AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST CHILD WELFARE ORGANIZING PROJECT DAMAYAN MIGRANT MOVEMENT CENTER CENTRO HISPANO CUZCATLAN COMMON LAW WORKERS ASSOCIATION FIERCE PICTURE THE HOMELESS JUSTICE IS FLUSHING WORKERS CENTER JEWS FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE LAUNDRY MIRABAL SISTERS CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER NORTH STAR FUND HAPPENING WORKERS CENTER MEKONG MILK NOT JAILS MOVIMIENTO POR JUSTICIA DEL NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (NICE) BARRIO STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL NY/NJ TEAMSTERS FOR A TENANTS & NEIGHBORS VAMOS UNIDOS VOCAL-NY DEMOCRATIC UNION NYC COMMUNITY LAND INITIATIVE RED HOOK INITIATIVE CABRINI IMMIGRANT SERVICES OF NYC CENTRO HISPANO CUZCATLAN CHILD WELFARE ORGANIZING PROJECT ROCKAWAY WILDFIRE STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER STREETWISE AND COMMON LAW LAUNDRY WORKERS CENTER MASA- SAFE UGNAYAN YOUTH FOR JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE UNITED NEIGHBORS MEXED MOVIMIENTO POR JUSTICIA DEL BARRIO PICTURE ORGANIZATION URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE WOMEN ORGANIZING THE HOMELESS DETAINEE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT NEIGHBORHOODS (WON) ADELANTE ALLIANCE BANANA KELLY COMMUNITY UGNAYAN YOUTH FOR JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION BLACK URBAN GROWERS BLACK WOMEN’S NYC COALITION FOR EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE URBAN YOUTH BLUEPRINT CABRINI IMMIGRANT SERVICES OF NYC CENTER FOR FRONTLINE RETAIL COLLABORATIVE ADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FLATBUSH TENANT COALITION/FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOSTER SOCIAL JUSTICE ALIGN: THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER PARENT ADVOCACY FOUNDATION FUREE INDO-CARIBBEAN ALLIANCE M ASA- NEW YORK CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES CASA: COMMUNITY ACTION FOR SAFE APARTMENTS, A PROJECT OF NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS CENTER FOR

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LAW At North Star LAUNDRY Fund, we spend WORKERS CENTER MASA- SAFE UGNAYAN YOUTH FOR JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE UNITED NEIGHBORS ADVISORY BOARD GovernorRichard Appoints Dworkin Andrew Goldberg Progressive Cities, our hours challenging ourselvesMEXED andGene our Carrollsystem MOVIMIENTO to share, to go deeper, POR and JUSTICIA to DELSpecial BARRIORickke Prosecutor Mananzala PICTURE7 ORGANIZATION URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE WOMEN ORGANIZING Pierre Hauser Dan Morris, Media Relations sustain each and every neighborhoodMaria and Hinojosa community. ResourcingSierra C. the Spingarn Movement: Catering Hugh Hogan THE HOMELESS QUEERKathleen DETAINEE Pequeño, EMPOWERMENT PROJECT The SophistLet Us Breathe Fund 8 NEIGHBORHOODS (WON) ADELANTE ALLIANCE BANANA KELLY COMMUNITY In this year’s annual report, you willCraig see howKaplan our network of communityStrategic and Communications Asa Johnson Superfine Printing UGNAYANMonami Maulik YOUTH FORCharitable JUSTICE Development AND New SOCIAL Yorkers want CHANGE IDNYC 10 philanthropicLloyd Martinez activists are working hour-after-hour, and day-in and day-out, to IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION BLACK URBAN GROWERS BLACK WOMEN’S Consulting, Planned Giving Ventucom Iris Morales Universal School Lunch 11 take Gonzaloon deep-seated Mercado problemsNYC that COALITION limit opportunity FOR for all. EDUCATIONAL JUSTICEVision Change URBAN Win YOUTH Michael Ratner Lisa Cowan, BLUEPRINT CABRINI IMMIGRANT SERVICES OF NYC CENTER FOR FRONTLINE RETAIL Christine Parker Strategic Planning WhereWingo, Climate Inc. 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Whether COMMUNITYyou’re a donor activist, VOICES philanthropic HEARD leader,Thomas or Associates CONSORTIUM SavingAmy Public Paul Transit FOR WORKER22 CAMPAIGN FOR ALTERNATIVES TO ISOLATED CONFINEMENT PARENTS IN ACTION Zakiyah Ansari NORTH STAR FUND Andy Collazo, Abrazos Music Yarilet Perez activist on the ground, we must all Donaldwork together Anthonyson in order to share a just future. A Unique Grantmaking Model 24 STAFF EDUCATION FAITH IN & NEW Entertainment YORK JUSTICEMarisol Ybarra COMMITTEE PERSIST HEALTH PROJECT QUEER DETAINEE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT RAZA YOUTH Action, accountability and buildingTeresa a beloved Arieta community invested in a New Winning a Fair Chance 25 Hugh Hogan, Angelica Otero York for all people is at the heart MAKE ofSusanna our work THE Blankley at North ROAD Star NEW Fund. YORK MILLIONSMeet New MARCH Yorkers NYC COLLECTIVE RELEASE AGING PEOPLE IN PRISON (RAPP) CAMPAIGN RESILIENCE Executive Director Apple Direct Mail Services, ANNUAL REPORT Ana Liza Caballes Who Invest in Justice 26 I hopeElz you’ll Cuya joinJones, us. And IMOVEMENT extend my heartfelt FOR thanks BLACK to every one LIVESLtd. of you CONVENING who Bryan NEVER Potter Design, 21 N E W Betsy Edasery A Donor Steps Up 27 ADVOCACY PROJECT STREET VENDOR PROJECT SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT made Deputyjustice Directorhappen of this past year. We love you. bittergreen Print Design & Production IMMIGRANTFelix Endara COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT (NICE) PICTURE Resources and Strategy Caracol Interpreters Activism’sRecycled Future Paper Printing, Inc., TEACHERS UNITE THE BLACK INSTITUTE YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR HEALTH May you and yours feel powerful andMiriam generous Fogelson this year-end, cori schmanke parrish, THE HOMELESS STATENCooperative ISLAND COMMUNITYLeadershipPrinting Donors JOB CENTER28 Jennifer Flynn ADVOCACY COALITION AUDRE LORDE PROJECT GLOBAL ACTION PROJECT Deputy Director of Programs Carrie Chatterson Studio, Momentum on Housing 31 YEAH,Samantha THAT’S Franklin WHAT SHE SAIDLLC (YTWSS)/BABYCASTLESPHOTOGRAPHERS B L ACK and Operations Grants 32 MAYDAY COMMUNITY SPACE NYS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE R I S E SAPNA NYC Helen Stillman, Jaritza Geigel Cynthia Wong Dan Bigelow ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION BROOKLYNThank you MOVEMENT35 Donor Program Director Andrew Goldberg Four32c Gerard Gaskin SURE WE CAN TH E B L K P R O J EK TH E AT R E O F T H E O P P R E S S ED N YC WORKING WORLD Ali Issa Daniel Gross OurNeha Community Gautam 43 HughKofo Hogan Anifalaje, CENTER COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD JUSTICE COMMITTEE Development Officer Asa Johnson Gerard Gaskin Jendog Skywolf COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES DRUM - SOUTH ASIAN ORGANIZING CENTER F A I T H Executive Director Jennifer Arieta, PICTURESam J. Miller THE HOMELESSHenry Serrano STREETWISE ANDSonam SAFEUkyab V O C A L- IN NEW YORK RIDERS ALLIANCE WORKER’S JUSTICE PROJECT ADHIKAAR FOR Program Officer Zahida Pirani Idealist Consulting NY AUDRE LORDE PROJECT BOLDER GIVING Hugh Hogan with daughters S T O NRachel E W A L L Adam Liebowitz, Rob Robinson Jeff Thomas HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK and Jane; Cover: Millions March, Food and Environment CHORALEJah’dae Ross SYLVIA RIVERAJenny Lindstrom LAW PROJECT New York ARAB City, December AMERICAN 2014 Program Officer Henry Serrano Margarita Hernandez BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION JUSTICE COMMITTEE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION 5 HOUSING/MCREF BRANDWORKERS CAAAV ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR POLICE REFORM (CPR) 6:30 AM Our Vision WAKING UP Justice is happening—and it’s both the means and the end. At North Star TO JUSTICE Fund, we’ve overcome immense challenges and remained committed to deeper systems-change because the means and ends of our vision have never changed. Good morning, and welcome But how we realize justice, and the scale of it, is always evolving—thanks to you, to a brand new day. When and the incredible dedication of our donor activist community. we’re at our best, the first At North Star Fund, justice means that profit should not come before moments upon waking give us people, other species, nor the environment, that everyone should share in the an opportunity to reflect on resources needed for a better life, and that an authentic democracy doesn’t just our vision and purpose. happen—it has to be invested in. We want to catalyze a more just future for all How can I contribute to a New Yorkers by enabling those with resources beyond their immediate needs better New York? How can I to leave a legacy of equity and opportunity. Justice means building a culture of work to expand justice to all respect and support for grassroots organizers who, day-in and day-out, work to people, and not just a select make our city a beacon of possibility and opportunity. few? And how do I make the most out of today? We are doing this by making more and even larger grants, by finding and investing in more indigenous leaders, their organizations, their networks, and their activism. In the process, we want more communities to be able to share power over the policies and practices that define our democracy. We want to undo corrupt, inept systems that limit the hopes and aspirations of those furthest from the halls of power. We want everyone to share in a just future. In the months and years ahead, North Star Fund will explore how we can remain steadfast as a local funder in New York City while partnering with others on Long Island and the Hudson Valley. We will also take leadership in the electoral organizing space—using all of the tools available to 501(c)(4) organizations to advance social and racial justice. Of course, all of this will depend on you, the donor activist. This age of incredible inequality and dramatic change in our climate demands your participation if we are to not just survive, but to thrive as a city, a nation, and a planet.

Justice is happening. Join us. Millions March, New York City, December 2014

6 8:00 AM 9:00 AM What is Donor Activism? BREAKFAST MEET THE Donor activism is about what you do beyond giving money. As Asa Johnson, WITH DONOR longtime North Star Fund donor, board member, and volunteer explains, GOVERNOR ACTIVISTS “You can be a donor and just write the check, or you can be a donor activist by also serving or volunteering. If we’re going to find meaningful solutions to big This summer as Governor Cuomo was finalizing his Donor activism is at the problems, then it’s up to those of us with more to do both.” executive order to create a heart of North Star Fund’s Donor activism at North Star Fund is a form of community organizing. And it Justice Committee leaders (l-r): Shaina Munoz, niece of Jayson Tirado; Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley special prosecutor to handle mission and work. We believe enables donors to become more strategic by offering insight into some of the Graham; Cynthia Howell, niece of Alberta Spruill; Carol Gray, mother of Kimani Gray; Natasha Duncan, sister of deaths at the hands of police, in moving philanthropic most effective and compassionate social justice organizing in our city. Shantel Davis; Valerie Bell, mother of Sean Bell; Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah; , mother of Eric Garner he appeared to be wavering dollars to change how North Star Fund donor and board chair Nisha Atre says, “This last year in New on two key provisions. He systems work, and investing York, we saw some important victories happen quickly. The political will was was considering making the in the leadership of people there, the activists were there, and the money was there. It makes you want to position short-term and directly affected by injustice Governor Appoints continue as a donor because you can see that change can happen and you can limiting it to cases where the and inequality. We build be a part of it.” police identified the deceased community among people Special Prosecutor as “unarmed.” The Justice who share a vision for a just Justice Committee (JC) is among the groups leading a movement against Committee organized an future. Working together, we police violence and systemic racism in New York City. They are empowering action outside his can accomplish more than as low-income Latino/a communities and other people of color to address these office and negotiated with him individuals acting on our own. issues. JC members and leaders are New Yorkers whose lives are impacted by late into the night. As a result, police violence, including families who have lost loved ones to the New York the final executive order Police Department. JC is a co-founder and steering committee member of does not include language Communities United for Police Reform. limiting it to one year Since 2004, Justice Committee has received 14 North Star Fund grants and authorizes the special totaling over $150,000, including the 2015 Frederick Douglass Award. prosecutor to handle a In 2014, they received a $50,000 Movement Leadership grant (see page broad range of cases. 14) in recognition of their success organizing the families hurt by police shootings and brutality. Over the course of their Movement Leadership grant, they and their allies have taken huge steps towards achieving a goal they identified in the North Star Fund board members (l-r): Carol Gray lost her son Kimani Pierre Hauser, Nisha Atre, and Asa Johnson 1990s: an independent prosecutor to investigate and prosecute civilian Gray in a police shooting deaths at the hands of police and cases of . As a result of a families-led Special Prosecutor campaign, this July Governor Cuomo signed an executive order establishing a standing special prosecutor to investigate killings by police, the first of its kind in the country. 8 9 10:00 AM

The Let Us Breathe Forum stage (l-r): Imani Uzuri, Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, FUNDER , Kevin Ryan and Hugh Hogan BRIEFING

Funder briefings offer a unique opportunity to bring donors and funders together with grassroots leaders who can offer up-to-the- minute assessments and insight on specific issues.

In 2014-2015 North Star Fund convened funders and organizers on housing, Hurricane Sandy recovery, and the importance of efforts led by other communities of color, including youth, women, and LGBTQ supporting Black-led Resourcing the Movement: communities. organizing as the wave of We made the first round of grants within six months of launching the fund “If Black people are police killings continued The Let Us Breathe Fund in December 2014, with grants totaling $80,000 to eight organizations. In being talked about, apace this past year. September 2015, we made $200,000 in additional grants to 21 organizations. North Star Fund launched the Let instead of being the Us Breathe Fund in response to LET US BREATHE FUND Parallel to the fund, North Star Fund organized the Let Us Breathe Forum, people talking—then grantee needs, donor outrage, and Grants to Black-led and allied a 500-person gathering in May 2015 to center Black leadership as we philanthropic peers who wanted organizing of communities directly explored the insidious nature of “broken windows” policing—how it we’re not really building to strategically move resources so impacted by “broken windows” undermines the fabric of our democracy and ultimately the freedom of all the kind of power policing, poverty, and injustice in that organizers on the ground could communities in New York City. New York City. that can reliably force sustain the momentum of activists ROUND 1 GRANTS Over the course of a full day, participants were able to: the answers we need responding to police killings while Highlight the vision, analysis, and leadership from local Black organizers advancing deeper policy, political, and Black Alliance for Just Immigration on our own terms.” Brooklyn Movement Center and Black-led organizations; cultural change. CAAAV Organizing Asian —Rashad Robinson, Explore concrete solutions to build a stronger and more strategic The fund prioritizes Black-led Communities Executive Director, Community Voices Heard grassroots movement; organizations—a reflection of our ColorOfChange.org Justice Committee deeply held belief that people directly Create spaces for Black communities and allies to strategize about the Picture the Homeless resources needed to address anti-Black racism and intersecting issues affected by an issue or injustice should Streetwise and Safe that affect Black communities; and lead efforts for social change. The Let VOCAL-NY Us Breathe Fund also supports allied Build support for deeper investment in Black-led organizing. 10 11 11:00 AM 12:00 PM Universal School Lunch MAKING TIME FOR The Lunch 4 Learning campaign started off the 2014-15 school year heading CALLS in the right direction. Thanks to Movement Leadership grantee Community LUNCH Food Advocates, students in stand-alone public middle schools had already won North Star Fund grantees universal free lunch. As a result, more than 10,000 additional students are now For too many young New mobilized over 27,000 eating lunch during the school day. This brought in an additional $6.8 million in Yorkers, lunch isn’t something people in individual actions federal subsidies to New York City schools. to be taken for granted. Our last year, including phone grantees are addressing the Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Mayor with Min Kwon Center But in high schools, students still struggle with the stigma at the root of the calls to decision-makers, members, some of the first applicants for the municipal ID in New York City policies and inequities that campaign: that receiving “free lunch” marks them as poor. Fewer than half the meetings with city council keep young people hungry students eligible for the high school free lunch program actually participate. members and state legislators, by developing young New and participating in acts Community Food Advocates has built a coalition of more than 100 groups Yorkers as leaders on this of civil disobedience. New Yorkers Want IDNYC for the Lunch 4 Learning campaign. They’ve trained youth leaders to present issue. No New York City testimony at City Council hearings and to press elected officials to support Without government-issued identification, it can be difficult to enter a public school student should universal free lunch. building, access social services, or enroll a child in school in New York have to go hungry for fear of City. The lack of identification erects barriers that keep New Yorkers It’s been a long road toward universal lunch programs in all New York City being bullied or called names from participating in some of the most essential pieces of public life. grades, and there are more and more students being trained to organize against in the school cafeteria. bullying and hunger. The historic launch in early 2015 of IDNYC, the city’s municipal ID card program, has literally opened doors for undocumented immigrants, the homeless, and nonconforming New Yorkers. In the first month, well over 15,000 applications were processed at sites across the city. This number surpassed even the most enthusiastic predictions of how many people would apply. IDNYC is a major victory for grassroots groups supported over many years by North Star Fund donors—Arab American Association of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition, Faith in New York, and Picture the Homeless. These organizations turned out people to make phone calls, circulate petitions, attend rallies, and partner with the Community Food Advocates at City Hall mayor’s office and the City Council to make it (left); Lunch 4 Learning Activist Nafestia Min Kwon Center member holding his new happen. Caleb speaks at the 2015 Community IDNYC card Gala (right) This is also a victory for New Yorkers who sustained this call to action with their support for organizing immigrant communities.

12 13 1:00 PM Where Climate Change MEET WITH and Food Justice Intersect FUNDER The tri-state area’s food system, like every regional food system, is where we ALLIES ON see struggles play out over the future of how we’ll feed ourselves. After many CLIMATE years of organizing and new streams of investment, local food producers are finally gaining a foothold in the face of pesticide- and fossil-fuel-dependent CHANGE industrial agriculture. But even amidst the locavore and good food movement, one can also see how race and income determine who is at the greatest risk for Community Food Funders food insecurity, and who has access to healthy food. (CFF), which was co- founded and is fiscally Hurricanes Irene and Sandy laid bare the inequities that underlie our region’s sponsored by North Star food system. It was clear immediately after these storms that upstate areas in Fund, brings together the case of Irene, and New York City following Sandy, were not prepared to foundations and donors meet the needs of farmers, nor the low-income communities that were among from across the tri-state the hardest hit. Community-based organizations played a crucial role in filling region who are committed the gap left by this lack of preparation. Yet years later, we’re still early in the long to a more ecologically process of changing systems that have been determined by corporate bottom diverse, locally vibrant, and lines and racial for decades. equitable food system. North Star Fund’s central focus in Sandy work has been organizing leaders in philanthropy to make smart investments that will leave the city and region CFF is committed to bringing stronger when the next storm lands. We can’t just rebuild physical structures— together all stakeholders we have to build the capacity of communities to be self-reliant, and in the across the food chain, from buzzword of the moment, resilient. farmers and farm workers, to restaurant owners and food Faith In New York, a longtime North Star Fund grantee who received the chain workers, to change the 2015 Frederick Douglass Award, has taken leadership on Sandy rebuilding way the region feeds itself. efforts.Are local workers from communities affected by Sandy, particularly low- income people of color, able to access training and jobs in the rebuilding effort? How is federal money flowing into communities that have been historically overlooked when it comes to infrastructure development? Faith In New York has engaged a diverse and powerful network of spiritual leaders and laypeople to ask the tough questions about how we can build back together, stronger.

Faith In New York received the 2015 Frederick Douglass Award

15 2:00 PM Training Organizations MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP to Win TRAINING The Movement Leadership Program asks a lot of the organizations who receive grants. Grantees consistently rise to the occasion, and embrace the extra effort North Star Fund’s $50,000 that goes with these grants because of the potential for their organization to Movement Leadership grants grow in three ways: are awarded annually to five Transform the organization’s leadership through consistent organizations with a record participation in the peer-learning program over two years; that demonstrates their Allow the organization to hone their strategies with the support of capacity to win. The initial coaches (like Zahida Pirani, pictured on this page) so that they can Movement Leadership grant create change on the issues they address; and lasts for two years, and groups Adhikaar activists at City Hall Expand their coalitions to include new ally organizations and can receive renewal grants for related communities. up to six years. The program includes a peer-training Organizations can then increase their impact and win bigger with sustained and learning program that commitment from their new allies. Victory for meets five times a year for Movement Leadership Program grantee partners have won big Nail Salon Workers strategy and skill-building victories in the last year, including the victory for nail salon retreats. Training topics workers that took years of organizing to come to fruition. A series of front page articles in in May 2015 exposed “North Star Fund include campaign planning, unbearable working conditions for nail salon workers in New York, including was one of our first increasing membership, and inhumanely long hours, wage theft, and exposure to carcinogenic chemicals. leadership development. supporters. They But the series wasn’t the beginning of the story, it was the middle. With the funded our nail salon support of North Star Fund donors, Adhikaar had been organizing South Asian women and nail salon workers for close to a decade prior. worker survey when no other funders would.” Since 2007, Adhikaar has received multiple North Star Fund grants for their organizing, including a Movement Leadership grant in 2014. The training —Luna Ranjit, and support that they received through this program enabled them to forge Executive Director, Adhikaar an effective relationship withPublic Advocate Letitia James, conduct a participatory research survey of nail salon workers, help form the New York Zahida Pirani leading a Movement Leader- ship Retreat training session (left); Grantee Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, and win a seat on Governor Cuomo’s Nail Salon leaders at the training session (right) Industry Enforcement Task Force. With the sustained philanthropy that came from the North Star Fund community of donors, Adhikaar’s work catalyzed victories in both legislation and policies affecting nail salon workers. 16 17 3:00 PM Students Win Fair Discipline WHAT ARE DIGNITY IN The Urban Youth Collaborative and other grantee partners that are part of YOU DOING the Dignity in Schools campaign also advanced alternatives to suspensions, SCHOOLS AFTER a national campaign that is gaining momentum. North Star Fund grantee Teachers Unite, whose members work in New York City schools, conducted The national Dignity in SCHOOL? research, wrote op-eds, gave public testimonies, and rallied at City Hall. Schools campaign has a strong network of local Meanwhile, two other groups that North Star Fund has long supported, The Education Justice Fund organizing entities in New Global Action Project (GAP) and DRUM South Asian Organizing Center, is among three initiatives York City. The campaign collaborated on a video called #Suspended4What, featuring young activists that represent a new path for is tackling the “school-to- who are working to end bullying. In the video, student leaders explain the North Star Fund in recent prison pipeline,” systems ineffectiveness of “zero tolerance” policies that can lead to indiscriminate years: fiscal sponsorship of discipline that relegate suspensions in bullying situations. and large-scale support for some youth to constant grassroots-led coalitions. Thanks to the organizers of the Dignity In Schools suspension, preparing them We partnered with the campaign, in June 2015 the City Council better for jail and prison Annenberg Institute for approved $2.4 million in funding for pilot than for college and society. School Reform to provide restorative justice projects in over a dozen They’re replacing harsh and large scale grants to Urban New York City schools for the start of the fall discriminatory discipline with Youth Collaborative and the 2015 school year. With this launch, New York restorative practices that Coalition for Educational Get Us to College joins the growing number of school districts make for safer and more Justice. These key coalitions across the nation taking thoughtful steps just school environments. unite students and parents New York public school students face two distinct but related issues on a toward safer schools for all youth. across all five boroughs to massive scale: address long-term inequities Harsh discipline that tends to fall disproportionately on Black, disabled, facing public schools. and gender nonconforming youth; and A poor track record of getting Black and Latina/o public school students into college.

The Urban Youth Collaborative’s Get Us to College campaign has focused on the lack of personnel and resources to ensure that all students are on track to graduate and go to college. Students pressed for the signing of a law requiring New York City’s Department of Education to assess and report the number DRUM – South Asian Organizing Center Student activists with Urban Youth of guidance counselors in schools and their ability to help low-income and first activist at Department of Education Collaborative hearing on discipline codes generation college-bound students to apply to and enroll in college. Urban Youth Collaborative also secured an early warning system for students who are not on track to graduate, so that they can course-correct before it’s too late. 18 19 4:00 PM SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

Financial Activities Year Ended June 30, 2015 Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total FINANCE This June, North Star Fund wrapped up our highly successful Activism’s Future PUBLIC SUPPORT, REVENUE, AND GAINS MEETING campaign, which raised $8.5 million. As a result of this campaign, we’ve doubled Public Support 711,991 3,854,857 621,541 5,188,389 our grantmaking, increased our technical assistance to grassroots groups, Revenue and Gains/(Losses) 65,847 13,426 79,273 The board and staff of North introduced new opportunities for donors to network and learn, and increased Net Assets Released from Restrictions 3,381,728 (3,381,728) 0

Star Fund regularly meet and our presence in the media. 51 Total Support, Revenue, and Gains 4,159,566 486,555 621,541 5,267,662 work together to ensure that Because donors made three-year pledges to the Activism’s Future campaign, we’re fiscally sound and that EXPENSES we recorded income in prior years and created a surplus of unrestricted funds our investments are aligned Program Services 3,489,317 - - 3,489,317 that we used this year. This year shows a decrease in unrestricted net assets due with our mission. Our strong Supporting Services to spending some of that surplus. financial position translates to Management and General 160,272 - - 160,272 more resources for New York On the heels of the campaign, North Star Fund is implementing a number of Fundraising 646,143 - - 646,143

City’s grassroots organizing. post-Activism’s Future fundraising strategies to consolidate our success and Total Supporting Services 806,415 - - 806,415 growth, which will enable us to maintain our grantmaking and programmatic51 Total Expenses 4,295,732 0 0 4,295,732 support at this higher level. (Decrease)/Increase in Net Assets (136,166) 486,555 621,541 971,930 We also received our portion of a previously raised endowment held at Net Assets, Beginning of Year 2,709,335 2,888,904 1,000,000 6,598,239 another institution that increased permanently restricted assets. This gift will Net Assets, End of Year 2,573,169 3,375,459 1,621,541 7,570,169 help ensure North Star Fund’s stability as the premier home for donor and grassroots activists across the city. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

Year Ended June 30, 2015 Individual Donors $3,387,864

Foundation Partners 118,500 ASSETS LIABILITIES Donor Advised Partners 459,654 Cash and Interest-bearing Deposits 4,650,358 Grants Payable 202,961 INCOME Fiscal Sponsorship Income 614,782 Promises to Give 997,836 Other Liabilities 176,860 Fees and Investments 65,321 Promises to Give (long-term, net) 527,268 Total Liabilities 379,821 Endowment 621,541 Investments 1,607,423 NET ASSETS Total $5,267,662 Fixed Assets (net of accumulated depreciation) 108,930 Unrestricted 2,573,169 Other Assets 58,175 Temporarily Restricted * 3,375,459 Total Assets 7,949,990 Total Grants and Programs: 81% $3,489,317 Permanently Restricted ** 1,621,541

Grants and Programs $2,985,545 Total Net Assets 7,570,169 Donor Advised Grants $503,772 Total Liabilities and Net Assets 7,949,990 EXPENSES Total Supporting Services: 19% $806,415 * Temporarily Restricted Net Assets: North Star Fund receives donor-advised contributions that are held until donors recommend which organizations will receive grants. At June 30, 2015, the temporarily restricted net asset balance of $2,753,918 represents the amount of donor contributions still held by North Star Fund, as well as gifts restricted by the donor by purpose or time. Development $646,143 ** Permanently Restricted Net Assets: During a prior fiscal year, a donor made a $1,000,000 irrevocable pledge to establish the Betty Kapetanakis Memorial Endowment Fund. The purpose of the Management and General $160,272 fund is to generate unrestricted income. The principal cannot, under any circumstances, be drawn upon. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, North Star Fund received its share in the amount of $621,541 of the permanently restricted portion of a jointly raised endowment held at another institution, which will be managed according to New York state law regarding endowments. Total $4,295,732 20 21 4:30 PM ACTIVIST-LED GRANTMAKING

Medicare Equity for Grassroots Action Grants: seed grants SELF-CARE to new and emerging groups that expand Trans New Yorkers opportunity for communities to fight Since our early years, North injustice. For people who want gender reassignment surgery, there are few Star Fund has supported options beyond paying for it out of pocket. Gender reassignment medical care GRASSROOTS grantee partners drawn from $10,000 in New York was still treated as “cosmetic surgery” for Medicaid purposes, ACTION GRANTS the LGBTQ community, leaving many people to fundraise for it on their own. many of whom had to fight African Communities Together for equal access to quality But a multi-year campaign led by North Star Fund grantees including Sylvia Black Alliance for Just Immigration medical care. As long as Rivera Law Project and Audre Lorde Project exercised legal strategies, Brooklyn Movement Center Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan there are community-based community organizing, and meetings with policymakers. Bringing people Common Law organizations developing directly affected by the issue to sit at the table with policymakers generated Flushing Workers Center some breakthrough moments. In spring 2015, Medicaid officials agreed leaders to take on these Jews for Racial and Economic Justice battles, North Star Fund that transgender New Yorkers can access hormone treatments and gender- Laundry Workers Center will step up in support. affirming surgeries. Mekong This victory took years of persistent organizing by people faced with second- Milk Not Jails Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio class healthcare based on their . New York State Youth Leadership Council NY/NJ Teamsters for a Democratic Union NYC Community Land Initiative Red Hook Initiative Millions March, New York City, Rockaway Wildfire December 2014 Staten Island Community Job Center Streetwise and Safe Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Black Women’s Blueprint Persist Health Project Change Cabrini Immigrant Services of NYC Queer Detainee Empowerment Project United Neighbors Organization Center for Frontline Retail Urban Youth Collaborative Raza Youth Collective Flatbush Tenant Coalition/Flatbush Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Women Organizing Neighborhoods Development Corporation (WON) Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Campaign FUREE Resilience Advocacy Project Indo-Caribbean Alliance Street Vendor Project GRASSROOTS $5,000 Masa-MexEd ACTION GRANTS Sylvia Rivera Law Project Neighbors Helping Neighbors Teachers Unite Adelante Alliance Neighbors Together Sylvia Rivera Law Project activists at the The Black Institute Banana Kelly Community Improvement Department of Health New York Campaign for Alternatives to Association Isolated Confinement Young Women of Color Health Black Urban Growers Parents in Action Advocacy Coalition 22 23 5:00 PM ACTIVIST-LED GRANTMAKING

HOP ON INNOVATIVE ACTIVISM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP GRANTS Two-year grants of $50,000 to social RENEWALS THE SUBWAY Grants of $10,000 to organizations justice organizations that demonstrate a One-year grants of up to $20,000 to combining arts and activism, providing strong record of community organizing grassroots organizations that successfully resources to grassroots groups, and and a commitment to a peer-learning completed the initial movement Public transit is the lifeblood program. of any city, providing an developing leaders in marginalized leadership training and are poised to communities. Community Food Advocates continue building on their previous economic benefit to everyone DRUM - South Asian Organizing Center victories. Audre Lorde Project who commutes or conducts Faith in New York Global Action Project Brandworkers business in the city. New Riders Alliance Mayday Community Space CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities York City’s transit system Worker’s Justice Project NYS Civic Engagement Table Child Welfare Organizing Project suffers from decades of Rise Damayan Migrant Workers Association under-investment in capital Sapna NYC SECOND YEAR MOVEMENT FIERCE improvements, leaving Sure We Can LEADERSHIP GRANTEES Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community the system too reliant on The BLK ProjeK Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Center maintaining its physical Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Justice New Immigrant Community Working World Arab American Association of New York Empowerment (NICE) structure by raising money New York commuter with “cut-out” Cuomo on the subway Brooklyn Food Coalition Picture the Homeless from fares instead of making Justice Committee Tenants & Neighbors smart long-term investments. Metropolitan Council on Housing/ VAMOS Unidos Saving Public Transit MCREF VOCAL-NY One of the biggest struggles facing Riders Alliance, a Movement Leadership grantee, is that too few New Yorkers understand the outsize role that the Governor and the legislature play in budgeting for our mass transit system. Through successful organizing and the engagement of their members, Riders Alliance won three key victories for public transit in 2015: $1 million in funding for bus stop countdown clocks, protection for bus-only lanes, and service changes to increase Select Bus Service. But they didn’t win on broader issues of funding the subway system, and needed to bring on greater pressure. Their member leaders devised a disarming way to engage ordinary transit riders: even though real-life Governor Cuomo does not ride the 7 train at rush hour, a life-size cardboard cut-out version of the governor could. These photos got significant media play in the summer right after the legislative session. Riders Alliance is continuing to build on their 2015 bus victories to press the CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Governor to take action for a reliable transit system. 24 25 6:00 PM A Unique Grantmaking Winning a Fair Chance GRANTEE Model Most people don’t notice it, but hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers do: the Across the country, organizing SITE VISIT box on job applications that asks, “Do you have a previous felony conviction?” by formerly incarcerated When donor activists founded North Star Fund, they recognized that they Checking that box often stops the screening process before it can even people is building momentum. At North Star Fund, didn’t have all the expertise needed to make the most strategic investments get started. For people rebuilding their lives following incarceration, a single We’re seeing progress on we practice activist-led in grassroots organizing. But they knew that the information was out there. previous felony conviction can make it nearly impossible to get their foot in the the rights of people with grantmaking, which empowers So they set up a Community Funding Committee, where grassroots activists door for a decent job. previous felony convictions local activists and donor teamed up with donors to thoughtfully select where to make the most effective VOCAL-NY, a long-time grantee, has advanced this issue with City Council and the beginning of a sea activists to be our decision grants. for years. “Ban the Box” campaigns, like the one that led to the passage of change on the long-term makers. We select grantee This model means that North Star Fund can provide grants to emerging the Fair Chance Act here in New York City last summer, simply allow that nature of punishments organizations after an open, organizations and address issues under the radar. In other cases, it means North applicants be considered based on their qualifications before having to disclose for even the most minor honest dialogue about their Star Fund has on-the-ground insight about which groups are connected to a previous felony conviction. It also offers the chance to explain their current felony convictions. In 2015, ability to advance their communities affected by an issue. It means that North Star Fund donors can circumstances in the application process. It’s about fairness, and it’s about time New York became part of goals and make an impact. count on their dollars being turned into strategic grants that result in deeper that New York has addressed this glaring issue of discrimination. the growing number of Our Community Funding impact and lasting social change. cities moving in the right Committee members direction on this issue. Longtime housing activist Rob Robinson is on the Community Funding visit potential grantees Committee and brings considerable knowledge and relationships to face-to-face. This way, grantmaking deliberations. Collectively, our current Community Funding the organization’s work can Committee members bring decades of activist experience and relationships shine in ways an application with dozens of grassroots organizations in New York City. can’t always uncover.

North Star Fund program officer Jennifer Arieta conferring with grantmaker Rob Robinson as part of the grantmaking process VOCAL-NY activists at City Hall

26 27 7:00 PM A Donor Steps Up DONOR As support for Black-led activism to address police violence escalated in 2014, EVENT Lena Solow was one of many New Yorkers who wanted to step up. So she participated in North Star Fund’s now three-year-old giving circle for next Young people with access generation leaders, the Springboard Giving Circle. to wealth beyond their “I wanted to engage in the moment beyond sharing articles about police At North Star Fund, we immediate needs founded violence and racism,” says Lena “and as a white, wealthy person I wanted to organize donors. We provide North Star Fund. They ensure that money was moving in an accountable way directed by people of them with networking, wanted to build a community color, which I trust North Star Fund to do.” information sharing, and of donor activists to invest learning opportunities. Our in grassroots leaders who Lena recognized that the thousands of New Yorkers taking to the streets meant programs inspire and motivate knew about how to tackle that this was a time to think big. But to act more boldly, organizations need Panelists from Women and Climate Justice event (l-r): Amy Goodman, Helena Wong, Ursula Rakova, Regan Pritzker donors to advance the injustice and inequality. money to demonstrate, build an increased web presence, and enlist activists, mission of North Star Fund Now, 37 years later, North policy experts and other resources. by supporting our fundraising Star Fund continues to bring Through the Springboard Giving Circle, Lena had already participated efforts and by advocating for together a community of Meet New Yorkers in trainings on how to fundraise for a cause she believed in. She was also our philanthropic approach. people who want to learn, connected to a community of donors through North Star Fund’s longtime engage, and act with their Who Invest in Justice partner Resource Generation. resources for a just future. North Star Fund hosts a variety of events to build a community of donors who Lena and other Springboard donors raised $30,000 that was quickly disbursed want to be: to the community as Let Us Breathe Fund grants. Well-informed about options for values-based investing; Aware of the impact and challenges related to grassroots organizing in New York City; and Connected to other donors who share their progressive values and share a vision for what a just future for New York City looks like.

Highlights of this year’s events include a Young Professionals for Social Justice Happy Hour attended by more than 150 people, and a panel on Women and Climate Change anchored by Amy Goodman with noted climate justice activists from Manhattan’s Chinatown and the coast of Papua New Guinea. Additionally, the Keynote presenter from the Let Us Breathe Springboard Circle members (l-r): Sarah Forum, Rashad Robinson, Executive Let Us Breathe Forum brought together more than Frank, Lena Solow, Clemmy Brown, and Director, ColorOfChange.org 500 activists and leaders to learn about strategies to Katherine Wolf at the 2015 Community Gala address structural racism and disinvestment in Black communities in New York. 28 29 8:00 PM Activism’s Future DONOR FOLLOW-UP Leadership Donors MEETING Anonymous (3) Harris Lirtzman and Ralph Wilson Susan Adelman and Claudio Llanos Sarah Ludwig In recent months, we’ve Nisha Atre and Art Richardson June Makela and Mark Fischweicher been meeting with our Corinna Borden Lloyd V. Martinez longtime friends and biggest Peter Brest Monica Melamid supporters to share with Oliver Cannell Gonzalo Mercado them the incredible victories Oona Chatterjee and Angel Vera Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss that came out of the Tom Cramer and Michele Burger Solangel and Alberto Minotta Activism’s Future campaign. Darma Fund Ragnar Naess Anne Delaney Robert Nixon The campaign wrapped up in Maddy deLone and Bobby Cohen cori schmanke parrish and Sierra 2015 and raised more than Abigail E. Disney and Pierre N. Hauser Spingarn North Star Fund 2015 Community Gala Honorees 2015 Community Gala (l-r): Carol $8.5 million for the long- (l-r): Julissa Reynoso, Keith Mestrich, Mike Muse Kolmerten, Chris McInerney Edward W. Hazen Foundation Zahida Pirani term success of grassroots Marjorie Fine Pittelman organizing in New York Jason Franklin, Franklin Weinberg Fund Susan B. Plum City. Through Activism’s Rachel Gelman Michael Ratner and Karen Ranucci Future, we’ve doubled our Elizabeth Gilmore Arva Rice grantmaking from 2011 Elspeth Gilmore James Schaffer levels, and today we’re Andrew Goldberg and Karen Putterman Katrina Schaffer boldly sustaining it. Thank Jeffrey and Paula Gural Henry Serrano you to the donors who have Chris Heavener and Michelle Rider Alvarez Symonette made a deep commitment Kimberly Hendler and Sigurd Baark Tani Takagi and Toby D’Oench (In to the future of our city. Memoriam) Anne H. Hess and Craig Kaplan Monica Tarazi Liz Hirsch and Karen Pratt Merry Tucker Hugh Hogan and Patrick Moffitt Katrina vanden Heuvel Alexandra Jacobus Michael Waterman Jerome L. Greene Foundation and Yuka Hagiwara Asa Johnson Maggie Williams Johnson Family Foundation Barbara Winslow Tom Johnson, Jr. Sharon Wyse and Isabelle H. Leighton and Timothy J. David Satz Cavaretta

30 2015 Community Gala (l-r): Craig Kaplan, 31 Eric Schneiderman, Lisa Steglich 9:00 PM Momentum on Housing COMING This past year saw a mix of victories and challenges in the struggle to retain affordable housing in New York City. Developers and banks continue to hold HOME too much sway with policymakers and receive multi-million dollar tax breaks to build luxury condos, even as the overall number of affordable housing units is Nearly 60,000 New declining along with the condition of existing public housing. Yorkers do not have a place they can call “home.” When the Rent Control Board held hearings in June 2015, tenant organizers demanded the end to false parity, where as many landlords as tenants offered 2015 became the “Year of public testimony. By getting more hearings, media coverage, and public events, the Tenant,” with at least a tenants won the first rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments in New York dozen powerful grassroots City’s history. grantee organizations coming together in powerful coalitions New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants organizing with grantee to mobilize and engage over partners CASA, Community Voices Heard, FUREE and VOCAL-NY as well 100,000 New Yorkers as through the Real Affordability for All (RAFA) coalition, won commitments with a stake in affordable of $100 million from city government for much overdue repairs. This includes housing. They’re keeping the simple fixes needed for years including unlit stairwells, mold removal, and roof pressure on policymakers repair. New York City can’t continue to be one of the city’s most neglectful to push for real affordability landlords. in new construction—not In June 2015, North Star Fund launched the Housing Now Fund to better just on luxury condos and resource the affordable housing movement, and to support the community profits—and to keep existing visioning and planning that will be required to create truly sustainable public and privately owned neighborhoods. We want to bring more resources to grassroots-led efforts to buildings affordable. drive the reforms and policy changes needed to put this city on a stronger path to real affordability—with infrastructure, facilities, businesses, and services that serve every constituency.

The Housing Now Fund is intended to be a partnership of donors, foundations, labor unions, businesses, housing and community developers, and all others who believe we must get on track to deeper reform and real housing affordability. North Star Fund is seeding the Housing Now Fund with a challenge match of $100,000. The main grant recipients will be the Real Affordability for All GOLES member at a Real Affordability for All (RAFA) protest at City Hall campaign and Homes for Every New Yorker. These coalitions bring together more than 50 organizations from five boroughs.

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GIVING North Star Fund uses unique models to Community Voices Heard CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars Consortium for Worker Education Community Voices Heard DONOR ADVISED Justice Committee THANKS in additional grants to support timely Faith in New York North Star Fund partners with individual donors, foundations and businesses Picture the Homeless and innovative grantmaking. These are Justice Committee to support cutting-edge work in line with their giving priorities. Streetwise and Safe Many New Yorkers share additional grants that we are proud to have Make the Road New York made in 2014-15. Millions March NYC VOCAL-NY a vision for a city that is Movement for Black Lives Convening ASIAN AMERICAN IMPACT INTERNATIONAL DREAMERS more equitable, safe and SPRINGBOARD GRANTS Never 21 GIVE OUT DAY FUND SCHOLARSHIP FUND just. But not all of them New Immigrant Community Springboard Giving Circle members A crowdsourcing initiative to support Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Elisa Corado stand on the frontlines of Empowerment (NICE) worked alongside North Star Fund’s , , bisexual, transgender, and Justice Carolina Hernandez Picture the Homeless this work each and every Community Funding Committee during queer (LGBTQ) communities that have Sakhi for South Asian Women Roberto Morales Staten Island Community Job Center day. We are thankful to the North Star Fund grantmaking cycle historically been underfunded. Yeah, That’s What She Said (YTWSS)/ grassroots activists who are and fundraised in order to make additional Babycastles Audre Lorde Project CALVIN MILES FUND JP FUND on the ground organizing grants to these organizations. Bolder Giving Make the Road New York Justice Committee Stonewall Chorale communities, leading with Cabrini Immigrant Services of NYC POWER TOGETHER We Learn Sylvia Rivera Law Project courage and working toward Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan Large matching grants of $100,000 to real change. Thank you for Child Welfare Organizing Project $200,000 to support major city-wide SPECIAL INITIATIVE CARIBOU FUND loving the city enough to Common Law coalitions. New Immigrant Community help make it a better place Laundry Workers Center These grants helped Movement Communities United for Police Reform Empowerment (NICE) Masa-MexEd Leadership grantees to upgrade their for all people to live. (CPR) Worker’s Justice Project Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio technological capacity or build their Education Justice Fund Picture the Homeless organizational capacity. Housing Now Fund Queer Detainee Empowerment Project Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social DINNER GUYS GIVING CIRCLE Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Justice Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of POWER TOGETHER: Change EDUCATION JUSTICE FUND Arab American Association of New York NY (GAPIMNY) Brooklyn Food Coalition SAGE Matching grants that leverage labor and RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS Communities United for Police Reform private donations so that every child in (CPR) Expedited grants that enable groups to New York City can receive quality public respond quickly to late-breaking events education. New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and organizing opportunities. NYC Coalition for Educational Justice Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Urban Youth Collaborative Justice FREDERICK DOUGLASS ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New LET US BREATHE FUND AWARDS York Grants to Black-led and allied organizing of Grants of $2,500 in recognition CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities communities directly impacted by “broken of outstanding work, presented at CASA: Community Action for Safe windows” policing, poverty, and injustice in the 2015 Community Gala. Apartments, A Project of New Clayola Brown, President, A Philip Randolph New York City. Settlement Apartments Faith in New York Institute at 2015 Community Gala Center for Popular Democracy Black Alliance for Just Immigration Justice Committee Community Food Advocates Brooklyn Movement Center 34 35 GRANTS [CON’D] THANK YOU

This list reflects gifts received July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. We make every effort to accurately list all contributions. JOANNE LUKOMNIK FUND PALINDROME FUND UNFETTERED FUND We extend our heartfelt apologies for any mistakes or omissions. For corrections, please contact Development Officer FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM Community Voices Heard Astraea Foundation Kofo Anifalaje at [email protected]. Physicians for a National Health Audre Lorde Project Program/NY Chapter (PNHP) Movement Strategy Center REN FUND FOR JUSTICE CORNERSTONE GIFTS Clementine Brown Holly Fetter Alexandra Jacobus Resource Generation Faith in New York Anne Delaney Conant Family Fund Sarah Frank JLL KINDLING FUND San Francisco Organizing Project Food Chain Workers Alliance Third Wave Fund Jerome L. Greene Darma Fund Gisela Gamper Joyce and Irving Goldman Advancement Project Global Greengrants Fund Foundation Liz Hirsch and Karen Pratt Grant & Eisenhofer Family Foundation Equal Justice Initiative In These Times Asa Johnson Harris Lirtzman and Ralph Chris Heavener and Deborah Slaner Larkin generative somatics Solar One ROSE AND SHERLE WAGNER FUND Johnson Family Foundation Wilson Michelle Rider Lazard Hand in Hand: the Domestic Employers United for a Fair Economy Association Ya-Ya Network Tom Johnson, Jr. New World Foundation The Laurie M. Tisch Levitt Foundation Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Richman Housing Illumination Fund Nancy Lewis Make the Road New York TOM AND MICHELE Resources Vincent McGee BARBARA ADLER ZELUCK $50,000 AND OVER Lillian & Ira N. Langsan National Day Laborer Organizing SOLIDARITY FUND FUND Christen Schaffer Merck Family Fund Foundation Network American Jewish World Service Tani Takagi Mertz-Gilmore Foundation Lucius and Eva Eastman New American Leaders Project Community Voices Heard Association for Union Democracy American Federation of Fund New Georgia Project Doctors Without Borders Center for Changes (Solidarity) Teachers, AFL-CIO Katrina vanden Heuvel Susan B. Plum NYS Civic Engagement Table NYC Coalition Against Hunger Center for Constitutional Rights Brown University Maggie Williams Lucy & Isadore B. Adelman Prison Policy Initiative Picture the Homeless Labor Notes Tom Cramer and Michele Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 Project South Public Policy and Education Teamster Rank and File Education and Burger Legal Defense Foundation $15,000 - $24,999 Resource Generation Fund of New York Abigail E. Disney and Pierre Susan Penick Safety Net Project Anonymous (1) Sentencing Project N. Hauser Ann Roberts Amalgamated Bank Southern Center for Human Rights Fund for Fair and Just 1199 SEIU United Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Ultraviolet Policing in New York City Doris Duke Charitable Healthcare Workers East SEIU General Fund United Workers Congress Project at Tides Foundation Foundation Nisha Atre and Art Funding Exchange Network Jeffrey and Paula Gural Richardson Carolyn Silveira Oliver Cannell Jean Simons ANONYMOUS DONOR Endowment Jessie Smith Noyes ADVISED FUND Elizabeth Gilmore Foundation Marcy Carsey Naomi Sobel Center for Constitutional Rights Elspeth Gilmore Monica Melamid CITGO Petroleum Merry Tucker Democracy Now! NoVo Foundation Nancy Meyer and Marc Corporation Flo Wiener and Rick The Horns Project Karen Pittelman Weiss Corners Fund Hobish MADRE Robert Sterling Clark Rose and Sherle Wagner EnTrust Capital Foundation Foundation Nick Freudenberg $1,000 - $4,999 NYC VENTURE Barbara Winslow Surdna Foundation Ian Fuller PHILANTHROPY FUND Andrew Goldberg and Anonymous (6) Corona Youth Music Project $25,000 - $49,999 $10,000 - $14,999 Karen Putterman 1199 SEIU/Employer Child Anne H. Hess and Craig Care Corporation Anonymous Amalgamated Life Kaplan 21st Century ILGWU Kesi Foster, Maria Bautista and Lawrence Booker at 2015 Community Gala Arcus Foundation Insurance Company Lola Lloyd Horwitz Heritage Fund

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Sarah Abelow Thomas A. Dubbs Donna Katzin and Alan R. Rubin Family Foundation Gerry Wallman Joseph DiNorcia Mega Contracting Tannia Talento A is For Todd Dumas Altschuler Michael Ratner and Karen Edward Wight Mike DiYanni Jim Metzinger Monica Tarazi Amalgamated Transit Union Martha Easter-Wells L Brands Ranucci Amy Wolf Stephen A. Dunwoody Amy Miller Amelia Tuminaro and Eugenia and David Ames Luke and Christine Elliott- Gara Lamarche Lianna Levine Reisner and Sharon Wyse and David Elizabeth Elston Cheryl Mills Michael Berlin Frank and Kathy Baxter Negri Richard Lefkowitz Elnatan Reisner Satz John Ericson and Jainee Solangel and Alberto Liz Vladeck Adam Blumenthal Melissa and Trevor Fetter Isabelle H. Leighton and Michael Reynnells Heding Yang McCarroll Minotta The Ways of Peace Fund Timothy J. Cavaretta Peter Brest Marjorie Fine Arva Rice Luna Yasui Ronald and Frayda Feldman National Consumers Laura Wernick Shelley Levine League Corinna Borden Jennifer Flynn Rashad Robinson FinPro Samantha Winslow Lochlin Partners Jonathan Rodkin New Partners Katherine Wolf Letitia Brown Foley Family Foundation $500 - $999 Ford Foundation The Marco Consulting PA Joint Board, Workers Anna Burger Stephen A. Foster Lynda Rodolitz Nelson Fraiman United, SEIU Group Dawnella Rose-Johnson Alexandra Freidus Michael Campanile Andy Frank Katherine Acey $100 - $499 Lloyd V. Martinez Paula Parrish Courtney Frantz The Russell Family Rachel Alexander Dr. Gail Furman Donald Capoccia Pentagram Lynne Mayocole Foundation Paula Gellman Center for Economic Fuoco Group American Working Capital Anonymous (5) Ruth Messinger Jay M. Sackman Project Hospitality Organizing F.Y. Eye Robert Apodaca Meredith George Lynn and Elizabeth Rosemary Moore John Sayles and Maggie Jennifer Queenan Ana Cepin and Ricardo Peter Gates Arctic Fox Nancy Gruber Adelman Mountco Construction and Renzi Leonard Rodberg Camilo Rachel Gelman The Batir Foundation Leith Harmon David Alexander Development Peter Schaffer Roosevelt Institute Chadbourne & Parke LLP Sally Gottesman Bauman Foundation Rachel Erickson Hee Henry Allen Ragnar Naess Barbara Schatz And Ivan Rosales Charitable Development Mitra Behroozi Laurel Hester Constina Alston-Howley Laura A. Grant David Rosenmiller Monroe Newman Frederick Schaffer Alexa Aviles Consulting Allan Guggenheim BerlinRosen Sara Horowitz Newmark Knight Frank Scherman Foundation Rothstein Foundation Helen S. Cohen and Mark The Bogdahn Group Joseph Huser, Esq. Jacoby Ballard Ian Henderson Steve Safyer and Paula A. Lipman Loida Nicolas-Lewis Jonathan Schorr Katie Barnett Greg Hoffman and Brad Lorna Brett Rafiq Kalam Id-Din Arline Segal Marcus CohnReznick Nixon Peabody, LLP James Jasper Javier Ramirez Baron Jones Ellen Brooks Sandler O’Neill and Christine Parker The Segal Group Mark Colon Hugh Hogan and Patrick Richard Burns Russell G. & Elz Cuya Jones Partners Anne Batchelder David Perrin Michael Seltzer and Ralph The Community Moffitt Patricia Campos-Medina Madeleine Joseph Rabbi Regina Sandler- Dagan Bayliss Lisa Philp Tachuk Preservation Corporation Horizon Actuarial Services Thomas Cannell Pico Kassell and Andrew Phillips William Beinecke Zahida Pirani Steve Seltzer Alison Conant IAFF Financial Corporation Gabe Caprio Strom Laura Scheuer Sarah Bendit Posner-Wallace Foundation Beth and Bob Sheehan Theo Yang Copley International Association of Gene Carroll Deborah King Andrea Batista Schlesinger Ingrid Benedict Kate Solow Frank Creamer Machinists Bonnie Potter Oona Chatterjee and Angel Gayle Kirshenbaum and Ana Maria Archilla Paul Benjamin Lena Solow Jennifer Cunningham International Union of Mike Pratt Vera Susan Kupfer Michael Schmale Samantha Berg Jessie Spector CWA Local 1180 Bricklayers and Allied Principal Building Services, Emily Chepioa Local 338 Rob Schneiderman Tamiko Beyer Andrew Stern Thomas Davis Craftworkers LLC Mona Chun Leslie Lowe Howard Sheer Benjamin Blackshear Helen Stillman Maddy deLone and Bobby Mahnaz Ispahani and Adam Professional Staff Congress Columbia Partners Luse, Gorman, Pomerenk David Smilow Susan Blickstein and Cohen Bartos Prospect Hill Foundation Hal Strelnick Investment Management and Schick P.C. SSEU Local 371 Kathryn Stewart Difede Ramsdell Bender Babbie Jacobs David Prouty Sam Tabet Columbia School Of Public Geraldine Mannion Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Kimberley Bobo PLLC Mark Jurish Prudential Fixed Income Chris Terrio Health And Social Work Beatrix and Gregor Roger and Jennifer Tjong Elise Boddie and Maitland Andrea Douglas Marion Kaplan QMA Ullico Inc. Linda Cronin-Gross Medinger Tjin Tai Stewart

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