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Through Afterschool Development CREATING COMMUNITIES THROUGH AFTERSCHOOL DEVELOPMENT 2016 ANNUAL REPORT OUR MISSION The All Stars Project transforms the lives of youth and poor communities using the developmental power of performance, in partnership with caring adults. OUR VISION By 2020, the All Stars Project will be recognized as America’s action and thought leader in Afterschool Development, a new way of engaging poverty. OUR VALUES Integrity and trust Partnership with the poor Building community Radically inclusive Imagining possibility Improving the world Dear Friends, At a moment when people across the country and the world are working to overcome deep divisions, I am so proud to be joining with people of all ages and from all walks of life to grow a national development community filled with possibility and hope. The All Stars began working in poor neighborhoods 36 years ago, and we never left — we continue to stand on street corners, knock on doors in housing projects and walk the halls of struggling schools to offer thousands of young people and families an opportunity to be part of creating something new in their lives. Across America, All Stars' mission and vision are being championed and shaped by forward-looking and committed partners who are passionate about opening up pathways of opportunity for inner- city youth. Privately funded from the start, last year the All Stars Project raised over $9.7 million from more than 3,500 donors who are dedicated to partnering with youth and finding new ways to strengthen our American community. With this support, we have launched a campaign to establish our third Center for Afterschool Development — this one in Chicago’s downtown Loop. The Development School for Youth enjoyed a tremendous year of growth, including an expansion of the program into Jersey City, NJ. In addition, Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, our groundbreaking model for police-community relations, has been endorsed by some of the country’s leading civic and law enforcement officials, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and the Newark Police Department, the Dallas Police Department and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and its newest commissioner, James P. O’Neill. Thanks to your generosity, we are able to bring development and hope to many more young people and poor communities across the country — and invest in a new way forward for our nation and world. Thank you for your friendship and support. Sincerely, Gabrielle L. Kurlander President and CEO 1 OUR CORE PROGRAMS ALL STARS TALENT SHOW NETWORK As our flagship program, theAll Stars Talent Show Network (ASTSN) continues to be our most important and effective community gateway to development through performance. The ASTSN involves young people, ages 5 to 25, in performing in and producing hip-hop talent shows in their neighborhoods. Everyone who auditions makes the show. Youth take the lead in creating a new and positive culture in their communities. They are cheered on by audiences of family members, neighbors, volunteers and donors who join “Back to School” trips to the talent shows. This experience is transformative for all. 2 DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL FOR YOUTH In the Development School for Youth (DSY), In 2016, 1,412 executives from 189 corporations young people ages 16 to 21 learn to perform as across America participated in the All Stars professionals by partnering with business leaders Project approach to involvement philanthropy across the country who conduct development through the DSY, volunteering thousands of workshops and provide paid summer internships hours of personal time to share their lives at their companies. and expertise with some of our nation’s most marginalized and forgotten youth. 3 OPERATION CONVERSATION: COPS &KIDS In response to the often tense relationship between police officers and inner-city teenagers, the ASP created Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids (OCCK), an award-winning police-community relations program. Founded in 2006, and led by ASP co-founder, Lenora Fulani, Ph.D., the program is run in partnership with both the New York City Police Department and the Newark Police Department. Monthly workshops use performance, improvisation and conversation to help young people and police officers develop positive relationships. These take place at Police Athletic League (PAL) centers and other community locations. In partnership with Mayor Ras Baraka and the City of Newark, the ASP brought the program to Newark, NJ in 2016. ASP continues its partnership with the NYPD and established its relationship with the new Commissioner James P. O'Neill, pictured here with (from left to right) NYPD Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, Gabrielle Kurlander and Dr. Lenora Fulani. 4 IN THE COMMUNITY At the heart of the All Stars approach is our grassroots outreach in poor communities. Across the country, dedicated staff and volunteers from all walks of life go into some of the most impoverished neighborhoods. They stand on street corners and walk through housing projects to talk one-on-one with young people and adults, and introduce them to All Stars' afterschool development programs. Community organizing and outreach is the central and fundamental activity of our work at All Stars Project and an important tool to spark meaningful dialogue about how we can positively create change in poor communities. 5 CREATING COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY NEW YORK CITY The All Stars Project of New York is a nationally recognized development laboratory for innovations designed to expand and strengthen the field of Afterschool Development. This year, All Stars national headquarters on West 42nd Street welcomed 15,605 people from neighborhoods throughout the city’s five boroughs who participated in our development programs. Our largest program, the ASTSN, brought positive change across the city, involving thousands of youth and adults who performed in and helped produce talent show events in the Brownsville, Fordham Heights and Harlem communities. Through the DSY, 117 students completed summer internships in partnership with over 1,000 business leaders at dozens of companies, including AIG, EY, Ironshore, JPMorgan Chase, MetLife, Latham & Watkins and Viacom. Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids continues to highlight the importance of new opportunities for growth to adults living in New York’s most approaches to improving the relationship between police disadvantaged communities. The Castillo Theatre and officers and inner-city communities, bringing together Youth Onstage!, together open up the world of cutting-edge thousands of youth, NYPD police officers and members political theatre to young people and adults, and provide free of the community in performance workshops and public training in the performing arts to hundreds of youth under the demonstrations. direction of volunteer theatre professionals. In addition to our core programs, All Stars Project of NY This year marked the launch of our newest initiative, the continues to be a hub for program development and Fulani Fellowship, which gives post-graduate students the innovation. Through UX, our free, university-style school of opportunity to study and practice the All Stars unique approach continuing education, we involved over a thousand people to human development and community activism. of all ages in classes, workshops and field trips extending Welcome to Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre — one of the most respected Black theaters in the country and a long-time collaborator with the Castillo Theatre — which has now made its home at the All Stars Project's W. 42nd Street performing arts and development center. 6 NEW JERSEY The All Stars Project of New Jersey continues to play a key role in Newark’s renaissance. With the Scott Flamm Center for Afterschool Development well established as an influential center for performance and development, the ASP of NJ increased programming and outreach, in addition to expanding our civic, community, cultural and corporate partnerships this year. In 2016, the Flamm Center welcomed 5,061 visitors, while ASP of NJ programs reached 8,386 young people and adults, including 375 business professionals from 43 corporations and businesses. Through our deepening partnership with Mayor Ras Baraka and the City of Newark, ASP of NJ was proud to launch Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids in Newark this year. All Stars was also invited by the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) to train the young people and support the development of their workplace performances. ALL STARS EXPANDS TO JERSEY CITY! The inaugural DSY class in Jersey City graduated 17 young people and was made possible by an expansion committee led by Kevin Cummings, President & CEO of Investors Bank and ASP of NJ Board Co-Chair. The committee also included: Gerard McGraw, CFO, FMR, LLC; Gus Milano, President & COO, Hartz Mountain Industries; Joseph Panepinto, Sr., President & CEO, Panepinto Properties, Inc.; John Thurlow, COO, RBC Capital Markets, and, Peter Unanue, Executive Vice President, Goya Foods. 7 CREATING COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY CHICAGO The All Stars Project of Chicago is doubling down on its efforts to make sure our country’s third largest city is a place of opportunity and growth for its poorest youth. With the help of volunteers who contributed over 2,000 hours, we successfully completed a three- year growth campaign that increased the number of community conversations from 3,000 to 6,000 and the number of DSY graduates from 20 to 47. The DSY in Chicago was also featured in Forbes as a best practice in employee volunteerism and engagement. EXPANSION CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED! In 2016 the ASP of Chicago launched a 5-year, $14 million comprehensive campaign to establish a Center for Afterschool Development in downtown Chicago. The Center will give young people from the South and West Sides of Chicago a premier downtown destination in the Loop to connect with the civic, cultural and professional life of their city. Modeled after the ASP centers on 42nd Street in NYC and in the downtown arts district in Newark — the Center signals a shift away from the isolation of poor communities, and toward involving them in reshaping the city’s culture.
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