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CHARTING THE COURSE

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Concept by Catherine Eusebio We are able to chart the course because you showed us the way. Thank you. Communications team: Elz Cuya Jones, Catherine Eusebio, and Kevin Wen Katherine Acey David Maurrasse Yasmin Adib Sheila McDaniel Consultants: Alison R. Park Martha BakerWELCOME!Monica Melamid and Erin Roberts Adyemi Bandele Kevin Mercadel Ludovic Blain Print design and production Jennifer Merschdorf Elise Boddie Nancy Meyer by Bryan Potter Design Marsha Bonner Betty Millard Adhikaar activist demonstrates at City Hall Photography by Dan Bigelow, Peter Brest DearLisa Miller Friends, Sonia Bu Gerard Gaskin, Neha Gautam, Solangel Cubas Minotta Martin Bunzl Danielle Pearce, North Star NorthDiane Star Morales Fund and our growing, passionate community of donors help Judith Clark Fund staŽ, and North sustainIris Morales and enrich the movement for social justice in New York City. The Penny Coleman Star Fund grantees Jill Nelson-Ricks Susan Coleman 150 organizations that we funded this year are on the front lines of some Robin Omata Printing by AliGraphics Linda Cronin-Gross of today’s toughest battles. Their work is a testament to the power of Hye Jung Park Frank Deale community organizing to transform our city—and the lives of millions of New Mailing by Mel Pritchard Madeline deLone Yorkers—from the ground up. East River Mail Lule Demmissie Harriet Putterman Toby D’Oench AsRadnall an activist, Quan native New Yorker, and donor, it has been an honor and a joy Alice Quinn Dan Edelman to help steer North Star Fund during this transition. Having served as interim Amy Edelman Julissa Reynoso Kathy Engel executiveArva Rice director of PENCIL, The Funding Exchange, and the Stonewall Marjorie Fine CommunityBeth Richie Foundation, among others, I believe that leadership transitions Jason Franklin createLynda an Rodolitz opportunity for innovation and the infusion of new ideas. Sibyl Golden Kevin Ryan Kathy Goldman NorthAndrea Star Batista Fund Schlesinger continues to thrive as we usher in a new chapter. As part of John-Martin Green ourJonathan former Schorr Executive Director Hugh Hogan’s impressive legacy, North Star Marcela Hahn FundGary continues Schwartz to stand on solid financial ground. Our unique stewardship Mark Hannay modelHenry and Serrano the dedicated and talented sta‹ who drive it continue to expand Sarah Hansen Melea Seward our extended community of donor activists and grantees. We hope you will Ronald Henriquez Aarti Shahani Maria Hinojosa joinSue us Simon for the important work ahead that we can only accomplish together. Liz Hirsch Karen Smith Hugh Hogan Alvin Starks Alexandra Jacobus Hal Strelnick Lillian Jiménez Seung Hye Suh Betty Kapetanakis Pat Swann Stan Kinard Richard Burns Wilfredo Larancuent InterimJack Tchen Executive Director Roz Lee Maxim Thorne Eve Levy Molly Vaux Mini Liu Jackie Vimo Sarah Ludwig Amy Wagner José Luis Morín Judith Wessler Tara Mack Barbara Winslow Susanna Blankley, director of Community Action Stan Mark Betty Yu for Safe Apartments, demands rent rollback at rally BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMUNITY FUNDING COMMITTEE David Alexander Nisha Atre, Chair Marisol Alcantara Oona Chatterjee Zakiyah Ansari Jennifer Flynn Donald Anthonyson Andrew Goldberg Ingrid Benedict Amber Guild Susanna Blankley Pierre Hauser, Vice-Chair Clemmy Brown North Star Fund Deputy Directors cori schmanke parrish and Elz Cuya Jones Asa Johnson Ana Liza Caballes Lloyd Martinez Ollie Cannell Gonzalo Mercado Cathy Dang Christine Parker Ejeris Dixon It is not light that Zahida Pirani Betsy Edasery Welcome to We are living in turbulent times. Across the country, there is both a deep Mark Reed, Treasurer Jennifer Flynn desire for racial justice and an economy that works for everyone, and a we need, but fire; Lisa Steglich Kesi Foster the Journey: A tremendous backlash of divisive and reactionary ideologies. The North Alvarez Symonette Samantha Franklin Star Fund community of donors and grantees know a powerful grassroots Candis Tolliver Gisela Gamper Letter to the it is not the gentle movement is needed now more than ever. Now is the moment to get it right. Michael Waterman Jaritza Geigel North Star Fund shower, but thunder. Maggie Williams Mo George Movements for justice don’t just happen. They require an interconnected Pierre Hauser constellation of elements that must operate together. Charting the course to In Memoriam: Community Aber Kawas victory includes everything from building a powerful base of aected people, We need the storm, Betty Kapetanakis, 1952–2002 Amaha Kassa like our grantees La Colmena (pg. 13) and the Queer Detainee Empowerment Nakisha Lewis Project (pg. 12); building the leadership of brave youth and community leaders the whirlwind, and Katie Lindsay ADVISORY BOARD Sam J. Miller like Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change and DRUM - South Asian the earthquake. Natalie Peña Organizing Center (pg. 10); and developing a strong campaign to improve the Gene Carroll Olympia Perez lives of students and families across the city like the Coalition for Educational Maria Hinojosa Adilka Pimentel Craig Kaplan Justice (pg. 17); to resourcing the movement in creative ways through FREDERICK DOUGLASS Zahida Pirani Pamela Koslow our strategic and timely grants (pp. 18-19), donor activists engaging their Rob Robinson Monami Maulik communities (pg. 11), and sharing a just future through planned giving (pg. 25). Uruj Sheikh Iris Morales Lena Solow These stories of struggle and victory are a call to action. Our community of Arva Rice Rhiya Trivedi John Sayles organizers, donor activists, and North Star Fund sta is committed to the Samantha Winslow Cornel West, Ph.D. movement today for a better New York tomorrow. The fight is long, and Barbara Winslow charting the course requires faith, persistence, and resilience to face injustices head on. Thank you for being with us on this journey. In Memoriam: David Hunter, 1916–2000 Grace Paley, 1922–2007 Michael Ratner, 1943–2016 cori schmanke parrish Elz Cuya Jones Deputy Director of Programs Deputy Director of Resources and Operations and Strategy ANNUAL REPORT 2016 COMMITMENT PAGE 25 Investing in the Fight for Justice TABLE OF CONTENTS Today, Tomorrow, and Into the Future ACCOUNTABILITY PAGE 26

DREAMING BIG PAGE 24 Beyond the Boroughs: Moving Resources to the Hudson Valley and Long Island PARTNERSHIP PAGE 28

ACTIVISTLED INNOVATIVE ACTIVISM PAGE 16 GRANTMAKING UNITY PAGE 42 TONYC Legislative Advocacy Theatre PAGE 20 Takes the Stage for Change

PAGE 41 ADVOCACY PAGE 17 Catalyst and Impact: Coalition for Educational Justice Turns a Vision into a Winning Campaign IMPLEMENTATION PAGE 22 COMMUNITY PAGE 30 A Farewell Tribute Victory is Only the Beginning: Adhikaar to Hugh Hogan Organizes for Meaningful Change MOVEMENT MOMENT PAGE 8 STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING Let Us Breathe: What We Learned from the PAGE 18 Strategic and Streamlined Movement for Black Lives Grantmaking for Grassroots Power CELEBRATE PAGE 40 RESOURCING Celebrating People THE MOVEMENT Power Together at the PAGE 19 North Star North Star Fund Gala LEADERSHIP Fund Donors Speak: DEVELOPMENT PAGE 10 Fueling the Arc of Change CHARTING DRUM and Ugnayan Member PAGE 11 Donor Leadership Engages Leaders Create Transformation Progressive People With Wealth PAGE 23 NICE Charts the BASEBUILDING PAGE 12 Course to Victory THE COURSE La Colmena Mobilizes Staten Island Immigrants and Workers for Justice

MOBILIZING PAGE 13 QDEP: Queer Detainees Build Power at the Margins INVESTMENT PAGE 15 More Than Money: Funder Collaboration and Grassroots Capacity Building COALITION BUILDING PAGE 14 NYC Youth Fuel Urban Youth Collaborative Victory for School Change 8 MOVEMENT MOMENT 9

Fueling the spark of social change and working to turn passion into action.

Between April 2015 and July 2016, North Communities United for Police Reform Millions March NYC Star Fund awarded $348,000 to the Community Voices Heard New York Campaign for Alternatives to following Black-led grassroots organizations DRUM - South Asian Organizing Isolated Confinement and allies in New York City. Center People’s Justice Equality for Flatbush African Communities Together Picture the Homeless Audre Lorde Project Faith in New York North Star Fund is answering the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project Black Alliance for Just Immigration FIERCE call to move more resources to the Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) The Black Institute Girls for Gender Equity Movement for Black Lives. We SpreadMassLOVE Black Lives Matter NYC Harriet’s Apothecary launched the Let Us Breathe Fund Justice Committee Streetwise and Safe last year to support Black-led and Black Trans Media JusticeInvestor Foundation UndocuBlack Network multiracial organizations fighting Black Youth Project 100 Urban Youth Collaborative police violence and structural Brooklyn Movement Center LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent racism—and we’ve learned some CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Million Hoodies Movement for Justice VOCAL-NY Protesters march against police brutality following the killing of Eric Garner deep lessons along the way. The activist grantmakers of the Let Us Breathe Community Funding We also learned the importance of funding healing work through organizations Committee (CFC) distributed $348,000 in new North Star Fund grants. In like Harriet’s Apothecary, which partners with community organizers by addition, we provided $13,250 in technical assistance for the Black Organizer centering healing justice frameworks and practices: “Healing from the violence Strategy Sessions (BOSS). “BOSS emerged from conversations at the Let of structural racism is a necessary strategy to co-create and deepen our visions Us Breathe Forum and the need for Black organizers to support one another. for social change,” says Founder and Director Adaku Utah. Let Us Breathe: BOSS was a dynamic and responsive space—that did not exist locally—to The Let Us Breathe Fund elevated the leadership of Black women, youth, create strategic local connections in support of the national Movement for LGBTQ communities, immigrants, and seniors among our grantees. “Funders What We Black Lives,” says Ejeris Dixon, Vision Change Win Consulting founding who understand the realities of the Black experience in the U.S. work with us Learned from the director and BOSS co-coordinator. to have earnest conversations and create authentic shifts,” says Opal Tometi, We learned how best to support fledgling groups that emerged in the wake of Black Trans Media collaborates with StoryCorps Black Alliance for Just Immigration executive director and co-founder of Movement for the wrongful deaths of Islan Nettles, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Sandra Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Bland. Through fiscal sponsorship and other infrastructure, North Star Fund Through the Let Us Breathe CFC, organizers guide us in how best to move supported nontraditional organizing like Black Trans Media, which with the resources to the grassroots for the long haul. “The Movement for Black help of the Let Us Breathe Fund was able to pay staš for the first time. “I Lives is a constellation of diverse ecosystems,” says Ingrid Benedict, Let Us founded Black Trans Media to reframe the value and worth of Black trans Breathe CFC activist grantmaker. “Resources are critical to support the people,” says Founder/Director Sasha Alexander. “That meant leveraging love needs and priorities of Black-led and Black-focused groups. Donors need to and power outside the nonprofit industrial complex. We’re thankful North move resources to movements for shorter-term impacts and to seed a lasting Star Fund invested in our work and didn’t ask us to compromise our values.” Sasha Alexander and Cara Page discuss art, movement infrastructure.” culture, and justice at the Let Us Breathe Forum 10 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 11

Amplifying the voices and fostering the leadership of those most a ected by injustice.

Achieving social justice means building the leadership necessary to sustain Rhiya Trivedi was a tenant organizer and aspiring movement lawyer when our movements. From their shared community space in Jackson Heights, she decided she needed to use her class privilege to move more resources DRUM and Queens, Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change and DRUM - South to the grassroots. She joined the Springboard Giving Circle, where she met Donor Asian Organizing Center (DRUM) develop the leadership of members Holly Fetter, another North Star Fund donor who wanted to develop the Ugnayan Member across issue and identity to combat institutionalized bullying in schools, unjust necessary skills to build relationships, raise money, and organize other people Leadership policing, surveillance, immigration, wage theft, militarism, and the other with wealth. Engages Leaders Create critical issues. Through Springboard, Holly learned that giving circles are a powerful way Transformation “Organizing with Ugnayan taught me a lot about my leadership. It’s a to fill funding gaps in grassroots organizing. “I learned how to cultivate Progressive challenge to make sure our practices don’t reinforce systems of oppression relationships with other people with class privilege to be part of the solution,” People With like sexism and patriarchy,” says Ugnayan youth Meliza Santiago. “I learned says Holly, who currently works as a donor organizer for the National about what it takes to be a social justice Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). “I gained skills that help me support Wealth DRUM and Ugnayan youth attend rally in support of police accountability organizer and a liberation worker.” the national domestic workers movement in a deeper way.” Ugnayan and DRUM work to dismantle In addition to launching a NDWA giving circle, Holly recently helped North oppression by integrating a unique peer Star Fund inaugurate the Young Professionals for Social Justice counseling practice in their political program, which attracted hundreds of attendees to its first education, skill-building, and organizing three events. “Young people with wealth aren’t expected work to nurture a new generation of or even encouraged to use their wealth as a social justice organizers who can advance policy wins tool,” says Rhiya. “We have authentic conversations about and transform conditions community privilege—and when you hold yourself out as a wealthy organizers work in. By building the person, it encourages other wealthy people to take leadership of members to create safe, action too.” democratic, and participatory spaces, DRUM and Ugnayan are setting the agenda in the fights that have the greatest impact on their lives.

Rhiya Trivedi and Holly Fetter at the 2016 Community Gala 12 BASEBUILDING MOBILIZING 13

Growing a community of people who are moved to action. Taking organized action together to end injustice.

La Colmena’s worker-members mobilize for justice and dignity on Staten Island, where political conditions, isolation, and other barriers create immense challenges to organizing. Its storefront o
ces are a community hub where day laborers can access work and protections. La Colmena launched the La Colmena borough’s first cooperative childcare business for economic security and Mobilizes Staten independence for domestic workers. Island Immigrants Central to its work is sustaining community and culture across borders. Youth leaders mobilize their peers through immigrant rights and get-out-the-vote and Workers for organizing, including a one-day campaign that registered 1,000 high school students. This year, La Colmena will send a DREAMer delegation to Mexico Justice to meet with “The Other DREAMers”—youth who have been deported. At its annual Carnaval Mixteco and New York Tlan festivals, La Colmena worker- members share and sustain traditional dance and culture. By obtaining visas for family members who would otherwise be denied, over 20 families have QDEP and its coalition partners march on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s D.C. headquarters been reunited through the festivals, La Colmena members prepare to train other day laborers to combat wage theft including a mother and daughter Since its inception in a Brooklyn apartment two years ago, the Queer who had been separated for 13 years. Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) has flipped the script on “good” QDEP: Queer versus “bad” immigrants and what family looks like. QDEP members are Gonzalo Mercado, La Colmena Detainees Build building a powerful base of LGBTQ, gender-nonconforming, undocumented executive director and North Star immigrants and asylum seekers facing extreme violence and isolation. Fund board member, describes the Power at the Through peer education, direct action, service provision, and campaigns—all impact: “When low-wage immigrant grounded in social work best practices—QDEP’s growing membership is workers feel powerless, community Margins fighting against mass incarceration and unjust immigration policies, while organizing gives them the tools they queering the dialogue. need to change their lives and their communities.” In addition to holding a chair on the National Prison Divestment Steering Committee, and building the Trans/Queer Migrant Freedom Fund, QDEP recently launched #WomenFightICE with fellow North Star Fund grantee Black Alliance for Just Immigration and other partners citywide. #WomenFightICE arms indigenous, migrant, trans, and LGBTQ women of color with practical strategies to fight prison violence and deportation—and keep themselves and their families safe. Jamila Hammami, QDEP executive director, puts it simply: “Revolution is about combating homophobia and transphobia to create caring, generative communities. We are all in this together.” 14 COALITION BUILDING INVESTMENT 15

Bringing together a unified and diverse group of stakeholders Devoting resources to a community, campaign, anchored by the community and ready to win. or cause in hopes of a positive return.

The Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) has built a powerful youth-led Money talks, but North Star Fund shows up for our grantees in more ways coalition of New York City member organizations that is advancing than one. Our partnership approach includes getting grantees the tools and NYC Youth Fuel education justice on a local, state, and national level. support they need to chart the path to victory—and making sure community organizing is a priority for philanthropy at large. Urban Youth UYC campaigns are anchored by youth leaders working to create equity in higher education and dismantle the school-to-prison-pipeline. The Movement Leadership Program (MLP) at North Star Fund helps More Than Collaborative Victory After years of budget cuts and freezes within the NYC Department of grantees take organizing to the next level through a year-long peer-led for School Change Education, UYC fought to hire 130 new guidance counselors in public program. Powerful new collaborations emerge from each cohort, where Money: Funder high schools so that students get the support they deserve. Along with sta, members, and board leaders learn advanced base building, legislative coalition partners, UYC advocated for and won $2.4 million in restorative campaigns, and advocacy techniques. After participating in MLP and the Collaboration justice funds to reduce Advocacy Institute, grantees Adhikaar and New Immigrant Community Students of Urban Youth Collaborative host a press conference on school disciplinary policies and Grassroots the use and impact of Empowerment had the tools they needed to build and mobilize their bases to the punitive policies advance historic legislation that improves the lives of hundreds of thousands Capacity Building that set students up to of low-wage workers. fail. Since then, NYC In addition, our new collaboration with NYC funders provides workshops and public schools have technical assistance in finance, fundraising, organizing, communications and seen a dramatic drop in more, and we recently teamed up with NoVo Foundation and the New York suspensions. Women’s Foundation for The key to UYC’s strong a unique and powerful Kathleen Pequeño leads a writing and storytelling workshop for grassroots advocates coalition work lies in collaboration: The New its leadership. Student York City Fund for Girls leaders are taking a stand and Young Women of to make sure the city Color. Jennifer Arieta, invests in them and their program oŒcer and futures. Whether it’s former community seeing the connections organizer, explains: “We between education are investing in young justice and police brutality, or failing to create safe environments for LGBTQ women of color to lead youth and students with disabilities, UYC Coordinator Kesi Foster says, “To systemic change—and build a coalition ready to win, it takes di’erent communities coming together. make sure that grassroots We continue to show up for each other in all the ways necessary for us to organizing groups have a thrive.” seat at the table.” 16 INNOVATIVE ACTIVISM ADVOCACY 17

Taking a new approach to creating change. Publicly supporting or urging action.

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC) brings social justice to life through participatory theater where communities can exercise agency and self- TONYC determination by advocating for solutions to complex problems through art Coalition for Legislative and creativity. Educational Justice At the 2016 Legislative Theatre, homeless LGBTQ youth and formerly Advocacy Theatre incarcerated veterans sparked a conversation through acting, improv, and Turns a Vision Takes the Stage dialogue. Over 400 participants developed three policy proposals on into a Winning the spot, including “banning the box” on asking about criminal records on for Change housing and job applications; raising the upper age limit on youth housing Campaign and increasing funding for youth services; and improving certification NYC CEJ’s students rally at City Hall in support of community schools requirements for providers working with LGBTQ youth struggling with homelessness. A panel of legislators pledged their commitment to advancing the policies, and The parents of Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) recognized the barriers their kids faced the actors and audience promised to hold them accountable through direct action and more. to a quality education: families struggling to put food on the table; daily police harassment and violence in and out of school; overcrowded and underfunded classrooms; and a profound lack Legislative Theatre has a proven track record. TONYC partnered with the federal Department of of investment in their children because of deeply-rooted beliefs that they were incapable or Housing and Urban Development, and a few years later, the Federal Interagency Working Group undeserving of academic excellence. for Homeless and LGBTQ Youth was formed as a lasting vehicle for policy change. In the words of TONYC Executive Director Katy Rubin, “Legislative Theatre is a way for communities dealing CEJ embarked on a process to develop a winnable campaign that would result in a solution, with discrimination and oppression daily to tell their own stories, and take the lead on creating conducting in-depth research, consulting experts and policymakers across the country on best legislative and policy solutions.” practices and the political climate, and seeking input at community meetings across the city. Coalition members arrived at a model that had been successful in other cities: college-ready Theatre of the Oppressed NYC’s audience votes on policy proposals during Legislative Theatre event community schools that serve as neighborhood hubs, including on-site medical services, job training, counseling, and other services, for students, parents, and the community; in combination with top-quality academics and deep engagement of parents and community members. CEJ’s extensive campaign development process ensured that campaign demands reflected parents’ vision, and the campaign was ultimately a major driver of the creation of 130 college- ready community schools in New York City. To ensure quality implementation, CEJ also advocated for the Department of Education to adopt a citywide policy that includes high academic standards, shared leadership, holistic services, and parental engagement. “We found a solution to local education fights throughout the city. With compelling research, grassroots energy, and a ripe political landscape, we are making schools better for our kids,” says Natasha Capers, CEJ coordinator. 18 STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING RESOURCING THE MOVEMENT 19

Responding to the immediate and long-term needs of the Moving money, time, materials, and other movement by allowing the grassroots to take the lead. assets toward the fight for justice.

“Many people just don’t have access to resources. I donate to North Star Fund North Star because it truly invests in grantees and their communities,” says Ivan Rosales, longtime Strategic and Fund Donors North Star Fund donor. For Ivan and other Speak: Fueling donor activists, resourcing the movement Streamlined means being part of a community that Grantmaking for the Arc of works together. By supporting emerging Change grassroots groups, progressive donors are Grassroots Power helping to shift the balance of power to end injustice in our city.

What North Star Fund donors have in common is a passion for social justice Ivan Rosales, Development Associate at the Ana Liza Caballes and other Community Funding Committee members discuss potential spring grants and the power that comes from giving as part of a larger community. “North New York State Youth Leadership Council Star brings people together. It provides people with the concrete skills to The Community Funding Committee, an activist-led grantmaking committee of both donors become better leaders,” says Arva Rice, who joined North Star Fund to give and community organizers, helps North Star Fund build reciprocal, responsive, and strategic back to the communities that nurtured her. Donor activists want to change relationships with our grantees. “By being a part of the committee, I can support the smart, the way resources are distributed and support groups that often go unfunded. gritty organizing work that’s building power throughout the city,” says Susanna Blankley, CASA director and activist grantmaker. Our donors learn from each other, challenge each other, Each year, we also convene activists, organizers, donors, board members, and sta€ to assess our and create more powerful grantmaking guidelines to make sure we are responsive to the needs of communities on the ground. change by committing their At our recent strategic grantmaking summit, we approved changes to streamline our grant making resources for a just New process for renewal applicants and make it easier for emerging organizations to apply for their first York for all. Marsha Bonner, grant, as well as to make peer coaching and support more accessible to our current grantees. Arva Rice, President and CEO of who joined North Star Fund the New York Urban League By continually improving our grantmaking and technical support to grantees—with their direction in 1981, talks about what and input—North Star Fund makes it easier to pivot unrestricted resources to under-resourced drives her commitment to communities. “Our programmatic sta€ come from grassroots social justice organizations and progressive philanthropy: know what it’s like to be an organizer asking foundations for money,” says cori schmanke parrish, “If community organizing is Deputy Director of Programs and Operations. “So we understand the value of a nimble, the engine, then the role of streamlined grantmaking process that allows overstretched activists to focus on what they do money is the fuel.” best—vital social change work.” Marsha Bonner, Director of Programs, Community Grantmaking and Special Initiatives at the Annenberg Foundation 20 ACTIVISTLED GRANTMAKING 21

Giving led by those who are doing the work on the ground.

Foreclosure Resisters GRASSROOTS ACTION (QDEP) Global Action Project SECOND YEAR Adhikaar for Human Rights GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT GRANTS  $5,000 GRANTEES and Social Justice ACTION FPA Foundation S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Hattie Carthan Community LEADERSHIP Collective Food Projects Arab American Association FUREE AF3IRM NYC Community Food GRANTS Street Vendor Project NY Civic Engagement Table GRANTS of New York La Colmena Black Women’s Blueprint Advocates Sylvia Rivera Law Project Rise Brandworkers Seed funding for new and Laundry Workers Center Chinese Sta‹ and Workers’ Two-year grants of $50,000 to DRUM - South Asian CAAAV Organizing Asian emerging groups that expand Mekong NYC Association The Black Institute Sure We Can social justice organizations that Organizing Center Communities opportunities for communities Milk Not Jails Crown Heights Tenant Union The Parole Preparation The BLK ProjeK demonstrate a strong record Faith in New York of community organizing and a Damayan Migrant Workers to fight against injustice. Movimiento por Justicia del / Urban Homesteading Project The Women’s Organizing Riders Alliance commitment to a peer learning Association Barrio Assistance Board Network Worker’s Justice Project program. FIERCE GRASSROOTS ACTION NYC Community Land Equality for Flatbush The Working World / GRANTS  $10,000 INNOVATIVE Justice Committee Initiative Incarcerated Nation WORCs ACTIVISM Theatre of the Oppressed FIRST YEAR GRANTEES Metropolitan Council/ African Communities Persist Health Project Corporation MOVEMENT NYC MCREF Together Red Hook Initiative Indo-Caribbean Alliance GRANTS Brooklyn Movement Center LEADERSHIP New Immigrant Community Black Alliance for Just Resilience Advocacy Project Mirabal Sisters Cultural and CASA: Community Action Grants of $10,000 to Empowerment (NICE) Immigration Sapna NYC Community Center for Safe Apartments / New RENEWALS organizations combining Picture the Homeless BronxPOWER Teachers Unite Neighbors Helping Settlement Apartments arts and activism, providing One-year grants of up to Tenants and Neighbors Cabrini Immigrant Services Ugnayan Youth for Justice Neighbors resources to grassroots groups, New York State Youth $20,000 to grassroots VOCAL-NY of NYC and Social Change Neighbors Together and building alternative Leadership Council organizations that successfully Child Welfare Organizing Urban Youth Collaborative New York Campaign for institutions in marginalized NYC Coalition for completed the initial Movement Project Young Women of Color Alternatives to Isolated communities. Educational Justice Leadership training and are poised to continue building on Flatbush Development HIV/AIDS Coalition Confinement Parent Action Committee Center For Third World their previous victories. Queer Detainee / New Settlement Corporation Organizing (CTWO) Flushing Workers Center Empowerment Project Apartments

Picture the Homeless Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change Sister Circle Collective and AF3IRM NYC 22 IMPLEMENTATION CHARTING THE COURSE 23

Working to ensure that change lives beyond Making the long journey toward the North Star the legislation and the headlines. with growth, resilience, and adaptation.

In 2008, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) was providing direct services to low-wage immigrant workers when it decided that its members should be the ones to identify problems and create NICE Charts the a vision for change. North Star Fund was the first to support this early Course to Victory organizing work. The organization soon built a track record and joined the inaugural cohort of our Movement Leadership Program (MLP) for the political technical assistance to build a powerful base and hone its leadership, skills, and strategy. When NICE members faced exploitation by employment agencies that charged them exorbitant fees but never delivered jobs, NICE took its fight to Albany and became the driving force behind the

Narbada Chhetri, Director of Organizing & Advocacy at Adhikaar, speaks at the historic Himalayan Town Hall Justice for Job Seekers coalition. NICE built on the lessons of MLP at the Advocacy Institute—a “Telling my story changed my life. Many of us stay silent to survive, but now legislative advocacy training North Star Fund people are coming forward.” Pabitra Dash and other member-leaders are supports. The organization learned to navigate ensuring that recent nail salon legislation translates into real-life change for government processes and overcome unexpected workers by organizing over 700 Nepali-speaking nail technicians. legislative hurdles. Victory is Only In addition to new licensing pathways and worker protections, Adhikaar When NICE needed to keep the pressure on for Human Rights and Social Justice recently won passage of health and between legislative sessions, it applied for a rapid the Beginning: safety policies that will have a long-term impact on the reproductive health response grant and kept up its political momentum, Adhikaar Organizes of thousands of nail salon workers across New York City. The legislation and winning important new protections for immigrant unprecedented public interest was the culmination of years of organizing, workers. for Meaningful fearless storytelling, and advocacy by women of color-led organizations like Manuel Castro, NICE executive director, who first Adhikaar. Change joined NICE as an intern 12 years ago, talks about Adhikaar is already setting its plans in motion with a consumer engagement the organization’s growth: “After a long journey, strategy and working with employees and business owners to ensure we have built a sustained movement of immigrant compliance with the new ventilation law. “Usually the story ends when a law workers fighting for dignity and respect on their is passed, but our work has just begun,” says Luna Ranjit, former executive own terms.” director of Adhikaar. “Policy victories can only be meaningful when our communities—immigrants, women, and families—are organized to ensure implementation.” NICE members and other partners in the Justice for Job Seekers campaign 24 DREAMING BIG COMMITMENT 25

Envisioning a just future that goes beyond our limits, real or perceived. Engaging for the long haul because change doesn’t happen overnight.

As it has become harder to make ends meet, many New York City residents A long-term commitment to social justice activism helps have been pushed farther to the margins in areas like Long Island and the to ensure a just future for all. The inaugural 18 members Investing in Hudson Valley. Economic disparities and racial tensions are on the rise, and of Sharing a Just Future, North Star Fund’s newly Beyond the conditions are harder for immigrants, farm workers, and low-income mothers launched legacy circle, have made this commitment by the Fight for who are fighting to raise their families with dignity. including North Star Fund in their estate plans. We look Justice Today, Boroughs: Moving forward to growing this group of donor activists who have In response, North Star Fund is exploring regional grantmaking, bringing our made planned gifts to support our work for years to come. Tomorrow, and Resources to the model of advancing social justice from the ground up to areas beyond the For more information please visit five boroughs. We have begun to make that vision a reality by engaging with www.northstarfund.org/legacy Into the Future or email Kofo Anifalaje at . Hudson Valley and communities, organizers, and activists in the Hudson Valley and Long Island. [email protected] Long Island We have visited the communities that we are seeking to impact, learned from the leaders whose organizations have successfully expanded their reach, and spoken with potential partners who have long supported work in these areas. As we begin our pilot grantmaking in the Hudson Valley in the spring of 2017, we will center local voices and visions, respecting the work that is already being done, and continue to organize donors. We will also continue to build relationships in Long Island and explore the best ways to impact the region. We look forward to supporting our new partners beyond the city limits, as well as expanding our decades-long commitment to community organizing and donor engagement for social justice.

“ We want our investment to “ North Star Fund has the “ Inequalities are inherent in our mean something beyond our capacity and infrastructure society—by putting North Star Watersheds lifetimes.” to put my gift to good long- Fund in my will, I know that Rivers and Reservoirs Areas of Demographic Change term use… I want to support activists will have the resources JOHN SAYLES AND organizing for justice that’s needed to level the playing field MAGGIE RENZI unfolding decades from now.” well into the future.” Film producers and social justice advocates KATHERINE WOLF NISHA ATRE Former Springboard Giving North Star Fund board chair Circle participant 26 ACCOUNTABILITY 27

Ensuring responsible use of community resources through proper reporting practices.

North Star Fund had a successful year ending June 30, 2016. We are in a strong financial SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

position to take us through our leadership transition into the next phase of our work. We increased Year Ended June 30, 2016 Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total Financial our unrestricted balance and brought in partnerships with new donors and foundations. PUBLIC SUPPORT, REVENUE, AND GAINS This year, North Star Fund launched our Sharing a Just Future Legacy Circle. We also grew our Activities Public Support 2,038,119 3,547,009 1,020,000 6,605,128 endowment by $1,020,000. These gifts will help ensure North Star Fund’s stability as the home Revenue and Gains/(Losses) 36,936 17,622 - 54,558 for donors and grassroots activists across the city for decades to come. Net Assets Released from Restrictions 3,875,681 (3,862,211) (13,470) 0

Total Support, Revenue, and Gains 5,950,736 (297,580) 1,006,530 6,659,686

EXPENSES Program Services 4,919,299 - - 4,919,299 INCOME Supporting Services Individual Donors $3,359,898 Management and General 189,208 - - 189,208 Foundation Partners 104,000 Fundraising 711,729 - - 711,729 Total Supporting Services 900,937 - - 900,937 Donor Advised Partners 1,818,739 Total Expenses 5,820,236 0 0 5,820,236 Fiscal Sponsorship Income 312,601

Fees and Investments 44,448 Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets 130,500 (297,580) 1,006,530 839,450 Endowment 1,020,000 Other Increases (Decreases) (21,486) (26,525) 130,500 (48,011)

Total $6,659,686 Net Assets, Beginning of Year 2,573,169 3,375,459 1,621,541 7,570,169 Net Assets, End of Year 2,682,183 3,051,354 2,628,071 8,361,608

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

Year Ended June 30, 2016 EXPENSES ASSETS NET ASSETS Total Grants and Programs: 85% $4,919,299 Cash and Interest Bearing Deposits 4,332,717 Unrestricted 2,682,183 Grants and Programs $2,925,837 Promises to Give 1,145,963 Temporarily Restricted * 3,051,354 Donor Advised Grants $1,993,462 Promises to Give (long-term, net) 1,398,175 Permanently Restricted ** 2,628,071 Investments 1,774,047 Total Net Assets $8,361,608 Total Supporting Services: 15% $900,937 Fixed Assets (net of accumulated depreciation) 343,746 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $9,100,523 Development $711,729 Other Assets 105,875 Total Assets $9,100,523 Management and General $189,208 * 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, 2016, Total $5,820,236 the temporarily restricted net asset balance of $3,051,354 represents the amount of donor LIABILITIES contributions still held by North Star Fund, as well as gifts restricted by the donor by purpose or time. ** Permanently Restricted Net Assets: During a prior fiscal year, a donor made a $1,000,000 Grants Payable 556,020 irrevocable pledge to establish the Betty Kapetanakis Memorial Endowment Fund. The purpose of Other Liabilities 182,895 the fund is to generate unrestricted income. The principal cannot, under any circumstances, be drawn upon. During the current and prior fiscal years, North Star Fund received additional endowment Total Liabilities $738,915 gifts, which will be managed according to New York state law regarding endowments. 28 PARTNERSHIP 29

Building long-term relationships that help us to be nimble, strategic, and responsive along the journey.

POWER TOGETHER SPRINGBOARD GIVING BRONX DREAMING HOLLY FETTER FUND Hand in Hand: The REN FUND FOR North Star Fund uses DONOR unique philanthropic models, CIRCLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Domestic Employers JUSTICE Large matching grants of Astraea Foundation including donor advised funds, ADVISED Association $100,000 to $200,000 Springboard Giving Circle Detzani Campos Faith in Action Bay Area Faith in New York giving circles, and expedited Jews for Racial and to support major city-wide members work alongside GRANTS Abdoul Nikiema Global Greengrants Fund grantmaking in times of need. National Domestic Workers coalitions. North Star Fund’s Community Economic Justice This allows us to move hundreds Katy Serrano Association In These Times Funding Committee during North Star Fund partners with National Day Laborer of thousands of dollars in Solar One Communities United for the grantmaking cycle and individual donors, foundations, Resource Generation Organizing Network additional grants to support Police Reform (CPR) fundraised in order to make and businesses to support DAWN FUND Showing Up for Racial United for a Fair Economy timely and innovative work New American Leaders Education Justice Fund additional grants to these cutting-edge work in line with Justice (SURJ) on the ground. These are the Center for Community Project organizations. their giving priorities. Solidaire TOM AND MICHELE additional grants that we are Change NY Civic Engagement Table SOLIDARITY FUND EDUCATION JUSTICE Third Wave Fund proud to have made in 2015- Cabrini Immigrant Services Community Voices Heard Prison Policy Initiative 2016. FUND ASIAN AMERICAN of NYC Long Island Civic Project South American Jewish World IMPACT FUND INTERNATIONAL Matching grants that leverage Engagement Table Resource Generation Service Foreclosure Resisters DREAMERS labor and private donations so New York Communities Brandworkers RAPID RESPONSE FPA Foundation Asian American Legal SCHOLARSHIP FUND Showing Up for Racial that every child in New York GRANTS Neighbors Together Defense and Education Organizing Fund Justice (SURJ) Child Welfare Organizing City can receive a quality public Fund Project Vote Elisa Corado Wildfire Project Project Expedited grants that enable New Immigrant Community education. Carolina Hernandez Doctors Without Borders groups to respond quickly Empowerment (NICE) Flushing Workers Center VOCAL-NY to late-breaking events and NYC Coalition for NYC Coalition for Working America Roberto Morales MMJT GIVING CIRCLE Good Old Lower East Side organizing opportunities. Educational Justice Educational Justice BARBARA ADLER Litchfield Performing Arts ZELUCK FUND Audre Lorde Project Urban Youth Collaborative Picture the Homeless DINNER GUYS GIVING JOANNE LUKOMNIK LSA Family Health Services Community Food FIERCE CIRCLE FUND FOR HEALTH Make the Road New York Advocates Queer Detainee Association for Union CARE REFORM Jay Toole SPECIAL INITIATIVE Empowerment Project Democracy New York Times Neediest Equality Labs/Touchable Gay Asian and Pacific Miss Major Gri–n-Gracy Ugnayan Youth for Justice Center for Changes Islander Men of NY Physicians for a National Cases Fund Project These grants support leadership Streetwise and Safe Health Program/NY Picture the Homeless transition or increased and Social Change (Solidarity) (GAPIMNY) Movimiento por Justicia del Chapter (PNHP) Sylvia Rivera Law Project Barrio organizational capacity. Center for Constitutional PFLAG NYC FREDERICK DOUGLASS Rights NY Immigration Coalition SAGE Adhikaar for Human Rights AWARDS KINDLING FUND NEW YORK CITY Labor Notes YOUNG FEMINIST People’s Climate Movement and Social Justice Grants of $2,500 in Public Citizen Foundation EMMA GOLDMAN FUND Allied Media Projects GIVING CIRCLE Picture the Homeless Community Voices Heard recognition of outstanding Rosenberg Fund for Black Lives Matter National Queer Detainee Picture the Homeless MADRE FRIDA Fund work, presented at the 2016 Children Black Organizing for Empowerment Project Community Gala. Teamster Rank & File Leadership & Dignity Red Hook Initiative PALINDROME FUND Education and Legal (BOLD) Riders Alliance Adhikaar for Human Rights Defense Foundation Black Youth Project 100 Ella Baker Organizing Fund The BLK ProjeK and Social Justice Blackbird NY Immigration Coalition VOCAL-NY Black Alliance for Just Immigration Brooklyn Movement Center generative somatics 30 COMMUNITY 31

A group of people with shared values.

CORNERSTONE Elizabeth Melamid Loring, Wolcott, and The Laurie M. Tisch Liz Hirsch and Karen Pratt GIFTS Julia Read Coolidge Trust Foundation Donald Horwitz and Lola Mark Reed and Daria Ilunga Vincent McGee Mertz-Gilmore Foundation Lloyd Horwitz Anne Delaney Richman Housing Resources Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss New York Community Trust Mary Humphreys Jerome L. Greene Rose and Sherle Wagner Mount Sinai Health System Northwell Health Alexandra Jacobus Foundation Foundation Ann Roberts NYSNA Asa Johnson Jessie Smith Noyes The Sagner Family Surdna Foundation Susan Penick Foundation Johnson Family Foundation Foundation Rhiya Trivedi Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Tom Johnson, Jr. Billie Jean King and Tani Takagi Inc. Illana Kloss Karen Pittelman $10,000 $14,999 Katrina vanden Heuvel Lianna Levine Reisner and Levitt Foundation Elnatan Reisner Maggie Williams $50,000 AND ABOVE Lillian & Ira N. Langsan Anonymous (2) SEIU Gabriel Foster, Luce Lincoln, Karen Pittelman, Marin Watts Thank you Foundation 1199SEIU United Healthcare Tom Cramer and Michele $15,000 $24,999 Shelley Levine and Larry to our donor Workers East $1,000$4,999 CWA District One Burger $5,000$9,999 Ann F. and Lawrence A. Schwartz CWA Local 1180 Abigail E. Disney and Sam Bonsey community Wiener Educational Anonymous Susan Disney Lord Anonymous (2) Thomas Davis and Pierre N. Hauser Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Bohemian Companies Lucy and Isadore B. 32BJ SEIU Geo— Gingerich for being Elspeth Gilmore Foundation Luke and Christine Elliott- Adelman Foundation David Alexander Maddy deLone and Gisela Gamper Peter Brest NoVo Foundation Negri Bobby Cohen partners in Oliver Cannell Peter McLoughlin American Civil Liberties Barbara Winslow Irving and Geraldine Holly Fetter Union John Doyle CITGO Petroleum Monica Melamid the struggle Schaˆer Foundation Nick Freudenberg and Corporation Merck Family Fund Eugenia and David Ames Rebecca Eddy and Paul $25,000 $49,999 Deborah Slaner Larkin Wendy Chavkin Feuerstein for social Corners Fund Peter and Elizabeth Negri Nisha Atre and Art Richardson El Centro del Inmigrante Anonymous Pierre Hauser, Javier H. Valdés, José Lopez Quinn Delaney and Wayne Newmark Holdings justice. Dan and Rebecca Baker Melissa and Trevor Fetter Amalgamated Bank Jordan Open Society Foundations Farhad Ebrahimi Anne Bartley Thompson and Jane Fetter Betty Kapetanakis Memorial Susan B. Plum Fund Lee Fikes Anne Batchelder Marjorie Fine The Russell Family BerlinRosen Public A—airs Jennifer Flynn and Clementine Brown Sarah Frank Foundation Bela Walker Conant Family Foundation Andrew Goldberg and Letitia and James Brown Zac Russell Funding Exchange Network Karen Putterman Charitable Development Foley Family Foundation Lisa Steglich Endowment The Healthcare Education Consulting The Foreclosure Resisters S. Donald Sussman Elizabeth Gilmore Project Helen S. Cohen and Stephen A. Foster William and Ellyn Lindsay Kimberly Hendler and Merry Tucker Mark A. Lipman Jason Franklin, Franklin Harris Lirtzman and Sigurd Baark Flo Wiener and Rick Hobish Holly Delany Cole Weinberg Fund Ralph Wilson Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan Katherine Wolf ColorOfChange Olivia Frazo 32 FY16 SUPPORTERS This list reflects contributions received July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 33

Dr. Gail Furman Katherine Lindsay Resource Generation Paul Benjamin Russell G. and James Sober F.Y. Eye Vincent and Anne Mai Gabrielle Riera Paul Brennan Elz Cuya Jones Alisa Solomon and Peter Gates The Maine Community Rockefeller Family Fund Richard D. Burns Sarah Jones Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark Rachel Gelman Foundation Lynda Rodolitz Center for Community Joel S. Kanter Robin Sparkman Frances Givhan Neil Marks and Doak Sergent Russell Roybal Change Pico Kassell and Teamsters Local Union 210 Andrew Strom GNYHA Ventures, Inc Elizabeth McLoughlin R. Rubin Family Foundation Ana Cepin and Dorothy Thomas and Ricardo Camilo Donna Katzin and Donald Goldberg and Juliet Melamid Dorothy and Peter Samuels Michael Hertz Oona Chatterjee and Alan Altschuler Tracy de la Mater Paul Merrill David Sandman, Ph.D Tom and Margie Gart Family Angel Vera David A. Korman Fund Sally Gottesman Ruth Messinger John Sayles and Ellen Chesler and Susan Kupfer Laura Grant Keith Mestrich and Maggie Renzi Amelia Tuminaro and Matthew Mallow Gara LaMarche and Michael Berlin Allan Guggenheim Tilney Wickersham James Scha„er Special Prosecutor Alvin Bragg, North Star Fund Mona Chun Lisa Mueller Bill and Melinda vanden Board Chair Nisha Atre, Ana Cepin, Joseph Ghartey Jennifer Hatch Montefiore Health System Scherman Foundation Mark Colon Eve Levy and Michael Salvato Heuvel Rachel Erickson Hee and Rosemary Moore and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Theo Yang Copley Mini Liu Molly and David Vaux Joan Budd Fuoco Group LLP Andrew Hee Josh Shneider Arline Segal Allison Corbett Local 338, RWDSU Susan Wefald Amanda Cannell-Boone Tonya Gayle Barbara He„ernan National Education Michael Seltzer and Association Linda Cronin-Gross Sheila McDaniel Madel Weinstein Gene Carroll David Goodman Marina Heung Ralph Tachuk Talbert and Blanca Navia Richard and Maisha Desai- Eileen McLoughlin W. Douglas Wingo Majora Carter Francis Greenburger Michael J. Hirschhorn and Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Green Inca Mohamed Jimena P. Martinez NCheng LLP Certified Helen F. Stillman Jos Catalanotti Kate Hammon Public Accountants Michael DiYanni Keith Mounsey $100$499 Gregory Ho„man and Hal Strelnick Anathea Chino John Hammond Robert Nixon Jane P. Donaldson Ragnar Naess Brad Jones Transport Workers Union, Robin Cloud Naa Hammond Adam Eisenberg Anonymous (9) Local 100 National Economic and Harriet Cohen Shannon Harvey Steve Fahrer and Monona Yin Social Rights Initiative Abato, Rubenstein, and Robert Usdan and William Cordery Ellen Herman Ron and Frayda Feldman Sandy Newman Abato, P.A. Amy Yenkin Kristine Dangla Maria Hinojosa Family Foundation New York City Central Labor Debbie Abrams Gerry and Sheldon Wallman Ariel Deshe Rachel Hirshberg Dr. Kathleen M. Foley Council, AFL-CIO Kirk Adams Michael Waterman and Marisol Alcantara Richard H. Dicker Hugh Hogan and Yuka Hagiwara Ellen Galluccio New York Foundation Carolyn Antonio Sandra Dietrick Patrick Mo›tt Amy Wolf and Caroline Gart New York State AFL-CIO District Council 37, Nancy Holmstrom and Bennett Baumer Paula Gellman Eva Paterson Priscilla and Colby Atwood AFSCME Richard Smith Sharon Wyse and David Satz Michael Gerstenhaber Bonnie Potter Bruce Auerbach Sally K. Donaldson, Ph.D. Kevin Jennings and Je‹ Davis Judith M. Gutman Michael Reynnells Anne Avis Norman Dorsen Rebecca Jerman $500999 Alex and Rebecca Hardiman Arva Rice Victoria Bailey Martha Eddy Uday Jhunjhunwala Ila Duncan, Jay Sapier, Clemmy Brown, Helen Stillman Glenn Harris Leonard Rodberg Lisa Barlow and Alan Towbin Randy Kaufman Anonymous (5) Rampa Hormel Ivan Rosales Debra Baum Eytan Feldman Katherine Acey Laura Ferguson Christina Keller Robert J. Hughes Christine Parker Helena Huang Rothstein Foundation Ingrid Benedict Amida Care William Fetter Carolyn Kendzia Margaret Jackson David Perrin Jane Humphreys Kiki Scha‹er Galit Ben-Joseph Daoud Awad Meg Fidler Peter Kleban Marion Kaplan Lisa Philp and Bill Bragin David Isay Barbara Schatz Tamiko Beyer Martha Baker Janice Fine and Bryan Koulman Victor and Sarah Kovner Zahida Pirani Steve and Susan Jacobson Gary D. Schwartz and Elise Boddie and Ramatu Bangura Peter Staley Maitland Stewart David Donnelly David LaMarche Richard Leˆowitz Posner-Wallace Foundation James Jasper Barbara A. Stiefel Trust Nishi Shah Carol Bouska Lucy Friedman Bill Leavitt John Levin and Diane Keefe Victor Quintana and Gordon Johnson and Anne Canty Allison Barlow Nancy Lee Howard Sheer John Breitbart Rosalie Friend, Ph.D. Susan Lee 34 FY16 SUPPORTERS This list reflects contributions received July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 35

Isabelle H. Leighton and Charlotte Phillips, M.D. Lee and Byron Stookey Alex Buckey Louisa Hall Ruth Mishelo Emerson Soto SHARING A JUST Timothy J. Cavaretta Susan Puder Andrea Swenson Yanet Bueno Toren Hardee Emily Cozart Mohammed Abby Spector FUTURE LEGACY CIRCLE MEMBERS Braeden Lentz Jennifer Queenan Anne Tatreau Melanie Bush Lauren Haynes Megan Morrison Jessie Spector Levy Ratner, PC Nitika Raj James Traub Edward Campanelli and Luis Hernandez Alexander Morse Rusty Stahl Nisha Atre and Nakisha Lewis Katie Unger Charles Kim Michelle Hester James Mumm Robert and Janice Stone Lisa Ranghelli Art Richardson Abigail Stone Patricia Lowry and Margaret Rauch Nisha Varia and Ritchie Robert Cermele Sarah Heydemann Abraham Nelson John Touhey Justin Striebel C. Edwin Baker* Frank Roosevelt Abraham Maxwell Chalkin Jake Hirshberg Ann Noling Belinda Macauley Rosa Chavez Shantha Susman Peter Brest Michaela Ross Lise Vogel Carly Homann Stefan Norgaard June Makela and Lauren Cochran Stephen Sykes Marjorie Fine David Ruder Bethany Wall Edward Hong John Norwood Mark Fischweicher Cheryl Taruc Laura Wernick Warren Cohen Zachary Howe NYC Doula Partners Asa Johnson Laura Taylor Leonora Wiener Patrick Cranston Huron Consulting Group Laura Odenthal Betty Kapetanakis* Erika Teutsch Sam Wiener and Catherine Creager Megan Ivankovich Shino Tanikawa Oglesby and Elizabeth Melamid* Trinity Thompson Lynne Mayocole Maximo Cubilette William Jeries Caleb Oglesby Betty Millard* Bernard Tuchman and Megan Williams Chris Danis Liana Johnson Patricia Paendorf Judith P. Ward Arva Rice John Wolf Margot Danis Niki Papadopoulos Amalia Kane Sara Varon Jean Riesman Alexander Davies John Parker Workers United Noah Kaplan Craig Weinrib John Sayles and Michele Parrella and Nancy Youman Hyrjana Dibra Amaha Kassa Maggie Renzi Richard Rubin Candice and Adam Manson Stella Zahn Timothy Dyster Sahar Kazemini Weinstock cori schmanke parrish and Merry Tucker Laura Epstein Bradley Kerr Adam Wexelbaum Sierra Spingarn Lise Vogel $1$99 Marisa Falcon Anastasia Kouriatova Lemuel White Virginia Pasley Michael Waterman and Miriam Fogelson Arielle Lawson Jacquelyn Wilson Krista Perez Yuka Hagiwara Martha Baker, Craig Kaplan, Ruth Messinger Anonymous (14) Andrew Forsthoefel Suzanne Lipkin Reid Wilson Christina Pierre Maggie Williams Rachel W. Adrian Daisy Freund Joseph Lipofsky Jessica Wrenn Camille Platt Barbara Winslow Vanessa Salazar Christina Aguilar Nathan Yae Geri Mannion Joshua Fried Jeremy Liu Altaf Rahamatulla Katherine Wolf John Sasko Hillary Aidun Wendy Fried Eyal Yerushalmi Diana Martinez Willis Logan Janak Ramakrishnan Andrea Batista Schlesinger Yahya Alazrak Ben Fuller-Googins Michaela Yule Andrew Menard Carol Lynch and Lon Risley Logan Reed and Ana Maria Archilla Na’ilah Amaru Ted Ganung Max Zarin *In Memoriam Juliette Menga Gabrielle Maguire Austin Ritter Donna Schneiderman and Amee Amin Nate Garcia Bareket Zohar Susan Miller Sumana Maitra Jonathan Roberts Mitchell Drach Cesar Andrade Rachel Geiger Julia Motyka Jon Mannion Robert Robinson Sallejane and Allan Seif Ankur Asthana Megan Goldman John and Carmen Marcus Neighborhood Economic Martha Rose Linn Shapiro Robert Avruch Development Advocacy LiJia Gong Erin Mazursky Robert J. Ross Hildy J. Simmons Mary Battles Project Elise Gorab Steward McClanahan, Jr. Adam Rusin Alexander Slater The New Press Molly Battles Adeline Gorlin Sarah McLoughlin Audrey Sasson Marjorie Smith New York Society for Ethical Andrew Bogle Pamela Governale Hannah McMeekin Jenna Schornack Culture Marjorie Snyder Elizabeth Bradley John Gray Leo Menashe Jill Seymour Bronwyn Oatley Lena Solow Todd Breitbart Abner Greene Elisabeth Mendez Laura Shmishkiss Paul O’Neil Merrie Spaeth Benjamin Brewer Edwin Grimsley Heather Merfeld Michael Smith Susan and Peter Osnos Robert Spencer Gay Brookes Atina Grossmann Ruth Milkman Michael Smith and Anne Patterson Charles and Susan Stillman Megan Bruce Esha Gupta Rachel Miller Deborah Ginsburg Smith

Jessie and Abby Spector at Young Professionals for Social Justice Trivia Night 36 FY16 SUPPORTERS This list reflects contributions received July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 37

ASIAN AMERICAN Emily Atwood John Greenwood and Eddie Elizabeth Wilson COMMUNITY FOOD George Robertson IMPACT FUND Charlotte Austin Gonzalez Alex Zhang FUNDERS Susan Sack Megan Barnett Daniel H. Melissa Sanchez Grace Cho Leo Haug Ann F. and Lawrence A. Farhana Begum COMMUNITIES Matthew See Amy Chou Tess Hofmann Wiener Educational Melba Beltre UNITED FOR Daniel Sheehan Aditi Davray Sara Jane Krulwich POLICE REFORM Foundation Camera Bidder-Thiara Falcon Carlo Vialu Erik M. Fromm Keith Johnston Doris Duke Charitable Bronx Dreaming Fund Mannar Wong Jason Lachick Anonymous (8) Foundation Jessica Kawamura Evenbrite Jessie Smith Noyes Nicole Kwoh Jillian Levi Advocacy Fund Bronx International Dream Foundation EDUCATION Alison Lisnow Russ Agdern Jaclyn Le Team JUSTICE FUND Levitt Foundation Frank Liu Anthony Casasnovas Heidi Lopez Katie Barnett and Akiva Rubin Elli Marcus Merck Family Fund Laura Ma Allison Caviness Susan Blickstein and Kathryn Anonymous (2) African Communities Together Bess Massey Stewart New York Community Trust Olympia Moy Christine Celentano A. Sandra Abramson Bonnie Massey Sara Buettner-Connelly Surdna Foundation Maria Fernandez Cynthia Nixon and Christine Daniel Park Patricia Chang Zelda Alpern Marie Mcgwier The Laurie M. Tisch Melinda Fine Marinoni Deborah Clearman Calvert Social Investment Gisela Alvarez To Trinh (Jackie) Quan Foundation Cristyn Mingo Foundation Miriam Fogelson Luis O. Reyes Ti­any Hyeon Rogers Theresa Cordero American Federation of Martha Moldovan John O’Brien Tom Cordero Jordan Camp Teachers, AFL-CIO Daren Foster Roger and Jennifer Tjong DINNER GUYS Caroline Muelenaer Tai Foster Liza Pappas Tjin Tai Rosmarie Cordero and Center for Popular Yanik Archer Anna Nachamie Democracy Evie Frankl Kristin Pederson Constance Delio Joy Adler Steven J. Aresty Shino Tanikawa Oglesby and Renata Peralta BRONX DREAMING Sharon Cromwell Carolyn Chou Jan Atwell Norm Fruchter Caleb Oglesby Carolyn Antonio Constance Delio Sandra Dietrick Catherine Pfordresher SCHOLARSHIP FUND Asian Americans/Pacific Maria Bautista Carol Gerstl Abigail Parrish Kate Pfordresher David Einhorn Marcella Durand Islanders in Philanthropy Judith A. Bigelow The Gloster Arts Projects Anonymous (6) Catherine Parrish Edward Phelan Lily Feinberg Jennifer Gordon and Linda Matthew Bernstein Jessica Capers Mary M. Golten Kate Abrams William Parrish Katherine Phillippo Eric Fournier Steinman Pat Eng Keith Catone and Dulari Keith Gordon Laura, Eddie, Maya, Charlie Professional Sta„ Congress Benjamin Alter Ilana Gato­ Samuel Graham-Felsen Tahbildar Barbara Gross Pells Noam Freshman Steven Alter Adria Giattino Michael Rabinowitz Jill Jacobs and Guy Austrian Peter Tadao Gee and Je„rey Lori Chajet Margaret Haskett Lauren Price Michael Rebell Matthew Arcidy Dawris Gomez Charlotte Levinson A. Helfgott Andy Cheng Anne Henderson Jennifer Queenan The Sagner Family Joan and Ramsay Liem Tim Hawkinson Maisie Chin Yael Reich Douglas Israel Foundation Yul-san Liem Stephen Hilton Harvey Citerman Rian Rooney Sandye Johnson Schott Foundation for Public Amy Cohen Justine Rosenthal Dara Nussbaum Ann Kelly The Joseph H. Flom Education Foundation Emma Sacks Open Society Foundations Kung Ko Rachel Cohen Cassie Schwerner Charles Khan Suzanne Salamon and Alan Andrea Ritchie Benjamin Lehrho„ Marya Cohn Zakiyah Shaakir Einhorn Scherman Foundation Frank Liu Lisa Cowan Melissa Kostovski Seema Shah Julie Salamon and Bill Abrams Sonja Shield Mary McGraw Helaine Cuddy Lamson Lam Alice Shechter Roxie Salamon-Abrams David Unger Bryce Melvin Rachel Cytron Michael and Linda Landsman Laura Shmishkiss Marilyn Salaway John Won Goran Mitevski Helaine Doran Susan Leighton Dorothy Siegel Nathan Simonini Heding Yang Sarah Najarian Refat Doza Paulette LoMonaco Barbara Slatin Hector Soriano Tuhinsri O’Connor Daniel Dromm Angela Martin John Snyder Make The Road New York Samantha Trombly Thomas Palatucci Katherine Dunn Sara McAlister Alexa Spencer 38 FY16 SUPPORTERS This list reflects contributions received July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 39

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A joyful demonstration of our resilience and love for our community. Catalyst and Impact: A Farewell Tribute to Hugh Hogan

This spring, our inspiring community of donors, grantees, and supporters Hugh Hogan arrived to North Star Fund as executive director in 2003. A TIMELINE OF ACHIEVEMENT

gathered at the 2016 North Star Community Gala to honor individuals and Under his leadership, we grew our grantmaking capacity four times over, Under Hugh’s leadership, an ambitious organizations that chart the course for social justice in New York City. streamlined our operations, and expanded grantee support. But as a true course was charted for North Star Fund. catalyst for transformation throughout the city, Hugh’s contributions North Star Awards honored labor rights activist George Gresham, sports Celebrating People continue to reach beyond any quantifiable measure. 2005 We Who Believe in Freedom icon and pioneer Billie Jean King, and social justice advocate Gara LaMarche Forum 2006 North Star News Prize Power Together for their enduring commitment to equal rights and dignity for all people. Hugh brought years of experience in the environmental justice movement, for outstanding journalists of color 2009 at the North Star North Star Fund grantees Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice, along with his tenacity, kindness, and great sense of humor, to North Star Greening Western Queens invests in which organizes Nepali-speaking communities for worker and immigrant Fund and our grantees. By championing North Star Fund’s commitment energy-eciency and environmental projects in the Western Queens community rights, and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, mobilizing African American to funding grassroots and emerging organizations, even when others would Fund Gala a ected by the 2006 power outage and Black immigrant communities for racial and social justice, were recipients not, Hugh stayed true to his vision “to ensure that those who most deeply 2010 Movement Leadership Program of the Frederick Douglass Award for their work in building stronger felt the sting of injustice had the platform to stand, organize, and be heard.” welcomes its first cohort of grantees 2011 communities through grassroots organizing. Community building and donor engagement were Community Food Funders supports the hallmarks of Hugh’s approach, and under his growth of a sustainable regional food system 2012 Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund awards leadership, North Star Fund has maintained our 41 grants to the communities hardest hit by progressive influence on the very landscape of the superstorm Launch of the Activism’s philanthropy. Future Campaign to increase giving and operational capacity 2013 Education A visionary leader and devoted father, Hugh Justice Fund provides grants for meaningful recognized that it took a school reform led by students, parents, team e‡ort to create “a teachers, and community members more peaceful, just, and North Star Fund becomes the fiscal sponsor for Communities United for Police Reform sustainable planet.” It 2014 Launch of the Let Us Breathe Fund is with deep gratitude for Black-led organizing and their allies and celebration that working for police reform, community Black Alliance for Just Immigration Gara LaMarche and Margie Fine Billie Jean King we recognize Hugh’s safety, and economic justice Activism’s Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice remarkable impact Future Campaign closes having raised $8.5 million for philanthropic and grassroots and continue to leadership 2015 The Let Us Breathe carry the torch Forum brings together nearly 500 in serving the community organizers to highlight the groundswell for strategies driving the movement for Black lives 2016 Funds secured for pilot regional social justice in grantmaking in the Hudson Valley New York City. Launch of Sharing a Just Future, North Star Fund’s Legacy Circle 42 UNITY 2016 NORTH STAR FUND NORTH STAR FUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNUAL REPORT CREDITS ALUMNI 1979 2015

A group of diverse people working together for the purpose of achievingConcept a byharmonious Catherine Eusebio whole. We are able to chart the course because you showed us the way. Thank you. Communications team: Elz Cuya Jones, Catherine Eusebio, and Kevin Wen Katherine Acey David Maurrasse Yasmin Adib Sheila McDaniel Consultants: Alison R. Park Martha Baker Monica Melamid and Erin Roberts Adyemi Bandele Kevin Mercadel Ludovic Blain Print design and production Jennifer Merschdorf Elise Boddie Nancy Meyer by Bryan Potter Design Marsha Bonner Betty Millard Adhikaar activist demonstrates at City Hall Photography by Dan Bigelow, Peter Brest Lisa Miller Sonia Bu Gerard Gaskin, Neha Gautam, Solangel Cubas Minotta Martin Bunzl Danielle Pearce, North Star Diane Morales Judith Clark Fund staŽ, and North Iris Morales Penny Coleman Star Fund grantees Jill Nelson-Ricks Susan Coleman Robin Omata Printing by AliGraphics Linda Cronin-Gross Hye Jung Park Frank Deale Mailing by Madeline deLone Mel Pritchard East River Mail Lule Demmissie Harriet Putterman Toby D’Oench Radnall Quan Dan Edelman Alice Quinn Amy Edelman Julissa Reynoso NORTH STAR FUND Beatrice Lors-Rousseau, Lisa Cowan Thomas Associates Kathy Engel Arva Rice Marjorie Fine Beth Richie STAFF Program Assistant Holly Fetter Ventucom Jason Franklin Lynda Rodolitz Richard Burns, Interim Executive Kevin Wen, Communications Gerard Gaskin Videri Chocolate Factory Sibyl Golden Kevin Ryan Director Intern Wingo, Inc. Daniel Gross Kathy Goldman Andrea Batista Schlesinger Elena Waldman, Part-time Elz Cuya Jones, Deputy Director Sandra Hayes John-Martin Green Jonathan Schorr of Resources and Strategy Receptionist Margarita Hernandez PAST STAFF Marcela Hahn Gary Schwartz AND INTERNS cori schmanke parrish, Deputy Idealist Consulting Mark Hannay Henry Serrano Director of Programs and SENIOR ADVISORS Sarah Hansen Laura McNeill Hugh Hogan, Executive Director Melea Seward Operations Charitable Development Lanai Daniels Ronald Henriquez Aarti Shahani Consulting Inca Mohamed Maria Hinojosa Helen Stillman, Donor Program José Gálvez Sue Simon Dan Morris, Progressive Cities Liz Hirsch Director Shanley Mitchell Karen Smith CONSULTANTS, Angelica Otero Hugh Hogan Alvin Starks Kofo Anifalaje, Development VENDORS, AND Angel Nalubega Alexandra Jacobus Alison R. Park Hal Strelnick Ocer VOLUNTEERS Greta Treistman Lillian Jiménez Kathleen Pequeño Seung Hye Suh Jennifer Arieta, Program Ocer Abrazos Music & Entertainment Lem White Betty Kapetanakis Matt Peters Pat Swann Adam Liebowitz, Food and AHOY Studios Stan Kinard Zahida Pirani Wilfredo Larancuent Jack Tchen Environment Program Ocer AliGraphics Erin Roberts Roz Lee Maxim Thorne Catherine Eusebio, Almoradie Media LLC Eve Levy Molly Vaux Communications Coordinator Henry Serrano bittergreen Mini Liu Jackie Vimo Sierra C. Spingarn Catering Kate Coley, Development C. Global Consulting North Star Fund is proud to Sarah Ludwig Amy Wagner Superfine Printing Coordinator Caracol Interpreters have won the Silver Award José Luis Morín Judith Wessler Jodi Sh. Do, Executive Cooperative Support Group for our 2015 Annual Report, Tara Mack Barbara Winslow Susanna Blankley, director of Community Action Coordinator Will Cordery Michiko Swiggs Justice is Happening. Stan Mark Betty Yu for Safe Apartments, demands rent rollback at rally 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1800 New York, NY 10018-6656 T 212 620 9110 F 212 620 8178

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