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A COMMUNITY OF LEADERSNORTH STAR FUND | 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

A COMMUNITY OF LEADERSNORTH STAR FUND | 2010 ANNUAL REPORT

North Star Fund is New York City’s community foundation working to create a city rooted in the values of equality, economic justice and peace. By connecting with and inspiring donors, raising money for grants, and providing technical assistance, we foster community leadership and build grassroots movements to achieve lasting social change.

North Star Fund has just completed one of its best years ever.

Our success is the result of the commitment and generosity of our donor community. Their support helped make possible the many significant victories that our grantee community achieved on a range of issues highlighted in the pages that follow.

In this year’s annual report, we take a moment to hear from several key leaders of our donor community. Their diverse backgrounds and experiences are inspiring, and their shared perspectives help us imagine a better New York and a better world — and why giving through North Star Fund will help to get us there.

Dear Friend,

How did a new organization of domestic workers find sustained support

to get the nation’s first ever statewide law devoted to safeguarding their

basic workplace protections?

Where did an organization find solace and support after they’d spent

years getting a bill safeguarding housing for people with HIV / AIDS

through an often dysfunctional state legislature, only to have the

Governor veto it at the last moment?

And where did a group of formerly incarcerated women, who were

forced to endure the humiliation of giving birth while shackled to

the delivery table, turn to finance a campaign to end this horrible

practice in state prisons?

The answer is North Star Fund. Thanks to all those who were part of

our donor community over the past year — and there were more than

500 of you giving at every level. Together, we not only weathered the

fundraising challenges of a continued recession, we provided grants

and technical assistance totalling $2,559,539 to 124 groups doing

critical social justice work.

I am delighted to report that this summer, North Star Fund’s leadership

team completed our new strategic grantmaking vision after many

months of work — you’ll find details inside. Our plan is rooted in the

lessons learned from 30 years as New York’s community foundation

supporting new and emerging grassroots activist groups. In the decade

ahead, North Star Fund will make an even deeper investment in strong

leadership in every neighborhood of New York City, and in the ability

of the groups in those neighborhoods to work together.

Please know how deeply your involvement matters. We hope you will

find time to join us in person in the coming year to share your ideas,

network, and learn about activists on the ground who every day, with

head, heart and bullhorn, are taking on City Hall so we all feel proud

to call New York home.

All the best,

Hugh Hogan

Executive Director

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One of our “Lessons at 30” reported in last year’s annual report was the importance of investing in leaders with vision and skill. As we put the final touches on a new grantmaking vision and plan this fall, we also wanted to celebrate some of the outstanding donor leaders who make our work possible. All are activists in their own right. And they are at the heart of who we are as an organization: a growing community of New Yorkers committed heart and soul to helping those pushed to the margins to stand up and get heard. They are:

MARIA CASTANEDA

Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU1199

North Star Fund donor since 2010

BARBARA WINSLOW

Professor, Brooklyn College

Director and Founder,

Shirley Chisholm Center for

Brooklyn Women’s Activism


KATRINA SCHAFFER

Instructional Assistant,

Lexington School for the Deaf

Board Co-Chair,

Resource Generation


ARVA RICE

CEO, New York Urban League

North Star Fund Donor since 2002

VINCENT MCGEE

Senior Advisor,

Atlantic Philanthropies


VICTOR QUINTANA

Senior Program Officer,

Unitarian Universalist Veatch

Program at Shelter Rock


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ARVA RICE

I woke up being the grandchild of sharecroppers — my parents picked

cotton in Arkansas. When you wake up with that background and

experience, it propels you to try to make a change and to be committed

to that change. You wonder why your parents had the experience that

they did, versus somebody else’s parents. And you try to make your own

life better, but also to work on changing the conditions so that people

wake up closer to an equal footing.

That’s what initially attracted me to North Star Fund. North Star

brings people together. It gives folks a sense of what positive leadership

looks like. It provides people with the concrete skills to become

better leaders.

MARIA CASTANEDA

Growing up in the Philippines in the 1970s, in Quezon

City near Manila, my parents always inculcated in us

the values of respect and the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto

others that which you would want others to do unto

you.’ When I was growing up, our country was in social

turmoil. There was a lot of activism against government

corruption and multinationals getting tax breaks while

the workers didn’t have the right to organize, to strike,

or to collectively bargain.

When I came to New York, I became a volunteer for the Philippine

Center for Immigrant Rights, a community organization that was

supported by North Star Fund. As part of my networking, I linked

up with SEIU1199, who eventually hired me as an organizer.

VICTOR QUINTANA

I attribute my political and personal transformation to the United States

Marine Corps. It was in 1967 when I was 18 years old and had just

finished a year of college. I decided that college was not where I wanted

to be. So I joined the Marine Corps because I thought that fighting for

my country and pursuing my manhood by being a warrior was the

way to go. Growing up in Harlem, I hadn’t faced American racism in

its rawest form. A group of us were sent together from New York City

Rally on June 17, 2010 to urge Governor

Paterson to sign the Domestic Workers Bill

of Rights into law. Credit: Brian Palmer

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to travel to Parris Island, South Carolina to boot camp.

When we arrived, this white staff sergeant, a short guy,

a southerner, got on board and just started ranting and

raving at us. “You niggers and spics: you’re now mine.

Get off my bus.” Then, when I got shipped to Vietnam,

all I kept hearing was, “Gook this, gook that.”

When I came back to school in 1969, I reflected on my Vietnam

experience and the reasons that had driven me to join the Marine

Corps. I started paying attention to the arguments against the

war. And I saw that I had been deceived.

I became a student activist and joined with other Puerto Rican students

organizing for a Puerto Rican studies department. Then I became

involved with groups organizing in the community around issues like

poverty, inadequate housing and poor education. The activism of that

time was very energized and very political. In a sense it had a lot of

Utopian thinking. But it also had very focused demands.

I joined North Star Fund’s community funding board in the early 1980s.

That was my first exposure to philanthropy. The board involves activists

and organizers who are trying to build sustainable organizations while

waging campaigns to transform public policy and structures. It gave

me a real sense of what was happening in the city beyond what I was

personally involved in.

VINCENT MCGEE

My concern for social justice grew from

family, school and church. As I grew

up, I experienced people who professed

religion but who also had racist views,

and that shocked me into wondering,

“Well, how do you change that?” My

commitment to theories about peace or

justice were challenged by the reality

of the working world and then by the

Vietnam War. I went to the University of

Rochester at the height of the movement

to stop that war. The president of the

Press conference for the Dream Act at Staten

Island Borough Hall, organized by El Centro del

Inmigrante, June 21, 2010. Credit: Brian Palmer

university praised me on the front page of the Rochester papers for

being a student leader organizing others who wanted a religious

studies department.

Four months later, when I burned my draft card, the president wanted

to get me expelled. The dean of my division said to him, “Do you want

to read your comments about Vinny on the front page of the Democrat

and Chronicle several months ago? He’s following his conscience.”

In the 1970s, young people of wealth around the country

began to organize their own public foundations. North

Star Fund was one of them. I was friendly with the early

founders, especially Toby D’Oench, Obie Benz, Anne

Hess, Martin Bunzl and Shelley Korman. They were

very serious, very careful, and effective. I was an early

donor, and have continued to give through the years.

I think North Star’s current leadership is seizing the

moment and will take the foundation to a bigger volume

of grantmaking and a stronger articulation of the values

we all feel are important.

BARBARA WINSLOW

I grew up privileged — in Scarsdale, New York. I wasn’t fond of growing

up there, and rebelled. I supported Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic

candidate for President of the United States in 1952, when almost

everyone around me supported Eisenhower. I opposed the death penalty

in my sixth grade school debate, where I was roundly booed. For the

Feminist Memoir Project (Three Rivers Press, 1998), I wrote that I was

an “alienated mess of contradictions.”

In 1961, I set off for Antioch College, a progressive independent school,

where I found people who were involved in social justice struggles.

The 60s were the catalyst for my involvement in progressive social

change. I was involved in the civil rights movement, the anti-war and

students’ movement, and women’s movement. Everybody I know who

was involved in the 60s has stayed engaged in different ways . I came

to North Star in the 1980’s, where I was welcomed as an activist and a

donor — and did not have to feel guilty that I am both.

Toby D

’

Oench, Marc Weiss, Vincent

McGee and Anne Hess at the 2008

Community Gala. Credit: Brian Palmer

In 2004, North Star Fund quickly raised

$55,000 for the historic peace marches

organized by United for Peace and Justice.

Credit: Amy Ponce

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KATRINA SCHAFFER

I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. They are very quiet,

very conservative. But I credit my parents, especially my mother, for

giving me a different perspective about the world. My mom grew up in

the countryside of Germany. She came to the United States because

she wanted a better life as a woman than the one that was presented to

her there. Alongside that, my youngest sister is a person with cerebral

palsy and other special needs. Growing up, I watched my mother and

father become advocates for my sister’s life and watched my sister’s

determination and ambition to lead the life she wants come up against

the way society treats people with special needs. My mom also instilled

in me the values of kindness and patience, of being able to listen to

people and hear their experience, of bringing passion and heart to my

work and the issues I care about. Thanks to her, and my whole family,

I can see issues that affect my own life, and then relate those to issues

that affect other people more directly.

Since the first day that I stepped into New York City, I’ve heard North

Star Fund’s name. Over and over, I found that the most exciting work

that was being done in New York had received both start-up funding

and continuing support from North Star. So when I was ready to be

more involved with supporting local efforts, North Star Fund was the

first group I turned to.

Members and staff of Rights for

Imprisoned People with Psychiatric

Disabilities (RIPPD) before a rally at

City Hall Park. Credit: Amy Ponce

“For many years, North Star Fund has helped to seed innovative new

projects that other funders wouldn’t take the risk on. As a result, the

groups we have supported have become stronger and more effective

base-building community organizing groups. With these new guidelines,

North Star can support groups at multiple stages of their development —

not just start-ups.”

— Kevin RyanNorth Star Fund board member Program Officer, New York Foundation

2010 GRANT CATEGORIES

Grassroots Action Grants North Star Fund will continue to award

half of our activist-led grantmaking dollars as grants of $5,000

and $10,000 to new, emerging groups who are reaching out through

the tools of community organizing to engage more community

people as leaders and grassroots activists in New York City’s most

marginalized communities.

Movement Leadership Grants A centerpiece of our new grants vision,

$50,000 grants over two years will make a deeper investment of general

support in effective organizations that have already shown a strong

record of success in their community organizing work.

Innovative Activ ism Grants A new grant category that continues a

hallmark of North Star’s support for grassroots groups, these $10,000

grants will support social justice work beyond community organizing

including cultural, art and media projects, as well as resources for

activism and community organizing.

Grassroots Strategy Grants Another new category, members of our

community funding committee will now be able to invest in a great

campaign idea to achieve concrete change. These $15,000 grants will

enable groups to access additional research, legal, media, policy and

organizing expertise at a critical strategic moment.

Building Leadership & Movements

OUR EXPANDED GRANTMAKING VISION

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BARBARA WINSLOW

North Star Fund keeps the idea of social justice alive. It’s not a passive

foundation. It wants to build organizations that take on the issue of

social, economic and political inequality and the idea that it’s inequality

that makes urban life difficult and violent. By supporting organizations,

we empower individuals. We allow people to see that they can make

change — that they can have more control over their own lives and the

lives of families and friends.

VICTOR QUINTANA

The role that North Star has played, is playing, and will continue to

play is to support those emerging groups that are trying to address the

problems of the day. It’s about housing. It’s about employment. It’s about

discrimination. It’s about fair treatment. It’s about incarceration and

poverty. The issues don’t change. They manifest themselves differently

in different periods and I think the strength of North Star has always

been to support the groups that are emerging in new communities

with new strategies and that have a fresh take on how to solve these

persistent problems.

ARVA RICE

If North Star doesn’t continue to support

the folks who are left behind and left

out, then who’s going to do it? Through

North Star, we can be the first donors

and the first people to bring attention

and resources to those folks who are at

the frontline of making change at the

community level. For instance, North

Star was the first foundation to fund

AIDS activism when no one else would

touch it — no one. North Star continues to

create that space where donors can come

together and realize that they really

are leaders.

Staff and members of New York City AIDS

Housing Network (NYCAHN) / VOCAL.

Credit: BJ Formento

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VINCENT MCGEE

New York is a very important place because of the role it

plays in the country — and the world. It always amazes

me that things that what we and others support in New

York City come to our attention more often from people

elsewhere in the country who are watching what goes on

here. New York is so complicated and sometimes so torn

up by competition and politics that good things get lost.

My hope is that the work that North Star funds in New

York will play a role in a bigger vision of the world and

what justice means.

KATRINA SCHAFFER

North Star continues to look for cutting edge groups and smaller

groups that would struggle to find funding — groups that are doing

really creative and difficult things through the framework of

community organizing. It already has that history of finding ‘gems

in the rough’ and giving them start up funding. But one thing that

I find especially exciting is the move towards greater collaboration

among organizations. There is so much more power when groups

come together to overlap, share, network and work collectively.

And North Star has taken the lead in supporting those kinds of

collaborations among groups.

Rally and vigil for immigration reform

at Staten Island Borough Hall.

Grantee participants included El Centro

del Inmigrante, Make the Road NY

and Eye Openers. Credit: Brian Palmer

Jason Franklin, a North Star Fund board member and executive

director of Bolder Giving, puts it succinctly: “None of us is going

to change the situation of inequality in New York City by ourselves.

But rather than saying, ‘I can’t change it; I won’t do anything,’

say, I can’t change it alone. But I’ll take one step with others.’”

North Star Fund’s donor programs provide a space for donors to

connect and network with each other, as well as the work of our

grantees. Through briefings, exchanges and events, donors have

an opportunity to interact with New York’s most creative and effective

grassroots community organizing groups. And through workshops

on socially responsible investing, wealth management and estate

planning, they learn innovative approaches to managing their assets

to support social change.

North Star Fund needs your leadership. To learn about opportunities

to get involved, sign up for our email newsletter on our website.

You’ll learn what our grantees are doing and what our supporters are

thinking. And you’ll be notified about North Star Fund workshops

and events.

Deepening Donor Involvement and Leadership in Social Justice

OUR DONOR PROGRAMS

Members and staff of Brandworkers

International, winners of the 2010

North Star Frederick Douglass Award.

Credit: Brian Palmer

At the 2010 Community Gala,

Left to Right: William vanden Heuvel,

Katrina vanden Heuvel, and

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Credit: Carolina Kroon

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Yvonne Moore (left), Director of the Daphne Foundation,

makes a point at funders briefing on families and poverty

held at our offices. Credit: Miriam Fogelson

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NORTH STAR FUND GRANTEE

Led by Domestic

Workers United,

working with

DAMAYAN,

Adhikaar, Haitian

Women for Haitian

Refugees, Andolan

THE WIN

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Enforceable state

law provides for

a standard work

day, overtime

pay, disability

benefits, a day of

rest, and workplace

protections against

harassment.

NORTH STAR FUND GRANTEE

Mothers on the

Move (MOM)

THE PROBLEM

A fertilizer plant

processing toxic

sludge generates

harmful fumes,

affecting nearby

residential

neighborhoods.

In the Way: New York Organic

Fertilizer Com-

pany, an indiffer-

ent polluter, more

concerned about

profits than people.

THE WIN

Operations halted for review at a polluting facility in the South Bronx

South Bronx

residents can again

open their windows

and enjoy being

outside. A local

park will be

expanded and

improved.

OUR DONORS MADE IT HAPPEN

Women on the Rise

Telling HerStory

(WORTH)

New Immigrant

Community

Empowerment

(NICE)

New York City AIDS

Housing Network

(NYCAHN) /

VOCAL

THE PROBLEM

Many domestic work-

ers work long hours

with no overtime

pay, no days off, and

without protection

against verbal and

physical abuse.

In the Way: Decades

of workers fair treat-

ment laws that left

out domestic work-

ers. State legislators

hostile to immigrant

workers and labor

rights.

Incarcerated

women forced

to give birth while

chained to the

delivery table.

In the Way: Entrenched

practices at the

state Department

of Correctional

Services.

An entrenched

political bureaucra-

cy actively hostile

to efforts to

increase civic

engagement in low

income and

immigrant

communities.

In the Way: Historically low

voting turn-out

in the Latino

immigrant

community.

People living with

HIV / AIDS can pay

upwards of 70% of

their income on

housing, leaving

little left over for

medical treatment

and personal care.

In the Way: Municipalities not

realizing that this

is a cost-saving

measure.

Anti-Shackling Law

Safety and dignity

for women, and

children born

with respect.

Mobilizing 1000 Voters in Queens District 25

A progressive

candidate with

strong ties to the

Latino community

was elected by a

margin of

600 votes.

State legislature passes bill limiting housing costs to 30% of income for New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS

While Governor

Paterson vetoed this

bill, it has a strong

chance of becoming

law by 2012. People

will be able to stay

in their homes and

out of shelters, pro-

tecting their health

and saving taxpayers

millions of dollars.

NY / NJ Teamsters

for a Democratic

Union

Arab Women in

the Arts and Media

(AWAAM) and New

York City Labor-

Religion Coalition

Movement for

Justice in el Barrio

Previous leadership

negotiated conces-

sionary contracts

that allowed employ-

ers to hire tiers of

low-wage employees

who received no

pension or benefit

contribution.

In the Way: Union officials

uninterested in

organizing or

vigorous contract

enforcement.

Students forced

to choose between

school and

their culture.

In the Way: Mayoral veto.

Incompetent

management

company.

In the Way: Multinational

corporation

gentrifying East

Harlem.

Stronger Teamster Local 814 Leadership

Restored health

care benefits and

increases in wages.

City Council passes resolution to recog-nize two important Muslim sacred days as official school holidays

While Mayor

Bloomberg vetoed

the bill, the 50

to 1 City Council

approval suggests

eventual passage,

another step for

respecting religious

equality and fair

treatment for

all New Yorkers.

Bad management fired for 47 buildings in East Harlem

Through strong

community

organizing and

legal enforcement,

more than 1,100

families will have

better affordable

housing.

Grantee Wins in 2009 / 2010

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BARBARA WINSLOW

I believe in leadership by example, meaning you just can’t tell

somebody, “Give money.” I think of all the donors we have honored

over the past many years, all of them are also politically engaged.

They understand the problems of building an organization that fights

against homelessness. Or for daycare. Or for reproductive rights.

Or for lesbian and gay rights — because these honorees

have been working on these issues as well. That’s what

makes North Star donors unique.

I’ve been involved in creating the largest archive of

materials about Shirley Chisholm, who was the first

African-American woman elected to Congress and

the first woman to mount a serious campaign for the

Democratic nomination for the presidency. A very

gutsy woman. I would like to believe that everybody

has the potential to be a leader in their own right —

you don’t have to be a Shirley Chisholm.

Everybody has a potential to make an important

contribution.

VINCENT MCGEE

Donors can be leaders by preaching less and bringing other people

into a discussion of a new issue or a new possibility. Philanthropic

leadership is about patience, listening and trying to meet people where

they are and then working with them to move beyond limitations. I

think it’s important not to wear an “I’m a progressive” badge on your

shirt or on your forehead, but to lead by example, to try to develop

projects or a style of funding that you can invite people into and to

share and to talk about — to make time for people. I’ve had incredible

good fortune to work with people who were leaders ahead of the game

and who were patient enough to sit down and talk with me and work

through some tough issues. A leader in philanthropy finds leaders at

work in communities or organizations and supports them. That’s the

point of social justice philanthropy.

Members and staff of Women on the

Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH),

winners of the 2010 North Star Frederick

Douglass Award. Credit: Carolina Kroon

At a public visioning session held in March,

2010 for the Greening Western Queens Fund.

Credit: Gerard Gaskin

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KATRINA SCHAFFER

I’m co-chair of the board of Resource Generation, an organization

that supports and challenges young people with wealth to develop

critical analysis around the politics of class and social justice issues,

and to figure out how to leverage their money and privilege through

social justice philanthropy. Resource Generation, like North Star, is

an amazing organization and I’ve grown exponentially in all areas

of my life through my involvement there. One of the things I’ve learned

is that the best organizing and leadership comes from within the

community. They’ve lived the problem, and have spent a lot of time

thinking and talking about the solution. So usually, when you think

about people struggling for social justice, it’s about people who are

working to gain access to something that has been denied — such as

healthcare, or civil rights, or a quality education.

The flipside of that situation is the people holding power and privilege

who want to support grassroots community organizing. They, too, can

be leaders in organizing their own community from within. By working

within projects such as Resource Generation and North Star, activists

who also become donors can gain the analysis and education about

what lies at the heart of social justice giving.

VICTOR QUINTANA

I’m a bit older, so I rarely think much in Utopian terms. I think more

about the challenges of the day and how we could address the challenges

that people have around equity and democracy and housing — you know

the concrete stuff. How can we build sustainable institutions that have

the capacity to mobilize people to make life better for

themselves, right now? The key is to build sustainable

organizations and networks and coalitions where people

are engaged, and have the resources to assess their

needs and the needs of their communities, their country

and the world. And I say world because we live in a

globalized reality. We must build organizations that are

knitted together and have the democratic processes and

the action plans to challenge the formidable forces that

have a different agenda than meeting peoples’ needs.

Rally and vigil for immigration

reform at Staten Island Borough Hall.


MARIA CASTANEDA

One quality of a leader that I practice is being a good listener. You

listen to what people say, the issues that they care about, the issues

that are affecting them, and then as a leader you try to

internalize and understand it, and then work with them

to solve the issues. These qualities are learned in the

process of organizing. If you know that the only way that

you can solve a problem is by involving the people who

are directly affected by the problem, then you have to

listen to them, strategize with them, and get them to

take action.

Donors can be leaders in all of those ways. And donors

have influence through their contributions and through

the other resources they bring to bear to support

organizations that have good social justice missions.

ARVA RICE

There’s something that’s really powerful about being able to provide a

financial resource to something that you believe in — to be able to use

the term “donor” for yourself. Yes, we’re volunteers, and we’re activists,

and we’re even leaders. But to use that word “donor” as a person of color

is a powerful word. I think that it’s easier to be a leader within the North

Star community, where you have a group of people who are pulling

together their resources in order to further social change. Sure, you can

be a donor and a change agent individually. But anytime that you can do

anything collectively, it’s stronger. So it follows that doing philanthropy

collectively makes you stronger as well.

At 2010 North Star News Prize,

Hugh Hogan (left) and Gene Carroll

(right). Credit: Brian Palmer

North Star Fund

’

s Community Funding

Committee discusses grant proposals.

Left to Right: Henry Serrano, Jackie Mann,

Kavitha Mediratta, Hildy Karp,

Wanda Imasuen. Credit: Miriam Fogelson

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GENERAL PROGRAM Twice a year, North Star Fund awards New

York

’

s best new and emerging community

groups working in four strategic priority areas:

ENSURING ECONOMIC JUSTICE $15,000

Brandworkers International

DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association

Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project

Metropolitan Council on Housing

Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio

New Immigrant Community Empowerment

(NICE)

Right to the City NYC

VAMOS Unidos

$10,000

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice

Brooklyn Congregations United

Brooklyn Movement Center

Center for Immigrant Families

Committee for Transport Workers’ Rights

El Centro del Inmigrante

Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition

Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees

Housing Here and Now

NY/NJ Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU)

Queens Congregations United for Action

Street Vendor Project

$5,000

Bronx Land Trust

Bushwick Housing Independence Project

Cidadao Global/Global Citizen

Eye Openers: Youth Against Violence

Organization

New York State Youth Leadership Council

New York City Community Garden Coalition

Teachers Unite

ENDING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION $15,000

La Union

Lakou New York

Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric

Disabilities (RIPPD)

Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)

$10,000

Al Awda New York

Center for Urban Pedagogy

Rise Magazine

$5,000

Jahajee Sisters Empowering Indo-Caribbean

Women

Justice Committee

Sistas on the Rise

GRANTMAKING

Sharing ideas for grant programs at Greening

Western Queens Fund public visioning sessions.


PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

$15,000

Families for Freedom

$10,000

Coalition for Parole Restoration

$5,000

AWAAM: Arab Women Active in the Arts

and Media

Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood

Improvement Association

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City

Ojo de Agua, Arte y Producción

SECURING PEACE AND JUSTICE / ENDING MILITARISM

$10,000

Bronx News Network

IndyKids

RAPID RESPONSE Expedited grants that enable groups to

respond quickly to late-breaking events.

Bail Out the People Movement

Brooklyn Congregations United

CHANGER

Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)

Domestic Workers United


La Union

Lakou New York

Make the Road New York

MinKwon Center for Community Action


(NICE)

New York City AIDS Housing

Network (NYCAHN)/VOCAL

New York Immigration Coalition

Picture the Homeless

Public Policy & Education Fund

Three Rivers Community Foundation

Women in Prison Project, The Correctional

Association of New York

SPECIAL INITIATIVE

HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF To provide assistance through grassroots

channels following the January 12

earthquake that devastated Haiti.


US SOCIAL FORUM Funding totalling $30,000 to support leaders

and activists from New York City grassroots

groups to attend the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice

Community Voices Heard

DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association

Domestic Workers United

Families for Freedom

Families United for Racial and Economic

Equality (FUREE)

La Union


Mothers on the Move



(NICE)

People’s Production House

Picture the Homeless

NORTH STAR NEWS PRIZE

Applied Research Center (directed by Rinku Sen)

Bronx Children’s Museum (directed by Ellis Cose)

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DONOR ADVISED GRANTS North Star Fund partners with individual

donors, foundations and businesses to find

and support cutting edge work in line with

our partners

’

giving priorities.

ANONYMOUS

Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS

(APICHA)

Girls Education and Mentoring

Services (GEMS)

Sex Workers Project

Women in Prison Project, The Correctional

Association of New York

CARIBOU FUND Coro New York Leadership Center

International School of Brooklyn

Literacy Assistance Center

CITGO SOUTH BRONX SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Asociacion de Egresados de la UASD

Asociacion de Provincias Dominicanas

(AsoProDom)

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!)

Bronx Alternative Action

Casa Atabex Aché - The House of

Womyn’s Power

Centro de Servicios Cooperativos (CESECOOP)

Cooperativa de Mujeres en Accion

Critical Resistance - New York City

Cultural Renaissance for Economic

Revitalization (CRER)

For a Better Bronx

Freedom Community Resource Center

Friends of Brook Park

Green Worker Cooperatives

Green Youth Collective

Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood


Mass Transit Street Theater and Video

Mi Rincon Favorito

Mision San Juan Bautista

More Gardens! Fund

Mothers on the Move

Movimiento La Peña del Bronx

Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and

Development (MWIRD)

NI-KE-HURA

Rebel Diaz Arts Collective

Servicing Our Youth (SOY)

Servicio de Educación Básica (SEBI)

Seven Neighborhood Action Partnership (SNAP)

Sistas on the Rise

South Bronx Food Cooperative

Taller Experimental de Arte

JOANNE LUKOMNIK FUND FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

Physicians for a National Health Program /

NY Chapter

JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND Civic Participation


Families United for Racial and Economic Equality

(FUREE)


MinKwon Center for Community Action

New York City AIDS Housing Network

(NYCAHN) / VOCAL

Pushback Network

Voter Enfranchisement Project

Community Media

Bronx News Network


Prometheus Radio Project

KINDLING FUND Families United for Racial and Economic Equality

(FUREE)

New York City AIDS Housing Network

(NYCAHN) / VOCAL

Prison Policy Initiative

Project South

Resource Generation

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive

Health Collective

Third Wave Foundation

NYC VENTURE PHILANTHROPY FUND Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective

RASHAWN BRAZELL FUND SCHOLARSHIPS

Isaiah Sypher to attend Wesleyan University

Nafissatou Traore to attend Hunter College

REN FUND FOR JUSTICE Likhaan

Squeaky Wheel Productions

Street Vendor Project

United for a Fair Economy

VAMOS Unidos

Wittsand Project/Peer Africa

SUNSHINE LADY FUND Center for Urban Pedagogy


Rise Magazine

WILLIAM WATERMAN JR. MEMORIAL FUND

Association for Neighborhood &

Housing Development

Brandworkers International

Commission on the Public’s Health System

Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project


IndyKids

Just Food

Kalabash Food Coop

Lakou New York


(NICE)

New York Foundation for the Arts /

Urban Art Beat

Pitzer College

River Park Nursery School

Social, Educational and Development Fund

Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research

and Action (TIGRA), NY

Urban Agenda

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

On January 12, 2010, a North Star Fund Rapid Response Grant

enabled members of Domestic Workers United and their allied

organizations to travel to Albany and meet with elected officials

on the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Right: Narbada Chhetri

from Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice.

Above: Joycelyn Gill-Campbell of Domestic Workers United.


PHILANTHROPIC PROGRAMS

North Star Fund continued to build our program of networking

and learning opportunities for individual donors and foundations.

We expanded our series on mission-related investing, partnering

with Confluence Philanthropy to present experts from As You Sow

Foundation, Center for Political Accountability, Trillium Asset

Management, The New Economics Foundation, and the Contact

Fund. These experts and gatherings provided guidance on managing

money to achieve social change for individual donors, trustees and

foundation staff, while also deepening their investment savvy and

providing networking opportunities to create a stronger network of

progressive investors.

North Star Fund also undertook a detailed survey of donor programming

at eight philanthropic peer organizations and evaluated several years

of our own pilot activities. The research and evaluation results will be

incorporated into an ambitious new program of donor networking and

learning events to be launched in 2011, in order to expand the network of

New Yorkers committed to funding grassroots driven change.

COMMUNITY GALA

This year’s Community Gala at the Tribeca Rooftop sold

out early, with 350 New Yorkers from all backgrounds

coming together to celebrate social justice philanthropy

and helping to raise a record $407,000 for North Star’s

donor and grants programs.

2010 North Star Fund Awards

At this year’s Community Gala, the North Star Award

recognized four outstanding New Yorkers who have

made significant contributions to social justice.

Maria Castaneda serves as Secretary-Treasurer of

SEIU1199 — the largest local union in the world. Maria

has fought for living wage laws, health care insurance

for all, and a safe working environment for healthcare

In 2010, North Star Fund began our fourth decade of connecting donors in support of grassroots driven social change.

YEAR IN REVIEW

North Star Award honorees.

Left to Right: Katrina vanden Heuvel,

Katherine Acey, Asad Mahmoud,

Maria Castaneda.

Credit: Carolina Kroon

workers. Early in her career as an organizer, her group received its first

grant from the North Star Fund.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is a powerhouse full of courage vision and

leadership in her role as editor and publisher of The Nation, the

lively weekly magazine that presents news and viewpoints through

a progressive lens. Katrina is also a longtime donor and supporter

of North Star Fund.

Asad Mahmood, as the Managing Director of the Global Social

Investment Fund at Deutsche Bank, engages large institutional

investors, not-for-profit organizations, and leading foundations in

pioneering social venture projects with broad and lasting impact.

He also co-founded the Chaaya Community Development Corporation,

which received one of its first foundation grants from North Star.

Katherine Acey got her philanthropic start at North Star as one of the

foundation’s first staff members. Today, after nearly four decades as

a philanthropic activist and leader of the only foundation solely devoted

to funding LGBTQ organizing on a global scale, the Astraea Lesbian

Foundation for Justice, she carries forward a vision of community-

based progressive philanthropy, and a commitment to lesbian and

women’s philanthropy.

2010 North Star Fund Frederick Douglass Awards

The North Star Frederick Douglass Award is awarded to North Star

Fund grantees that have made significant advances to create equality,

economic justice and peace.

Brandworkers International empowers employees in the retail and

food industries to become social change leaders, and holds employers

accountable for workplace conditions.

Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) builds leadership

among currently and formerly incarcerated women to change public

policy, and in the process, transform their lives and the lives of

their families.

Left to Right: Deepa Fernandes,

Oona Chatterjee, Kai Wright,

Katrina vanden Heuvel,

Roland Martin, Rinku Sen,

Ellis Cose, Farai Chideya.


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NEWS PRIZE

On a crisp morning in mid-October, more than 100 people gathered

for the North Star News Prize reception. The News Prize recognizes

journalists, media makers and communications professionals of color

who have made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding

of social justice.

Ellis Cose began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the

Chicago Sun-Times — becoming, at the age of 19, the youngest editorial

page columnist ever employed by a major Chicago daily. Ellis is the

author of several books as well as a columnist and contributing editor

for Newsweek magazine.

Rinku Sen is the President and Executive Director of the Applied

Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. ARC

is a public policy institute advancing racial justice through research,

advocacy and journalism.

This year’s North Star News Prize featured a panel discussion on the

impact of the recession on low-income communities. Deepa Fernandes,

2008 New Prize winner and the director of People’s Production House,

moderated the panel, which featured radio talk show host and

CNN commentator Roland Martin; Pop + Politics founder and NPR

commentator Farai Chideya; and ColorLines magazine’s Kai Wright.

GREENING WESTERN QUEENS

In the fall of 2009, North Star Fund launched the

“Greening Western Queens Fund,” a new $7.9

million initiative to invest in energy-efficiency and

environmental projects in the Western Queens

community affected by a July 2006 electric power

outage. This program is supported by funds from

the community’s settlement with Con Edison. The

Public Service Commission of the State of New

York selected North Star Fund to administer the

project because of our expertise in facilitating

community-led grantmaking programs. Noise from

the elevated 7 train and planes heading to La Guardia

combined with few parks make this a neighborhood

Joo-Hyun Kang facilitates a community

discussion at a Greening Western

Queens Fund visioning session.


that craves trees, open space and a healthier environment. The new

fund will invest in tree planting and other environmental and energy

efficiency projects.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Building Capacity and Sustainability

For the sixth year, North Star Fund has collaboratively partnered with

other progressive foundations to provide a technical assistance program

for our grantees that builds their leadership and capacity. This year’s

partners included New York Foundation, Union Square Awards, New

York Women’s Foundation, Daphne Foundation, Stonewall Community

Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and

New York Women’s Foundation. Topics ranged from proposal writing

and strategic communications to lobbying and financial management.

We are especially proud of a two-day community organizing training

that enabled grantee groups to deepen member outreach and campaign

development skills.

FOR THE LOVE OF JUSTICE

On February 16, 2010, a spirited group of 100 North

Star supporters showed off their finest dance moves at

a fundraiser organized by our board of directors. Our

supporters braved the snow and the cold, and turned up

the heat for social justice.

THE ROOTS An Online Guide to Activism in New York

The development of North Star’s dynamic new website

continued with the launch of The Roots, a searchable

database of grassroots groups in New York. The Roots

allows activists, philanthropists and researchers to locate

and read about the impacts of community organizing

and activism in neighborhoods across the New York

metropolitan area.

Salsa competition at For the Love of

Justice. Credit: Gerard Gaskin

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BETTY MILLARD

Betty Millard — feminist, political activist, writer, photographer, and

philanthropist — died in her home in New York City on March 6, 2010.

As an early North Star Fund Board member and a founding donor to

the organization, Betty provided leadership that inspired founding staff

members and fellow donors to grow the foundation over decades.

In 1997, she established the Betty Millard Charitable Unitrust and

named North Star Fund the primary beneficiary, leaving as her legacy

a bequest of $829,806 to support North Star’s vital mission.

We are deeply grateful not only for her generosity and leadership to

North Star Fund, but for the contributions she made over a lifetime

to help create a more just and equitable world for all of us.

C. EDWIN BAKER

Raised in the small town of Madisonville, Kentucky, Ed Baker

graduated from Stanford University and Yale Law School. For most

of his adult life, Ed was a law professor, including the last 28 years at

the University of Pennsylvania. Ed was a man who walked his talk

and stood up for liberty, equality and justice. He was a scholar and

a man who lived simply, because he believed that luxury dulled our

understanding of the world’s inequities and injustices.

Sadly, after being a stalwart supporter of North Star Fund’s vision

for many years, Ed died suddenly on December 8, 2009, at the age

of 62. We are honored that the trustees of Ed’s estate recognized the

confluence of North Star Fund’s work and Ed’s values and self-sacrifice

by donating $250,000 from the C. Edwin Baker 2001 Trust.

It is with great admiration and respect that we appreciate Betty and Ed

for their humanity, thoughtfulness and tremendous generosity. These

gifts will advance our commitment to making New York City a better

place for many years to come. In the year ahead, North Star Fund will

be announcing an annual memorial grant in honor of Betty and Ed.

To learn more about planned giving or designating North Star Fund

as a beneficiary, please contact our Development Office.

tel 212 620 9110 email [email protected]

IN MEMORIAM

OVER $25,000Abigail Disney and

Pierre Hauser *

Barbara Winslow!

Betty Millard and Family

Caribou Fund

CITGO Petroleum Corporation

Ford Foundation

Funding Exchange

Member Endowment

Greening Western Queens

Settlement Fund

Jean Riesman

Johnson Family Foundation

Joseph Rosenmiller

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Michael J. Hirschhorn and

Jimena P. Martinez

Robert Nixon

Rose and Sherle Wagner

Foundation

Starry Night Fund

William Waterman Jr.

Memorial Fund

$10,000 – $24,999Amy Wagner

Anne H. Hess and

Craig Kaplan !

Anonymous

Asa Johnson

Christina McInerney

Deutsche Bank

Mary Sichel

Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss

Sunshine Lady Foundation

The Elias Foundation

The Overbrook Foundation

Vincent McGee

$5,000 – $9,9991199SEIU United Healthcare

Workers East

Anonymous

Astraea Lesbian Foundation

for Justice

C. Edwin Baker

Corners Fund

Cushman & Wakefield

Elspeth Gilmore

Flo Wiener and Rick Hobish

Katherine Acey

Katrina Schaffer "

Knight Foundation

Liz Hirsch

Lola Lloyd Horwitz

Lucy Winton

Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos

and Adam Bartos

Mark Reed and Daria Ilunga

Michael Ratner !

and Karen Ranucci

New York Community Trust

Nick Freudenberg

Open Society Institute

Peter Brest

Service Employees

International Union (SEIU)

Steve Seltzer

Susan Penick

Toby D’Oench and Tani Takagi

$1,000 – $4,9991199 SEIU Childcare

Corporation

Alexandra Jacobus

Allan Guggenheim

Anonymous (5)

Arline Segal

Arva Rice

Barbara Yanni

Barbara Zeluck

Basil Paterson, Esq.

Bencom LLC

Bennet Hecht

Beth and Bob Sheehan

Bill and Melinda

vanden Heuvel

Byron and Joan Lapham

Chase

Chris Cardona

Chris Cooper and

Marianne Leone

Christopher Wang

Clara Bingham

CWA Local 1180

Dan Silverman and

Barbara Deinhardt

David and Gisela Gamper

David Strathairn

Deborah Slaner Larkin

Donna Katzin and

Alan Altschuler

Elise Boddie * and

Maitland Stewart

Enterprise Fleet Management

Eugenia and David Ames

Foley Family Foundation

Frank and Jinx Roosevelt

Gay Men’s Health Crisis

Gerry and Sheldon Wallman

Hal Strelnick

Hugh Hogan * and

Patrick Moffitt

Jeff Swartzendruber

Jeffrey and Eva Kittay

Jonathan Schorr *

JSL Foundation

Kevin Ryan *

Larry D. Lyons

Leslie A. Abbey and

Stephen M. Dietz

Local 420, DC 37, AFSCME

Local Initiatives Support

Corporation

Lule Demmissie * and

Carmelyn Malalis

Lynda Rodolitz

Maddy deLone and

Bobby Cohen

Maggie Williams *

Mali Sananikone Gaw

OUR DONORS

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3332

Marion S. and Irwin Kaplan

Martin Dunn

Martin Scheinman

Merry Tucker

Molly and David Vaux

N. Cheng & Co., P.C.

Naomi Sobel

Newmark Knight Frank

Nisha Atre Richardson *

Paul Merrill

Premier Coach Tours, LLC

R. Rubin Family Foundation

Rosemary Moore

Sam Wiener

SEIU Local 32BJ

Sharon Wyse and David Satz

Sidney Hillman Foundation

Sister Fund

Susan Butler-Plum

Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

Sylvia Weiss

Theo Yang Copley

United States Fund for

UNICEF

$500 – $999Alex Counts

Amber Patton

Augusta Y. Thomas, AFGE

Brian Dever

Brooklyn for Peace

Bruce Morrow and

Catherine Gund

Cathy Raphael

Center for Constitutional

Rights

Committee of Interns and

Residents SEIU

Consolidated Color Press

David Becker

Dobkin Family Foundation

Ellen McLean

Erika Olson

Eve Levy and Michael Salvato

Exeplex, LLC

Eye Openers/Youth Against

Violence

F. B. Heron Foundation

Fae Beaudry

Gene Carroll !

and Barbara Kopple

Georgia Bougadis

Gill Foundation

Gladstein, Reif, &

Meginniss, LLP

Gordon Johnson and

Nancy Lee

Harriet Goldberg and

Gregory Johnson

Helen Cohen and

Mark Lipman

IVCi, LLC

Jamie Tresselt

Jason Franklin *

Jennifer Merschdorf *

and Jeffrey Gannon

Jim Metzinger

Joanna Pozen

Jonathan Arac

June Wu

Karen Zelermyer and

Tami Gold

Kathy Goldman *

Kingdon Capital

Management, LLC

LaTeisha Moore

Leah Sandholm

Levy Ratner, P.C.

Local 2110, UAW

Marcela Hahn and

Albie Kelley

Marilyn Neimark and

Alisa Solomon

Marina Heung

Marjorie Fine

Marjorie Smith

Media Democracy Fund

Michael Reynnells

Michael Seltzer and

Ralph Tachuk

Michelle O’Brien

Mike Pratt

Ms. Foundation for Women

Nathalia Kapetanakis

Nicholas Kapetanakis

Oona Chatterjee *

Peace Development Fund

Peter G. Meyer

Professional Staff Congress

Rachel and Andrew Hee

Rachel Sherman

Region 9A UAW

Richard Lefkowitz

Ruth Messinger

Sally Gottesman

Sally K. Donaldson, Ph.D.

Samora Fund

Sara Gould

Sarah Hansen* and Sally Kohn

Schott Foundation for

Public Education

Sheraton New York Hotel

and Towers

Sheri Cyd Sandler

Solangel Cubas Minotta *

Tara Mack *

The Correctional Association

The New York Women’s

Foundation

Victor and Anne Navasky

Victor Quintana

Wendy vanden Heuvel

Willis of New York, Inc.

$100 – $4991199 SEIU Training and

Employment Funds

Abato, Rubenstein, and

Abato, P.A.

Access Staffing, LLC

Adele and Sam Braude

Adhikaar for Human

Rights and Social Justice

Ahovi Kponou

Alison Moss/

Food Trends Catering

Allison Cheston

Allison K. Oldehoff

Amelia Tuminaro and

Michael Berlin

Ana Cepin and Ricardo Camilo

Andrea Swenson

Andrew Menard

Annika Many

Anonymous (6)

APICHA

Appalachian Community Fund

Arab Women Active in the Arts

and Media (AWAAM)

Ariel Foxman

Audra Acey

Barbara and Eugene Monick

Benita Miller

Bill Leavitt

Bob Siegel

Brian and Caroline Endless

Brian Kauffman

Brooklyn Young Mothers’

Collective

Bruce Auerbach

Bruce Green

Bruce Herman

Bushwick Housing

Independence Project

Carl Swanson

Carol Lynch and Lon Risley

Cheryl Gould

Chris Silvera, Local 808, I.B.T.

Christine Rico

Cidadao Global

Clarence Elie-Rivera


Coy Pugh

Daniel Rose

Danielle Spurlock

David A. Korman

David E. and

Francine Alexander

David Elcock

David Russo

David Wagner and

Elizabeth Cecil

Deborah Clifford

Diana Correa

District Council 37, AFSCME

Dom and Mardi Tuminaro

Donna Dolan

Donna Schaper

Douglas Booth and

Margaret Simpson

Dr. Beth Singer


Elizabeth Miller

Ellen Brooks

Ellen Gurzinsky

Emily Kessler

Faith Pennick

For a Better Bronx

Fortune Society

Friends of Brook Park

George Pillsbury and

Mary Tiseo

Gerald and Melanie Moffitt

Good Old Lower East Side

Griot Circle

Harriet Cohen

Heather Rees

Heidi Klaimitz

Henry Serrano * "

Hildy Karp "

Jaecyne Howell

James Sober

Janet Wolfe

Jason Babbie

Jason Solle

Jean Passanante and

Jack Shannon

Jeffrey Blum

Joan Budd

Jo-Ann Mort

Joe Esposito

John Breitbart

John Sasko

Jonathan Wiener

Joseph Lipofsky

Joyce Nardulli

Judith Gerson

Judy Lee and Bill Herbert

June Makela and

Mark Fischweicher

Justine Kirby

KC Wagner

Kendell Burroughs

Kenrick Ross

Kevin Jennings and Jeff Davis

Kristin Tyler

La Union

Leonard Rodberg

Leonora Wiener

Linda and Paul Merschdorf

Linn Shapiro

Lisa Philp and Bill Bragin

Lise Vogel

Liz Gaynes

Lloyd Martinez

Local 1549 NYC Clerical

Administration Employees

Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW

Lorraine Monchak

Lynn Adelman

Lynn Cothren

Lynn Lane

Majora Carter

and James Chase

Marc Brooks

Marc Cole

Marcia Lawther

Maria Hinojosa

!

Marie Varghese

Martha Baker

Mary Stiehl

Mass Transit Street Theater

Maya Iwata

Mi Rincón Favorito

Michael Franklin

Michael McKee

Miguel Ortiz

Ming Jack Po

Miram Bader

Nancy Holmstrom and

Richard Smith

Nancy Kricorian and

James Schamus

National Latina Institute for

Reproductive Health

Ned Kaufman

Patti Clarkson

Paula Gellman

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan


Peter and Cora Weiss

Peter Beaudry

3534

Peter Kanning

Polly Withers

Posner-Wallace Foundation

Pyle, Rome & Ehrenberg, PC

Radha Patel

Rebecca and Paul Feuerstein

RESIST

Richard Mittenthal

Rinku Sen

Riptide Communications

Robert Hawkins

Robert Spencer

Roger and

Jennifer Tjong Tjin Tai

Ron and Ardelia Stewart

Ron Hanft

Ronna Brown

Rosalie Friend, Ph.D.

Rosalie Sassano

Rose Coppola and

Eileen Goldberg

Rosenberg Fund for Children

Roz Lee and Beverly Tillery

Sandra Roche

Sarah DeFeo

Sean Tenner

Sheila McDaniel *

Staci Alziebler

Stella Zahn

Susan Kupfer

Susan Langholz-Ceccarelli and

Joe Ceccarelli

Susan Lee

Thomas Wolf

Todd Maisch

Unionwear

United for a Fair Economy

Vivien Johnson

Vreni Hommes

$1 – $991199 SEIU League Labor

Management Project

Adam Gasiewicz

Adam Murphree

Adam Riegelhaupt

Albert Chung

Alejandra Dominguez

Alison Breward

Allan and Sallejane Seif

Andrea Roy

Anjana Malhotra

Anna Berg

Anne and Sidney Emerman

Anonymous (5)

Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Parker

Anthony Presata

Barbara Taveras

Bernard D. Tuchman

Border Crossers

Cameron Smith

Catherine Barnett

Cecilia Clarke

Christina Batorski

Christina Hemphill

cori schmanke parrish

CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME

Cynthia Greenberg

Cynthia Wong

Dagny Rodriguez

DAMAYAN Migrant Workers

Association

Damon Hewitt

Darryl Tom

Deborah Kochan and

Mathew Stephenson

Eleanor Bader

Elizabeth Lublina

Erica Waples

Erika Teutsch

Eskedar Getahun

Evie Joselow

Families Rally for

Emancipation and

Empowerment (FREE)

Frances Goldin

Gay Brookes

Ghesal Amiri

Gina Miller

Gloria Rodriguez

Greater New York Labor-

Religion Coalition

Gregg Wolfson

Ileana Infante

IndyKids

Iyassu Sebhat

Jackson Potter

Jaime Juan

Jaime Wolf

James Narron

Janai Nelson

Jane Penn

Jayne Hoffman

Jean Thompson

Jessi Hempel

Jill Hamberg

Joan Garver Anderson

Jodieann Nelson

John Hammond

Juan Tosado

Judith Quintana

Justin Swartz

Karyn Clark

Kate Black

Kimberly Hendler

Kimberly Wroblewski

Kingsbridge Heights

Neighborhood


Korean American Community

Foundation

Kristen Cabildo

Kristina Rizga

Kurt Winiecki

Laura Kopp

Leslie Cagan and

Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz

Lillian Moy

Linda Cronin-Gross

Lynn Faria

Lynn Lewis

Lynne Mayocole

Mario Lugay

Mark Leger and

John Robertson

Maya Winfrey

Meghan Joseph

Meghan McDermott

Michael Nahas

Michael Steven and

Debby Smith

Michelle Alexandre

Minerva Delgado

Miriam Neptune

Mision San Juan Bautista

Monte Stott and

Associates, Inc.

Murielle Placide

Nina Callaway

NODUTDOL

Nora McCarthy

Northeast Two-Spirit Society

NYC AIDS Housing Network

Olukemi Ilesanmi

Owusu Slater

Patricia Swann

Patricia Yanez

Paul O’Neil

Peter Kwiatek

Pratt Center for Community

Development

Public Sector/CUNY

Campaign

Rebecca Novak

Richard Ward

Rights for Imprisoned

People with Psychiatric

Disabilities

Robert Cermele

Robert Elder

Ronald Nelson

Rosalind Freundlich

Sally Evers

Sally Lee and Josh Heisler

Sandra Sirota

Sarah Ludwig * "

Scott Barshay and

Rachel Penn

Sean Basinski

Shannon Hales

Sishush Maru

Sonia Deane Williams

Stephanie Cuomo Dillon

Steven Jervis

Susan Bowers-Johnson

Susan Cohen

Tamar Kraft-Stolar

Thomas Assefa "

Thomas Hilgers

Toni Levi

USAction Education Fund

Vicki Fox

Wanda Imasuen "

Wendy Herm

Wilson Remodeling

Yemane Demmissie

HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUNDAdam Murphree

Albert Chung

Alejandra Dominguez

Anonymous (7)

Anthony Presata

Barbara Yanni

Brian and Caroline Endless

Christina Batorski

Coy Pugh

Danielle Spurlock

Darryl Tom

David Wagner and

Elizabeth Cecil

Deborah Kochan and

Mathew Stephenson

Diana Correa

Douglas Booth and

Margaret Simpson

Elizabeth Lublina

Ellen McLean

Fae Beaudry

Gene Carroll and

Barbara Kopple

Ghesal Amiri

Gloria Rodriguez

Jackson Potter

Jaecyne Howell

Janai Nelson

Janet Wolfe

Jean Thompson

Jim Metzinger

Jonathan Schorr *

Joyce Nardulli

Karyn Clark

Kimberly Wroblewski

Kristin Tyler

Kurt Winiecki

Laura Kopp

Linda Cronin-Gross

Lynda Rodolitz

Marc Brooks

Mario Lugay

Michelle Alexandre

Miram Bader

Miriam Neptune

Monte Stott and

Associates, Inc.

Murielle Placide

Peter Beaudry

Rebecca Novak

Richard Ward

Sally Lee and Josh Heisler

Sandra Roche

Scott Barshay and Rachel Penn

Sean Basinski

Sean Tenner

Solangel Cubas Minotta *

Susan Langholz-Ceccarelli

and Joe Ceccarelli

Thomas Hilgers

Thomas Wolf

Todd Maisch

Vivien Johnson

Wilson Remodeling

TRIBUTE GIFTSIn Honor of Katherine Acey

Audra Acey

David Becker

Ellen Gurzinsky

Gill Foundation

Harriet Cohen

Karen Zelermyer and

Tami Gold

KC Wagner

Kevin Jennings and Jeff Davis

Leslie Cagan and

Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz

Liz Hirsch

Marion S. and Irwin Kaplan

Ms. Foundation for Women

Sara Gould

Sister Fund

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In Honor of Elise Boddie

Damon Hewitt

Ron and Ardelia Stewart

In Honor of Maria Castaneda

1199 SEIU Childcare

Corporation

1199 SEIU League Labor

Management Project

1199 SEIU Training and

Employment Funds

1199SEIU United Healthcare

Workers East

Abato, Rubenstein,

and Abato, P.A.

Access Staffing, LLC

Alison Moss/Food Trends

Catering

Augusta Y. Thomas, AFGE

Basil Paterson, Esq.

Bencom LLC

Chase

Committee of Interns and

Residents SEIU

Consolidated Color Press

Cushman & Wakefield

Enterprise Fleet Management

Exeplex, LLC

Gina Miller

IVCi, LLC

Martin Scheinman

N. Cheng & Co., P.C.

Premier Coach Tours, LLC

Pyle, Rome & Ehrenberg

Service Employees

International Union (SEIU)

Sheraton New York Hotel

and Towers

Unionwear

United States Fund for

UNICEF

Willis of New York, Inc.

In Honor of Jason Cooper,

Susan Herbert, Al Musella,

and Anne Musella


In Honor of Toby D’Oench

George Pillsbury and

Mary Tiseo

In Honor of Lule Demmissie

Carl Swanson

David Russo

Justin Swartz

Wendy Herm

Yemane Demmissie

In Honor of Hugh Hogan

and Patrick Moffitt

Ariel Foxman

Michael J. Hirschhorn and

Jimena P. Martinez

In Honor of Rachel Hogan

Moffitt and Jane Hogan

Moffitt

Mary Stiehl

In Honor of Asad Mahmood

Alex Counts

Anonymous

Local Initiatives Support

Corporation

Posner-Wallace Foundation

In Honor of Sheila McDaniel

David Elcock

Evie Joselow

Kendell Burroughs

Ron Hanft

In Honor of

Jennifer Merschdorf

Linda and Paul Merschdorf

In Honor of Nancy Meyer

and Marc Weiss

Sylvia Weiss

In Honor of Sylvia Pecker


In Honor of

Nisha Atre Richardson

Ahovi Kponou

Amber Patton

Ana Cepin and Ricardo Camilo

Gregg Wolfson

Jaime Juan

Marc Cole

Rachel and Andrew Hee

Roger and Jennifer

Tjong Tjin Tai

In Honor of Christen Schaffer

Leah Sandholm

In Honor of

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bill and Melinda

vanden Heuvel

Cheryl Gould

Jonathan Wiener

Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and

Adam Bartos

Peter and Cora Weiss

Sidney Hillman Foundation

Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

USAction Education Fund

Victor and Anne Navasky

Wendy vanden Heuvel

In Honor of Barbara Winslow

Bruce Auerbach

Deborah Slaner Larkin

Eugenia and David Ames

Paula Gellman

In Honor of Dottie Shtob


MEMORIAL GIFTSIn Memory of

Betty Kapetanakis

Rosalie Sassano

Sally Evers

In Memory of Esta Armstrong

Erika Teutsch

WAYS TO GIVE

Each year, we raise most of our grant money from a diverse network of individuals, families, and businesses — from people like you. But just as resources come in many forms, there are many ways to give to North Star Fund.

You can put your money to work

right away by donating online at

northstarfund.org

You can mail a check to North Star Fund

You can keep your commitment going

by becoming a monthly sustainer.

You can invest in change by liberating

appreciated stocks, bonds, real property,

or life insurance.

You can celebrate friends, family,

and heroes with a tribute gift.

You can direct your own grants while also

supporting North Star Fund by opening a

donor-advised fund.

You can remember a legacy of social

justice through a memorial gift.

You can establish your own legacy by

planning now to leave a bequest.

For more ideas and information, please visit northstarfund.org /ways2give

For expert guidance on making a giving plan, please contact

Isabelle Leighton, North Star Fund’s Development Officer.

tel 212 620 9110 email [email protected]

* Member, Board of Directors

! Member, Advisory Board

" Member, Community

Funding Committee

Find out more, and donate online at www.northstarfund.org / support37

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TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY Year Ended June 30, 2010 UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL

Public Support, Revenue and Gains:

Public Support 2,283409 3,803,370 6,086,779

Revenue and Gains/(Losses) 169,554 747 170,301

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 1,715,179 (1,715,159) 0

Total Support, Revenue and Gains 4,168,142 2,088,938 0 6,257,080

Expenses:

Program Services 2,259,539 2,259,539

Supporting Services:

Management and General 186,640 186,640

Fundraising 419,247 419,247

Total Supporting Services 414,745 414,745

Total Expenses 2,978,786 0 0 2,978,786

(Decrease) Increase in Net Assets 1,189,356 2,088,938 0 3,278,294

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 837,456 424,832 1,000,000 2,262,288

Net Assets, End of Year 2,026,812 2,513,770 1,000,000 5,540,582

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Year Ended June 30, 2010

Assets Cash and Interest Bearing Deposits 2,839,837

Promises to Give 1,855,392

Investments 1,038,893

Fixed Assets

(net of accumulated depreciation) 108,830

Other Assets 26,627

Total Assets 5,869,579

Liabilities

Accrued Expenses 8,395

Other Liabilities 320,602

Total Liabilities 328,997

Net Assets

Unrestricted 2,026,812

Temporarily Restricted * 2,513,770

Permanently Restricted ** 1,000,000

Total Net Assets 5,540,582

Total Liabilities and Net Assets 5,869,579

* Temporarily Restricted Net Assets:

North Star Fund receives donor

advised contributions that are held

until donors recommend which

organizations will receive grants.

At June 30, 2010, the temporarily

restricted net asset balance of

$424,832 represents the amount

of donor contributions still held by

North Star Fund.

** Permanently Restricted Net Assets:

During a prior fi scal year, a donor

made a $1,000,000 irrevocable pledge

to establish the Betty Kapetanakis

Memorial Endowment Fund.

The purpose of the fund is to generate

unrestricted income. The principal

cannot, under any circumstances,

be drawn upon.

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES NORTH STAR FUND GRANTMAKING

$17,500 $21,500 $91,000 $656,960 $144,950 $1,170,041 $1,330,988 $1,453,950$311,469 $304,050 $380,000 $368,335 $463,840 $504,450 $517,277 $535,491

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$1,000,000

$500,000

$0

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Donor Advised GrantsActivist-Led Grants

* During the year ended June

30, 2008, North Star Fund

entered into an agreement

with a donor advised partner

who was interested in making

large grants in the South

Bronx. This three-year part-

nership brought signifi cant

resources to a marginalized

area of New York City. During

the year ended June 30, 2010,

the New York State Public

Service Commission selected

North Star Fund as Greening

Projects Administrator to de-

velop a grantmaking program

that will result in nearly $7.9

million in grants to green the

infrastructure of neighbor-

hoods in Western Queens.

Total Grants and Programs

$2,559,539

86%

INCOME

Individual Donors

$1,960,220

31%

Fees and Investments

$222,590

4%

Foundation Partners

$175,000

3%

Donor Advised

Partners*

$3,899,270

62%

EXPENSES

Grants and Programs

$1,105,589

37%

Management and General

$186,640

6%

Development

$232,607

8%

Donor Advised Grants

$1,453,950

49%

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Elise Boddie

Oona Chatterjee, Chair

Lule Demmissie

Jason Franklin, Treasurer

Kathy Goldman

Sarah Hansen

Pierre Hauser

Sarah Ludwig

Tara Mack

Jennifer Merschdorf

Sheila McDaniel

Randall Quan

Julissa Reynoso

Nisha Atre Richardson, Secretary

Kevin Ryan, Vice Chair

Jonathan Schorr

Aarti Shahani

Maxim Thorne

In Memoriam:

Betty Kapetanakis, 1952 — 2002

COMMUNITY FUNDING

COMMITTEE

Sarah Ludwig, Co-Chair

Henry Serrano, Co-Chair

Carrie Gleason

Charles Long

Desiree Marshall

Ejeris Dixon

Hildy Karp

Jackie Mann

Jose Lopez

Joycelyn Gill-Campbell

Katrina Schaffer

Kevin Ryan

Nicole Lewis

Rob Robinson

Sarah Hansen

Steve Choi

Thomas Assefa

Valeria Treves

Wanda Imasuen

IN-KIND AND

CONSULTING SUPPORT

Alex Ellsworth

Alicia Korten, ReNual

AllSector Technology

Amy Ponce

Amy Sutnick Plotch

Andy Collazo,

Abrazos Music

& Entertainment

Anne Gardon

Brian Palmer

Carolina Kroon

Chien-Li Chung,

Camelthorn, LLC

Gerard Gaskin

Joo-Hyun Kang

Keith Miyake

ADVISORY BOARD

Gene Carroll

Maria Hinojosa

Craig Kaplan

Pamela Koslow

Manning Marable, Ph.D.

Monami Maulik

Iris Morales

Michael Ratner

Arva Rice

John Sayles

Cornel West, Ph.D.

Barbara Winslow

In Memoriam:

Grace Paley, 1922 — 2007

David Hunter, 1916 — 2000

NORTH STAR FUND STAFF

Hugh Hogan

Executive Director

Diana Correa

Deputy Director for Programs

and Strategic Initiatives

cori schmanke parrish

Deputy Director of Finance

and Operations

Lucia Gajda

Events Associate

Mark Leger

Communications Manager

Isabelle H. Leighton

Development Officer

Victor Tobar

Administrative Coordinator

Monica Thalla

and Emerson Soto

Betty Kapetanakis

Memorial Interns

Lee Delgado

Mya Kagan

Miriam Fogelson

Noah Scalin, Another Limited

Rebellion Design

Olga Sanabria

Paul Getsos

Patrick Moffitt

Sara Pisani, CPA

Scott Lu

Sharon Wyse

Steven McCutcheon

Susan Fine and Christie Auw,

Oases Real Estate

Thor Ritz

ANNUAL REPORT

Design

Hyperakt Design Group, Inc.

Photography

Brian Palmer

Miriam Fogelson

BJ Formento

Gerard Gaskin

Carolina Kroon

Printing

Recycled Paper Printing

520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2203New York, NY 10018 – 6656

tel 212 620 9110fax 212 620 8178

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