Annual Report 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 A letter from the President and Board Chair 4 About BRIC 5 Values, Vision, Mission 7 Unite 10 Present 12 Advance 14 CASE STUDY: Creative Future Relief Fund 15 Ignite 17 BRIC by the Numbers 18 Financials 19 Partners 20 Giving Thanks A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

BRIC STRATEGICAND PLAN | 2020–2023 BOARD CHAIR 5

Kristina Newman-Scott | Phto by Jordan Rathkopf 2020 will leave an indelible mark in the economic challenges facing BRIC Board of Directors our collective history. Furthermore, New York City and our sector, BRIC Michael Liburd, Chair it was a turning point for the arts is proud to have maintained our Mark S. Cheffo, Vice Chair and culture sector and for BRIC. commitment to fiscal discipline and Julia Kahr, Vice Chair Our annual report will highlight and remains a financially stable institution. Christina Norman, Vice Chair showcase how we pivoted, responded, Peter Aschkenasy, Treasurer and elevated critical issues for the We’re deeply grateful to our staff Jessie McClintock Kelly, Secretary communities we serve. for its dedication under challenging Virginia Davis Blair circumstances, the collaboration and Leslie Cohen At a time when our survival was support of our Board of Directors, Lenore Cooney threatened, BRIC’s screens came and everyone who contributed to Ashley C. Cotton alive with a myriad of performances, BRIC’s success. And, we’re immensely Josh Epstein conversations, classes, and exhibitions thankful for the overwhelming Lizanne Fontaine in living rooms from coast to coast. response from hundreds of Louis V. Greco, Jr. We leaned into creative risk-taking, supporters to The Creative Future Adam Greenberg Michael Liburd | Photo by: Linda Busetti incubation, and storytelling with the Relief Fund, raising funds to support Susan Jurevics help of a rich and diverse network our creative workforce and our Jin Kang of artists, community members, and transition to virtual programming. Catie Marshall media makers. We also reimagined Joseph Nacmias our beloved, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! We look forward to your ongoing Lynn Nottage Festival with its first multi-platform partnership as we continue to Build Stephen Plumlee event reaching audiences across the Brooklyn’s Creative Future. Martha Redbone globe and featuring artists from all Winston Song over: Lagos to Trinidad, Mexico to Sincerely, Kim Soule Bed-Stuy. Douglas C. Steiner Kerry Le Blanc Strong It was critical for us to ensure that Karen Synesael our mission and values continued to Kristina Newman-Scott Valerie D. White come to life after the shutdown in President, BRIC Antonia Yuille Williams response to this crisis of unparalleled Jen Wong dimensions that disproportionately Brooklyn Borough President impacted the communities we strive Eric Adams, Ex Officio to serve first and foremost. Despite Michael Liburd Board Chair, BRIC 3 About BRIC

4 Photo: Jason Wyche We are a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. For over forty years, our institution has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers. As a creative catalyst for our community, we ignite learning in people of all ages and centralize diverse voices that take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC is building Brooklyn’s creative future.

OUR VALUES, VISION, MISSION

Values Vision Mission Rooted in Brooklyn, and reaching out to the We envision a Brooklyn where all people have BRIC builds Brooklyn’s creative future. world, BRIC is guided by our commitment to meaningful connections to artistic experiences, We advance opportunity for visual artists, creative risk-taking and a definition of excellence the tools and opportunity to express their performers, and media makers. We present that values creators and communities that creative potential, and the power to transform bold work that reflects diverse audiences and are under-recognized in the cultural sector. their world. speaks to the world. We ignite learning in We operate with integrity, inclusivity, and a people of all ages. We unite Brooklyn through commitment to equity. We listen and respond to art and creativity to build community and our communities, ensure that our spaces allow make change. all people to feel welcome and free, and support people with the unique resources they need to thrive. 5 How we bring our

vision to life. We unite, present, advance, and ignite.

6 KES The Band “This residency was a miracle...The affirming and inclusive ethos of BRIC was instrumental to making this room happen. I don’t think it could have happened anywhere else.” – Past BRIClab: Performing Arts resident

UNITE BROOKLYN

2020 was a consequential and historic year. With Our marquee program, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: a global pandemic keeping everyone distant, Festival, became a multi-platform event spanning • The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival: we asked ourselves how we could bring our two days. Streaming across three different Live Everywhere community together, while we take the necessary platforms, over two million people from over 20 • BRICxHome precautions of being physically apart? We took countries tuned in. • BRIC’s Ongoing Response to COVID-19 decisive steps to keep our community “together while apart,” maintaining and strengthening our We kept our entire workforce of just under 100 mission, vision, and values with robust virtual full-time staff members whole, launching the programming that built off our existing in-person Creative Future Relief Fund which successfully events and will enable a future where we can helped us maintain our creative workforce and offer both virtual and in-person productions in present virtual programs. ways we could only imagine a year ago. With greater equity and fair structures in mind, we also started internal DEIA investigations into how racism and ableism affect and exist within our workforce, programs, and office. 7 8 Youth Education 9 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival “The BRIC Instagram takeover allowed me to take new artistic risks around celebrating Black folk and Black brooklyn. BRIC has always given me the space and tools to embrace my multidisciplinary practice and it was a pleasure to experiment with my poetic voice on a virtual platform. I felt extremely supported, trusted, and most important: empowered..” – Najee Omar, BRICxHome artist

PRESENT BOLD WORK

BRIC is committed to presenting bold work Our longstanding #BHeard Town Hall looked at PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: that reflects diverse audiences and speaks to the state of freedom in Black communities as •#BHeard Town Hall the world. they grapple with COVID-19, benign neglect, and • Intergenerational Community Arts Council state-sanctioned violence in Juneteenth: Then • Beyond Geographies Both before and during the global pandemic, and Now. we ensured our platforms were available to artists, content-makers, students, and peer Through the #OpenYourLobby initiative, we organizations. When the pandemic hit, we supported the thousands of people protesting immediately began offering virtual programs white supremacy and police brutality by providing spanning our pre-COVID events: live music, water, food, bathrooms, and a safe place to rest. visual art exhibitions, community gathering opportunities, and courses. Further, with national Our programming amplified the voices and marches protesting white supremacy, we asked concerns of our community before COVID hit, ourselves how we could respond and support. too. Jess Thom, a.k.a. Touretteshero, took on Samuel Beckett’s short play Not I in a theatrical experience exploring neurodiversity, while Beyond Geographies: Contemporary Art and Muslim Experience presented the work of eight artists manifesting the contemporary 10 Muslim experience. hundreds of performances and programs presented on instagram live

11 BRICxHome on Instagram 12 B FREE Awards 2019 “It has already made me feel like I have a lot more freedom in terms of getting through this crisis, some financial peace of mind at least for a little while. To get a grant right now during this time, as an artist, is like a lifesaver.” – Michelle Segre, 2020 Colene Brown Art Prize recipient

ADVANCE OPPORTUNITY

This past year we deepened our services We rethought some of our most established PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS to creators, participants, and audiences by artist opportunities to see where we could grow • Colene Brown Art Prize capitalizing on BRIC’s unique synergy of visual, and improve. We brought together BRIC’s ArtFP, • BRIClab media, and performing arts strategies. We BRICworkspace, Media Arts Fellowship, and • Community Media Education Courses increased our capacity to be responsive to shifts BRIClab programs into the “One BRIC” initiative, • CASE STUDY: Creative Future Relief Fund in artistic and consumer practices, especially BRIClab: a multi-disciplinary residency program. • TBW around technology. And, we ramped-up our With five tracks, it continues the work of the pre- digital donations initiative with the launch of existing programs, brings in a new opportunity to our Creative Future Relief Fund which raised support filmmakers, and creates a space where over a million dollars in 6 months, allowing artists across disciplines can learn from each us to continue to support artists throughout other, work with mentors, and incubate radical the pandemic even while our physical doors new works. were closed. We continued to offer free and low-cost media With the support of the Harold and Colene courses to our community, providing courses Brown Family Foundation, we launched the for a range of interests and skill levels. When the Colene Brown Art Prize, a grant-making pandemic hit, we didn’t lose any time converting endeavor awarding $10,000 unrestricted all in-person classes to virtual education. grants toten artists. 13 14 2019 Colene Brown Art Prize Photo: Celeste Martearena CASE STUDY: Creative Future Relief Fund

Last spring, facing an unprecedented public health crisis Nearly 500 grassroots supporters stepped up to support and unknown future, BRIC launched the Creative Future BRIC, with gifts ranging from $5 to $5,000. We are Relief Fund. We set an ambitious goal to raise $1M in six particularly grateful to the NYC COVID-19 Response months. Our urgent priority was to protect our creative & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, the workforce, pivot to virtual programs and continue to serve Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harold and Colene Brown our community, and get ready to reopen our doors. Family Foundation, and Stavros Niarchos Foundation for leadership gifts. Since then, the arts and culture sector has been economically devastated by the pandemic with an estimated Thanks to this outpouring of support, we delivered on our 2.7 million jobs lost. Performances cancelled, galleries closed, promise to not lay off or furlough any of our 100 full-time and vital school arts programs put on pause. staff. We provided hundreds of free and low-cost virtual programs, including world-class performances, virtual The incredible generosity of our supporters has enabled exhibitions, talks and podcasts, and engaging family and BRIC to not only survive but thrive during this crisis. The education programs. And we continued to commission Creative Future Relief Fund exceeded our goal, raising artists and employ teaching artists, among the most an astounding $1,025,428 from new friends and longtime vulnerable of our City’s creative workforce. supporters. As New York City recovers from this crisis, creativity will be vital to our city’s future. BRIC remains committed to building this more equitable future together.

15 “The best part of the program was the way we were able to express our ideas, and build on them. We didn’t have any wrong or right answers, it was a place to learn from other people and grow.” – 2020 Youth Curatorial Fellow

IGNITE LEARNING

We are invested in the next generation, seeking to This year saw the inaugural cohort of our Youth PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: ignite learning in youth and teens at BRIC, in the Curatorial Fellowship, a group of seven teenagers • Youth Curatorial Fellowship home, and in schools. We quickly adjusted when who presented an open call for visual art by • Youth Media Fellowship the COVID pandemic closed schools and shifted teen artists and curated the submissions into • DOE Partnership and the educational environment entirely. We offered a professional-level exhibition. Even when the Youth Media Education free and low-cost virtual Youth Media Education pandemic turned the exhibition virtual, BRIC classes; shared free Family Art-Making videos on worked closely with the Fellows to create an YouTube, Instagram, and our website; and as soon online viewing room, catalog, and virtual opening as schools were prepared, our teaching artists reception to be proud of. virtually re-entered the classroom. Our Youth Media Fellows also banded together to In addition, through a DOE partnership, we’ve turn the 7th annual Concrete Stories: BRIC Youth offered educational content via BRIC’s Public Media Festival into our first ever virtual edition. Access broadcast television channels to aid in They remained committed to their mission of bridging the digital divide. amplifying the voices of their peers and produced a spectacular film festival. 16 17 2019 Youth Media Film Festival BRIC BY THE NUMBERS for fiscal year 2020

3,449,773 video views on social media, OVER 20 COUNTRIES reached by our multi-platform programs

Youth Education 53 partner schools and organizations

Teaching artists 119 32 employed with a digitally engaged audience of BRICxHome programs since 272,445 COVID turned us virtual

153,809 people 8909 attended 200 BRIC events students from 20 states and 19 countries expanded their 618 skill set by registering for certified community producers working 972 with Brooklyn Free courses and orientations Youths and families impacted by Speech TV physically and virtually 13,933 our family programming

18 2019/2020 FINANCIALS ForFor fis fisCACAl yel yeArA 2019r 2019 2018 / 20192018 / 2019 FINANCIALS FINANCIALS ASSETSASSETSassets WITHOUTWITHOUTwithout DONOR DONOR donor WITHWITHwith DONOR DONOR donor RESTRICTIONSRESTRICTIONSrestrictions RESTRICTIONSRESTRICTIONSrestrictions TOTALTOTALtotalCash Cash&Cash Cash & & CashEquivalents Cash Equivalents Equivalents $3,872,785 $3 $5,739,299,872,785 INCOMEINCOMEincome InvestmentsInvestmentsInvestments $20,038,835 $2$21,573,4800,038,835 ContributionsContributionsContributions $2,483,888$2,483,888 $3,549,355 $870,000$870,000 $605,000 $3,353,888 $3,353,888 $4,154,355 Government GovernmentGovernment and Other and and Other OtherReceivables Receivables Receivables $3,302,749 $3$2,509,737,302,749 GovernmentGovernmentGovt/Other Grants Grants $1,401,433 $1,401,433 $1,399,023 – –– $ 1 , 4 0 $1$1,399,023 , 1 4 , 43 30 1 , 4 3Contributions 3 ContributionsContributions Receivable Receivable Receivable $731,509$1,009,834 $731,509 ProgramProgramProgram Service Service Service Revenue Revenue Revenue $2,454,087 $2,454,087 $2,257,842 $9,178,289 $9,178,289 $8,722,270 $11,632,376 $11,632,376$10,980,112 Prepaid PrepaidPrepaid Expenses Expenses Expenses and Other and and Other OtherAssets Assets Assets $1,572,285 $1$347,077,572,285 InterestInterestInterest and Other and and Other OtherRevenue Revenue Revenue $728,907 $728,907 $631,072 – –– $728,907 $728,907$631,072 Net FixedNetNet FixedAssetsFixed Assets Assets $12,930,420 $1$12,578,5392,930,420 Net AssetsNetNet Assets Assets Released Released Released from fromRestrictions from Restrictions Restrictions $9,551,057 $9,551,057$9,596,268 ($9,551,057)( $9,551,057)$9,596,268) – –– TOTALTOTALtotal OPERATING OPERATING operating REVENUES REVENUES revenues & SUPPORT & & SUPPORT support $16,619,372 $16,619,372$17,433,560 $497,232 ($268,998) $497,232 $17,116,604 $17,116,604 $17,164,562 TOTAL TOTALtotal ASSETS ASSETS assets $42 , 4$4 $43,757,966 4 82 , 54 8 4 3 8 , 5 8 3

EXPENSESEXPENSESexpenses LIABILITIES LIABILITIESliabilities ProgramProgramProgram Expenses Expenses Expenses Accounts AccountsAccounts Payable Payable Payable and Accrued and and Accrued Accrued Expenses Expenses Expenses $1,072,695 $1,072,695 $558,543 CommunityCommunityCommunity Media Media Media $7,033,889 $7,033,889$6,954,266 $7,033,889 $7,033,889 $6,954,266 ContemporaryContemporaryContemporary Art Art Art $571,233 $571,233$681,591 $571,233 $571,233$681,591 Deferred DeferredDeferred Revenue Revenue Revenue $1,856,579 $1$355,000,856,579 PerformingPerformingPerforming Arts Arts Arts $3,671,644 $4,080,070$3,671,644 $3,671,644 $4,080,070$3,671,644 Accrued AccruedAccrued Vacation Vacation Vacation $352,083 $3$391,36952,083 InterdisciplinaryInterdisciplinaryInterdisciplinary $943,319 $943,319$279,803 $943,319 $943,319$279,803 Total TotalLiabilitiesTotal Liabilities Liabilities $3,281,357 $3$3,197,252,281,357 Art EducationArtArt Education Education $789,896 $789,896$812,696 $789,896 $789,896$812,696 NET ASSETSNETnet ASSETS assets SupportSupportSupport Services Services Services ManagementManagementManagement and General and and General General $2,715,906 $2,715,906$2,994,638 $2,715,906 $2,715,906 $2,994,638 Unrestricted UnrestrictedUnrestricted FundraisingFundraisingFundraising $627,648 $627,648$656,510 $627,648$627,648$656,510 Op eratingOpOperatingerating $24,086,587 $2 $25,503,6574,086,587 Bo ardBo BoardDesignatedard Designated Designated Fund Fund Fund $2,410,576 $2$2,655,992,410,576 TOTALTOTALtotal OPERATING OPERATING operating EXPENSES EXPENSES expenses $16,353,535 $16,353,535$16,459,574 – $ 1 6 ,$ 3 $ 516,459,574 1 3 6 , 5, 3 3 5 5 3 , 5 3 5 Total TotalUnrestrictedTotal Unrestricted Unrestricted $26,497,163 $2 $28,159,6496,497,163 CHANGECHANGEchange IN NET IN in ASSETSNET net ASSETS assets FROM FROM from OPERATIONS OPERATIONS operations $265,837 $265,837$973,986 $497,232 ($268,998) $497,232 $763,069 $763,069 $704,988 Temporarily TemporarilyTemporarily Restricted Restricted Restricted $12,670,063 $1 $12,401,0652,670,063 Non-operatingNon-operatingNon-operating Revenue Revenue Revenue (Expense) (Expense) (Expense) Total TotalNetTotal Assets Net Net Assets Assets $39,167,226 $3$40,560,7149,167,226 Net GainNetNet onGain Gain Investments on on Investments Investments $944,996 $944,996 $688,500 $944,996 $944,996 $688,500 OtherOther OtherExpense Expense Expense ($216,260)($216,260) ($216,260)($216,260) –TOTAL TOTALtotal LIABILITIES LIABILITIES liabilities & NET & & NETASSETS net ASSETS assets $42,448,583 $4 $43,757,9662,448,583 CHANGECHANGECHANGE IN NET IN IN ASSETSNET NET ASSETS ASSETS $994,573 $1,662,486 $994,573 $497,232$497,232 $1,491,805 $1,491,805 $1,393,488

NET ASSETS,NETNET ASSETS, ASSETS, BEGINNING BEGINNING BEGINNING OF YEAR OF OF YEAR YEAR $25,502,590 $25,502,590 $26,497,163 $12,172,831 $12,172,831$12,670,063 $37,675,421 $37,675,421$ 39,167,226 NET ASSETS,NETNET ASSETS, ASSETS, END ENDOF END YEAR OF OF YEAR YEAR $26,497,163 $26,497,163 $28,159,649 $12,670,063 $12,670,063 $12,401,065 $39,167,226 $39,167,226$ 40,560,714

OPERATINGOPERATINGOPERATING INCOME INCOME INCOME $17,116,604 $17,116,604 $17,164,562 OPERATINGOPERATINGOPERATING EXPENSES EXPENSES EXPENSES² $16,353,5352 ²$16,459,574 $16,353,535 • 68%• PROGRAM 68%64% PROGRAM PROGRAM SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE REVENUE REVENUE REVENUE1 1 1 • 80%78%• PROGRAM80% PROGRAM PROGRAM EXPENSES EXPENSES EXPENSES • 20%• PRIVATE 20% 24% PRIVATE PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS (INDIVIDUAL (INDIVIDUAL (INDIVIDUAL / / / • 16%18%• MANAGEMENT 16% MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT & GENERAL & &GENERAL GENERAL EXPENSES EXPENSES EXPENSES BUSINESSBUSINESSBUSINESS / FOUNDATION) / FOUNDATION)/ FOUNDATION) • 4%4%• FUNDRAISING 4% FUNDRAISING FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT & &DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES EXPENSES EXPENSES • 8% •GOVERNMENT 8%8% GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GRANTS GRANTS GRANTS 2 Includes2 Includes2 Includes depreciation depreciation depreciation expense expense expense • 4%• INTEREST 4%4% INTEREST INTEREST & OTHER & & OTHER OTHER REVENUE REVENUE REVENUE

1 Includes1 1Includes Includes cable cable servicecable service service revenue revenue revenue and earned and and earned earned revenue revenue revenue

19 11 11 PARTNERS

Youth and Education Partner P.S. 38 The Pacific School Brooklyn Defender Services Naturally Occuring Culture Districts - NY Schools and Organizations P.S. 59 William Floyd Brooklyn Podcast Festival (NOCD-NY) Academy of Arts & Letters P.S. 84 Jose De Diego School Brooklyn Public Library - Central, Coney New York City Health Department Boys And Girls High School P.S. 91 The Albany Avenue School Island, Dekalb, New Lots, Walt Whitman, New York City Parks Department Brooklyn Collegiate Preparatory High School P.S. 92 Adrian Hegeman Brooklyn Voters Alliance New York Women in Film & Television Brooklyn High School of the Arts P.S./I.S. 104 The Fort Hamilton School Brownsville Community Culinary Center NYC Department of Consumer & Worker Brownsville Academy High School P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington Brownsville Neighborhood Opportunity Protection CAMBA Passages Academy- Belmont Network (NeON) NYU Prison Education Program Coney Island Anti Violence Collaborative Rachel Carson High School CAMBA ONE Community Cyberarts Studio Academy Spring Creek Community School Census 2020 Police Reform Organizing Project Flagstone Family Center The School for Human Rights Center for Supportative Schools Prospect Park Aliiance Forest Hills High School United Community Schools Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) Prototype Festival Fort Greene Preparatory Academy University Settlement Society of New York Clara Muhammad School of Masjid Khalifah Reductress Grand Street Settlement Van Siclen Community Middle School Clinton HIll/Fort Greene Mutual Aid Reel Sisters Film Festival I.S. 281 Joseph B. Cavallaro Vera Institute for Justice CO/LAB Theater Comany ReelAbilities Film Festival/JCC Manhattan I.S. 383 Philippa Schuyler Dieu Donné Sanctuary for Families I.S. 68 Isaac Bildersee Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art TAKE 6 (Carrie Mae Weems: RESIST COVID J.H.S. 278 Marine Park Media Share Grantees (as part of the Doris Duke Charitable TAKE 6!) Juan Morel Campos Secondary School Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health Foundation) The DOE Fund Lyons Community School Bronx Baptist Daycare and Learning Center DreamStreet Theater Company The Family Center M.S. 240 Andries Hudde Brooklyn Community Pride Center Empire State Development The Performance Project @ M.S. 340 North Star Academy Hester Street Collaborative FITBK University Settlement M.S. 352 Ebbets Field Middle School Man Up! Inc. Fort Greene Park Conservancy Threshold Choir M.S. 582 Magnet School for Multi-Media NYU Langone - Project Reach Youth Fort Greene SNAP Under The Radar Technology and Urban Planning Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Girl Be Heard University Settlement M.S. 609 Urban Assembly School for Purelements: An Evolution in Dance Green-Wood Cemetery Urbanworld Film Festival Criminal Justice The Ackerman Institute for the Family - Haitian-American Community Coaltiion Vera Institute for Justice M.S. 839 Gender & Family Project HeartShare Weeksville Heritage Center Newtown High School Venture House Hip Hop Film Festival West Indian American Day Carnival Assoc. NIA Community Services Network Housing Works (WIADCA) NYC Department of Education IDNYC WNET All-Arts P.S. 188 Michael E. Berdy Program Partnerships Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy YMCA Flatbush P.S. 196 The Williamsburg Bridge Magnet AHRC NYC Ingersoll Cornerstone Community Center Young Adult Literacy Program (YALP) School for Communication & Alamo Drafthouse Kings Theatre YWCA Brooklyn Mixed Media Arts Alliance for Community Media Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church QPTV P.S. 222 Katherine R. Snyder american vicarious Latin Alternative Music Conference MNN P.S. 249 The Caton School Atlantic Terminal Tenants Association Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund SICTV P.S. 261 Philip Livingston Black Trans Media (funded through Rockerfeller Foundation) Bronxnet P.S. 284 Lew Wallace Bowery Presents Live Nation P.S. 306 Ethan Allen Boys Hope Girls Hope NY MAC (Museum Access Consortium) P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell Brooklyn Community Services Mayors Office of Small Business Services P.S. 34 Oliver H. Perry Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership National Association of Broadcasters 20 GIVING THANKS BRIC acknowledges the following individuals, public funders, institutions, and businesses for their generous support of our work:

Lead Supporters For funding received July 1, 2019 Foundations and Corporations through June 30, 2020 American Express Anheuser-Busch / Union Beer Distributors Public Funders Apple Inc. Institute for Museum and Library Services AT&T Foundation National Endowment for the Arts B & H Photo Video Humanities New York Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York State Council on the Arts Barclays New York State Education Department Bloomberg Philanthropies New York State Senator Velmanette Montgomery Booth Ferris Foundation New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie Boston Consulting Group New York State Senator Roxanne Persaud Brooklyn Community Foundation Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment Brooklyn SolarWorks Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON) Citi New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Coby Foundation New York City Department of Education Compass New York City Department of Probation Con Edison New York City Department of Small Business Services Constellation Brands, Inc. New York City Department of Youth & Credit Suisse Community Development Delta Air Lines NYC Census 2020 Deutsche Bank New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art New York City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo Ernst & Young New York City Council Brooklyn Delegation Eventbrite New York City Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel Exploring the Arts Foundation New York City Council Member Inez Barron Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation New York City Council Member Justin Brannan Formula E Enterprise INC New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP New York City Council Member Rafael Espinal Genesis Motor America Foundation New York City Council Member Mathieu Eugene Goldman Sachs New York City Council Member Brad Lander Google New York City Council Member Stephen Levin Gotham Market at the Ashland New York City Council Member Farah Louis Harold and Colene Brown Family Foundation New York City Council Member Alan Maisel Harpo Foundation New York City Council Member Mark Treyger Hilton Brooklyn New York Howard Gilman Foundation 21 Industry City $10,000-19,999 John Colton and Catherine Colton Erica Barratt JPMorgan Chase & Co. Deborah Brown and Eric Ploumis James and Jill Cornell Cyrus Beagley and Tai-Yu Lin Kirkland and Ellis Adam Greenberg and Yoshiko Ono Samara Daly and Teresa Gonzalez, Elizabeth Beller Lambent Foundation Lenae and Dominick Guarna DalyGonzalez Sally Brazil and Donald Bendernagel Latitude Beverage Company Julia Kahr and Brian Colton Desiree and Corey Davis Christine and Donald Benson LEK Consulting Michael Liburd Lorraine A. DiPaolo Heather Bhandari Lily Auchincloss Foundation Catie Marshall and Nelson Bakerman Lonti Ebers and Bruce Flatt Mark and Vanessa Bibby Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund Stephen Plumlee and Holley Atkinson Michelle and Chris Ewan Birthing By Kelsey M&T Charitable Foundation Carla Shen and Christopher Schott Martin Feinman and Amy Cooney Roxane and Brian Bolster Mertz Gilmore Foundation Gaston Silva and Karen Dauler Foote Family Charitable Fund Elaine Bowen Morgan Stanley Kimberly and Richard Soule Floyd Greene Margaret and Matthew Boyer Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts Rosemary Spaziani and Jin Kang Paul and Judith Fried Keith Bray and Ona Winet New York Community Trust Stearns Charitable Trust Robert Jacobs Brooklyn Creative League NYU Tandon School of Engineering Karen and Colby Synesael Miriam Katowitz Brookvin NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts The Tiki Brothers Peter Kelly Frances Caperchi Oliver Wyman for Society Tiger Baron Foundation Leslie and Jim Kerby Xhingyu Chen and David Chitayat Oris Watches USA, Inc. Nadine Francis West and Arnold West Carrie and Michael Lamb Anne Clark Rabsky Group Lawrence N. Rothbart, Attorney at Law Colacino Tax Partners RBC Capital Markets $5,000 – 9,999 Joseph and Lynn Nacmias Confidant LLC Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Peter Aschkenasy and Pamela S. Brier Nitehawk Cinema Maura Conley and Peter Heilman Rockefeller Brothers Fund Jennie and Jake Blair William Nonneman Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brooklyn Bowl Rebekah Carver Real Estate Benjamin Crane Surdna Foundation Ashley Cotton and James Weiss Susan and Peter Restler Creative Business Inc The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Josh and Molly Epstein Robert Schachter and Wendi Lazar Cyber-NY The Office Performing Arts + Film Louis and Linda Greco Kelly Schroer Pete D’Angelo The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Deborah and Allen Hindin Katherine Schwab Andrew and Jodi Dady The Scherman Foundation Susan and Maris Jurevics Neil Simpkins and Miyoung Lee Heather Dalton The Shubert Organization Robert Le Blanc Slope Cellars Peter and Katharine Darrow Two Trees Management Co. Stephen Maharam and Camila Pastor Olivia Song and Scott Rofey Jane Dasher ViacomCBS Christina Norman and Charles Hunt Sue Stoffel Daytime Vornado Realty Trust Lynn Nottage and Tony Gerber The Dram Shop Bar Greg and Alysa De Felice WarnerMedia Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners Joel and Tara De La Garza Douglas Steiner $1,000 – 2,499 Marie DeRosa and Richard McNeil Individuals and Local Businesses The Green-Wood Cemetery 3 Guys From Brooklyn Lisa Detwiler and James Cramer $20,000+ Eric Varvel and Shauna Varvel Jono Abrams and Elizabeth Linn Traci Dinkins and Dwight Flynn Hilary Ackermann and Paul Goldberg John Weber and Anne Jennings Leslie Alexander and Norris Manser Jay and Lisa Dinowitz Mark and Beverly Cheffo Valerie D. White Alexandra Alger Daniel and Alexis DiPietro Leslie and Clifford Cohen Ellie and Dan Taunglea and James Ambroise Dowbuilt LLC Lenore and John Cooney Jennifer Wong and Eleonora Sharef Archstudio Inc. William and Susan Dowling Lizanne Fontaine and Robert Buckholz The Zankel Fund Tyndall Arrasmith and Zachary Jasie Michael Drinkard and Jill Eisenstadt Jessie McClintock Kelly Paul and Jill Aschkenasy Deborah Eisenberg and Ronald Eisenberg Winston Song and Amy Hsieh $2,500-4,999 Audible Difference, Inc Lindsey and Andy Engler Kerry Le Blanc Strong and Jeff Strong Arlene Bascom, The Green-Wood Cemetary B.L. Howard Productions Howard Epstein Antonia Yuille Williams, Con Edison Tia Breakley-China and Robert China Sherilyn Bailey Gail Erickson and Christa Rice Deborah Buck Helene Banks and Michael Cioffi Janan Eways Leanora Cara Bar Chord Ralph Favilla Charlie Pigott Real Estate Bark Slope Salon Katherine and Luke Fichthorn

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