sam? In addition to the organizations named above, Sam also serves on the Boards of the Greater New York Chapter of the 100-year-old National Business League, the Brooklyn Hospital Community Advisory Board.
Sam Dunston is highly respected in business and loved and greatly appreciated for all of his civic generosity and compassion throughout the community at large.
“NEVER GIVE UP!”
2004 BENEFITS DIVISION DISTINGUISHE ASSOCIATE
Past Honors
Security Mutual Partnership Conference – 2002
Security Mutual TopFlight Member – 1999
Security Mutual Bronze Medalist – Sales Sprint 1996
Professional Specialization
Worksite Marketing
Education
St. Augustine College, Bachelor of Science Degree
Professional and Charitable Memberships
Lifetime Member of NAACP, Chairman of the Brooklyn Minority & Women Development Chamber of Commerce: Patron Member of CORE; Treasurer of the New York Chapter, National Business League, Board Member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; Charter Member of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce; Member of Bethel Baptist Church; Board Member of Bedford Stuyvesant Kiwanis Club; Advisory Board Member to SBDC Regional Center of Long Island University; Boy Scout Council; The Sports Caster Association, The Brooklyn Hospital, Community Advisory Board, Brooklyn Sports Foundation; Young Men’s Christian Association [YMCA]; Board Member of CABS Nursing Home; Board Member of Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council.
