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The New York Women’s Foundation CELEBRATING WOMEN 2010
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JOIN
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STAND FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES
in New York City
The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF )
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is a voice for women and a force for change.
We are a cross-cultural alliance of women catalyzing partnerships
and leveraging human and financial capital to achieve
sustained economic security and justice for women and girls.
With fierce determination, we mobilize hearts, minds and resources
to create an equitable and just future for
women, families and communities in New York City.
in New York City
T H E F O U N D AT I O N
PROGRAMS
CONTRIBUTORS
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letter from the board chair
and president & ceo
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women & girls creating change
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partners in change
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grantee partners
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activist philanthropists
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funding collaboratives
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financial statements
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capacity building initiatives
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with appreciation
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who we are
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celebrating women® breakfast
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our history
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the foundation in action
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13 May 2010
Welcome to our 23rd Celebrating Women® Breakfast! We thank you for joining us today at this important
juncture in the economic life of our city. We continue to face severe challenges with tremendous impact in
the lives of families and communities in New York City: one in ten of us are unemployed, countless more
are underemployed and thousands are on the verge of losing unemployment insurance. In the face of this
daunting reality, the Foundation continues its active pursuit of effective solutions and new opportunities not
only to address the crisis of this moment, but to ensure sustainable economic security for women and families.
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Since our last Breakfast we have made an important difference. Refusing to scale down and retrench, with your
help, we increased our funding 20% in order to support the work of community-based organizations on the
frontlines of this recession. With these additional grants, we were able to help women gain and regain
employment, stay in their homes, keep their families safe, and work on their long-term economic goals.
In 2009, an investment of $40 thousand dollars in workforce development placed 20 single mothers in jobs
and yielded over $300,000 of income to these families. A $35 thousand dollar grant in support of women’s
working cooperatives resulted in earnings of $290,000 for 42 women and their families in a six month period.
By investing more at a time of greater need, we mitigated the impact of the economic crisis for hundreds
of families and accelerated the rebuilding of our communities and City.
But our work is far from over. Last year, we asked you to rise with us on behalf of women and families in
New York City. Today, we ask you to continue rising and standing with us. Together we can create a city that
works for all, where women, families and communities thrive.
Yours truly,
Carolyn Buck Luce
Ana L. Oliveira
Board Chair
President and CEO
The New York Women’s Foundation
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At The New York Women’s Foundation, we work together to transform the conditions of poverty,
helping to build a city where women, families and communities thrive through shared power
and sustained economic justice and security.
Our work is rooted in a tradition of educating and engaging women of all means about the power
of our collective action as activist philanthropists. We know that we can have a greater impact when
we work together, leveraging our financial and intellectual resources to empower individuals
and families and affect long-term systemic change. It is this singular commitment of women
helping women that sets The New York Women’s Foundation apart from more traditional
philanthropic organizations.
At the Foundation, you will find women from all walks of life. Our board of directors, staff, and
committee volunteers are a diverse and remarkable team working toward common goals.
The Foundation’s leadership includes women of different ages, economic backgrounds, and ethnic
origins who bring with them a wealth of perspectives and skills. Our supporters are generous
with their time, resources, and ideas, actively working to improve the lives of women and girls.
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in New York City
We are ACTIVIST philanthropists.
When we act together to raise money in order to fund
women leaders and women-led organizations, we are
creating positive change in the lives of women, girls and
communities as activist philanthropists.
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We are effective PHILANTHROPISTS.
At the Foundation, we work “close to the ground.” Not only
are we well-versed in our understanding and approach
to the complexity and the inter-connectedness of issues
that impact women’s lives, we also work closely with our
grantee partners, incorporating their wisdom and their
“front-line” expertise into our grantmaking strategies.
supports women’s economic independence. A donation
may come from someone of substantial resources who
underwrites a grant or initiative, makes a planned gift, or
contributes to our endowment; or it may be the collective
gift of a network or other affinity group.
The common theme among all of these contributions is
the choice to make a difference in one’s own community,
and the ability of the Foundation to leverage these collective
resources. Our strategic philanthropy ensures that grants
go to women helping women build independent lives
with living wages, and create safe, healthy communities.
We FUND for systemic change.
We LEVERAGE our resources.
Everyone can become involved in the Foundation’s work
as an activist philanthropist.
As a public philanthropy, our grantmaking relies on
contributions. Our diverse philanthropic partners help
us raise money and spread the word for others to join us.
A donor to the Foundation may be an individual whose
gift of $10 represents the full capacity of her charitable
contribution. Or it may be one of New York’s leading
business or legal institutions whose donation demonstrates
to its clients and the community that the business
In 2010, the Foundation will award over $3 million
to more than 65 partner organizations in New York City.
Our grants focus on economic security across women’s
life span, being attentive to the needs of girls and the
intergenerational issues that affect economic security.
We are often the first funder to offer significant
support to community-based nonprofits serving women
and girls. Over the past 23 years, we have developed
mastery in identifying and supporting innovative and
effective organizations and programs working for broad,
positive change for women and families.
We engage in PARTICIPATORY GRANTMAKING.
We CELEBRATE women as leaders.
Our participatory grantmaking process engages a diverse
range of women’s voices and perspectives. Our staff, along
with Grants Advisory Committee volunteers, visits over
70 organizations throughout the City. Partnering with
volunteer teams, “the eyes and ears” in the community,
our knowledgeable staff exercises their expertise in
community needs, nonprofit management, and gender
analysis to make strategic funding recommendations.
Involvement with The New York Women’s Foundation can
be a life-changing experience. We encourage women to
join in helping our communities grow strong, and we
honor many for their courage, commitment, and passion.
Our annual Breakfast is an event unlike any other in
New York City, drawing together thousands of guests to
applaud the achievements of remarkable leaders in
philanthropy, community-based work, and women’s rights.
The Foundation has thrived on this vision of combining
hands-on philanthropy with community-driven projects.
By asking our supporters to engage in our grantmaking
process, we build partnerships among women who have
the resources to give, women who can teach us more about
our neighborhoods, and women who are overcoming the
challenges of poverty.
The Foundation gives several awards to celebrate, honor,
and appreciate the work of women.
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Our Celebrating Women® Award is given to a woman
whose significant achievements have influenced
the lives of – and provided a role model for –
women and girls.
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Our Vision Award acknowledges and praises
strategic philanthropy.
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Our Neighborhood Leadership Awards, given at our
annual Neighborhood Dinner, recognize women
who have committed their lives to neighborhoodbased work on behalf of women and families.
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The Century Award is a unique award presented
to a woman whose work on behalf of women has
spanned many decades.
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The Stepping Up Award, given at our Fall Dinner
is presented to New Yorkers who serve as role
models and who demonstrate courageous leader
ship, vision and commitment to women and families
as individuals and as partners.
We PROMOTE sustainability.
As The New York Women’s Foundation’s grantee partners
encourage their constituents to become self-reliant, we
partner with organizations to become increasingly
sustainable and effective. In addition to general operating
and program-specific grants, we support grantee partners’
leadership and organizational development through
capacity building grants and assistance that enable them to
build their infrastructure and learn strategies for growth.
We AMPLIFY women’s voices and concerns.
The New York Women’s Foundation supports a wide range
of activities that promote and protect the rights of women
and girls. In addition to funding programs that seek to
create systemic change for all New Yorkers who experience
economic hardship, the Foundation also mobilizes its
networks to act in support of policies that enable women,
families and communities to live secure, safe, and healthy
lives. We convene public forums and issue briefings to
raise awareness and address issues of concern.
We INVEST responsibly.
The Foundation’s endowment is invested in companies
that “do well by doing good” – they have women in leadership
positions and have strong policies for women employees.
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ACTIVIST PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION
Activist Philanthropy is a guiding force at The New York Women’s Foundation .
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We are a cross-cultural alliance of individuals making a difference in the world through philanthropy; and to this
end, we bring together people with diverse talents, perspectives, financial and experiential resources in order
to broaden the movement for social change. We invite you to join us in transforming the conditions of poverty
and creating an equitable and just future for low-income women and girls. Here are some of the ways the
Foundation engages in activist philanthropy:
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The Committee for the Future (CFF)
The Circle of Sisters for Social Change (COS)
This volunteer committee creates an opportunity for
younger philanthropists to join the work of the
Foundation. The CFF supports the Foundation’s commitment to low-income women and girls in New York City
by educating new Foundation supporters about women’s
issues and by engaging others in activist philanthropy.
Committee members plan and participate in events, help
produce other special projects and garner Foundation
support through the Celebrating Women® Breakfast
and other initiatives.
This committee brings together socially conscious women
to learn about the Foundation, harness financial
resources, and create professional networks to build a
collective voice for social change philanthropy in New
York City.
Grants Advisory Committee (GAC)
This volunteer committee embodies participatory grantmaking at the Foundation. Committee members help
identify grantee partners among the city’s most innovative
and worthy nonprofit organizations that promote the
sustained economic security of women and girls.
Committee members learn more about the challenges
women and girls face and the organizations working with
them, and participate in trainings and issue briefings
to provide the tools they will need to review proposals
and conduct site visits with the Foundation staff.
The President’s Council
The President’s Council is a group of individuals who
contribute generously to the future of The New York
Women’s Foundation®. By working closely with the
President & CEO, these leaders volunteer to support the
Foundation in ways that are very personal and meaningful
to them. Through special events and programs,
President’s Council members build strong and lasting
resources for the Foundation and women and girls in
New York City.
JOIN THE COMMUNITY OF ACTIVIST PHILANTHROPISTS
Because the Foundation collectively leverages donations, gifts at every level have an impact on our ability to
help women and girls rise out of poverty. So, activate your giving today and tell your friends, family, colleagues
and networks to do the same – there is strength in numbers! ACTIVATE YOUR GIVING TODAY .
Become a Monthly Sustainer!
Committing to The New York Women’s Foundation’s
Monthly Sustainer program allows you to budget your
annual giving. Contributions to this program are made
automatically via credit card or payroll deduction the same
day every month. As a Monthly Sustainer, you will receive
special updates about what your support makes possible
and a year-end summary statement for your tax records.
Honor another woman –
your mother, sister friend or heroine!
Or sister, or daughter.…With $50 or more, you can make
a donation as a gift in honor or memory of a special person
in your life. The Foundation will send a special card
to your honoree acknowledging your gift, and you
will support the Foundation’s work as well. Consider
recognizing a special person, group, or event with a
tribute page in the annual Celebrating Women® Album.
Name a Foundation Grant!
Think of your colleagues or alumnae association and the
wealth of intelligence, skills, and resources you represent.
Several women’s groups – including professional
associations, alumnae organizations, and women
colleagues in law firms and other offices – have leveraged
their collective donations to the Foundation. The
Foundation is pleased to name a grant for the year it
is funded in honor of the individuals and institutions
that make it possible.
Your Legacy Helps Our Future: The Polly W. Guth Circle
Women and men of all ages, means, and walks of life can
create a legacy and commemorate your commitment to
the Foundation. Gifts made through wills, retirement
plans, trusts, and life insurance allow you to plan your
giving for the future and provide support for future
generations of women and girls. These planned gifts also
may have the benefit of providing you with current and/
or future income tax reductions as well as generating
income for yourself or loved ones.
Ask at the Office!
Ask your employer about matching gifts; many will make
a donation to the Foundation when you do. This means
that your donation could double or even triple. Simply
enclose your company’s form along with your donation.
Your company may also have a workplace giving program.
The Foundation currently participates in the United Way
and CUNY Workplace Giving Programs.
Support our events!
Our Celebrating Women® Breakfast, Fall Dinner and
Neighborhood Dinner all provide opportunities to make
a gift while strengthening the Foundation, community
and partnerships.
For more information on how to participate, please contact us at 212-261-4586 or [email protected] or visit www.nywf.org.
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The Polly W. Guth Circle
Polly W. Guth is a founding member of
The New York Women’s Foundation who created
a legacy circle through her bold leadership and
dedication. The Foundation is deeply grateful
to Polly and all Circle members ensuring a
future of possibility and justice for women
and families in New York City.
Miriam Buhl
Anne E. Delaney
Martha M. Ferry
Karen Flischel and Kim Luck
Jean Minskoff Grant
Polly W. Guth
Katherine S. Kahan
Sarah Kovner
Antoinette E. La Belle
Sandra A. Lamb
Ruth A. Leach Harnisch
Carolyn Buck Luce
Jane L. Mali
Gail S. Miner
Talib Nichiren
Cynthia J. Ries
Phyllis W. Ross
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giving
for the
ƒuture
To join the Polly W. Guth Circle, please call 212.261.4586 or visit www.nywf.org.
Foundation Leadership
Board of Directors
Staff
Executive Committee
Development Committee
Carolyn Buck Luce
Chair
Ana L. Oliveira
President &
Chief Executive Officer
Carolyn Buck Luce
Chair
Yvonne S. Quinn
Chair
Diana L. Taylor
Vice-Chair
Anita Channapati
Somers Farkas
Robyn Brady Ince
Karen A. Phillips
Diana L. Taylor
Vice-Chair
Robyn Brady Ince
Secretary
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
Treasurer
Hyatt Bass
Brooke S. Beardslee
Sayu V. Bhojwani
Taina Bien-Aimé
Anita Channapati
Aiyoung Choi
Susan Coté
Susan R. Cullman
Anne E. Delaney
Grace Hightower De Niro
Tuhina De O’Connor
Somers Farkas
Katharine R. Henderson
Lisa M. Holton
Margaret Munzer Loeb
Karen A. Phillips
Yvonne S. Quinn
Rossana Rosado
Abigail E. Disney
Honorary Chair
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Chair Emerita
Elizabeth Cho
Director of Communications
& Marketing
Jacqueline M. Ebanks
Director of Programs
Megan Guzman
Program Officer
Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Madeline Lamour Holder
Associate Director of
Individual Giving
Daisy Loaiza
Executive Assistant
Alejandra Naranjo
Director, Major Gifts
& Strategic Campaigns
Talib Nichiren
Director of Individual Giving
& Special Events
Ruth Sanderson
Administrative Manager
Tarnisha Smart
Assistant Director, Development
Treasurer
Robyn Brady Ince
Secretary
Finance & Investments
Committee
Hyatt Bass
Chair,
Communications Task Force
Chair
Taina Bien-Aimé
Chair, Program Committee
Sr. Chair, Strategic Planning
& Implementation Task Force
Susan Coté
Diana L. Taylor
Carolyn Buck Luce
ex officio
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Program Committee
Chair, Committee on the Board
Taina Bien-Aimé
Chair
Yvonne S. Quinn
Chair, Development Committee
Brooke S. Beardslee
Aiyoung Choi
Susan Coté
Committee on the Board
Chair
Communications
Task Force
Lisa M. Holton
Robin Brady Ince
Diana L. Taylor
Hyatt Bass
Chair
Carolyn Buck Luce
ex-officio
Anne E. Delaney
Lisa M. Holton
Rossana Rosado
Strategic Planning
Implementation Task Force
Sr. Chair
Hyatt Bass
Taina Bien-Aimé
Robyn Brady Ince
Carolyn Buck Luce
Yvonne S. Quinn
Diana L. Taylor
Grants Advisory Committee
Process Improvement
Task Force
Sandra A. Lamb
Chair
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Roseanne Antonucci
Julie Fenster
Sharon Myrie
Carol Schlitt
Ali Tan
Barbara Brizzi Wynne
Grants Advisory
Committee 2009
Susan Coté
Co-Chair
Julie Fontaine
Co-Chair
Karen A. Phillips
Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Roseanne Antonucci
Martha Baker
Kwanza R. Butler
Shona Chakravartty
Melinda Chu
Cathy Clarkin
Minal Patel Davis
Julie Fenster
Roopa Mehendale Foley
Anne Fosty
Monica Graham
Kate Heiberg
Robyn Brady Ince
Maya Iwata
Shirin Kerman
Kate Landon
Dawn Markowitz
Mona Marquardt
Robyn Mazur
Kiisha Morrow
Abby Young Moses
Sue Orchant
Catherine Pack
Julia Parshall
Sandra Perez
Bahia Ramos-Synnott
Ayo Roach
Lynda Rodolitz
Kristen Ruff
Suzy Sanford
Carol Schlitt
Cindy Silverman
Jessica Stern
Ali Tan
Migna Taveras
Nisha Varia
Liz Wainstock
Toya Williford
Cynthia Young
Alumnae Initiative
Chair
Committee for the Future
Anita Channapati
Board Liaison
Minal Patel Davis
Co-Chair
Jessica Klaitman
Co-Chair
Adeola Adele
Neha Anada
Lauren Artese
Isil Bagdadi
Tahila Bliss
Jill Cantwell
Cinnamon Chambers
Catherine Dash
Monique Edwards
Elise Fener
Sarah A. Finklea
Rachel Gerstein
Janelle Greene
Antoinette Hamilton
Rebecca J. Holden
Liz Kiernan
Daphne Leroy
Lena Licata
Eileen O. Michael
Heather Roberts
Indra Santana
Pamela Schiess
Karen Reynolds Sharkey
Alison Sherbach
Nel Sung
Kellee Terrell
Stephanie Van Damm
Dorian Van Dyke
Div ya Verma
Toya Williford
Janeene Freeman
Debra Keenan
Yvonne Kenney
Kawana R. King
Deana Lawson
Kiisha Morrow
Patricia Norton
Courtney Oliver
Kerry-Ann Powell
Sherry Robinson
Carol Schlitt
Rashidah Siddiqui
Kenyatta Skyles
Shayla Sommerville
Cheena Stanley
Marissa Watson
President’s Council
Diana L. Taylor
Chair
Susan R. Cullman
Somers Farkas
Fall Dinner 2009
Circle of Sisters
for Social Change
Karen A. Phillips
Chair
Akira Barclay
Workgroup Coordinator
Workgroup
Nana-Oye Addo-Yobo
Michelle Beaman
Sheena Blaise
Lorin Brown
Kwanza R. Butler
Melinda Chu
Jan Myers Cook
Deneen Cooper
Jen Culbert
Dowoti Desir
Angelia Dickens
Margareth Ferruzola
Tiffany Fetcher
Co-Chairs
Hyatt Bass
Sayu V. Bhojwani
Aiyoung Choi
Susan R. Cullman
Somers Farkas
Carolyn Buck Luce
Jean Shafiroff
Diana L. Taylor
Jacqueline P. Togut
Brooklyn Neighborhood
Dinner 2009
Co-Chairs
Marjorie Cadogan
Gail B. Hochman
Karen A. Phillips
Sharon Myrie
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CELEBRATING WOMEN 2010
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In 1987, a small group of visionary women from diverse backgrounds joined forces
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to found The New York Women’s Foundation®. Their goal was to identify and fund
community organizations in New York City run by and for women whose programs assisted
low-income women and girls in need of critical services and economic independence.
The next spring, The Foundation held its first Celebrating Women® Breakfast in a crowded
church hall and distributed $50,000 to four community-based groups.
Today, The New York Women’s Foundation’s annual Breakfast is the premiere fundraising
event for women of conscience in New York City. By the end of 2010, our twenty-third year,
The Foundation will distribute more than $24.2 million in grants to over 250 organizations,
furthering our mission to create an equitable and just future for women, families and
communities in New York City.
JEREMY COWART
Previous Award Recipients
Ambassador Swanee Hunt
Angélique Kidjo
Lilly Ledbetter
The Century Award
The Vision Award
The Celebrating Women® Award
Elinor Guggenheimer
Dolores C. Huerta
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai
Gloria W. Milliken
Abigail E. Disney
Barbara Dobkin
Stephanie Schwartz Ferdman
Barbara Denning Finberg
Agnes Gund
Polly W. Guth
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Swanee Hunt
Sheila C. Johnson
Billie Jean King
Edith Blakeslee Phelps
Barbara Scott Preiskel
Sara Lee Schupf
Jan Abernathy
Madeleine K. Albright
Christiane Amanpour
Brenda Berkman
Christine Beshar
Amalia Betanzos
Diana Brooks
Gretchen Buchenholz
Alice Cardona
Irene Diamond
Barbara Ehrenreich
Eve Ensler
Whoopi Goldberg
Dr. Dorothy Height
Judith Jamison
Judith Kehoe
Angélique Kidjo
Geraldine Laybourne
The Women of Meeting Point
International, Uganda
Joan Melber Warburg
Joan H. Weill
Queen Latifah
Lilly Ledbetter
Dr. Megan McLaughlin
Gloria W. Milliken
Lorraine Monroe
Elizabeth Luce Moore
Mira Nair
Margaret McNeil Pendelton
Dr. Muriel Petioni
Karen A. Phillips
Queen Latifah
Lisa Quiroz
Ann R. Roberts
Kathy Rodgers
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias
Celina Romany
Rosita M. Romero
Hildy Simmons
Isabel Carter Stewart
Marie C. Wilson
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TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS
Honorary Committee
Captain (ret.)
Brenda Berkman
Barbara Dobkin
Stephanie Ferdman
Agnes Gund
Dolores C. Huerta
Angélique Kidjo
Mira Nair
Rosita M. Romero
Sara Lee Schupf
Joan Melber Warburg
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Breakfast Committees
Steering Committee
Benefit Committee
Marcy Grau
Cornelia Small
Sayu V. Bhojwani
Co-Chair
Loreen Arbus,
The Loreen Arbus
Foundation
Agnes Gund
Terry Lynn Smith
Suhana Han
Regan A. Solmo
Jennifer A. Soros
Lisa Hines-Johnson
Brande Stellings
Gail B. Hochman
Diana L. Taylor
Lisa M. Holton
Barbara Manfrey Vogelstein
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Joan Melber Warburg
Robyn Brady Ince
Vera Weintraub
Deborah & Alfred Jackson
Marie Wilson
Virginia Joffe
Barbara & Bill Wynne
Betty C. Jones
Suzanne Zywicki
Susan R. Cullman
Co-Chair
Wendy Bach
Helene Banks
Gail B. Hochman
Vice-Chair
Regan A. Solmo
Vice-Chair
Anita Channapati
Minal Patel Davis
Robyn Brady Ince
Jennifer Giacobbe
Sharon Gigante
Antoinette Hum
Carolyn Buck Luce
Rhonda Joy McLean
Karen A. Phillips
Anne H. Bass
Hyatt Bass
Brooke S. Beardslee
Sayu V. Bhojwani
Taina Bien-Aimé
Karen Bigman
Ashley Snowdon Blanchard
Kwanza R. Butler
Renée Landegger
Anita Channapati
Evelyn Lauder
Aiyoung Choi
Cathy Levy
Elizabeth Church
Corporate Support
Subcommittee
Robyn Brady Ince
Chair
Maria Cilenti
Carolyn Buck Luce
Mayree Clark,
The Silverleaf Foundation
Susan Coté
Susan R. Cullman
Lucy Danziger
Elizabeth B. Dater
Anne E. Delaney
Abigail E. Disney
Barbara Dobkin
Somers Farkas
Eileen Fisher
Ashley Garrett
Jennifer Giacobbe
Sharon Gigante
Leni May
Margot Michalski
Jane B. O’Connell
Ana L. Oliveira
Silda Palerm
Katheryn Patterson
Karen A. Phillips
Marian S. Pillsbury
Yvonne S. Quinn
Rossana Rosado
Yehudah Rose
Sheri Sandler
Mary Carroll Scott
Elinor A. Seevak
Lindsay Shea
Carolyn Sicher
Kwanza R. Butler
Charlene Butterfield
Lybra Clemons
Susan R. Cullman
Dawn Edwards
Jennifer Giacobbe
Sharon Gigante
Antoinette Hum
Rhonda Joy McLean
Courtney Oliver
Yvonne S. Quinn
Terry Lynn Smith
Regan A. Solmo
Michelle Vice
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THE VISION AWARD
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Mary J. Blige
There’s little, if any, denying that Mary J. Blige is one of the greatest singers of our time. The proof is in the consistent
#1 albums and singles, six (6) Grammy awards, seven (7) multi-platinum records and 15-years of love from the public,
critics and fellow artists. Since her 1992 debut – the modern classic What’s the 411 all the way to 2005’s stunning
The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige has helped to redefine R&B, and more importantly, been an artist that uses her gift
to lift spirits, touch lives and bring her heart, soul and truth to those who are willing to listen.
Mary has used her voice of reckoning to triumph many causes close to her heart in order to make an impact outside of
the studio. She has been active with many community organizations and AIDS awareness programs such as Minority
AIDS Project, and in 2001 was honored for community activism with Rock the Vote’s Patrick Lippert Award.
Mary’s latest charitable endeavor, the creation of The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement
of Women Now, Inc. (FFAWN) is her most significant philanthropic undertaking to date. FFAWN’s mission is to
help women gain the confidence and skills necessary to reach their full individual potential.
Mary’s eighth studio CD, Growing Pains, comes on the heels of Mary’s best-selling anthology Reflections (2006).
It’s also her first CD of new material since The Breakthrough debuted at #1, selling over an astonishing 700,000 copies
its first week – setting a record at that time as the best opening week for a solo R&B female artist in SoundScan history.
The album’s first single, “Be Without You,” also made chart history by holding down the #1 spot on the Billboard
“Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums” chart for a record breaking sixteen (16) straight weeks; making it her biggest hit, so far,
of a career filled with them. In addition “Be Without You” made its way into history books when it became the longest
running #1 song on the R&B chart in over 40 years. As if that wasn’t achievement enough The Breakthrough
and “Be Without You” earned an astonishing eight (8) Grammy award nominations with Mary winning three (3).
Ask what fans can expect from Growing Pains and Mary J. Blige is characteristically upfront. “They’re going to get a sense
of what my state of mind is and how I view the world,” she says. “And hopefully, most of all, they’re going to hear just
the sincere honesty and love that I have for them. I’m always putting myself out there like, look. I love ya’ll. I got ya’ll.
I’m rocking with ya’ll. So that’s what they’re going to get, that commitment. I hope they’re going to be very happy with that.”
You can hear Mary’s own happiness and strength all throughout Growing Pains. Working in partnership with some of
the best in the game e.g., Tricky and Dream, Neyo and Stargate, The Neptunes, Dre and Vidal, Jazze Pha, Sean Garrett,
and featuring guest appearances by Ludacris, and Usher, Growing Pains is the sound of an artist in love, in touch, in
control, and not afraid to show it. More than anything Growing Pains gives you straight up Mary letting the public
share her world, and delivering a message that says, Love yourself. Believe in yourself and kick negativity to the curb.
Needless to say, when you have that type of success all eyes are on the next release. Mary keeps it all in perspective
by focusing on what really matters. The journey. The growth. The love. And as always the music and the fans. “I’m still
trying to heal and get better and that’s what Growing Pains represents. It’s about accepting that there’s pain that goes
along with growing and change. No pain, no gain.”
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THE VISION AWARD
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Eileen Fisher
At the heart of EILEEN FISHER is great design. Ideas brought to life through clean lines, simple shapes, and sensual
fabrics. Eileen began her career as an interior designer and graphic artist. With the intention of creating beautifully
simple clothing designed to move with real life, she founded her company in 1984. The collection is sold in 50
EILEEN FISHER stores, plus department and specialty stores across the United States and Canada.
Eileen strives for balance in her role as a mother, designer, and business leader. As a socially conscious company,
EILEEN FISHER is dedicated to guiding our product towards sustaining the environment, practicing business responsibly
with absolute regard for human rights and funding grant programs which focus on improving the well being of women
and girls. Our current grant program provides funding for non-profit organizations focused on activating leadership
in women and girls. For the past 6 years we have offered a program for women-owned businesses, which has provided
funds to 25 women entrepreneurs to help grow their businesses.
In September 2009, Eileen launched a new retail prototype, the EF Lab store in Irvington, NY, which offers the current
collection along with samples, and donated recycled Eileen Fisher clothing. All proceeds from the sale of the recycled
clothing help fund Eileen’s private foundation which supports women and girls through local non-profit organizations.
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THE CELEBRATING WOMEN AWARD
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Margarita Rosa, Esq.
Margarita Rosa, Esq. has dedicated much of her life to the pursuit and promotion of social justice. As an undergraduate
she joined other students in advocating, and planning for, the creation of the Third World Culture Center (now the Carl Fields
Center) at Princeton University. Through the Third World Culture Center (TWC) she gained a deeper understanding of,
and strengthened her commitment to, enriching the human experience by promoting and embracing inclusive diversity.
As a student, and later as a member of Princeton’s Alumni Schools Committee, Margarita recruited students to college
from inner city schools in NYC, her hometown.
In college, she worked closely with other students of color to promote inter-group understanding and respect and to
ensure that students of color had the opportunity to be equal participants in the life of the university and that the voices
of those in the minority were heard.
Margarita’s commitment to social justice and equity led her to become a civil rights lawyer. She became a staff attorney at
the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Latino Justice) where she worked on cases that successfully
challenged policies and practices that denied Puerto Ricans and other Latinos equal opportunity to employment,
education, and access to services.
In 1985, Margarita was appointed General Counsel of the New York State Division of Human Rights, the state agency
that enforces NYS’ anti-discrimination law (the Human Rights Law). In 1990, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed her
New York State’s Human Rights Commissioner. Margarita’s time at the NYS Division of Human Rights (DHR) coincided
with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. During those years, persons who had, or were perceived to have, AIDS or the
HIV virus, often became victims of discrimination in housing, in employment and in places of public accommodation
such as hospitals and clinics. As Commissioner, Margarita issued precedent setting orders that helped remove barriers
to fair and equal treatment for persons with HIV and other persons with disabilities. She also issued Commissioner’s
Orders in a significant number of cases involving sexual harassment, including the first case that applied the protections
of the law in cases of same sex sexual harassment. Margarita oversaw and promoted the work of DHR’s Crisis Prevention
Unit. The unit responded to incidents of bias-related violence or harassment and it also engaged in public education
aimed at reducing incidents of inter-group conflicts.
Since 1995, Margarita has led a community-based, human service organization, the Grand Street Settlement (GSS),
located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As GSS’ Executive Director, Margarita has successfully diversified the
composition of the agency’s staff, its board of directors, and its constituents. Grand Street Settlement’s constituents
include people of all ages, races, colors, creeds, sexual orientations, and levels of physical ability. GSS currently serves
people (mostly “low income” people) with origins in Latin America, the Caribbean, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa,
and Europe. Services are provided in a number of different languages including, but not limited to, English, Spanish,
several dialects of Chinese, and Bangla. Margarita takes pride in the fact that, at the Grand Street Settlement, diversity
is appreciated, respected and embraced. Most of GSS’ program activities are multi-ethnic and multi-racial.
Intergenerational activities (e.g. between teens and older adults, or young children and older adults) are among the
most inspiring and endearing.
Margarita Rosa has helped shape the public conversation about justice and equality. Her work has, and continues to
help transform lives. She is an advocate and activist for social justice. Margarita has taught public policy/public
administration and law to graduate students and has spoken extensively on subjects related to human rights, justice
and equality, and inclusive diversity.
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EMCEE
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Soledad O’Brien
Soledad O’Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN/U.S. Since joining the network in 2003, O’Brien
has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning and record-breaking documentaries on the most important stories facing the world today. She also covers political news as part of CNN’s “Best Political
Team on Television.”
O’Brien’s most recent project, Latino in America, was a wide-ranging look at Latinos living in this country;
how they’re reshaping America and how America is reshaping them. Earlier this year, O’Brien reported for Black
in America 2, a four-hour documentary focusing on successful community leaders who are improving the lives of AfricanAmericans. O’Brien’s reporting for Black in America in 2008 revealed the state of Black America 40 years after the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She has also reported for the CNN documentary Words That Changed a Nation,
featuring a never-before-seen look at Dr. King’s private writings and notes, and investigated his assassination
in Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination. Her Children of the Storm project and One Crime at a Time documentary
demonstrate O’Brien’s continued commitment to covering stories out of New Orleans.
O’Brien joined CNN in July 2003 as the co-anchor of the network’s flagship morning program, American Morning, and
distinguished herself by reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that broke on her watch, including
Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Southeast Asia. For CNN’s Katrina coverage, O’Brien’s reports on the storm’s
impact included an in-depth interview with former FEMA chief Michael Brown. She also covered the London terrorism
attacks in July 2005, and in December 2004, she was among a handful of CNN anchors sent to Thailand to cover the
disaster and aftermath of the tsunami.
O’Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Katrina coverage and an
Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami. Her numerous other awards include a Gracie Allen Award in 2007
for her reporting from Cyprus on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict as well as her reports from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane
Katrina. The NAACP honored her with its President’s Award in 2007 for her humanitarian efforts and journalistic
excellence. In 2008, she was the first recipient of the Soledad O’Brien Freedom’s Voice Award from the Morehouse
School of Medicine for being a catalyst for social change. Also in 2008, O’Brien was the first recipient of The Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Goodermote Humanitarian Award for her efforts while reporting on
the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asia tsunami. In 2009, she received the 2009 Medallion
of Excellence for Leadership and Community Service Award from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
O’Brien came to CNN from NBC News where she anchored the network’s Weekend Today since July 1999. Prior, O’Brien
anchored MSNBC’s award-winning technology program The Site. O’Brien joined NBC News in 1991 and was based
in New York as a field producer for Nightly News and TODAY. Before her time at NBC, she served three years as a local
reporter and bureau chief for the NBC affiliate KRON in San Francisco. She began her career as an associate producer
and news writer at the then-NBC affiliate WBZ-TV in Boston.
O’Brien is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists. She is a graduate of Harvard University.
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Y O U T H E MPOWERMENT MISSION
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Founded in 1995, The Youth Empowerment Mission, Inc. (YEM) is a community-based organization
serving the critical needs of young people living in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the surrounding
communities of Central Brooklyn. Their award-winning Blossom Program for Girls addresses
the unique needs of girls who live in high-risk environments.
The New York Women’s Foundation has had a long and fruitful relationship with YEM as a grantee
partner and as the creators of our signature Celebrating Women® Breakfast awards since 2007.
The artists are girls and young women who participate in the programs at YEM. The Walking Stick
awards are works of art that capture the strength and beauty of the women we honor.
NYC BHANGRA
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NYC Bhangra is an organization geared to educate communities in tri-state area about Indian Arts
through Folk Dance & Festival Celebrations. Since 2007, NYC Bhangra has successfully showcased
'Bhangra & Gidda' North Indian folk dances at over 200 events including non-profit organizations,
government agencies, corporate offices & private weddings etc on the east coast. Our clients include
United Nations, City Hall, New York Times Travel Show, Dance Parade, SONY Entertainment
Television. Our dance instructors, choreographers & team of performers include dance
professionals from diverse backgrounds & ethnicities thus, bringing unique energy, freshness and
expression to dance. For more information on upcoming performances/events, workshops, dance
classes in New York City please log onto: www.nycbhangra.com
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Our History
1988
1986
The New York Women’s Foundation®
holds its first Celebrating Women®
Breakfast for 150 guests to award four
grants totaling $50,000.
Gloria
Helen
Joan
Gloria W. Milliken recruits
Helen LaKelly Hunt,
Joan Melber Warburg, and others
to found a philanthropic organization
to be run by, for, and about women.
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The Foundation’s Advocacy Committee,
led by Adria Hillman, focuses on raising
awareness and public monies to stem
domestic violence in New York City,
and the Allocations Committee
develops its unique site-visit process.
1987
The New York Women’s Foundation®
is registered as a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization, “a broad-based alliance
of New York City women dedicated to
breaking the poverty cycle of women
in all five boroughs through substantive
and systemic changes in the fields of
housing, employment, education,
child care and health.”
1991
Joan Melber Warburg arranges use of
a studio apartment for office space.
1989
A benefit auction nets over $300,000,
and the Foundation’s endowment
grows to $1 million.
•
A symposium on women in the criminal
justice system hosted by NYWF®.
THE MISSION OF
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
IS BORN
The Foundation’s Child Care Advocacy
Task Force interviews 100 mothers on
public assistance with pre-school age
children and publishes Mothers’ Voices,
A Report From the Field, assessing child
care in New York City.
1992
The new address of the Foundation is
120 Wooster Street in SoHo, its former
office space uptown is retained
for special projects.
•
Breakfast attendance breaks 1,000
as seven grantee partners receive
over $300,000.
1993
Board President Polly W. Guth presents
the Foundation’s first Vision Award
to Joan Melber Warburg.
•
The Foundation inaugurates the
annual Neighborhood Dinner
in Chinatown.
2001
1999
Celebrating Women® Breakfast emcee
Faye Wattleton raises an extra $70,000
in donations at the event, including a
check from a hotel waitress inspired
by the grantee partners’ stories.
The Foundation’s Disaster Relief Fund
raises and distributes nearly $700,000
to support nonprofits working with
women affected by the 9/11 attacks.
•
1994
Harvard pediatrician and leading child
care advocate Dr. T. Berry Brazelton
helps to launch the NYWF’s Child
Care Initiative.
The Committee for the Future
is launched to introduce younger
women, who may be new to
philanthropy, to the work
of the Foundation.
2000
1997
The tenth annual
Celebrating Women® Breakfast
is attended by 1,600 guests honoring
23 grantee partners receiving
over $500,000.
•
The Foundation releases Growing Girls!
A Report on Programming for The Girls of
New York City, underwritten by
Marcy Syms. It is the first report
to focus community attention on the
status of girls in New York City.
The Foundation honors Elinor
Guggenheimer with its first
Century Tribute at the Breakfast.
•
Board alumna Sara Lee Schupf
underwrites the new Management
& Leadership Institute for
grantee partners, and the
Foundation inaugurates its
technical assistance grants.
•
The first Public Forum makes plain
the Foundation grantee partners’
concerns about welfare reform.
2003
Governor Ann Richards emcees the
Celebrating Women® Breakfast.
2004
$10 million in grants have been
awarded since the inception
of the Foundation.
•
The Foundation attends the March on
Women’s Lives in Washington, DC.
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2005
The Foundation launches the Ruth Ray
Hunt Memorial Fund Initiative
in support of faith-based or faithrelated organizations that will directly
benefit low-income women and
girls in New York City.
•
Nobel Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai
is honored with our Century Award at
the Celebrating Women® Breakfast.
2007
434 West 33rd Street is the
new home of the Foundation.
•
The Foundation launches the
Girls Leadership Initiative to build
the leadership of young women.
•
The Foundation awards over
$2 million in grants.
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BE COURAGEOUS
BE THE CHANGE
2006
Circle of Sisters for Social Change
to enable working women to come
together to learn about the Foundation,
to network with each other, and to build
community within the Foundation.
•
Over 50 grantee partners are
funded in one year.
•
Abigail E. Disney makes a $1 million
challenge, “I Declare My Interdependence”
at the Celebrating Women® Breakfast.
The Foundation raises an additional
$1.6 million, and secures another
$1 million gift.
•
President’s Council and joins the
Women Moving Millions campaign.
ANNIVERSARY
The Foundation hosts three public
education and advocacy forums:
WEAVING THE THREADS:
WOMEN’S ACTIVISM
AND LEADERSHIP
IN NEW YORK CITY AND AFRICA
KEEPING FAMILIES
TOGETHER
WOMEN, CHILDREN & INCARCERATION
MORE THAN INCOME:
DEFINING AND MEASURING
POVERTY
I N
N E W
Y O R K
C I T Y
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The Foundation is selected as a
grantee partner of The Catalyst Fund
of Tides Foundation, a national
philanthropic collaborative to increase
investments in, support
the work of and raise the visibility
of women of color organizations
in building a reproductive justice
movement that protects and advances
the rights of all women.
2009
2008
Over $2.75 million in grants are
awarded in two granting cycles annually.
NYWF increases grantmaking by over
20% in response to the Great Recession.
•
•
The Foundation “Expanded the Circle”
with the second $1Million Celebrating
Women® Breakfast Challenge Grant.
The Challenge raised more than
$1.2 million and over 1,000 new donors.
NYWF launches the RISE-NYC!
(Respond, Inspire, Solve, Engage)
partnership, a strategic response
to the harshest economic downturn
in decades.
A first-ever Gala honors
women and men for their
commitment to New York City.
•
•
The Ugandan Women of Meeting Point
International received The Vision Award
for their activist philanthropy that crossed
cultural and geographic boundaries.
•
The Foundation partners with
The Institute for Women’s Policy
Research to publish The Economic
Status of women in New York State report.
The Foundation is selected by the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation to
participate in its two-year national
Women’s Philanthropy and Poverty
Cluster, focusing on economic security
for single women-led families.
The Committee For the Future
celebrated its 10th anniversary.
•
Fall Dinner 2009 honored
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Elizabeth and Herbert Sturz,
Sheryl Wu Dunn and Nicholas Kristof.
Mary J. Blige honored us with song.
•
The Catalyst Fund of Tides Foundation
triples its investment in
the Foundation’s women of
color-led reproductive justice
grant-making program.
•
The Foundation partners with the
New York University Robert F.
Wagner School of Public Service
to host a community forum on
“The Impact of the Foreclosure Crisis
on Women and Families
in New York City.”
The 15th annual Neighborhood Dinner
celebrated women’s
leadership in Brooklyn.
•
The Foundation announces partnership
with the Mexican Consulate and the
Violence Intervention Program (VIP)
to support Mexican women in
New York City who are survivors
of domestic violence and abuse.
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INVESTING IN WOMEN AND FAMILIES
The New York Women’s Foundation fosters individual transformation, community engagement, and
systemic change on behalf of NYC’s women and families through grantmaking, partnerships with national
and local funding collaboratives, capacity building initiatives, and public education and advocacy.
Grantmaking
The New York Women’s Foundation® (NYWF®) funds organizations and programs within the five boroughs
of New York City that move low-income women and families toward long-term economic security,
health, and stability. While the Foundation supports direct service programs, we have a strong interest in
community organizing and advocacy strategies that work to bring about meaningful and sustainable
systemic change. We support programs that aim to change policies and systems, build community, foster
collaborations, enhance leadership skills and knowledge, and encourage program participants to become
more engaged members of their communities.
The Foundation supports organizations and programs that apply gender, racial, economic and social justice
lenses to their work and express an understanding and willingness to work towards eradicating the root
causes of poverty. Our grantee partners develop programs that explicitly use strategies to achieve equity
and fairer policies for communities marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class,
religion, and immigration or citizenship status.
In 2009, The New York Women’s Foundation® awarded $3,376,950 million in grants to 68
organizations that focused on moving women and girls towards sustained economic security.
Grants were made in the following five program areas:
• Community Organizing and Advocacy
• Economic Security and Justice
• Health and Sexual Rights
• Positive Development of Girls and Young Women
• Safety
Also in 2009, the Foundation and its partners launched RISE-NYC! (Respond, Inspire, Solve, Engage)
an initiative to directly address the immediate fallout from the economic crisis on NYC’s women
and families. Twelve (12) of our 68 grantee partners received awards in the following three program
areas of the RISE-NYC! initiative:
• Business Development
• Education, Training and Employment
• Family Stability and Safety
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & ADVOCACY
We support organizations that build communities, protect and promote the rights of women and families,
and aim to change policies and systems in a long-term sustainable way.
The Audre Lorde Project
TransJustice
Citywide | $50,000
The Audre Lorde Project (ALP) is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People
of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Since its founding in 1996, ALP’s work
has been located at the intersections of racial and economic justice, sexual orientation and gender identity. Founded
in 2004, TransJustice, a project of ALP, is the only community organizing project led entirely by and for trans and
gender non-conforming people of color in the country. Through leadership development and community organizing
TransJustice seek to address the inequities and injustices facing trans and gender non conforming people of color
in New York City.
MYA LAYLANI VAZQUEZ
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Mya Laylani Vazquez was born and raised in New York City. As a young trans woman of color Mya
struggled in the public school system facing discrimination and fear of exposure due to her trans
identity. As a young person who grew up in the foster care system Mya also experienced and
observed the transphobia and harassment that many trans youth face. Mya got involved with
TransJustice when she was 19 because she felt the need to speak up about the issues and
discrimination that she and other trans and gender non conforming people face daily. Mya sees
TransJustice as a critical space that creates opportunities, challenges people to grow, and challenges
the city and other institutions on inequities facing trans and gender non conforming people of color.
At 23, Mya is now the Coordinator for TransJustice at the Audre Lorde Project. Trans and gender non conforming people
of color are one of the most disenfranchised populations in NYC – the majority live in poverty, face incredibly high rates
of un/underemployment (estimated at 60-70%) and experience daily harassment and violence. As a result, many rely
on governmental assistance to survive, yet face extreme, abusive, unjust discrimination when trying to access
these benefits. To address this issue, Mya along with other members of TransJustice led the Welfare Justice Campaign,
in collaboration with Queers for Economic Justice, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Housing Works, and advocated
for New York City’s welfare agency, the Human Resources Administration (HRA) to pass an anti-discrimination
procedure. As a result, on December 23, 2009 – after five years of organizing – in a historic victory HRA passed a
new procedure to prevent rampant transphobic discrimination and harassment in New York City’s welfare system.
The Correctional Association of New York
Women in Prison Project: ReConnect Program
Citywide | $50,000
The Women in Prison Project of the Correctional
Association of New York addresses the impact
of the criminal justice system on women and
their families. It seeks to keep women in prison
connected to their families and works to help
formerly incarcerated women become productive
members of society upon returning to their communities. ReConnect is an advocacy and leadership
training program that provides comprehensive
support services for women recently released
from prison. Women develop the skills and tools
needed to make a successful re-entry into their
communities and are empowered to understand
ways in which they can create positive change at
both the personal and systemic level.
PHROLES program public housing meeting
Good Old Lower East Side
Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side
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The Coalition for Women Prisoners protests the shackling
of pregnant prisoners outside of Governor Paterson’s office
on August 18, 2009.
Manhattan | $50,000
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) is a neighborhood preservation organization dedicated to
supporting housing and economic justice for
low-income residents of the Lower East Side.
GOLES addresses issues of displacement and
gentrification and seeks to preserve and expand
affordable housing options in the community.
The Public Housing Residents of the Lower East
Side (PHROLES) program advocates on behalf
of low-income women and families to ensure the
stability and affordability of public housing,
educates residents about tenants’ rights, and
engages in systematic organizing efforts aimed at
giving low-income women an effective voice in
shaping their community and the continued
development of the Lower East Side.
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Queers for Economic Justice
The Lower East Side Women’s Project
Welfare Organizing Project
Manhattan | $50,000
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops is a
membership organization that serves as a community-based workers’ center for low-income workers
of color in New York City. The Lower East Side
Women’s Project helps women and their families
access legal and health services, engages participants in policy advocacy work in the areas of
neighborhood displacement, protecting low income
housing, health entitlement programs, and securing
just wages, and trains participants on the impact of
the city’s rezoning and redevelopment plans on
Lower East Side families.
Citywide | $50,000
Queers for Economic Justice seeks to challenge
economic practices and policies that perpetuate
poverty and economic injustice in communities,
and promote an economic system that embraces
sexual and gender diversity. The organization is
committed to the principle that access to social and
economic resources is a fundamental right andworks
to promote a system that embraces sexual and gender
diversity and transforms conditions of poverty in
New York City. The Welfare Organizing Project
mobilizes a community of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender people living on public assistance
to become leaders in the anti-poverty movement,
to advocate for change in the welfare system, and
to advance the human rights of all individuals.
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Women’s Education and Economic Security Initiative
The Bronx | $30,000
The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy
Coalition works with neighborhood and congregation-based community organizations to address
local housing, education, immigration, and
economic justice issues affecting residents
of the Northwest Bronx. The Women’s Education
and Economic Security Initiative seeks to develop
the leadership capacity of low-income women
and girls and empower them to advocate for
public school reform in their community.
The program is committed to increasing access
to educational opportunities for low-income
youth and improving student achievement,
teacher performance, attendance rates, and school
facilities within a school system located in one
of the poorest urban counties in the nation.
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Queers for Economic Justice members at the 2009 Pride Parade.
VAMOS Unidos Bronx Protest
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Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
VAMOS Unidos
Women’s Restaurant Worker Project
Citywide | $50,000
VAMOS Unidos is a membership organization
that aims to achieve economic and social justice
for Latinas living in low-income immigrant
communities in the Bronx. The organization
assists Latinas in applying for street vending
permits and it provides direct services to build
leadership and promote the grassroots organizing
efforts of its members. VAMOS Unidos supports
street vendors by working with local police
precincts to help with matters related to police
harassment and advocates for policy changes to
decrease the arrest rate of street vendors by
increasing the number of legal permits available
from New York City government.
Citywide | $45,000
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
(ROC-NY) seeks to improve working conditions in
the restaurant industry through research, litigation,
and policy work, as well as through grassroots
organizing of restaurant workers, the majority of
whom are non-unionized immigrants lacking any
institutional support for organizing efforts. The
Women’s Restaurant Worker Project offers an
ongoing leadership development course to provide
women in the restaurant
industry with the education
VAMOS Unidos Bronx Protest
and tools needed to combat discrimination and
sexual harassment and demand fair wages and
benefits. ROC-NY implements workplace justice
campaigns to raise awareness about the issues
faced by women in the restaurant industry and
encourage women to organize and engage in collective action to seek positive changes in the workplace.
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ECONOMIC SECURITY & JUSTICE
We support organizations that ensure equal access to education, employment,
financial and other resources by dismantling barriers to opportunity.
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Adult Employment Program
Sunset Park, Brooklyn | $50,000
Center for Family Life’s Adult Employment Program partners with immigrant women in Sunset Park to organize
cooperative businesses that create opportunities for safe work at a fair wage. Since 2006, the program has launched three
cooperative businesses: Sì Se Puede/We Can Do It!, a housecleaning cooperative, Beyond Care, a childcare business, and
Émigré Gourmet, a catering collective. Together, the cooperatives have engaged 50 members and generated over $875,000
in earnings. The Center and the cooperatives collaborate to identify training opportunities, helping members develop
business plans, learn about consensus-based decision making, and improve their English language skills.
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TERESA RODRIGUEZ
In Puebla, Mexico, Teresa worked at a local Wal-Mart after finishing high school. She and
her husband decided to come to the U.S. in pursuit of a better future. Her husband found a
low-paying job that was just enough to make ends meet. In the years that followed,
Teresa worked intermittently as a nanny, but when she was let go by a family after a week
without pay, she gave up. Through an acquaintance, she learned about an opportunity to
join Beyond Care, a cooperative of women providing childcare services.
When Teresa told her husband about the opportunity to join the Beyond Care cooperative,
at first he was incredulous. Teresa, however, insisted that she wanted to make some money, improve her English and
gain more independence. Today, as a cooperative member, she earns more than her husband, and since she doesn’t
have to work full time, there is also time to spend with her 5-year old daughter.
Being a worker-owner and earning her own income has made Teresa more secure and confident. “I didn’t have many
friends before,” she says, “but now I get a great deal of support from my friends in the co-op.” English-language classes
have increased her earning potential, and workshops organized by the cooperative have expanded her ability to care
for children, ensuring that they are safe and engaging them in activities that are fun and also nurture their development.
ACCION USA
Agenda for Children Tomorrow
New York Microlending Program
for Women Microentrepreneurs
IMPACT Seguir Adelante
Citywide | $75,625
ACCION New York was established in 1991 as the
domestic arm of ACCION International, a global
mircrofinance organization with the mission of
providing people with the financial tools needed to
work their way out of poverty. Through the Microlending Program for Women Microentrepreneurs,
ACCION makes affordable credit available to
low-income women entrepreneurs who would
otherwise be turned away by traditional capital
sources. ACCION is focused on providing financial
education services that will help both current and
potential borrowers to stabilize their business
finances and sustain their microenterprises.
Funding for this grant was made possible by the generosity
of the donors to the RISE-NYC! funding collaborative.
Adhikaar
Nari Shakti: Justice for Women Workers
Citywide | $40,000
Adhikaar (Nepali for “Rights”) promotes human
rights and social justice in Nepali communities in
New York City by increasing access to health care,
advancing workers’ rights, and supporting immigration reform. The Nari Shakti (“Women’s Power”)
program works to ensure economic independence
for Nepali women by providing opportunities to
develop leadership and advocacy skills through
workshops designed to support new immigrant
women in the workplace. Upon completion of the
workshops, participants are encouraged to volunteer
and lead new initiatives to empower Nepali women,
creating an innovative culture of direct service
within the Nepali immigrant community.
Brooklyn | $50,000
Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) is a publicprivate partnership that builds collaborations
among community organizations, public agencies,
community leaders, neighborhood residents
and city government to improve the well being
of children, families and neighborhoods. ACT’s
primary program, IMPACT, is a community
program run out of a storefront in Bushwick,
Brooklyn. Seguir Adelante (Moving Forward), is a
peer-based leadership development and empowerment program at IMPACT that is designed to
advance women’s economic security. Through a
range of targeted services, including a Parent
Ambassador Leadership Corps, a communitywide public information and outreach campaign, a
financial and work related workshop series, and
wrap-around support services, women gain skills,
information, supports, and work-force experience
and a network of supportive peers.
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Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
New York Drives
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Citywide | $50,000
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations works to help
unemployed and working poor New Yorkers
establish careers in sectors that offer living wages
and opportunities for advancement. The Driver’s
Seat is a workforce development program which
provides poor women with free skills and job
readiness training leading to a New York State
Driver’s License and placement in either a job or
sector-based career development program. The goal
of New York Drives is to connect poor women, in
a relatively short period of time, with a means for
earning both immediate income and long-term
opportunity. New York Drives is free to participants
and consists of a mix of group workshops covering
job readiness and career exploration; individual
behind-the-wheel instruction; and individual
career counseling and job/program placement.
of the donors to the RISE-NYC! funding collaborative.
buildOn,Inc.
Lead Mentoring Program
The Bronx,Brooklyn, Manhattan | $50,000
buildOn’s mission is to empower at-risk youth
in the U.S. to make a positive difference in their
communities while helping people of developing
countries increase their self-reliance through
education. buildOn’s Lead Mentoring Program
engages young girls with low grades, attendance
issues, minimal skills for life and work-readiness,
and personal challenges that limit their options.
Participants in the Lead Mentoring Program work
one-on-one with a staff mentor to develop skills
in effective communication, teamwork, leadership, goal setting, college preparation, financial
management and job training. Lead students also
participate in community service activities and
in paid summer internships at local nonprofits.
Center for New York City Neighborhoods
The Neighborhood Improvement Project
Citywide | $50,000
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods
(CNYCN) coordinates and expands services to
New York City residents at risk of losing their homes
to foreclosure. CNYCN's special initiatives serve
as national models for comprehensive and coordinated outreach in other municipalities confronting
the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis. The
Neighborhood Improvement Project creates jobs
for public assistance recipients (the majority of
whom are women) within neighborhood cleaning
projects that support low-income areas hard hit
by the foreclosure crisis. Through the provision
of cleaning, repair and beautification services,
CNYCN helps homeowners to maintain their hard
investments, preserve their communities, and
move women into retail jobs.
of donors to the RISE-NYC! funding collaborative.
Communities, Homeowners And
Neighbors Gaining Economic Rights (CHANGER)
Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation
Counseling Outreach Program for
Education & Empowerment (COPE2)
Cypress Hills, Brooklyn | $40,000
The Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation (CHCCC)
works to create employment opportunities for
women while increasing the availability of high
quality affordable childcare in the Cypress Hills
neighborhood of Brooklyn. The Family Day Care
Network Program trains and supports neighborhood residents to start home-based family day care
businesses. The Financial Literacy Program provides
the necessary skills-based training, licensing
support, and financial education for low-income
women to create stable and prosperous day care
businesses and to become financially independent
entrepreneurs. CHCCC offers a comprehensive
money management curriculum designed to educate
and empower day care providers and to promote
sustained economic security of low-income women
and families living in the Cypress Hills community.
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
and Staten Island | $60,000
CHANGER is a homeowner advocacy organization
that assists homeowners in building intergenerational wealth through homeownership. CHANGER
works with homeowners to end abusive mortgage
lending practices in low and moderate-income
communities in New York City through the use of
consumer advocacy and education, financial and
legal research, community organizing, public policy
advocacy, and direct service provision. The COPE2
program operates two self-representation foreclosure
defense legal clinics. In these clinics homeowners
in danger of foreclosure are provided with access to
free legal assistance, mortgage counseling, and
financial education.
Family Day Care Financial Literacy Program
Cypress Hill Child Care Corporation’s providers and children during arts and crafts time
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Grace Outreach
Hour Children
The Bronx | $50,000
Working primarily with low-income women who
have aged out of the New York City school system
without a high school diploma, Grace Outreach
provides programs for women seeking to enhance
their academic skills, attend college and secure
employment. Women supported through Grace
Outreach did not finish high school for a number
of reasons, including pregnancy, placement into
foster care, domestic violence, substance abuse as
well as physical and mental health issues.
Learning at Grace Outreach takes place in a safe,
non-judgmental environment that fosters hope
and builds confidence. Participants’ successes
stem from a results-focused model that combines
a rigorous education curriculum with a highly
individualized support that addresses the needs
of each student.
Hour Working Woman Program
Queens | $50,000
Hour Children provides women coming home from
prison with safe, stable environments to reunite
and live with their children. Hour Children provides
housing and 16 other programs designed to assure
successful re-entry and reunification for women
and their children both within prison and in the
community. The Hour Working Women Program
(HWWP) provides educational assistance with
GED preparation and college admissions, as well
as on-the-job training and internships on-site
in retail, marketing, basic office skills, and
merchandising. In addition, the program offers
job and vocational training opportunities offsite
(e.g. medical billing), non-traditional employment (e.g. construction) and food service.
GRAMEEN America
New York Microfinance
Hot Bread Kitchen
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $70,000
Grameen America is a microfinance organization
whose mission is to help alleviate poverty through
entrepreneurship. New York Microfinance is a
poverty-focused microfinance program providing
lending, savings, credit establishment and financial education components. The program provides
low-income individuals the opportunity to start or
expand businesses, create jobs for themselves and
others in their communities, accumulate assets,
develop credit scores and participate in ongoing
financial and business development training.
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens | $50,000
Hot Bread Kitchen’s (HBK) mission is to create
better futures for foreign-born women and their
families by opening rewarding channels for work in
the artisan baking business. HBK is a workforce
and micro-enterprise development program that
improves the household wealth of immigrant
women and their families. Together, participants
bake ethnic breads utilizing many native recipes
they bring to the program. These breads are then
sold through farmers markets and small groceries
in New York City.
HBK works with immigrant women of color to help
build specialized skills in a near recession-proof
industry: baking. After training, HBK supports
program participants as they launch food-focused
microenterprises of their own.
Legal Momentum
Equality Works
A young tenant and Executive Director and Founder
Rita Zimmer gardening in the front yard of a
Housing + Solutions’ Sunflower Houses.
Housing + Solutions
Citywide | $50,000
Legal Momentum is the nation’s oldest national
civil rights organization dedicated to women’s
equality. Equality Works is an advocacy project
that seeks to expand opportunities for women
in nontraditional occupations, in particular the
municipal uniformed services and construction
trades. Equality Works uses impact litigation
and public policy initiatives to challenge discrimination and advance the rights of women working
in historically male-dominated fields. Equality
Works identifies and addresses on-site realities
for women in the skilled trades industry including
hostile work environments and inequitable hiring
and training practices and it uses the power of
the law to dismantle such barriers to economic
opportunity for women and increase the presence of
tradeswomen in both the public and private sectors.
Women at Work
Brooklyn | $50,000
Housing + Solutions develops and operates tenantmanaged, supportive permanent housing for
formerly homeless women with histories of
substance abuse and their families, as well as
those who have been incarcerated or involved
with the criminal justice and family court systems.
The supportive services program, Women at Work,
includes individual and group parenting services,
mediation training and practice, job placement
assistance, peer counseling, life skills and selfempowerment classes.
Queens Vocational and Technical High School student
measuring a meter mounting as part of Equality Works
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Local Development Corporation of East New York
Women Rise to Financial Independence
East New York, Brooklyn | $50,000
The Local Development Corporation works to
develop the local economy of East Brooklyn
through the development and retention of sustainable businesses and of initiatives to expand the
assets of community residents. The Women Rise
to Financial Independence Program targets two
distinct groups of women: non-entrepreneurs
seeking to improve their financial situations, and
entrepreneurs looking to improve the stability
of their businesses in order to expand and create
employment for themselves and others.
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Make the Road New York
Immigrant Women Support and Training Project
Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island | $50,000
Make the Road New York (MRNY) is the largest
participatory grassroots immigrant organization in
New York City. The organization brings together
low-wage immigrant workers, young people, and
LGBT community residents to promote equality,
justice and opportunity for all New Yorkers.
The Immigrant Women Support & Training Project
combines the efforts and resources of MRNY’s
Legal and Support Service program and the Adult
Literacy program to provide critical support and
educational opportunities to immigrant women in
our communities. MRNY’s workforce development
staff provides individualized job readiness services
including goal planning, resume writing, employ-
ment skills workshops, and job matching services
focusing on employers with a track record of
respecting labor laws. MRNY also provides direct
legal representation, case management, facilitated
enrollment into public health insurance programs,
legal trainings, and services such as a free notary
public and an emergency food pantry.
ParentJobNet, Inc.
Citywide | $50,000
Started as an internet-based resource linking
women to jobs, ParentJobNet has grown into a
school-based community program founded on the
premise that strengthening the economic security
of parents promotes the well-being of their children. Using a holistic, family-integrated approach,
ParentJobNet provides parents, primarily mothers,
of children in public schools with classes in English
literacy, financial planning, and resume preparation,
and it seeks to increase their access to job training
resources and employment opportunities.
of W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Economic Empowerment Program
Urban Justice Center:
Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project
Citywide | $40,000
Sakhi unites survivors, communities, and institutions to eradicate domestic violence and create
strong and healthy communities. Sakhi creates
a safe place with support and a full-range of culturallysensitive services for South Asian survivors of
violence. Sakhi’s Economic Empowerment Program
provides survivors with opportunities to access
financial options, build skills that strengthen
self-sufficiency, and have choices that enable lives
without violence. The Economic Empowerment
program addresses specific barriers survivors face
in making decisions for their own safety – and the
safety of their children – including spousal control
and financial manipulation; lack of work permits
or certifications which translate to the U.S.; and
lack of awareness of U.S. systems.
Access to Education Project
of W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Poppy Family Fund.
Upwardly Global
Citywide | $55,000
The Homelessness Outreach and Prevention
Project of the Urban Justice Center advocates for
economic justice for low-income individuals by
ensuring access to public benefits through direct
legal services, litigation, research, and policy
advocacy. The Access to Education Project (AEP)
seeks to ensure that pregnant young women and
young mothers on welfare can access educational
opportunities and continue to receive public
benefits while in school. AEP engages in community education and outreach projects to inform
public assistance recipients of their welfare rights
and provide them with the information necessary
to know when their right to receive benefits is
being violated.
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Westchester Square Partnership, Inc.
Job Seeker Services Program
Citywide | $45,000
Upwardly Global works to move America’s immigrant working poor into positions of financially
sustainable employment. Through the Job Seeker
Services Program, Upwardly Global works to
empower immigrant women professionals to gain
economic self-sufficiency by providing them with
the tools they need to reclaim their professional
careers in the US and move them and their families
from poverty into jobs with financial security.
The Jobseeker Services Program educates immigrant women to overcome multiple barriers to
gaining labor market entry through a job readiness
program that targets immigrant professionals.
The Bronx | $50,000
Westchester Square Partnership (WSP) works
to foster the coordination of social and health
services and promote social justice and economic
empowerment of the South Asian immigrant
women’s community in New York City. WSP focuses
its activities on building collaborations with
community members and existing organizations,
fostering the provision of accessible social and
health services, and facilitating community
research and program development that is
responsive to the needs of the community.
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Women’s Center for Education
and Career Advancement
Women for Afghan Women
Career Services and Self-Sufficiency Program
Flushing, Queens | $50,000
Women for Afghan Women was founded to promote
women’s rights both locally and in Afghanistan.
As the only feminist organization in the New York
Afghan community, the organization advocates
for inclusion of women’s voices in the global
struggle for human rights. The Community
Outreach Program reaches out to isolated Afghan
women and girls to offer English as a Second
Language courses, counseling, leadership development training, walk-in emergency assistance, and a
safe space for inter- and intra-faith dialogue. The
Community Outreach Program aims to empower
Afghan women to fight for their rights as women, as
Americans and as Muslims.
Citywide | $50,000
The Women’s Center for Education and Career
Advancement (WCECA) promotes economic
self-sufficiency for women of color in New York
City. WCECA provides career readiness services
and entrepreneurial training to low-income
women seeking employment or starting their own
businesses. WCECA’s Self-Sufficiency Program
developed both the Self-Sufficiency Standard to
calculate the cost of living for families in New York
City and the Self-Sufficiency Calculator, a computer
program used to assess the eligibility of families
applying for public assistance benefits: invaluable
resources for social service providers and case
managers helping low-income women and
families meet their immediate needs and set longterm financial goals.
Community Outreach Program
Young Women’s Christian Association of Queens
Women to Work
Women’s Housing and Economic
Development Corporation
Home-Based Childcare Business Development Initiative (HBCC)
The Bronx | $50,000
The Women’s Housing and Economic Development
Corporation (WHEDCo) works with families in the
Bronx who struggle with the multiple challenges
presented by poverty. WHEDCo’s HBCC initiative
serves as a ladder to economic self-sufficiency by
helping women to form and grow successful childcare businesses through training in bookkeeping,
business planning, health and safety, and child
development. The Home-Based Childcare Initiative
enables low-skilled women impacted by the
economic recession to access start-up funds,
technical assistance and referrals.
Flushing, Queens | $50,000
The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
of Queens provides programming for immigrant
women of all ages through five main programs
operating in Flushing, Queens: The Center for
Children, Center for Youth, Center for Adults,
Center for Seniors and Center for Arts & Culture.
The Women to Work program trains low-income
or unemployed immigrant women to become
skilled workers in the healthcare industry. In addition to job specific skills, participants receive
ESOL classes, job readiness instruction, computer
instruction and job placement and career counseling
until they find a job.
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HEALTH & SEXUAL RIGHTS
We support organizations and programs that increase women’s ability to take control
of their health and sexual rights, advocate for reproductive justice, and improve their access
to quality health care, including comprehensive reproductive health services.
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research and Treatment (SMART)
Citywide | $50,000
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research and Treatment (SMART) provides a wide range of support services
to women living with HIV/AIDS in low-income communities in New York City. The SMART curriculum informs women
living with HIV/AIDS of their medical and legal rights, provides health education courses to promote mental
and physical well-being, and offers leadership development opportunities to advocate for women-centered HIV care and
treatment services. At SMART, women are empowered with the information and tools to make informed decisions
regarding their health care; learn to access quality health care for themselves and their families; become partners with
their health providers and develop into more effective advocates. SMART program participants engage in public
education and outreach activities to provide HIV/AIDS prevention information and to raise community awareness
about the impact of the epidemic on low-income women in New York City.
Funding for this grant was made possible by the generosity of Catalyst Fund at Tides Foundation.
YOLANDA DIAZ
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Yolanda Diaz SMART’s Women’s Program Coordinator, came to SMART in 2002 seeking
support and a community that would embrace a woman living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to
living with HIV for 11 years, Ms. Diaz had been a substance abuser, a victim of domestic
violence, homeless, and incarcerated. Before becoming a part of the SMART community,
she attended many groups for people living with AIDS in search of a place where she could
find information about HIV treatment options for women and a place to begin to heal.
At SMART, Yolanda met women like herself, many of whom had taken significant steps
to regain control of their lives and their health. Yolanda was particularly inspired by
SMART’s co-founder, Susan Rodriguez, whose own experiences as an HIV-positive woman and the mother of a child
born with HIV, fuel her work on behalf of other HIV-positive women and youth.
Yolanda thrived in this supportive environment. She was trained as an HIV peer educator and has been successful at sharing
life-saving HIV information and resources with thousands of women of color in NYC’s highest HIV-prevalence communities.
Soon Yolanda was offered the volunteer position of Dean of Students. Her outgoing personality and organizational skills
made her a natural leader. In 2004, when SMART moved to its permanent home on West 38th Street, Yolanda became
its first full-time employee; her first full-time job allowed her to support herself independent of public assistance.
In her role as Women’s Program Coordinator, Ms. Diaz provides a life line to women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS
at a time when they often feel lost, alone and hopeless. She works tirelessly to empower HIV-positive women, especially
low-income women of color, with the tools and accurate HIV treatment information they need to make informed health
care decisions. In 2003, Yolanda received the Katrina Haslip Award for Empowerment and Leadership from the HIV Law
Project: The Center for Women’s Organizing. In 2004 she received the Women’s Leadership Award Certificate
of Completion of the Women’s Leadership Institute. In 2006, Yolanda received the Karen Sofield Award for her
outstanding work in AIDS Awareness from the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network. Yolanda aspires to continue
her advocacy work to help women with HIV/AIDS in their quest to live healthy and productive lives.
African Hope Committee
Red Hook Initiative
HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention
Peer Health Education and Leadership Project
Citywide | $50,000
The African Hope Committee (AHC) provides
health education, welfare information, and immigration services. It functions as a multilingual
information clearinghouse and referral service
connecting African immigrants living in New York
City to support services. AHC’s HIV/AIDS education
and prevention program focuses on increasing
awareness and knowledge of HIV/AIDS among
African immigrant women through community
outreach and culturally and linguistically appropriate educational workshops. AHC partners with
other community based organizations, medical
providers, and religious leaders to help dismantle
stigmas around HIV/AIDS and increase access to
health information and preventive care services.
Red Hook, Brooklyn | $50,000
The Red Hook Initiative (RHI) seeks to promote the
physical and emotional well-being of individuals
living in low-income neighborhoods in Red Hook,
Brooklyn. The Peer Education and Leadership
Project supports girls and young women by
providing reproductive health and safety information, medical referrals and workshops focusing on
empowerment, conflict resolution, self-esteem
and mental health issues. The program employs a
grassroots approach to community organizing and
development and offers a comprehensive training
course in which adolescent girls become peer
educators and leaders in the effort to create positive
social change in a neighborhood with limited
resources and social services support.
of Catalyst Fund at Tides Foundation.
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Love Heals:
The Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education
The Leadership Empowerment and Awareness
Program for Girls
Citywide | $50,000
Love Heals provides comprehensive AIDS education
to empower young people to make informed
choices and foster a new generation of community
educators and activists in New York City committed
to the fight against AIDS. The Leadership
Education Awareness Program (LEAP) for Girls
provides young women of color with information
on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health education.
LEAP focuses on neighborhoods that report high
HIV rates and collaborates with schools and
community groups to provide leadership training
as well as the skills and knowledge needed for
young women to become empowered, healthy and
safe members of their communities.
Red Hook Initiative’s Peer Health Educators
at an event they designed to stop youth violence
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Women’s HIV Collaborative of New York
Medicaid Equality and Trans Youth Health Initiative
Citywide | $50,000
The Women’s HIV Collaborative of New York is a
broad-based advocacy network that addresses the
needs of women living with HIV/AIDS. The
Collaborative seeks to promote gender equity in
HIV clinical research, create women-centered
models of care, and increase access to services for
women living with HIV/AIDS. The Collaborative
works to document disparities in funding, research,
and treatment for women and uses the collective
power of its members to advocate for policies
that advance women’s rights. The Women’s HIV
Collaborative of New York serves as a leadership
and empowerment model for all women and is
instrumental in the effort to include women’s
perspectives in supporting and creating sustainable change for women living with HIV/AIDS.
Citywide | $50,000
As the first and only organization in the country
run by and for trans and gender non-conforming
people that focuses on the needs of low-income
and trans people of color, the Sylvia Rivera Law
Project works to guarantee that all people be free to
self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without
facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.
The Medicaid Equality Program and Trans Youth
Health Initiative aim to improve health care access
for transgender adults and youth in New York City
through legal services and public education.
Voces Latinas
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Queens | $50,000
Voces Latinas is a community-based program
founded in response to the escalating rates of HIV
infection among immigrant Latinas living in
Queens. The organization is dedicated to reducing
the rate of HIV transmission among immigrant
Latinas by empowering, educating and providing
leadership and advocacy training to enable them
to make healthier decisions for themselves
and their families through the provision of
linguistically and culturally appropriate HIV/
AIDS prevention education programs. Women
participate in leadership training workshops to
become peer HIV prevention educators equipped
with the advocacy skills needed to raise awareness
about HIV/AIDS and effect positive change within
the Latina immigrant community.
Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition
Citywide | $50,000
The Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition
was founded in response to the rising rates of
HIV/AIDS among young Black women and Latinas
in New York City. It is a coalition of and for young
women of color that fosters the development of the
kinds of organizing and advocacy skills necessary
to change the climate in which decisions about
youth are being made. They provide communitybased peer health education and information,
referrals to adolescent medical centers, and
comprehensive social services to support young
women living with HIV/AIDS. The coalition
partners with other youth-serving organizations
in order to ensure greater awareness and access
to HIV information and services.
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POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF GIRLS & YOUNG WOMEN
We support organizations and programs that promote the healthy development
of low-income girls, young women and transgender youths, and that foster their ability
to become engaged adults, and thoughtful contributors to their families and communities.
Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.
Sister S.A.G.E. (Strengthening Advocacy for Girls’ Empowerment)
Brooklyn | $40,000
Sister S.A.G.E. (Strengthening Advocacy for Girls’ Empowerment), a program of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior
Citizens Council, is a comprehensive program that serves low-income girls, ages 8-18, in neighborhoods that are
characterized by high levels of poverty, low-high school graduation rates, and high rates of teen pregnancy and single
motherhood. In these highly under-resourced areas, Sister S.A.G.E. provides a physical and emotionally safe and supportive
space for young women to interact, develop their sense of self, and foster relationships with other girls and adult women.
By learning critical thinking and leadership skills, coupled with initiating community service projects, Sister S.A.G.E.
participants learn how to examine social issues and inequities in their own community and the world at large.
MEKELA CLARKE
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Mekela Clarke joined Sister S.A.G.E. at the age of 13. She had recently moved to New York City from
Boston with her mom and four brothers and was seeking an activity where she could get to know
other girls. Mekela found her place in S.A.G.E. While her mother was initially reluctant to permit
her to join the program because she needed Mekela at home to help with her brothers, over time
she realized the positive impact that the program had on Mekela and she allowed her to participate.
Mekela was still expected to watch her siblings as necessary and she often had to take on the
responsibilities of a parent rather than an older sibling. As the only female child and the eldest
she was charged with cooking, cleaning, and nurturing her siblings. Sister S.A.G.E. was her primary escape, giving her an
opportunity to travel, experience new things, and to behave free from the responsibilities of parenthood. Mekela also
benefited from being employed at S.A.G.E. as a Peer Leader who assisted in the facilitation of meetings for elementary
aged youth. She often used that meager income to provide food for the house, purchase clothes, and provide an allowance
for her brothers.
One evening in the summer of 2007 while at home, Mekela’s brother Tavin was struck by a random bullet and killed.
He was only 16 years old. At 18, Mekela was forced to leave school and take over as mom for her three younger brothers
because her own mother couldn’t fully function. In spite of this tragedy, and with encouragement from her S.A.G.E.,
Mekela sought out GED programs and enrolled in one at 19 years old. She obtained her GED three months later and her
S.A.G.E. sisters attended her graduation as her family.
Mekela now works as Assistant Coordinator of the Sister S.A.G.E. program and provides guidance and direction to the
core group of participants. She is also a freshman in college. At 20 years old, Mekela has been through a lot; however,
she is never the victim. She is empowered and knows that her story does not define her. Mekela defines her story.
It is her goal in her professional life to help other people as she has been helped.
Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective
Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Brooklyn | $50,000
Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective (BYMC)
addresses the needs of pregnant and mothering
young women ages 13 to 21 from Central Brooklyn
and surrounding areas. With the belief that it is
possible to positively affect the cycle of early
parenthood and poverty, BYMC provides information about the rights of teen parents and encourages
and equips them to become activists. Through
their two core programs, Power Sister Academy
and Great Expectations, pregnant and mothering
young women learn about reproductive and
maternal health, gain academic support and
develop leadership skills so that they can advocate
for their rights and those of others and build
a stronger community among young mothers.
Sister Sol: Rites of Passage Program
Manhattan | $50,000
Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides a range of afterschool, summer, community outreach and international programs to help young people realize
and achieve their individual potential and empower
others within their community. The Rites of
Passage Program uses an intensive chapter model
whereby each chapter consists of approximately
15 young women who are in the same or two
consecutive grades and two adult leaders who
work together and learn over a continuous four to
six week period. During this time, they explore
and discuss history, culture, social problems and
the political forces around them.
A Sister Sol team leader shows the ropes to members during the 2009 spring wilderness retreat.
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FIERCE youth leaders take part in an activity at an
Education for Liberation training.
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FIERCE!
Figure Skating in Harlem
Citywide | $50,000
FIERCE! is a community based organization
for TLGBTSQQ (transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual,
two spirit, queer and questioning) youth of color,
focusing on homeless and low-income youth ages
13 - 24. The organization is dedicated to developing
community leaders who can effectively mount
campaigns that result in tangible policy changes
and resources for the overall TLGBTSQQ youth
community. FIERCE!’s work has three interrelated
components: campaign development to identify
and advocate for policy changes; leadership development, political education and skill building;
and membership development and community
building to create a movement.
Manhattan | $50,000
Figure Skating in Harlem (FSH) works to transform young lives and help girls grow in confidence,
leadership, and academic achievement. By using
the artistic discipline of figure skating as a powerful
magnet, FSH brings girls into a supportive after
school environment complete with academic
tutoring, counseling, career workshops, mentoring,
cultural field trips and more. Over the last 12 years
FSH has created a multi-pronged girls’ development program that links lessons learned on the
ice – perseverance, responsibility, teamwork, and
leadership – to lessons in the classroom and life.
Each new success on the ice elevates a student’s
self-esteem and models how they can set goals and
pursue success in all aspects of their lives.
Row New York
Sadie Nash Leadership Project
Queens | $40,000
Row New York provides a holistic after school program that includes competitive sports and college
preparation for low-income girls and young
women in Queens. Program participants engage
in a highly structured after school program that
combines intensive rowing activities with
comprehensive academic support. Row New York
aims to empower girls and young women by
improving their mental and physical health,
teaching them the value of teamwork, and encouraging them to develop a strong commitment to
their peers. The program provides high school
participants with rigorous academic support
through individualized tutoring and college
preparation. All of the program graduates go to
college, many of them on rowing and academic
scholarships.
Citywide | $50,000
The Sadie Nash Leadership Project (SNLP) was
founded in 2001 to promote leadership and
activism among young women in New York City.
Working with over 250 girls annually, the program
is designed to strengthen, empower, and equip
young women as agents for change in their
world. By increasing the participation of women in
social, political, and economic decision-making,
SNLP works to question and redefine the nature
of leadership. In addition to hands-on organizational stewardship, young women participate in
one or more primary programs: Summer Institute,
CAP internship program, Nash U, and/or the
ELLA Fellowship. These programs promote the
fundamental philosophy of SNLP, that every
young woman is a catalyst for social change.
Row New York participants practice at Meadow Lake, Queens
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SAFETY
We support organizations that work to create safe communities free from violence
in New York City by addressing both the immediate needs of women and girls who suffer from abuse,
and creating long-term systemic changes that can eradicate violence.
Greenhope Services for Women, Inc.
Domestic Violence Education/Prevention Program
Citywide | $50,000
Greenhope Services for Women, Inc. is a comprehensive treatment program that works to rehabilitate and empower
formerly incarcerated women or women mandated to treatment who are seeking to reclaim their lives from substance
abuse. The Domestic Violence Education/Prevention Program is an intensive 10-week curriculum of education,
counseling, and peer support designed to help women in substance abuse treatment cope with current and past
experiences of domestic violence. The program seeks to empower women to leave violent situations, stay in recovery
and achieve their education and employment goals becoming self-sufficient and engaged citizens.
MONICA H.
Monica, a 60 year old, HIV positive woman who, today, proudly proclaims that after 30 years
in and out of the prison system for drug related offenses, she has been clean for 5 years,
six months and counting.
Raised in a traditional two parent household and excelling in academia at private schools,
Monica was not the predictable candidate to travel the path of drug addiction. But at the age
of 15, bored with her suburban upbringing Monica snuck out of her parent’s home to the fast
and flashy life of local drug dealers, fancy cars and after hours clubs. Unlike so many addicts
Monica’s addiction did not start from usage but rather from being a trusted “processor” of the packages. The drugs
were absorbed through her skin and she became an unknowing addict.
Over the years, Monica’s addiction became more deliberate and she moved from heroin to crack and heavy drinking.
Caught, time and time again – using, selling, and soliciting – Monica was sentenced several times to programs, prison,
and halfway houses. Never clean for more than a year she learned to “trick” the system by going to large programs
where she would go unnoticed or become the teacher’s pet in groups because she was well-spoken and knowledgeable.
Monica quickly figured out how to get a pass out of her program and right back to her destructive life.
The thrill of the roller coaster ride came to a halt in 2003 when she lost her mother, learned of her positive HIV status
and welcomed a grandson. Monica made the decision to find a program where she could no longer hide and truly commit
to getting better. A decision to come to Greenhope provided that opportunity – to be in a safe, intimate, full service,
environment of other women committed to healing.
Today Monica is clean. She has committed to helping others, is a full time student with less than 18 months to go to
finish her Bachelors degree in Psychology and regularly spends time with her grandson. She interns in the Brooklyn
Treatment Courts under her mentor, Judge Ferdinand, and serves on an advisory committee with the judge to ensure
that the paths to recovery for others will not be so long. Monica is a committed member of the Greenhope Alumnae
Association and is a peer mentor to many young offenders in the program.
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Day One
Citywide | $40,000
Day One focuses on ending dating abuse and
domestic violence prevention among girls and
young women in New York City. Through community education, supportive services, legal advocacy
and leadership development, the organization
educates youth and adults about dating abuse and
the law and develops leadership and advocacy
skills by organizing students to raise awareness
about domestic violence among their peers.
Day One provides young survivors with free legal
representation and advocacy in courts and agencies,
and offers counseling to young victims of abuse.
Families for Freedom
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Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $35,000
Families For Freedom (FFF) was formed to
respond to the increase of family separation and
deportations caused by the drastic overhaul of
immigration laws in 1996 and the increase in
detainment and suspicion of immigrants of color
post-September 11th. FFF works to educate,
support, and organize families directly affected
by deportation in order to change unjust laws
and their devastating effects on families and
communities. FFF offers a range of leadership
development and defensive education programs
for family members impacted by deportation,
such as monthly membership meetings, legal
clinics, advocacy campaigns, and a speaker’s
bureau. In addition, FFF provides members
the opportunity to apply for an organizing
apprenticeship and to run for a seat on its Board of
Directors. Through membership and weekly
intake clinics, FFF ensures that they are uniquely
attuned to how the deportation system is impacting
the lives of New York City women and families.
FFF stays at the forefront of designing innovative
organizing, educational and leadership development strategies to fight back and win changes that
will affect the lives of immigrant families in NYC.
Mount Sinai Sexual Assault
and Violence Intervention Program
Program Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Citywide | $40,000
The Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence
Intervention (SAVI) Program provides free and
confidential counseling, advocacy, and support
services to victims of rape, sexual assault, and
domestic violence. The Program Against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation supports young
women sexually exploited for commercial purposes
by addressing their immediate physical safety
needs and pressing medical concerns. The
program provides crisis intervention and case
management services, intensive individual
counseling, and strength-based peer support
groups. Program participants have paid internship opportunities at SAVI and other Mt. Sinai
offices helping them gain the confidence and work
experience needed to pursue healthy life choices,
overcome the trauma of sexual exploitation and
physical abuse, and ultimately achieve economic
independence.
SAFETY
RightRides for Women’s Safety
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
New Yorkers for Safe Transit
Citywide | $50,000
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women serves
African immigrant women living in New York City.
Its main goal is to challenge the cultural and
gender norms that promote inequalities for
African immigrant women. The program seeks to
protect women’s reproductive health, advance
legal rights and provide social services support to
African immigrant women and children affected
by domestic violence. Swahili for “Our Voices,”
Sauti Yetu works to empower a new generation of
women and girls to raise public awareness about
violence against women living in African
immigrant communities.
Citywide | $50,000
RightRides for Women’s Safety addresses the
increasing rates of sexual assaults on women and
trans individuals walking home by themselves at
night in low-income neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
The organization works to create safer communities
by offering women and transgender individuals
free rides home on Saturday nights through
organizing volunteer drivers to operate a multivehicle fleet sponsored by Zipcar throughout
designated New York City neighborhoods. As a
founding member of New Yorkers for Safe Transit,
RightRides pursues coalition building and policy
change work to increase safety in mass transit.
Through grassroots organizing and educational
programs RightRides for Women’s Safety engages
and empowers vulnerable communities to provide
direct service and safety advocacy to address
fundamental systemic issues that contribute to
violence against women.
RightRides Forum
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SAFETY
Service Women’s Action Network
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Citywide | $40,000
Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) is a
non-partisan human rights organization working
to improve the welfare of women veterans and
U.S. service women. SWAN provides direct
services to New York City’s women veterans and
service women through advocacy, outreach and
education. Staffed by women veterans who have
overcome military-related trauma and/or genderbased violence, SWAN offers free access to direct
services, personal support and guidance from
women veteran caseworkers, and pro bono legal
referrals to military law experts. Through SWAN's
Community Development Program, women
veterans, including homeless women veterans,
survivors of Military Sexual Trauma (MST),
women who faced gender discrimination in the
military, and LGBTQ veterans, have access to
creative, healing and empowering programs,
including twice-weekly Yoga-for-Vets classes,
community gardening projects, and a peersupport hotline service. SWAN assists women who
suffer military-related trauma through the healing
process and helps them readjust to their local
communities as empowered, contributing members.
St. Vincent’s Services, Inc.
SMART Girls Program
Staten Island | $40,000
St. Vincent’s Services is a foster care agency where
51% of its program participants are girls and
young women. Girls in foster care, particularly
those in group residences, are often from underserved, impoverished, communities of color
throughout NYC. They are highly traumatized and
extremely vulnerable to many mental health
problems and negative behaviors. SMART Girls
is designed to promote increased safety, stability,
and self-esteem for the girls through bi-weekly
group sessions to build trust and foster social
connection. Girls participate in activities such as
a Book Club, College Bound Mentoring, Creative
Expression groups that employ art/creative
self-expression activities in a therapeutic setting
to help them deal with their traumatic experiences,
and volunteerism where the girls are matched with
appropriate community organizations.
TAMKEEN:
The Center for Arab American Empowerment
STOP Family Violence in the Arab American Community
Brooklyn | $50,000
TAMKEEN (Arabic for “empowerment’) is an
advocacy organization serving the Arab American
community in Brooklyn. TAMKEEN’s Family
Violence Program supports domestic violence
victims in the Arab American community through
direct services, rights information, and referrals
to medical and legal services. The program works
to eradicate domestic violence within the Arab
American community by educating local religious
and civic leaders about the warning signs of
domestic violence and through the provision
of vital preventive services. TAMKEEN seeks
to ensure the availability of culturally sensitive
services and resources needed to protect Arab
American women and effectively combat domestic
violence within Arab American communities.
SAFETY
Turning Point for Women and Families
Citywide | $50,000
Turning Point for Women and Families provides
comprehensive social services to Muslim women
and children. The organization’s main focus is
addressing domestic violence in under-resourced
Muslim communities. Turning Point provides
crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, and other culturally sensitive services that
encourage Muslim women and girls affected by
domestic violence to seek help without fear of
being judged or stigmatized. The organization
plays a vital role in preventing future violence by
engaging in extensive educational and community
outreach programs in one of the fastest growing
populations in New York City.
Voices UnBroken
Bronx, Manhattan, Queens | $31,000
Voices UnBroken offers creative writing workshops and publishing opportunities for girls and
young women who are in residential treatment
centers, foster homes, jails, or juvenile detention
centers. Through these workshops, participants
increase their ability to engage in creative selfreflection, positively interpret challenges and
develop a hopeful future orientation; increase
their willingness to engage in other essential
services (counseling, education, etc.), and gain
confidence in their voice as a vehicle for change in
their own lives and in the communities they live
in and/or will return to upon release/discharge.
Turning Point’s Executive Director Robina Niaz
speaking at the Muslim Day Parade
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NYWF Grantee Partners
(1988–2009)
A.C.E. - OUT, Inc.
1992, 1994, 1995, 1997/1998
ACCION New York
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009*
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Action for Community Empowerment
1990, 1993
Center for Alternative Sentencing
and Employment Services
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
2008, 2009
Center for Anti-Violence Education 1989, 1992, 1996, 1997/1998, 2000
2007, 2008, 2009
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
African Peoples Council
1995
Center for Immigrant Families
African Services Committee, Inc.
1998
Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Inc.
Alonzo Daughtry Family Life Services
1994
Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family, Inc.
American Indian Community House, Inc.
1994
American Woman's Economic Development
2004
Central Brooklyn Partnership
Amethyst Women's Project
2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers
2003, 2004, 2005
Arab-American Family Support Center, Inc.
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Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers
Asian American Legal Defense
and Education Fund
1995, 1997, 2000/2001
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
1993
Astoria/Queens SHAREing and CAREing
1996
Audre Lorde Project, Inc.
2007, 2008, 2009
1996, 1997
2009*
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Child Care, Inc.
Chinese Staff & Workers’ Association
(W.E.P.& G.W.H.S. Project)
2002, 2003
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
1991, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001
Coalition for the Homeless
Battered Women's Resource Center
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Coalition of Battered Women’s Advocates
Beit Shalom
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
College and Community Fellowship
1988
1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
CHANGER
Chica Luna Productions
1996
2009*
Central Harlem Partnership, Inc.
Child Welfare Organizing Project
Associations From Fordham to Burnside
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
2003, 2005
1990, 1991, 1992
2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Bethex Federal Credit Union
1998
Committee for Hispanic Children and Families 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000
Better Bronx for Youth
1998
Committee for Humanitarian Assistance
to Iranian Refugees, Inc. (C.H.A.I.R.)
Bridge the Gap Family Daycare Network
1992
Bronx Women Against Rape
1993
1994, 1997
Community Advocates for Educational Excellence
Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective
2009*
2007, 2008, 2009
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Bruised Reed Ministry
1995
1995
Community Development Project
of the Urban Justice Center
2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Community Voices Heard
1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
Community Women’s Network
1993
Community Works
1997, 1999
Business Outreach Center Network
1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Concerned Citizens for Family Preservation, Inc.
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
Coney Island United Services
Casa Atabex Aché
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Correctional Association of New York
2007, 2008, 2009
1993
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Cush Campus, Inc.
1994
1994, 2002, 2008, 2009
Good Old Lower East Side
2008, 2009
GRAMEEN America
2009*
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Grand Street Settlement
Day One
Greenhope Services for Women, Inc.
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Dome Project, Inc./Starlings Collaboration
Domestic Workers United
1999
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Dominican Women’s Caucus
1996, 1997
Dominican Women’s Development Center
1990, 1993,
1998/1999, 2006, 2007
2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
2007, 2008, 2009
Greening of Harlem Coalition (Goddess Garden)
1993
Griot Circle
2003, 2004, 2005
Haitian American Women's Advocacy Network (HAWANET)
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
1994
1993, 1994, 1996
Haitian Women's Program
1993
Dorcas Home Ministry
1992
HarlemLive
2001
Dreams Into Action
1997
HIV Foster Care Education and Advocacy Project
1996
Dress for Success New York
1998
HIV Law Project
Dwa Fanm
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
East Brooklyn Congregations
1997
Edwin Gould Services for Children
1998
El Barrio Popular Education Program
El Centro de Hospitalidad
1992, 1993, 2000, 2004, 2005
HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Project
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Homeless Outreach and Prevention Project
of the Urban Justice Center
2008, 2009
1992, 1993, 1995, 1996
HOPE Program
2002, 2003, 2004
2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
Hour Children
1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009*
ENTRENET
1994, 1996
Housing + Solutions
Equality Now
2006, 2007
Human Rights Project of the Urban Justice Center
Esperanza del Barrio
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
Family Learning Circle
Family Violence Project of the
Urban Justice Center
FIERCE!
Figure Skating in Harlem
2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006
Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility
2007, 2008, 2009
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
inMotion
2002
Institute for Labor & the Community (Girls Project)
1996, 1997
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Interfaith Neighbors
1999, 2000
1998, 1999, 2001,
2002, 2004
1994, 1997, 1998, 2001
Iris House, Inc.
2007, 2008, 2009
2004
1994, 1997
Ivy League
1995, 1996
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
1999, 2000
Fire Safety Education Fund
1999
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
2008
First Girls Congress Collaborative
2000
Joint Public Affairs Committee for Older Adults
1995
First Saturday in October
1996
JusticeWorks Community
Forest Hills Community House
1991, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Kianga House
Friends of the Island Academy
2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
Korean American Family Service Center
1995, 2007, 2008, 2009
1990
1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Korean Family Counseling & Research Center
Girls for Gender Equity, Inc.
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Latin American Integration Center
Girls Incorporated of New York City
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
1994
1995, 2005, 2006, 2007
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Latin American Women’s Network (LAWN)
1995
Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls
Latina Reproductive Rights Initiative
1994
New Destiny Housing Corporation
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
1993, 1994,
1997, 1998
New Settlement Apartments
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
New York Asian Women’s Center, Inc.
1989, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
2006, 2007
New York Black Women’s Health Project
1991
New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
2004
Latina Roundtable on Health & Reproductive Rights
Learning Center for Women in Prison
Legal Momentum
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Life Force: Women Fighting Against AIDS, Inc.
1993, 2001, 2002
Little Shepherd Community Services, Inc.
1995, 1998
Living Hope Family Day Care Network, Inc.
1989, 1995
2002, 2003, 2009*
Looking Toward Tomorrow, Inc.
1996
Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation
for AIDS Education
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New York City/Lesbian Health Fair Organization Committee
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York SCORES
1996
2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
New York Women’s Employment Center (WCECA)
2003, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009♦
Non-Traditional Employment for Women (NEW)
1989, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003
2008, 2009
Lower East Side Worker’s Center/Latino Workers’ Center
1988, 1992
1994
Lower Eastside Girls Club
1997, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007
North Brooklyn Coalition Against Family Violence
2003
Make the Road by Walking
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
2000, 2001, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009♦
2009*
Opportunity Program for Women
Maura Clarke-Ita Ford Center (MCIF)
Mercy Center
1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2001/2002
ParentJobNet, Inc.
2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
Picture the Homeless
1992
2008, 2009
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Morris Heights Health Center
1989
Polish-American Council for Children and Families, Inc.
Mother’s Love Support Network
1992
Project Greenhope: Services for Women, Inc.
Mothers On the Move
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Mothers Together
2000, 2001
Mujeres en Pie (Women Arise!)
1990
Project Harmony, Inc.
1993, 1997
1995
Project Hospitality
2003, 2004
Project Superwoman Collaborative
2000
Project Teen Aid Family Services
Mujeres in Action
1996
1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
1992, 1994
(formerly the Rose F. Kennedy Family Center)
Muslim Women’s Institute for
Research and Development
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Providence House, Inc.
1998, 1999, 2001
Queens Women’s Network
Narco Freedom, Inc. (Children and Families Together)
1991
1992
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Nazareth Housing, Inc.
Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project
Neighborhood Self-Help By
Older Persons Project, Inc.
2007, 2008, 2009
2002, 2003
Rainbow Center
1995
Reap & Keep Educational Services
1993
1995
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Red Hook Initiative
2004, 2005, 2006
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Rena Day Care Centers, Inc./Rena FDC Network
1999, 2000, 2001
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Ridgewood bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.
2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009♦
2008, 2009
Riverside Church Youth Program
2000
Row New York
Sadie Nash Leadership Project
SAKHI for South Asian Women
2008, 2009
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
♦
1991, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2009*
Sanctuary for Families
1988
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Serving Our Selves (SOS)
1992
Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center
Shalom Task Force
2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007
1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001
Sinergia, Inc.
1993
The Mount Sinai Sexual Assault
and Violence Intervention Program
2008, 2009
Turning Point for Women and Families
2007, 2008, 2009
University Neighborhood Housing Program
1999
Upwardly Global
2009*
VAMOS Unidos
2008, 2009
Violence Intervention Program (VIP)
1990, 1993, 1995, 2000
Voces Latinas
2008, 2009
Voice & Vision
1997
Welfare Rights Initiative
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003/2004, 2005
Women and AIDS Resource Network (WARN)
Women and Work
Women for Afghan Women
1990
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009♦
Women for Economic and Educational Mobility (WEEM)
Women In Steel, Inc.
1994, 1995
1995
Sista II Sista
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
WomenCare, Inc.
1991, 1992, 1998, 1990
Sistas on the Rise
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women’s Advocate Ministry, Inc.
1993, 1996, 1999/2000
Sister Outsider
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV
Research and Treatment
2002, 2004
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women’s Health Education Project
1991, 1992, 1993
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women’s HIV Legal Advocacy Project
Society for the Preservation of Weeksville
& Bedford-Stuyvesant History
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), Inc.
Development Corporation (WHEDCO)
South Jamaica Services for Families and Children, Inc.
St. Peter’s Childcare Network
St. Rita’s Center
1999, 2003, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009*
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
South Brooklyn Local Development Corporation
St. Francis Xavier’s Action Youth
1992, 1993
1997
Women’s Housing Coalition
1988
Women’s Information Network
2000
Women’s Justice Alliance
1994
1995, 1998
1994
1995, 1996, 1998
Women’s Project of the Association for Union Democracy
1992
Workers’ AWAAZ
1998
1991
1994
Star of the Sea, Inc.
Youth Advocacy Center
Staten Island Teen Pregnancy Network
1993
STEPS to End Family Violence
1993
Youth At Risk, Inc.
T.O.P.S. For You, Inc.
Take Charge/Be Somebody Youth Network
2007, 2008, 2009
1993, 1995
2007, 2008, 2009
1991, 1996, 1998
1995
TAMKEEN:
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
The Center for Arab American Empowerment
1995
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
(f.k.a. New York Youth At Risk)
Youth Empowerment Mission
2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
YWCA of Queens
* RISE
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6th year
2009*
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FUNDING COLLABORATIVES
The New York Women’s Foundation partners with national and local funding collaboratives
to expand our ability to promote economic security for women and families in New York City.
RISE-NYC!
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Communities, Homeowners and Neighbors
Gaining Economic Rights (CHANGER)
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YWCA of Queens
RISE-NYC! is a partnership of the NYWF with Bloomberg,
The Bloomingdale’s Fund of Macy’s Foundation,
Graham Family Foundation, The Laurie M. Tisch
Illumination Fund, The Poppy Family Fund and
Queen Latifah.
RISE-NYC! provides immediate support to women and
families hardest hit by the economic crisis by:
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Building and increasing assets through
microenterprise financing, development and train
ing; small business development, and the creation
of individual development accounts,
Increasing access to educational opportunities
for higher paying jobs in high-growth, high-demand
sectors such as technology, healthcare, green jobs,
as well as nontraditional careers, such as jobs in
construction, and
Increasing family stability through a variety of
strategies such as financial literacy and skills
development; increasing access to work and income
supports such as child care, after-school programs,
and government benefits; and providing urgent
mental health, domestic violence and other crisis
intervention services
Our 2009-10 RISE-NYC! grantee partners are:
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ACCION USA
Hour Children
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Upwardly Global
Development Corporation
Jewish Foundation for Education of Women –
JFEW/NYWF Summer Internship for Social Change
Introduces college sophomore and junior women to
careers in New York’s nonprofit sector by providing paid
summer internship opportunities in New York City’s
community based and citywide nonprofits organizations.
Interns also participate in weekly seminars to build
workplace skills.
Consulate General of Mexico and the
Violence Intervention Program –
Domestic Violence Fund for Mexican Nationals
Established a program to provide support to Mexican
nationals who are survivors of abuse and violence while
residing in New York City.
Tides Foundation – The Catalyst Fund for Women
of Color in Reproductive Justice
W.K. Kellogg Foundation – Women’s Philanthropy
and Poverty Demonstration Project
To increase investments in and raise the visibility of the
vital contributions of women of color in building a powerful
reproductive justice movement that protects and advances
the rights of all women, the Foundation awarded grants to
the following local community based women-of-color led
reproductive justice organizations:
To increase economic security for single women-led
families and their children and move them toward
economic self-sufficiency, the Foundation awarded grants
to the following local community based organizations:
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A Better Balance
ParentJob Net
Urban Justice Center, Access to Education Project
Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective
DAMAYAN: Migrant Workers’ Association
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Girls for Gender Equity
Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation
for AIDS Education
Sauti Yetu
Sistas on the Rise
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research
and Treatment (SMART)
Voces Latinas
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
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CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES
The New York Women’s Foundation invests in organizational sustainability
and leadership through its capacity building initiatives:
Management & Leadership Institute
Technical Assistance Grants
Strategic Discretionary Grants
Girls Leadership Initiative
We are grateful to the Smart Family Foundation for supporting our capacity building initiatives.
2009 Management & Leadership Institute
The Management and Leadership Institute (MLI) strengthens the leadership and management capacity
of our grantee partners through a series of participatory workshops and trainings on essential topics
such as fundraising, board development, financial management, and communications. Workshops and
trainings typically range in length from a half-day to a series of full-day sessions, and are facilitated
by technical assistance providers who tailor the trainings to the needs of the participants. Individual
follow-up consultations are often conducted at the end of each series.
In addition to learning new skills and strategies for building organizational capacity, the trainings
provide an excellent opportunity for grantees to share experiences, increase their knowledge base,
build learning partnerships and form valuable relationships.
Through the MLI grantee partner organizations enhance their capacity, increase resources, strengthen
governance practices, and ultimately improve service delivery and advocacy to low-income women and
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girls in New York City.
For the period ranging from January through December 2009, we offered the following workshops
and trainings:
Board Development
Nonprofit Fiscal Management
Presented by Community Resource Exchange
Fiscal Management Associates
Grassroots Fundraising: Beginner and Advanced Workshop Series
Effective Legislative Advocacy for Nonprofits
Presented by Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT)
Presented by The Lawyers Alliance for New York
Proposal Writing Clinic: Writing to Influence
Presented by Community Resource Exchange
We are grateful to the Daphne Foundation, New York Foundation, North Star Fund,
Stonewall Community Foundation and Union Square Awards for their partnership.
2009 Technical Assistance Grants
The New York Women’s Foundation® awarded a total of $130,000 in Technical Assistance grants to 15 grantee
partners to strengthen organizational infrastructure and assist them to more effectively carry out their
programmatic activities. Organizations requested assistance in the following areas: board development,
communications, evaluation, fundraising, information technology, program development and strategic
planning. Below is the list of grantee partners that received technical assistance grants in 2009.
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Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
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Urban Justice Center, Homelessness
Outreach and Prevention Project
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Muslim Women’s Institute for Research & Development
Audre Lorde Project
Catholic Big Sisters & Big Brothers
FIERCE!
ParentJobNet
Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research
and Treatment
Greenhope Services for Women
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In 2009, the Foundation allocated $70,000 to expand its technical assistance program through strategic
partnerships with capacity building providers to enhance grantee partners’ organizational and leadership
strength. Our partners are:
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Cause Effective
GritTV
ReServe
Taproot Foundation
2nd Annual Year-End Grantee Partner Convening
In December 2009, the Foundation convened its grantee partners to discuss the impact of the economic
crisis on their organizations and identify strategies and new opportunities to address its impact.
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2009 Strategic Discretionary Grants
Strategic Discretionary Grants address emerging issues related to The Foundation’s mission, funding
strategies, and capacity building priorities. The Foundation awarded $60,000 in grants in this area to the
following organizations:
A Better Balance- $20,000
To support the Earned Sick Days Campaign for New York City
Connecting to Advantages- $5,000
General support
Esperanza del Barrio- $7,500
To support reorganization
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Families United for Racial and Economic Justice- $7,500
To support transition planning
Girls Incorporated of New York City- $10,000
To support planning and facilitation of NYWF’s 8th Annual Girls Leadership Day
New York Women’s Agenda - $10,000
To support the Equal Pay Campaign for New York State
Girls Leadership Initiative
The New York Women’s Foundation is committed to support young women to take charge of their lives
and to reach their highest potential as professionals and leaders in their families and communities.
Through grantmaking and special youth focused programs, the Foundation continues to engage young
women in conversations about their future and their roles in the communities.
The Girls Leadership Initiative (GLI) builds the leadership of the young women of our grantee partner
organizations, individually and as a community, through the exploration of education, career, activism,
and philanthropy. GLI offers opportunities for young women of high school age to connect both with
each other and to a diverse group of professional women to build skills, discuss shared experiences,
and learn life lessons.
In partnership with Girls Incorporated of New York City, the Foundation held its 8th annual Girls Leadership
Day in October 2009. Girls Leadership Day is designed to provide New York City high school girls (grades
9-12) with much needed insight on education and career opportunities. Girls from NYWF grantee
partner organizations participated in a full day of activities including career roundtable discussions,
financial education and life goal-setting workshops and a networking lunch. The program day also
provided career information, through personal accounts from professional women, and educational
resources to help young women explore the next steps on the road to achieving their educational goals.
Community Forum
Raising the Voice of Low-Income Women: Findings from the Community Service Society’s Unheard Third
In March 2009, in partnership with The Community Service Society of New York, the Foundation hosted
a forum to discuss findings from The Unheard Third, Community Service Society’s annual survey of low
income New Yorkers with a focus on the unique challenges faced by women.
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THE FOUNDATION IN ACTION
The Foundation hosts numerous events to build community in the advancement of women’s rights.
For a calendar of upcoming events, visit www.nywf.org/events.html.
LUNCHEON AT LE CIRQUE
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Diana Taylor announced the 20% increase in The Foundation’s grantmaking at the Luncheon at Le Cirque, hosted by Jean Shafiroff.
2009
FALL DINNER
Our second Fall Dinner honored Elizabeth and Herbert Sturz, Sheryl Wu Dunn and Nicholas Kristof. Mary J. Blige honored us with song.
BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD DINNER
The New York Women’s Foundation honored Laurie Cumbo, Founder and Executive Director of Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts,
Benita R. Miller, Founder and Executive Director of Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective,
and Barbara Turk, Senior Fellow of Community Resource Exchange and former Executive Director of the Brooklyn YWCA.
A special tribute was made to the late Sister Mary Paul Janchill, Co-Founder of The Center for Family Life
and the 2005 recipient of the Neighborhood Leadership Award.
STATE OF THE
FOUNDATION
We reported on
the 20% increase in
The Foundation’s
grantmaking in 2009
and announced plan
of action for 2010 to
a captivated audience
of grantee partners,
donors, and volunteers.
COMMITTEE FOR THE FUTURE (CFF)
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CFF members hosted Parlor Meetings in homes around New York City, to introduce the work of The New York Women’s Foundation.
CFF also hosted Trivia night at People Lounge, fundraising on behalf of The Foundation.
KOWIN
(KOREAN WOMEN’S
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK)
The Foundation partnered
with the Korean Women’s
International Network to discuss
“Meeting the Challenges of a
Changing World” Conference.
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MEXICAN
CONSULATE AND THE VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION PROGRAM
The New York Women’s Foundation announced
the partnership with the Mexican Consulate
and the Violence Intervention Program
to support Mexican women in New York City
who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
CIRCLE OF SISTERS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (COS)
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COS hosted the Sip, Swap, Shop event in partnership with the Asian Women’s Giving Circle.
GIRLS
LEADERSHIP
DAY
PARTNERS IN CHANGE
The New York Women’s Foundation salutes
its corporate and foundation leadership.
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The Atlantic Philanthropies
Condé Nast
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Consulate General of Mexico
Bloomberg
Covington & Burling LLP
The Bloomingdale’s Fund of
Macy’s Foundation
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
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Dow Jones
BNP Paribas New York
Duane Reade
Brandt & Hochman Literacy Agency Inc.
Eisner LLP
Cablevision Systems Corporation
El Diario La Prensa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Emblem Health
Catalyst Fund of The Tides Foundation
Ernst & Young LLP
CB Richard Ellis
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
Chadick Ellig
CIT
The Finch College Alumnae
Association Foundation
Citi
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Hachette Book Group
Janklow & Associates
The Omnicom Group Inc.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Pfizer Inc.
Lazard
Random House Inc.
Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc.
Right Management
L’Oreal
Ritchie Tye Consulting
Leiff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
Saks Fifth Avenue
Liz Claiborne Inc.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Lord & Taylor
Sony Corporation of America
Lucky Magazine
M & T Bank
South Asian Women’s Leadership
Forum (SAWLF)
Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Marathon Bank
T&H Brokers
May and Samuel Rudin Family
Foundation Inc.
Tanenbaum-Harber Co. Inc.
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ThermoFisher Scientific
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Time Warner Inc.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Time Warner Legal
Minskoff Grant Realty & Management Corp.
Tishman Speyer
Morgan Stanley
Toyota
Morgan Stanley Foundation
US Fund for UNICEF
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Viking/Hudson Street Press/Plume
MTV Networks
Wachovia Foundation
Neiman Marcus Group
White & Case LLP
Neuberger Berman LLC
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The New York Times Company
Foundation
Women’s Self-Worth Foundation
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In honor of three strong,
wonderful women.
Congratulations to
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Mary, Eileen and Margarita
All my best,
ABIGAIL DISNEY
Co-Founder & Co-President,
Daphne Foundation
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thanks our extraordinary partners for their
courage and leadership in responding to the urgent needs
of women and families in New York City.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Graham Family Charitable Foundation
Bloomberg
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The Poppy Family Fund
The Bloomingdale’s Fund of Macy’s Foundation
Queen Latifah
2009 RISE-NYC! PARTNERS
the board and staff of the new york women’s foundation
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THANK YOU!
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We profoundly thank our 2010 Celebrating Women® Breakfast co-chairs
Sayu V. Bhojwani and Susan R. Cullman for their leadership and vision.
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Carolyn, we thank you for your leadership and partnership
to women and families in New York City.
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On Behalf of
The New York Women’s Foundation Board
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We Celebrate Carolyn Buck Luce
For your Visionary Leadership!
We salute
The New York Women’s Foundations
2010 CELEBRATING
WOMEN BREAKFAST
Honorees and Grantee Partners
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Diversity + Inclusion =
www.loreal.com
Equal Opportunity Employer
INNOVATION
& SUCCESS
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To the Board of Directors of
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We are very grateful for your leadership,
generosity and commitment
to The Foundation and to the women and families
in New York City.
From the President & CEO and Staff of
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Ana, we are deeply grateful for your
inspirational leadership and dedication to improving the lives
of women and families in New York City.
the board and alumnae of the new york women’s foundation
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OUR GR A N T E E PA RT N E R S
We are honored to be your partners. You inspire us and hold hope,
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possibility and justice for women and families in New York City.
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Brooke S. Beardslee
Katherine R. Henderson
Karen A. Phillips
With our heartfelt gratitude to three incredible departing board members
for their invaluable service to The New York Women’s Foundation.
We are so happy to know you will always be a part of our family.
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As “women helping women”,
I feel confident that
my granddaughters
will continue to carry
our hopes and challenges.
JOAN WARBURG
From left to right: Avital Warburg, Maya Warburg, Joan Warburg,
Angela Bliumis, Anya Warburg and Emily Warburg Larson
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Congratulations
to
for another year of outstanding and innovative work
The Dobkin Family Foundation
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AGNES GUND
salutes
THE NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION
and congratulates
MARY J. BLIGE
EILEEN FISHER
and
MARGARITA ROSA
for their commitment to fostering Change
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Richie Tye Consulting Inc.
Congratulations
to this year’s Honorees
Mary J. Blige
Eileen Fisher
&
Margarita Rosa
And to our 2010 Grantee Partners
Congratulates
2010 Honorees and
The New York Womens Foundation
Together we Stand for
Women and Girls in New York City
Susan R Cullman and John J Kirby, Jr
THE FINCH COLLEGE
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
Salutes
for their powerful vision,
23 years of enriching the lives
of women and children in New York City,
and support of The Finch Scholars,
to expand the horizons
of today’s college students
www.finchcollege.org
1471 Third Avenue, #213, New York, New York 10028
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T H E S TA F F O F T H E NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION ®
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With grateful appreciation for your daily passion and dedication,
we thank you for your commitment to justice
for women and families in New York City.
the board of the new york women’s foundation
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SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP FORUM
(SAWLF)
is proud to join the
New York Women’s Foundation
in “Celebrating Women”.
The New York Women’s Foundation Board Alumnae
®
Thank you for your continued friendship to The New York Women’s Foundation.
Your dedication and passion have been the heart and driving force
of our work over two decades.
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Natalie Abatemarco
Suzanne Ainslie
Nereida S. Andino
Carole Angermeir
Betty D. Arce
Maria Arias
Wendy A. Bach
Didi Barrett
Judith Roth Berkowitz
Martha D. Bernstein
Gloria Primm Brown
Marjorie A. Cadogan
Alice Cardona
Shona Chakravartty
Millie Chan
Linda T. Chard
Josephine M. Clement
Roxanne Coady
Berta Colón
Olivia H. Cousins
Sarah A. Crane
Stacey Cumberbatch
Judith Daniels
Anne S. Davidson
Susan L. Davis
Virginia Day
Keiko I. DeLille
Abigail E. Disney
Evan Donaldson*
Kimberly E. Donaldson
NancyM. Dorsinville
Marsha L. Edlich
Patricia Eng
Elizabeth Fernandez
Martha M. Ferry
Julie Fontaine
Jane A. Freeman
Arlyn S. Gardner
Selena Gardner
Cecilia M. Gastón
Mary E. Geisser
Traci M. Gibson
Cindy F. Gim
Leslie Gimbel
Susan Ginkel
Eloisa Gordon
Jean Minskoff Grant
Lynda D. Gray
Verona Greenland
Audrey Gruss
Janet T. Gusman
Polly W. Guth
Judith L. Hall
Anne Hartwell
Carolyn D. Hermogenes
Laura Schachter Hertzog
Adria S. Hillman
Madeline L. Holder
Elizabeth C. Houghteling
Carole Hunt
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Audrey M. Hutchinson
Nancy Resnick Ireland
Weslie R. Janeway
Virginia R. Joffe
Janice M. Johnson
Anne B. Jones
Katherine S. Kahan
Marion S. Kaplan
Edith Kelly*
Jessie McClintock Kelly
Jean B. Kilborne
Grace K. Kim
Kwanghee Kim
Sarah Kovner
Wei Lam
Sandra A. Lamb
Nancy Lebron
Hali Lee
Josephine Linden
Melanie Lyons
Jean Mahoney
Idelisse Malave
Nell Martin
Rhonda Joy McLean
Anne Mendel
Friedrike Merck
Gerri W. Merrick
Gloria W. Milliken
Gail S. Miner
Mary C. Mitchell
Elba I. Montalvo
Elizabeth Luce Moore*
Katharine Mountcastle
Sondra Murphy
Stacia Murphy
Sharon A. Myrie
Brenda Neal
Sheila Nemazee
Laura J. Nurse
Susan J. Onuma
Maria E. Otero
Silda Palerm
Jane Pauley
Janice Perlman
Carroll Petrie
Lili Pew-Montfort
Lisa L. Philp
Rosemonde Pierre-Louis
Suki T. Ports
Linda E. Rappaport
Lucille C. Renwick
Yolanda Rivera
Barbara B. Roberts
Maria Teresa Rojas
A. Stacey Rouse
Yolanda Sanchez
Sheri Sandler
Heidi L. Schneider
Sara L. Schupf
Marian L. Schwarz
Mary Carroll W. Scott
Elinor A. Seevak
Anne Sheffield
Barbara Smith
Connie Solomon*
Brande Stellings
Margaret L. Stevens
Carmen Suardy
Betty Terrell
Myra L. Tobin
Christina Toosie
Catherine Tracy
Mary J. Tully*
Lola Van Wagenen
Amy Vance*
Helen Vanderbilt*
Barbara M. Vogelstein
Sukey N. Wagner
Myrle H. Wall
Joan Melber Warburg
Charlotte C. Weber
Sandra Weiksner
Kathryn Weill
Patricia A.White
Deanne H. Winokur
Barrie Zesiger
*deceased
®
Congratulations to this year’s Honorees
Congratulations
to
Mary J. Blige
Eileen Fisher
&
Margarita Rosa
Mary J. Blige
Eileen Fisher
And
Margarita Rosa
For all you do for women and families
in New York City
ELINOR A. SEEVAK
DIANA TAYLOR
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We thank our wonderful
VOLUNTEERS
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who generously give their hearts, minds, and talents
on behalf of women and families
of New York City.
®
With gratitude to our volunteers who make our work possible.
Je’Anna Acevedo-Moseslogan
Arielle Galambos
Samantha Lora
Indra Santana
Saurabh Agnihotri
Raquel Garcia
Charlotte Mentzer
Sandra Scharf
Maria Allwin
Lori Gittens
Jean Milligan
Alison Sherbach
Julie Amorante
Kristy Grammer
Linda Molinar
Rashidah S. Siddiqui
Chason Anderson
Christine Green
Kristin Mooney
Lannia Small
Louise Angelio
Joanne Greenstein
Maribel Morales
William Staso
Sarah Aslam
Sandra Gurijala
Kate Morehead
Karen Steward
Cinthia Aspinazu
Kareena Hewitt
Elisa Negrin
Becky Sullivan
Christina Bernier
Abby Huber
Masha Niausikhina
Lee Takajian
Sheena Blaise
Layla Jafar
Alma Nugent
Aleksandra Terzano
Stephen K. Bess
Angela Jiggetts
Courtney Oliver
Stephanie Van Damm
Wendy Bratcher
Tara Jindal
Elizabeth Ortiz
Divya Verma
Victoria Brigis
Erin Jordan
Anita Patel
Pooja Virkud
Judith Brydson
Karen Kaplan
Nita Patel
Lauren Wall
Sarah Cannon
Sinead Keegan
Reena Patez
Julie Welch
Claudia Caryevschi
Llana Kegel
Rachel Porto
Tracie White
Cori Cibulskis
Maura Keselowsky
Kerry Ann Powell
Louise Williams
Sarah Comneck
Arshi Khan
Patricia Preiss
Andrea Wong
Kaylin Connolly
Sarah Khan
Jessica Radow
Michael Woodrow
Dereen Cooper
Liz Kiernan
Seetha Ramanathan
Angeline Yan
Ingrid Criss
Karen King
Ranjini Ramkumar
Rachel Zief
Jennifer Cutignola
Iva Kleinova
Elisa Rivera
Libby Dale
Kristin Kollinger
Sherry Robinson
Catherine Dash
Bruce Lane
Heather Roberts
Dayna M. Delville
Monessah Lawson
Sherry Robinson
Dawn DeVita
Alexandra Levine
Mary Rocco
Dawn Edwards
Lena Licata
Versely Rosales
Anouchka Fillippi
Mariana Lodogma
Hanna Roshetko
Diane Finnerty
LaToya Logan
Chelsea Russell
Ruane Fisher
Tasheem Lomax
Diana Salas
Interns
Heather James
Madonna Kendona
Leonides Ortiz
Luisana Taveras
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Activist Philanthropists
1/10/2009 to 1/8/2010
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$100,000 +
$25,000 – $49,999
Anonymous (1)
Bloomberg
Carnegie Corporation
of New York**
Catalyst Fund of
The Tides Foundation
Abigail E. Disney
Graham Family Charitable
Foundation
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Laurie M. Tisch
Illumination Fund
Smart Family Foundation, Inc.
Starry Night Fund of
The Tides Foundation
Barbara M. Vogelstein PC
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Cablevision Systems Corporation
Consulate General of Mexico
Fieldstone Alliance Inc.
Dorothy Lichtenstein
The Loreen Arbus Foundation
Carolyn Buck Luce
Anne and Vincent Mai
The Margaret & Daniel Loeb —
Third Point Foundation
Morgan Stanley**
Morgan Stanley Foundation
Yvonne S. Quinn
Jennifer A. Soros
Swanee Hunt Family Foundation
Wachovia Foundation
Barbara and Bill Wynne
Jacki Zehner
$50,000 – $99,999
Anne H. Bass
The Buffin Foundation
Ernst & Young LLP†
Agnes Gund
The Janet Prindle Seidler
Foundation
Kim H. Luck
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP†
Tishman Speyer
Joan Melber Warburg
*Matching gifts
$10,000 – $24,999
Anonymous (1)
The Bloomingdale’s Fund
of Macy’s Foundation
BNP Paribas
Citi
Mayree Clark,
Silverleaf Foundation
Susan C. Coté
Covington & Burling LLP
Susan R. Cullman PC
Maria Deknatel
Barbara B. Dobkin
**Includes cash and matching gifts
†2009 Visionary Sponsor
Emblem Health
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
The Frances Alexander
Foundation
Lisa M. Holton
Stephanie Hunt
Renee Landegger
Yoko Ono Lennon
Lily Auchincloss
Foundation, Inc.
L’Oreal USA
Lucky Magazine
Sarah Lutz
Mahadeva Family Foundation
For SAWLF
Minskoff Grant Realty
Management Corp.
Neuberger Berman LLC
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
The Poppy Family Fund
Proskauer Rose LLP
Queen Latifah
Allison Sarofim
Elinor A. Seevak
Jean Shafiroff
Lindsay and Brian Shea
Joan and Donald Sherman
Patricia J. Simpson
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Tanenbaum-Harber Co., Inc.
Diana L. Taylor PC
Time Warner Inc.
Jacqueline Togut
White & Case LLP
‡Circle of Sisters
PC President’s Council
$5,000 – $9,999
Helene R. Banks
Samantha Bass
Brooke S. Beardslee
Brandt & Hochman
Literary Agency
Cecily Carson
Robert B. Catell
CIT
Catherine M. Clarkin
Peter D. and
Julie Fisher Cummings
Lucy and Frederick M. Danziger
Vivian H. Donnelley
Hess Foundation, Inc.
Alfred and Deborah Jackson
Virginia R. Joffe
Betty C. Jones
Robert M. Kaufman
Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lazard
Lieff Cabraser Heimann &
Bernstein, LLP
The Lipton Foundation
Jane L. Mali
Susannah Taylor Marriott
and Phil Marriott
The McGraw-Hill Companies**
Friedrike Merck
Margot Michalski
Alice Moorhead
Margaret Morrison and
Larry Heuer
Ms. Foundation for Women
+ Committee for the Future
Omnicom Group Inc./G23
Right Management Consultants
Rockefeller & Co., Inc.
Alexandra Shiva
Cornelia Small
Regan Solmo and
Geoffrey Brewer
Janet and Howard Stein
Brande Stellings‡
Elizabeth and Herbert Sturz
Steven B. Tanger
C. William Tanzi
Time Warner Legal
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch
Toyota Motor
North America, Inc.
Julianne Wagner
Sue Ann Weinberg
Laura J. Wilson
$2,500 – $4,999
Sharon Bonnemazou
Lisa and Richard Cashin
Chadick & Ellig, Inc.
Maria Cilenti
Dalia Cohen
Elizabeth B. Dater
Agathe David-Weill
Ingrid S. Dyott
Somers W. Farkas PC
Clare B. Ferraro
Lisa Fitzig
Julie Fontaine
Mary B. Forshaw
Jean Minskoff Grant
Marcy and Bennett Grau
Joseph M. Gregory
Judith L. Hall
HBO
Adria S. Hillman
The Hoch 2003 Charitable
Lead Trust
*Matching gifts
Gail B. Hochman
Weslie R. Janeway
Brenda C. Karickhoff
Susan P. Kennedy
Sandra A. Lamb‡
Judith C. Lewent
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss
Margo and James L. Nederlander
Sheila and Hassan Nemazee
Ana L. Oliveira‡
Nancy B. Peretsman
Donald Pillsbury
Linda E. Rappaport
Mary D. Reynolds
Denise Rich
Fiona and Eric Rudin
Elizabeth A. Sackler
Sara L. Schupf ‡
Ann Short ‡
Terry Lynn Smith
Bonnie and Thomas Strauss
Cynthia K. Vance
$1,000 – $2,499
Anonymous (1)
The Afterschool Corporation
Julie M. Allen
Valerie Amsterdam
Judith and John Angelo
Cynda Arsenault
Muffie and Sherrell Aston
Gayle and Charles Atkins
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Sydney Avent‡
Didi Barrett
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli‡
Lisa Beckerman
Kim Bepler
Martin J. Bienenstock
Clara Bingham
Kathryn M. Bopp Flynn
Merilee and Roy Bostock
Emily Brizzi
Janna Bullock
Charmaine S. Burden
Susan Burden
Susan Cain
Aiyoung Choi‡
Kathleen McKeany Chrisman
Melinda Chu‡
Elizabeth C. Church
Nan R. Cooper
Mimi Corcoran
Joyce B. Cowin
Dana Cranmer
Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Louise and Edgar M. Cullman, Sr.
Daffy’s
Peggy and Richard Danziger
Davis & Gilbert LLP
Belle B. Davis
Zita Davisson
Ginny and Sean Day
Jennie and Richard DeScherer
Ruth Dickler
Wendy Dietze and
William Heyman
Maja A. DuBrul
Jane L. Eddy
Carol Edgar
Eisner
Margot and John Ernst
Florence Fearrington and
Jim Nedham
Fe Fendi
Julie R. Fenster
The Finch College Alumnae
Association Foundation
Floyd Advisory, LLC
Kim France
Beatrice and Lloyd Frank
Janeene K. Freeman‡
Barbara T. Friedman
Lucy N. Friedman
Marilyn F. Friedman and
Thomas Block
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Nancy Gallt
Sarah Gerstenzang
Chip Gibson
Sharon Gigante
Britt-Louise Gilder
Wendy Goldberg
Samantha Gordon
Rhonda Lynn Grant
Myrna and Stephen Greenberg
Suhana Han
Fred Harris
Bana and Faisal Hassan
Andrew Heiskell
Yaz Hernandez
Ludmila and Carl Hess
Gloria Hicks
The Hill Snowdon Foundation**
Michael J. Hirschhorn
Nelda and David Hirsh
Fiona Hollands and
Marc Berman
Martha Howell
Helene D. Jaffe
Janklow & Associates
Virginia Jaramillo+
Pat and Thomas A. Javits
Etsuko F. Jennings‡
Jenny Jones
Rachel Kahan
Kassell Family Foundation
Marilyn Katz
Anne Keating
Noreen Kelly-Najah
Jessica Klaitman+
Sarah Kovner
Krause Family Foundation, Inc.**
Jay L. Kriegel
Stephanie Krieger
Margo M. Langenberg
Barbara F. Lee
James Lee
Ann B. Lesk
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Cathy I. Levy
Susan D. Lord
Katherine Lorenz
Roderick MacFarquhar
Marathon Bank
Catherine Marron
Vincent McGee
Erica Steinberger McLean
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.*
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley,
& McCloy LLP
Karen Moncrieff
Abigail Young Moses‡
Janet Mulligan
Alejandra Naranjo
New York Road Runners
The New York Times Company
Foundation, Inc.
Amy and Harold S. Novikoff
Amelia Ogunlesi
Frank A. Oswald
Liz Peek
Lisa L. Philp‡
Mary L. Porter
The Pratt-Heins Foundation, Inc.
Nancy and Walter Raquet
MaryAnne Rasmussen
Talatha Reeves
Janet Riccio
Jodi A. Richard
Ritchie/Tye Consulting, Inc.
Meredith Kahn Rollins and
Conley Rollins
Yehudah Rose
Elizabeth Sabin Page
Samson Capital Advisors, LLC
Dorothy Samuels
Sheri Sandler
Bonnie Schaefer
Ellen Schall
Schlosstein-Hartley Family
Foundation
Nancy Schwartz
*Matching gifts
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
and Frederica Perera
Martin E. Segal
Nicole Seligman
Annabelle Selldorf
Shamrock Holdings, Inc.
Shecky’s Media, Inc.
Carolyn Sicher
Julie Sissman and Phil Richter
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
Mary B. Smyth
Richard Soloway
Sony Corporation of America
Melissa and Robert Soros
Burton and Nancy Staniar
Allison M. Stern
Elizabeth Stribling
Andrea Sullivan
Felicia Taylor
Karen Thomas
Joan Tisch
Marjorie B. Tiven
Barbara Tober
Myra L. Tobin
Carol Tolan
Sandra and Bruce Tully
Twin Chiminey
United Way of New York City
US Fund for UNICEF
Cheryl Van Hooven
Patricia J. Volland
Myrle H. Wall
Nora Ann Wallace
Michael Weinstein
Carl Weisbrod and Jody Adams
Nancy L. Wender
Helmut Weymar
Eileen G. Whelley
Maureen White
Joy H. Wyatt
Cynthia Young
Mary N. Young
Beverley Zabriskie
$500 – $999
Anonymous (5)
Simin and Herbert Allison
Elizabeth Bernbach‡
Robin Bierstedt ‡
Karen Bigman
BlackRock Financial
Management, Inc.
Kelly V. Bookmyer
Jessica Brackman
Emily Braun and
Andrew Frackman
Shari Brink
Bettina and Bruce Buschel
Amy S. Butte
Virginia L. Butters
Shona Chakravarty
Anita Channapati+
Stephanie Clohesy
Sarah E. Cogan
Ellen B. Corenswet
Sarah A. Crane
Pamela J. Damsky
Alison Deans
DeSantis Breindel, Inc.
Angelia Dickens‡
Christine DiGuiseppi
Maureen Dillon
Disney Worldwide
Natalie Edwards
Eight Square Accounting
Sherri L. Eisenpress
Janice and Bruce Ellig
Teresa Clarke Ellis
Sara L. Engelhardt
Andrea K. Feirstein
Linda Filardi
Sarah A. Finklea+
Foley & Lardner LLP
Francesca Gagliano
The Gallup Organization
Lee W. Galvis
Jennifer Giacobbe
Linda M. Gibbs
Susan Ginsburg
Kyle Good
Tara Grabel
Margaret Grace
Mercedes Menocal Gregoire
Katie Grover
Deirdre M. Hard
Jenny Hellman
Susan Hendel
Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan
Katharine W. Hill
Elizabeth H. Holmes‡
Elise Howard
Institute for Philanthropy
J.T. Magen & Company Inc.
Penelope and Ray Foote
Rochelle D. Jones
Rory and David Jones
Dona S. Kahn
Sharon C. Kennedy
Nancy Kestenbaum
Liz Kiernan+
Kwanghee Kim
Emily Jane Kirwan and
Jay Grimm
Jeremy Kramer
Rashida K. La Lande
Hali Lee
Lorie and Charles Levy
Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Helen T. Lowe
Cynthia and Dan Lufkin
Gina Ma
Christiane MacArthur
Cecily P. Maguire
Mary Lou Malanoski
Marcum & Kliegman LLP
Andrea S. Markezin
Mona Marquardt
Catie Marshall
Debra A. Mayer
Mary McCormick
Rhonda Joy McLean‡
Deborah H. McManus
Ruth W. Messinger
Gillian and Eduardo G. Mestre
Kazie Metzger and John Harvey
Anne Mosenthal
Jeanne M. Mosure
Elizabeth P. Munson
Sharon A. Myrie
Cherrie Nannienga
Adaeze Nwachuku‡
Sarah E. O’Connell
Courtney Oliver ‡
Stephanie and Robert Olmsted
Paula Oppenheim
Pamela Pantzer
Sharon Pearson
Allison Pease
Marjorie A. Penrod
Mitzi Perdue
Emily Peterson
Renee K. Petrofes
Gloria C. Phares
Diane D. Posnak
Naomi Rabinowitz
Emily K. Rafferty
Kalpana Raina
Joan G. Rall
Joseph and Carol Reich
Karen Reynolds Sharkey
Arthur Ross
Aidan D. Rowley
Russell Reynolds
Melissa Salten
Rosita Sarnoff
Marjorie Schulman
Phyllis R. Schwartz
Mary Carroll Scott
Betsy Seidman
Selldorf Architects
Purvi Shah
Loretta Shaw-Lorello
*Matching gifts
Jana M. Shea
Mary M. Shuford
Rebecca Simmons
Georgiana J. Slade
Keisha Smith
Laura S. Steinberger
Kathleen G. Strickland
Alice Tan
Ann Temkin
Diane Thomas
Time to Care New York
Tom Lantos For Congress
Committee
Abby Tucker
Barbara J. Turk
Jan Tuttleman
Virginia VanZanten
Kate Walbert
Joanne Walsh
Jonathan Weiner
Susan E. Weiner
Inez S. Weinstein
WellPoint
Tanya Wexler
Toya Williford+
Deanne H. Winokur
Melinda B. Wolfe
Women’s Law Society
Ruth S. Zachary
Suzanne Zywicki
$250 – $499
Anonymous (6)
Elaine S. Abelson
Anne Ackerley
Catherine and Fred Adler
Patricia Allen
Larian Angelo
Judith A. Archer
Susan Arosteguy
Lauren Artese
Asian Americans/Pacific
Islanders in Philanthropy
Emanuel Ax
Emanuel and Yoko Nozaki Ax
Wendy A. Bach‡
Robert E. Bank
Fran Barrett
Susan Barrett
Mary Ann Baumrind
Amanda Benchley
Neil Berger
Brenda Berkman
Joan E. Bertin
Bridget and Charles Best
Taina Bien-Aimè
Vera Blankley
Susan E. Block
Andrea Bozzo
Kate H. Briggs
Ronna Brown
Cathy S. Callender
Lauren S. Cassell
Sarah L. Cave
Anna L. Chairetakis
Saraswathi Channapati
Tina Chiu
Elizabeth Cho
Hee D. Cho
Dianne Coffino
Alan Cohen
Rhea G. Cohen
Molly Cole‡
Tamar M. Copeland‡
Elizabeth Costas
Patricia Crown
Stacey Cumberbatch
Sara M. Darehshori and
Ronald S. Rolfe
Abbey Darer
Ashima Dayal
Tuhina De O’Connor ‡
Alison DeCourcey
Anne del Castillo
Valerie Demont
Janet L. Dewar
Carolyn Dolan
Kelly Dolson
Douglas, Gould & Co.
Catherine J. Douglass
Downey Kates Associates, Inc.
Elizabeth Easton
Jacqueline Eatz
Liz Wallace and Ingrid Eberly
Nicky L. Edlich
Karen Edward
Karen Fairbanks
Brett E. Felder
Leslie Findlen
Kristen K. Fisher
Regina Fitzpatrick
Shawn G. Flowers
Roopa M. Foley
Anne Fosty‡
Eleanor Friedman
Jane H. Furse
Barbara Gai
Tracy Gary
Cecilia M. Gastón
Mary E. Geisser
Adrienne Germain
Martha E. Gifford
Delana Glenn‡
Linda Goldstein
Ted Goldstein
Amy Goldwasser
Donna L. Gordon
Lucia Hwong Gordon
Gillian Granoff
Janelle Greene
Ruth Gruenthal
Claire P. Gutekunst
Antoinette Hamilton+
Sharon Handler
Kathy Herre
Susan Herriott
Anne D. Herrmann
Marlene Hess and Jim Zirin
Sarah Higby
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Eric G. Hilton
Melissa P. Hirsch
Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla‡
Rebecca J. Holden+
Mark F. Leininger
Celia and Lawrence Levit
Jamie A. Levitt
Lena Licata+
Madeline L. Holder ‡
Stephanie Holmes and
Alan Denis
Yvette Gorman Holmes
Joan Hornig
Lisa Horwitz
Marianna Houston
Deborah and Brian Howes
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Jennifer Hutchins-Regina
Tamara R. Igel
Robyn Brady Ince‡
Ileana Infante
Janis Inscho
Linda Janklow
Nurah-Rosalie P. Jeter
Mary E. Johnston
Jean Godfrey June
Beatrice R. Kahn
Yves Kamioner and Hugh Glenn
Esther Kartiganer
Jane and Robert Katz
Marion Katzive
Caroline S. Keating
Virginia C. Keim
Marcia Keizs
Kimberlee Keller
Carol Kellermann
Fern J. Khan
Lauren E. Klein
Kim Koopersmith
Susan A. Kotcher
Tamara Kreinin
Eleanor M. Lackman
Rosemarie Lanard
Deborah S. Larkin
Claire A. Lea-Howarth
Nancy Lebron
Lisa Lee
Francine LeFrak
Patti S. Lieberman
Andrea Linett
Dee Livingston
Barbara Lowry
Mary M. Luria
M.A.C. Tech Fabrication
& Repairs DBA
Marjorie Mackey
John Mara
Dawn Markowitz
Gail Marquis
Marriott Marquis Hotel
Judith Marshall
Claire A. Marx
Alexandra Mayers‡
Susan F. McCalley
Melanie M. McEvoy
Cynthia McFadden
McGee-Riley Associates
Kelly McGowan
Janis and Richard Meyer
Eileen O. Michael+
Wehda Millard
Benita R. Miller
Jennifer Miller
Sally Minard
Lisa A. Mondschein
Eleanor Moody-Shepherd
Yvonne Moore‡
Catherine Morgan
Eileen Moynihan
Kristine Muccigrosso
Nancy S. Murray
Elizabeth A. Nash
Gail B. Nayowith
New York City Central
Labor Council
New York Urban League
Susan Newton
Talib Nichiren
*Matching gifts
Jasmine Nielsen
Susan T. Nitze
Debra Noumair
Alma Nugent‡
Jeanne J. O’Brien-Ebiri ‡
Amy Orr
Silda Palerm
Anka Palitz
Marisa Panzani
Minal Patel Davis+
Pearl and Owen Pell
Amy Peterson
Maurice Peterson and
Mark Johnson
Susan H. Petree
Karen A. Phillips‡
Rosemonde Pierre-Louis‡
Royce Pinkwater
Leslie Fay Pomerantz
Mary J. Potter
Rhonda E. Powell
Kevin Quist
Bahia L. Ramos Synnott ‡
Audrey A. Rampinelli
Linda E. Ransom
Kim Rappaport
Suzanne A. Redpath
Evelyn Jones Rich
Amy Richards
Grace E. Richardson
JillEllyn Riley
Lynda Rodolitz
Maria Teresa Roja‡
Robert and Pamela Rosenberg
Helen Rosenthal
Mary C. Rower
Rosina F. Rue
Vincenza Russo
Ruby Saake
Deborah Sagner
Catherine Samuels
Debra Sapp
Sarafa Law LLC
Cara Sawyer
Rose H. Schwartz
Tuti B. Scott
Terri Seligman
Mary J. Sentner
Ellen S. Shafer
Lorraine W. Shanley
Yvette and Ronald Shiffman
Hanna Shin
Katie Shisler
Natasha Sigmund
Hildy J. Simmons
The Sister Fund
Lorie A. Slutsky
Tarnisha L. Smart-Santiago‡
Martha S. Sproule
Julie M. Staudenmier
Dolores Swirin
M.D. Taracido
Missie R. Taylor
R. Alexandra Taylor
Rosa A. Testani
Catherine Tharin
Patricia C. Towers
Georgia C. Traill-Stimphil
Dana Trobe
Michelle A. Vice
Alexandra Villano
Adele R. Wailand
Heidi Wailand
Liz Wallace and Ingrid Eberly
Elizabeth H. Wang
Jennifer Weidenbaum
Kathryn Weill
Anita and Byron Wein
Vera V. Weintraub
Beth N. Werwaiss
Laurel West
Michele Willens
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williford
Marie C. Wilson
Jamie L. Wine
$100 – $249
Anonymous (4)
Shawn Aaron
Ariel Aberg-Riger
Dimple Abichandani
Mimi Abramovitz
Katherine Acey
Adeola I. Adele
Nicolette Airenberg
Jean Albert
Esther Alix
Roslyn Allison
Susan Alt
Linda Alvarez-Cruz
Kenneth Ambrosio
Mary Amor
Neha Anada+
Meeta Anand
Roseanne Antonucci
Natalya Apfel
Deborah T. Armijo
Charlotte P. Armstrong
Heidi J. Aronin
Marie Arrigo
Patricia and Leeland Arrington
Jeannette Arrowood
Jill Astrow
Helen Atsma
Susan Aufiero
Cynthia Augustine
Cynthia Aureli
Sara Austin
Sarah Jean Avery
Debra S. Bach
Kathy Baczko
Martha Baker ‡
Alessandra Balzer
Zeynep I. Bandirma
Lisa L. Banks
Akira Barclay‡
Riana Barksddale
Edward P. Bass
Angela M. Battaglia
*Matching gifts
Caroline Batzdorf
Jayne H. Baum
Beautiful Foundation USA, Inc.
Bonnie Behrend‡
Jamie L. Bennett
Jill S. Berman and Lynda Cury
Susan Bernfield
Better Business Bureau
Bhati Beads LLC
Sayu V. Bhojwani ‡
Biddle & Bellidora
Communications
Leticia Bido
Susan Biegler
Jane Bierwirth
Ellen Bilgore
Blake Bissonnette
Lori and Bret Black
Donna Blanchard
Ellen Blye
Carole Bolger
Nancy R. Booke
Erika N. Borozan
Sharon Bowen and Larry Morse
Barbara Brancaccio
Susan P. Brant
Gloria Primm Brown
Lorin Brown‡
Muriel Brown
Nancy C. Brown
Sharon A. Brown‡
Susan Brown
Michele A. Browne
Susan Brune
Susan J. Bryant
Gretchen Buchenholz
Minna Buck
Bucks Creek Foundation
Elizabeth H. Burke
Henry Burnett
Kwanza R. Butler ‡
Albert and Brenda Butzel
Hope Byer
Elizabeth Cabot
Marjorie A. Cadogan
Sebnem Caglayan
Sila Calderon
Gina Callender
Kate Campbell
Leah Campbell
Sarah Z. Canner
Darcy Carr
Rosemary Carroll
Roxanne Cason
Jacqueline Ceonzo
Karen Chaikin
Millie Chan
Yvonne Y. F. Chan
Maisie Chang
Robert Chang
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth
Sunita Chaudhuri
Stephanie Cherry
Sharda Cherwoo
Jean M. Chin
Pearl Chin
Wolhee Choe
Julie Choi
Dina Ciarmatori
Cecilia C. Clarke
Andrea Clarke-Gibson
Danielle Claro
Lybra Clemons‡
Heidi Coggeshall
Carrie H. Cohen
Christine Colligan
Wynne Comer
Committee for Hispanic
Children & Families
Millicent Comrie
Jan M. Cook‡
Paige Costigan
Lydia Cotter
Rachel Coun
Sonya R. Covington
Michael Cowing
Cathy A. Cramer
Jennifer Cullert
Georgina Cullman
Laurie A. Cumbo
Caroline Cummings
Alice W. Cunningham
James Czarnecki
Shannah Dalton
Patricia Daly
Kavita Das
Sarah Davidoff
Anne S. Davidson
Ellen Davis
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez
William J. Dean
Sarah Deckey
Lea Degirmenci
Vishakha N. Desai
Julie DeSantis
Naomi Despres
Ayala Deutsch
Ann C. Diamond
Angela Dirks
Catherine N. Dnistran
Brigid Doherty
Fiona Doherty
Kunlay Dolma
Dominican Women’s
Development Center
Amy Dorin
Patricia Duff
Tiffany Dugan
Kanyere F. Eaton
Jacqueline M. Ebanks
Jill Edelson
Monique Edwards+
Dorinda Elliott
Anne Erni
Deborah Evangelakos
Johanna Evans-Colley
Kara Fagan
Sienna Farris
Leslye Faulk
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Leslie Feinberg-Levy
Laura J. Feinland Katz
Sanna B. Feirstein
Amy L. Feller
Amalia Ferrante
Kathleen Ferrell
Martha M. Ferry
Julie Fink
Nancy Fink
Elizabeth Fishman
Kathryn Beckwith Fishman
Tiffany Fletcher
Monica Folch
Joelle-Jude Fontaine‡
Houda Foster
Terri J. Fowlkes
Neil and Martha Fox
Carole France
Heather Frayne
Joanne Freeman
Marilyn Friedland
Christine Frohnert
Jackie Frommer
Merle Froschl
Ester Fuchs
Eliza Funston
Gail M. Gallagher
Brennan Gang ‡
Emily B. Gannett+
Karen Geer‡
Ken Geist
Tina and Scott Gelber
Robin Gelburd
Rosalie Generro
Rachel Gerstein+
Barbara and Stephen Gillers
Kate Gilman
Barbara Giordano
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A
Steve and Natalie Glasser
Deborah Glick
Sarah Glickenhaus
Laura Godwin
*Matching gifts
Marcia Goffin
Roselyn Gohagan
Lisa Goldenberg
Marti Golden-Greenberg
Leah Goldfinger
Goldglit & Company LLP
Fatima Goldman
Julie Goldscheid
Susan Goldstein
Maxine Gooden
Karen Goodheart
Heather Gordon
Sara Gould and Rick Surpin
Shawn Rene Graham
Yvonne J. Graham‡
Brenda Grassey
Joan S. Green
Jean S. Greene
Loren W. Greene
Clare R. Gregorian
Grenadier Realty Corp.
Mary H. Gridley
Stacey Guardino
Kianne Gumbs
Aileen Gural
Lisa Haas
Robin Hadley
Karen L. Hagberg
Shelley Hainer
Jennifer R. Haller
Rosemary Halligan
Joan F. Halligan-Wang
Julie Hallowell
Lisa Halustick
Patryca K. Harbison
Margot Harley
Christopher R. Harris
Melanie Hart
Daryl Hartshorne
Kathryn D. Haslanger
Hauteaholics Anonymous
Catherine Havemeyer
HEAF
Mary Hedahl
Merrilee Heifetz
Kathryn M. Heleniak
Deborah E. Henry
Lynn Hepburn
Maria L. Hinojosa
Mariana Hogan
Sylvia Hordosch
Linda Howes
Charles O. Hoyt
Emily Hsieh
Michele Hu
Karen Hudson
Antoinette Hum
Claire E. Hunter
Mi Young Hur
Julie Hurwitz
Camille Hyatt
Norma Intriago
Dave Isay
Melissa Ix
Wallace and Lois Jackson
Martha R. Jacobs
Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield
Tanya M. Jaeger
The Janis & Alan Menken
Foundation
Yael H. Jekogian
Gabriella Jeppson
Kristen Johanson
Roma Johnson
Walretta O. Jones
Hannah T. Jordan
Marianela Jordan
Mary Beth Joyce-Brown
Erin C. Jurew
Jill Kafka
Susan Kahaner
Cecily Kaiser
Lisbeth Kaiser
Dionisia Kaloudis
Ariel Kaminer
Karen Kaplowitz
Amy L. Katz
Deborah Kaye
Meryl Kaynard
Jane Keaveney
Janet Kelley
Eileen Kelly
Maureen C. Kelly
Yvonne Kenney ‡
Alicia M. Kershaw
Elaine Kessel
Ronald Kettrles
Rachna Khosla
Bomsinae Kim
Sunny Kim
Susan M. Kingsolver
Eileen Kleiman and Peter Lurye
Marla Klinger
Barbara Knecht
Jung Joo Ko
Korean American Community
Foundation
Helen Kornblum
Vivienne C. Laborde
Jill and Barry Lafer
David J. Landes
Tracey Lane
Christina Larkin
Susan Latham
Melanie Lavelle
Law Offices of Janice Goodman
Patricia Lazak
Beverly D. Lee
Donna Lee
Kathie B. and Donald J. Lee
Soon Ok Lee
Daphne Leroy+
Judy Levine
Elvis Lewis, III
Philip Li
Alla Liberman
Mimi L. Lieber
Victoria Lins
Katie Lipkins
Jean R. Lobell
Judy Loeb
Lisa A. Lofdahl
Kara M. Logan
Lauren L. Logan
Gretchen Long
Sara Lopergolo
Beth Lowy
Cassandra Lozano
Patricia P. Lunka
Luba Lynch
Bridget G. Lyons
Marcelo Machado de Oliveira
Daniel Maguire
Mary R. Main
Saira Malik
Karen Mandel
Nandini Mani
Geraldine P. Mannion
Annette Marion
Margaret Marsh
Ann M. Martin
Marymount School
Christin J. Masimore
Nina Massen and Jean
Hamerman
Mary Mastropaolo
Robyn Mazur
Suzanne L. McClelland
Jane McCord
Marina H. McCoy
Eleanor McGee
Sarah McGrath
Janice McGuire
Irving P. Mcphail
Shirley A. McRae
David W. Mehr
Susan A. Meisel
Teri S. Meissner
Caroline Menes
Roxandra Meron
Meredith Meyer
Patricia Meyer
*Matching gifts
Rebecca L. Miller
Nicole Mills
Joyce H. Mims
Elizabeth G. Mindlin
Margaret M. Minson
Michelle Minter
Robin and David Mitchell
Judith M. Modica
Lorraine Monchak
Jacklyn S. Monk
Twinkle Morgan-McDonald
Morris Heights Health Center
Martha M. Morrison
Nan J. Morrison
Kiisha Morrow‡
Melanie Mullan
Jeanne B. Mullgrav
Sandra Mullin
Sallye Murphy
Susan T. Murphy
Wendelyne C.H. Murphy
Muse2Muse Productions, Inc.
Heather Myers
Janet Nelson
Kristin Nelson
Pamela Nesbitt
Laureen Nowakowski
Robin Nunn
Cindy O'Hagan
Ngozi Okaro
Jane Orans
Rob Ornstein and James Esseks
Cathy White O’Rourke
Nellie Ortiz
Nora Ostrovskaya
Beverly O’Toole
Cheryl Overton
Barbara L. Paltrow
Helene Pamon
Stacy Papas
Simmy Pappachen
Jeannie Park
Kyung Park
Partnership for After School
Education
Jane Parver
PCM 411
Michele Penzer
Peter and Patricia Gruber
Foundation
Robin N. Phillips
Nicole Pilet
Laurel Pinson
Margaret H. Pinto
Pamela Plate‡
Diane Pockaj
The Point Community
Dev. Corp.
Laurie Polis
Eden Pontz
Stuart I. Post
Geetika Prasad
Public Health Solutions
Jacqueline A. Pullano
Nan Puryear
Alix S. Pustilnik
Helen H. Pyo
Jackie Quan
Pearl Rabinowitz
Miriam Raccah
Seetha Ramanathan
Edwin Read, III
Jodi Reamer
Connie Ress
Jennifer Reynoso
Suzane Rhee
Satricia Rice
Linda Ridley
Corinne H. Rieder
Sandra A. Riemer Landers
Margaret Riley
Julia Robbins
Mary R. Robinson‡
Carol Robles-Roman
Kelly Rodden
Jessica Rodgers
Kathryn Rodgers
Mary Romeo
Sharon D. Rosen
Esther Rosenberg
Marilyn G. Rosenberg
Joan Rosenfeld
Patricia Rosenfield
Claire Rosenzweig
Alexandra Rosin
Leslie A. Ross
Amy and Howard Rubenstein
Patricia Rudden
Dana C. Rundlof
Miles N. Ruthberg
Emma Sabin
Susan Sack
Rebecca Saletan
Nicole Salier
Barbara Saltzman
Primavera Salva
Carmen G. Sanchez‡
Flora Sanders
Nan Sandle
Elaine Sargent
Susan Sawyers
Shayla Scarlett
Judith G. Schlosser
Sherrie Schmidt
Eileen Schneider
Bettina Whyte Schnelling
Theresa A. Schnepf
Laura Schranz
Leslie G. Schultz
Jill M. Scibilia
Nancy and Sante Scorcia
Lori Seader
SEEDCO
Anne Sekel
Manda Sertich
Angelly Shahani
Kirsten Shaw
Stephanie Shaw
Barbara S. Sherman
Peggy Shiller
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Marta Siberio
Elana Sigall
Mohan Sikka
Cindy Silverman
Barbara L. Simon
Niki Simoneaux
Paul Singer
Geoffrey and Helene Small
Denise Smith
Pamela J. Smith
Sherly Sohn
Helen Song
Jacqui Spence
Inge P. Spungen
Peggy Stafford
Gillian V. Steel
Steps, LLC
Patricia C. Stewart
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Susan Straub
Beth Stubenbord
Carmen S. Suardy
Brooke T. Suhler
Ann F. Sullivan
Nel Sung+
Robin Sweberg
Isabel Swift
Mara Symes
Maria Szpak
Richard E. Talmadge
Carol Tambor Lorance
Deborah R. Taylor
Mary Taylor
Virginia Tent
Franklin A. Thomas
Ruth Thomas Suh
Judith Thoyer
Mary Tobler
Lena Townsend
Sarah Trite
Troutman Sanders LLP
Nicole Valentine
Carol van Atten
*Matching gifts
Nisha Varia
Lalitha Vasudevan
Josefina Vazquez
Divya Verma‡
Miriam Villaverde
Gary Wachter
Peter A. Wald
Erica N. Walker
Anika Warren‡
Marissa J. Watson‡
Marie-Helene Weill
Jill Weinstein
Jody R. Weiss
Julie Weiss
Karyn Weiss
Heide White
Windella D. Williford
Regina G. Wilson
Stephen Wimmers
Amy S. Winkelman
Judith S. Wolff
Allison Wolfson
Kaziem Woodbury
Nancy Wysocki
Jungin K. Yang
Trea C. Yip
Kyung B. Yoon
Alice Yurke
Meryl Zausner
Barbara C. Zeller
$1– $99
Anonymous (10)
Leigh Abra
Jeanette Adams
Jennifer D. Adams
Meredith Adler
Seema Agnani
Sara Alonzo
Victoria Alzapiedi
Bernadette Anderson‡
Sharon Anderson
Carol Andreae
Ekua Ansah-Samuels
Samantha Artese
Keri and Brian Athan
Eileen Auld
Moira Bailey
Maura Bairley
Victoria Baker
Stede Barber
Reed Barker
Carmen A. Barnes
Molly B. Barton
Arlene Bascom‡
Corby J. Baumann
Michelle Beaman‡
Melissa Beck
Michele Bergent
Melissa Berkey-Gerard
Stephen Bess
Nikki A. Bethel-Grant
Craig Bienstock
Sheena Blaise‡
Erin Blondes
Laura M. Blood
Barbara Blumenthal
Dan-Xia Bossard
Helynn Boughner
Meredith Lawrence Breitman
Karen Brightly
Monique Brizz-Walker
Cheryl Whiteman Brooks
Christine Burke
Roberta Burrows
Jolynda Burton
Charlene Butterfield
Tim Cahalan
Kimberley Cambridge
Janice Cannon
Jill Cantwell
Caroline Carr
Julia A. Cato
Marnie Cato
Megan A. Cayler
Cinnamon Chambers+
Didi Charney
Joseph Chehebar
Vivian Cheung
Sonya R. Cheuse
Nina Church-Adams
Gigie Jian-Fen Claman
Donna Clark
Michelle M. Clarke
Louise Cohen
Sandra R. Cohen
Judith Collins
Kathy A. Comerford
Kaylin Connolly
Maria Contreras-Collie
Deneen Cooper ‡
Carla Copeland
Patricia Corley
Dylan Corn
Lisa Cowan
Melissa Cozart
Pat Craddick
Heather Cristol
Antoinette Crockrell
Virginia Cruz
Jennifer Cummings
Charmaine Dacosta
Janine D’Aniello
Pauline David
Elaine Davis‡
Alisa Del Tufo
Keiko I. DeLille
Stephanie Denkowicz
Patricia Desvallons-Mentor
Jean H. DeWolfe
Barbara G. Didder
Deborah Dimasi
Elizabeth A. Dolan
Donna Donato
Tracey Doolin
Brendan and Maura Doyle
Anne Durocher
Carol Enseki
Susan E. Epstein
Karen Erdos
Lynn Evans
Janelle Farris
Rachel Feddersen
Paula Y. Fendall
Laura Ferguson-Bowman
Liz Figel
Connie Fishman
Joan G. Fishman
Andrea M. Flynn
Nancy Foasberg
Erica R. Forman
Sandra Forman
Gershom Foster
Jennifer W. Fowler
La’khouri Francis
Marcia Franco
Kathleen Freeman
Nina S. Frenkel
Andrea Freshman
Mary C. Frey
Marian Friedmann
Dorothy Fulgoni
Caite D. Galblum
Judith Garner
Elizabeth A. Gaynes
GE Foundation
Marjorie A. Geiger
Sandra R. Geller
Sony J. Geter
Elaine M. Gibbons
Nina and Veer Gidwaney
Andrea Gingold
Ken Glasser
Jessica Goldman
Caryl Goldsmith
Rita and Norman Goldstein
Rachel Gonzalez
Heather M. Goodchild
Yma Gordon
Maureen Gorham
Christine L. Green‡
Pamela E. Green
Nicole M. Griffith
*Matching gifts
Jean Grove
Susanne Groves
Suchitra Gururaj
Irene Haber
Nicole Haff
Renee Haggerty
Tereska Haman
Heather Harlan
Lynne Harlow
Amber Hasan
Patricia Hatry
Jane Heaphy
Kate E. Heiberg
Tamara Hellgren
Michelle Henry
Lara Hernandez
Renee P. Herriott
Alexandra Hezir
Ann W. Hilliard
Tracy L. Hobson
Michelle Holder
Elinor Holland
Stephanie Howze
Lakesha Hussar
Yordanka Ilieva
Grace Y. Ingleton
Shevani Jaisingh
Janet Jakobsen
Lauren Cutson Janian
Shareya Janssens-Sannon
Ileana Jimenez
Diane John-Regis
Janine Johnson
Sarah S. Jones
Amy Kates
Ruth Kavesh
Caledonia E. Kearns
Ilana Kegel
Emily R. Kessler
Claire Kiefer
Cynthia King
Kawana King
Perrin Kirby
Jody Klein
Linda Klein
William Klein
Marj Kleinman
Elizabeth Kocienda
Cynthia Koo
Zeynep Korur
Mona B. Kreaden
Marcia Kublanow
Manjari Kulkarni
Valyrie Laedlein
Arlene Lasagna
Liz Lauren
Bonda Lee-Cunningham
Kathleen Matsoukas Leicht
Jacqueline Lemon-Denton
Joy Leonard‡
Sandra Levin
Cynthia H. Levy
Renanit Levy
Carilyn Libysen
Michele K. Lindsay
Kate M. Lloyd
Tasheem L. Lomax
Sonia Lopez
Abbey Lustgarten
Jacki Lyden
Allison Lynch
Marina Malchin
Kyle Maldiner
Joan L. Malin
Thelma L. Malle
Deborah Mansfield
Danielle Marchione
Susanna Margolis
Lisa Marsh
Barbara and Keith Marshall
Nancy and Joseph Marter
Nadia Martincic
Chataquoa N. Mason
Elizabeth G. Mayers
Kieran McGrath
Debra Means
Merrill Lynch
Investment Managers
Jane Miles
Tanya Miles
Bobbi Miller
John Miller
Dana Mindlin
Nina Miness
Anne P. Mintz
Beth Mitchell
Elba I. Montalvo
Beata Moon
Julie Mormando
Libby A. Moroff
Nina Morrison
Kristen Mullarkey
Shannon Mullins
Regina C. Mysliwiec
Sara Narumi
Susan A. Nayowith
Odette Nemes
Jane W. Newman
Elizabeth Nisbet
Tamar Ogburn
Sinead O’Gorman
Carolyn Okabe
Karla Olivier
Suzanne Orosz
Katrina Ortiz-Mendez
Caitlin O’Shaughnessy
Eve R. Pais
Becky Palsmeier
Emily Parker
Susannah Pasquantonio
Laurence Pauly
Sandra Perez
Angela Perry-Spruill
Rachel Peters
Maureen K. Peterson
Mary G. Pezzimenti
Doug Phillips
Lucille B. Pilling
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Sharon Pollack
Lindsay Prevette
Cydney Pullman
Monica Quinn
Chavaughn Raines‡
Jule J. Ramirez
Sandra E. Ramos
Alexandra Ramstrim
Luna Ranjit
Vasantha Rao
Rebecca Reilly
Eliza Reock
Virginia Reticker
Maureen Ribeiro
Charlotte Roberts
Constance K. Robinson
Monisha Robinson
Phyllis C. Robinson
Melissa Roesler
Elda Rotor
Kristen Ruff
Marissa Ruhlig
Kristen M. Rush
Marguerite Salamone
Zakiyyah Salim
David G. Samuels
Suzy Sanford
Carolyn Sauvage-Mar
Karen Scanna
Jane Liff Schatz
Andrea B. Schlesinger ‡
Carol Schlitt ‡
Lucy Schmeidler
Jonathan Schnapp
Elizabeth R. Schnee
Dana J. Schneider
Donna Schneiderman and
Mitchell Drach
Danielle Schuster
Annetta Seecharran
Gail Seiden
Irene Selver
*Matching gifts
Nancy Shack
Angela M. Sharkey
Jennifer M. Sheinfeld
Elisa N. Sheridan
Susanne Short
Katherine B. Shutkin
Clarissa Silva
Marilyn Silverman and
Roberta Weiss
Karen Simmons
Sarah Smaller-Swift
Tonya Smay
Suzanne Smeaton
Betty A. Smith‡
Shadawn Smith
Shannon Snead
Ida V. Sorscher
Sarinya Srisakul
Summer Starling
Anna Sternoff
Meghan Stevenson
Mary A. Strandell
Alison M. Sullivan
Virginia K. Sweet
Mindy Tarlow
Donna Taylor
Anne R. Teicher
Stacy Stark Tenenbaum
Blanche Terry
Gladys Thomas
Emily Tobey
Michell Tollinchi-Michel‡
Melanie Torosyan
Priya G. Trauber
Tamara Tripp
Shannon Twomey
Stephanie Van Damm+
Mary Ann Van Dyke
Berta Vargas
Felicia Varlese
Carroll G. Velie
Jean Vendice
Erin Vilardi
Heather Volik
Marissa Volshteyn
Kira Von Eichel-Butler
Maya B. von Ziegesar
Nancy Wackstein
Liz Wainstock‡
Lisa Walsh
Francine J. Walzer
Ettie Ward
Karol Ward
Deya M. Warren
Sharon Waskow
Kimberly Watson
Susan A. Waxenberg
Lisa E. Weiss
Nancy A. Weiss
Steve Weissman
Stephanie Weldon
Kelly Westphalen
Perrin Wicks
Naomi Wiesen
Hilary Wilkes
Aviva Will
Louise M. Williams
Quintell Williams
Sabriya Williams
Sarah Williams and
Andrew Kimball
Marcia Wilson
Christopher Wisniewski
Claudine Wolfe
Hoi-Ling Wong
Marilyn S. Wragg
Susan Zevon
NYWF Financial Statements
Fiscal Year January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009
Expenditures
73%
Programs
$4,546,171
22%
Fundraising
$1,372,729
5%
Administration
$330,989*
* Excludes $224,833 sublease expense
Sources of Revenue
70%
Contributions & Grants
$4,485,351
26%
Special Events
$1,684,759
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4%
Donated Goods & Services
$242,365
* Excludes $1,205,992 Net Realized and Unrealized gains from investment
** Excludes $224,832 sublease income
2009 Grant Distribution
$1,195,625
35%
Economic Security and Justice
18%
Health and Sexual Rights
$595,000
14%
Safety
$465,000
12%
Positive Development for Girls and Young Women
$415,000
12%
Community Organizing and Advocacy
$415,000
7%
Technical Assistance Grants
$231,325
2%
Strategic Discretionary Grants
Total Grants
$60,000
3,376,950
Summarized Financial Statement
STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION
DECEMBER 31,
Assets
2009
2008
2,085,612
$ 1,353,556
Investments
6,990,511
6,227,903
Pledges receivable, net
3,079,574
3,136,479
Prepaid expenses
59,439
26,814
Property and equipment, net
29,752
35,505
117,094
102,173
$ 12,361,982
$ 10,882,430
$
$
Cash and cash equivalents
$
Other assets
Liabilities and Net Assets
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Accounts payable and accrued expenses
139,352
100,627
Grants payable
73,000
–
Security deposit and deferred rent revenue
30,951
30,951
–
750
243,303
132,328
Current
2,791,020
2,057,365
Quasi-endowment
4,849,913
4,329,913
7,640,933
6,387,278
Temporarily restricted
2,678,151
2,563,229
Permanently restricted
1,799,595
1,799,595
12,118,679
10,750,102
$ 12,361,982
$ 10,882,430
Refundable advances
Total liabilities
Commitments
Net assets:
Unrestricted:
Total unrestricted
Total net assets
Summarized Financial Statement
STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES
2009
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
Support and Revenue:
Contributions & Grants
$
U nrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
1,810,564
$ 2,672,300
Donated Goods and Services
Investment Income (Losses), net
Other Income
Net assets released from restrictions
Total Support and Revenue
Permanently
Restricted
Total
Tot a l
$ 4,482,864
$ 2,563,434
1,684,759
2,491,919
242,365
242,365
170,901
1,205,992
1,205,992
(1,960,203)
227,319
227,319
215,191
1,674,759
Special Events
2008
10,000
2,567,378
(2,567,378)
0
0
7,728,377
114,922
7,843,299
3,481,242
4,546,171
3,896,512
Expenses:
Grants, Research, Public Education
& Leadership Development
Administration
Fundraising
4,546,171
555,822
555,822
495,107
1,372,729
1,372,729
1,341,907
Total expenses
6,474,722
6,474,722
5,733,526
1,368,577
(2,252,284)
Change in net assets
1,253,655
114,922
Net assets – January 1
6,387,278
2,563,229
$ 1,799,595
10,750,102
13,002,386
7,640,933
$ 2,678,151
$ 1,799,595
$12,118,679
$ 10,750,102
Net assets – December 31
$
The complete financial statements for fiscal year ending December 31, 2009 were audited by Eisner LLP. The statements presented here are summarized from our audited
statements. To obtain a copy of them, please call The New York Women’s Foundation at (212) 261-4586.
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With Appreciation
The New York Women’s Foundation® wishes to thank the
many people and organizations who helped to make this
Album and the Celebrating Women® Breakfast a success.
We would like to thank our strategic allies who have partnered
with the Foundation over the past year.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Clementine
Daphne Foundation
Anderson Consults
DeSantis Briendel
Aquiesse
Eight Square Accounting Inc.
Baggu
Eisner LLP
Christine DiGuiseppi Design
Condé Nast
Finch College Alumnae Association Foundation
Abigail E. Disney
Hunter College Public Service Scholar Program
Derreth Duncan
Kim Sabo Consulting
Group SJR
Laura M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Illume
Ms. Foundation for Women
Inez Weinstein Special Events Inc.
Neuberger Berman
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James Johnson and staff at the New York Hilton
Karen Palmer
New York Community Trust
Kiehl’s Since 1851®
New York Foundation
L’Occitane
North Star Fund
Lucky Magazine
Philanthropy New York
Stephanie Clohesy Consulting
Marina Maher Communications
Third Wave Foundation
Mizani
Union Square Awards
Nugent Alison Inc.
OPI
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Oren’s Daily Roast
Women of Color Policy Network,
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,
New York University
SaraBeth’s Kitchen
Schnapp Studio Inc.
Seda France
Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement
Settepanni
Women’s Funding Network
7th Empire Media
Women Moving Millions Campaign
Youth Empowerment Mission
Please join us for
Our Fall Dinner on
October 14th, 2010 at Gotham Hall
&
Our 24th Celebrating Women Breakfast
®
on May 12th, 2011!
434 West 33rd Street, 8th Floor, New York NY 10001
TEL 212-261-4586 FAX 212-564-7386 www.nywf.org
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