HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE HCZ HIGHLIGHTS An Investment Early Education in Success For the seventh consecutive year, 100 percent of our 2008-2009 Harlem Gems pre-kindergarten children were assessed BIENNIAL REPORT to be “school ready.” See page 4.

Elementary Schools 100 percent of the third-graders at both Promise Academy I and II were on or above grade level on the 2009 state- wide math exam. See page 6.

Middle Schools The children and staff of TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition program lost the most weight to win our agency-wide Wellness Challenge. See page 8.

New palette High Schools 90% of our high-school seniors were accepted into at least one college for the fall 2009 semester. See page 10.

College Our incoming freshman class for the fall 2009 was offered over $6.3 million in scholarships. See page 12.

Family & Community HCZ’s free tax-assistance program helped 4,690 residents receive over $7 million in tax refunds. See page 13. Report Design by Iris A. Brown Design LLC

Harlem Children’s Zone 35 East 125th Street New York, NY 10035 (212) 360-3255 www.hcz.org Letter from the Chairman Who We Are At the heart of our work is the desire to prevent another generation of children from being lost to poverty and all that comes with it: low academic achievement, Our successes so far — and we believe there are many violence, substance abuse, prison, illness. more to come — have already drawn attention from similar communities around the world, many of which To create an alternative path for these children, we do have taken workshops with our Practitioners Institute. whatever it takes to help them fulfi ll their academic potential and be on track for a stable, fulfi lling life. The economic downturn did lead us to cut 10 percent In 2004, The New York Times Magazine called the of staff in November 2008, but while we slowed our Frustrated with a piecemeal approach to helping planned growth, we did not cut services to children and children facing a wide variety of problems, in 1997 Harlem Children’s Zone Project “one of the most- families. To help mitigate the effects of the recession, we created the Harlem Children’s Zone® Project — an HCZ organized the “100 Days of Peace and Purpose” ambitious social-policy experiments in America.” interlocking network of services for children that begins campaign, organizing dozens of community-service at birth and stays with each child through college. In projects in the neighborhood. Today, fi ve years later, the evidence has clearly addition, the Children’s Zone® strengthens the families and community that surround that child. Today, the agency is well on its way to creating a safe, shown that the experiment is a success. enriching community within the devastation of the The Project has four guiding principles: The most exciting confi rmation comes in an area where the organization was most challenged. As larger Harlem community. In Harlem, 73 percent of 1 Community-building – creating a tipping point in the detailed in Paul Tough’s critically acclaimed 2008 book on HCZ, Whatever It Takes, the middle school children are born in poverty, 36 percent of adults have neighborhood so the tidal pull for children is towards not completed high school and 76 percent of children of the HCZ Promise Academy charter school struggled in its initial years. In the past two years, success, not anti-social behavior. are born to single mothers. though, the schools have done extraordinarily well. The respected Harvard economist Dr. Roland 2 Best practices – offering effective, innovative services However, inside the Zone, our kids are on track to a Fryer studied the achievement of the Promise students, comparing their statewide test scores to at each stage of a child’s development. brighter, better future. For the seventh consecutive those of students who did not win the school’s admission lottery. He went further and compared the 3 Scale – creating a program that addresses the year, our Harlem Gems pre-kindergarten programs had scores to students citywide. He declared that some grades had closed the black-white achievement enormous number of at-risk children. 100 percent of our kids ready for school, our charter gap and his fi ndings had, in his words, “changed my life as a scientist.” schools are closing the black-white achievement gap, 4 Evaluation – creating a rigorous system that monitors and our innovative after-school programs are getting Our success has increased interest in duplicating our work in other communities. In fact, President and guides our work. young people into college in unprecedented numbers. Barack Obama has called for creating 20 “Promise Neighborhoods” across the country that will be In FY 2009, HCZ, Inc., overall served 10,462 children and modeled on the HCZ Project. 7,434 adults; the Zone Project served 8,163 children and 6,067 adults. HCZ President and CEO Geoffrey Although the organization has achieved unprecedented success over the past two years, we are Canada was chosen for the reminded daily that the need for this work is still keen. Many children still know more men who have gone to prison than to college. Too often children go to sleep in unnerving situations, lack Independent Sector’s 2009 John W. adequate medical care or are exposed to violence — in the street or in their own home. Gardner Leadership Award and the 2008 Austin College While we are seeing a rise in academic achievement, every milestone is a hard-won victory. But with the generous support of our donors and the hard work of our staff and participants, we have proven Leadership Award for his that these children can succeed. pioneering work in the nonprofi t fi eld.

STANLEY F. DRUCKENMILLER Chairman Harlem Children’s Zone

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After piloting the program, HCZ launched the Three Year Journey in the 2008-09 school year. The program An all- Early ran two 18-week cycles on Saturdays, geared towards families that had won the Promise Academy admission lottery. The program gives the children an introduction encompassing, Childhood to our Gems program while giving parents workshops on effective parenting. Early Childhood Elementary Middle School High School College all-hands-on-deck, Our Get Ready for Pre-K program brings in the new Gems students before the school year starts. The six- week summer session runs Monday through Friday anti-poverty effort As researchers confi rm that the early-childhood for an extended day like the regular Gems program, helping children acclimate to the new schedule and that is literally saving years are key to building a strong foundation readying them to start school in the fall. The entire Early Education set of programs has a generation of for future educational success, HCZ has been bolstering for three-year-olds and those selected are given free intensifi ed its parent engagement, having parent-child its work with children and families in these critically admission to one of our three Harlem Gems® pre- time in the Gems classroom regularly or sending home important fi rst years. kindergarten programs, as well as to our Three Year activities for parents to do with their children. We then children. JourneyTM and Get Ready for Pre-K programs. We are carry this educational partnership with early childhood The Baby College® offers a nine-week series of parenting now sending over 95% of our Gems to the Promise program parents into our elementary school settings. — President Barack Obama workshops to parents and guardians of children ages Academy. 0-3 in the Zone. Over the past two years, more than 870 people graduated from The Baby College. With the opening of our Harlem Gems Uptown site on Lenox Avenue, the agency now works with The earliest part of HCZ’s Pipeline to Success has approximately 200 pre-schoolers. strengthened its link with the HCZ Promise Academy charter schools through our early enrollment lottery. The extended-day, 11-month Gems program teaches Now the Promise Academy admission lottery is held children in English, Spanish and French, and has an adult-to-child ratio of 1:4. In addition, each child has an individualized learning plan developed by the 1 At our Harlem Gems prekindergar- 3 Renowned pediatricians and authors ten programs, 100 percent of the Dr. T. Berry Brazelton (right) and Dr. teaching team and works daily on an individualized children were independently tested Joshua Sparrow (standing) talk with computer-based pre-literacy program. The intensive and found to be “school ready.” parents at The Baby College on one Gems program assures that our kids are on track for of their regular visits. 4 2 The Baby College parenting work- their long journey through school. The Gems are given shops work with parents as well as 4 Our Harlem Gems at a “stepping up” a nationally recognized assessment tool and all have grandparents. ceremony. been found to be “school ready.”

4 HCZ | 2008-2009 BIENNIAL REPORT 5 The children whose lives [Geoffrey Elementary Canada’s] work touches will be the Early Childhood Elementary Middle School High School College inventors, dreamers, doctors and leaders you’ll be reading about in

At our two Promise Academy charter schools, the - J.J. Abrams As children make their scores on the statewide math and English Language years to come. Director of ABC’s “Lost” Arts (ELA) tests are stunning proof of what is possible way through the critical in low-income, minority communities if children are given the right opportunities: • In 2009, at both PA I and PA II third-graders were In FY 2009, the Peacemakers program had 86 young 1 Students at Promise Academy I fi rst years of school, Elementary dancing together to 100 percent at or above grade level in math. adults in 7 public schools in the Zone serving 2,500 students. Peacemakers work in public school class- Caribbean music. HCZ is there to ensure that they stay on track in sev- • Fourth-graders at PA I were 93 percent on or above rooms during the day as teachers’ assistants and then 2 Promise Academy II students eral ways. At our Promise Academy charter schools, grade level in math. At PA II fourth-graders were 97 run after-school programs in each of the schools. Part learning about insects fi rsthand. students have a longer school day and year, which percent on or above grade level in math. The local of the after-school work is a chess program whose 3 Collaborating on a problem allows time for them to improve their basic skills and district scores were 82 percent for third-graders and results again show what is possible if children are given in English class at Promise to receive a broader education. They have high-quality 69 percent for fourth-graders. the opportunity to succeed. In April 2009, one team Academy I Upper Elementary. science and social-studies programs, as well as regular • On the ELA exams, PA I third-graders were 94 percent fi nished second in their division in the All Nationals art, music and physical education classes. They get on or above grade level, while PA II’s were at 86 for girls, while two other teams came in third in their freshly made healthy meals each day, have access to percent. PA I’s fourth-graders were at 77 percent and divisions. free medical and dental health services, and have a PA II’s at 83 percent. The local district students were range of after-school enrichment programs, including at 56 percent among third-graders and 53 percent homework help and tutoring. among fourth-graders. For the students in the Zone that are not able to get into 3 our charter schools, our AmeriCorps-supported Peace- makers program supports students during the school day and after school.

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Teaching middle-schoolers is widely acknowledged as one of the most diffi cult challenges in public education.

To help these students, HCZ has a dual-track pipeline: transition them seamlessly into our high-school support working with children in our Promise Academy char- programs. ter schools, as well as working with students in public At the TRUCETM Fitness and Nutrition after-school pro- Only 1% of the schools within the Zone. gram, middle-schoolers exercise regularly, learn how to As chronicled in the book Whatever It Takes, the HCZ eat healthfully and also get academic assistance. The Promise Academy middle school was a venture that program’s karate program competes in tournaments charities we rate struggled initially. But over the past two years the school across the country and in the 2008-2009 school year cap- coalesced and now the students are thriving. In 2009, tured 86 trophies, including 36 fi rst-place honors. Both have received at least the school’s eighth-graders were 87.3 percent on or the student and staff teams from TRUCE Fitness 2 above grade level on the statewide exam in math, while won our agency-wide Wellness Challenge by los- 4 the local school district was at 60.9 percent. On the ing the most weight over the 2008-09 school year. 7 consecutive 4-star English statewide exam, the eighth-graders were 57.5 A Cut Above is an after-school program percent at or above grade level, while the local district serving over 560 middle-school students students were at 45.7 percent. evaluations, indicating who live in the Zone, but do not attend the To strengthen the HCZ Project Pipeline for middle- Promise Academy. It helps students with schoolers that are not in our charter school, the organi- their academic work and social develop- that Harlem Children’s zation has expanded its Academic Case Management ment, as well as guiding them toward mak- model to work with every child from fi fth grade through ing the best choices among the city’s high Zone consistently twelfth grade. In 2009, our Academic Case Management schools. staff worked with about 700 middle-school students at fi ve sites. Each student is assigned a staff person, who executes its mission in a works with public school staff to track each child’s academic progress, as well as how they are doing emo- tionally and socially. A plan is created for each student fi scally responsible way, and the case manager helps fi nd support when students 1 Author Walter Dean Myers gives 3 Chess grandmaster Garry writing tips to Promise Academy I Kasparov took on 20 of our top need it. As the students step up to ninth grade, the stakes Middle School students. students simultaneously at an and outperforms most for college admission rise exponentially, so we work to HCZ Chess Festival co-sponsored

2 The karate students at TRUCE by his foundation. Fitness and Nutrition won 86 trophies in the 2008-09 year. 4 Promise Academy Science teacher charities in America. Petit was selected to participate in a research mission — Charity Navigator in Antarctica, where she taught students each week live via a webcast teleconference.

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who have fallen behind. Many drop out — only to Too often, high school fi nd that they are unable to fi nd a job or make a The Harlem comfortable life for themselves. Some, particularly boys, is the last stand for drift into drugs, gangs and crime. Nationally 60 percent of black males who drop out are incarcerated by their Miracle. mid-30s. low-income students —The New York Times In the past two years, we have increased the number of high school students we support, doing whatever it takes to get them into college and, ultimately, the 1 workplace. Our Academic Case Management work In 2008, a group of TRUCE students traveled to Senegal. continues with our high-school students and we have The trip became a leadership opportunity, with TRUCE created several cross-site initiatives to help students students creating a documentary and a showcase at a navigate the process of getting into college. local art gallery. TRUCE began its Artodemics program, 5 In September 2008, HCZ Promise Academy I opened its using arts projects to help the students build their life high school with its fi rst class of ninth-graders. Taking skills as well as their academic studies. 100 percent of statewide exams in June, 93 percent passed the Algebra TRUCE seniors were accepted into college for the fall Regents and 76 percent passed the Biology Regents. 2009 semester. In addition to the Promise Academy, HCZ operated The Learn to Earn program helps high-school juniors three after-school programs in the Children’s Zone, ® and seniors improve their academic skills, as well as serving 878 high school students in FY 2009. HCZ’s prepare for college and the job market. Several of its Beacon centers served 440 high-school students. students received full scholarships to college in 2009. HCZ’s Employment and Technology Center (ETC) At the end of the 2008-2009 school year, with the help of moved into expanded space in 2007 and now serves our new College Prep Team, HCZ had over 180 high- 280 high-school students, an expansion of 67 percent. school seniors accepted by at least one college — the ETC offers them a wide range of technology skills most we have ever had. Collectively, the students were as well as academic support. Ninety percent of ETC offered over $6.3 million in scholarships. seniors went on to college following their 2008-2009 With the success of Project EOS, an intensive one-week senior year. college-readiness summer program for high-school At the TRUCETM Arts and Media program, students students entering their senior year, we have created have continued to pursue their passion in the arts and Project EOS II, which is aimed at readying graduating activism, garnering awards for art projects as they excel seniors for college. academically. In the 2008-09 school year, videos made by TRUCE students were accepted into more than a dozen fi lm festivals across America and won two Gold 1 Promise Academy High School’s fi rst 4 Students and staff of TRUCE Arts Keys at the N.Y. State Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. class had 93 percent of its students and Media in front of a mural they pass the algebra Regents exam. created.

2 Tutoring at the Employment and 5 ETC students learning computer Technology Center, where 90 percent skills at the program’s new, of the seniors were accepted into expanded site. college.

3 Several students from TRUCE Arts and Media went to Senegal, and returned to teach their peers about their experience there.

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HCZ responded by creating the College Success While the original Offi ce, which helps students with the entire range of problems they might face — everything from navigating goal of the HCZ Project the fi nancial aid process to academics from time management to obtaining internships. 1 was to get students As a result of our efforts, we will have nearly 600 students in college in the fall of 2009. The freshman class was offered over $6 million in scholarship funds. into college, In the past two years, CSO has strengthened its ability to support out-of-town students with the creation of Family, Community and Health we found that some students — many the fi rst in their “campus connectors,” upperclassmen who act as families to go to college — were struggling with the mentors and advisors to incoming students. CSO has also new challenges of the college environment. piloted the creation of “campus advisors” — college staff A growing child’s mind The Harlem Children’s Health Project (HCHP), a who assist HCZ students attending their schools. partnership with the Children’s Health Fund and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, is a school-based In line with the HCZ Project vision, many 1 is like a thirsty sponge, health center, which expanded in 2008 to offer free of these college students return to the medical, dental and mental health care to all of our community on their school breaks and Promise Academy students. The center also now offers work as interns helping HCZ staff with so HCZ works hard to make sure the environment “Healthy Connections” to several HCZ sites, making sure younger students. In the summer of 2009, feeding that mind is safe, positive and enriching. To that children have their health-care needs met on-site HCZ placed over 190 interns in more that end we have created programs to strengthen the or from local providers. In all, HCHP served over 1,500 than 50 organizations. family and community around each of our children. of our children in FY 2009. In addition, we address health problems that can hobble a child’s ability to succeed in school. During the 2008-09 school year, HCZ created an agency-wide Wellness Challenge to fi ght against In the past two years, we have launched parent- the neighborhood’s alarmingly high rate of obesity. engagement strategies to ensure that families are In a friendly competition, our staff and students reinforcing the youth development work we do. Our formed teams to see who could lose the most weight. Harlem Gems pre-kindergarteners take fun assignments The program resulted in many students losing or home to do together with their parents. Our middle maintaining their weight as they grew, but also helped school initiative organized a reading group where our staff to learn what works and what did not work for parents and children met to discuss a book they all our continuing efforts to change the behaviors that lead read. Our Promise Academy kitchen staff not only to childhood obesity and develop best practices. cooks 2,500 healthy meals daily for our students, but teaches cooking classes so parents can prepare To improve the overall neighborhood, HCZ’s Community Pride program works to energize tenant 1 Tutoring at the College Success Offi ce healthier meals at home. 2 and block associations so residents can pull together 2 During HCZ’s “100 Days of Peace and Purpose,” CSO students went to Wash- Our unique HCZ Asthma Initiative, a partnership and reweave the social fabric of a neighborhood torn ington, D.C., where they participated in several community-service projects: with Harlem Hospital and The Mailman School of apart by drug traffi c, crime and few resources. preparing food for terminally ill people, clearing trash along the Anacostia River and helping schoolchildren make baked goods to raise money for a nurs- Public Health, works closely ing home. with families so they learn to manage the disease for their 1 Part of a mural at P.S. 149 children, signifi cantly reducing painted by HCZ Peacemakers and volunteers from Morgan Stanley. school absenteeism and Instead of tackling problems here and emergency-room visits due to 2 As part of HCZ’s 100 Days community-service campaign, asthma. staff participated in a blood there, the program envelops an entire drive. neighborhood. —

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1 1 Painting a mural at a local school.

2 A tutoring session at the Midtown Family Place after-school program.

Foster Care Prevention Taking a boy or girl To deepen our relationship with our children and Beacons families, the Beacons have launched two major from their family can initiatives. The fi rst deepens our relationship with our middle-school parents, engaging them in their children’s academic lives and partnering with them as their be catastrophic to HCZ’s Beacon program children approach college age. As part of our parent engagement initiative, parents and students read the that child, novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers and met regularly turns public school to discuss the book. an imperfect “solution” that can cause its own lifelong The second innovative initiative is part of an agency- problems. For that reason, HCZ has fi ve foster-care buildings into wide effort, the Academic Case Management approach, preventive programs that intervene with families in working with children from fi fth grade and up. In crisis to help them stay whole. community centers Academic Case Management, each child is assigned The programs work with families that have been a staff person who monitors their school progress, as referred to us from the city, as well as helping people that provide safe, enriching programs for children well as their development, providing assistance where who walk in our storefront offi ces needing immediate and adults. The Beacons have a similar holistic needed. The case manager works with a student’s assistance. approach to the Harlem Children’s Zone Project in their public-school teacher and ensures that they get The Preventive programs have begun to take on new “whatever it takes” approach to meeting the needs of appropriate after-school tutoring. 2 responsibilities and change the way we work as a result the surrounding community. The Harlem Children’s Zone Community Center, based of the new Improved Outcomes for Children initiative HCZ’s Countee Cullen Beacon on 144th Street is one in our 125th Street building, offers a wide variety of from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services. Preventive’s ongoing commitment to improve its of the city’s fi rst and has been a national model since after-school programs and special events for children For example, we now hold family conferences every six services, QAT helps to improve case practice through its creation in 1991. It now serves 850 children and and adults. It also added two satellite programs months, which empowers families and gives them more rigorous review of cases. 519 adults a year. The Booker T. Washington Beacon at public housing projects in the Zone. In 2009, the of a voice in the process and allows staff to determine Community Center served 683 adults and 1,321 The Preventive programs have also been working to on 108th Street was created in 1998, and serves 748 the direction of our casework. strengthen their relationships with the various HCZ sites. children and 460 adults. When HCZ opened its children. In addition to training staff to make best use of this new At the Promise Academy charter schools, the on-site headquarters building in 2004, the agency created the The Beacons also led several cross-site programs, approach, HCZ created a cross-site Quality Assurance social workers, who are an integral part of the school’s HCZ Community Center, which takes a Beacon-like including a HCZ track team, a HCZ dance troupe, and a Team, or QAT, for the Preventive programs. Continuing “wrap-around services,” are now supervised by the approach to its varied programming. robotics program. Preventive program’s senior manager. Two Preventive sites, Project CLASS and Truancy 1 The Booker T. Washington Dance Prevention, moved to larger space, which enabled them Troupe at the kick-off for HCZ’s 100 Days community-service campaign. to serve an additional 20 families as well as expand programming and services.

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HCZ spends an average of $5,000 per One national study found that nearly 1 in 5 African- Americans ages 16 to 24 were dropouts in 2007. In Participants in the 2008 Children’s March for Peace wore T-shirts designed by TRUCE Arts and Media program students. child each year for the more than 8,000 children with whom we work in the Children’s Zone. Com- contrast, HCZ sent 90 percent of its high- pare that to New York spending $50,000 school seniors to college and they were of- each year for a young person who has fered over $6.3 million in scholarships. Financials ended up in prison. Condensed Summary of Financial Activities A Pew Charitable Trust study found that living in a HCZ is an economic engine for Harlem: we high-poverty neighborhood has a powerful July 1, 2007– June 30, 2008 July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 negative impact on a child’s chances for moving up the Unaudited provide good jobs, pay rent and use neighborhood busi- Support & Revenue nesses. HCZ’s free tax-assistance program helped the income ladder. That is why our community-building community get over $7 million in tax refunds in 2009. work is essential: so children can break the Public $ 8,706,689 12% $ 9,339,959 15% cycle of generational poverty. Corporations/Foundations/Individuals 1 $ 44,076,857 59% $ 39,221,819 64% Special Events $ 8,925,889 12% $ 5,154,073 8% 1 1 Each dollar invested in HCZ has a multiplier Other Income/Interest $ 618,189 1% $ 235,509 1% effect. Columbia University professor Peter Muennig and HCZ conducted a cost-benefi t Gain on Investments $ 11,971,847 16% $ 7,380,795 12% analysis and estimated that one cohort of 192 Harlem Gems pre-k students will accrue HCZ, Inc. Total Support & Revenue $ 74,299,471 $ 61,332,155 100% $91 million in benefi ts through increased income, improved health, as well as reduc- HCZ Promise Academy I Revenue $ 6,621,495 $ 9,105,733 tions in costs due to poor health, crime and social services. HCZ Promise Academy II Revenue $ 2,324,259 $ 4,020,023

Operating Expenditures

Program Services $ 41,063,619 80% $ 44,784,059 80% 2 Management & General $ 8,492,826 17% $ 9,605,360 17% Fundraising $ 1,855,117 3% $ 1,590,655 3%

2 Over the long term, our pipeline of support Total Operating Expenditures $ 51,411,562 $ 55,980,074 100% keeps children on track to get the education they need to get a rewarding job. In 2009, Capital Expenditures $ 1,943,303 $ 542,158 87 percent of the HCZ Promise Academy 8th graders were at or above grade level in HCZ, Inc. Total Expenditures $ 53,354,865 $ 56,522,232 math – a stark contrast to the 7 percent of black 8th graders nationally that are at HCZ Promise Academy I Expenditures $ 6,466,563 $ 8,815,871 grade level in math. Here Promise Academy students talk with two royal visitors: the HCZ Promise Academy II Expenditures $ 2,183,568 $ 3,479,699 UK’s Prince Harry and Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso.

1 Includes funds received for Capital Campaign: $1,713,320 in 2008, and $213,000 in 2009. Also includes multiple-year grants recorded as operating income because of FASB 113 and 114.

16 HCZ | 2008-2009 BIENNIAL REPORT 17 The Peter and Carmen Lucia McKinsey and Company Mr. and Mrs. William R. Araskog Terence S. Meehan Our Board and Funders Buck Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Nancy P. Aronson Valeria Solomnoff and Michael Cadwalader, Wickersham & Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Arrow Electronics, Inc. Meek Taft LLP McCloy LLP Anna and Dean Backer Microsoft Corporation CDW Corporation Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Barry Mills President and CEO $500,000 - $999,999 Katarina and Mike Pendy Julie and Paul Kerwin J.W. Bagley Foundation Centerview Partners NYSE Euronext Milrose Consultants Inc. Geoffrey Canada American Express Foundation The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Beeneet Kothari Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Bernstein Christine and Jeremy Chase Alex Navab Mission Area Federal Duquesne Capital Management Foundation Vani and John Kovitch The Blackstone Group The Chubb Corporation Neil Crespi and Andrew Credit Union The Philanthropic Collaborative Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis CMS Facilities Management Board of Trustees Charles Hayden Foundation Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Monness/Monness, New York Life Insurance The Prudential Foundation Stanley F. Druckenmiller Margaret and Daniel Loeb - Hamilton LLP Crespi, Hardt & Co., Inc. CMS Innovative Consultants Company Robert M. Rayner Third Point Foundation Chairman The Lumina Foundation for The Clinton Family Foundation Newmark Knight Frank Capgemini Financial Services NIKE Renaissance Technologies LLC Theodore Luce Charitable Trust USA, Inc. Mitch Kurz Education Compuware Corporation News Corporation The Overbrook Foundation Treasurer Arthur and Rebecca Samberg Carl Marks Foundation Elisabeth and Charles Chasin Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Leon and Toby Cooperman Lisa and Ciaran O’Kelly PLM Foundation Matthew C. Blank Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. Maverick Capital Charities, LLC Comcast Corporation Betsy and Sam Reeves Family Foundation Open Society Institute Mr. and Mrs. George W. Peck Secretary and Sandler O’Neill Asset Tiger Foundation The Michael W. McCarthy Credit Suisse Con Edison Wallis Annenberg Management PNC Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Foundation Karen and Everett Cook Anonymous CT Partners The Pacifi cus Foundation Quick Gary D. Cohn Mr. and Mrs. Benoit Savoret The Moore Charitable Cushman & Wakefi eld, Inc. Jeff Coviello RBC Dain Rauscher Zoe Cruz Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Schreiber Foundation Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & $250,000 - $499,999 Peggy and Millard Drexler Garrison, LLP Dimension Data Ramius Capital Group, LLC Joseph DiMenna Frank V. Sica and Colleen Morris Family Foundation American Express The Durst Family Foundation Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Mr. and Mrs. James J. Dunne Jamie and Nick Renwick Joe Gregory McMahon Jennifer and Andy Morton Ernesto and Zoe Cruz Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Faino Walker, LLP Empire Offi ce Restaurant Associates Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Needham & Company, LLC Mark Kingdon Nancy Peretsman and Susan and Sean Cullinan Time Warner Inc. Addison M. Fischer The Erlbaum Family Lillie Robertson Kenneth G. Langone NetJets Robert Scully The Deerfi eld Foundation Tishman Speyer Properties Fisher Brothers Nano and Leslie Fabuss James E. Rohr Sue Lehmann Newman’s Own Foundation, Inc. Gisela and Michael Perl Gap Foundation Irene Tse and Alex Gowen Charlotte and William Ford FactSet Research Systems Inc. Dr. Gary N. Ross Marshall J. Lux NoVo Foundation PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Gerald Kerner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Jack Franke Austin Fragomen, Esq. The Ruggles Family Foundation Richard Perry Carolyn and Steve Okin Robert Derector Associates Thomas H. Lee and Ann Meryl and Chuck Witmer Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr. Mr. Robert Friede Louis R. Sachs Raj Rajaratnam Tenenbaum Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Rieger Anonymous (3) Gensler Architecture, Design Jing Ge Harlan K. Schlicher, Jr. Laura Samberg Lizzy Dexter and David Rogers Rockefeller Group Lone Pine Foundation, Inc. and Planning Worldwide Timothy F. Gill Paula and Peter Sherk Steve Squeri The Pumpkin Foundation International, Inc. Sue and Steve Mandel Gilder Foundation, Inc. Gary Gladstein Anil Singhal/NetScout $50,000 - $99,9999 The Russo Family Foundation Russell Reynolds Associates Jeffrey B. Swartz Anonymous (2) Stella and Charles Guttman System, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ainslie III Mr. and Mrs. Les Gorman Louise and Josh Samuelson Foundation SOS Security Incorporated Caroline Turner The Grace Jones Louis C. Skinner Foundation, Inc. Janie and Billy Armfi eld Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Shay The Schwartz Family Foundation $100,000 - $249,999 The Per and Astrid Heidenreich Richardson Trust Constance and Michael Bass Trading Family Foundation Bippy M. Siegal The After-School Corporation Tracy and Stanley Shopkorn Graham Family Charitable Solomon Bergstrom Foundation Henegan Construction Co., Inc. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Foundation $1,000,000 and above The Annie E. Casey Foundation Showtime Networks Sony Corporation of America Leon D. Black - Apollo Edward D. Herlihy Flom LLP The Annenberg Foundation David and Vickie Smick John and Amy Griffi n Roger and Susan Stone Family Bank of America Management Structure Tone, Inc. Foundation Inc. James and Ashley Smyth ICAS Corporation Foundation The Atlantic Philanthropies Barclays Capital The Louis Calder Foundation Indus Capital Partners, LLC The Sudler Companies, Peter D. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart J. Hendel Swanee Hunt Family Foundation AT&T Foundation Stone Family Fund Sudler, President Scott Bessent and John Freeman Erin Callan Hertog Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Squeri Instinet Jan Szilagyi Ronald W. Burkle Foundation BlackRock, Inc. Susan and Douglas DeStaebler Sunny and Abe Rosenberg Jaros Baum & Bolles Hillgate Travel United Way of The Carson Family Charitable Christopher G. Tors and Foundation, Inc. Susan and Matthew Blank Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Steven D. Holzman Trust Lori Courtney The Jarx Foundation, Inc. Symantec Corporation Sarah W. Beck and Wojciech Booth Ferris Foundation Direct Access Partners, LLC The Hyde and Watson Uzdelewicz Cohn Pevaroff Family Foundation Kristin and Kenan Turnacioglu Jewish Communal Fund Tata Consultancy Services CIBC World Markets Drake Capital Advisors LLC Foundation Vornado Realty Trust Michael & Susan Dell Foundation George H. Walker Erica and Michael Karsch Teachers College John L. Cecil and Celia A. Felsher DuPont Fabros Technology ING Mr. and Mrs. Byron N. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DiMenna Walton Street Capital, LLC Francine and Edward Kittredge The Trium Group Steven A. and Alexandra M. J. Michael Evans IPC Systems Inc. William J. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Cohen Foundation John E. Westerfi eld David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation Robert S. Tucker, T&M Fairfi eld County Community Insight Venture Partners Druckenmiller Westfi eld, LLC Kramer Levin Naftalis & Protection Resources Ted and Nina Wells Ernst and Young Foundation Iris Software Inc. GE Foundation Anonymous (3) Frankel LLP Tudor Investment Corporation Williams Lea Lisa and Philip Falcone Stephen Feinberg - Cereberus The Niki and Joe Gregory The Krauss Charitable Iron Mountain Windels Marx Lane & Michelle and Jeff Feig Capital Management Turnberry Associates and Charitable Foundation Foundation Turnberry Ltd. Jones Lang LaSalle Mittendorf, LLP Fidelity Investments Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $25,000 - $49,999 II LF Foundation UBS Securities LLC William and Michelle Judice Barry Wish Family Foundation Rosalind and Eugene J. Glaser Bill and Donna Acquavella Ken and Vickie French Julie and Paul Leff Debby and Howard Kaminsky Anonymous (2) W.K. Kellogg Foundation Foundation Aetna Foundation VVA Project Managers and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Max Levine, ITG/Hoenig, Inc. Consultants Jordan Kaplan Mr. Mark Kingdon and Arlene and Charles Gibson Robert J. Alexander/ Mrs. Anla Cheng Kingdon Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Haleski John M. Long Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Bernard F. & Alva B. Gimbel CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Kekst & Company Government Funders Chandra Jessee and Elaine and Ken Langone Foundation Align Communications, Inc. Monique and Ian Lowitt The Wallace Foundation Kedar Kulkarni National Endowment for the Arts Julius Gaudio Lehman Brothers Foundation Sharon and David Goldfarb Allen & Overy LLP Mr. and Mrs. David B. Warburg Pincus LLC Latham & Watkins LLP New York City Administration for Sandy and Mitch Kurz MacFarlane Children’s Services Oak Foundation Gives Apis Capital Advisors, LLC Richard and Elizabeth Witten Lenox Advisors, Inc. Sue Lehmann The Marcus Foundation Family Foundation New York City Department of The Picower Foundation The Gopal Varadhan Foundation Nancy and Bob Ascher On Behalf of Ava Lentz Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Lessing Marsh & McLennan XL Professional Education Mr. and Mrs. Raj Rajaratnam HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Ian Banwell The Lipton Foundation Madison Dearborn Partners Companies, Inc. Barbara and Marty Zweig New York City Department Julian H. Robertson, Jr. Hermine and David Heller Beth and Evan Bernardi Marshall Lux of Youth and Community The Marks Family Foundation MassMutual Financial Group Robin Hood Foundation Susan and John Hess Bloomberg Les and Jeane Ley Development McCance Foundation Trust Mayer Brown LLP $10,000 - $24,999 The Samberg Family Foundation Highbridge Capital Management British Telecommunications Leslie and Tom Maheras New York State Education Susie and Skip McGee Mr. and Mrs. Brian McCormick AFD Contract Furniture, Inc. Department The Starr Foundation IBM Corporation Broadridge Financial Marriott International, Inc. Morgan Stanley McKee Nelson LLP AT&T New York State Offi ce of Anonymous (3) JMP Securities Solutions, Inc. Bethany and Darren Martian The New York Community Trust Ethel & Philip Adelman Children and Family Services JPN Brookfi eld Properties Corporation Cindy and Bob McCann Stavros Niarchos Foundation Charitable Foundation, Inc. Jones Day Mr. and Mrs. James McCormick Michael and Sukey Novogratz Agilysys/Sun

18 HCZ | 2008-2009 BIENNIAL REPORT Donor levels are based on cumulative giving and pledged commitments during fi scal years 2008 and 2009, from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2009. 19 HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE HCZ HIGHLIGHTS An Investment Early Education in Success For the seventh consecutive year, 100 percent of our 2008-2009 Harlem Gems pre-kindergarten children were assessed BIENNIAL REPORT to be “school ready.” See page 4.

Elementary Schools 100 percent of the third-graders at both Promise Academy I and II were on or above grade level on the 2009 state- wide math exam. See page 6.

Middle Schools The children and staff of TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition program lost the most weight to win our agency-wide Wellness Challenge. See page 8.

New palette High Schools 90% of our high-school seniors were accepted into at least one college for the fall 2009 semester. See page 10.

College Our incoming freshman class for the fall 2009 was offered over $6.3 million in scholarships. See page 12.

Family & Community HCZ’s free tax-assistance program helped 4,690 residents receive over $7 million in tax refunds. See page 13. Report Design by Iris A. Brown Design LLC

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