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SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.
Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.
SELFHELP AT 80:
BUILDING UPON OUR HISTORIC PROMISE
2015 ANNUAL REPORT
1936 – 2015
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.
2015 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
WHEN THE TIME CAME, A SMALL GROUP
DEAR FRIENDS
November 10, 1936. It was a chilly November evening when a small group of recent
German émigrés came together in the living room of a Manhattan apartment.
Their purpose: to take action to rescue their friends, neighbors, and relatives who
were still stranded in Europe and facing increased danger from the Nazi regime.
From this initial meeting, the organization we know today as Selfhelp Community
Services was born.
We are proud to present our 80th Anniversary Annual Report, and we invite you
to journey with us through Selfhelp’s fascinating story. Over the decades, our
constituency has greatly expanded and our service offerings have increased in
number. Yet, the values that guided Selfhelp from its inception are ever-present.
Living independently with dignity remains the motif that runs through our history and
still drives our work 80 years later. This is illustrated, time and again, through
those we serve:
Mrs. K., an 85-year old Holocaust survivor of limited means, receives a free hearing aid and
exclaims, “After years of solitude and quiet, a whole new world has entered my ears and mind...”
Mr. S., 100 years young, enjoys visiting with his fellow residents at Selfhelp’s Harry and
Jeanette Weinberg Apartments, and the comfort of knowing that his Selfhelp social worker is just
down the hall.
Mrs. A., homebound and recovering from a stroke, rekindles her love of music and the arts
through classes she takes as a participant in our Virtual Senior Center.
MISSION
CONTENTS
1
Executive Letter
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Overview of Programs and Services
maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and
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Then & Now: 1936–2015
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Financial Statements
at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home
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Looking Ahead
30
Founders Society
health care, and social services and will lead in applying
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Caring for Generations:
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Providing Support
new methods and technologies to address changing
A Salute to Long-time Members of
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Working Together
needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve
the Selfhelp Family
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Contact Information
Highlights From an Outstanding Year
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Officers, Directors, and Management Staff
victims of Nazi persecution.
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SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015 - 2016
MANAGEMENT STAFF
Officers
Directors
President
Raymond V.J. Schrag
Edward B. Cohen
Scott Drassinower
Jeffrey S. Jacob
Barry Konig
Lisa J. Krenzel, MD
Carol Levin
Paul Levinsohn
Ralph P. Marash
Alfred E. Netter
Ronald F. Ries
Sheryl Silverstein, DMD
Brian R. Steinwurtzel
Carol Kahn Strauss
Tai Wang
Stuart C. Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Chairmen
Ernest L. Bial
Victor A. Wyler
Vice Presidents
Matthew A. Cantor
Peter H. Jakes
Peter Model
Steven G. Tepper
Treasurer
Peter L. Simmons
Russell Lusak
Senior Vice President
Michael Grieco, CPA, CVA
Senior Vice President,
Financial Strategy
Kevin T. Byrne, Esq.
Vice President, Human Resources
and Labor Relations
Lois Deutsch
Vice President, Development
Secretary
Dennis Baum
Tova Klein, LCSW
Vice President,
Senior Communities
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION BOARD 2015 - 2016
Officers
Trustees
Chairman
Dennis Baum
Michael A. Bamberger
Ernest L. Bial
Bert E. Brodsky
Matthew A. Cantor
Jeffrey S. Jacob
Stuart C. Kaplan
Karin Shewer Krugman
Ilse Melamid
Joshua Mermelstein
Stanley J. Reifer
Thomas H. Roche
Richard Scharf
Vice Chair
Debrah Lee Charatan
Secretary
Peter Model
Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
as the “last surviving relative” to its historic constituency,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND MANAGEMENT STAFF
Advisory Board
Shelley Einhorn
Michael F. Price
Sandra Priest Rose
SELFHELP HONORARY LIFE MEMBER: Rita Shewer
Robert H. Scheibe
Raymond V.J. Schrag
Victor A. Wyler
Jeffrey Zorek
Hanan Simhon, LMSW
Vice President,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Evelyn J. Wolff
Vice President,
Real Estate Development
David Dring
Executive Director,
Selfhelp Innovations
Linda Pekunka
Administrator,
Executive Services
Karen DeOssie, LMSW
Administrative Director,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Adeena Horowitz, LMSW
Administrative Director,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Patricia L. Kaufman
Managing Director,
Senior Communities
Dorothy Kern
Managing Director,
Real Estate
Elizabeth Lynn
Managing Director,
Grants and Research
Carol Durham, RN, PCC
Director, Clinical Operations
Karen H. Geller, RN, JD
Director,
Risk Management
Mohini Mishra, CASP, LMSW
Programs Director, Housing
Sandy Myers
Director,
Government and External Relations
Sherry Perlman
Director, Development
Nancy Kelly Sullivan
Managing Director,
Long Island LHCSA
Brooke Samuelson
Programs Director, NORCs
Mayer Waxman, LMSW
Managing Director,
Senior Communities
Samantha Schoenberger
Director, Housing Development
and Sustainability
Neil Actable
Director, Information Technology
Doreen Seligson
Director, Human Resources
Koku Badasu, RN
Director, LHCSA
and City Home Care Programs
Lisa S. Trub
Director,
Affordable Housing Development
Erin Brennan, MPS, QDCP
Senior Programs Director,
SHARP/Clearview Senior Center
Angela Williams, LCSW
Programs Director,
Case Management
Lisa Buynak, RN
Director, Patient Services
Long Island LHCSA
Ellen Ceriale
Director, LHCSA,
Quality and Compliance
STEPPED FORWARD…
Thanks to their long-term home health aide, Cheryl, Mr. and Mrs. F. live safely at home
despite his dementia and her physical impairments.
Eighty years ago, Selfhelp assisted refugees as they rebuilt their lives in America.
Today, we continue to provide essential services to Holocaust survivors and to a
broader community of older adults, including immigrants from all over the world.
We touch the lives of over 20,000 clients in 26 sites throughout New York City and
Nassau County.
• In keeping with New York City’s plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable
housing, we are building two new apartment buildings, and have one on the drawing
board, which will yield 244 new units of affordable housing specifically for seniors.
We are also speaking with our partners about new opportunities.
• We are planning our fifth International Conference, which will bring together
professionals who work with Holocaust survivors from all over the world. Our last
Conference attracted 300 attendees, and focused on issues of resilience, the longterm effects of trauma, child survivors, and benefits and restitution.
Our founders imbued Selfhelp with a spirit of innovation, unfettered vision,
and willingness to navigate uncharted territory. Today, we are among the largest
and most highly regarded human service organizations in the New York
metropolitan area.
• Outcome measurement has become an integral part of our work. Our clients
have long provided us with anecdotal evidence attesting that our programs are
transformational. We are confirming their feedback with more formal research. For
example, with funds from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, we are working with an
external evaluator to examine how the services we provide in affordable housing
We mark our eightieth year with celebrations and with a commitment to retaining
reduce health care costs. And, we are working with managed care partners to plan an
the spirit of our founders, even as we continue to evolve in response to a new health
evaluation of how the Virtual Senior Center impacts avoidable hospitalizations and
and human services environment and changing client needs. Here are some of our
emergency room use.
current projects:
• We are engaging with health care providers regarding the use of social services
to reduce the need for hospitalization, under New York State’s Delivery System
Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. At the same time, we are developing
new models of service which blend social services with health promotion and
prevention activities.
We remain grateful for your companionship and your support along our journey.
Whether we are reflecting back, or looking ahead, our friends and supporters have
ensured that Selfhelp remains strong, innovative and responsive to the changing
environment. With your continued partnership, we look forward to touching the lives
of tens of thousands of new families, far into the future.
SINCERELY,
Raymond V.J. Schrag, Stuart C. Kaplan
and Dennis Baum.
Raymond V.J. Schrag
President, Board of Directors
Dennis Baum
Chairman, SCS Foundation
Stuart C. Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer
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1936
2015
TO
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…AND TOOK ACTION
1936
Our Story Begins
In the living room of a Manhattan
apartment on November 10, 1936,
a group of German émigrés gather
to discuss the plight of their
compatriots, anxious to escape the
threat of Hitler’s tyranny. Selfhelp for
German Refugees is created.
“It was the time when the Nazi regime
unfolded its murderous designs,
when even the reluctant, in growing
numbers, realized that they had to
leave their homes…”
– T.S., a Selfhelp Founder
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1939 - 1941
Refugees Arrive in Increasing
Numbers
War erupts and waves of refugees
approach Selfhelp for assistance.
Volunteers from Selfhelp respond by
guiding confused immigrants through
a maze of bureaucratic paperwork, and
help provide food, shelter, clothing,
employment and financial assistance.
THEN AND NOW
Selfhelp’s early volunteers initiated
the personal service that would
become our organization’s hallmark.
Today, Selfhelp’s social workers at
our affordable apartment buildings,
senior centers, and NORCs provide
advocacy to help clients obtain
benefits and entitlements, and
referrals to a myriad of social
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services. Three comprehensive case
management programs provide
intensive support to elders living in
the community in Brooklyn, Queens
and Manhattan. Last year alone,
these programs leveraged nearly $3.6
million in support for food, housing,
transportation, and other life
essentials for needy older adults.
Selfhelp retains its commitment to
victims of Nazi persecution, and has
also built upon its experience to
benefit tens of thousands of clients
representing a broad spectrum of
cultures and ethnicities.
Pictured above: Selfhelp Social Worker Julia
Pilosov with Martin Lande House resident
Aida Balay.
1946 – 1956
Selfhelp Begins to Serve
Holocaust Survivors
Following World War II, Selfhelp is
called upon to assist Holocaust survivors
and other displaced persons who come
to the United States without family,
homes or funds. Many are ill, and all
are devastated by the horrors they have
experienced.
THEN AND NOW
Our founders promised “to serve
as the last surviving relative to
victims of Nazi persecution.” While
the war ended more than 70 years
ago, Selfhelp’s work with survivors
remains very much alive. Today,
Selfhelp is the oldest and largest
organization in North America
providing comprehensive services to
Holocaust survivors – nearly 4,700
in the last year alone.
Most people are surprised to learn
that there are still nearly 60,000
Holocaust survivors living in the New
York City area, and that over half of
them are living at or below 150% of
the poverty line (a mere $16,335 for
an individual). Many are becoming
frailer and more in need of services
as they age.
The crises experienced by survivors
today often stem from the acute loss,
dislocation, and deprivation they
suffered decades ago. Selfhelp’s
professionals are well versed in
the psychological impact of the
Holocaust, and are experts in
accessing a wide range of benefits
available to survivors. Sensitivity
training is provided to the cohort
of home health aides that work
with this population.
Pictured above: Dancing at a Selfhelp
Coffee House.
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1950
1955
1960s
Summer Vacation
Program Begins
United Help is Established
Fundraising Concerts
Feature Renowned Artists
By the early 1950s, Selfhelp’s summer
vacation program provides refugees
and Holocaust survivors with much
needed respite. The program expands
to several locations over the next few
decades, including Fleischmann’s and
Hunter House.
A sister organization to Selfhelp,
United Help is created to raise
and administer funds to help Jewish
refugees from all of Europe.
Long-time Selfhelp friends and
supporters fondly recall the concerts
– originally held in private homes and
then at larger venues such as Carnegie
Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Celebrated
artists such as Isaac Stern and Pinchas
Zuckerman are among the musicians
who perform before sold-out audiences.
These fundraising events help Selfhelp
to serve its rapidly expanding client
population – nearly 5,000 by Selfhelp’s
25th anniversary in 1961.
“The very low death rate and the fact that
in more than four and a half years only one
tenant needed to be transferred to a home
for the aged indicates the value of suitable
housing …and the importance of stand-by
services that can be delivered when needed…”
– Excerpted from Selfhelp’s 1968 Annual Report
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1964
Affordable Housing for
Holocaust Survivors
Selfhelp becomes convinced that
placing the elderly in old age or
nursing homes would precipitate
their decline. A staff of newly hired
professional social workers visits
clients regularly in their own homes
to provide counseling, arrange for
homemaker services, and respond to
emergencies.
As a result of this program’s
overwhelming success, Selfhelp
develops the innovative notion of
building an apartment complex with
supportive services where seniors
could live independently among
friends with similar interests. In
1964, the Helen R. Scheuer House
opened its doors to 200 tenants in
Queens. It is the first state-aided
project to be built in New York by a
not-for-profit organization.
THEN AND NOW
Selfhelp now operates nine housing
sites, which provide over 1,300
seniors with affordable and supportive
housing in Queens and on Long
Island. Two more buildings are
under construction, in the Bronx
and Brooklyn.
Selfhelp’s buildings offer much
more than just an affordable place to
live. Onsite social workers promote
residents’ independence and quality of
life as they age in their homes.
Services include supportive
counseling, community nursing
visits, innovative aging services
technologies, advocacy for
entitlements and benefits, home
health care, medication management
and housekeeping, all available if
and when requested.
Pictured above: Rendering of Selfhelp’s
eleventh building, currently under
construction in Brooklyn and scheduled to
open in early 2017.
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1969
Name Change to Selfhelp
Community Services
After several interim name changes,
Selfhelp Community Services is chosen
to reflect the organization’s comprehensive network of community-based
services and the broader population
it now serves.
1972
Project Pilot Opens
Project Pilot is established on
Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the
first of our three case management
programs. These programs perform
evaluations and coordinate services
to help seniors live independently
in their own homes. Counseling
is offered regarding entitlements
and benefits that may be available,
such as financial assistance, home
delivered meals, home care and
housekeeping services.
Community-based Programs
Open for Nazi Victims
Selfhelp’s vital work for victims of Nazi
persecution expands with the
establishment of community-based
programs in Washington Heights and
Queens. Similar programs subsequently
open in the Bronx, Manhattan,
Brooklyn and Nassau County.
“It should be noted that about 100 of our
homemakers are women that came to this
country as victims of Nazi persecution
and who had been associated with Selfhelp
for 20 or more years.”
– Excerpted from Selfhelp’s 1968 Annual Report
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1973
First Senior Center is
Established in Queens
Selfhelp’s first senior center is
established in Latimer Gardens in
1973, with the goal of giving isolated
older adults the opportunity for
creative engagement, a nutritious hot
meal, and direct services.
THEN AND NOW
Today, Selfhelp operates five
robust senior centers in Queens,
which provide 9,300 individuals
with a daily mix of educational,
cultural, recreational, and wellness
programming. In 2012, Selfhelp’s
creative senior center programming
led to a signal honor: the designation
of our Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince
Street Senior Center by then-Mayor
Michael Bloomberg as one of New
York City’s ten Innovative Senior
Centers. Four hundred members a
day stream through the doors of this
flagship center for a full schedule of
computer learning, choral instruction,
formal dancing, Wii bowling,
citizenship preparation, healthy
eating, exercise and much more.
Pictured above: Tai Chi at the Benjamin
Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center.
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1977
Opening of the
Guthery Institute for Home
Care Training
When waves of émigrés arrived on
these shores, the men were often
difficult to employ, as many needed
to improve their English and receive
new training in order to qualify for the
jobs that were available. The women,
however, could work immediately,
and they did so as practical nurses
and homemakers. Selfhelp formally
inaugurated its Homemaker Services
program in 1941, and its Home
Nursing Service in 1942.
By 1977, Selfhelp has become the
largest provider of home care in
the metropolitan area, and receives
a grant from the New York State
Department of Labor to provide
formal training to home health aides.
THEN AND NOW
Today, Selfhelp annually provides
tuition-free training, certification,
employment, and mentorship to
approximately 350 of New York’s hardto-employ individuals, preparing them
for employment in the profession of
home care. Many are single parents,
recent immigrants, or adults struggling
to become self-sufficient by moving
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from welfare to work. Most have
never been gainfully employed.
After three weeks of training and
a hands-on certification process,
aides are eligibile for employment
with Selfhelp’s Licensed Home
Care Services Agency or another
home care provider.
With 1,700 active home health aides
on our roster, today Selfhelp delivers
over 2 million hours of in-home
care to elderly, frail, and disabled
individuals.
Pictured above: Mr. Farkas and his
Selfhelp Home Health Aide, Toure Ndeye.
1983
1986
1989
1990
Selfhelp Joins UJAFederation of New York as
a Member Agency
Nazi Victim Guardianship
Program is Established
SHARP Opens in Queens
NORCs Join the Selfhelp
Network of Services
We greatly value our close partnership
with UJA-Federation, which provides
Selfhelp with vital support for both
our fundamental programs and our
pioneering initiatives. They are tireless
advocates for our clients and have
recently redoubled their commitment
to the many Holocaust survivors
served by Selfhelp. UJA-Federation has
provided Selfhelp with generous core
funding and program grants as well as
technical assistance, introductions to
funders, outreach to elected officials,
and much more.
As some survivors are unable to
manage their own financial or
domestic affairs, Selfhelp seeks
permission from the Court to
become their legal guardian, charged
with acting in their best interests
on their behalf so that they may
continue to live as independently as
possible. Today, Selfhelp operates
the only Guardianship program in
North America designed specifically
for Holocaust survivors. There is
no Selfhelp program that better
epitomizes the sacred promise made
by our founders – “to serve as the last
surviving relative to victims of Nazi
persecution.”
Selfhelp’s Alzheimer’s Resource
Program (SHARP) is established
to meet the tremendous need for
services and support for those affected
by Alzheimer’s disease and their
families. This program provides
a warm, nurturing, and secure
environment for men and women
with Alzheimer’s and other forms
of dementia. SHARP also provides
caregivers with a welcome and needed
respite, and offers support groups that
are conducted in a nonjudgmental
and supportive atmosphere.
Selfhelp emerges as a leader in
providing social and health services
to residents of Naturally Occurring
Retirement Communities (NORCs),
communities of older adults who have
aged in place, so that they may remain
independent in their own homes.
Today Selfhelp operates four NORC
programs in Queens.
Community Guardianship
Program Begins
Selfhelp’s experience providing
guardianship services for Nazi victims
leads to its winning one of three
contracts with the City of New York to
provide court-appointed guardianship
services to vulnerable adults.
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1993
1995
1996
2003
Claims Conference
Funding Enables Expansion
of Services
Certified Home Health
Agency Opens
Selfhelp Organizes First
International Conference for
Professionals Working with
Holocaust Surviviors
Senior Source is Initiated
Selfhelp’s Brooklyn Holocaust Survivor
program opens its doors with funding
from the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany. Due
to the large population of survivors in
Brooklyn, a second program site opens
in 2008. Thanks to Claims Conference
funding, Selfhelp triples the number
of survivors served annually between
1996 and 2004.
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Selfhelp opens a Certified Home
Health Agency (CHHA) to provide
a full spectrum of home care
services to Selfhelp clients as well as
individuals and families infected or
affected by HIV/AIDS. Today, under
a new designation from the New
York State Department of Health,
the CHHA offers in-home skilled
nursing, physical therapy, and other
professional services to a broader
population of adults.
Selfhelp hosts its first International
Conference at Congregation
Habonim. The two-day event includes
sessions on best practices, the unique
needs of aging survivors, and the
intergenerational transmission
of trauma. Three International
Conferences would follow, in 2003,
2006 and 2011, growing both in
size and scope.
Throughout the decades, Selfhelp
has assisted thousands of low-income
seniors in accessing the services they
need to remain independent. Senior
Source was created to make this vital
service available to all. An affordable,
private-pay geriatric care management
program, Senior Source helps families
by developing, coordinating, and
overseeing a personalized care plan,
tailored to the unique needs and
lifestyles of their loved ones.
2006
Aging Services Technology
With the advent of personal
computers in the 1980s, Selfhelp
introduces computer training
programs for seniors. In 2006,
Selfhelp’s Board of Directors adapts
Selfhelp’s mission statement to
include a commitment to using
pioneering new technologies to
meet clients’ changing needs.
THEN AND NOW
Today, Selfhelp offers computer learning
centers in all five senior centers, and
much more: unobtrusive sensors that
issue alerts about illness or emergencies;
telehealth programs that make seniors
active partners in monitoring their
health, “cognitive stimulation programs”
that help maintain mental acuity, and
Selfhelp’s acclaimed Virtual Senior
Center for the isolated homebound.
The Virtual Senior Center creates new
social networks for otherwise shut-in
seniors. It was launched as a publicprivate partnership in collaboration
with Microsoft, the NYC Department
for the Aging, and the NYC Department
of Information Technology &
Telecommunications in March 2010.
Today, it has grown to become a lifeline
for over 225 participants throughout
New York City, on Long Island and in
Baltimore, Chicago and San Diego.
Participants take part in intriguing
live classes facilitated by hundreds of
instructors, attend tours of world-famous
museums, chat with friends, enjoy yoga,
learn wellness tips and discuss politics
from their own homes.
The Virtual Senior Center has attracted
interest from around the world,
including visitors from Australia, Israel,
France, Japan, and Northern Ireland.
Pictured above: Residents of the Martin
Lande House enjoy music and movement
along with their friends participating
virtually from their homes.
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2008
2009
2010
2012
Creation of the Selfhelp
Community Services
Foundation Board
Selfhelp Publishes Definitive
White Paper on Holocaust
Survivors in New York
Passing the Torch –
Launch of Selfhelp NextGen
Selfhelp Brings Witness
Theater to New York
To ensure the longevity of our new
initiatives, the Selfhelp Community
Services Foundation is founded to raise,
manage and steward philanthropic
funds to support the work of Selfhelp
Community Services, Inc. Today,
nineteen trustees actively serve on
Selfhelp’s Foundation Board.
To plan for the future provision of
services to Holocaust survivors, in 2009
Selfhelp undertakes a demographic
analysis of the existing population of
Nazi victims in New York, and projects
their numbers and needs through
the year 2025. Holocaust Survivors in
New York, Today Through 2025 has
become a highly regarded resource,
widely referenced and used by those
providing service to the survivor
community. In 2013, Selfhelp updates
the report, using new data available
from UJA-Federation of New York’s
Jewish Community Study. This update
confirms that the number of survivors
requiring services is rising, and projects
significant needs for home health care
and financial assistance as they age and
become increasingly ill and frail.
The official launch of Selfhelp
NextGen in October of 2010 marks an
important and momentous occasion
for Selfhelp Community Services.
Comprised of young professionals,
NextGen’s raison d’être is to advance
Selfhelp’s mission through outreach,
education, volunteerism and
fundraising. To date, this vibrant group
has undertaken a Memoirs project to
document and preserve the histories
of Holocaust survivors and has hosted
numerous film screenings, Coffee
Houses and much more.
Begun in Israel by JDC-Eshel, The Witness
Theater Program is an innovative and emotional intergenerational, full-year “journey” for Holocaust survivors and high
school students. Guided by a trained
drama therapist, the two generations
elicit and reveal each survivor’s experiences, and explore issues of war, loss and
trauma. The survivors are the narrators,
and the students work with them to
draw out their stories and re-enact their
wartime experiences on stage at the
end of the year. These moving accounts
highlight the survivors’ memories, pain
and resilience through the eyes, ears and
speech of youth.
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In its first year, Selfhelp partnered with
the Yeshiva of Flatbush. Four years
later, we are working with five schools:
The Trinity School, The Heschel
School, SAR Academy, Yeshiva of
Flatbush and Ramaz.
2013
2013
The Defiant Requiem:
Verdi at Terezín –
a Landmark Event
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is a
multi-media presentation of Verdi’s
Requiem Mass, as performed by
Jewish prisoners in Theresienstadt
Detention Camp from 1943 until
October 1944, when the last members
of the chorus were transferred to
Auschwitz. The prisoners, led by
conductor Rafael Schächter, learned
their parts by rote from a single score,
and were accompanied by a legless,
out-of-tune piano. They sang for
other prisoners, German officers, and
delegates of the International Red
Cross – singing in a spirit of defiance
that could not be spoken.
In April 2013, Selfhelp worked with
UJA-Federation of New York and the
Defiant Requiem Foundation to hold
a performance of Defiant Requiem at
Avery Fisher Hall, to raise both funds
and awareness for Holocaust survivors
in need. So successful was this event,
that an encore performance took place
on March 9, 2015.
New Partnerships
Kimmel Housing Development
Foundation
Selfhelp expands its affordable housing
portfolio to Long Island through an
affiliation with the Kimmel Housing
Development Foundation. Selfhelp
serves as the asset manager and oversees
operations of two affordable housing
developments in Westbury.
Residents can now enjoy Kimmel
Foundation programs and access
Selfhelp’s wide network of services,
“...[Dad] loved being part of the
Virtual Senior Center....it opened
for him such a wealth and depth of
information....I know deep in my
heart it added more time with us and
we will be forever grateful.”
such as the Virtual Senior Center.
Three Selfhelp programs are housed
at the Westbury site: the Abraham
Scharf Center for Holocaust Survivor
Services, the Long Island Licensed
Home Care Services Agency and our
Long Island Community Guardian
program.
Hunter’s Point South Project with
TF Cornerstone
Selfhelp is named as the developer,
along with TF Cornerstone, in the
upcoming Hunter’s Point South
building development on the Long
Island City, Queens waterfront.
Selfhelp wins this high-profile
opportunity because of its decades of
experience in creating and operating
affordable housing.
– A grateful family
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2014
2015
Balancing Incentives
Program Grants
Federal and City
Government Funding for
Holocaust Survivors
As New York State seeks to reduce
spending on Medicaid, it explores
mechanisms for drawing on social
services to improve the health of
low-income seniors. Selfhelp receives
three major grants to provide case
management to new populations,
introduce health and wellness
services into housing, and support
those recently discharged from the
hospital so they are less likely to be
readmitted.
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New funding from the New York City
Council and the Federal government
is awarded to support the needs of
Holocaust survivors. Selfhelp is a
primary beneficiary. Both funding
streams are the result of concerted
advocacy campaigns in which Selfhelp
played a crucial role.
Charles B. Wang Community
Health Center
An important expansion to our
Housing with Services model, the
Charles B. Wang Community Health
Center opens its doors. Residents of
Selfhelp’s housing, along with their
neighbors, now have immediate access
to high-quality medical care from
primary and specialty providers.
NY Connects
Selfhelp’s Housing Model is
Internationally Recognized
Recognizing our deep expertise in
both case management and home
care, Selfhelp is selected by the New
York City Department for the Aging to
operate NY Connects, a call-in center
providing information, counseling
and referrals regarding long-term care
services.
Selfhelp’s CEO, Stuart C. Kaplan, was
invited to present at the International
Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging’s annual conference in
Australia. Mr. Kaplan spoke before an
audience of 1,000 professionals on
Selfhelp’s novel approach to Housing
with Services.
LOOKING AHEAD
• The Virtual Senior Center is
expanding with new funding
from the New York City Council
to nearly double the number
of participants. And, we have
laid the groundwork to begin
marketing this vital service
directly to families.
• New opportunities are
emerging to blend social
services and health care under
New York State’s health reform.
Selfhelp is working with
hospitals and other providers
to develop new models to
support patient care.
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• Selfhelp is engaged in groundbreaking research to demonstrate
the effects of its Housing with
Services model on reducing
health care costs. Funding from
The JPMorgan Chase Foundation
is underwriting an external
evaluation by Dr. Michael
Gusmano of the Hastings Center.
• Our new Care Transitions
program – first funded in 2014 –
will be extended with new State
funding. The program provides
coaching and social services so
that patients recently discharged
from the hospital will be less
likely to return.
• Two new senior apartment
buildings are currently under
construction and scheduled
to open in 2016 and 2017. The
buildings, located in the Bronx
and Brooklyn, will collectively
add 144 units of affordable
housing to Selfhelp’s portfolio.
Pictured at right: Rendering of Selfhelp’s tenth building, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, scheduled to open in early 2016.
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CARING FOR GENERATIONS:
A SALUTE TO LONG-TIME MEMBERS OF THE SELFHELP FAMILY
THE NETTER FAMILY
HARRY & HILDA SPANIER
Four generations of leadership
and service
From dedicated employees to
treasured clients and friends
For nearly 75 years, the Netter family’s
name has been synonymous with
outstanding leadership and dedicated
service.
Their involvement began in the early
1940’s, shortly after fleeing Europe to
escape Nazi persecution. Upon arrival
in America, they felt compelled to help
other refugees and sought out Selfhelp.
Kaete Gruenfeld Netter, matriarch of the
family and one of our earliest volunteers,
worked tirelessly to help immigrants
find employment and settle in their new
homeland.
Kaete was soon followed by her son Kurt,
who joined the Selfhelp Board of Directors
in 1951 and served as its Treasurer and
then President. His tenure would span
more than 50 years. With a keen business
sense, financial acumen and deep passion
for our mission, he presided over Selfhelp’s
most dramatic period of growth in senior
services, housing, home care and programs
for victims of the Holocaust. In honor
of his devotion and profound impact,
Selfhelp’s Board Room proudly bears his
name.
Just as Kaete imbued Kurt with a sense
of responsibility to make the world a
better place for those less fortunate, so
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too did Kurt and his wife Alice instill
this same imperative in their children.
Indeed, Nadine, Ron, and Fred have
continued the family legacy with 38 years
and counting of collective service on
Selfhelp’s Board, including leadership
roles on our Nazi Victim Services, Home
Care and Development Committees.
The Netter family’s legacy continues
with the fourth generation, Jamie and
Kate -- daughters of Judi and Fred Netter
-- who are members of Selfhelp’s young
leadership division, Selfhelp NextGen.
With their extraordinary generosity of
time, resources and spirit, the Netter
Family has not only been a part of, but
has also helped write the history of
Selfhelp. Their collective energy, insight,
and commitment have helped shape
Selfhelp into the strong and vibrant
organization it is today.
Pictured above: Nadine, Ron and Fred
Netter with their late Mother, Alice, at
the dedication of Selfhelp’s K. Fred Netter
Board Room.
Roza Spanier was one of Selfhelp’s first
tenants in 1965, when Selfhelp opened the
doors to our first affordable senior housing site, the Helen R. Scheuer House, in
Flushing, Queens … and there has been
a member of the family living in one of
Selfhelp’s apartment buildings ever since.
Roza was so pleased with the warm, familial environment and the available on-site
services that she encouraged her son Harry,
and his wife, Hilda, to join her in Queens. In
1970, Harry accepted the position of Building
Superintendent at Selfhelp’s second building, the Martin Lande House, and Harry and
Hilda and their two children became the very
first inhabitants of this brand new residence.
“It seemed like one family,” Hilda recalls,
when asked to describe what life in the building was like back then. “It was just beautiful.”
At the time, the majority of tenants living in
our senior housing were Holocaust survivors from Germany and Austria, who were
rebuilding their lives. In addition to maintaining the physical aspects of the building,
Harry also took on the additional responsibility of caring for all of its tenants. “Harry was
a workaholic,” Hilda says. “He would say to
everyone: ‘Call me anytime – day or night,’
and they did.” Whether they needed a faucet
fixed, a cup of tea, a ride to the hospital or a
few minutes of conversation, Harry was always
there, and Hilda was right by his side.
Harry tended to the building’s Jewish life
as well. He helped build the Synagogue,
shopped for the Torah scrolls and built its
ark. He also built the annual Chanukah
Menorah, prominently displayed in the
lobby, and constructed the communal
Sukkah each year.
At the age of 70, Harry retired. He and Hilda
relocated to an upstairs apartment in the
same building they had cared for, and settled
into their new role as “regular residents”
of the Martin Lande House. As Holocaust
survivors, they felt a special kinship with their
neighbors. They also enjoyed dancing and
socializing at Selfhelp’s Coffee Houses. And
as they both aged and daily chores became
more difficult, our building social workers
arranged for their meals to be delivered and
their needs tended to.
Sadly Harry passed away four years ago, but
his legacy lives on in the stories told by his
beloved wife Hilda – still a Martin Lande resident – and the memories of his daughter and
those passed on to his beautiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The Selfhelp
family is indeed grateful to the Spanier family
for decades of dedicated service to our residents and for their treasured friendship.
LAVERNE GREEN
MARION LUST-COHEN
Committed staff member and
friend for 41 years
A Legacy of compassion
and service
“Dedicated, warm, caring and trusted,”
are the words that best describe Laverne
Green, one of Selfhelp’s most respected
and longest serving staff members. Laverne
began her career as an Administrative
Assistant with Selfhelp’s Project Pilot
program on the Upper West Side in 1974.
Over the years she has worked under
eight different program directors, three
CEO’s and five Board Presidents. She
has witnessed other changes too – office
relocations, the agency’s computerization,
and a slew of new regulations and benefit
programs – but, as she says there has always
been one constant: “the way the work
is done and the commitment to doing
everything possible to keep each client in
their home. That has remained the same.”
No matter the task – answering the phones,
taking information on a client referral, or
arranging for the first delivery of meals
on wheels – Laverne is always friendly,
knowledgeable and willing to help. But of
all her many responsibilities, her favorite
is the annual Thanksgiving dinner, which
she helps to arrange with our partner, the
Trinity School. This event is a highlight of
the season for the nearly 250 seniors who
attend each year. “The students perform
for our clients, serve them dinner and
even give out goody bags for them to take
home. It is an awesome event and it gives
our seniors a needed place to go for the
holiday.” One volunteer found the event
so “awesome” that he contacted our CEO
to explore further involvement at Selfhelp.
When asked how he knew so much about
our work, he replied that over the years
Laverne, his Selfhelp contact, had educated
him well. He is now an active member of
our Board of Directors.
When asked what has kept her at the same
job for so many years, Laverne responds,
“being able to help people and know that
I made a difference.” Indeed, during her
tenure, Laverne has helped thousands of
clients access the programs and services
they need to remain independent, and that
even includes assisting the children of past
clients.
And now after 41 long and wonderful
years, Laverne is retiring. Her warmth,
compassion and friendship will be sorely
missed by her colleagues and clients alike.
She has truly made an important impact
and set the bar high, serving as a role
model for the provision of high-quality and
compassionate care.
For the past 65 years, Marion Lust-Cohen
has set the example for dedication and
exemplary service to Selfhelp and our
clients, both as a volunteer and staff
member. She has also been an integral part
of the agency’s evolution from a volunteerled group of “émigrés helping émigrés”
to the robust and vital not-for-profit
organization we know today.
Marion’s efforts on behalf of her fellow
émigrés, who came without family, friends
or funds, included everything from
collecting clothing and household items
to finding job openings for them at local
department stores. She was also able to
provide them with the support, compassion
and encouragement necessary to begin
their healing and acculturation process.
Having been a refugee herself, Marion had
first-hand knowledge regarding the needs
of those arriving from Europe. As a child,
her parents sent her with a group of other
children to Holland. She then escaped
to England, where she first worked as a
domestic and then trained as a nurse. In
1946, her aunt and uncle sponsored her
entry to the United States.
During her tenure, Marion was also active
on the team responsible for placing
émigrés who could no longer take care of
themselves with willing families in private
homes. Moreover, when Selfhelp built its
first housing complex in Flushing, she was
on hand to interview prospective tenants
and to recommend them for permanent
and affordable residency.
Once settled in New York, she was quickly
recruited as a volunteer for Selfhelp to
assist newly arrived Holocaust survivors
and other displaced individuals from
Europe settle in New York and begin their
lives anew. “It was always my wish to help
people,” said Marion, “and when I had the
opportunity to work with Selfhelp, I was
very happy to do so.” This connection later
grew into her being hired as one of our
first full-time paid employees.
Marion continued working at Selfhelp until
her retirement in the late 1980’s. Not one
to rest on her laurels, she returned to her
role as a volunteer – holding numerous
leadership roles – and has remained active
with us ever since.
Throughout her storied and successful
involvement with Selfhelp, Marion’s
dedication has contributed to and laid
the groundwork for so many of our
achievements. We are profoundly grateful
to her for her lifetime of service.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM AN OUTSTANDING YEAR
Spring Cocktail Benefit
Defiant Requiem:
Verdi at Terezín –
The Encore Performance
A New Chapter for
Nazi Victim Services
Honorees Martin Greenfield, Evelyn J.
Wolff and Benjamin P.D. Schrag
Selfhelp Board member Brian R.
Steinwurtzel (r), with his wife Rochelle and
her grandfather Mendel Lebovitch at the
Avery Fisher Hall performance.
Hanan Simhon
Selfhelp’s 2015 Spring Cocktail Benefit
took place on Monday, June 8th at
Grand Hyatt New York.
The Benefit paid tribute to renowned
suit maker and author, Martin
Greenfield, a true hero who rebuilt
his life out of the ashes of the
Holocaust; Benjamin P.D. Schrag,
a third generation Selfhelp leader,
Selfhelp NextGen member, and EVP
of Prime Clerk LLC; and Evelyn J.
Wolff, Selfhelp’s VP for Real Estate
Development, who has dedicated
her life’s work to ensuring that high
quality affordable housing is accessible
to low and middle income individuals.
Close to 400 guests attended and over
$530,000 was raised to support a broad
range of programs and services.
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The March 9th encore performance
of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín,
was a shining success. In collaboration
with our partners, UJA-Federation of
New York and the Defiant Requiem
Foundation, the event raised
$1.8 million for UJA-Federation’s
Community Initiative for Holocaust
Survivors (CIHS), exceeding our set
goal of $1 million. Thanks to generous
underwriters, who funded all expenses
associated with the performance, every
dollar raised will provide assistance
for Selfhelp’s Holocaust survivors,
along with those served by our UJAFederation sister organizations.
Our sincerest thanks to the Event
Chairs: Board member Carol Levin,
Sondra and Howard Hoffen, and Patti
Kenner.
In August of 2015, Hanan Simhon
was appointed as Selfhelp’s new Vice
President for Nazi Victim Services.
Hanan succeeded Elihu Kover, under
whose leadership Selfhelp’s Nazi Victim
Services program grew exponentially in
size, scope and effectiveness.
Hanan joined Selfhelp more than 16
years ago and has distinguished himself
in continuously expanded roles, most
recently as Managing Director, Senior
Communities. He served for nine years
as an accomplished social services
professional and supervisor in Selfhelp’s
Nazi Victim Services Program and is thus
intimately familiar with the challenges
facing aging Holocaust survivors.
We look forward to Hanan’s
contributions to this vital and historic
program.
Construction Begins
on Selfhelp’s Eleventh
Affordable Residence
Selfhelp’s Virtual Senior Center
Selected for a Riklis Prize
New York City Council
Provides Vital Funding:
The Survivor Initiative
Expansion of the
Virtual Senior Center
Construction begins at 333 Lenox Road.
At the award ceremony l to r:
CEO Stuart C. Kaplan and Board member
Ralph P. Marash with management staff
Tova Klein, Elizabeth Lynn, David Dring
and Lois Deutsch.
Holocaust survivor clients Mr. and
Mrs. Younger at the City Council Event
A Virtual Senior Center class in action.
Selfhelp will expand its Housing with
Services program to Brooklyn, with the
anticipated opening in early 2017 of a
new affordable residence located at 333
Lenox Road. The building will add 57
new affordable apartments to Selfhelp’s
portfolio, providing vitally needed
housing with services for approximately
75 residents.
We are delighted to announce that
Selfhelp was the second-place recipient
of the 2015 prestigious Riklis Family
Prize in Social Enterprise for our
innovative work with the Virtual Senior
Center. The prize is awarded annually
by the Riklis Family to UJA-Federation
agencies for projects that achieve a
double bottom line of earned revenue
and social good.
On September 9, 2015, City Council
Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito,
Council Member Rafael Espinal,
and the City Council Jewish Caucus
gathered together with dozens of
New York City leaders and nearly 100
Holocaust survivors to celebrate the
launch of the City Council’s new threeyear $1.5 million Survivor Initiative.
Selfhelp was awarded $165,000 – the
program’s largest allocation to any one
agency. These funds will be used to
provide essential support to vulnerable
survivors.
New York City Council Member Paul
Vallone has sponsored an initiative to
promote healthy aging. After much
advocacy, the Vallone Initiative will
enable Selfhelp to expand the Virtual
Senior Center into five new senior
centers and into the lives of 158
additional homebound seniors. This
will bring the total number of Virtual
Senior Center participants to 383.
We are proud to report that over the
past year, Selfhelp’s Virtual Senior
Center provided homebound seniors
with 17,228 hours of programming
and 2,339 unique classes.
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OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
NAZI VICTIM SERVICES
HOME HEALTH CARE
The oldest and largest program
in North America providing
comprehensive services to
Holocaust survivors, Selfhelp offers
a full continuum of care, including
enhanced case management,
home health care, housekeeping,
financial management/guardianship,
social programs, emergency
financial assistance, and more.
A leading provider of home health
care in the New York City metropolitan
area, Selfhelp annually delivers over
two million hours of home care
to elderly or frail individuals, and
families at-risk. Services are designed
to maintain independent living and
include skilled nursing, assistance with
activities of daily living, housekeeping,
homemaking and therapeutic care.
Selfhelp’s highly regarded training
program provides high-caliber
education and certification to 350
home health aides each year.
AFFORDABLE SENIOR
HOUSING
Selfhelp Nurse, Wan Io Kuong assists residents in completing paperwork.
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Selfhelp’s nine affordable apartment
buildings offer seniors the opportunity
to lead independent lives in a warm
and supportive environment. Each
dwelling has emergency response
systems and closed-circuit TV
surveillance, and is close to public
transportation and Selfhelp senior
centers. Residents have access to
on-site services, including health and
wellness, social work, skilled nursing
and home care when, and if, needed.
SENIOR CENTERS
Selfhelp’s five senior centers, including
one of the first to be designated by
the City of New York as an Innovative
Senior Center, offer a wide variety
of life-enhancing programs such as
computer classes, concerts, lectures,
and health and wellness workshops,
as well as nutritious meals for seniors
living in the surrounding communities.
Three of these senior centers are now
key sites for Selfhelp’s expanding
Virtual Senior Center.
CASE MANAGEMENT
ALZHEIMER’S PROGRAMS
CARE TRANSITIONS
SELFHELP INNOVATIONS
Selfhelp’s three comprehensive Case
Management programs help seniors
through a collaborative process of
assessment, planning, facilitation,
care coordination, evaluation,
and advocacy. Expert assistance is
provided in accessing entitlements
and benefits, as well as financial
assistance, home delivered meals and
chore services. The goal is to enable
vulnerable seniors to continue to live
independently in their own homes.
The Selfhelp Alzheimer’s Resource
Program (SHARP) provides social
adult day care, assessment and referral,
together with music therapy and other
social activities for individuals in the
early to mid-stages of Alzheimer’s
disease. The program also offers
support groups for caregivers.
Aimed at reducing the rate of hospital
readmissions, our Care Transitions
program provides coaching and short
term case management to patients
at three hospitals in Queens who
are identified as being at risk of
readmission. Coaching takes place
in the hospital, at home and via
telephone during the first 30-days post
discharge. The goal is to maximize
understanding and compliance with
discharge plans as well as to improve
access to health and social services.
Selfhelp has pioneered a number of
technologies aimed at enhancing the
quality of later life. From congregate
telehealth services to Virtual Senior
Center programming, Selfhelp
continually seeks new “high-tech,
high-touch” models to maintain
wellness and to re-engage and energize
vulnerable, isolated seniors across
New York City as well as nationwide.
SENIOR SOURCE
For adults seeking a portal of entry
to all health and other forms of care,
Senior Source provides access to a
Care Manager 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. A fee-for-service geriatric
care management program, Senior
Source helps clients and their families
navigate the maze of health care and
residential options, monitor and
support ongoing care, and prepare for
future care needs.
COMMUNITY GUARDIANSHIP
Selfhelp’s Community Guardian
Program serves as court-appointed
legal guardian for clients referred by
Adult Protective Services (APS), who
are over 18 years of age and unable
to manage their financial or domestic
affairs.
NATURALLY OCCURRING
RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES
(NORCs)
Selfhelp’s NORC programs provide
senior residents in four large
cooperative housing complexes with
the supportive services they need to
continue living in their own homes.
Selfhelp’s on-site services include
case management, counseling, health
screenings, and social, recreational,
and educational programs.
NY CONNECTS
Selfhelp’s new NY Connects Program
of Queens opened its doors and took
its first call on September 30th, 2015.
The goal of the program is to provide
consistent, comprehensive, locally
based information and assistance on
long term care services and supports
for individuals, caregivers and families.
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SELFHELP
COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
AND AFFILIATES
ASSETS
Current assets
2015
Cash and cash equivalents
$
As of June 30, 2015 and 2014
The accompanying financial
statements have been extracted
from the compilation reports issued
by independent certified public
accountants. The compilation reports
are available upon request to
Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. at
520 Eighth Avenue,
New York, NY 10018.
4,782,838
11,454,822
11,547,707
Accounts receivable - net
10,889,350
10,556,801
3,649,429
2,713,271
Guardianship assets held in trust
16,305,110
17,798,777
Total current assets
49,346,335
47,399,394
Restricted assets and funded reserves - cash
4,818,164
3,860,467
Other assets
Assets held for deferred compensation - investments
1,011,457
1,158,527
Deferred financing costs and development fees
2,284,606
2,032,008
Fixed assets - net
127,739,533
123,620,657
Total other assets
131,035,596
126,811,192
$
total assets
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current liabilities
Long-term liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$
$
6,972,081
178,071,053
2014
$
5,933,284
Accrued salaries and related benefits payable
8,958,821
2,363,769
Due Third Parties and Other Liabilities
6,101,101
6,294,077
Loans and mortgages payable
9,924,216
2,264,363
Guardianship assets held in trust
16,305,110
17,798,777
Total current liabilities
48,261,329
34,654,270
Deferred compensation payable
1,345,827
1,221,453
Deferred rent payable
1,337,868
1,111,325
14,403,600
14,403,600
Line of credit, notes, loans and mortgages payable
43,759,423
53,009,382
Total long-term liabilities
60,846,718
69,745,760
109,108,047
104,400,030
68,702,292
65,794,483
7,389,756
7,876,540
76,092,048
73,671,023
Total liabilities
Net assets
185,200,095
2015
Capital advances
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
Total net assets as restated
total liabilities and net assets
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$
Investments
Contributions receivable and other Current Assets
Combined
Balance Sheet
7,047,624
2014
$
185,200,095
$
178,071,053
SELFHELP
COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
AND AFFILIATES
TOTALS
2015
Revenues, Grants and Contributions
Home care revenue
Combined
Statement of
Activities
For the years ended
June 30, 2015 and 2014
* These amounts do not include
approximately $0.9 million and
$2.2 million of contributions and
related income earned by the
Selfhelp Community Services
Foundation in fiscal years ended
June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2014,
respectively.
2014
$
40,549,277
$
39,360,543
Government revenue
11,975,035
9,585,642
Contributions and program grants
15,195,579*
15,543,101*
Rental income
11,834,850
11,894,618
Program revenue
Investment Activity
Total Revenues, Grants and Contributions
1,342,462
587,086
300,789
2,701,861
81,197,992
79,672,851
39,837,593
36,540,998
Operating expenses
Home care programs
6,074,570
5,704,897
Community programs
Housing programs
20,860,877
19,503,856
Management and general
11,953,578
11,376,179
Fund raising
863,176
964,906
79,589,794
74,090,836
1,608,198
5,582,015
Depreciation and amortization
(4,799,947)
(4,595,639)
Income (loss) from operations before other changes
(3,191,749)
986,376
Total operating expenses
Income from operations before depreciation and amortization and other changes
Other changes
Contributions for Investment in Limited partnerships
671,898
Equity contributions from Equity Partners
6,496,022
1,608,854
Prior year revenue adjustments
(1,221,037)
Reserve for investment in SinglePoint Care Network, LLC
(1,776,053)
Change in net assets
Net assets - beginning of year prior to restatement
Net asset adjustments
Restated net assets - beginning of year
net assets - end of year
$
3,976,171
(401,860)
73,671,023
73,565,191
(1,555,146)
507,692
72,115,877
74,072,883
76,092,048
$
73,671,023
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SELFHELP
COMMUNITY SERVICES
FOUNDATION INC.
D/B/A SCS FOUNDATION
ASSETS
2015
$
Cash
Investments
Contributions receivable
Prepaid expenses
Due from Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.
Balance Sheet
As of June 30, 2015 and 2014
The accompanying financial
statements have been extracted
from audit reports issued by
independent certified public
accountants. The audit reports are
available upon request to Selfhelp
Community Services, Inc. at
520 Eighth Avenue,
New York, NY 10018.
Equipment, net
total assets
$
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
719,381
2014
$
584,488
5,683,737
5,335,304
187,262
342,542
—
17,833
276,863
271,541
7,870
—
6,875,113
$
2015
6,551,708
2014
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$
5,200
$
14,685
Grants Payable
920,000
—
Total Liabilities
925,200
14,685
Net assets
Unrestricted
653,710
675,864
Temporarily restricted
5,296,203
5,861,159
Total net assets
5,949,913
6,537,023
total liabilities and net assets
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$
6,875,113
$
6,551,708
SELFHELP
2015
COMMUNITY SERVICES
FOUNDATION INC.
D/B/A SCS FOUNDATION
Revenues and other support
Contributions
$
Special Event Revenue
Statement of
Activities
For the years ended
June 30, 2015 and 2014
2014
251,937
$
548,791
74,284
1,199,528
Investment gains
115,016
883,378
Total revenues, investment gains and other support
915,744
2,157,190
1,300,303
1,739,883
Management and general
35,028
32,623
Fund raising
30,589
68,718
136,934
185,176
1,502,854
2,026,400
Change in net assets
(587,110)
130,790
Net assets - beginning of year
6,537,023
6,406,233
Expenses
Program services
Direct cost of special events
Total expenses
net assets - end of year
$
5,949,913
$
6,537,023
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Benefactor
$1,000,000 and Over
Founders Society
From our earliest days, Selfhelp
has been blessed by the involvement
of scores of individuals committed
to our mission.
Selfhelp’s Founders Society
recognizes our generous friends
and partners who have supported
us with cumulative donations of
$25,000 or more.
We offer our deepest appreciation
to our Founders ~ both present
and those no longer with us ~
who have helped to make Selfhelp
Community Services the vital
organization it is today.
Anonymous
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany
FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic
Funds
Jewish Philanthropic Fund
of 1933, Inc.
The Leir Charitable Foundations
Bernice Manocherian
Ilse Melamid
Leo Model Foundation
K. Fred and Alice Netter
The Netter Foundation
Newmark Holdings / Jeffrey Gural
The Price Family Foundation, Inc.
Robin Hood Foundation
Sandra Priest Rose
S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family
Foundation, Inc.
Joan C. and Eric S. Sondheimer
UJA-Federation of New York
United Help, Inc.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg
Foundation, Inc.
Visionary
$500,000 and Over
Anonymous (2)
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Consumer Technology Association
Foundation
Shelley and Steven Einhorn
Dana Golding and Richard Scharf
Herman C. Goldsmith
Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn
Fund
The JPB Foundation
Nadine Netter Levy
Melodie and Martin Scharf
Ruth Grunebaum Sondheimer and
Manfred Sondheimer
Ambassador
$250,000 and Over
Anonymous (3)
Anne-Margaret and Dennis Baum
Ilse and Frederick Baum
Martha and Ernest L. Bial
J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation
Dorothy Coleman
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Elizabeth K. Dollard Charitable Trust
Enterprise Community Partners
Leo & Julia Forchheimer Foundation
Beatrice and Hans Frank
Lotte & Max Heine Philanthropic
Fund
Jewish Communal Fund
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
C.L.C. Kramer Foundation
The Walter and Augusta Levy Family
Helen and Rita Lurie Foundation
Maspeth Federal Savings
National Fund of the Republic of
Austria for Victims of National
Socialism
The New York Community Trust
Righteous Persons Foundation
Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation
United Way of New York City
Otto and Fran Walter Foundation
Wolfensohn Family Foundation
Marguerite and Alfred Wyler
Nell and Victor A. Wyler
Marguerite Lambert
Dora Lauinger
Courtney and Paul Levinsohn
Lini Lipton
David J. and Bobbie Marks Family
Fund
Charlotte S. Neu
Newmark Holdings/ Rochelle and
Brian R. Steinwurtzel
Susan and Stanley Reifer
Margrit Wreschner Rustow
The Samberg Family Foundation
Raymond V.J. Schrag Family Fund
Franz W. Sichel Foundation
Marianne and John H. Slade
J.T. Tai & Co Foundation
Carol and Steven Tepper
Isaac H. Tuttle Fund
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, NY
Gerda and Wolfgang Wassermann
The Weininger Foundation
The Wilf Family Foundation
Sustainer
$100,000 and Over
Patron
$50,000 and Over
Anonymous (5)
AARP Foundation
Rita A. Aranow
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder
Holdings, Inc.
Phylis and Michael Bamberger
The Beker Foundation
Leo H. Bendit Charitable Foundation
The David Berg Foundation
Bloomberg L.P. Corporate Giving
Program
Muriel and Bert Brodsky
Kimberly and Matthew A. Cantor
Centennial Foundation
Debrah Lee Charatan and Steven
I. Holm
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Eberstadt
Vera and Werner Gamby
Moses Ginsberg Family Foundation
Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert
W. Gottesman
Eugene and Emily Grant
Erica Harold
Insignia / ESG, Inc.
Karen and Peter Jakes
Stuart C. and Rosemary Kaplan
Morris & Nellie L. Kawaler
Foundation
Andrea Klepetar-Fallek
Anonymous (5)
Alexander Abraham Foundation
Louis and Anne Abrons
Foundation, Inc.
Andrew W. Albstein/ Goldberg
Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP
Rita A. Aranow Family Fund
Jonathan Babkow
Paul and Peggy Bernstein
Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn Community Foundation
The Calamus Foundation
Capital One Bank
Citi
Miriam and Arthur Diamond
Charitable Trust
Douglas Elliman Property
Management
The Eleanor, Adam & Mel Dubin
Foundation
Jean Eastman Charitable Fund
John H. Elton
The Feuerring Foundation
The Shirley and William Fleischer
Family Foundation, Inc.
Hilda Frank
Mary Ann Fribourg
Hans Friedenthal
Paula and Jerry Gottesman
The Grunebaum Family Fund
The Grunebaum Foundation, Inc.
The Helen Hotze Haas Foundation
Renée and Frederick S. Herman
Greta D. Horn
Magda and Max H. Hull
Irish American Diamond Dealers
Association
Michele and Jeffrey Jacob
Karen and Walter Joelson
Walter Kann Foundation
Peter Kaufmann
Laurie Kayden Foundation
Karin Shewer Krugman and Michael
Krugman
Isabel Marcal and Thomas Roche
Alfred, Lee and Peter Mayer
Foundation
Eva and Ewald Mayer
Mary J. Mayer
Virginia McGuire Foundation
Beth and Joshua Mermelstein
Selma T. & Jacques H. Mitrani
Foundation
Marion and Peter Mosheim
Don Mullen and Nisha Warfield
Judi and Alfred E. Netter
Kaethe Oppenheimer
The William Petschek Family
John Remak
Remak-Mosenthal Fund
Leo Rosner Foundation
Rita and Frank Shewer
SIG Susquehanna Foundation
Corinne and Peter Simmons
Barbara R. Sobernheim
Verein zur Unterstutzung
van Ameringen Foundation Inc.
Weil Gotshal & Manges
The Judith C. White Foundation
Wildwood Fund
Laure and Henry J. Zacharias
Vivian and Jim Zelter
Founder
$25,000 and Over
Anonymous (4)
Else Adler
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
Richard Aronson and Joyce
Kirschner
Ruth Aschkenasy
Charlene Kahn Berman
Bezalel Foundation, Inc. / The
Sonneborn Foundation
City Center Box Office
CohnReznick, LLP
The deKay Foundation
Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation
Claire Edersheim
The Edouard Foundation
Herman Forbes Charitable Trust
Rudolph and Hilda U. Forchheimer
Foundation
Fraternal Order of BendinSosnowicer Philanthropic Fund
Ellen and Kenneth Grossman
Nadine Habousha and Edward B.
Cohen
Nancy and Jeffrey Halis
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller and Ben
Heller
Liselotte Heymann
Hannah Hirschfeld
Marianne Homburger
Victor Homburger
Marie and Jerry Hornstein
Humanitarian Aid Foundation
IBI Group-Gruzen Samton Architects
IOLA Fund of the State of New York
The Irving Foundation
Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation
Judith and Paul Konigsberg
The Kupferberg Foundation
Seryl and Charles Kushner Family
Foundation
Carol and Jerry Levin
Marjorie and Stephen M. Levy
Loeb & Troper LLP
Lilli Lowenthal
Eva and Henry B. Lust Endowment
Fund
Marion Lust-Cohen
Jonah Mandelbaum
Ralph P. Marash
Margot S. Maron
Lee and Alfred Mayer
Reggie and Peter Mayer
Elizabeth and George Melamid
Metzger-Price Fund
Erika and Ernest Michael
Tres Hanley-Millman and Paul
Millman
The Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation
Cynthia Neiditch, Counsel Abstract
New York Hospital Queens
O.C.F. Foundation
Orange Capital, LLC
Marianne J. Phiebig
Procida Companies
Marjorie and Seymour Richman
Carole and Ronald Ries
Alice and Paul Roche
Sarah and Eric Rosand
Marianne and John Schiffer
Hans Schindler
Schocken Foundation
Walter and Charlotte Schoeman
Cathy Schoen and Lawrence
Zacharias
Peter Schweitzer
Seed the Dream Foundation
Eleanor T. Seidel Memorial Fund
The Senator Foundation
Sheryl Silverstein and Edwin
Ginsberg
Beryl Snyder
Selma Sondheimer
Sally and Joel Spivack
State of Israel Bonds
Leonard Stern
Rosemary Stevens
The Philip & Lynn Straus Foundation
Esther and Henry Swieca
The Margot Sundheimer Foundation
TD Charitable Foundation
United Way of Long Island
Henry Voremburg
Olga and Hans Warmbrunn
Jan Weil
Elsbeth and Harry D. Weilheimer
Bernard Weissman
The Robert I. Wishnick Foundation
Janet and Jeffrey Zorek
Lisl and John Zorek
Bequests are not included
in this listing.
Selfhelp is a grateful recipient of
major annual support from:
Pillar- $5,000,000 and over
Comprehensive Case Management
for Holocaust Survivors
Core Operating Support Grant
Core Services for Holocaust Survivors
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany
Providing
Support
Deepest thanks to our Supporters
for the Fiscal Year 2015
(July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015)
*
◊
#
˚
‡
Key:
Selfhelp Board Member
SCS Foundation Trustee
Defiant Requiem Supporter
Kimmel Housing Development Foundation Board
Deceased
*
◊
#
^
‡
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany for
the provision of essential social
services to Jewish victims of Nazi
persecution
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany for
the Austrian Holocaust Survivor
Emergency Assistance Program
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany for the
Emergency Assistance Program
for Nazi Victims at the direction of
the United States District Court
supervising the lawsuit In Re:
Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation
(Swiss Banks)
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany Holocaust
Emergency Assistance Program
from the Harry and Jeanette
Weinberg Holocaust Survivor
Emergency Assistance Fund,
administered by the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany for the short-term needs of
Jewish victims of Nazi persecution
Funds from the Rabbi Israel
Miller Fund for Shoah Research,
Documentation and Education of
the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany
Claims Conference In-Home
Services Program funded by German
government, for physically and
financially vulnerable Jewish Nazi
victims
Benefactor-$1,000,000-$5,000,000
Ilse Melamid ◊ #
UJA-Federation of New York
Bi-Annual Lecture for Professionals
Working with Holocaust Survivors
Big Six Towers NORC –Jeanette
Solomon Cultural Arts Program
Fresh Meadows NORC – SSP
Jeanette Solomon Cultural Arts
Program
Improving Quality of Life for
Holocaust Survivors
New York Times Neediest Cases
Cash/Direct Assistance Grant
Oceanside Pre-Development Project
Queensview/North Queensview
NORC – Jeanette Solomon Cultural
Arts Program
Riklis Prize in Innovation
Selfhelp NORCs Health Indicators
Program
Selfhelp Safety Net: Comprehensive
Case Management for Elderly and
Disabled Jews
Selfhelp Senior Center Music Program
Social Gatherings for Holocaust
Survivors
Witness Theater
Selfhelp also receives major
funding from:
Nassau County Department of Social
Services
New York City
Administration for Children’s
Services
Adult Protective Services
Department for the Aging
Department of Health
Department of Housing,
Preservation and Development
Housing Authority
Housing Development Corporation
Human Resources Administration
Borough Presidents
Members of the City Council
New York State
Department of Health
Homes and Community Renewal
Office for the Aging
Office of Temporary & Disability
Assistance
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U.S. Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services
Nell and Victor A. Wyler *◊ # ^
Willkie Farr and Gallagher
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch
Pacesetter - $1,000 and Over
Champion - $10,000 and Over
Visionary - $500,000 and Over
Dana Golding and Richard Scharf ◊ #
Bernice Manocherian
Martin and Melodie Scharf
Sustainer - $100,000 and Over
Anonymous
Consumer Technology Association
Foundation
Eugene and Emily Grant Family
Foundation
Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Fund
Jewish Communal Fund
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Leo Model Foundation *◊
Robin Hood Foundation
Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation
Patron - $50,000 and Over
Phylis and Michael Bamberger ◊
Kimberly and Matthew A. Cantor *◊ #
Paula and Jerry Gottesman #
Michele and Jeffrey S. Jacob *◊
Jewish Philanthropic Fund of 1933, Inc.
Karin Shewer Krugman ◊
and Michael Krugman
Maspeth Federal Savings
The Netter Foundation #
van Ameringen Foundation, Inc.
Founder - $25,000 and Over
Anonymous
Anne-Margaret and Dennis Baum *◊
Martha and Ernest L. Bial *◊
Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc.
Miriam and Arthur Diamond
Charitable Trust
Edith K. Friedlander
Erica Harold
Andrea Klepetar-Fallek #
Carol and Jerry Levin *#
Courtney and Paul Levinsohn *
Nadine Netter Levy
Helen and Rita Lurie Foundation
Selma T. & Jacques H. Mitrani
Foundation
Judi and Alfred E. Netter *#
Newmark Holdings#/The Gural and
Steinwurtzel * Families
Raymond V.J. Schrag Family Fund * ◊ #
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Partner - $5,000 and Over
Anonymous (2)
Andrew W. Albstein/ Goldberg
Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP #
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder
Holdings, Inc.
The Calamus Foundation
Capital One Bank
Centennial Foundation #
Debrah Lee Charatan ◊ and
Steven I. Holm #
Chase #
Claire Edersheim
Shelley and Steven Einhorn
Empire BlueCross BlueShield
Healthplus
Fraternal Order of BendinSosnowicer Philanthropic Fund
Mary Ann Fribourg #
Nadine Habousha and
Edward B. Cohen *#
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller and
Ben Heller #
Lotte & Max Heine Philanthropic Fund
Hess-Levy Family Foundation
Karen and Peter H. Jakes *#
Stuart C. ◊ ^ and
Rosemary Kaplan #
C.L.C. Kramer Foundation, Inc.
The Kupferberg Foundation
Seryl and Charles Kushner Family
Foundation #
Eva and Henry B. Lust
Endowment Fund
Manhasset Community Fund
Ralph P. Marash *#
David J. and Bobbie Marks Family
Fund
Virginia McGuire Foundation
Beth and Joshua Mermelstein ◊
National Fund of the Republic of
Austria for Victims of National
Socialism
Cynthia Neiditch, Counsel Abstract #
Prime Clerk
Sarah and Eric Rosand
Benjamin and Alison Schrag
Seed the Dream Foundation #
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
J.T. Tai & Co. Foundation, Inc.
Carol and Steven G. Tepper *# ^
Diane and Stanley Vickers #
Hans Wertheimer
The Wilf Family Foundation
Anonymous
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
Rita A. Aranow Family Fund
Ariel Property Advisors#
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The Gretchen Beinecke
Charitable Trust
The Briarwood Organization
Bronx Pro Group
CohnReznick, LLP
Douglas Elliman Property
Management
Douglaston Development
Elissa and Scott Drassinower *
Enterprise Community Partners
Hilda U. Forchheimer
Lucy and William Friedman
Goldman Sachs
Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and
Robert W. Gottesman
Ellen and Kenneth Grossman
Pearl and Nathan Halegua #
Cathy Hull & Neil Janovic
Family Fund
Robert G. Irvine
Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation
Ethel Law and Barry Konig *#
Mr. and Mrs. John Lang
Lettire Construction Corp.
Levy Holm Pellegrino & Drath LLP
Isabel Marcal and
Thomas H. Roche ◊
Miller Buckfire & Co. LLC
MountCo Construction &
Development Corp.
Don Mullen and Nisha Warfield
Carole and Ronald F. Ries *#
Rockabill Advisors LLC
Jim Rosenberg
Cathy Schoen and Lawrence
Zacharias #
Susan R. Schulman
Elizabeth and Robert Sheehan
Sheryl Silverstein *^ and
Edwin Ginsberg
The Slomo and Cindy Silvian
Foundation, Inc.
Harry and Rachel Skydell & Mark and
Linda Karasick #
The Philip & Lynn Straus Foundation
TF Cornerstone
Tai * and Tony Wang
FRAN EIZENSTAT LEGACY PROJECT
(formerly Project Legacy)
The Fran Eizenstat Legacy Project
was created to ensure the necessary
funding to care for the last generation
of Holocaust survivors – specifically
those who are frail, alone and, much
too often, impoverished. A brainchild
of Co-Chairs Dennis Baum and
Karin Shewer Krugman, the Legacy
Committee is composed mainly of
those who, because of their family
background or personal interest, share
a passion to help Holocaust survivors
in need. We gratefully acknowledge
the efforts of Honorary Chairman
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat.
Anonymous (3)
Alliant Insurance Services
Arel Capital #
Cindy and Leo Asen
John and Staci Barber
Renee Baruch
Martin Baskin and Jacquie Kennedy
Susan Baumel-Cornicello and
Anthony Cornicello #
Michael and Barbara Bebon
Benchmark Title Agency, LLC
Leo H. Bendit Charitable Foundation
Nancy and Robert S. Blank
Christina and Howard Blaustein
Jane and Stanley Blum
Charles and Tammy Brass
Bright Power, Inc.
Muriel and Bert Brodsky ◊
Scott Brubaker
Lori and Susan Buchbinder
Kevin T. Byrne
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sandra and Stewart Cahn
Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP
Joseph M. & Barbara Cohen
Foundation
Paolo Costagli Inc.
Harriet and Steven Croman
Dattner Architects
Margy-Ruth and Perry Davis
Elisabeth de Picciotto
David Descoteaux and Julia
Mavrodin
Lois Deutsch
Florence and Michael Edelstein
Susan Erlich #
Family Management Corporation
Helene and Ziel Feldman
The Feuerring Foundation
Fiduciary Trust International #
Fifth Avenue Synagogue Women’s
Club
Laura Finkelstein
Fisher Associates
Janie and Robert Fisher
Ilan Folman-Cohen
Matthew Fotis #
Judith and Herbert Freedman
Michael Freeman
Eugen Friedlaender Foundation
The Frishberg Family
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Helen Gidali
GKC Industries Inc.
Scott Goldenberg #
Clifford and Katherine Goldsmith
Philanthropic Fund
Herman C. Goldsmith
Lucille and Richard M. Goldsmith
Joanie Lekisch Goldstein
Frank K. Gottschalk
Helaine and Fred Gould #
Sharon and Peter Green
Nicole Greenblatt
Michael and Theresa Grieco
David and Heather Groban
Ellie Heller and Suzie Stadler
Pamela and Jonathan Henes
Lyn S. Hill
David Himelberg Foundation
Hinman Straub P.C.
Shelley Erlich Holm and Paul E.
Hammerschlag, MD
Jerry Hornstein
Elizabeth Horton and James Silbert
Carol and Serge Hoyda
Chan Lee Hsieh
The Hudson Companies, Inc.
Roger H. Hull
Heinz Hutzler
IBI Group-Gruzen Samton Architects
Irish American Diamond Dealers
Gary Jacob
Jordana Jacobson
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer
Katcher
Katsky Korins LLP
Gary and Diane Katz #
Judith and Uri Kaufthal
Marc Kieselstein
Tova Klein
Arthur Kokot
Judith and Paul Konigsberg
John S. Koppel
Reynold S. Koppel
Elihu Kover and Teresa Moogan
Jeane and Merrill Kraines #
Terry and Jack Lebewohl
Laurie and David Lederman
Pauline and Martin Leitzes
Che King Leo
Gloria and Laurence Lieberman
Lini Lipton
Ester Lisker and Avi Wrobel
Kelly and Russell Lusak
Marion Lust-Cohen
Georgia Malone #
Shirley Manoocherian
James Marden
Marvin Markus
Nancy Maruyama and Charles Cahn
Carol and Arthur Maslow
Matrix Asset Advisors, LLC
Alfred, Lee and Peter Mayer
Foundation
Harriet L. Mayer
Mary J. Mayer ‡
The Meno Lissauer Foundation
Metzger-Price Fund, Inc.
Edward J. Miller/ Miller Realty
Associates
Millstein & Co.
Joff Mitchell
Mobile Health
Marion and Peter Mosheim
National Equity Fund
Nixon Peabody LLP
The Nussbaum Family Foundation
Joe Osnoss
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP
The Pearl Family Foundation
Robert Pellegrino #
People Care, Inc.
Marianne J. Phiebig
Mark and Jamie Pollack
Michael Pomeranc
Rabbi David and Sylvia Posner
Rachel L. Posner
The Posner Family
Steven Poznyansky, D.D.S
Property Resources Corporation
Meghan and Alexander Rein
Kurt E. Reinsberg
Marjorie Richman
Arleen and Robert S. Rifkind
Andrea and Cal Roberts #
Ayelet and Aaron Rosen #
Liane and Fred Rosenberg
Margrit Wreschner Rustow‡
Zahava and Avi Ryzman
Sandpiper Fund
Robert H. Scheibe ◊ #
Steven Schmigelski
Walter and Charlotte Schoeman
Gabriele Schoenfeld
Jeanette and Peter Schrag
Bella Sekons and Charles Blaichman
Ursula Serluca and Kenneth R. Haas #
Jill and Howard Sharfstein #
Stephen Siegel
Corinne and Peter L. Simmons*
Richard Singer
Deborah and Scott Smith
Barbara Somerfield and John G.
Guffey, Jr.
Sally and Joel Spivack
Stawski Partners
Arthur Steinberg
Michael and Joan Steinberg
Sterling Risk
Jeff and Susie Stern #
Jerome L. Stern Family Foundation
Carol Kahn Strauss *
Alan and Jackie Stuart
Shoshana and Christopher Sugahara
Bona Sun
The Margot Sundheimer Foundation
Terra CRG, Adam & Sita Hess #
Susanna Todd
The Torkin Family
Vivian Torres
Peter Travers
Robb Tretter
Judy and Morris Tuchman
United Healthcare Services, Inc.
Charlotte Vonvogt
The Wagner Family Foundation
Nina and James Warfield
Kenneth Werner
Westwood Realty Associates
Andrew Wilson
Deanne and Charles Winnick
Erika and Ken Witover
Evelyn J. Wolff ^ and Thomas Frankel
MJ Wyatt
Peter L. Zimroth
Friend - $500 and Over
Anonymous (5)
Philip Abelson
Access Staffing
Sari and Arthur Agatston
AllianceBernstein
Richard Aronson and Joyce
Kirschner
Josef Athanas
Fritzi and Jean Warner Baer
Gabrielle Bamberger
Herma and Charles Barber
Julie Behrens, Project Urbanista
Mortimer Berkowitz III
Cesia and Frank Blaichman
Karen Brenner and Robert Stein
Cliff Broder
Robert Campagna
Nancy and Jeffrey Chin
Brenda Lewis Cooper
Sally and Joe Cooper
Kimberly F. Davis
Anna Spector Decker
Harvey and Susan Drucker
Marjorie and Martin Elbaum
Rachel and Melvin Epstein
Tom Epstein
SELFHELP NEXTGEN
Selfhelp NextGen is a dynamic group
of young professionals from the New
York City area deeply committed to
Selfhelp’s mission of maintaining
the independence and dignity of
seniors and at-risk populations. The
group maintains a special focus on
enhancing the lives of Holocaust
survivors, and seeks to ensure that
the promise made by our founders - to
serve as the “last surviving relative”
to victims of Nazi persecution - is
fulfilled. Since its inception in 2010,
Selfhelp NextGen has organized
volunteer projects, film screenings,
and outreach events in an effort to
educate their peers regarding the
needs of some of the most vulnerable
members of our community. To
get involved or learn more, visit
www.selfhelp.net/selfhelp-nextgen
or email [email protected].
Diane and Marshall Felenstein
Dorothy and Kenneth Finger
Dorothea H. Fingerhood Fund
Martita and Chris Fleming
Eric Fornari
Janet Fried
Stephen Goldstein
Mr. Alex Gorlin
H2M Architects
Racheline Habousha
Maggie and Brett Harwood
Andrée Hayum
Eva and Terry Herndon
Gregory and Elisabeth Hersch
June and Ron Hersh
David and Particia Hogan
Gayle and Miles Horn
Chan Lee Hsieh
Norma and Gerald Hurwitz
Marc Jahr
Roe Jasen #
Jewel Date Company, Inc.
John Kaiteris
Michael Kane
Kasirer Consulting
Marcie and Gary Kesner
Helen Khuu
Kimmel Housing Development
Foundation
Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect PC
Ellen and Ronald Kisner ^
Klearview Appliance and Blady
Family
Cara and Jeffrey Klein
Daniela and Steven Klein
Rhoda Koenig
Deena and Martin H. Kohn
Vai Leng Kong
Alan Kornberg
Betty and Arthur Kowaloff
Denise and Allen Kozin
Ross M. Kwasteniet
Yaffa and Gustaw Landau #
Lisa Laukitis
Ji Li and Shi Miao Sun
Richard Lirtzman
Evelyn Machauf
Marc O. Mandel
Jaime Marks
Donna and Helmut Meyerbach
Reginald G. Moncrieff, DDS
Patrick Nash, Jr.
National Bank of New York City
Martin Newman
Anna Oliver
Adam Paul
Marshall Peller
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Felicia Perlman
Abraham and Linda Podolsky
Sally and Jack Pomeranc
Queens Council on the Arts
Vera Rausnitz
Red Stone Equity Partners
Susan and Stanley J. Reifer ◊
Denice H. Rein
Barbara and Frank Resneck
Jeremy Robbins
Sheila Johnson Robbins
Ronald Roel ^
Arlene and Robert Rosenberg #
Margaret Rosskamm
Eric C. Roth, Friedman-Roth Realty
Services LLC
Edward Sassower
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Karl Seib and Joan Dacey-Seib
Adam Shanosky
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Linda and Gilbert Snyder
Sontag Advisory
Stanan Management Corp.
Jeffrey Stark
Stockbridge Group
Gloria and Fred Strauss
Strong Foundation of New York
Summit Funding
Marlene and Marshall Turner
Alice Ullmann
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
at Shelter Rock
Sue Vaccaro
Aharon Vaknin, Cosmic Fischer
Locks and Doors #
Wadowski Family
Charles B. Wang Community Health
Center
Anne and Mark Wasserman #
Barbara Weinstein and Louis
Bernstein
Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld
William Gallagher Associates
Sigmund Wissner-Gross
David Wohlstadter
Michael S. Zarin ^
Ken Ziman
Drs. Alicia and Vladimir Zwass
Supporter - $100 and Over
Anonymous (17)
Deanna and Bernard Abramowitz
Anne Herzberg Adler and
Stephen Adler
Meryl and Stewart Ain
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CONFERENCE ON JEWISH
MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY
Selfhelp and the Claims Conference
share a collaborative history dating
back more than five decades. The
Claims Conference has played the
essential role in enabling Selfhelp
to grow its services to meet the
increasing needs of victims of Nazi
persecution throughout the New York
metropolitan area. With invaluable
Claims Conference funding, Selfhelp
has expanded the size and scope
of its Nazi victim services network.
This funding has been instrumental
in Selfhelp’s ability to offer services
in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Nassau
County and in broadening services
in Manhattan and Queens. Programs
such as emergency cash assistance
and subsidized home care have
helped thousands of Nazi victims live
with dignity. On behalf of those we
serve, we are ever grateful for such
critical funding, which helps provide
this aging and fragile population with
care they so rightfully deserve.
AlixPartners
Leslie and Danny Arnedos
Marilyn Aron
Chi Hoi Au
Hildegard Bachert
Edward L. Barlow and Frances Hill
Barlow
Carrianne Basler
Ellen and Larry Bauer
Claire Bazinet
Paul S. Berger
Katherine Bernick
Deena K. and Josh Bernstein
Lois and Stephen Bernstein
Ruth Bernstein
Ofra Biener
Sherry Bisken-Cohen
Erika Bloomfield
Art and Arlene Boshnack #
Mariko and Steven Braham
Lili Brandon
Irene Brenner
Eileen and Michael Brod
Matthew Brown
Centrical Medical Imaging Inc.
Wendy and Lee Chaikin
Hau Ying Chan
Yu Ping Chan
Yuen-Chuen Chan
Yuk Mei Chan
Hung Chih Chao
Nancy and Eddie Charatan
Chavurat Tikvah
Agnes Chen
Jane L. Chen and Wai Sun
Jui Chou Chen
Lih and Tao Shing Chen
Tao Fen Cheng
Ming Y. and Marie Chin
Nancy Chin
Thomson and Cynthia Chou
David and Yok Yen Chow
Miu Ling Chung
Kate Coburn
Eve Cohen
Howard Cohen
Libby and Richard Cohen
Marcie Cohen
Marion Pagel Cohen and Arthur
Cohen
Marsha Cohen
Phyllis and Steven Cohen
Barbara and Bertram Cohn
Theodore and Alice Ginott Cohn
Philanthropic Fund
Eugenia Connerat
Mark Conrad
Carol Dallos
Marlies K. Danziger
Mary Delbanco
Linda Yohay Denning
David Detjen
Ms. Rosalind Devon
Moy Y. Dong
Doris M. and Leo Dreyfuss
Xianhong Du
Maja M. Dubois
Nancy and Jeffrey Edelstein
Adam Eilenberg #
Eliyahu L. Ellman
Judith Engel
Tobe Epstein
Magda Fenyo
Robert C. Ferber
Jo Ellen Finkel and Donald S.
Bernstein
Jason Finkelstein
Miriam and Ira Flatow
Jacqueline Fowler
Brian Fox
Marcel Fridman
Doris and Michael Fried
Elizabeth Fried
Joseph Friedman
Joyce and David Friedman
Karen Friedman
Joseph and Olga Garay
Lucy Gerstein
Carlotta Giglio
Ruth Golbin
Abigail S. Gold
Gold City Supermarket Inc.
Lee Jason Goldberg
Edith and Fred Goldsmith
Robert Goldstein
Erica Gorin
Alexandra and John Graubert
Christopher Greco, Partner, Kirkland
and Ellis, LLP
Joan Shapiro Green
Judy A. Greenberg
Leo Greenberg
Ellen and David Greene
Ashley Gregory
Walter E. Gross
Zita Grossman
Bud Gruenberg
Allan Guggenheim
Jean and David Gumpert
Robert Gutenstein
Mok Su Ha and David Lam
Susan Harbert
Arlene Harriton
Herbert Harwitt
Bronwen and Warren Haskel
Helen Hausmann
Jack Heaney
Janet and Mark Hershey
Julie Hertzberg
Stephanie and Steve Hessler
Gruss Hirsch Family Fund
Chun Sau Ho and Yuk Sing Wong
Tony and Monica Ho
Lillian J. Hoffman
Lilo Hoffman
David Hollander
Barbara and Myron Holtz
Lisa and John Horten
Jack and Erica Howard-Potter
Dr. and Mrs. Russel Huang
Xiu Ying Huang and Tin-Wei Cheng
Yu Min Huang
Chad Husnick
Hsiao-Lan Hsia
Liu Yu Lin Hsu
Qiong Shan Hu
Michael Jacobs
Jeffries LLC
Hung Mei Jiu and Ke Tong Chu
Karen and Walter Joelson
Tsu-Ti Juo
Barbara and Walter Kahn
Shoshana Kaish
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates
Howard Kaly
Nancy Kam
Judith and Stephen ‡ Kamberg
Jonathan M. Kamen
Robert and Jayne Kamlot
Hsiu Lan Kao
Carole Karlsruher
Raquelle Kaye
Margot and John Keller
Christine and Harry Kent
Thomas Kim
Peter L. Klausner
Marlene and Gerald Kolbert
Phyllis R. Korff, Esq #
Susan Kossowsky
Michael Kowal
Donna Kramer and Ron Cohen
Adam Krukas
Diane Krumholz
Solomon Kupitz
Edith Kurzweil
Chee Kwong & Liza Poon
Siu Yen Kwong and Ngon Toy Lee
Natasha Labovitz
Kui Lam and Lai Wa Kwok
Salina Lam and Eddie T. Chie
Phyllis Lampell
Li Fang Lao
Silvia and Peter Last
Clara Lato
Carol and Michael Laub
Dorothy Lebach
Elizabeth and Benjamin Lee
Margot C. Lehman
Jacqueline Leitzes
Wendy Leong
Adele Lerner
Charles and Beth Lesch
Cecile and Heinz Levi Philanthropic
Fund
Walter E. Levi
Carol and Joel Levy
Hedy Levy
Irma Levy
Susan and Judd Levy
Zhong Qin Li
Yanny Lie
Deborah Lipton
Vladimir Lipyanskiy
Mei Feng Liu
Trudy Lory
Diane and Stephen J. Lovell
Janet Lowe
Helen Lowenstein
Michael Lubell
Vivian and Jeffrey Lui
The Rong Lung
Jung Cheng Ma
Lisa and Laurence Mack #
Emily Magid
Anne Mahoney
Abraham Malach
Eva Mallis
Robin and Mark Mandell
Annette and Paul Marcus
Chris Marcus
Melanie and Hal Marcus
Theodora Marten
Jeanne and Leo Maxbauer
Susan L. Mayer and
Stephan S. Cowan
James J. Mazza, Jr.
Patrick McGonigle #
Pamela McNally
Mrs. Ilse Meckauer
Linda and Richard Melnikoff
Eric Mendelsohn
Simon Meredith
Brenda and Norbert Mester
Milkes Family
Alexandra and Scott Miller
Lynn Montz and John Leubsdorf
Suzanne and Harvey Morgan
Heather Moore and Martin Shnay
SUPPORTING SELFHELP
We greatly appreciate all
contributions and are deeply
thankful for our wonderful
donors. To donate to Selfhelp, or
to receive additional information
about our 80th Anniversary
Annual Campaign – Propelling
Us Forward, the Caring for
Generations Tribute Fund, Estate
Planning, or Matching Gifts
Program, please contact Selfhelp’s
Development Department at 212971-7764, or visit our website at
www.selfhelp.net/donate.
Katherine and San Y. Moy
Johen Na
Simon and Maguy Naparstek
Susan and Michael Nash
Irene Nightingale Nettler
Lore Newburg
Angela C. Ni
Betty Nichols
Blanca Nickels #
Susan and Lloyd Niven
Erika Novick
Richard Nye
Vlasta and Andrew Odell
Stephen O’Mara
Leah Mason Oppenheimer and John
Oppenheimer
Amy Oshinsky
Kathleen A. Parisi
David Pauker
Frederick and Jennifer Pazmino
Debbie Plumer
Melvin Polisher
Mrs. Barbara F. Poll ‡
Michele Pollack
Sam Pollack
Nancy and Charles Posternak
Regina and Otto Pretsfelder
Fee Yip Quim
Terrence Quinn
Helen D. “Heidi” Reavis
Caroline Reckler
Janet and Herbert Rosenberg
Jean & Menachem Rosensaft
Steven Ross
Lisa and Elliot Sander
Anita and Mark Sarna
Rosa Scheck
Elizabeth Scheines and Ronald Elton
Jean K. Schoen
Charlotte and Peter Schoenfeld
Sophie Schorr-Reiner
Edward Schrag
Sally and Francis Schrag
Vicki and Steven J. Schreiber
Sylvia and Louis Schulman
Anthony and Claudia Schwartz
Barbara Schwarz
Trudy Schwarz
Renata Manasse Schwebel
Jordan Searles
George W. Seidenberger
Daci Shen
Zhan Shu
Lilian Sicular
Cynthia and David Simonoff
Sinnreich Kosakoff & Messina LLP #
Barrett Sinowitz
Linda Sittenfeld
Helen Siu
Tom Snelprove
Fran Snyder and David Voremberg
Nancy Solomon
Fern and Adrian Sondheimer
Fred and Linda Sondheimer
Vivian and Werner Sonn
Jaclyn Stark
Suzanne Steinberg
Gene Stern
Paula and Michael Stoler #
Clarence C. Stowbridge
Linda and David Strauss
Raphael Strauss
Rachel Strickland
Clarence C. Strowbridge
Jaimee Stulberg
Gloria and Mark Szrajer
Barbara Taff
Karen and Jeffrey Tanenbaum
Nina Tang
Judith and Michael Tartell
Tony Tay
Christian Tempke
Victoria M. Todd
Heather Tsang
Kwai Kwan Tse
Alex Vandenborg
An Mei Wang
Gui Fang Wang
John Waters
Walter J. Weil
Marie-Helene Weill
John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg
Foundation
Barbara Weisen and Richard
Rosenberg
Naomi and Alfred Weissenberg
William H. Weitzer
Lois T. Weldon
Eva S. Wertheimer
Vivian Weston
Meryl Wiener and Barry A. Bryer
Jess Wittenberg
Ida Wolecki
Chi Heung Wong and Shui Huen Tai
Hing Xiang Trading Inc.
Jia Hui Xiong
ShuXu Xu and Mu Xuan Huang
Mark Yachnin
Alice Yan
Alexandra Lai Yee
Amy Yim
Stephen L. Yonaty
Hsiang Yu and Pan Janes
Ann Foo Woo Yuen
Tak Yum and Yet Yin Tam
Xing Yan Zhao
Yao Jun Zhong
Ruth Zielenziger
Serena Zou
Selfhelp would also like to
acknowledge the generosity of
donors whose gifts of $99 or less
are too numerous to list.
Caring for Generations Tribute Fund
In Honor Of:
The following individuals were
recognized by friends and family as
they celebrated special occasions:
Janeta Abelson
Erica Van Adelsberg
Manny and Sabina Anstendig
George Antonopoulos
Evelyne Appel
Dick Aronson
Leo Asen
Declan Edward Baum
Michele Becker
Bea and Irving Bello
Ernest L. Bial *◊
Noah Alexander Blank
Laura and Josh Chaise
Debrah Lee Charatan ◊
Debrah Lee Charatan ◊ and Steven
I. Holm
Edward B. Cohen *
Rachel Crowe
Mr. and Mrs. Enrico DeBuono
Margart Demeny
Henry Dessauer
Lois Deutsch and Mark Weintraub
Ruth Dimow
Scott Drassinower *
Lydia Ecker
Helen Eines
Isak Eines
Gisele Garelik
Dana Golding and Richard Scharf ◊
Mikhaila Goldman
Herman C. Goldsmith
Eric Goldstein
Erica Gorin
Sy Haber
Nadine Habousha and Edward B.
Cohen *
Norma and Jerry Hurwitz
Aubrey Jacobs
Peter H. Jakes *
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Stuart C. ◊ ^ and Rosemary Kaplan
Stuart C. Kaplan ◊ ^
Katz Family
Robin Kaufman
Josh Kaufthal
John Keller
Howard Kimmel ^
Kimmel Housing Development
Foundation
Frank & Jennie Krystal
Katharine La Forte
Robert Lebowitz
Brenda Leff
Jackie Leitzes
Carol* and Jerry Levin
Beatrice Levy
Nadine Netter Levy
Hal Linstone
Matthew Lusak
Alice Maltz
Ilse Melamid ◊
Joshua Mermelstein ◊
Thekla Meyerbach
Ernest Michel
Irene and Henry Muller
Amy Newman
Caroline Edith Odell
Sam Pollack
Raphael Posner
Rosina Quinn
Ronald F. Ries*
Henry Rieser
Andrea and Cal Roberts
David Roberts
Ayelet and Aaron Rosen
Margrit Wreschner Rustow
Magdalena Sanchez
SAR Students
Martin Scharf
Henry Schenker
Rabbi Marc Schneier
Benjamin P.D. Schrag
Raymond V.J. Schrag *◊
Michael Sharon
Stacy Shirk
Noah Smith
Walter Spier
Joel L. Spivack
Brian R. Steinwurtzel *
Gene Stern
Fred Strauss
Gloria Strauss
Leslie Strauss
Steve Tepper *^
Carol and Steve Tepper *^
Sonja Waitzner
Ruth Weil
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Laura Weisberg
Jack Werner
Hans Wertheimer
Andrew Wilson
Irwin Wissner
Max Witek
Evelyn J. Wolff ^
Nell and Victor Wyler *◊ ^
Victor A. Wyler *◊ ^
Yifan Yang and Thomas Wang
Caring for Generation Tribute Fund
In Memory Of:
Contributions to Selfhelp were
made in memory of the following
loved ones this year:
Natalie Abramow
Mary Arnedos
Bert Askwith
Lucy Bachrach
Mollie Backer
Dora Bergstein
Hilda Bondi
Pearl Brown
Walter and Lottie Bymel
JoAnn Canary
Rose Conrad
Larry Cormier
Ruth Wolf Ehrlich
Isak Eines
Erlich, Gluck and Jacobovits families
Miles Felder
Malvine Fischer
Esther Folman
Helen Fox
Florence Friedberg
Anthony Giglio
Abe Goldman
Lilly Grab
Herbert and Pearl Gross
Irene Grace Hausner
Mariane and Sylvan Hayum
Curtis Hereld
Renée Herman
Sarah Hynes
Inge Isler
Aubrey Jacobs
Elaine Jaffe
Cyril Jalon
Marjorie Jonas
Louis Kahaner
Arno Kahn
Stephen Kamberg
Lily Kaplan
Goldy Katz
Harry Katz
Shiya Klig
Hannelore and Richard U. Koppel
Margarete Koppel
William Lang
Albert Lato
Phyllis W. Leff
Vivian Lerner
Peter Levy
Ronnie Leyser
Naomi “Niki” Lindwarm
Hedy Linstone
Edith Lowe
Annemarie Maass
Anne-Marie and George Manasse
David Marzouk
L. Mayer
Regina Mayer
Edith Melcer
Irene Nathan
Elihu Nemeroff
K. Fred Netter
Kurt Netter
Gideon Nettler
Grace S. Nierenberg
Yehuda Nir
Elsbeth Oppenheimer
Dora Ostermann
Marie Pekunka
Albert Phiebig
Samuel Pisar
Barbara Poll
Rosina Quinn
Seymour Richman
Frieda Roos
Margrit Wreschner Rustow
Ellen Sarroff
Kaete and Erich Scheibe
Betty Schneider
Paul Schrag
Kurt Schubach
Morris Secemski
Jean Secher
Abraham Shmookler
Robert Paul Shmookler
Hilde Siegel
Lee Sommer
Eric and Lottie Joan Sondheimer
Dr. Ralph Stein
Anita Steinacher
Norbert Stern
Leslie Strauss
Margot Sundheimer
Gennady Sushansky
Ng Wah Theung
Sonja Waitzner
Hans and Olga Warmbrunn
Harry D. Weilheimer
Vera Stein Werner
Jean Wolf
Else Wolff
Frances Yohay
Laure Zacharias
Pro Bono Services
Grateful appreciation to our friends
who have given so generously of
their time and talent:
Adam Abraham
Mark Alpert
Allen Healthcare - Abby Conway &
Donna Rasmussen
Paula Arboleda
Arnold & Porter – Steven G. Tepper
The Atria of Riverdale
Jerry Berkson
Jane Berliner
Ernest L. Bial, Esq.
B’nai Brith
Deborah Brandt
Bronx House
Bronx Legal Services
Larry Carp
Natalie Carrasco
CenterLight
Peijin Chen
Megan Christ
Con Edison - Susan Miserandino
Congregation Habonim
Scott Drassinower - Cloud 9 Internet
Rose Dumond
Aviva Dworkin
El Centro Del Immigrante –
Staten Island
Elderplan
Elderplan - Alma Rosa
Camilla Enders
EPIC - Laura Mulhivill
Evelyn Frank Legal Assistance Group
Fairview Nursing Home - Diane
LaFranco
Allilsa Fernandez
Fox Rehabilitation Steven Birdwell, PT
Galchus & Gordon Ronna Gordon-Galchus
Allan H. Goldberg
Gerald Goldhaber
Goldman Sachs
Ursula Hampton
Health Plus – AmeriGroup,
Igor Tchebotarev
Chiu Zhi Heng
Michelle Hill
Anya Hong
Tanya Houseknecht
Housing Conservation Coordinators
IBI Group - Gruzen Samton
Peter Jakes
JASA - Joshua Rotkin & Dianne
Woodburn
JCC Manhattan
Jewish Community Center of
Greater Coney Island
Jokercise - Howard Newman
Ralph Jones
David Jou
Andrew Kaufman
Jeane Kraines
Rena Lauer
Giovanni Lemus
Sidney Lipstein
Mary Lucich
Joe Margolin
Ronald C. Mayer
Masbia
Sean McBride
MetroPlus Health Plan
MFY Legal Services
Patty Mitchell
Neighborhood Housing Services
Newman Ferrara LLP
New York Cares
New York City Department of
Sanitation - Iggy Tarranova
New York City Department of
Transportation - Eric Mui
New York City Poison Control Jean Louie
New York Legal Assistance Group
MetroPlus Health Plan
North Shore Forest Hills Hospital Ted Lehman
Plainview Library
Megan Quinn
Rider’s Alliance - Masha Burina
Rite-Aid - Roxana Aghas
Rite-Aid Pharmacy
Riverdale Y Senior Center
Riverdale YM-YWHA
Guille Rodriguez
Jennifer Rolnick
John Rossi
Dakshesh Sahghavi
Saint John’s University School of
Pharmacy
Nina Schearer, MD
Raymond V.J. Schrag, Esq.
Lara Schweller
Carolyn Sharzer
Jill Sherman, Esq
Lilian Sicular
Smile Design Manhattan Dr. Lee Gause
Joan Sobsey
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Starbucks - Nancy Murgalo
UJA-Federation of New York
UJA- Federation of New York Lawyers Division
UJA-Federation of New York Westchester
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
at Shelter Rock
Urban Justice Center
Lucy Van Horn
Evelyn Vela
Vanessa Walker
Lisbeth Wolgel
Ekaterina Yakovleva
Shao Mei Zhang
In-Kind Donations
We thank the following for their
generosity:
The Consulate General of the
Federal Republic of Germany
Claire Edersheim
Rosalind Falco
The Barry & Florence Friedberg JCC
The Great Neck Synagogue
Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance
Center of Nassau County
IPRO
Joe’s Coffee
Joshua Isak
JCC of the Greater Five Towns
JCC of Harrison, NY
Leir Charitable Foundations
New York Hospital Queens
New York Mets
New York Yankees
Karen Nichols
North Queensview Homes, Inc.
North Shore-LIJ Health System
The North Shore Synagogue
Oppenheimer Angels
Fred Pazmino
Queens Christian Alliance Church
Queens Fresh Meadows, LLC.
Queensview, Inc.
Regal Heights
Stanley Reifer
Rite Aid Pharmacy
Sid Jacobson JCC
Starbucks
Starkey Hearing Foundation
The YM-YWHA of Washington
Heights and Inwood
Estates
We acknowledge with deep
appreciation the friends who
remembered Selfhelp through their
legacies and bequests:
George B. Adler Charitable
Remainder Trust
Estate of Helga N. Alten
Estate of Marvin D. Einhorn
Estate of Werner Gamby
Estate of Ilona Gerstel
Estate of Greta D. Horn
Estate of Ellen G. Kaufman
Estate of Pierre de Menasce
Estate of Alice Netter
Estate of Heinz G. Neumann
Estate of Claire Rosenberg
Estate of Trudy Sommer
Estate of Herta Weil
To make a donation to Selfhelp, or
to receive additional information
about Selfhelp’s 80th Anniversary
Campaign - Propelling Us Forward,
our Caring for Generations
Tribute Fund, Estate Planning, or
Matching Gifts Programs, please
contact Selfhelp’s Development
Department at 212-971-7764, or visit
our website at www.selfhelp.net
Working Together
We salute our many Community
Partners who, through working
together, enable Selfhelp to fulfill its
commitment to the thousands of New
Yorkers who rely on us for care.
AARP
AARP Bill Payer Program
AARP Defensive Driving
AARP Foundation
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
Adelphi University School of Social Work
Adult Protective Services Advisory Council
Alzheimer’s Association of New York City
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
Amber Court
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Anibic Vocational Program
Applebees, Fresh Meadows
ARC XVI Fort Washington Senior Center
ArchCare
Arthritis Foundation
Asian Americans for Equality
Association of Ghetto Survivors from FSU
Association of Holocaust Survivors from FSU
Atria Riverdale
Austrian Consulate General
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barry & Florence Friedberg JCC
Bayside High School
Big Six Towers Play ‘n’ Learn Nursery School
Bikur Cholim
Blue Card
B’nai B’rith Project HOPE
Boulevard ALP
Bronx Inter-Agency Council on the Aging
Bronx Jewish Community Council
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging & Longevity of Hunter College
Sadin Institute on Law & Public Policy
Brooklyn Borough-Wide Interagency Council on Aging
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Brooklyn Museum
Bukharian Jewish Community Center
CAPE
Capital One
Cardozo Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Carter Burden Senior Center
Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities - Friendly Visitor Program
Catholic Immigrant Services
The Center for Disability Rights Pooled Trust
Center for Hearing and Communication
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
CenterLight Healthcare
Central Queens YM-YWHA
Central Queens YM-YWHA Bereavement Counseling Group
Chinese-American Planning Council
City Drugs Pharmacy
Citymeals-on-Wheels
Columbia University School of Occupational Therapy
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Columbia University School of Social Work
Community Board #8 - Bronx
Con Edison
Concerts in Motion
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Congregation Habonim
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations (COJECO)
Council of Jewish Organizations (COJO)
CUNY School of Law - Main Street Legal Services
CUNY School of Professional Studies - Nursing Program
Dakim BrainFitness, Inc.
Dancing Dreams
DOROT, Inc.
Duane Reade Pharmacy
East Midwood Jewish Center
East Side Council on the Aging
Easter Seals Senior Employment Program
East-West School of International Studies
Educational Alliance
Elderplan
Elders Share the Arts
Elmhurst Hospital
EmblemHealth
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
Employee Assistance Program
Encore Community Services
Enterprise Community Partners
EssenMED House Calls
Euclid Hall
Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program at NYLAG
Evergreen Community Garden
Fedcap
Flatbush Jewish Center
Florence F. Smith Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Flushing House
Flushing Library
Flushing Meadows Corona Park Al Oerter
Recreation Center/Aquatic Center
Flushing Savings Bank
Flushing Town Hall
FoodBank
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work
Forest Hills Jewish Center
Fountain House
Francis Lewis High School
Frank Sinatra School of Performing Arts
Goddard Riverside Community Center
God’s Love We Deliver
Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks
GuildNet
Hamilton-Madison House
HANAC Senior Citizens Residence
HANAC Transportation Program
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UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK
An affiliate agency of UJAFederation of New York since 1983,
Selfhelp Community Services has
been the recipient of generous
core funding and program grants
as well as a multitude of essential
organizational services. Just as
importantly, the warm partnership
that Selfhelp enjoys with our
colleagues at UJA-Federation has
offered us entrée to their network
of relationships throughout the
New York City community. We are
exceptionally grateful for initiatives
that have enabled us to leverage
UJA support, such as the New York
Times Neediest Campaign, advocacy
work with government agencies,
and introductions to individuals and
foundations. We are proud to have
once again been a co-sponsor of
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín
and to be a primary beneficiary of
this event. We take this opportunity
to publicly thank UJA-Federation
of New York for their steadfast
support and commitment to Selfhelp
Community Services.
Hands on Physical Therapy
Hannah Senesh Community Day School
Health Guard Pharmacy
Healthfirst
HeartShare
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - YCT
Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation
Heights and Hills
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Home Care Planning Solutions
Hospital for Special Surgery
Humana
Hunter College - Silberman School of Social Work
Independence Care Systems (ICS)
Inside Broadway
JCC of the Greater Five Towns
Jewish Association Serving the Aging
Jewish Association Serving the Aging - Adult Protective Services
Jewish Association Serving the Aging - West Side Senior Center
Jewish Association Serving the Aging - Queens Legal Services for the
Elderly
Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
Jewish Federations of North America
Jewish Guild for the Blind
Jewish Home LifeCare
The Jewish Museum
The Jewish Theological Seminary, Center for Pastoral Education
Jokercise
Kimmel Housing Development Foundation
Kingsborough Community College
Korean American Senior Citizens Society of Greater New York (KASCS)
Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York
LeadingAge
LeadingAge New York
The Legal Aid Society
Leir Retreat Center, Inc.
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Lexington Hearing and Speech Center
Life Alert
Lifenet - Mental Health Referral Services
Lighthouse International
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
Lincoln Square Synagogue
LiveOn NY
Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Long Island University Occupational Therapy Program
Long Island University School of Social Work
Maimonides Medical Center - Department of Psychiatry
Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Martin Luther King, Jr. Daycare
Medicare Rights Center
Medicare Savings Program Coalition (MSP)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mental Health Association of NYC
Metro Care Pharmacy
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Metropolitan Jewish Health Care System
Metropolitan Transit Authority - Access-A-Ride
MFY Legal Services
Mid-Island Y JCC
Montefiore Medical Center - Department of Geriatric Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Hospital of Manhattan-Hospice and Palliative Care
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Museum of Tolerance
Musicians on Call
Nan Shan Senior Center
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - New York City Chapter
National Council on Aging
National Housing Conference
National Leased Housing Association
National Low Income Housing Coalition
The New School
New York Cares
New York City Bar Association - Committee on Legal Problems of Aging
and Committee on Disabilities
New York City Council
New York City Department for the Aging
New York City Department for the Aging - Bill Payer Program
New York City Department for the Aging - Grandparent Support Program
New York City Department for the Aging - Health Promotion
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York City Department of Education Occupational Training Center
New York City Department of Emergency Management
New York City Department of Finance
New York City Department of Health
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
New York City Department of Mental Health
New York City Department of Transportation - Safety Education Department
New York City Fire Department
New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation
New York City Housing Authority - Office for the Aging
New York City Housing Development Corporation
New York City Human Resources Administration
New York City Parks Department
New York City Police Department
104th Police Precinct
109th Police Precinct
112th Police Precinct
114th Police Precinct
115th Police Precinct
New York City Schools
IS 73
IS 237
PS 24
PS 169
PS 228
PS 280
New York Donated Dental Service (DDS)
New York Downtown Hospital - Kress Vision Program
New York Hall of Science
New York Historical Society
New York/Presbyterian - Queens
New York Housing Conference
New York Immigration Coalition
New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG)
New York Memory Center
New York Philharmonic
New York Public Library
New York State Adult Day Services Association, Inc.
New York State Bar Association - Elder Law Section
New York State Comptroller’s Office
New York State Department of Health
New York State Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Program (EPIC)
New York State Homes and Community Renewal
New York State Office for the Aging
New York University - College of Nursing
New York University - Silver School of Social Work
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
North Shore-LIJ Health System
Northshore MLTC
NYSARC, Inc.
Older Adults Technology Services (OATS)
Palm Gardens Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation
Panera Bread
Park Avenue Synagogue
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation
Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Philips Lifeline
Physical Therapy Doctor
Poland Spring Water
Polish Jewish Dialogue Committee
Postal Inspector (New York State)
Project FIND
Queens Botanical Garden
Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility
Queens Chapter of Holocaust Survivors, Inc.
Queens College
Queens Interagency Council on the Aging
Queens Jewish Community Council
Queens Library
Queens Symphony Orchestra
Queens Theatre in the Park
Ramaz High School
Ravenswood NORC/RISE
Regal Heights Adult Day Health Care
Renaissance Charter School
Retired Senior Volunteer Program of the Community Services Society
Ridgewood YMCA
Rite Aid Pharmacy
Riverdale Y Senior Center
Riverdale YM-YWHA
Ronald Fatoullah & Associates
Roots and Branches Theater
Rubin Museum of Art
Samuel Field Y
SAR High School
SAGE Queens
Service Program for Older People (SPOP)
Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders
Services Now for Adult Persons (SNAP)
Shield Institute
Slater and Beckerman
St. Johns University School of Law
Starbucks
Starkey Hearing Technologies
Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Sunnyside CAPE Geriatric
Sunnyside Case Management Agency
Sunnyside Citywide Homecare Services, Inc.
Sunnyside Community Services
Sunnyside EISEP
Supportive Housing Network of New York
Temple Beth Shalom - Roslyn
Temple Emanu-El
Theatre Development Fund
Touchstone Health
Touro College
Touro College, School of Health Sciences - Occupational Therapy Program
Transitional Services for New York
Trinity School
UJA-Federation of New York
UJA-Federation of New York - Engage Jewish Services Corps
UJA-Federation of New York - Long Island Connections
UJA-Federation of New York - Westchester
United Hospital Fund
United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn (UJO)
University Optometric Center SUNY College of Optometry
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
VISIONS
Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY)
Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS)
Walgreens Pharmacy
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Washington Heights - Inwood Council on Aging
Weill-Cornell Medical Center
West Side Inter-Agency Council on Aging
Women in Housing and Finance
Woodcrest Rehabilitation & Residential Healthcare Center
Woodside Senior Assistance Program
YAI
Yeshiva University - Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Yeshivah of Flatbush High School
YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood
York College
Zucker Hillside Hospital
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CONTACT US
NAZI VICTIM SERVICES
PROGRAM
Bronx
718-239-3177
990 Pelham Parkway South,
Bronx 10461
Amy Newman, Program Director
Brooklyn
Midwood
718-646-7500
1523 Avenue M, Brooklyn 11230
Sharon Wang, Program Director
Kensington
Henry J. and Erna D. Leir
Center for Holocaust Survivors
Henny and Friedrich Brodnitz
Case Management Program
718-633-1300
419 Church Avenue,
Brooklyn 11218
Mariam Khachatryan,
Program Director,
Russian Nazi Victim Program
Manhattan
Abraham Scharf Center for
Holocaust Survivor Services
212-971-5475
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
Robin Kaufman, Program Director
Nassau County
Abraham Scharf Center for
Holocaust Survivor Services
516-481-1865
498 Union Avenue,
Westbury, 11590
Gina Goldman, Program Coordinator
Queens
718-268-1252
70-20 Austin Street,
Forest Hills 11375
Washington Heights
The Kohn-Melamid Center for
Holocaust Survivor Services
212-781-7200
620 Fort Washington Avenue,
New York 10040
Roni Miller, Program Director
Financial Management Unit/
Guardianship
212-971-5475
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
Ruth Rosado, Program Director
Witness Theater Program
212 971-7768
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
Eve Udesky, Program Director
Financial Assistance Programs
212 971-7765
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
Lauren Hecht, Director
HOUSING
For housing applications, please
call 718-886-1412.
For other inquiries, please call
Mohini Mishra, Programs Director
at 718-762-6803.
Helen R. Scheuer House
45-25 Kissena Boulevard,
Flushing 11355
Martin Lande House
137-47 45th Avenue,
Flushing 11355
Scheuer House of Bayside
208-11 26th Avenue,
Bayside 11360
Scheuer House of Flushing
138-52 Elder Avenue,
Flushing 11355
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg House
140-16 45th Avenue,
Flushing 11355
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Harry and Jeanette Weinberg
Apartments
45-35 Kissena Boulevard,
Flushing 11355
Selfhelp K-VII Associates LLC
137-39 45th Avenue,
Flushing 11355
Apex I Senior Citizens Housing
Kimmel Housing I
498 Union Avenue,
Westbury 11590
Apex II Workforce Family Housing
Kimmel Housing II
512 Union Avenue,
Westbury 11590
NATURALLY OCCURRING
RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES
(NORCs)
Big Six Towers NORC Program
718-565-6569
59-55 47th Avenue,
Woodside 11377
Brooke Samuelson,
Programs Director
Fresh Meadows Senior Program
718-454-6286
67-00 192nd Street,
Fresh Meadows 11365
Brooke Samuelson, Programs Director
Northridge/Brulene/Southridge
NORC Program
718-396-5425
34-10 94th Street,
Jackson Heights 11372
Queensview/North Queensview
NORC Program
718-278-4148
33-34 Crescent Street,
Long Island City 11106
Colette Leon, Program Director
SENIOR CENTERS
Austin Street Senior Center
718-520-8197
106-06 Queens Boulevard,
Forest Hills 11375
Rosann Rosado, Program Director
Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince
Street Innovative Senior Center
718-886-5777
45-25 Kissena Boulevard,
Flushing 11355
Jinsheng Qiu, Program Director
Clearview Senior Center
718-224-7888
208-11 26th Avenue,
Bayside 11360
Erin Brennan, Senior
Programs Director
Latimer Gardens Senior Center
718-961-3660
34-30 137th Street,
Flushing 11354
Cheryl Gersh, Program Director
Maspeth Senior Center
718-429-3636
69-61 Grand Avenue,
Maspeth 11378
Maria Dixon, Program Director
HOME CARE
Homemaking Program
212-971-5480
Housekeeping Program
212-971-7613
Long Island Licensed Home Care
Services Agency (LHCSA)
516-505-2571
New York City Licensed Home
Care Services Agency (LHCSA)
212-971-5490
HOME CARE INTAKE:
Certified Home Health Agency
(CHHA)
212-971-5471
Long Island Licensed Home Care
Services Agency (LHCSA)
516-505-2571
New York City Licensed Home
Care Services Agency (LHCSA)
212-971-7697
HOME HEALTH AIDE TRAINING
PROGRAMS:
Manhattan
212-971-7782
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th floor
New York 10018
Frances David, RN, Training Manager
Nassau County
516-505-2571
498 Union Avenue, Westbury 11590
Nancy Kelly Sullivan, Managing
Director, Long Island LHCSA
CASE MANAGEMENT
PROGRAMS
Project Pilot
212-787-8106
520 Eighth Avenue, 18th Floor,
New York 10024
Eli Brett, Program Director
Queens North
718-321-8194
45-25 Kissena Boulevard,
Flushing 11355
Fen Fang Yuan, Program Director
Selfhelp Safety Net
718-633-1300
419 Church Avenue,
Brooklyn 11218
Tanya Clarke, Program Coordinator
OTHER COMMUNITY
PROGRAMS
Care Transitions - Balanced
Incentive Program (BIP)
41-61 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, 11355
718 766-5433
Angela Williams, LCSW, Programs
Director, Case Management
NYC Community Guardian
Program
212-971-7776
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
John L. Davis, Program Director
Nassau County Guardianship
Program
212 971-7776
498 Union Avenue,
Westbury, 11590
Patricia Kaufman, Managing Director
NY Connects
718-559-4400
45-35 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, 11355
Wendy Zinman-Szachar, LMSW,
Program Director
Selfhelp Alzheimer’s Resource
Program (SHARP)
718-631-1886
208-11 26th Avenue,
Bayside 11360
Erin Brennan,
Senior Programs Director
Senior Source
212-971-5474
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
Angela Williams, LCSW,
Programs Director,
Case Management
SELFHELP INNOVATIONS
212-971-7708
520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York 10018
David Dring, Executive Director
WHEN THE TIME CAME, A SMALL GROUP
DEAR FRIENDS
November 10, 1936. It was a chilly November evening when a small group of recent
German émigrés came together in the living room of a Manhattan apartment.
Their purpose: to take action to rescue their friends, neighbors, and relatives who
were still stranded in Europe and facing increased danger from the Nazi regime.
From this initial meeting, the organization we know today as Selfhelp Community
Services was born.
We are proud to present our 80th Anniversary Annual Report, and we invite you
to journey with us through Selfhelp’s fascinating story. Over the decades, our
constituency has greatly expanded and our service offerings have increased in
number. Yet, the values that guided Selfhelp from its inception are ever-present.
Living independently with dignity remains the motif that runs through our history and
still drives our work 80 years later. This is illustrated, time and again, through
those we serve:
Mrs. K., an 85-year old Holocaust survivor of limited means, receives a free hearing aid and
exclaims, “After years of solitude and quiet, a whole new world has entered my ears and mind...”
Mr. S., 100 years young, enjoys visiting with his fellow residents at Selfhelp’s Harry and
Jeanette Weinberg Apartments, and the comfort of knowing that his Selfhelp social worker is just
down the hall.
Mrs. A., homebound and recovering from a stroke, rekindles her love of music and the arts
through classes she takes as a participant in our Virtual Senior Center.
MISSION
CONTENTS
1
Executive Letter
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Overview of Programs and Services
maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and
3
Then & Now: 1936–2015
26
Financial Statements
at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home
17
Looking Ahead
30
Founders Society
health care, and social services and will lead in applying
20
Caring for Generations:
31
Providing Support
new methods and technologies to address changing
A Salute to Long-time Members of
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Working Together
needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve
the Selfhelp Family
40
Contact Information
Highlights From an Outstanding Year
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Officers, Directors, and Management Staff
victims of Nazi persecution.
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SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015 - 2016
MANAGEMENT STAFF
Officers
Directors
President
Raymond V.J. Schrag
Edward B. Cohen
Scott Drassinower
Jeffrey S. Jacob
Barry Konig
Lisa J. Krenzel, MD
Carol Levin
Paul Levinsohn
Ralph P. Marash
Alfred E. Netter
Ronald F. Ries
Sheryl Silverstein, DMD
Brian R. Steinwurtzel
Carol Kahn Strauss
Tai Wang
Stuart C. Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Chairmen
Ernest L. Bial
Victor A. Wyler
Vice Presidents
Matthew A. Cantor
Peter H. Jakes
Peter Model
Steven G. Tepper
Treasurer
Peter L. Simmons
Russell Lusak
Senior Vice President
Michael Grieco, CPA, CVA
Senior Vice President,
Financial Strategy
Kevin T. Byrne, Esq.
Vice President, Human Resources
and Labor Relations
Lois Deutsch
Vice President, Development
Secretary
Dennis Baum
Tova Klein, LCSW
Vice President,
Senior Communities
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION BOARD 2015 - 2016
Officers
Trustees
Chairman
Dennis Baum
Michael A. Bamberger
Ernest L. Bial
Bert E. Brodsky
Matthew A. Cantor
Jeffrey S. Jacob
Stuart C. Kaplan
Karin Shewer Krugman
Ilse Melamid
Joshua Mermelstein
Stanley J. Reifer
Thomas H. Roche
Richard Scharf
Vice Chair
Debrah Lee Charatan
Secretary
Peter Model
Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
as the “last surviving relative” to its historic constituency,
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND MANAGEMENT STAFF
Advisory Board
Shelley Einhorn
Michael F. Price
Sandra Priest Rose
SELFHELP HONORARY LIFE MEMBER: Rita Shewer
Robert H. Scheibe
Raymond V.J. Schrag
Victor A. Wyler
Jeffrey Zorek
Hanan Simhon, LMSW
Vice President,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Evelyn J. Wolff
Vice President,
Real Estate Development
David Dring
Executive Director,
Selfhelp Innovations
Linda Pekunka
Administrator,
Executive Services
Karen DeOssie, LMSW
Administrative Director,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Adeena Horowitz, LMSW
Administrative Director,
Nazi Victim Services Program
Patricia L. Kaufman
Managing Director,
Senior Communities
Dorothy Kern
Managing Director,
Real Estate
Elizabeth Lynn
Managing Director,
Grants and Research
Carol Durham, RN, PCC
Director, Clinical Operations
Karen H. Geller, RN, JD
Director,
Risk Management
Mohini Mishra, CASP, LMSW
Programs Director, Housing
Sandy Myers
Director,
Government and External Relations
Sherry Perlman
Director, Development
Nancy Kelly Sullivan
Managing Director,
Long Island LHCSA
Brooke Samuelson
Programs Director, NORCs
Mayer Waxman, LMSW
Managing Director,
Senior Communities
Samantha Schoenberger
Director, Housing Development
and Sustainability
Neil Actable
Director, Information Technology
Doreen Seligson
Director, Human Resources
Koku Badasu, RN
Director, LHCSA
and City Home Care Programs
Lisa S. Trub
Director,
Affordable Housing Development
Erin Brennan, MPS, QDCP
Senior Programs Director,
SHARP/Clearview Senior Center
Angela Williams, LCSW
Programs Director,
Case Management
Lisa Buynak, RN
Director, Patient Services
Long Island LHCSA
Ellen Ceriale
Director, LHCSA,
Quality and Compliance
520 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
866-735-1234
212-971-7600
www.selfhelp.net
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.
Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.
SELFHELP AT 80:
BUILDING UPON OUR HISTORIC PROMISE
2015 ANNUAL REPORT
1936 – 2015
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.
2015 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY