COLLEGES OUR STUDENTS ATTENDED in 2014: Will Recruit 56 Teaching Fellows
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BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONGRATULATES RHEA WONG ON 10 YEARS OF SERVICE AS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Julio Garcia Juliana Lechner Alice Ng Danielle Soloway THANK YOU TO OUR Tim Garcia Ernest Lee Chong Ni Dalia Spektor HIGH SCHOOLS OUR 9TH GRADERS BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK: Stephanie Gayden Raphael Lee Nicole F. Norton Katie Stone Carol Gellos Doug Lee NY1 News David Studer 214 VOLUNTEERS Christina Gellos Sam Lesser Kate Sweetland-Lambird ATTENDED IN 2014: LAUNCHING CAREERS Jesse Gero Amy Levere Julie Olsson Freda Gimpel Rachel A. Levine-Ramirez Emmanuel Onyenyili Lisa Tang Mikhael Abebe Michael Chiabaudo Natalie Ginsburg Amy Lin Poppy Orchier Jet Taylor A. Philip Randolph Little Red School House Victoria Adamo Cristy Cobb Talia Goldberg Grace Lindsey Emily Orenstein Gerald Teng Bard High School Early College, Manhattan & Elisabeth Irwin High School Vanessa Amaro Peter Cohen Goldman, Sachs & Co. Jon Lindsey Chrissy Thompson Baruch Campus High School Manhattan Center for Science Nicholas Arena Jessica Coppola Google Bonnie Litt Jack Paris Lindsay Thomson The Beacon School & Mathematics Natalie Cox Crandall Michael Granoff Elsa Liu Percolate Adriane Tidona Benjamin Banneker Academy Manhattan Early College School A Breakthrough New York graduate, Timothy “The staff are all compassionate, hard- Paul Babiak Charles Crandall Rachel Greenberg Cat Lum Miguel Perez-Luna Morika Tsujimura Berkeley Carroll School for Advertising Garcia wanted to move to the head of the working and passionate about making sure Crystal Backus Amy Cruz Daniel Grimes Anthony Lupinacci Kay Peters Anne Turner Bronx High School of Science The Masters School class – so he served as a BTNY Teaching all of the students succeed,” says Timothy, Jessica Bailey Wil Cruz Maria Gubenko Tara Peterson Kia Turner Brooklyn College Academy New Explorations into Science, Fellow. who graduated in 2014. Brandon Baptiste Kaavya Mahajan Noris M. Pindling Peg Tyre Brooklyn Friends School Technology and Math High School Joshua Baquedano Kate Debold Rebekah Habib Bonnie Maldonado Justin Portes Brooklyn Latin School Northfield Mount Hermon “Teaching at Breakthrough New York Jane Barnet Gary DeWaal Anna Henriquez Sunil Malhotra Jena Prentice Madeleine Vahey Brooklyn Technical High School Notre Dame High School rearranged my perspective and my priorities,” “TEACHING AT Scott Baxter Jack Dine Amanda Hernandez Alisa Mall PricewaterhouseCoopers Logan Vairo Coney Island Prep NYC iSchool he says. “I became much more interested in Molly Belcher Lisa Doi Thomas Hou Justin Manning Kevin Verbael The Darrow School Phillips Exeter Academy educational nonprofits and knowledgeable BREAKTHROUGH NEW Marlon Bernard Felipe Dorregaray Brian Hsing Lee Marcus Maria Quintyn Trac Vu Dwight School Poly Prep Country Day School about achievement gaps in this country.” Denis Beslic Winnie Huang Terrell Marks Friends Seminary Stuyvesant High School YORK REARRANGED Christina Biedny Owen Edwards Marsh & McLennan Companies Rivka Rappoport Barri Waltcher High School for Health Professions University Prep Charter High School Teaching Fellows are high-achieving Charlotte Bilski Mara Eisenbaum Andrew Jacobs Ngozi Max-Macarthy Anita Rastoder Sarah Waltcher High School for Math, Science and Engineering Xavier High School undergraduates, top students from elite MY PERSPECTIVE AND Jenna Blashek Mandy Epstein Scott Jacoby Mariella Mazula Rebelanna Jasper Wang Léman Manhattan Preparatory School colleges across the country. Each summer, Susan Blum Erin Esparza Dayne Jervis Pete McCormack Colleen Rigby Andrew Way BTNY attracts more than 600 applications – MY PRIORITIES” David Bournas-Ney Etsy Curtis Johnson Will McGarey Ari Rosenberg Alex Weisman but only can select 24 per site. This summer, Lisa Bracco EUSONIA Records/Studios Neil McGiffin Joshua Rosner Sara Weldon with the launch of a third program site, BTNY “It’s a life-changing internship,” he says. Alex Brady Ogechukwu Ezekwenna Kunal Kamath Milton Medina Meredith Ruskin Brianna Welsh COLLEGES OUR STUDENTS ATTENDED IN 2014: will recruit 56 Teaching Fellows. “You have to be willing to take risks, to step Allison Brecher Janet Ezersky Christina Kang Jordan Mendell Nora Wessel out of your comfort zone, be creative and Ellie Bressman Benjamin Kantor Steve Meringoff Jabali Sawicki Vivian Wesson Timothy taught during breaks from goal-oriented, and be organized.” Noah Brier Joan Fallon Alen Knapic Metropolitan Real Estate Sarah Schwartz Elisha Wiesel Carleton College Middlebury College Middlebury College in 2012 and 2013. Kevin Burke Elaine Fang Steven Kohn Erica Millado Ben Shand Monica Williams Columbia University Pace University Like many of his Teaching Fellow brethren, Madeline Burroughs Lorraine Feldman Kate Krader Kurt Miller Mike Sheerin Robert Wolk Lafayette College SUNY at Fredonia “The most valuable things I learned were Timothy envisioned a career in education Busker Jackie Fields Jazmin Molina David Sherman Geoffrey Worrell CUNY Lehman College SUNY at Geneseo how to be in a high-stress situation all because of the BTNY experience. He now Judy Fields Raquiba LaBrie Learesi Montes Elizabeth Sherman Yujie (Eunis) Wu CUNY New York City College of Technology Vassar College of the time and how to manage my time teaches history to 8th grade students at Samantha Caen Steve Fields John LaCroix Kevin Moosbrugger Lisa Sholkin Mercy College Wesleyan University and responsibilities better,” he says. Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Middle Sara Caldwell Kevin Finnegan John Lai Gabriela Mora Julia Shube Adina Young “Breakthrough New York helped me to Academy as part of Teach For America. Mary Carroll Food & Wine Emilie Lara Ali Morgan Elaine Shultz Dominique Young understand and better prepare for the Maribel Carter Nicole Frangione Honor Lassalle Katherine Morrow Marisol Siegel Woody Young professional world.” Elliott Castillo Matthew Lazar Jake Moszkowski Skadden, Arps, Slate, Michael Chang Melissa A. Gandolfi Stany Leblanc Meagher & Flom LLP Anxhela Zenuni PROFILES OF PROGRESS: FINANCIAL STATISTICS Breakthrough New York shepherds students to worlds SUCCESS. of success, starting right after they complete 6th grade. IT’S WHAT WE DEMAND FROM - AND FOR - FY 2014 OUR STUDENTS EACH AND EVERY DAY. REVENUE SOURCES IN-KIND $147,300 From the moment they step into the world The path to success for our students CORPORATION $114,600 of Breakthrough New York, we bring them is driven by our community of staff, EVENTS $458,400 more resources, more guidance, and more volunteers, mentors, Teaching Fellows, FOUNDATION $369,600 opportunity. Over our nonprofit’s 16 years, donors, friends and families, and our BOARD $299,100 we have cemented a solid foundation that intrepid Board of Directors. INDIVIDUAL $189,600 JORDAN MODROE continues to improve the lives of more than MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT 500 students every day. Each rung on the academic ladder yields TOTAL REVENUE $1,578,600 NET $60,400 new challenges and opportunities for our This is a period of charging ahead and BTNY students. In this annual report, we breaking barriers for BTNY. share several of their stories. We hope each account motivates you to ask: What can I do This year, BTNY launches a program site in to change a life this year? a third borough. We will soon welcome even more students to our program at New York We recognize, as you do, that our students FY 2014 EXPENSES SABRINA CARRERO Junior Tennis & Learning’s Cary Leeds Center have the talent, the drive, and enthusiasm HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT in Crotona Park, meeting a steep need for to succeed. PROGRAM $1,167,100 support in the Bronx. ADMINISTRATION $130,900 What they didn’t have is the opportunity. FUNDRAISING $220,200 The first year of our College Success Program Until we - and you - stepped in. is guiding BTNY students through their TOTAL EXPENSE: $1,518,200 freshmen year. Our Teaching Fellow program With gratitude, expands, as well, as we recruit 56 summer GABBY VARGAS Fellows this season. FRESHMAN, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Elizabeth Sherman And, with more staff and volunteers, we Chair, Board of Directors moved to a larger space in Lower Manhattan – one with a large conference room that can host financial workshops and other programming for our students. Rhea Wong Executive Director TIMOTHY GARCIA BTNY ALUM AND 8TH GRADE HISTORY TEACHER FISCAL YEAR To learn more about these success stories, visit our website at www.btny.org 7/1/13-6/30/14 Kelny Denebeim Robert and Phyllis Gelfman Barry and Jennifer Chaiken Rothkrug Rothkrug & Spector Gary DeWaal and Chuchi Liu Nelsa Gidney and Jordan Ringel Yvonne Chan Texas de Brazil Jugjeev Duggal Edward Goldberg and Barbara Saidel Marion and Catherine Coleman TinyPulse Peter and Janet Ezersky Susan Goldman Nicholas and Danielle Cox The Town School Irving Faber and Paula Litt Carla Goldstein Candace Danhausen Joe and Gi Sook Faber Edwin and Carol Greenhaus Jenn and Timothy David-Lang Amanda Aragon THE BREAKTHROUGH JOURNEY Joan Fallon Jin Guang and Ya Xian Wu Franklin Davidson and Carol Fishberg Matthew Bernstein Beth-Anne Flynn Philip and Judith Hahn Kate Debold Julia Bosson Jeremy Ford John Harvey and Mary Metzger Julie Defreitas Sherman Kevin Brady BTNY’S Gregory Fowler Barbara Heller Andrew Dietz and Barbra Berwald Michael Brady Martin Franklin and Julie Martin John and Anne Herrmann Anne Dyjak Jessica Coppola Geico Philanthropic Foundation David Hirschberg Roosevelt Eastmond Edward Corr 30 Relationships Freda Gimpel and Harvey Stern Tony Hodum Nathan and Nicole Eldridge Zella Cox 2014 DONORS: Adam and Kara Ginsburg Susan Hoffman