2019 North Star Fund Action Report

1 | North Star Fund Table of Contents

Letter from Our Director...... 3

How it Works...... 4

40 Years of Deciding Who Decides in Philanthropy...... 5

Bold is Changing the Rules...... 6

Bold is Fighting for Housing Justice...... 8

Sharing a Just Future...... 9

Cynthia Trinh New York City Grants...... 10

Let Us Breathe...... 12

Bold is Raising Money for Your Community...... 13

Hudson Valley Momentum ...... 14

Donor Advised Grants...... 15

Special Grant Initiatives...... 18

Changing Philanthropy ...... 19

Thank You to Our Donors...... 20

Neha Gautam In Honor Of ...... 26

Financials...... 27

Who We Are...... 28

Cover photo: May 14, 2019 Housing Justice for All protest in Albany. Photo by Walter Hergt

2 | North Star Fund #40YearsBold. What does that mean?

40 Years Bold means forty years of doing what other people say can’t be done.

Like taking on the prison system, the school-to-prison pipeline, and corporations displacing our neighbors. Or inspiring people from different walks of life to give together to create deep change for New York.

40 Years Bold means trusting grassroots organizers and people most impacted by injustice to lead on strategy, and to be the decision-makers for the grants we give.

Walter Hergt Incredible leaders have come through North Star Fund over the years— members of Community Funding Committees, Giving Projects, our Board, staff and donor networks. For those of us here, now, we thank everyone who made us bold. We’re humbled to accept your challenge to be even bolder than before.

In this Action Report, take a look at what we’re doing at #40YearsBold— and join us. We have big plans for 2020!

Jennifer Ching Executive Director

40 Years Bold | 3 How it works.

North Star Fund by the numbers.

$3.5M

3 funding committees 50% +1,000 new donors DONORS 24 activists and organizers $5 $1.5M in grants

Over 1,000 donors made contributions in FY 2019, Committees of grassroots activists make $1.5 almost half of them made donations for the first time. million in grants. 24 people volunteer their time on These donations ranged from $5 to $3.5 million. one of three funding committees.

attendees at North Star Fund +1.5k events +$5.8M in grants for organizing and social justice desert educational annual evenings forums gala

and more!

Altogether in FY 2019, we awarded over $5.8 We organized events to bring together grassroots million in grants through our Community Funding leaders of campaigns, our allies in philanthropy and Committees, Rapid Response, Giving Project, special our donor community to talk about how to change initiatives and donor-advised funds. philanthropy and how to change NY. Over 1,500 people attended a North Star Fund event last year, ranging from intimate dessert evenings to educational forums, a tour of Hudson Valley activist communities and our annual gala.

4 | North Star Fund Neha Gautam

40 Years of Changing Who Decides in Philanthropy

When North Star Fund was founded in 1979, few Since then, hundreds of New Yorkers have been part foundations like us had ever existed. The prevailing of these committees, awarding millions in grants wisdom was that the best charitable decisions were to local organizing that’s won real victories for New made by the people with the most money, giving Yorkers. grants to established institutions. As of 2019, we have three activist-led committees: But a bold group of New Yorkers turned that idea on the New York City CFC, the Hudson Valley CFC and its head. They raised $50,000, then handed control the Let Us Breathe Fund CFC. In the last year, these of that money over to grassroots organizers to fund grantmakers have awarded over $1.5 million in grants emerging community-led organizations. to support organizing and movement building. These early Community Funding Committee If you trust the power of grassroots organizing like (CFC) activists picked bold organizations where our founders did, then join us in the work by making a people were rising up to take on injustice in their lives. contribution at northstarfund.org.

40 Years Bold | 5 Bold is Changing The Rules

In the last year, our grantees have been bold. What does that look like?

Passing the New York State Stopping Gentrification Dream Act in Queens 2

The New York State Dream Act will make financial aid Neighbors Beyond Amazon stopped the development and scholarships available to New Yorkers entering of Amazon’s HQ2 in Long Island City near the college without penalizing them for their immigration Queensbridge Housing Projects. status. Thanks to all the groups that worked on this, including Thanks New York State Youth Leadership Council, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, DRUM: Make the Road New York, African Communities Desis Rising Up and Moving, ALIGN, Jews for Racial Together and all the organizations that persisted for and Economic Justice, Centro Corona and Global ten years to win this! Action Project.

Winning Statewide Protections Bringing Participatory Budgeting for Tenants to every New York City Council 3 A coalition of groups mobilizing thousands of New district Yorkers won long-term protections stabilizing rents, Our grant to New York Civic Engagement Table penalizing tenant harassment, limits on application helped them educate voters via a text campaign. fees and more! Voters want a say in where their money goes! Thanks Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, and all the organizations who worked hard in Albany for Students Organized and Won this victory: Tenants & Neighbors, Crown Heights Tenants Union, Met Council on Housing and others. Changes to School The New York City Mayor’s Office announced a 2019 Ensuring Equal Access to Drivers’ citywide initiative to bring restorative justice practices to all NYC middle schools and high schools. Licenses 1 An organizing coalition won $41 million for social The Greenlight Campaign will ensure that people workers in schools to support students, so that all can access drivers licenses without regard to schools have counselors and not just cops. their immigration status. This way people can get The de Blasio administration has announced an themselves to work and school, and we can have aggressive plan to reintegrate NYC schools drawing more insured drivers on the road. heavily from proposals written by student-led group, Thanks to the Greenlight Coalition, which includes Integrate NYC. Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, Columbia County Thanks to Urban Youth Collaborative, Teachers Sanctuary Movement, New York Immigration Unite, the Dignity in Schools Campaign, Integrate Coalition DRUM: Desis Rising Up and Moving, and NYC and many other student leaders who are working Worker Justice Center of New York. for more just schools.

6 | North Star Fund When people directly affected by injustice organize, they build power. The victories they achieve don’t always take place at City Hall or in Albany, yet they are important nonetheless. Most of all, the power they build cannot be stopped. Support organizing, support North Star Fund.

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40 Years Bold | 7 Walter Hergt Bold is Fighting for Housing Justice

North Star Fund has been funding bold housing organizing for forty years. We support calls for sustainable, equitable community development and safe, affordable housing.

In fall 2018, knowing tenant laws were due to expire The new housing laws protect tenants from rent in 2019, grassroots organizers asked us to support hikes, fees, eviction and for the first time, create a first-ever statewide strategy session to plan the statewide tenant protections. fight forpermanent protections for tenants. When people are ready to organize and get the Aware that 2019 would be critical, our Community resources they need, they can make bold changes Funding Committee focused on funding housing that help all New Yorkers. advocacy. Then during the session, we amplified calls to action and provided grants for actions that brought For forty years we’ve been supporting bold housing thousands to the state capitol. organizing in New York. Join us!

8 | North Star Fund Cindy Trinh Sharing a Just Future

Do you want to create a legacy for a just future in New York?

A planned gift is one of the most powerful ways to This group of special New Yorkers have chosen to lay ensure a just future for all New Yorkers. It’s easier the groundwork for a just future by including North than you might think. Reach out and we’ll explain how Star Fund in their estate plans. to do it!

Andrew Courtney Clementine Brown Kamryn Wolf Michael Seltzer and Arva Rice Cory Greenberg Kynaston McShine * Ralph Tachuk Asa Johnson David Alexander Lise Vogel Michael Waterman and Yuka Hagiwara Barbara Winslow Elizabeth Melamid * Lloyd Martinez Nisha Atre Richardson Betty Kapetanakis * Jean Riesman Maggie Williams Peter Brest Betty Millard * John Sayles and Marjorie Fine C. Edwin Baker * Maggie Renzi Merry Tucker

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40 Years Bold | 9 Walter Hergt New York City Grants Grassroots Action

Grassroots Action grants support established to raise their voices and be heard. In FY 2019, these organizations led by New Yorkers who are directly grants ranged from $10,000 to $15,000 and included affected by the real-life problems caused by racism, access to resources to help these organizations sexism and greed. These organizations are mobilizing continue to grow. thousands of people in campaigns where they get

African Communities Crown Heights Jahajee Sisters: Parent Action Together Tenant Union / Urban Empowering Committee/ New Arab American Homesteading Indo-Caribbean Women Settlement Apartments Association of New York Assistance Board Justice Committee Rockaway Youth Task Black Women’s Blueprint Damayan Migrant Masa Force Workers Association Brandworkers Metropolitan Council Street Vendor Project Future of Tomorrow/ on Housing Sylvia Rivera Law Project Brooklyn Movement Cypress Hills Local Center Development Movimiento por Justicia Teachers Unite CAAAV Organizing Asian Corporation del Barrio Tenants and Neighbors Communities Faith in New York Neighbors Helping Urban Youth Neighbors CASA: Community Action Families United for Racial Collaborative for Safe Apartments and Economic Equality Neighbors Together Worker’s Justice Project / New Settlement (FUREE) New Immigrant Apartments YA-YA Network Flanbwayan Haitian Community Chinese Staff and Literacy Project Empowerment (NICE) Young Women of Color Workers’ Association HIV/AIDS Coalition Flatbush Tenant New York State Youth Communities United for Coalition/Flatbush Leadership Council Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Police Reform (CPR) Development NY Teamsters for a Community Food Corporation Democratic Union Advocates FPA-Foundation NYC Coalition for Total: $490,000 Educational Justice

10 | North Star Fund After 40 years, North Star Fund remains vital to seeding community activism”

IRIS MORALES, Activist and Publisher

Catalyst Grants Innovative Activism

Catalyst grants provide seed funding of $5,000 Our Innovative Activism grants support creative and $10,000 to support newer groups led by New solutions and alternatives that expand the breadth Yorkers from communities rising up in response to and complexity of local organizations building injustice. These grants come with annual renewals, grassroots leadership. In FY 2019, all these grants technical assistance and trainings for emerging were for $10,000. organizations. This allows grantees to build their The Black Feminist Truthworker Theatre leadership, expand their reach and deepen their Project Company strategies. Some of these groups were also Center for Third World The Women’s awarded special one-time grants. Organizing (CTWO) Organizing Network Global Action Project The Working Alliance of Families for House Lives Matter World/ Worker- Justice (HLM) Hattie Carthan Community Food Owned Rockaway Black Trans Media IntegrateNYC Projects Cooperatives Black Youth Project 100 Million Hoodies Rise Education Fund Movement for Justice Sure We Can Total: $100,000 Campaign for Northern Manhattan is Alternatives to Not for Sale Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Isolated Confinement Parole Preparation (CAIC) Project Carroll Gardens Project Hajra Association/Domestic Workers Union Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Centro Corona Voces Ciudadanas CUNY Rising Alliance East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust Total: $195,000 Foreclosure Resisters

40 Years Bold | 11 African Communities Let Us Breathe Fund Together Black Alliance for Just Immigration North Star Fund’s Let Us Breathe Fund Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP) moves resources to Black-led and multiracial Black Trans Media organizations and movements reimagining Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund community safety and building economic Brooklyn Movement Center Communities United for sustainability in Black communities. In FY 2019, Police Reform (CPR) these grants totaled $160,000 and bring the total Community Voices Heard Equality for Flatbush grantmaking for this fund to over $860,000 since Faith in New York its inception in 2015. FIERCE Girls for Gender Equity Justice Committee Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Picture the Homeless Black-led Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) UndocuBlack Network organizing will Urban Youth Collaborative

set us free.” Total: $160,000

KESI FOSTER, Former Let Us Breathe CFC member

12 | North Star Fund People Power Giving Project Grants

Black Trans Media Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) Crown Heights Tenant Union/ Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Damayan Migrant Workers Association Families for Freedom Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) Flushing Workers Center Jahajee Sisters: Empowering Indo-Caribbean Women Bold is Raising Justice Committee Laundry Workers Center Money from Your LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent Community Masa Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio Our 2019 Giving Project brought together over New York State Youth Leadership Council twenty people from different race and class Parent Action Committee / New Settlement Apartments backgrounds to recognize their shared stake in Project Hajra supporting local grassroots movements for justice. Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Rockaway Youth Task Force Over six months, members spent weekends examining their Urban Youth Collaborative relationship to money and learning about the history of wealth Voces Ciudadanas distribution that got us where we are today. They also learned about grassroots movements for justice in New York, and how to ask their friends and family to support bold local organizing. Total: $206,305

The Giving Project is part of a In just a few months, equipped with new skills and with one-on- growing national movement to one support from North Star Fund, Giving Project members raised practice sharing power within over a quarter million dollars. Then together they selected twenty philanthropy. Do you want to organizations to receive grants. practice bold new ways of giving?

Join us!

40 Years Bold | 13 #100Sistas ADELANTE Student Voices Birth From The Earth Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Community Governance & Development Council (CGDCNY) Evergreen Garden Freedom Food Alliance Grace Immigrant Outreach In Our Own Voices Kite’s Nest MHAction Newburgh LGBTQ+ Center Hudson Valley Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson Education Fund Momentum Rise Up Kingston Schaghticoke First Nations Staley B. Keith Rural communities in New York’s Hudson Valley Social Justice Center are building bold, people-powered networks to The Underground Center VOCAL-NY resist racism and xenophobia, and they’re building Worker Justice Center of New York them one town at a time. Yonkers Sanctuary Movement

Even as ICE ramps up their attacks on communities, groups like Total: $275,000 Columbia County Sanctuary Movement and Yonkers Sanctuary Movement offer Know Your Rights Training so that people are ready when ICE tries to force their way in. Phone and text-trees activate hundreds of people when someone gets detained. In Saugerties, the Underground Center is teaching people about the history of the Hudson Valley, and bringing people together to talk about non-exploitative ways to live in the region. Meanwhile, ADELANTE Student Voices is placing undocumented students in social justice internships, building connections across issues and geography. In 2019, we made our first three-year grants for organizing in the Hudson Valley. Our Hudson Valley grants for fiscal year 2018-19 include three-year awards totaling $655,000, with $275,000 moving into these communities in 2019. They support the vibrant power of New Yorkers taking on housing access, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ violence, food security and other issues across a wide geographic region.

14 | North Star Fund Donor-Advised Grants

Donor-advised funds allow individuals or groups of negative attention for allowing the rich to amass donors to make a one-time contribution or several wealth and avoid taxes, we’re proud that the donors contributions over time and then decide what we work with are committed to moving resources to organizations and movements the fund will support communities that need it. later. They are an easier and faster alternative to With over $4.1 million in total gifts, FY 2019 was private and family foundations. the largest year of donor-advised fund grants in our Although donor-advised funds have rightly attracted history.

Anonymous Teamster Rank & File Emma Goldman Central American Brooklyn Community Education and Legal Resource Center Defense Foundation Fund (CARECEN) Foundation MADRE Clean Air Coalition of Columbia College Bronx Dreaming International Western NY Dance Place Scholarship Fund Dreamers Scholar- Community Voices for FIERCE Adam Fane Youth and Families Ashley Foreman ship Fund Fund for Johns Hopkins Gao Xiang Lin Community Voices Heard Medicine/ Johns Leidy Periel Hopkins University Jose A. Cedillo Rodriguez Cosecha School of Medicine Caribou Fund Laura Desrosiers generative somatics Groundswell NYC Brooklyn Arts Exchange MD Hossain Groundswell Fund (BAX) Harvard University Roberto Morales Hand in Hand: The Cumbe: Center for Domestic Employers Institute for New Yanely Jean Louis Economic Thinking African and Diaspora Network Dance IntegrateNYC Joanne Lukomnik Hudson Valley Community Coalition Labor Neighbor Research Dinner Guys Giving Fund for Health Care & Training Center Circle Reform Immigrant Defense Fund Million Hoodies GAPIMNY Physicians for a National Justice for Migrant Health Program - New Families Movement for Justice New York Immigration York Metro Chapter NC Farmworkers Project Coalition (NYIC) Kino Border Initiative PolicyLink PFLAG NYC Kindling Fund Long Island Civic Engagement Table Southern Center for SAGE Advocacy Institute Human Rights Annunciation House Make the Road New York Ellis Scholarship Asian Pacific Mijente Support Asian American Im- Fund Environmental Network Committee Amirah Zeba pact Fund Black Lives Matter Movement for Black Project New Yorker Djenin Kamara Network Lives Fund MPower Change Barbara Adler Josue Santamaria Black Love Resists in the Zeluck Fund Rust New American Leaders Association for Union Black Organizing for New Energy Economy Democracy Leadership & Dignity New York Communities (BOLD) Center for Changes Organizing Fund (Solidarity) Black Youth Project 100 New York Civic Education Fund Center for Constitutional Engagement Table Rights Center for Popular New York Immigration Democracy Labor Notes Coalition (NYIC)

40 Years Bold | 15 New York Renews Play It Forward Fund Kindle Project Movement for Black Nobody Leaves Mid- 972 – Advancement of Kingston Land Trust Lives Fund Citizen Journalism Hudson Education Fund Long Table Harvest New Israel Fund Other Shore Alliance for Quality Political Education Education Museum of Human Preparing Leaders of Achievement Network Project Tomorrow (PLOT) American Civil Liberties Political Research Union Foundation O Positive Prison Policy Initiative Associates Bank Street Public Policy and Project South Education Fund Resource Generation Barnard College PUSH Buffalo Rise Up Kingston Showing Up for Racial Blue Mountain Center Justice (SURJ) Racial Justice Action Worker Justice Center of Center Campaign for a New York Solidaire Commercial-Free Resource Generation Southerners On New Childhood Sobelstein Fund Ground SEPA Mujer Columbia County 826 National Strategy Research Showing Up for Racial Sanctuary Movement Astraea Lesbian Project Justice (SURJ) Columbia Land Foundation For Justice SVARA: A Traditionally S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth Conservancy Audre Lorde Project Radical Yeshiva Team Blackbird Counseling In Schools Bend the Arc: Jewish Sylvia Rivera Law Project Third Wave Fund Defending the Early Partnership for Justice The Runway Project Years VOCAL-NY Boston Immigrant The Working World/ Groundswell NYC Justice Accompaniment Wildfire Project Worker-Owned Network Harlem Valley Rail Trail Rockaway Cooperatives Worker Justice Center of Carolina Jews for Justice New York Institute for Local Self- Third Wave Fund Reliance Circle for Justice Workers Center of Transgender Law Center Innovations Central New York Journey for Justice T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call Alliance City Life/Vida Urbana for Human Rights Liberation Fund Kolot Chayeinu Climate Justice Alliance Underground Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center Mesa Refuge Common Counsel Unnamed Youth Justice Foundation Giving Circle CAAAV: Organizing Asian Morningside Center Communities for Teaching Social CommonWealth Kitchen Responsibility Communities United for Sugar Forest Fund Chicago United for Equity Picture the Homeless Network for Public Police Reform (CPR) Common Counsel Education Tenants and Neighbors Foundation Dudley Street New Israel Fund Neighborhood Initiative Weeksville Heritage Communities United for Center Police Reform (CPR) New York Civil Liberties First Nations Union Foundation Development Institute Healing Justice Podcast Tom and Michele Prometheus Project Global Fund for Women New Economy Coalition Foundation Solidarity Fund Griffin-Gracy Educational American Jewish World One Common Unity Public Justice Retreat & Historical Service Center Sanctuary for Families Brandworkers Haymarket People’s Fund T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call Center for Popular for Human Rights Highlander Research and Democracy Education Center Common Cause Sarah Rosenthal and Jewish Studio Project Education Fund - New Morgan Coy Fund Jews for Racial and York Catskill Mountainkeeper Economic Justice Community Development COHI Jews United for Justice Project/TakeRoot Justice CultureConnect Keshet Community Voices Heard Good Work Institute Life Comes From It Fund Doctors Without Borders

16 | North Star Fund Good Old Lower East Unfettered Fund Black Land and Power Movement for Black Side (GOLES) Astraea Lesbian Project Lives Fund Hunger Free America Foundation for Justice Catalyst Project POOR Magazine Litchfield Performing National Domestic Circle for Justice Resource Generation Workers Alliance Arts Innovations Solidaire Resource Generation Make the Road New York Corporate Accountability Third Wave Fund Third Wave Fund MPower Change Corrections University of California, New York Times Unnamed Youth Justice Accountability Project Berkeley Foundation Neediest Cases Fund Giving Circle Grassroots International Nobody Leaves Mid- Works in Healing Justice Podcast Hudson Education Fund Total: $4,168,292 Progress Fund Michigan Welfare Rights Picture the Homeless Audre Lorde Project Organization

In 2020 we’ll be announcing changes to our donor-advised fund. Stay tuned!

40 Years Bold | 17 Special Grant Initiatives Rapid Response Grants Justice Committee Parole Preparation Project North Star Fund makes Rapid Response grants year- Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Picture the Homeless round to support organizing and activism in response Movimiento por Rise to urgent threats and breaking opportunities for Justicia del Barrio Rockaway Youth Task mobilizing communities. Rapid Response grants New York State Youth Force support organizations to be nimble, and in some Leadership Council Street Vendor Project cases, can help bring their campaigns to the final Newburgh LGBTQ+ Teachers Unite steps to victory. These grants were $2,500 or $5,000. Center Tenants and Neighbors CAAAV Organizing Asian Newburgh LGBTQ+ Nobody Leaves Mid- Communities Center Hudson Education Fund The Women’s Organizing Network Crown Heights NY Civic NY Teamsters for a Tenant Union / Urban Engagement Table Democratic Union Worker Justice Center of New York Homesteading NY Immigration Coalition Assistance Board NYC Coalition for Total: $127,500 Families for Freedom Educational Justice Grannies Respond NYC Veterans Alliance Community Food Funders Champions IntegrateNYC Release Aging People in Award Make the Road New York Prison (RAPP) Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming Mekong NYC Street Vendor Project Total: $5,000 Movimiento por Justicia Yonkers Sanctuary del Barrio Movement Education Justice Fund New York Communities NYC Coalition for Urban Youth Collaborative Organizing Fund Educational Justice Total: $74,500 Total: $130,510

Capacity Building Grants Frederick Douglass Award Columbia County Release Aging People in We have a long term commitment to build the Sanctuary Movement Prison (RAPP) capacity of our grantee partners in their work. In FY Total: $5,000 2019, while we examined the results of our long- running Movement Leadership Program, we offered Special Initiatives one-time grants to strengthen current grantees. We have some New York City grants that are unique. These $5,000 grants supported current grantees as For example, grants for our participation in funder they developed their communication, fundraising and collaboratives that directly benefit our grantees or strategy skills. special circumstance grants. African Communities Faith in New York New York Communities Reclaim Pride Coalition Together Flanbwayan Haitian Organizing Fund Sustainable Agriculture Audre Lorde Project Literacy Project NYC Capacity Building and Food Systems Brooklyn Movement Global Action Project Collaborative Funders Center In Our Own Voices NYC Fund for Girls and Theatre of the Oppressed Carroll Gardens Jahajee Sisters Young Women of Color NYC Association/Domestic Empowering Indo- Total: $40,500 Workers Union Caribbean Women Columbia County Sanctuary Movement

18 | North Star Fund Changing Philanthropy

North Star Fund partners with allies in philanthropy organizing in communities of color, and we look who share our commitment to transforming systems forward to deepening that commitment in the years of white supremacy and exclusion within philanthropy. to come. We partner, we educate, and we challenge when Community Food Funders needed. This year brought the rise of collaborations within Community Food Funders (CFF) has continued its philanthropy where we took opportunities to change: unique regional role as an organizing project that supports the growth of an equitable, ecologically • We were an original signer of the Hate is Not sound and sustainable food system in New York, Charitable campaign to keep our donor-advised New Jersey and Connecticut. With educational funds from funding known hate groups. events and networking opportunities, CFF reached • We’re one of the inaugural signers of the over one hundred people who worked with local GUTC pledge (Grantmakers United for Trans funders last year. Communities) to organize funders to take concrete In early 2019, Community Food Funders launched the steps for inclusion and strategic funding of trans Seeding Power fellowship, an innovative eighteen- communities. month, cohort-based food justice fellowship program • We organized an event for Edgar Villanueva, author for experienced leaders working across sectors to of Decolonizing Wealth, to be in conversation with build equitable food systems. Modeled after our local activist and tribal leader Sachem HawkStorm successful Movement Leadership program, fellows on how indigenous models can positively influence met for the first two of their five leadership retreats to philanthropy. build relationships and a stronger justice movement We’re proud to carry on a decades-long legacy for the region. of moving more resources to support grassroots

40 Years Bold | 19 Thank You to Our Donors Thank you to all the people who made gifts to North Star Fund to support the grants and programs you see in this action report.

Anonymous (82) Aliza Arenson Anita Altman Barry and Maija Nobel 1199SEIU Child Care Allison Kave Anjana Samant Bart and Myra Goldberg Corporation Alma Reyes Ann Ambia Beatrice Stern 2125 Pelican Fund of Ama Shabazz Ann Roberts Belinda Broido the Princeton Area Community Foundation Amaha Kassa Anna Sian Benjamin Barg A&E Television Networks Amalgamated Bank Anna Weisberg Benjamin Brewer Abner Greene Amalgamated Charitable Anne Hess and Bernard Dikman Foundation Craig Kaplan Adam and Candice Beth Herz Weinstock Amanda Becker Anne Marie Toccket Beth Jacobs Adam Hellegers Amanda Litman Anne Tatreau-Stewart and Bette Craig Xavier Stewart Adam Lerer AmazonSmile Foundation Bhavana Nancherla Annie Shields Ade Faly Amber Dennis Bill Leavitt Anthony A. Yoseloff Adele and Samuel Braude Amida Care Boston Foundation Anthony Bellavia Adrienne Wong Amy Barasch Brad Lander and Anthony Perez AFSCME, DC 37 Local 371 Amy Hordes Meg Barnette Antwon Allen Akil Rose Amy Meckler Braeden Lentz Anya Volz Alejandra Ruiz Amy Rosenthal Brandi Stewart Aquib Yacoob Alethia Jones Amy Wagner Bread and Roses Archit Bhargava Community Fund Alex Wozniak Amy Wolf and Bennett Baumer Arielle Altman Brendan Scannell Alexa Weitzman Ana De La Rosa Arline Segal Brett Leonard Alexander Slater Ana Espina Arthur and Trudy Golden Brett Stoudt Alexandra Jacobus and Ted Auerbach Ana Karchmer Asa and Jodi Lu Johnson Brian Chhor Alexandra Raskin-Yin Anarghya Vardhana Ashley Richmond Bridgette LaQue Alexandra Wilde Andersen Tax The Ashurst Foundation Bright Funds Foundation Alexandria Linn Andrea Badalamenti Astrid Lewis Reedy Britta Rowings Alexis Iwanisziw and Andrea De Toledo Audrey Sasson Bronx Defenders Mychal Campos Andrea Durojaiye Avi Robinson-Mosher Brooke Lehman Alexis Ortiz Andrea Ritchie Avram Reisner Bruce Auerbach Alexis Villarin Andrea Taylor Azadeh Khalili Bruce Bigelow Ali Vazquez Andrei Cervoneascii Barbara Abrash Bryce Petty Alice Shechter Andrew Courtney Barbara Downey Burke Stansbury Alice Woodman-Russell Andrew Goldberg and Barbara Gross Caitlin Halpern Alicia Arrington Karen Putterman Barbara Michelson and Caitlin Salemi Alicia Mountain Andrew Ippoliti James Heffron Callie Jayne Alison Roh Park Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Barbara Stiefel Candis Tolliver Alissa Levin Andrew Williams Barbara Turk Cara Gagliano Alix Gould-Werth Angel Yau Barbara Weinreich Carina Fish Alix Shulman Angela Cho Barbara Winslow Caroline Cotter

20 | North Star Fund Caroline Falzone Colin Touhey David Alexander Elise Boddie Carolyn Hall and Colleen Cunningham David and Amy Kornblau Elise Jayakar Kelly AuCoin Colleen Hunter The David and Eliza McNabb Casey Weston Colleen Poklemba Barbara Hirschhorn Elizabeth Busch and Foundation Cassie Schwerner Colleen Taylor Ruth Allanbrook David Chang Cat Eugenio Color Of Change Elizabeth Clay-Roy David Cohen Catherine Eusebio Conant Family Foundation Elizabeth Decolvenaere Catherine Flanagan David Forbes and Elizabeth Dukes Constina Alston-Howley Iris Lopez Catherine Fossey and Eamon Howley Elizabeth Fosnight David Mardis Cathy Heskin cori parrish and Elizabeth Gilmore David Satz Cavell Stephenson Sierra Spingarn Elizabeth Hands Deandra Khan CBIZ Employee Benefits Corinna Matlis Elizabeth McLoughlin Debbie Peters and Cecilia Lim Corinne Duffy and Elizabeth Zuckerman Daniel Levine Gerson Lesser Cedric and Deborah Slaner Larkin Ellen Brooks Susannah Bien-Gund Corinne Spingarn and Steve Bicknese Deborah Meer Ellen Chapnick Celina Kirchner Cory Hargus Deirdre Valente Elliot Stoller The Center for Popular Ellyn and William Lindsay Democracy Council of School Delia Denson Supervisors and Demos Elspeth Gilmore Chancy Bhatt Administrators Denise Aquino Emerson Soto Chanda Williams Crystal Middlestadt Denise Sobel Emily Bluedorn Chandra Fogg Crystal Jones Devin McDougall Emily Earle Charlene and Mike Stiles Cynthia Chatman Dihan Hossain Emily Gerbner Charlotte Phillips Cynthia Howells Dina Sharon Emily Jane Goodman Charter Communications, Cynthia Watkins Inc. Dina Sigal Emily Straus D. J. Ierardi Chaya Crowder Donald Goldberg and Emily Waters Dan Silverman and Chelsea Crowder Tracy de la Mater Emma Hammonds Barbara Deinhardt Goldberg Cheryl Riess Emma Jablonski Dana Bourland Donna Katzin and Chinook Fund Dana Davis Alan Altschuler Emma Kreyche Chris Wade Dana Kaplan-Angle Donna Thompson Emma Otheguy Christa Orth Dana Mindlin Doris Duke Charitable Emma Pliskin Christelle Prophete Daniel Backman Foundation, Inc. Emma Yorra Christine Oh Daniel Glover Doug Wingo Emmanuel Cantor Christine Olson Daniel Gross Douglas Marron Eric Milano Christine Parker Daniel Ourian Douglass DeCandia Eric Yaverbaum Christopher Bumcrot Daniel Peng and Drew Epstein Erica Rodas Christopher Edmonds Catherine Shu Earl and Margaret Chesson Esmeralda Huerta Christopher Evers Daniel Silver Edgar Rivera Colon Esther Alix Christopher Gunderson Daniel Sinnreich Edgar Villanueva Esther Burson Clarence Mills Daniel Stern and Kit Fraser Edith Mendoza Ethan Pomerance Claude Heffron Daniel Weinreich Edward Hong Eugenia Lee Claudia Wilner Danielle Mooney El Centro del Inmigrante Evalani Pandaraoan Claudine Kabera Danielle Wessler Elana Leopold Evan Casper-Futterman Clementine Brown Daphne Foundation Eleanor Bader Eve Mersfelder Codi Haigney Daphne Joslin Elena Conte Faith in New York Cole Yaverbaum Dara Silverman The Elias Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

40 Years Bold | 21 Fifth Avenue Committee Hannah Wainright Fund James Schaffer and The Jerome L. Greene Flor Gonzalez The Harmon Foundation Ilana Lerman Foundation Foley Family Foundation Harold Wolpert James Subudhi Jerome Liebowitz Ford Foundation Harvard Pilgrim Health Jamila Osman Jesse Luehrs Ford Foundation Care Foundation Jane Johnston Jesse Thurston Matching Gifts Hays Golden Jane Lerner Jessica Arthars Foundation for Headwaters Foundation Jane Williams Jessica Siegel and a Just Society for Justice Jane Woodman Michael O’Malley Frances Degen Horowitz Heather Heffelmire Janet Jakobsen Jessie King Frances Geteles-Shapiro Heather Thiry Janet Paskin Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Francis Greenburger Heding Yang Janice Bloom JetBlue Frank Liu Helaine Katz Janice Cimberg Fried Jewish Communal Fund Frank Roosevelt Helen Cohen and Janis Gildin Frieda Arth Mark Lipman Jews for Racial and Jarrett Lucas Economic Justice Fund for Social Change Helen Kim Jason Harvey Jill Aguado F.Y. Ey e Helen Rosner and James Basili Jay Oppenheim Jill Dowling G. Fredrick Charitable Jeanie Riess Foundation Helen Stillman Jill Hamberg Jeff Gahres Gabriel Rivera Henry P. Kendall Jill Jacobs and Guy Foundation Jeff Isreeli and Austrian Gara LaMarche and Karen Metzger Lisa Mueller High Meadows Fund Jimmy Donnellan Jeffrey Blum Gary S. Nash Holly Fetter Jimmy Taber Jeffrey Coleman Genia Wright Hope Checkley Joan Anderson Jeffrey and Eva Kittay Geoffrey Wilkinson Howard and Martha Scott Joan Budd Jen Marlowe George Suttles Howard Goodman Joan Shao Jen Thom GFP Real Estate Hudson Valley Farm Hub Joanna Pozen Jenn Grauer Gisela Alvarez and Hugh Hogan Joanna Yip Ian Lester Hunter Nisonoff Jennifer Carnig Joanne Lyman Gisela Gamper Ian Post Jennifer Chapman Joe Hsu Glen Water Ila Duncan Jennifer Ching and Johanna Miller Jeffrey Lee Glenda Johnson Ilana Milstein John and Barbara Muir Jennifer and Daniel Chiou Gonzalo Cruz Carreon Imani Franklin John Breitbart Jennifer Flynn and Gonzalo Mercado Ira Yankwitt and Bela Walker John Hammond Gayle Kirshenbaum Google, Inc. Jennifer Goodale and John Loonam and Goran Mitevski Irene Cheng Mark Russell Maria Mottola Gordon Johnson and Iris Morales Jennifer Kaizer John and Martha Wolf Nancy Lee Irteza Binte-Farid Jennifer Ladd John Norwood Grace Lile Isaac Silver Jennifer Lopez John Russell Gregory Halzen Isabelle H. Leighton and Jennifer Queenan John Sayles and Timothy J. Cavaretta Maggie Renzi Greta Schwerner Jeremy Bloom Ivan Rosales John Won Guadalupe Jackie Muller Jeremy Greenfield Ivana Espinet Johnson Family Foundation Gwenn Cagann and Jeremy Heyman Ross MacIntyre J. Dinsmore Adams Jonah Kagan Jeremy and Julian Liu Hannah Emple J. Maya Iwata Jonathan Alvarez Jeremy Meyers Hannah Mercuris Jacalyn Barnett Jonathan Greenberg Jeremy Rye Hannah Mogul-Adlin James Amenta Jonathan Kalin Jermaine Pierre Hannah Wainright James Burke Jonathan Rodkin

22 | North Star Fund Jonathan and Vivian Liu Katherine Roth Leigh Dodson and Luke and Jonathan Westin Katherine Selden Paul Mersfelder Christine Elliott-Negri Joo-Hyun Kang Katherine Terenzi Leila Berkley Lumumba and Monifa Akinwole-Bandele Jose Vasquez Katherine Valyi Lena Solow Luna Yasui Joseph Lagana-Jackson Kathleen Pequeño and Lenina Nadal Lynda Rodolitz Joseph Lipofsky Dana J. Schneider Leonard Rodberg Lynn Sanchez Joseph Miller-Gamble Kathryn Silverstein Leonard Rubin Madeleine Durante Joseph Price Kathryn Skelton Leslie Kruempel Madeline Legg Joseph Richburg Katie Goodman Letitia and James Brown Mael Apollon Josie Hodson Katie Unger Levitt Foundation Maggie Jacoby Joyce and Irving Goldman Katilin McNabb Lianna Levine Reisner and Family Foundation Katrina vanden Heuvel Elnatan Reisner Maggie Williams Joyce Yu Kehinde Akiwowo Libby DeLucia Jeanie Riess Juan Flores Keith Brooks Lijia Gong The Maine Community Foundation Judith Liebeskind Keith Catone Lillian & Ira Langsan Foundation Manuela Arciniegas Judith Ward and Kelly Osmundson Bernard Tuchman The Lily Auchincloss Marc and Elayne Baskin Kelly Titus Foundation, Inc. Judy Meyers Marc Gross and Ken and Sharon Kind Lily Berticevich Susan Ochshorn Julia Iwamasa and Kevin Borden Nathan Thornburgh Linda Brown March Gallagher Kevin Chen Julia Mannes Linda Cox Margaret Woodman- Kevin Ching Russell Julia Strapp Linda Cronin-Gross Kevin Russell Margarita Guzman Julie and Frank Lentz Linda Grasso Kevin Yuh Margarita Levieva Julie Pontonnier Linda Kesler Kingdon Capital Linda Lilienfeld Margit Reiner Juliet Melamid Management, LLC Linda Oalican Margot Seigle June Makela and Kohtaro Takeuchi Mark Fischweicher Linda Stein Margot Tishler Kolu Zigbi and Marguerite Leslie Justin Gullingsrud Darren Johnson Lindsay O’Connell María Jaime Justin Ruben Kristin Sage Rockermann Lindsey Gauzza Maria Jose Rosa Kamryn Wolf Krystal Portalatin Linn Shapiro Maria T. Sanchez Kana Yoo Krystal Turner Lisa Barlow and Alan Towbin Mariah Davis Karel Rose Kung Ko Lisa Grumet and Mark Daly Marie Therese Guirgis Karen Louviere The Estate of Karen Pittelman Kynaston McShine Lisa Philp and Bill Bragin Marilyn Neimark and Alisa Solomon Karen Rosenberg Lady M Lisa Schnall Marina Heung Karen Segal and Laine Kaplan-Levenson Lisa Steglich Mario Lugay David Green Laura Ferguson Lise Vogel Marion Minton Karen Zelermyer Laura Ma Liz Hirsch and Karen Pratt Marissa Martin Kate Linker Laura Ohm Lizzy Berryman Marissa Tirona Kate Rubin Laura Whitehorn Lodz Joseph Marissa Torres Katherine Acey Laurie Kennedy Lola Lloyd Horwitz and Donald Horwitz Marjorie Fine Katherine Bassell Crowe The Laurie M. Tisch Katherine Cummings Illumination Fund Lori and Alan Unger Marjorie Smith Katherine Howitt Leah Obias Lori Pellegrino Mark Buhrmester Katherine Lindsay Leanora Michel Lucretia John Mark Colon Katherine McCreary Lee Schere Luis Silva Mark Foggin Katherine McHale Mark Grossman

40 Years Bold | 23 Mark Lopez and Michael Seltzer and Nicole Follmann Peter Ginna Leslie Spira Lopez Ralph Tachuk Nicole Francis Peter Kleban Mark Reed and Michael Strupp-Levitsky Nicole Kwoh Peter Martin Daria Ilunga Michael Young and Nicole Morse Peter and Roberta Gottlieb Mark Winston Griffith Debra Raskin Nicole Press Petra Vega Marlena Sonn Michele Burger and Niles Stewart Phoenix Gayle Martha Fleischman Tom Cramer Michelle Santana Nisha Atre Richardson and Pico Kassell and Mary Humphreys Art Richardson Andrew Strom Mike and Janice Sugerman Mary Matthews Nisha Varia Pierre Hauser Miriam Fogelson Mary Nolan Njideka Motanya Professional Staff Miriam Hernandez Mary Read Noah Rumpf Congress Mohammed Nurhussein Mary-Lynn Cesar Noel Wax Purvi Shah Mollie Andron Matthew Lang Noelia Garcia R. Rubin Family Foundation Mollie Kirk Matthew See Nora Wong Rachel Alexander Molly McShane Maura Bairley Norah Scott Rachel Fletcher Mona Chun Maura Russell Nupur Chaudhury Rachel Isreeli Maximilian Tabet Monona Yin and Rachel Miller Steve Fahrer New York State Nurses McGuire Lambert Association (NYSNA) Rachel O’Leary Carmona Naftuli Moster Meema Spadola Oak Foundation U.S.A. Rachel Terrell-Perica Nancy Eng Meeta Anand and Ogonnaya Dotson Rae Leiner H James Lucas Nancy Holmstrom and Newman Richard Smith Ragnar Naess Meg Fidler Oliver Cannell Nancy Leeser Ralph Cataldo Megan Lardner Olivia Ryan Nancy Meyer and Ralph E. Ogden Meghan Faux Marc Weiss Oluwaseun Owolabi Foundation, Inc. Meghan McDermott Nancy and Richard Mann Open Society Foundations Rashad Chambers Mekaelia Davis Nancy Weinreich The Overbrook Foundation Rebecca Brown Melamid Fund of the Naomi Brussel P. Elizabeth Baldwin Rebecca Lurie Silicon Valley Community Pamela Conant Rebecca Missel Foundation Naomi Schechter Patrice Green Rebecca Weinreich Melanie Flaxer Naomi Sobel and Becky Silverstein Patricia Ackerman Reed Young Melissa Apperson Narae Kim Patricia Eng Reena Karani and Melissa Chua Naseer Siddique Patricia Jones Helen Schaub Melissa De Leon Natalia Ortiz Patricia Kozu Regina De Los Santos Melissa Gomez Natalie Matthews Patricia Lowry and Resource Generation Merck Family Fund Natasha and Kamal Pallan John Touhey Reuben Traite Meredith Fenton Nathaniel Lubin Patrick Cranston Ricardo A. Watson Merry Tucker Naviera Charlton Patrick Temple Richard Burns and Mertz-Gilmore Foundation Robert Berg Neal Elkin Paul Gagnon MFS Gives Richard Lefkowitz Nedra McClyde Paul O’Neil and Michael Duncan Elizabeth J. Young Richard Levengood New Economy Project Michael Gottwald Paula Gellman Rick Frank and New York Community Alison Conant Michael Hirschhorn and Trust Paula Tucker Jimena Martinez Pepper Binkley Rick Hobish and New York Foundation Florence Wiener Michael Howley Peter Brest New York Women’s Rini Banerjee Michael Mullaley Foundation Peter Gates Rita Kamani Michael Reynnells Nick Freudenberg and Peter Gee and Wendy Chavkin Jeffrey Helfgott Robert Ackerman

24 | North Star Fund Robert Cermele Sarah Abbott Stephen Foster UBS Robert Dowling Sarah Ahn Stephen Hilton Unitarian Universalist Robert McCreanor Sarah Allison Charitable Fund Veatch Program at Shelter Rock Robert Nixon Sarah Knight and Stephen Ruszczyk United We Dream Robert Robinson Marc Johnson Steve and Susan Jacobson Vaeme Afokpa Robert Sherman Sarah Ludwig Sunny Noh van Ameringen Foundation Robert Spencer Sarah Mulhern Suri Nisker Vanessa Selbst Robert Sterling Clark Sarah Rosenthal and Susan Chan Foundation Morgan Coy Susan and Charles Stillman Vera Institute of Justice Robert Tod Chubrich Sarah Ryan Susan Feder and Victor Quintana and Anne Canty Robyn Calder Sarah Wen Todd Gordon Victor Thomas Rockefeller Philanthropy Sarah Youssof and Susan John Advisors Lee Taylor Susan Kingsland Vincent McGee Rodkin Family Foundation Sarika Kumar Susan Kupfer Vivienne Peng Ronald Napal Sayu Bhojwani Susan Lee Warren Cohen Rory-Andrew Giddings Scherman Foundation Susan Penick Wendy Mackenzie Rosalie and Alan Friend Schott Foundation for Susan Swern Wendy Wagner Public Education Rosalie Sassano Susan Wefald Wendy Zwick Senate Garage Rosalind Paaswell Susanna Blankley Wheelock Whitney Shachar Foundation Trust Rosalind Petchesky Susanne Hashim William Bailey Shadia Alvarez Rose and Sherle Wagner Suzannah Rubinstein William Boling Shana Mills Foundation Suzanne Lipkin William Newman Shannon Harvey Rose Coppola and Eileen Taij Moteelall William Wong Goldberg Sharon Stapel Tami Gold Win Chesson Rosemarie Frascella Sharon Wasko and Women’s Foundation of Michael Erwin Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rosemary Moore and Kenyatta Matthews Oregon Josh Shneider Sharon Wyse Tani Takagi Woodcock Foundation Ross Yednock Sharone Bunim Taryn Higashi Wyman Khuu Roxana Tynan Sheila Garcia Tatyana Kleyn Ying-Ying Ma Russell G. and Shelley Levine and Yitzhak Sharon Elz Cuya Jones Larry Schwartz Tess Golden and Dimitri Wohns Yuan Li Ruth Misheloff Shifra Bronznick Tess Rankin Yuka Hagiwara and Saara N. Hafeez Shijuade Kadree Theo Copley Michael Waterman The Sagner Family Shivam Mathura Yul-san Liem Foundation Theodore Moore Shoshana Brown Yvonne Shashoua Saima Anjam Thomas Brigandi Silver Sun Foundation Zachary Boger Saint Mark Thompson Thomas Johnson and Sofia Chang Ina Smith Johnson Zachary Scott Dr. Sally K. Donaldson Sonia Murrow Thomas Phillips and Zahra Haque Sally Gottesman Sonia Robbins Jane Moore Johnson Zhaleh Afshar Sally Hamann Foundation Sonja Shield Zhiyin Jin Sam Jacobs Thomas Weitz Sophia Lajaunie Zinzi Bailey Sam King Tides Foundation Spencer Parker Zoe Morvay Samantha Franklin Sprocket Foundation Tokunbo Anifalaje

Samuel Graham-Felsen Stan Mark Tracy Dandrade Samuel Huse Trina Semorile Starry Night Fund Santiago Ibarra Stella Zahn Trinity Thompson Sara Gold Stephanie Golden Tyler Gund

40 Years Bold | 25 IN HONOR OF

Adrienne Wong Columbia County James A. Toles Jr. Paul Mersfelder Akil Rose Sanctuary Movement Jane Mills Pepper Binkley Alexis Ortiz Constina Alston-Howley Jeanie Riess Petra Vega and Eamon Howley Alvarez Symonette Jenifer Thom Phoenix Gayle Dana Kaplan-Angle Ammiel Simon Jennifer Ching Release Aging People in Daniel M. Huse Amy Meckler Jonathan Kalin Prison (RAPP) David and Carolyn Smilow Rodney Jay DeBraux, Jr. Andrew Goldberg and forthcoming kids Lianna Levine Reisner Ann Bastian Lilian D. Sprague Sarah Frank and Davna and Sonia Josh Wessler Anne Tatreau-Stewart and Daxa Patel Linda Sarsour Xavier Stewart Seun Owolabi Ellen O. Margaret Woodman- Anya Rous Russell The ancestors Elz Cuya Jones The Awesome Staff of Marilyn, Fran, and Al The North Star Fund Em Giving Project North Star Fund Marjorie Fine Ayan Osman Emily Joslin-Roher and Staff and board of the Rachel Simons Maurice Mitchell North Star Fund Barbara Winslow George Suttles Mayra Hidalgo Salazar Tom Cramer and Betty Kapetanakis Guadalupe Jackie Muller Mike Waterman and Michele Burger Bolden Jones Yuka Hagiwara Harry and Frances Lester Tom Weinreich Cavell Stephenson Monona Yin Hays Golden William Joseph Butler Christelle Prophete Natasha Yael Sacks Helen Stillman Win Chesson Christine Parker Ogonnaya Newman Jack Robbins Patty Cannizzaro

This list includes gifts made from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. If there are errors or omissions on this list, please let us know and accept our apologies. Kindly send updates or corrections to [email protected].

26 | North Star Fund Financials

North Star Fund had a strong financial year in 2019. We’ve maintained a secure financial position that has allowed us to be responsive and enthusiastic in our grant making and capacity building. We continue to maintain reserves to ensure our stability and are committed to being a long-term resource for organizing. If you have questions about these financial statements or our overall financial position, you can reach out to Ivan Rosales at [email protected].

Income Expenses

Individual Donors Grants & Program $3,034,587 $4,165,221

Foundation Partners Donor Adivsed Grants $1,132,500 $4,188,292

Donor Advised Partners Development $7,793,576 $897,662

Fiscal Sponsorship Income Management & General $592,961 $166,261

Fees and Investments Total $583,158 $9,417,436

Total $13,136,782

40 Years Bold | 27 Neha Gautam Who We Are

The North Star Fund community brings together a diverse group of New Yorkers. We vary in race, ethnicity, religion, generation and gender. What unites us is a commitment to undoing the generational damage wrought by greed and inequity. We come together as paid staff and volunteers to steward the resources of North Star Fund so those resources can serve New York’s communities organizing to change their lives and the state we all share.

Board Staff Alvarez Symonette Lisa Steglich Adam Liebowitz, Jennifer Ching, Community Food Amber Guild Maggie Williams Executive Director Funders Director Andrew Goldberg Marjorie Fine, Jodi Sh. Doff, Angbeen Saleem, Chair Operations Manager Asa Johnson Digital Communications Kathleen Pequeño, Mark Reed Coordinator Candis Tolliver Communications Christine Parker Michael Waterman, Catherine Eusebio, Director Secretary NYC Program Officer David Ryan Alexander Kofo Anifalaje, Natasha Pallan, cori schmanke parrish, Development Director Gonzalo Mercado Treasurer Deputy Director Leyana Dessauer, Holly Fetter Nisha Atre Richardson Elz Cuya Jones, Program & Jennifer Ching, Pierre Hauser, Deputy Director Development Associate Executive Director Vice-Chair Helen Stillman, Maya Reyes, Jennifer Flynn Walker Susanna Blankley Donor Program Director Development Kesi Foster Ivan Rosales, Coordinator Finance Director Seun A. Owolabi, Development Manager

28 | North Star Fund Community Funding Committees

New York City Rae Leiner Consultants and Krystal Portalatin Community Funding Sandra Cuellar Oxford Vendors Laura McNeill Committee Abigail Miller Liberation Cuisine Let Us Breathe Fund Alejandra Ruiz Abrazos Music & Lynn Lewis Anthonine Pierre Committee Entertainment Darian X Matthew Peters Cathy Dang AHOY Studios Ejeris Dixon Miriam Fogelson Jawanza Williams Alison R. Park and Sarah Vitti Janis Rosheuvel Kesi Foster, Amanda Gentile Neha Gautam Co-Chair Finance Committee Ana Espina, People’s Forum Alvarez Symonette Thomas & Associates Krystal Portalatin Priscilla Gonzalez Jen Hatch AORTA Leah Obias Procopia Mark Reed Bailey Farms Ligia Guallpa Rachel Cohen Natasha Pallan, Bryan Potter Design Rob Robinson Radio Kingston Treasurer Butter + Scotch Shatia Strother Rusia Mohiuddin Nishi Shah Caracol Interpreters Susanna Blankley, Senate Garage Co-Chair Cooperative Thanks to Former Shanthony Art & Design Special thanks to Jamie Civic Hall Staff Sierra C. Spingarn Tyberg and Michael Emily Sloss, Community Cynthia Trinh Velarde Catering Food Funders Assistant Dan Bigelow Simran Noor Hudson Valley Mayra Hidalgo Salazar, Dana J. Schneider Hudson Valley Program Support Group Danielle Pearce Community Funding Director Time of Day Committee Dimitri Serov Michelle De León, Callie Jayne Ventucom Betty Kapetanakis Elena Waldman Walter Hergt Diana Sánchez Memorial Internship Gerard Gaskin Intern Watershed Center Emma Kreyche Idealist Consulting Wingo, Inc. Gloria Martínez Idlewild Partners Inc. Woke Foods Guisela Marroquín Ingrid Benedict Zahida Pirani Jalal Sabur Janvieve Williams Comrie Zerandrian Morris

40 Years Bold | 29 Neha Gautam

30 | North Star Fund For 40 years, North Star Fund has brought together community members to celebrate our social justice movements, challenge ourselves to transform our relationships to money and power, learn from each other and have fun!

This past year we offered a steady stream of special celebrations, unique learning opportunities—including multiple events in the Hudson Valley—and our biggest gala ever, bringing together over 1,500 people in total.

We invite you to join us and experience the unique community of New Yorkers we bring together to share a love of justice, an appreciation for complexity, and good food. You can learn what’s coming up on our website at northstarfund.org/events.

40 Years Bold | 31 George Cohen George Cohen

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