WE ARE FAMILY.

REPORT FAMILY ANNUAL FOR THE FOR THE 2019 INSTITUTE ACKERMAN ACKERMAN THE THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

About Ackerman...... 3

Features...... 6

7 The History of the Social Work and Diversity Program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family

9 A Tribute to Sippio Small, Co-Director

10 Mission-Critical Work of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion INTRODUCTION 11 Over 25 Years of Partnership with Fundación Aiglé ...... It is an honor to share our 2019 Annual Leader and Donors 13

Report — a reflection on what we have 2019 Financials...... 19 learned, accomplished, and aspire to as a community. As leaders in professional training of family therapists for 60 years, Ackerman Institute for the Family remains an innovator in the branch of psychotherapy in which families create new interactions, patterns, and creative ways of being together. Never has our work been more relevant than today.

2 Above: Ackerman class of 2019 with staff. and faculty

ACKERMAN ABOUT 3 ABOUT ACKERMAN ABOUT

Letter from President & CEO and Board Chair

Dear Friends,

As we write to share the 2019 Annual Report we are enveloped by the us who sit with White privilege. We simply cannot be silent. We are especially COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the inequity and racism plaguing all of us. proud of the culminating work highlighted in this report: As an Institute founded to train family therapists, our ethics demand that we care about all people, all families, and act towards social justice. Looking • Ackerman Institute’s Social Work & Diversity Program, its founders Sippio back at the year behind us helps us to appreciate where we have been and Small, Laurie Kaplan and Ruth Mohr and the 148 alumni of the program. gain focus for our community for the future. • Creation of the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion position and hiring of Kiran Shahreen Kaur Arora, PhD as the leader charting In this report, we highlight the steadfast commitment of the Ackerman these paths. faculty and staff to relational work in challenging times and the life-changing • Inclusion reflected in our work, including more than 25 years of impact of Ackerman alumni in communities across the country. In a world partnership with Fundación Aiglé in Buenos Aires, Argentina. where families are experiencing the trauma of separation and isolation, where homelessness and hopelessness destroy connections, and where When more is asked of us, we have the opportunity to be better, stronger, teen suicide risk and substance misuse paralyze relationships, Ackerman and more resilient. Our capable team has embraced innovative technology Institute sees interconnection and interdependence as the way forward. and new ways of working in order to deliver all training online and Since 1960, we have pushed the boundaries to foster meaningful and just therapy services using teletherapy methods. This moment has given us relationship. We are steadfast in those commitments today and are building the opportunity to be the best institution we can be and to engage the our capacities for a future that ensures that all families flourish. Ackerman alumni to join in heeding this call. Our remarkable community is a regular source of support, serving as therapist volunteers, sounding boards, Sixty years ago, when Nathan Ackerman opened the doors of Ackerman mentors, champions, ambassadors, and advisers. Institute for the Family, he trained family therapists to identify systems in family life because he saw the potential to liberate. This was his life’s work. This is an amazing community, whom we are grateful to serve. As we search Today, our faculty and therapist-trainees thrive within these tangled webs out new, radical ways to operate in 2020, we invite you to join us in meeting of identities and relationships, encouraging each other to step in, step back, the challenge. and step up in supporting families and communities to face challenges and create unprecedented, sustained, and transformative change. With hope & courage,

Our unwavering commitment to jettisoning racism in all its forms and to making the world a more just and equitable place is not something we do Martha Fling Ira Sallen alone. It is our therapist-trainees, partners, and supporters, who make all President & CEO Chair, Board of things possible. We are each responsible to take action, especially those of Directors

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About Our In 2019, The Ackerman Institute Ackerman Mission for the Family:

As leaders for nearly 60 years in The Ackerman Institute’s mission the training of therapists and the is to provide: (1) Innovative delivery of family therapy, the couple and family therapy services Ackerman Institute for the Family through its on-site clinic (licensed provides mental health care for by the State of New York Office of 7,377 families from all socio-economic Mental Health), (2) State-of-the- Delivered 7,377 family therapy 25Celebrated over 25 years of backgrounds. Founder Nathan art training programs for mental sessions. partnership with Fundación Aiglé Ackerman published, taught, and health and other professionals showed films demonstrating this on-site, in community settings and new method of seeing patients and internationally, and (3) Cutting- their families together. He pioneered edge innovations that focus on the not only a new type of therapy, but development of new treatment also the tradition of the audiovisual models and training techniques. documentation of clinical work that became a cornerstone of We innovate and disseminate Launched 12 family therapists Honored27 the Social Work and family therapy training. Ackerman- our methods of practice to a 12from post-graduate training Diversity Program and our 27 trained therapists use innovative large network of organizations, into their careers and into the years of partnership with the approaches to complex and practitioners, and families. We are Ackerman alumni community. Silberman School of Social Work contemporary challenges facing committed to applying social justice at Hunter College, the NYU Silver families of every form and history. in clinical settings and training School of Social Work, and the Ackerman Institute is committed therapists in socially just clinical Columbia School of Social Work. to placing the goals of diversity, practices. Our projects address equity, and inclusion at the center conditions that interfere with of everything we do. We whole- quality family life and relationships heartedly believe that it is strong and provide therapists with small alliances that create change and professional learning communities drive success for our families and where they continue to grow and our communities. advance their practice. 6,000 Reached more than 6,000 30Supported over 30 clinical Our vision is to develop in all families therapists with professional projects since 1960. the relational skills and strengths development workshops and needed to prosper and flourish. short courses.

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Social Work & Diversity Program Receives the Ackerman Legacy Honor

In 2019, the Ackerman Institute’s Social Work and Diversity Program received the Ackerman Legacy Honor. We are grateful for our 27-year partnerships with the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, the NYU Silver School of Social Work and the Columbia School of Social Work. Co-Director, Laurie Kaplan shares a history of the program and impact, in her own words.

Above: Kiran Arora presents Laurie Kaplan with the Ackerman Legacy Honor.

6 FEATURES The History of the Social Work and Diversity Program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family

By Laurie Kaplan, Co-Director

In 1992, there were only two Ackerman’s student population. We students and two faculty members researched recruitment strategies of color at the Ackerman Institute. for students of color in social work Nationally, only 4% of couple and and discovered that essential family therapists were of color. ingredients for success were: early Families of color and white families recruitment, mentorships and were being treated almost solely financial and emotional support. Mr. Above: Ackerman’s Social Work and by white professionals. Our field’s Small emphasized the importance Diversity Program founders, Sippio theoretical base was strongly of recruiting students of color while Small, Laurie Kaplan, and Ruth Mohr. influenced by its dominant White they were still in graduate school membership and lacked the and also suggested that we enlist knowledge, lived experience and the help of Arthur Maslow, a former expertise of professionals of color. faculty member and current board This underrepresentation impeded member who agreed to provide the development of a community initial start up funds. It cannot be of multiracial professionals tackling emphasized enough the importance the problems that families face of that support. The Maslow family’s and did little to reduce racial bias ongoing steadfast commitment to in our society. this program has been integral to its survival. To address this, Sippio Small proposed to colleagues Laurie In 1992, the Social Work and Kaplan and Ruth Mohr that we Diversity Program was born. create a training program for Columbia, NYU and the Hunter students of color that would Schools of Social Work agreed to significantly begin to diversify partner with us and send us two

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families as co-therapy teams, of color and ongoing sharing their histories and the institutional change. multiple identities they carry and developing a deeply shared intimacy Twenty-seven years later, we have with one another. Bi-annual trained 148 students. Graduates of alumni events enable students the program are working locally and to stay in touch, network with nationally in community agencies, one another and enjoy and sustain hospitals and academic institutions. their connection. Nine graduates have become faculty members at the Institute The Social Work and Diversity and have made and continue to Above: Social Work & Diversity Program Class of 2019 Program has been a vehicle to make a significant impact in how recruit and retain students of we think, how we teach and how color, enabling a family therapy we work with families. institution to reliably count on a slow but steady diversification Kaplan and Small are deeply second year graduate students our struggles with one another of its student population and its indebted to the late Ruth Mohr, from each school per calendar helped prepare us for the struggles faculty. A unifying premise that who provided wise mentorship to year. The program was designed of our students. It was challenging Small, Mohr and Kaplan shared was them both, reminding them, during to begin as a one-year internship to be a group of students of color in that we believed that a change difficult times, that they were in the second year of a master’s a predominately white institution. in organizational structure would united in their commitment to level graduate school of social In addition, although all students set the stage for a paradigm shift social justice and to continue to work program. Upon graduation were of color, there would be many in our institution’s commitment mine their differences to deepen from the universities, students racial, cultural, sexual orientation, to promote racial equity and cross-racial understanding. It has would be invited to continue at gender and class differences justice. Simply put, increasing the been nineteen years since her Ackerman for an additional 4 years among them. These differences numbers of professionals of color death, and her unwavering faith in of postgraduate training and would require exploration and at the Institute would create the humanity’s potential reminds all would be provided with financial provide opportunities to examine opportunity for new organizational of us, even in the most difficult assistance to do so. their relationships, which would also structures and paradigms to times, to soldier on. begin to expand their dialogue and evolve, and most importantly, to As a multi-racial teaching team influence their work with families. survive. These seeds bore fruit. (African-American, White Jewish As numbers of students increased, and White Mennonite) we committed Another goal of the program was to so did faculty of color. Over time, ourselves to explore our different create the opportunity to become a mentoring groups for students lived experiences with regard to community of professionals of color. and faculty of color developed race, class, power, privilege and Each 6 student cohort spends 14-21 and these groups proved essential other identities. This was not always hours a week with one another, to the continuing development easy- and learning how to articulate giving up their week-ends to see of a community of professionals

8 FEATURES A Tribute to Sippio Small, Co-Director

Sippio Small was a man of passion a member of several Ackerman and conviction, and he believed clinical research projects including deeply in creating change for the AIDS/HIV Project, Making social workers of color and for Families Safe for Children, and society at large. Sippio began Substance Abuse and Community his affiliation with the Ackerman Training. His gifted work with these Institute in 1989, and was a pillar projects touched the lives of many, of the social work community. and has become a cornerstone for future generations of researchers Sippio was a visionary teacher and and thinkers at Ackerman. thinker. In 1992, he co-founded Ackerman’s Social Work and Sippio was a graduate of the Hunter Diversity Program, which led to College School of Social Work, powerful new approaches in the and was a licensed clinical social therapy room. Through his work worker with over three decades of with this groundbreaking program, experience working with children, Sippio mentored students of color adolescents, adults, and the elderly and endeavored to increase racial across countless communities. equity and justice in the field of He was a champion of social justice social work. In 2019, Sippio and the and a powerful force in the lives Social Work and Diversity Program of many. were recognized with the Ackerman Legacy Honor. Sippio’s leadership will be missed. Above: Sippio Small, Co-Director of the Social Work & Diversity Program We believe that his legacy will Sippio was a supervisor in live on through the trainees he Ackerman’s Live Clinical and empowered and the communities Externship Programs, and was he touched.

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Kiran Arora, PhD, leads Ackerman Institute’s approach to diversity, Mission-Critical Work of Diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the organization. Kiran is a trained and licensed family therapist and an organizational consultant. In this Equity, & Inclusion video, listen to Kiran describe Ackerman Institute’s goals for meeting the needs of all families, of all backgrounds. She lifts up our collective desires to be a place where differences are welcomed and where Click the image above to open the video in your internet browser. different perspectives are respected and heard.

10 FEATURES Over 25 Years of Partnership with Fundación Aiglé

For over 25 years Ackerman which included: Promoting Institute for the Family and Resilience in Families: Parenting Fundación Aiglé have engaged & Children with Special Needs by in a partnership rooted in a love Judy Grossman, DrPH, OTR, FAOTA; for systemic thinking and family A Socially Just Framework when therapy. The Fundación Aiglé Working with Latinx Immigrant partnership has entailed trainings Youth & Families by Genoveva Above: Students from Fundación Aiglé on-site at Ackerman Institute for delivered in New York and in Buenos Garcia, LCSW; Secrets in Family a week of training. Ares, Argentina, with students Therapy by Evan Imber-Black, PhD, coming from Argentina, Chile, LMFT; Family Therapy with Children Multidimensional Approach to Trainings with Fundación Aiglé Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, and by Catherine Lewis, LCSW; Working Supporting Gender Expansive Youth students have taken place every Uruguay. This dynamic partnership, with Reactivity in Couples and and Families by Jean Malpas, LMFT; year of the partnership except for informed by knowledge and gifts Families: A Buddhist Psychological Context Matters: Working with two when the Argentine economy mutually exchanged, spawned Approach to Strong Emotions, by Families Across Time and Space by was destabilized and travel additional partnerships in Chile, David Kezur, LCSW; Couples and Melba Sullivan, PhD; and Creating restrictions were imposed. In China, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Intimacy by Michele Scheinkman, Compassionate Understanding: addition to hosting trainings in and Mexico. LCSW; Family Therapy with Family Therapy with Young Adults New York City, Ackerman faculty Adolescents by Michael Davidowitz, with a Serious Mental Illness by have traveled to Buenos Ares to In 2019, Ackerman was honored PhD; Exploring the Person of the Mary Kim Brewster, PhD & Lois present at an annual/biannual to host a group of therapists from Therapist: How and Why It Matters Braverman, LCSW. Trainees spent conference of up to 150 participants Fundación Aiglé and the Chilean by Dorimar Morales, LCSW & Cheryl time in evening gatherings where hosted by Fundación Aiglé. In Family Therapy Institute who Ching; LCSW, MRFP; The Money they observed family therapy 2019, Ackerman Faculty member, immersed themselves in a week Factor and Couples Therapy: How sessions with Ackerman externs Suzanne Iasenza, PhD, presented of faculty presentations. The week to Enhance a Relational Hypothesis and supervisors and attended the Transforming Sexual Narratives: began with an Introduction to the by Judith Stern Peck, LCSW; Friday workshop with mental health Guiding Couples from Sexual Ackerman Relational Approach by Children and Relational Trauma professionals coming from the New Disconnection to Sexual Discovery. Lisa Lavelle, LCSW and workshops by Marcia Scheinberg, LCSW; A York metropolitan area.

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Over the years, Ackerman has the multiple contextual factors Japanese faculty in family therapy. advanced in developing and refining contributing to the presenting The expansive exchange of ideas a therapeutic knowledge-base, problems. We learned to come to around how to provide family shared across cultures, and in consultations “not knowing” about therapy training has positioned practicing curiosity and inclusion. the family in front of us and learning Ackerman Institute for the Family From early in the partnership, about what matters to the family by as a leader, nationally and Fundación Aiglé was integrating asking questions. Additionally, in the internationally, in the training of different theoretical approaches early years of the collaboration we family therapists. Our work in at a time when Ackerman’s were working with ideas informed the national and international commitment to a systemic by the feminist revision in the field professional community of family approach was the dominant of family therapy and found we therapists is integral to our methodology. We have transitioned, were challenged by societal and mission as a family therapy in our many years of collaborating, family norms that continued to be training institute. to integrating other theoretical more organized by patriarchal and approaches. Additionally, the hierarchical norms. This experience partnership has influenced the challenged our notion of ourselves Ackerman approach in teaching as collaborative and resulted in about cultural and multiculturalism. a closer, and lasting, examination of how to work collaboratively Our partnership aided two critical across differences. shifts in teaching methods employed by Ackerman faculty. The Fundación Aiglé partnership The first was a shift away is part of Ackerman Institute’s from traditional relationships Community and International between teachers and trainees. Training program which provides Presentations at Fundación training in family therapy theory Aiglé typically include a “day and practice for partners locally, of integration” where a case nationally, and internationally. presentation and family interview The scope of our partnerships are followed by an integration have ranged from a nine-year discussion facilitated by a member collaboration that replicated of the Ackerman faculty. Through Ackerman’s core training program this work we learned that a with Yang Methodist Memorial Social prescriptive formula for training Service Agency in Hong Kong to a does not translate. Therefore, five-year program undertaken in every presenting problem needs collaboration with The Association to be explored through a cultural of Counselors in Japan through lens – therapists must understand which Ackerman faculty trained

12 Above: Board member Nicole Poteat presents Ashley De La Rosa with Inclusion & Diversity Ackerman the Award.

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Leadership

Board of Directors Administration Faculty Margaret Sallick Martha Fling, Chair Gisselle Acevedo Christiana Awosan Michele Scheinkman Ira Sallen, Vice Chair Kiran Arora Billy Benson Fran Schwartz Alfred G. Feliu, Esq., Kenya Aska Sarah Berland Marcia Sheinberg Secretary & Legal Counsel Kathleen Bautista Andrea Blumenthal Susan Shimmerlik Robert C. Ruckh, Treasurer Michele Burfeind Molly Bobek Sippio Small Directors Maria Christodoulou Lois Braverman Fiona True Gisselle Acevedo Jamie Cogar Mary Kim Brewster Walter Vega Clyde Brownstone Marcelo Dedini Julia Chan thandiwe Dee Watts-Jones Jeannie Ackerman Curhan Alexis Diaz Cheryl Ching Frank Wells Linda Dishy Barbara Jones Michael Davidovits Courtney Zazzali Beverly Greene Derrick Jordan Martha Edwards Thomas G. Kahn Theresa Joseph Silvia Espinal Faculty Emeriti Dayan Kazi Catherine Lewis Sabina Fila Jorge Colapinto Arthur Maslow Adi Loebl Aquilla Frederick Virgina Goldner Jeanette Monninger Nicole Mak Genoveva Garcia Lynn Hoffman Alice K. Netter Sheldon Marshall Judy Grossman Richard Johnson Imke Oster Brenda Nikelsberg Suzanne Iasenza Kitty Laperriere Nicole Poteat Helen Park Evan Imber-Black Constance N. Scharf Leslie Roberts Farhat Rahman Marybeth Jordan Robert Simon Rachel Manischewitz Rocker Jane Rennert Laurie Kaplan Peter Steinglass Gregory T. Rogers Raysa Romero Elana Katz Marcia Stern Sheri Sandler Darrell Salina David Kezur Gillian Walker Stephen Sokoloff Delilah Luna Seligman Catherine Lewis Howard Weiss Arnold Syrop Vrinda Sheth Gloria Lopez-Henriquez Hinda Winawer Janine Weisenbeck Natalie Strafaci Keren Ludwig Deborah Werner Melba Nicholson Sullivan Jean Malpas Nadia Swanson Marissa Moore Directors Emeriti Melissa Thoen Dorimar Morales Doris C. Kempner Jama Toung Jenn Murayama Paula K. Oppenheim Walter Vega Peggy Papp Dan Rocker Deborah Werner Judith Stern Peck David H. Strassler Christine Reynolds Zina Rutkin

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The Nat R. & Martha M. Knaster Cynthia McFadden Donors Charitable Trust Jeanette and Patrick Monninger Sheila Manischewitz Matthew Moore and Joshua Winger Thank you to our supporters. Moncler USA Retail, LLC Judy Caplan and Brian Peters Network for Good PwC The Ackerman Institute for the Family thanks our community New York Life Insurance Joshua Rahn and Jessica Contrastano of supporters in our listing of gifts made during the fiscal year NYU Langone Medical Center Julie Richardson 2019, from July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. Should you notice Imke and Beneck Oster Daniel and Rachel Rocker an error or omission, please accept our apologies and notify the Judith Stern Peck Dana and Gregory T. Rogers Development Office at 212.879.4900 ext. 130. Shaiza Rizavi Nicholas Schulman Leslie Roberts and Andrew Freedberg Soundtrack New York Supporters and partners making gifts of $100 or more are listed. Rocker Family Foundation Fiona and Richard True Leo Rosner Foundation, Inc. Nancy L. Wender Robert and Shari Ruckh Zimmer Family Foundation Ira and Susan Sallen $50,000 + Arthur Maslow Lucy Ellen and Richard Sallick $2,500 + Bank of America Corp. Alice Netter Gavin Simms and Sarah Simms Gray Deb Adegbile Stella & Charles Guttman Foundation William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Stephen and Helena Sokoloff Gina and Tom Anderson New York City Department of Health & Foundation Arnold and Joanne Syrop Anonymous Mental Hygiene Isabel Rose and Jeff Fagen Janine and Joshua Weisenbeck Casey Benjamin New York City Department of Youth Sheri Sandler and Mark Schneider Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale Bradley Bennett & Community Development Debbie and Joseph Werner and Dorr LLP Barry Berkman, Esq. Paula K. Oppenheim Carolyn and William Wolfe Dan and Jennifer Castaline The Selz Foundation $10,000 + Chris Cicchinell Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Gisselle Acevedo and Suzanne E. $5,000 + Milton and Shirley Cooper van Ameringen Foundation Curtis Anonymous Linda and Bernard Dishy The Breaking the Cycle Foundation Henry Arnhold Foundation David and Karen Freedberg $20,000 + Burberry Limited Robert Ball Edythe Gladstein Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Jeannie A. Curhan and Joseph C. The Barrington Foundation, Inc. John Greenstein and Rebecca Rubel Clyde and Diane Brownstone Williams Lois Braverman David Kezur Alex and Michelle Crumbley Jane and William Donaldson Chaparral Foundation Adi Loebl and Monica Altman The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund Farmers Insurance Exchange Anthony Curtis Maria Mauceri Sally Gottesman Alfred G. Feliu and Susan Hobart Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Joyce Menschel Alessandra Gouldner and George and Sandry Garfunkel Suzanne Iasenza David Morgan Boyd Johnson Carl and Nancy Glaeser Dayan and Noreen Kazi David Press and Tim Scholler John and Greer Hendricks Harriet Habert The Lester and Grace Maslow Julie and Alan Press Anna Maria and Stephen Thomas and Marilyn Kahn Foundation Toni Lynn Ross Kellen Foundation Doris Kempner Jeremy and Sharon Matz Nell Shanahan and Adam Schwartz

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The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Ann Gorga Metzger-Price Fund, Inc. Candace and Jonathan Wainwright UBS Business Solutions Carolann Grieve Pooya Mohseni Mary Watson Jonathan M. Winslow Daniel Griffin Rosalind Moore Julie and Jeffrey Weber Vicki Gross Susana Morales Michael Weinstein $1,000 + Nicole Grosso Frederic Nicol Jennifer Weis and John Monsky Bobbie Abrams Kevin Hager Nancy and Morris Offit Lindsay Werner and David Berezow Karen Adler and Larry Greenwald Chris Harrington Debra Oppenheim and Herb Schneider Byron Wien and Anita Wien Valentina Akerman Greg Harwood Stephanie Paine Eric Weiner Anonymous William Herrman James Park Madelyn and Steven Wils Atlantic Tomorrow’s Office C. Hugh and Connie Hildesley Nicole Ann Perez B & M Wright Foundation Garett Awad Glenn Hill Buzz Pierce Mel Wymore Jennifer A. Barbetta Evan Hughes Mary Ann and Bruno Quinson Lisa Berkman Susan and Steven Jacobson Steve Rabin $500 + Mary Bijur Marybeth Jordan Lauren Ramsby Mark Adamo and John Corigliano Ernest and Rita Bogen Ellen Kahn Jane and Eliot Rennert Kelly Anderson Mary Kim and Blair Brewster Victoria Kahn Stephan and Nancy Richter Anonymous Charles and Rita Bronfman Jason Kanner Zoe Rodriguez Yorman and Doris Arieven Winsome Brown Laurie Kaplan Lori and Steven Rosenfeld Lawrence Austin Linda and Arthur Carter Elana Katz Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal Bella Avanessian Mark Chiaviello and Gina Casey Hope Kelaher Pat and E. John Rosenwald, Jr. Kate Bednarski Coca-Cola North America Ann and Thomas Kempner Barbara Rothberg and Amy Lane William Bellsey Betsy Cohn Kimberly Kerns Frank and Lolita Savage Matthew Boethin Emerson L. Coleman, Jr. and Sang Y. Kim Michael Schachter Alyssa Budihas Crystal A. Johns Kathryn and Alan Klingenstein Daniel R. Schnur Lorea Canales Elizabeth G. Crowell and Robert Wilson Joann and Robert Lang Matthew and Rebecca Schwarz Michel Cohen Mary Jane Cullinan Suzanne Lasenza Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Fredrick and Randi Cohen Peggy and Dick Danziger Susan Lemor Diane and Tom Silver Michael and Elinor Crames Ellen and Sabin Danziger Diana Lyne Rob Smith George Creppy Meredith Davis and Adam Fawer Jennifer and Jesse Lynn Phyllis Solomon Mark Curtis John DiBacco Lissa and Ian MacCallum, Jr. Chris Spano Michael DeBernardis Dana DiPrima Kate E. Mankoff Katherine Sperling Victoria Dinsell Wendi Dumbroff Gabriel Manzon Audrey and Jeffrey Spiegel Alexandria Dropp Bradley Farber Ms. Ellen Marcus Paul Spivey and Evelyn Gonzalez Dasha Epstein Fred Farkouh Grace Mauceri and James Pawlika Leonard L. Steiner The Armand G. Erpf Fund Amy and Roberto Finzi Lauren and David Mazzullo Peter and Abbe Steinglass Robert and Brooke Felt Kifah Fluker John McCarthy Louis and Marjorie Susman Mitchell and Sherry Fogel Renee Fortain Eileen McGill Jon and Lizzie Tisch Laura and Malcolm Gauld John and Hope Furth Jason Ment Marjorie Vandercook Nicholas Goldfarb

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Bala Gopal Steven Seeche Eli Diamond Leah and Allan Rabinowitz Tracy Gosein Stephen Shulman Danilo Dixon Paul Reilly Joan Graham Erin and Patrick Sloane Martha Edwards Richard Reilly Nadine Grelsamer Marisa Sotomayer Alexandra and Robert Eising Michael Riahi and Gayle Martin Bette-Anne Gwathmey David Stark Margot Paul Ernst Jennifer Rogers Sylveta Hamilton-Gonzales Kathryn Steinberg Sabina Fila Jessica Rothberg and Melanie Hope Wendy and Jerry Hammerman Robyn Streisand Erica Glazer Jane Sanders Peter Hegener Carol Striano Antonio Gonzalez Florence and Warren Sinsheimer Evan Imber-Black and Lascelles Black David and Emma Sugarman Ashley Gosnell Jonas Slackman Wade Jensen Ray Vandenberg Simone Greenspan Michael Slavens Kristina and Neal Karnovsky Christian Velmer Antonia and George Grumbach Michael Shane Stephens Andrew Kassoy and Betty Wang Adam Hirsch Beth and Michael Stone Margot Brandenburg Paul Wartman and Nancy McHugh John Homan Roger Strong Valerie and Carl Kempner, Jr Stephanie S. Webster Kathleen and Richard Kearns Gregory Tarmin Michael and Tori Kempner Michael Wilhelm Susan and Robert Keiser Maria Tarsio Alexander and Alina Kerdman Marie Wilson and Nancy Lee Charles Kelly Judy Tenney and Robert Haines Susie Korb and Joseph McInerny Kenneth Wyse Bertha Kerr Jess Ting David B. Kriser Foundation, Inc. Carol Ying Emily Knowlton Vinicius Vacanti Donna and Jeffrey Laikind Leslie and Ronald Yoo Patricia Kogan Walter Vega and Kelli Knabe Jamie Levine James and Eileen Zazzali Janine and Steven Kolinsky Christopher Vicini Diane Leyden Lois and Bruce Zenkel Laura Kososki Washington Avenue John and Sharon Loeb Victor Kovner Elementary School Bradley Malow $250 + Bill Kuhn Clement and Sally Wood Daisy E. Medici Anonymous Larry R. Laslo Sally Wright Marjorie and Morgan Miller Javier Barrientos Betty and John Levin Thomas and Suzanne Zarrilli The Morse Family Foundation, Inc. Kenneth Bartels and Jane Condon David Litvack Kate and Bradford Peck Elaine Bell Adriana Londono and James Dardouni $100 + Tess Peterson Leslie and Mark Berezow Carolina Lovelace Hamish Adamson Nicholas Pisano Moriko Betz Mark Manley Courtney Aison Kathy and George Poteat Lewis Black Lyssett Martinez Gisele Alicea Donna Preuster and Kup Kramer Debra Brand Eileen and Michael Murphy Monica Amor Heather and Joel Ramin Tammy Browning Jackie and Ira Neimark Matthew Amore David Reich Samantha Busa Matthew Nelson Anonymous Jack and Barbara Rennert Blake Callaway Jeannette Pina Gayle Ardakanian Dianne and Lynn Roberts Rob Cordell Meris Powell Martin Augarten and Linda Kaplowitz Paul and Bambi Rubacha Logan Curran Katherine Prescott India Baird Margaret Sallick Christopher D’Angelo and Denise Prieto Sheila Bascetta Dimitri Scheblanov Kara McLoughlin Rebecca Quaytman and Jeff Preiss David Beatty

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Kate M. Bell Lindsay Jones Kenyatte Reid Linda B. Wachtel Mark Bernal Kimberly Kahn and Satadru Pramanik Leslie Rider Mahalia Watson Nicole Bode Monica Karlson Diana and Roy Rizzotti Carol and Kenneth D. Weiser Martin and Jill Butler Patty Kim Rebecca Rof Allyson and David Weston Clare Carr Jonathan Kindron Daryl Roth Productions Jane and Robert Wyker Ave Carrillo Jeanine King Ilana Rothbein Chunhong Zhang and Fei Huang Adam and Rachel Carter Marisa and Michael Kochnover Alessandra Sabbatini Remy Zimmerman Maria I. Castro Erica Kolodziej Salesforce.com Foundation Andrew Zoltan David and Elise Cherny Gary LaRocco Andrew Samalin Michael Cherny James Lecesne Travis Schafer Morris Cohen Ken Lee Christian Sebastiano Nicholas Colas and Misty Clark Steven Levine Joanne Seiser Theresa Cosmas Karen and Charles Lewis Andrew Shin Carrie Davis Catherine Lewis Bonnie Siegel Weisenberg Michael D. Dawson Graig Linn Carolina Silva Anna De Voogt Margot Linton Claude Silver and Andrea Minkow Maria Del Pilar Grazioso Emilie Lost Jason Silverman Paula S. Dias Keren Ludwig and Robert Hall Terryl Simeina Allison Drieves Joshua Mallin Noah Simon Lisa and John Duggan Stephanie Manes Amy Singh Debbie Farrell Sheldon Marshall Jatinder Singh Ferguson Enterprises Alyssa and Gabriel Mass Olivia Snow Velma and Obed Fernandez Sarah McAteer Stanley Preschool, Inc. Maria Fotsch Sarah McCaslin John Steever Evan Gelber Matthew McMorrow Nancy and Norman Steiger Shawn Giammattei Kelly Medvin Sharon M. Strassfeld and Amanda and David Glattstein Ross Meyerson and Eileen McGill Michael Ramelle Ellen Goldberg Daniel and Berena Morales Beatrice and Robert Szekeres Jodi Goldman Nancy and John Morgan Ben Tapper Crystal Granderson-Reid Jill and Howard Morrel Robert and Susan Teich Marina Hadjipateras Virginia Myung Basilios and Monica Thomas Michael and Laura Handerhan Gail Natoli Marcia and Brian Thomas Audrey Heckler Sarah Nedwek Heather and Joel Topcik Christian and Jane Herzeca Matt Parker Albert Torres Jeffrey and Pamela Himeles Jodie Patterson and Joseph Ghartey Jaime Troiano JM Hitch Michelle and Paul Perlin Eloise True Information Mapping Henry Ravelo Ronnie Vener Sibyl Jacobson Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Frank Ventura

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FINANCIALS 2019 19 FINANCIALS

Assets Liabilities and Net Assets

CURRENT ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES Cash and cash equivalents $2,040,586 Accounts payable and accrued expenses $129,412 Investments, at fair value $11,571,832 Accrued salaries and payroll taxes $54,389 Accounts receivable, net $480,748 Deferred tuition and fees revenue $ 83,455 Contributions receivable $207,100 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES $267,256 Prepaid expenses and other assets $182,303 Deferred compensation $ 109,445 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $14,482,569 TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 376,701 Contributions receivable, net of current portion $16,000 Property and equipment, at cost, net of NET ASSETS $9,669,255 accumulated depreciation Without donor restrictions Deferred compensation $109,445 Operating $1,215,987 TOTAL ASSETS $24,277,269 Board-designated fund $7,239,706 SUB-TOTAL $8,455,693 Net investment in property and equipment $ 9,669,255 TOTAL WITHOUT DONOR RESTRICTIONS $18,124,948

With donor restrictions $5,775,620 TOTAL NET ASSETS $23,900,568 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $24,277,269

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Statement of Activities

REVENUE AND SUPPORT EXPENSES Grants and contributions $1,025,032 Program Services Special events, net of direct expenses Clinical services $1,034,596 $746,457 of $298,029 in 2019 Education and workshops $3,149,747 Patient services $678,579 TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES $4,184,343 Tuition and fees $1,089,741 Supporting Activities Rental $113,013 Management and general $530,258 Investment return, net $527,461 Fundraising $380,441 Miscellaneous $7,200 TOTAL SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES $910,699 TOTAL REVENUE AND SUPPORT $4,187,483 TOTAL EXPENSES $5,095,042 (Decrease) from operating activities -$907,559 before unrealized gain on investments Unrealized gain on investments $433,044 (Decrease) in net assets -$474,515 NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR $24,375,083 NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $23,900,568

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Source of Allocation of Funding Expenses

Grants & Investments Training & Clinical Services Contributors & Misc. Workshops

18% 15% 20% Individual Contributions 7% Fundraising 16% 7% Patient Fees 62% 10% 18% Management Special & General Events 26% Tuition & Fees

Investments & Misc. $647,674 Fundraising $380,441 Patient Fees $678,579 Management & General $530,258 Tuition & fees $1,089,741 Training & Workshops $3,149,747 Special Events $746,457 Clinical Services $1,034,596 Individual Contributions $278,040 Grants and Contributions $746,992

22 LINKS TO LINKS Apply Ackerman offers post-graduate courses in family systems theory and technique.

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