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A Place to GrowJacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement

Annual Report 2014

Riis Settlement—A Place to Grow

1 Annual Report 20141

Board of Directors

HRH Princess Benedikte of Denmark

Patron of Riis Settlement

Michael Bingold

Chairman

Robert Cummings

Vice Chairman

David Klur

Treasurer

Andrew Kirby

Secretary

Gennaro N. Crisci

Nadya de Chimay

Raymond E. George, III

Sibyl McCormac Groff

Else G. Matthews

Elizabeth McQueen

Gordon Mehler. Esq.

Anumaya Phatate

Lauren Rosenblum

Michael Saliba

Carol L. Wilkins

Neda Yagan, M.D.

C. Flemming Heilmann

Chairman Emeritus

Staff

Leadership

Christopher Hanway

Executive Director

Carol Nurse

Fiscal Officer

Development & Communications

Aimée Simpierre

Director of Development & Communications

Programs

Robert Madison

Director of Senior Services

Karina Wegman

Director of Immigrant Services

Troy Calhoun

Senior Director of Youth Services

Ngalula Fleurant

Program Data & Evaluation Specialist

Veronica Franklin

Elementary Program Coordinator (Queensbridge)

Nicole Kom

Riis Academy Program Director (PS 171)

Iftikhar Mahmoud

Riis Academy Program Director (PS 166)

Lavern Maison

Riis Academy Center Director (Ravenswood)

Maurice Rawls

Middle-School Program Coordinator (Queensbridge)

Sheirly Rinchere

Riis Academy Program Director (InfoTech H.S.)

Who We AreJacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement is a community-based non-profit organization that offers educational, cultural, social and legal services to youth, seniors, immigrants and families throughout Western Queens, New York. The crux of our mission is a comprehensive strategy that addresses the whole person. We provide the resources, opportunities and supports that serve as a catalyst for community members to reach their greatest potential and achieve social and economic self-sufficiency.

Founded in 1899, Riis Settlement is named in honor of Jacob Riis, the Danish-American social reformer and photojournalist who advocated for grassroots reforms in New York’s poorest communities through the work of settlement houses. Today Riis Settlement serves more than 1,200 participants daily through senior health and wellness programs, English language classes, afterschool activities and college access workshops.

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Letters from the Executive Director and Chairman

A Message from the Executive Director

2014 marked an incredible year in the history of our organization, as we celebrated our 125th anniversary. I could not be more grateful for the generosity, support, and tireless efforts of all those who helped us accomplish this remarkable feat. Our recent gala, which commemorated the milestone, afforded us the opportunity to honor our previous Executive Director, William T. Newlin, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan and Christine Sherwood of CitiCards. There are also countless other supporters whose contributions, both big and small, have allowed us to sus-tain our mission over the years. To all of them I offer my heartfelt thanks.

Each year, Riis Settlement strives to expand and improve upon its programming and 2014 was no exception. Riis Academy added three new sites: PS 171 Peter G. Van Alst where we now operate a full after-school program for 120 children, PS/IS 111 Jacob Blackwell and IS 204 Oliver W. Holmes where we now operate violence pre-vention programs. This brings our total number of campuses to 7. We are proud to be affiliated with these schools and look forward to cultivating strong and fruitful relationships with each of them in support of our children.

Our ability to grow as an organization, even during times of stringent funding, speaks to the trusted reputa-tion we have built as a provider of high-quality services in greater Western Queens and to our ability to adapt and evolve. This year, our Seniors Services department began offering a take-home meal on Fridays to support seniors struggling with food insecurity who may not have access to nutritious meals over the weekend, and due to popular demand, chair yoga and Zumba classes are now staples of our physical health offerings. Our Immigrant Services staff began incubating a worker’s cooperative which, when launched, will help address perpetually high rates of unem-ployment among our English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students, and our Riis Academy students successfully incubated and hatched their own chicks and participated in the first annual Read for Riis! Read-a-thon. During 2014 we looked back on our beginnings, and celebrated how far we have come in pursuit of our mission to build and strengthen underserved communities in Western Queens and act as a catalyst for change. Now, as we turn our attention to the road ahead and all the great things we intend to achieve, we thank you for your steadfast support throughout the years, and look forward to having you with us for the next leg of this exciting journey.

A Letter from our Chairman

Throughout my 10 years serving on the Board of Directors, I have witnessed many great achieve-ments in Riis Settlement’s history; none, I believe, more impressive than reaching 125 years of operation as a non-profit organization. From our modest beginnings in the late 1800s as one of the earliest settlement houses on the Lower East Side, to our relocation in 1950 to the largest public housing development in the nation, to where we stand now as a reputable agent of change within the greater Western Queens community, the journey has been remarkable.

This most recent highly productive fiscal year serves as a reminder that the journey has been a worthwhile one and that the need for access to comprehensive services within our low to moderate income service area is as great as ever. Riis Settlement continues to build partnerships to help provide those services and remains committed to applying a higher than average percentage of its income to programming. In FY14, 84% of our income was dedicated to programming, and we have many advances to show for it.

This year as an organization we have continued to grow our services for adults. Under the guidance of Community Votes, Riis Settlement continued its non-partisan get-out-the-vote initiative in an effort to make a real difference in voter participation levels within our surrounding community.

Last June, in collaboration with City Harvest, we launched the Queensbridge Mobile Market in response to the high need for access to fresh and healthy produce within the community. A record 800 residents have signed up to take advantage of this service.

As part of our initiative to combat chronically high levels of asthma among our children, we partnered with TransCanada and NY Hospital, Queens to launch a newly renovated pediatric asthma mobile unit. Staffed by a comprehensive health care team from the Pediatric Asthma Center at New York Hospital Queens, the mobile unit now sees patients twice weekly outside the Queensbridge center.

We are proud of the role that we have played in empowering the community of greater Western Queens and our par-ticipants across all program areas. We are aware that we could not have done any of this without your support, and for that we are sincerely appreciative.

Christopher Hanway Executive Director

Michael Bingold Chairman, Board of Directors

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The Settlement House Movement – Forging Strong Communities

Beginning in London in the mid-19th century, the settlement movement aimed to bring the rich and poor closer together in an interdependent community. Due to increasing concerns about urban poverty in England, middle-class volunteers moved to impoverished areas in order to share knowledge, culture and resources with their low-income neighbors.

The movement was quickly adopted by other countries, including the United States, where settlement houses were established to alleviate the effects of poverty in crowded immigrant neighborhoods. By the end of the century, there were more than 100 settlement houses nationwide offering local residents access to educational, recreational and arts programs.

In 1911, American settlement house leaders united to found the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers of America. Now known as the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, the national organization has a membership of 160 settlement houses in 20 states. United Neighborhood Houses (UNH), a member of the Alliance, is the umbrella organization for New York City settlement houses, providing capacity building and maintaining a transcending culture of community engagement.

For more than 100 years, settlement houses have been warm, welcoming places where community residents can find opportunities to improve their lives through education, housing, health care, employment, recreational activities and the arts. Although times have changed, the commitment to the community remains the hallmark of the settlement house.

a place to honor our past

Seeds of change planted over a century ago continue to inform our mission.


Jacob A. Riis—A Catalyst for Change

A native of Ribe, Denmark, Jacob A. Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870 and began a career in journalism with the New York News Association. Through his work as a journalist, Riis discovered the squalid conditions of tenement houses in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and devoted the rest of his life to social reform. In 1890, he published his seminal work in photojournalism, How the Other Half Lives, which documents the squalid living conditions of New York slums. His work created unprecedented public awareness about the reality of urban poverty.

In his role as a social reformer, Riis had a pro- found effect on the settlement house movement. In 1901, two Lower East Side settlement houses – the New York Tenement House Chapter for the King’s Daughters and Sons and the King’s Daughters Settlement – consolidated under the

name Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement. During its early years, the settlement house aimed to meet the needs of recently immigrated Europeans in the city’s tenement houses.

In 1950, Riis Settlement relocated to the Queensbridge Houses in Western Queens, the largest public housing development in the country, to address the needs of a changing population.

Today, we continue the legacy of the settlement house as not only a place to go, but a place to grow, for the community.

DelIVerInG releVant, MeasuraBle results

Riis Settlement strives to produce enduring, positive change in the communities we serve.

Recognizing that the needs of the community are constantly shifting, we employ a ‘theory of

change’ that reveals short, intermediate and long term outcomes for our participants; giving us

information in ‘real time’ that can be used to better serve our youth, seniors, immigrants and

families. This strategy uses a clear description of the demographics and baseline characteristics

of each individual to help us better evaluate our programming including: how our K-12 continuum

affects positive change in youth, the impacts of our activities on the overall well-being of our

adult seniors and ways to better integrate civic engagement, advocacy and community

organizing within our Immigrant Services department.

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Riis Academy: Preparing our Youth for Success

Riis Academy strives to prepare youth from K-12 for success in post-secondary academic, work, and civic life. As the Western Queens area experiences rapid gentrification, many of our youth face difficulties due to economic hardship and the resulting disparities that they experience in education and opportunity. Riis Academy’s mission is to combat those disparities by providing a wide array of activities through our core program areas: Academic Enrichment, Life Skills, Health and Wellness, Family Involvement, Leadership Development, and Civic Engagement. We are committed to helping our young participants reach their greatest intellectual and physical potential, cultivate emotional well-being, and become agents of change.

As our children grow, so too does Riis Academy. This past year, Riis Academy added a new campus: Riis Academy-PS 171 Henry G. Van Alst. The program serves nearly 120 kids in grades K- 5 and gives them an opportunity to develop their reading skills and work together on fun and exciting projects focused on themes such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), drama and music.

We place enormous importance on parental involvement at each of our campuses. This year, parents and community members joined to form the Ravenswood Advisory Board which raised over $700 for the Cornerstone program through initiatives such as candy sales and amusement park trips. We are proud that this Board has grown organically and is self-sustained by individuals with a vested interest

in the program’s success. We also recognize the importance of civic education to help form our future leaders. By participating in our non-partisan voter registration drive alongside our adult seniors, Riis Academy youth were reminded of the importance of being invested members of the community and that the right to vote was often hard earned.

Riis Academy could not succeed without all our wonderful community partners whose contributions greatly enhance our programs. The Joan Mitchell Foundation has been a longtime partner of Riis Academy, providing weekly classes led by professional Artist-Teachers who have exposed our youth to drawing, sculpture, photography and mixed media, and helped them discover their artistic potential.

New York Cares continues to provide our youth valuable weekend SAT prep courses and a cooking workshop called Riis Academy Culinary Explorers which culminates in our annual candlelight dinner when the gym is transformed into a restaurant and the children serve their parents dinner.

In addition, Museum of the Moving Image, Share for Life, City Harvest, Floating Hospital, High Water Women, Sprout by Design and the New York City Housing Authority Residents Association have each made valuable contributions to Riis Academy along with a number of individual donors and private and public funders to whom we are extremely thankful.

a place to Make the GraDe

When we create an environment for success, youth thrive.


2014 hIGhlIGht: GrowInG Green

Riis Academy launched the Growing Green project in the summer of 2013 with the support of

TransCanada and the NYC Economic Development Corporation. This multi-disciplinary environmental

science initiative served young people at four of Riis Academy’s campuses: Queensbridge,

Ravenswood, InfoTech and PS 166, and enhanced their critical-thinking, academic and problem-

solving skills. Students learned about recycling, green space and locally grown food. In collaboration

with Sprout by Design, an organization that uses gardening as a means of education and early health

care prevention by building greenhouses, green walls, green roofs and hydroponic systems for

urban schools, participants developed their knowledge of key STEM lessons through fun, hands-on

activities, including building a chicken coop, hatching chickens and installing hydroponic window

farms right here in Riis Settlement!

2014 Key Accomplishments

• All our afterschool programs showed a high rate of participation, exceeding 80% for the year.

• Grades are on the rise at Riis Academy-PS 166. Overall, from the first to their final marking period, 111 of 114 students’ reading grade levels either improved or remained the same. In Math, 110 students either saw an improvement or maintained the same grade level.

• The Riis Academy-Ravenswood Cornerstone program dramatically increased its sports offerings. The campus now has 4 basketball teams that competed locally in tournaments sponsored

by the Department of Youth and Community Development and the New York City Housing Authority winning a total of 5 trophies over the season. Participants also competed in NYCHA track meets.

• Our Riis Academy-InfoTech seniors are moving forward. 90% of the 12th graders successfully graduated high school: 75% received acceptances into college.

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Helping our Immigrant Community Find Its Voice

In response to the growing needs of the immigrant community in Western Queens, our Immigrant Services program continued to offer comprehensive services to encourage success in work, education and civic life. We bring together over 450 individuals who speak 14 languages and come from 35 countries, in our beginner to advanced English classes for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), citizenship classes, individual case management, civic engagement opportunities and immigration legal services. Our award-winning program continues to profoundly impact our participants’ capacity to become self-sufficient members of the community.

Operating at our main site in the Queensbridge Houses and at I.S. 126 in Astoria, we offered 29 ESOL classes throughout the year. These classes helped nearly 400 students improve English proficiency in preparation for employment, higher education and community involvement at all levels. Through creative and engaging instruction, students learned reading, writing, speaking and listening skills with a focus on family, health, employment, community, transportation, education, safety, civic engagement and other important issues. In addition, we offered three computer classes to over 40 students to better prepare them to enter the workforce.

Alongside educational programming, immigrant community members received support navigating essential services, benefits and institutions here in New York City. Our program’s full-time Community

Advocate and part-time Case Aide, with support from two part-time social work interns, provided 155 participants help with accessing health insurance, research on education and job training opportunities, acquiring work readiness and employment skills and getting a better understanding of the social and political systems in New York City.

Community members also received immigration legal services from our experienced Immigration Attorney, who assisted participants and their families with citizenship, family petitions, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, adjustments of status, visas and other cases with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Those seeking to become U.S. citizens also attended weekly citizenship classes facilitated by our immigration attorney and committed volunteers to gain the knowledge of U.S. civics and history required to pass the naturalization exam.

In addition, participants interested in increasing their civic engagement and advocacy activities joined our Community Action Group (CAG). Over 87 students participated in the weekly CAG meetings to inform themselves about systems of local government, budget cuts, immigrant rights, and other issues relevant to the immigrant community. Participants also rallied in New York City’s Foley Square in support of immigrant communities, met with city legislators to discuss their priorities and attended community meetings with the New York City Police Department, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and elected officials.

a place to put Down roots

We reach a common ground by helping others find their voice.



• More than 70 immigrant community members participated in the Community Action Group. They attended weekly meetings, rallied in NYC’s Foley Square in support of immigrant communities, met with city legislators, elected officials and communtiy stakeholders to discuss priorities for immigrant communities, and attended community meetings with the NYPD, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and elected officials.

• 362 community members completed classes to improve their proficiency in English.

• 155 participants received case management regarding reaching goals beyond learning English.

• 173 individuals received a free legal consultation and 80 applications for immigration benefits were filed with our Immigration Attorney.

• 46 participants became new U.S. citizens through our Immigration Legal Services program.

2014 hIGhlIGht: IncuBatInG a worker’s cooperatIVe wIth our IMMIGrant

partIcIpants

In 2014 Immigrant Services staff launched a worker cooperative incubation project to address

perpetually high rates of unemployment among our ESOL students. Last year, half of our

participants were unemployed, only 31% were employed full time and 19% were employed part

time. The gravity of this situation is compounded by the fact that many participants within our

Immigrant Services program cannot access mainstream workforce development programs designed

to alleviate the community’s extremely high levels of unemployment and persistent poverty because

of limited English proficiency and immigration status. Immigrant Services staff engaged in an

intensive training program at the Center for Family Life which provides technical assistance, training,

consultation and legal services to facilitate the cooperative start up process. They also began

organizing students for focus groups and planning meetings.

Once planning is complete, Riis Settlement’s worker’s cleaning cooperative will be a business

venture owned and democratically controlled by its members. It will help create a work environment

and establish terms of employment that uphold the values of empowerment, equity, dignity, and

mutual respect. We believe a cooperative can help our population overcome the hurdles faced by

marginalized workers, create stable, flexible, empowering jobs that pay a fair wage, and help coop

members develop strong leadership and communication skills while alleviating high unemployment

and poverty rates.

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a place to staY YounG at heart

A flourishing senior community stems from sharp minds and active lives.

Socialization Keeps Mind and Body Active

The mission of Riis Settlement’s Senior Center is to ensure our seniors are as well as possible for as long as possible; that they remain socially connected, and are able to “age in place.” This year we were able to focus on socialization by engaging seniors in many group activities and events. Through the gener-ous support of the D.J. McManus Foundation our seniors had the opportunity to travel to other bor-oughs and experience different cultural events such as Dance Africa at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at City Center, Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, just to name a few. We were able to continue our Jazz at Riis series hosted in our spacious courtyard, bring-ing our seniors together to listen to wonderful music, enjoy great food, and dance the evenings away. Over 367 seniors participated in these activities designed to counter feelings of isolation, and the depression that can follow.

Participants had the opportunity to take arts classes at Queensbridge facilitated by the wonderful Artist-Teachers from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. They also traveled to the Noguchi Museum for weekly art instruction on projects that incorporated the theme of social art development. Thanks to New York Cares we were also able to hold monthly birthday party events this year supported by volunteers from New York Cares. These special celebratory moments are deeply appreciated by our seniors, many of whom live alone and may not have had the opportunity to celebrate otherwise.

This year, the Riis Senior Center added more services, activities and events to its already robust schedule, including:

• Weekly weight loss and diabetes group sessions • Monthly Beauty Days, offering free manicures,

facials, and haircuts by students from the Queens Vocational and Technical High School

• An on-site Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

• New York City Housing Authority workshops on Domestic Violence

With the assistance of social work interns from Long Island University we were able to support the bulk of our seniors by providing over 203 hours of Case Assistance and 458 hours of Case Management. Through funding from the New York City Council and Department for the Aging (DFTA), we began providing an additional nutritious weekend meal to take home for seniors who may face food insecurity. Moreover, we have now made Zumba and chair yoga regular staples of our physical health offerings, which already included walking, tai chi and low impact exer-cise. And much to the joy of seniors and staff alike, we were able to replace our old van and purchase a new, larger vehicle with funding from the New York City Department for the Aging.

The senior services department continues to flourish and every week we are seeing new and more diverse faces. We welcome and embrace all those who wish to join this wonderful collage of people.



• More seniors received healthy meals: The Senior Center served over 21,157 meals to seniors, a 13% increase from 2013.

• No senior left behind: We provided over 1,157 hours of telephone reassurance calls to help ensure our seniors are connected while at home and not alone should a crisis arise. This is a 21% increase from 2013.

• More of our older adults are enjoying the outdoors: The Riis Settlement senior van provided over 240 one-way trips a month, a 30% increase from 2013.

• Improving and supporting health: We reached 2,059 seniors with our health and exercise program-ming and over 750 of our seniors participated in health promotion sessions.

2014 hIGhlIGht

Healthcare maintenance is a priority for the senior population we serve. We have expanded

nursing services at the center to provide an additional day of healthcare assistance and healthcare

management to seniors through our partnership with Visiting Nurse Service of New York and

Partners In Care (a subsidiary of VNSNY). These services, now offered two days a week, are

community access points for monitoring physical health and avoiding unnecessary emergency

room visits. General assistance can include monitoring of blood pressure and medical regimes and

answering specific health questions regarding hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and other

chronic illnesses common among the seniors we serve. Services also include periodic home visits to

our homebound participants. This year we provided 214 hours of healthcare management and 268

hours of case-assistance. Riis Settlement’s Senior Center is working closely with the City University

of New York’s School of Professional Studies to have Registered Nurse Interns as part of our health

care component by the end of 2015.

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a place to GIVe anD receIVe

We cultivate opportunity by making every donation count.

Statement of Activities with Summarized Financial Information for 2014 (in Thousands)

Revenue, Gains, and Other Support UnrestrictedTemporarily

Restricted 2014 2013 2012

Public Support and Revenue

Government Grants 2,177,002 – 2,177,002 2,282,436 2,410,696

Foundation Contributions 237,000 117,500 354,500 594,000 572,068

Other Contributions 117,356 – 117,356 112,652 104,592

Event Income 0 – 0 6,153 56,785

In-Kind Rent 86,822 – 86,822 86,822 86,822

In-Kind Contributions 0 – 0 61,567 80,865

Participant Activities 18,825 – 18,825 16,159 16,469

Rental Income 1,000 – 1,000 0 490

Total Support from the Public $2,638,005 $117,500 $2,755,505 $3,159,789 $3,328,787

Investment income

Interest and Dividends, Net 1,940 – 1,940 2,971 312

Realized Gain/(Loss) on Investments 4,420 – 4,420 (452) 4,240

Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments 5,718 – 5,718 4,732 10,547

Total Investment Income 12,078 – 12,078 7,251 15,099

Net Assets Restriction Transfers 269,339 (269,339) 0 0 0

Total Revenue, Gains, and Other Supports $2,919,422 $(151,839) $2,767,583 $3,167,040 $3,343,886

Expenses UnrestrictedTemporarily

Restricted 2014 2013 2012

Program Services

Youth Services 1,709,553 – 1,709,553 1,958,475 2,118,141

Adult and Community Services 248,767 – 248,767 293,472 297,194

Senior Services 553,877 – 553,877 366,213 432,888

Total Program Services* 2,512,197 – 2,512,197 2,618,160 2,848,223

Supporting Services

Management and General 340,709 – 340,709 410,416 339,277

Fundraising 138,693 – 138,693 113,623 101,808

Total Supporting Services** 479,402 – 479,402 524,039 441,085

Total Program and Supporting Services Expenses $2,991,599 – $2,991,599 $3,142,199 $3,289,308

Change in Net Assets (72,177) (151,839) (224,016) 24,841 54,578

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 63,511 927,381 990,892 966,051 911,473

Net Assets, End of Year (8,666) 775,542 766,876 990,892 966,051

(83%)

(17%)

(87%)

(13%)

(84%)

(16%)


Community Members Served vs. Dollars Raised (in millions)

MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL

PROGRAMS AND SERvICES

FUNDRAISING

Expenses FY14

$340,709—11%

$2,512,197—84%

$0.0

$2.0

$4.0

FY14FY13

1,650 PARTICIPANTS

SERVED 1,800 PARTICIPANTS

SERVED

$138,693—5%

Balance Sheet

Assets 2014 2013 2012

Cash and Cash Equivalents 548,158 740,282 542,612

Pledges and Grants Receivable, Net 240,615 219,300 398,815

Investments, at Fair value 45,174 58,493 56,446

Fixed Assets, Net 34,936 42,373 41,437

Total Assets 868,883 1,060,448 1,039,310

Liabilities and Net Assets

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 19,296 13,518 15,267

Refundable Advances 82,711 56,038 57,992

Total Liabilities 102,007 69,556 73,259

Commitments and Contingencies 2012

Net Assets

Unrestricted (8,666) 63,511 (9,766)

Temporarily Restricted 775,542 927,381 975,817

Total Net Assets $766,876 $990,892 $966,051

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $868,883 $1,060,448 $1,039,310

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A Place to Say Thanks

With the support

of individuals and

the community,

Riis Settlement

continues to forge

a path for change

in Western Queens.

Government, Foundation and Corporate Supporters(July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014)

The Altman Foundation

The Amgen Foundation

The American-Scandinavian Foundation

Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.

The Barker Welfare Foundation

The Robert Bowne Foundation

Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers

Citi Foundation

Consolidated Edison

Council Member Costa Constantinides

The Richard Davoud Donchian Foundation

Council Member Daniel P. Dromm

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies

Fischetti & Malgieri, LLP

The Foundry L.I.C., LLC.

The Hagedorn Fund

The Per & Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation

Mary Hutchins Foundation, Inc.

The Landegger Charitable Foundation

D.J. McManus Foundation

New York City Economic Development Corp

New York City Department for the Aging

New York City Department of Youth and Community Development

New York City Housing Authority

New York Foundation

New York Hall of Science

New York State Department of Education

New York State Department of State

New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services

New York State Office for the Aging

New York State Office of Children and Family Services

The New York Immigration Coalition

The New York Women’s Foundation

Henry E. Niles Foundation

Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan

Nonprofit VOTE

NYC Civic Corps

Partnership for After School Education (PASE)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

Solon E. Summerfield Foundation

The Teagle Foundation

Top Fashion

TransCanada

United Neighborhood Houses of New York

United Way of New York City

Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer

Individual Donors(July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014)

$5,000+

(Anonymous)

$1,000–$4,499

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bingold

Mr. Robert J. Cummings

Mr. Peter Flinch

Mr. Raymond E. George, III

Mr. & Mrs. C. Flemming Heilmann

Dr. Hadi M. Jabbar

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew L. Kirby

Mr. & Mrs. Nils Klarlund

Mr. & Mrs. David Klur

Ms. Ann Gorski LoBue & Mr. Robert LoBue

Ms. Sibyl McCormac Groff

Mr. Gordon Mehler & Mrs. Ariel Zwang

Mr. & Ms. Alan B. Vickery

Dr. Neda Yagan & Mr. Ove Haxthausen

$500–$999

Mr. & Mrs. David Brownwood

Mr. Craig Corona

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry and Patti Crisci

Mrs. Nicole Crisci Harris

Ms. Carol B. George

Mrs. Janet Loengard

Mrs. Ann Pfohl Kirby

Ms. Anumaya Phatate & Mr. Scott Silverberg

Dr. & Mrs. John Simon

Mr. John T. Stirrup

$250–$499

Mrs. Solveig L. Andersen

Mr. Rutledge Barry, Jr.

Mr. Michael H. Bassett

Mrs. Giovanna Cugnasca & Mr. Paolo Cugnasca

Ms. Michelle Del Rosario

Mr. Kenneth DeRegt

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Feller

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Fisher

Mr. & Mrs. Harper L. Garrett, Jr.

Mr. Christopher N. Hanway

Ms. Else H. Matthews & Mr. Samuel Matthews

Ms. Elizabeth McQueen

Ms. Nancy Neel

Mr. William T. Newlin

Mr. Gregory O’Connell

Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Rakower


Ms. Elizabeth A. Rodriguez

Mr. Benjamin E. Rosenberg & Ms. Karen B. Shaer

Mr. Carlos M. Santos

Mr. & Mrs. Vinitha and Sudhakar Shetty

Mr. & Mrs. Leigh Wilson

$100–$249

Mr. Derek M. Anello

Mr. Rashad Barron

Ms. Margit I. Barsdorf

Mr. & Mrs. Simeon Baum

Mr. & Mrs. Scott L. Berman

Mr. John F. Blaney

Mr. John Bradshaw

Ms. Joyce L. Brennan

Mr. & Mrs. Tim Brennan

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Coler

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Considine

Mr. Joseph N. Crisci

Ms. Roslyn Davis

Ms. Nadya De Chimay

Ms. Mary Faughnan Reddy

Ms. Arlen Sue Fox

Mr. Raymond E. George, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. James Gorski

Ira R. Greenberg, Esq.

Ms. Kristine M. Hamann

Mr. Charles Henry

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Howe

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Iantuono

Ms. Alice F. Idrissi

Ms. Mary Kearl

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Klur

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Kobel

Ms. Vildan Kortan

Mr. Fred Lane

Mr. & Mrs. Vito Lenoci

Ms. Stacia Maberely

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Maestri

Mr. & Mrs. Euclid F. Maggiani

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McGinn

Ms. Barbara Mehlman

Mr. Robert C. Miner

Mr. Stephan S. Russo

Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Sheehan

Mr. Ulysses & Mrs. Narda Sherman

Ms. Nitasha Shetty

Mr. Jeffrey P. Sholeen

Mr. Adam Smykowski

Mr. Paul B. Steffensen

Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Steinberg

Mr. Aaron Stern

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Strazza

Ms. Barbara Swartz

Mr. Ralph J. Vernon

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Vinegrad

Mr. William J. Weisner

Mr. Cecil & Mrs. Carmen Worrell

Mr. Rauf Yagan

$50–$99

Mr. & Mrs. W. Agee

Ms. Sindy Aprigliano

Mrs. Elinor & Mr. Sigmund Balka

Mr. Jerome M. Best

Drs. George & Sarah R. Blumenschein

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Callahan

Mr. Donald Preston Cato

Ms. Barbara Chin

Mr. Anthony N. Ciancimino

Ms. Therese L. Coburn

Ms. Trilbie Collins

Mr. David Cummings

Ms. June Ann M. Dispinziere

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Fertig

Mr. Ennio Frank

Ms. Debra-Ellen Glickstein

Ms. Ellen Guidone

Mr. Michael Harrington

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan S. Hollenberg

Mr. Alan Kearl

Ms. Ann Kirschner

Ms. Suzanne Knobel

Ms. Fern D. Letnes

Ms. Phyllis Lipman

Mr. & Mrs. Palle Lorentzen

Mrs. Sabrail Lloyd

Ms. Angela I. Martin

Ms. Denise Maestri

Ms. Rachel Metelits

Mr. Donald McAllister, Jr.

Ms. Alexis Moyano

Ms. Allyson M. Mulroney

Mr. John J. Oddy

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Pike

Ms. Phyllis F. Quinn

Mr. & Mrs. Lennard K. Rambusch

Ms. Marianne Ruch

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley A. Schecter

Dr. and Mrs. William K. Sietsema

Mrs. Aimée M. Simpierre

Ms. Ruth Summers

Ms. Jing Tian

Dr. Brenda Tepper

In-Kind Donations(July 1, 2013- June 30, 2014)

The After-School Corporation (TASC)

Associated Supermarket Corp.

Astoria Bookstore

Barnes & Noble

Ms. Alba Cardona

Citi Global Community Relations

Community Resource Exchange

Consortium for Worker Education

Cornell University Cooperative Extension

Costco

Delta Airlines

Driscoll Foods

Enigma Bookstore

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies

The Floating Hospital

Full Throttle Events

GrowNYC

Health First

High Water Women Foundation

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Ms. Kim Kullmer

LaGuardia Community College

Literacy Assistance Center

La Quinta Inn

Lawyers Alliance of New York

Long Island University

Men’s Group (Senior Services)

The Museum of the Moving Image

New York Cares

The New York Hall of Science

The New York Mets

The New York Yankees

The Noguchi Museum

NYC Service/NYC Civic Corps

Oh! Hot Bagels

Queens Library

Queens Vocational & Technical High School

Salesforce.com Foundation

The Spirited New Yorker

Starbucks

Steinway Child & Family Services

Super Stop & Shop Supermarket

Tom Cat Bakery

Urban Upbound

Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weill Cornell Medical College

WellCare

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