2014 Annual Report

BRONX QUEENS BROOKLYN STATEN ISLAND NYWF Leadership

Board of Directors Staff Anne E. Delaney Ana L. Oliveira Chair President & Chief Executive Officer

Yvonne Quinn Patricia Eng Vice Chair Vice President, Programs

Irma Rodriguez Talatha Reeves Secretary Vice President, Operations & Strategic Learning

Susan Coté Carmel Owen Treasurer Vice President, Leadership Giving

Jennifer Agmi Fran Barrett Director, Programs Andrea Batista-Schlesinger Gael Black Taina Bien-Aimé Manager, Public Communications Kwanza R. Butler Joyce Cowin Jasmin Braithwaite Manager, Development Operations Susan R. Cullman Virginia Day Amy Chou Program Officer Jennifer Giacobbe Lisa M. Holton Camille A. Emeagwali Cathy Isaacson Director, Programs Carolyn Rossip Malcolm Madeline Lamour Holder Rosevelie Marquez Morales Director, Individual Giving Grainne McNamara Ruomei Hu Elba Montalvo Accountant Yvonne Moore Constance Jackson-Joshua Michele O. Penzer Executive Assistant to the President & CEO Merble Reagon Elizabeth James Karen Reynolds Sharkey Associate, Strategic Learning Janet Riccio Kate Landon Tracey Schusterman Director, Programs Jean Shafiroff Joan Sherman Erin McDonald Director, Strategic Learning Celeste Smith Regan Solmo Catherine Mikic Director, Institutional Giving Stephanie Wang-Breal Debra S. Miller Abigail E. Disney Director, Administration Honorary Chair Maria Najem Helen LaKelly Hunt Manager, Community Philanthropy Chair Emerita Vivienne Peng Communications Coordinator

Christina Ramelli Director, Development

Damisela Taveras Grants Manager

Susan Treglia Systems Network Administrator NYWF Grantee Partner Make the Road NY THE NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION IS A VOICE FOR WOMEN AND A FORCE FOR CHANGE

We are a cross-cultural alliance of women, catalyzing partnerships and leveraging human and financial capital, to achieve sustained economic security and justice for women and girls. With fierce determination, we mobilize hearts, minds and resources to create an equitable and just future for women, families and communities in . We advance the lives of women and families by funding organizations that promote the economic security of women; their right to live safely and without violence; their health, sexual, and reproductive rights. We are women-led: everyone has an equal seat at the table. We take risks, partnering with new organizations that offer ground-breaking solutions. We believe that problems and their solutions are often found in the same place. In our 27 years, over 6 million women and girls in New York City have been served by 316 Foundation-supported organizations that promote economic security, safety, and health.

We are now one of the top three women’s funds in the world, and the largest grantmaking women’s foundation in the .

1 A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND PRESIDENT & CEO

We start our letter with enormous gratitude for your generous support this past year! Thanks to the outstanding efforts of our grantee partners—and with you by our side—2014 was a year of transformative work for The New York Women’s Foundation. 2014 marked the end of our bold, 5-year initiative—RISE-NYC! (Respond, Inspire, Solve, Engage)—which began in 2009, during the recession, at a time of philanthropic retrenchment. The Foundation took swift action in deepening our investment in the hardest hit communities. Consequently, 30,286 women and families were able to meet their challenges and regain economic stability. Our Hurricane Sandy initiative, now entering its third year, supports the response and recovery of low-income communities hit by the storm. Going beyond addressing the emergency needs of such communities has proved to be necessary; our initiative is enabling affected women and families to rebuild their lives. Our Initiative Against the Sex Trafficking of Minors continues to focus on the critical importance of early intervention, and the integration of prevention-focused strategies into programs that address at-risk youth. In 2014, The Foundation supported three other initiatives. The Healthy Aging Initiative expands our grantees’ capacity to enable older women to thrive and live in dignity. The Collaborative Bridge Partnership fostered dynamic and effective alliances between organizations, while our ongoing relationship with Citi Community Development—placing women corporate leaders on nonprofit boards—strengthens the sustainable capacity of our grantee partners. Last year, as we expanded our efforts in public and private domains to enhance community-led innovations, we were gratified by the launch of the New York City Department of Small Business Services’ WE NYC Initiative, focusing on women’s entrepreneurship in underinvested areas of the city. In addition, we convened a round-table conversation between a group of grantee partners and the Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence, strategically addressing the issue of gender-based violence in the city. We have continued to identify impactful solutions to critical issues in women’s lives. In 2014, we launched a new series of reports, Voices from the Field, that highlights the status of underinvested women and girls, comprehensively identifying the challenges that arise in the varying stages of their lives. The first of these, Blueprint for Investing in Women 60+, was released in November 2014. In 27 years of its history, The Foundation has invested $44,714,480 in more than 316 organizations in NYC, working to achieve sustained economic security and justice for women and girls. In 2015 we will disburse an additional $6 million, continue to launch new collaborations, and create and diffuse knowledge to strengthen the impact of our work. We have no doubt that with your support—your enthusiasm, commitment, ideas and economic resources—we will continue to dismantle barriers, and create a more just and equitable city for all of us. This is our commitment to you. We thank you for standing with us as we realize our mission with passion and determination.

Anne E. Delaney Ana L. Oliveira Board Chair President & CEO

2 NYWF HIGHLIGHTS: 1987–2014

1986 Gloria W. Milliken recruits Helen LaKelly Hunt, Abigail E. Disney makes a $1 million Joan Melber Warburg, Alice Cardona, 2007 challenge, “I Declare My Interdependence” Betty Terrell-Cruz and others to found at the Celebrating Women® Breakfast, a philanthropic organization to be run by, raising an additional $1.6 million. for, and about women. NYWF honors Dolores C. Huerta with 1987 The New York Women’s Foundation® is The Century Award at the 20th annual CWB. registered as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. 2008 The Foundation’s first-ever evening Gala 1988 At the first annual Celebrating Women honors women and men for their commitment Breakfast, The Foundation awards grants to New York City. totaling $50,000 to 4 grantee partners. The Foundation publishes The Economic Status of Women in New York State report. 1990 The Allocations Committee, known today as the Grants Advisory Committee (GAC), is created. 2009 RISE-NYC! (Respond, Inspire, Solve, Engage) partnership launched in response to the 1993 The Foundation inaugurates the annual recession, increasing grantmaking by 20%. Neighborhood Dinner in Chinatown to celebrate community leaders. 2011 The Foundation awards $4 million to 77 grantee partner organizations. 1997 23 grantee partners receive over $500,000. NYWF releases its first gender budget analyses report, A Harder Struggle, Fewer Opportunities. 1999 The Committee for the Future is launched to introduce younger women to The Foundation. 2012 The Initiative Against Sex Trafficking of Minors 2000 Board alumna Sara Lee Schupf underwrites is launched with the release of Sex Trafficking of the new Management & Leadership Institute. Minors in New York: Increasing Prevention and Collective Action report. The first Century Award, awarded to , Secretary of State, is Elinor Guggenheimer at the Celebrating Women Hillary Rodham Clinton Breakfast, honors a woman whose significant honored with The Century Award at the CWB. achievements have influenced the lives of— and The Foundation awards an unprecedented provided a role model for—women and girls. $5.25 million to 80 grantee partners. 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund raises and distributes NYWF launches Hurricane Sandy Response and 2001 nearly $700,000 to support nonprofits working Recovery Fund, which will award $1 million over with women. 4 years, to those most impacted by the storm.

2002 NYWF Founder Gloria W. Milliken is presented 2013 NYWF publishes the Economic Security and with The Century Award at the CWB. Well-Being Index for Women in New York City.

Leymeh Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate, receives Nobel Laureate is 2005 Dr. Wangari Maathai The Century Award at the CWB. given The Century Award at the CWB. 2014 NYWF releases Blueprint for Investing in 2006 Over 50 grantee partners are awarded Women Age 60+, the first report from $1.65 million. The Voices from the Field series. The Foundation launches the Circle of Sisters , feminist activist and writer, for Social change to enable socially conscious receives The Century Award at the CWB. women to harness their resources and networks to support social change philanthropy in New York City.

3 WHAT WE DO We believe that the challenges women face can best be solved by women working together. Some of us bring ideas; some of us contribute technical expertise; some of us give money, and some of us have an intimate knowledge of what it takes to make the difference. We create a community where everyone can make a difference. All of our human capital is essential. At The Foundation, we say: Come as you are, do what you can!

NYWF Grantee Partner Violence Intervention Program

4 WHY WE DO IT

That figure was particularly a small To find SOLUTIONS IN 1986 disturbing here in to the challenges confronting GROUP OF WOMEN NEW YORK CITY women, they turned to were outraged that only 3% of where, in the midst of extraordinary community experts and activists. all philanthropic dollars were wealth, a high number of women A year later, The New York allocated to issues vital to women. lived in poverty. Women’s Foundation was born.

5 NYWF Grantee Partner Correctional Association of New York HOW WE DO IT A CROSS-CULTURAL ALLIANCE From the start, we engaged all women. We worked based on the strength of a cross-cultural alliance where all women have an equal seat at the table. By being inclusive, we engage with diverse perspectives and experiences. We know that cross-cultural alliances yield better results and create more effective solutions.

PARTNERSHIPS CREATE STRENGTH We value our partnerships. We build partnerships with women who have resources to share, women who teach us about our neighborhoods, and women who are addressing the challenges of poverty and violence. We listen and learn from our partners who are the experts on how to create change for their communities. The organizations that we fund teach us about the needs of their constituents and the most effective strategies by which to fulfill these needs.

6 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ARE FOUND IN THE SAME PLACE WE KNOW THAT THE MOST POWERFUL SOLUTIONS

ARISE FROM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

7 “ The New York Women’s Foundation, I say it every time I can, was the first to take a chance on this project when it TAKING CHANCES was really, really new.” GETS IMPRESSIVE RESULTS Often, the groups we fund are small but inspired by a powerful Julia Jean-Francois Center for Family Life idea and a sense of urgency. We take chances on these small NYWF Grantee organizations, even when other funders will not. The results are sometimes astonishing. In 2006, Center for Family Life (CFL) embarked on a revelatory business idea: the female-owned worker cooperative. This progressive business model empowers low-income immigrant women in NYC to become economically self-reliant. In the eight years since its inception, CFL has created and nurtured several co-ops within the Sunset Park community that have generated close to $5 million in revenues, boosted the local economy and stabilized economically insecure families. Witnessing the undeniable success of the model and its positive impact on the lives of economically insecure women, NYWF was then able to support CFL’s New York City Cooperative Development Project to expand the cooperative initiative to other neighborhoods. Furthermore, New York City Council approved the city’s annual budget, containing a $1.2 million initiative to fund the development NYWF Grantee Partner of worker cooperatives on a large scale. United Community Centers

WE DON’T JUST FUND; WE INVEST FOR SUCCESS

WE SUPPORT OUR GRANTEE PARTNERS SO THAT THEY CAN BECOME

SELF-SUFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE

Through capacity building grants, we assist our grantee partners with financial management, leadership development and other key functions so that they can develop into fully realized, self-reliant organizations. Our grantees are also able to draw upon the strength of our network of mutually supportive grantee partners that provide them with additional support that helps them succeed and thrive.

8 NYWF Grantee Partner Sanctuary for Families

WE ARE COMMITTED TO After Hurricane Sandy NYWF grantee partners immediately took the initiative to reach underinvested communities, to address urgent needs and fill service gaps. FUNDING Recovery funding was critical to the ability of the organizations to respond swiftly WOMEN-LED and effectively: NYWF provided a rapid response to their needs by providing COMMUNITY-BASED grants within a month of the storm. Grantee partners have access to, and intimate knowledge of, populations that are essentially “invisible,” unknown and unaccounted ORGANIZATIONS for by the mainstream. The enduring relationships of trust that our grantee because they possess the partner organizations have built with their communities proved invaluable in the skills, knowledge and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. We remain dedicated to diligently supporting the cultural awareness of how best to approach and work of our grantee partner organizations—uplifting and empowering individuals serve their constituents. and communities to steadily heal and transform society.

9 WHY WOMEN WHY THE NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION

WHEN WE GIVE TOGETHER, WE ACHIEVE BETTER RESULTS. We know that women are the key to creating lasting change in the GIVE! community. When you support a woman, she will uplift her family, her neighbors, and her community. Everyone can be a We know that for a city to thrive, all its residents must thrive. We also know that the collective impact of your gift goes further to support the philanthropist and organizations we fund. Collective giving allows us to make larger, more meaningful grants and support small, innovative organizations that are shape the world! making a significant impact in their communities.

All gifts, small and large, When you give to The New York Women’s Foundation, you fund local, help transform our city women-led organizations that have the knowledge and the solutions to help women improve their lives, creating stronger families, stronger into a healthier, safer and communities and a better city for all of us. more economically just New York. A range of MAKE AN ANNUAL GIFT contributions is vital to our Make a gift directly to The New York Women’s Foundation online identity as a philanthropy or by calling 646-564-5981. Every $60,000 allows us to support one whose fundraising is both more incredible community-based organization. participatory and inclusive. SUPPORT SPECIAL EVENTS Our Celebrating Women® Breakfast, Fall Gala, and Neighborhood Dinner all provide opportunities to make a gift while celebrating community leaders and change makers.

BECOME A MONTHLY SUSTAINER The New York Women’s Foundation’s Monthly Sustainer program allows you to spread out your annual giving. Contributions to this program are made automatically via credit card, or payroll deduction, the same time every month. To make a gift call 646-564-5983.

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS & DOLLARS FOR VOLUNTEER HOURS For more information on how Ask your employer about their matching gifts program. Many to participate, and on how your gift companies will double or triple your donation! Simply enclose your will make a difference, please contact company’s form along with your donation. Your company may also Madeline Lamour Holder have an opportunity to “convert” their volunteer hours into a corporate 646-564-5982 or [email protected]. charitable donation if you volunteer for a minimum amount of time.

10 LEAVE A LEGACY ASSURE THE FUTURE

Anonymous Miriam Buhl Sarah A. Crane Anne E. Delaney MAKE A PLANNED GIFT Kimberly E. Donaldson Join The Polly W. Guth Circle Martha M. Ferry Women and men of all ages, means, and walks of Karen A. Flischel and Kim H. Luck life can create a legacy and commemorate their Mary Ellen Geisser commitment to The Foundation. Gifts made through Agnes Gund wills, retirement and life insurance plans, and trusts Jeannie Minskoff Grant allow you to plan your giving for the future and Polly W. Guth provide support for future generations of women and Ruth A. Leach Harnisch girls. These planned gifts could also provide you with Katherine S. Kahan current or future income tax deductions as well Kwanghee Kim as generate income for yourself or loved ones. Sarah Kovner Antoinette E. La Belle MAKE A GIFT IN HONOR Sandra A. Lamb OF SOMEONE SPECIAL Carolyn Buck Luce Make a gift in honor or memory of your mother, Jane L. Mali daughter, mentor, or friend. The Foundation will Gail S. Miner send a special card to your honoree acknowledging Cynthia J. Fies your gift. Phyllis W. Ross

ASK OTHERS TO GIVE Support the mission of The Foundation The women listed here know how through the power of collective action. important it is to ensure the future of The Foundation, and that there is no A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE better way to do this than by making The Foundation relies on your donations but we a planned gift. Planned gifts help The also want your time, your energy, your ideas and Foundation guarantee revenue, plan presence. Talk to anyone who has worked with for the future and ensure the economic us, and you will hear that the experience, whether stability of the organization. Your organizing a Neighborhood Dinner, or joining the planned gift will help to make sure that Grants Advisory Committee, is transformative. The Foundation will carry on with its important work for many years to come. We create the opportunity for you to fully participate in our work and gain, understanding and compassion JOIN THE POLLY W. GUTH CIRCLE for our mission. PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY Here you will experience the power—and the beauty— of working collaboratively with other women who are equally fierce in their determination to improve For more information call the lives of all women and families in New York City. Christina Ramelli at 646-564-5981.

11 NYWF Grantee Partner Participatory Budgeting Project (PBNYC)

GET INVOLVED! The New York Women’s Foundation is run on the energy, intellect, creativity and determination of women. Lend us yours! Involvement in any of The Foundation’s committees is a rare and transformative experience and allows you to have a significant impact in the lives of women and families in New York City. “ I looked around at THE CIRCLE OF SISTERS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (COS) brings together socially conscious women to learn about The Foundation, those 2,000 strangers, harness financial resources, and create professional networks to build all passionately caring, a collective voice for social change philanthropy in New York City. all finding ways to COS members support The Foundation’s efforts by becoming monthly sustainers and encouraging others to do so; encouraging more women to make things better, become agents of social change by promoting The Foundation’s fundraising and I said to myself: events; raising awareness around issues facing women and families in New York City by hosting gatherings in their homes or work places; I’ve found my tribe.” and, joining the COS Work Group which organizes the annual NYWF Neighborhood Dinner. For more information about COS, please contact Anne E. Delaney NYWF Board Chair Madeline Holder at [email protected] or 646-564-5982. speaking at a Celebrating Women Breakfast THE COMMITTEE FOR THE FUTURE (CFF) creates an opportunity for younger philanthropists, women under 40, to become an important part of The Foundation. CFF members work with The Foundation and our grantee partners by raising funds for, and awareness around, the work that is being done to support New York City women and girls. Committee members gain experience on leadership and fundraising, assist in planning and populating Foundation events, and attend networking and professional development gatherings. For more information about CFF, please contact Maria Najem at Other ways to [email protected] or 646-564-5973. join us include: THE CORPORATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE (CLC) Social media is comprised of corporate women from diverse industries who work Photography to increase corporate support for The Foundation and to create corporate partnerships. CLC members meet approximately once a month to Fundraising devise and implement fundraising strategies. The CLC allows corporate Hosting an Event women to participate in philanthropy at the most effective level and to demonstrate their commitment to making the city a better place for women and girls. For more information about CLC, please contact Christina Ramelli at [email protected] or 646-564-5981.

THE GRANTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (GAC) Spread the Word: The Grants Advisory Committee (GAC) provides volunteers with the opportunity to participate in The Foundation’s unique grantmaking Visit our website: nywf.org process. Serving as The Foundation’s “eyes and ears,” GAC members www.facebook.com/ work in teams supported by Foundation staff, to review proposals from NewYorkWomensFoundation application organizations, conduct site visits, and make recommendations for funding. This approach, unique to The Foundation, allows us to @NYWomensFdn leverage the talents of local women in finding and supporting effective community-driven programs. For more information about GAC, please @TheNewYorkWomensFoundation contact Damisela Taveras at [email protected] or 646-564-5990.

13 THE NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION BOARD ALUMNAE “When you become involved in NYWF, you see that being a woman crosses so many artificial lines. You recognize that you have much in common with the woman sitting across from you that you might not have known before. You can’t help but feel empowered.” Sarah S. Kovner, NYWF Founder and Board Alumna

We thank our Board Alumnae for their leadership and commitment to The New York Women’s Foundation. As always, we are grateful for all that you have done.

Natalie Abatemarco Elizabeth Fernandez Sandra A. Lamb Barbara B. Robertts Suzanne Ainslie Martha M. Ferry Nancy Lebron Maria Teresa Rojas Nereida S. Andino Julie Fontaine Hali Lee Rossana Rosado Carole Angermeir Jane A. Freeman Kwanghee Kim Lee A. Stacey Rouse Betty D. Arce Cindy Fukui-Gim Josephine Linden Yolanda Sanchez* Maria Arias Arlyn S. Gardner Margaret Munzer Loeb Sheri C. Sandler Wendy A. Bach Selena Gardner Melanie Lyons Laura M. Schachter Hertzog Didi Barrett Cecilia M. Gastón Jean Mahoney Heidi L. Steiger Schneider Hyatt Bass Mary Ellen Geisser Idelisse Malave Sara Lee Schupf Brooke S. Beardslee Traci M. Gibson Nell Martin Marian L. Schwarz Judith Roth Berkowitz Leslie Gimbel Jessica McClintock Kelly Mary Carroll Scott Martha D. Bernstein Susan Ginkel Anne Mendel Elinor A. Seevak Sayu V. Bhojwani Eloisa Gordon Rhonda J. McLean Purvi Shah Gloria Primm Brown Lynda D. Gray Friedrike Merck Anne Sheffield Carolyn Buck Luce Verona Greenland Gerri W. Merrick Ann Short Marjorie A. Cadogan Audrey Gruss Gloria W. Milliken* Barbara Smith Alice Cardona* Janet T. Gusman Gail S. Miner Connie Solomon* Shona Chakravartty Polly W. Guth Jeannie Minskoff Grant Brande Stellings Millie Chan Judith L. Hall Mary C. Mitchell Margaret L. Stevens Anita Channapati Anne Hartwell Elisabeth Luce Moore* Carmen S. Suardy Linda T. Chard Katharine R. Henderson Katharine Mountcastle Diana L. Taylor Aiyoung Choi Carolyn D. Hermogenes Sondra Murphy Betty Terrell-Cruz Josephine M. Clement Adria S. Hillman Stacia Murphy Myra Leigh Tobin Roxanne Coady Madeline L. Holder Sharon A. Myrie Christina Toosie Berta L. Colón Elizabeth C. Houghteling Brenda Neal Catherine Tracy Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez Carole Hunt Sheila Nemazee Mary J. Tully* Olivia H. Cousins Helen LaKelly Hunt Laura J. Nurse Lola Van Wagenen Sarah A. Crane* Audrey M. Hutchinson Susan J. Onuma Amy Vance* Stacey Cumberbatch Robyn Brady Ince Maria E. Otero Helen Vanderbilt* Judith G. Daniels Nancy Roosevelt Ireland Silda Palerm Barbara Manfrey Vogelstein Anne S. Davidson Weslie R. Janeway Jane Pauley Sukey N. Wagner Susan L. Davis Virginia R. Joffe Mahsa Pelosky Myrle H. Wall Grace Hightower De Niro Janice M. Johnson Janice Perlman Joan Melber Warburg Tuhina De O’Connor Anne B. Jones Carroll Petrie Charlotte C. Weber Keiko I. DeLille Katherine S. Kahan Lili Pew-Montfort Sandra Weiksner Abigail E. Disney Marion S. Kaplan Karen A. Phillips Kathryn Weill Evan Donaldson* Edith Kelly* Lisa L. Philp Patricia A. White Kimberly E. Donaldson Jean B. Kilborne Rosemonde Pierre-Louis Dee Winokur Nancy M. Dorsinville Grace K. Kim Suki T. Ports Barbara Brizzi Wynne Nicky M. Edlich* Sarah S. Kovner Linda E. Rappaport Barrie Zesiger Patricia Eng Antoinette E. La Belle Lucille C. Renwick Somers W. Farkas Wei Lam Yolanda Rivera *deceased 14 OUR FOUNDERS “ Never doubt In 1986, a small group of thoughtful, committed women were determined to address the challenges faced by underserved women that a small group and girls in New York City. The following year, they created what of thoughtful, had never existed in New York City: an activist philanthropy run by a cross-cultural alliance of women invested in social change. Today, committed citizens the lives of over 6 million women and girls are healthier, safer and more can change the economically secure because of these visionary, committed women. world. Indeed, WE HONOR THEM. it is the only thing Gloria Primm Brown Idelisse Malave Betty Terrell-Cruz Carol Bundy Anne Mendel Myra Leigh Tobin that ever has.” Alice Cardona* Gloria W. Milliken* Christina Toosie Linda T. Chard Elisabeth Luce Moore* Mary Jean Tully* Anne S. Davidson Katharine Mountcastle Amy Vance* Virginia Day Sondra Murphy Helen Vanderbilt* Evan Donaldson* Stacia Murphy Lola Van Wagenen Cindy Fukui Gim Brenda Neal Joan M. Warburg Anne Hartwell Janice Perlman Charlotte C. Weber Adria S. Hillman Yolanda Sanchez* Kathryn Weill Helen LaKelly Hunt Anne Sheffield Marion S. Kaplan Connie Solomon* “ Service is the Sarah S. Kovner Margaret L. Stevens *deceased rent each of us pays for living, the very purpose THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT of life and not The New York Women’s Foundation thanks its departing Board members for their service, courage, knowledge and dedication to improving the something you lives of women and families in New York City. They did not wait for do in your spare someone else to take up the challenge; they proactively fulfilled what Marian Wright Edelmen calls, “the very purpose of life.” They created a time or after you stronger Foundation and a safer, healthier and more humane New York. have reached your WE HONOR THEM AND WE THANK THEM. personal goals.” Hyatt Bass Mahsa Pelosky Diana L. Taylor

15 NYWF Grantee Partner Per Scholas: Women in Tech Program

GRANTMAKING INVESTING TO CREATE BETTER LIVES

The New York Women’s Foundation prides itself in being a strategic funder of innovative and effective women-led, community-based organizations. In addition to grantmaking, we partner with national and local institutions who support our goals, participate in initiatives that provide management and leadership training, and engage in public education and outreach on issues vital to the lives of women, girls and families in New York City. HOW WE GRANT FUNDS

IS AS IMPORTANT AS HOW WE RAISE THEM

WHAT WE KNOW The lives of women and girls are complex. Their economic well-being is inextricably linked to their health, sexual and reproductive freedom and vice versa. We, therefore, invest to remove barriers and create opportunities in each of these areas: economic security; safety and anti-violence; health, sexual rights, and reproductive justice.

The organizations that we fund are women-led and community- based, reflecting our belief that problems and solutions are found in the same place.

Our grantee partners promote change, addressing challenges at their root and altering policies and beliefs in the process. As NYWF President and CEO Ana Oliveira says, “We have been on a steady path of transforming women’s philanthropy from an act of charity to a highly participatory and broadly influential engine for social change.” We think of our work as investing in experts, not donating to victims.

Finally, The Foundation and its grantee partners collaborate, pooling resource to achieve results with dignity and compassion.

HOW WE DO IT Participatory grantmaking has been a key element of The Foundation’s work since 1987, and is carried out by our volunteer Grants Advisory Committee (GAC). The Foundation provides GAC members with opportunities to learn about philanthropy, the challenges faced by women and girls in the five boroughs, and organizations that provide solutions and propel change in their communities. Trained by The Foundation in philanthropy and activism, 40-50 members in each grantmaking cycle review proposals and conduct site visits in all five boroughs to organizations that have applied for funding. The process is transformative for the community as a thoughtful exercise in self- examination that flags weaknesses and leads to improvements, and for volunteers who speak movingly of the knowledge they have acquired and the indelible experience of being “part of the change they wish to see.”

OUR PARTNERS Throughout our 27 years, The Foundation has funded a vibrant, energetic network of some 316 past and present grantee partners. Those with similar goals share ideas and information and support each other’s work, adding to their collective impact. Individually, the organizations run programs that are as rich and as varied as the communities from which

NYWFthey Grantee spring. Partner The Girl pages Be Heard that follow offer a profile of The Foundation’s current grantee partners.

17 18 All women have the right to live safely. The programs we support address the immediate needs of women and girls who suffer ANTI-VIOLENCE physical, emotional and sexual abuse. They also confront root & SAFETY causes and work to create lasting changes in institutions and beliefs that perpetuate gender-based violence.

Families for Freedom | FATOU On July 20, 2007, just before dawn, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the home of young Fatou* and her family. Terrified and shocked by the intrusion, Fatou and her five siblings were too young to know how this dramatic moment was to change their lives. ICE agents arrested their father, and deported him to Senegal within a few months. Fatou’s mother was also worried about her own deportation which would mean that Fatou and her siblings would have to move back to Senegal with her, a country that still conducts female genital mutilation on young girls. Fatou, as the eldest child, was burdened with the task of helping her mother care for her 5 younger siblings. Without a steady income, Fatou and her family had to uproot their lives and leave their home and moved from one shelter apartment to the next for 4 and a half years. Luckily, Families for Freedom (FFF), a multi-ethnic human rights organization by and for families facing and fighting deportation, stepped into Fatou and her family’s life during their time of upheaval. FFF educates, supports, and organizes families affected by deportation to change unjust laws and their devastating effects on families and communities. FFF was able to connect Fatou and her family to the services that they needed, which included legal counseling and representation for Fatou’s mother, and housing and education support for the family. Being the eldest of her siblings, Fatou is a natural leader. Every year, Families for Freedom’s Youth Committee holds a Father’s Day Vigil on Father’s Day, which raises awareness about American kids whose families are separated due to deportation policies. Fatou, a member of the Youth Committee, was particularly active at this annual event and passionately spoke about her own loss of growing up without her father. As a high school student, Fatou had dreams of going to college, but she was worried about the financial costs. FFF recognized her ability to lead and employed her as a member-intern where she not only fulfilled clerical duties, but also worked as an organizing apprentice. FFF provided Fatou with the financial and skill-building support that she needed every step of the way because they understand the necessity and value of creating leaders in their members. Families for Freedom is thrilled and proud that Fatou, whom they’ve known ever since her father’s deportation, is nearly at the end of her freshman year at Boston University. Fatou has become an immigrant rights advocate and continues to fight for her family, and so many others like them, who are trying to keep their families together. As an advocate, Fatou is a beacon of strength, drawing from her personal experiences of being impacted by harsh laws that tear families apart.

*Names have been changed to protect identity.

19 Center for Anti-Violence Education* CONNECT Community Alliance Against Violence & RisingStrong, Citywide | $60,000 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island | $60,000 CONNECT was founded by veterans of the domestic violence Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) is a grassroots, movement to provide direct services that respond to the community-based violence prevention organization that crises caused by domestic violence. By addressing the cultural empowers individuals, especially LGBTQ people, women, dynamics that contribute to the epidemic of gender violence girls, and survivors of gender-based violence to build skills through education and access to preventative support, to break the cycles of violence in their lives and in their CONNECT partners with individuals and communities to communities. CAE’s programs, Community Alliance address interpersonal violence and gender justice, and change Against Violence and RisingStrong work to reduce and beliefs, behaviors, and institutions that perpetuate violence. prevent violence in the lives of LGBTQ homeless, Through legal empowerment, grassroots mobilization, and minority, low-income and at-risk youth. transformative education, CONNECT creates safe families and peaceful communities. Center for Court Innovation* Creating Change for Children Project Covenant House New York* Citywide | $60,000 Anti-Human Trafficking Services Program “Creating Change for Children” is a joint project between Citywide | $60,000 the New York State Unified Court System and the Center for Covenant House New York (CHNY) serves homeless youth Court Innovation that trains NYC Family Court Judges and in New York City, providing shelter and essential services to staff on sex trafficking of minors, which includes outreach, over 350 young people a night at an array of drop-in services. building capacity, and training community based services in CHNY’s Anti-Human Trafficking Services program prevents order to enhance resource availability for victims and those youth from falling into the hands of traffickers while also at risk of victimization. CCC works to expand the piloting offering comprehensive therapeutic care for trafficking of trafficking identification guides and screening tools in survivors as they work to rebuild their lives. The Anti- NYC Family Courts to create an infrastructure to better Human Trafficking Service program focuses primarily on: identify and provide services to victims of sex trafficking identification of human trafficking victims, early intervention as well as those at risk of exploitation. for identified trafficking survivors, and education and counseling to prevent at-risk youth from falling into the City Bar Justice Center/ Association of the Bar hands of pimps and other traffickers. CHNY also matches of the City of NY Fund, Inc.* survivors with appropriate education and vocational training Trafficking and Empowerment Program (T-PEP) with the goal of meaningful, livable wage employment. Citywide | $60,000 * The City Bar Justice Center brings legal education, Day One New York, Inc. representation, and resources to youth trafficked for Citywide | $60,000 sex, one of the city’s most vulnerable populations. Day One partners with NYC youth to end dating abuse and Their Trafficking Prevention and Empowerment Program domestic violence through community education, supportive (TPEP) operates within the Immigrant Women and services, legal advocacy and leadership development. Children Project to increase the visibility of sex trafficking Day One’s program enhances the capacity of professionals of minors among the legal community and government to prevent and intervene in cases of commercial exploitation agencies; train community partners on the issue; and of youth through standardized training that focuses on the provide legal services to trafficked minors. The City Bar link between intimate partner violence and commercial Justice Center is a non-for-profit division of the Association sexual exploitation/trafficking. of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.

NYWF Grantee Partner City Bar Justice Center

* Funded through The New York Women’s Foundation’s Initiative Against Sex Trafficking of Minors. ** Funded in partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 20 Edwin Gould Services for Girls Educational & Mentoring Services* Children and Families/STEPS Support Services for Commercially Exploited and STEPS to End Family Violence Reentry Program Domestically Trafficked Girls and Young Women Citywide | $60,000 Citywide | $80,000 STEPS to End Family Violence (STEPS) works with GEMS serves girls and young women who have experienced women incarcerated for crimes related to domestic abuse. commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. Established in 2010, the STEPS Reentry Program helps Survivor-led, GEMS understands how commercial sexual victims and survivors of domestic violence reintegrate into exploitation is intrinsically linked to racism, poverty, society after leaving prison. STEPS facilitates a 12-week gender-based violence, and youth criminalization. The release-preparation group to prepare women for life on long-term Support Services program empowers girls and the outside, as well as monthly support groups that focus women to exit the commercial sex industry and develop on the internal work needed to address the trauma to their full potential. The program fosters individual pervasive among this population. transformation, community engagement and mobilization, and systemic change. Families for Freedom Citywide | $70,000 Hollaback! Families for Freedom (FFF) educates, supports, and New York City Program organizes families affected by deportation to change Citywide | $60,000 unjust laws and their devastating effects on families and Hollaback!’s mission is to improve public safety for women communities. FFF helps low-income families of color and LGBTQ individuals by ending street harassment and (who are disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice assault. Started as a blog in 2005 to collect everyday stories and deportation systems) to fight back by: expanding of street harassment, it is now an international movement defensive education work, training women as grassroots with people telling their stories through their smart phone educators/mobilizers and organizing at-risk individuals and apps and websites. Hollaback!’s NYC-based efforts focus on communities to halt increased criminalization of immigrants. three core areas: I’ve Got Your Back campaign, reporting harassment through 311, and Research for Social Change. Girl Be Heard Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 LiveOn NY Girl Be Heard empowers young women to find their own formerly Council of Senior Centers and Services voice, write and perform personal pieces to raise awareness Citywide | $75,000 about violence against women, economic insecurity; LiveOn NY grew out of a coalition of senior service trafficking, and other issues. Their Girl Empowerment organizations that had been meeting informally to share Program allows youth to express and heal from traumas such their views, expand their knowledge and discuss better as bullying, sexual abuse and body image dysmorphia. Girl ways to deal with government agencies and serve seniors. Be Heard also runs an In-School Educational Program to help Today, LiveOn NY is recognized as the lead NYC-based middle and high school students develop writing, speaking, organization representing senior services and aging issues, critical thinking, and analytical skills and nurture young advocating for needed community based services that allow women to become leaders in a global movement to empower older adults to age with independence and dignity. With and raise the status of women worldwide. over 100 member organizations providing community based services through more than 600 programs, LiveOn NY’s members range from individual community-based centers NYWF Grantee Partner to large multi-service, citywide organizations and serves over Girl Be Heard 1.4 million older adults in NYC annually. CSCS’ work ranges from economic justice, combating hunger and supportive housing to workforce development, healthy aging, and community engagement.

* Funded through The New York Women’s Foundation’s Initiative Against Sex Trafficking of Minors. ** Funded in partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 21 New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault The Door –A Center of Alternatives, Inc.* Citywide | $70,000 Drop-In and Crisis Service of Runaway The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault (the and Homeless Youth Program (“RHYP”) Alliance) spearheads citywide efforts to prevent sexual Citywide | $30,000 violence and ensure that survivors of sexual assault The Door is a multi-service youth development agency have access to the best acute and long-term care. Using providing a full range of integrated services at a single site, Participatory Action Research, the Alliance helps local free of charge to anyone between the ages of 12 and 24. The residents research, analyze and solve problems. The Alliance Door’s mission is to empower young people to reach their also engages policy makers and the healthcare system in potential by providing comprehensive services in a caring, dialogue and problem solving to advocate for victims. diverse and nonjudgmental environment. Their RHYP initiative deepens their work in serving at-risk or sexually New York City Gay and exploited and homeless youth. Their primary focus will be Anti-Violence Project on girls and gender non-conforming youth under 18 who LGBTQ Community Based Violence Prevention Program are at risk for, or victims of, sex trafficking. Citywide | $60,000 The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project The Hetrick-Martin Institute (AVP) provides LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities HMI WOMEN SPEAK: Anti-Violence Media Campaign with on-site borough-specific intervention, safety planning, Citywide | $60,000 counseling, advocacy, and accompaniment. AVP also provides The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) is among the nation’s community organizing work including outreach, raising oldest nonprofit agencies serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, awareness and information distribution. The Community- transgender and queer community. HMI provides mental Based Violence Prevention Program provides outreach, health and supportive services to at-risk youth regardless of intake and support to Transgender and gender Non- sexual orientation or identity. The year-long Anti-Violence conforming People of Color facing severe levels of hate, Social Media Campaign is a youth-led initiative to address domestic and sexual violence, and helps them create violence against young , queer-identified women and strategies to end violence. trans women, and to educate other community organizations about violence facing young, low-income LGBTQ youth. Resilience Advocacy Project* Girls Health and Trafficking Initiative Voices UnBroken Citywide | $30,000 The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $70,000 Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP) empowers young people Voices UnBroken offers creative writing workshops and to become leaders in the fight against poverty. RAP combines publishing opportunities for girls and young women who innovative, scalable youth leadership programs and targeted are in residential treatment centers, foster homes, jails or system-level policy advocacy to leverage the natural resilience juvenile detention centers. These workshops help participants of youth and enable them to become catalysts for change engage in creative self-reflection; positively interpret in their communities. Their Girls Health and Trafficking challenges; develop a hopeful future orientation; engage in Initiative builds a corps of young women with the knowledge counseling, education and other services; and gain confidence and training to serve as peer advocates for girls in New York’s in their voice as a vehicle for change. Our alumni program juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters and schools trains former participants to advocate for themselves and who are at risk of being trafficked. their communities.

Service Women’s Action Network** Citywide | $75,000 Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) is a non-partisan human rights organization working to improve the welfare of women veterans and U.S. service women. SWAN provides direct services to New York City’s women veterans and service women, and engages in advocacy and policy work around military-related trauma and gender-based violence. Their Fellowship in Leadership and Policy program trains women veterans in NYC to be advocates for change within the NYC area and beyond, giving specialized SWAN trainings to other stakeholders on issues relevant to women veterans. * Funded through The New York Women’s Foundation’s Initiative Against Sex Trafficking of Minors. ** Funded in partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 22 We promote the economic well-being and independence of women and girls by supporting programs that ECONOMIC SECURITY provide greater access to education, job training, employment and financial resources while also working to achieve economic justice.

Upwardly Global | SARA’S JOURNEY Originally from Iran, Sara* built an impressive business career before immigrating to the US. By her late twenties, she was an Operations Manager for a large international investment firm with over 500 employees. And just a few years later, she co-founded a vending company servicing some of the Middle East’s largest hospitals and governments. However, when Sara moved to the US in 2012, she found a seemingly impenetrable job market. She had over ten years of experience managing and growing companies. Yet like so many other immigrants, Sara was foreign to the nuances of the American job market, and although she pursued employment opportunities diligently, her job applications went ignored by employers month after month. At this point, Sara had been underemployed for the better part of a year and was living off the money from part-time job answering phones. She had overcome so much in her life, but wondered if she’d ever restart her career in America. In early 2013, Sara learned of Upwardly Global’s program which provides skilled immigrant women with the soft-skill training and 1-on-1 support they need to compete for professional jobs in New York City. By June she had completed the training and started working with Altin, her employment advisor. Altin remembers thinking, “Sara had a tremendous work ethic. Her English was great and she had all the right skills, but her resume was holding her back.” Together, Altin and Sara worked on her resume and practiced the more culturally nuanced aspects of the US job search—interviewing, networking, and self-promotion. Sara even started interning at Upwardly Global to establish some US work experience. Sara excelled as an intern and became an eager participant at the mock interview events that Upwardly Global schedules regularly with New York employers. These events give job seekers the opportunity to hone their interviewing skills in a constructive environment and network with professionals in their field of interest. They also give employers a chance to connect with Upwardly Global’s job seekers, and after just a few mock interviews, Sara was being pursued by two of the City’s largest banks. Eventually both companies would make offers, and in August, Sara made her decision. She’s now an Executive Assistant, making $75K a year. Before coming to Upwardly Global, Sara was one of the 30,000+ skilled immigrant women in New York City who are unemployed or working in low-skill, low-paying jobs. However, through our proven training program, 1-on-1 career coaching, employer network, and the support of The New York Women’s Foundation, Sara was able to rebuild her once promising career and achieve economic stability.

*Names have been changed to protect identity.

23 A Better Balance Center for Family Life/SCO Family Services Citywide | $75,000 The New York City Cooperative Development Project A Better Balance (ABB) promotes equality and expands Citywide | $75,000 choices for women and men at all income levels. The The Center for Family Life is a neighborhood-based social Work-Family Support for NY Women Initiative addresses service organization in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The New the need for workplace and public policies to keep up with York City Cooperative Development Project supports the the changing workforce and needs of women and families. scaling up of the cooperative development initiative, which ABB’s strategy of direct service, legislative action, and engages New York City-based nonprofits serving low-income, public education and monitoring will result in systemic, immigrant women to incubate economically, socially and sustainable change for thousands of families. environmentally responsible worker-owned businesses. Services include workshops on cooperative business buildOn Inc. development, assessments of organizational readiness and New York After-School Program technical support, and advancing the leadership of women The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan | $70,000 most impacted at the intersection of class and immigration buildOn empowers at-risk youth in the U.S. to make a status through entrepreneurship and economic stability. positive difference in their communities while helping people from developing countries increase self-reliance Chhaya Community Development Corporation through education. buildOn’s New York City After-School Saathi Women’s Empowerment Program program helps high school students in underserved Citywide | $60,000 communities (more than 50% of whom are girls) increase Chhaya Community Development Corporation advocates their level of education and maximize their potential through for the housing needs of New York City’s South Asian community service, volunteer work, and participation community and addresses challenges including overcrowded in leadership development workshops and goal-setting housing, foreclosure, homeownership and civic engagement. exercises with a mentor. Chhaya’s Saathi Women’s Empowerment Program provides financial education and skills training for low and moderate + Business Outreach Center Network income South Asian immigrant women. Workshops, peer Child Care Business Development (CCBD) Program groups, counseling and coaching educate and support them Citywide | $60,000 in understanding financial and credit management, asset- The Business Outreach Center Network (BOCnet) creates building and other financial skills. community wealth, economically empowers individuals and creates jobs for disadvantaged minority and immigrant Cidadão Global/Global Citizen women in low-income communities. The Child Care Citywide | $60,000 Business Development Program represents an innovative Cidadão Global is a community advocacy organization public/private partnership in New York City that supports founded with the aim of ensuring that Brazilian immigrants self-employment and business development and job gain access to resources and information in Portuguese in creation in the high-demand child care sector for low- order to better understand their rights. Cidadão Global is income individuals. With various community partners, the first and only community organization providing BOCnet provides customized training including business leadership development and essential services to New management, marketing, financial planning, marketing, and York’s Brazilian community. The organization utilizes an child development skills as well as follow-up support such intersectional approach to service delivery and examines as legal and financial assistance, networking with other program participants’ needs through the lenses of gender, providers, and referrals to related services. race, class and sexuality.

NYWF Grantee Partner + Funded through the Walmart Foundation’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. Business Outreach Center Network ** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 24 Empire State Pride Agenda Foundation Grace Outreach Citywide | $60,000 The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan | $70,000 Empire State Pride Agenda is a statewide LGBT civil Grace Outreach is an intensive academic program that helps rights group working for equality and justice. With low-income women who have aged out of the New York City their Transgender Civil Rights Initiative, Pride Agenda school system earn a high school equivalency diploma. Grace engages in organizing, education, advocacy and other Outreach programs supports women who seek to enhance awareness-building activities to work toward passage and their academic skills, attend college and seek employment. implementation of state and city legislation prohibiting With GED prep, Career Prep and College Prep, women discrimination based on gender identity and expression in build their confidence to pursue further education and employment, housing, public accommodations and credit. employment goals. Pride Agenda also seeks to include gender identity and expression in hate crimes law. Grand Street Settlement Grand Street Settlement IMPACT The Financial Clinic Brooklyn, Manhattan | $70,000 Citywide | $60,000 From toddlers to senior citizens, Grand Street Settlement The Financial Clinic, a nonprofit financial development (GSS) helps residents of the and Bushwick, organization, has helped more than 15,000 working poor Brooklyn to overcome challenging circumstances and build households to repair debt, establish new savings and secure productive futures. The GSS IMPACT program provides low- tax refunds – resulting in $15 million in assets and resources income mothers and caretakers of children with a bilingual returned to those who need it most. The Clinic improves family literacy group, peer support group and opportunity for financial outcomes for domestic violence survivors, cash leadership development. These services support women as earners and older women through a combination of direct they build family literacy skills and reading practices, develop service, capacity building for community organizations and support networks and access ESL, child care and other services. systemic/policy changes. Hot Bread Kitchen+ Footsteps Project Launch The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 Citywide | $70,000 Footsteps empowers individuals from the Ultra-Orthodox Hot Bread Kitchen (HBK) is a workforce and microenterprise Jewish community forge lives independent of the restrictions development organization that helps create better futures of the ultra-religious communities in which they were raised. and increase household wealth for immigrant women When someone chooses to leave these insular communities, and their families. HBK’s Project Launch is their flagship they often lose access to support and work opportunities workforce development program that increase opportunities in that community. Footsteps combines peer support with for immigrant women interested in building careers in counseling in two interconnected program categories: social the baking and culinary industry. Project Launch provides and emotional (drop-in groups, counseling, peer mentoring, year-long training, paid-on-the-job baking and classroom seminars, celebrations) and educational and career training in English fluency and workplace professional mentoring. skills. Participants bake ethnic breads and sell them through farmers markets and groceries in NYC. Girls Write Now Citywide | $60,000 Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Inc. Girls Write Now (GWN) advances gender equality and social College Prep and College Programs at justice by empowering young women-of-color writers. Taconic Correctional Facility for Women Through its Mentoring, Girls College Bound, and Digital Citywide | $60,000 Mentoring programs, GWN helps at-risk girls from New York Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison provides college City’s public high schools to realize their writing potential; education, life skills and re-entry support to incarcerated men expand their talent; develop independent, creative voices, and and women to help lower rates of recidivism, incarceration gain the confidence to make healthy school, career and life and poverty. Hudson Link’s effort to increase the educational choices. GWN has connected hundreds of young women to level of incarcerated women strengthens their ability to find professional women writes and encouraged their expression employment upon release, which leads to economic security of issues that affect their lives. and stability for women and their families.

+ Funded through the Walmart Foundation’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. ** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 25 Latino Justice PRLDEF Local Development Corporation of East New York LATIN@S At Work (LAW) Brooklyn | $70,000 Citywide | $60,000 The Local Development Corporation of East New Latino Justice PRLDEF (LJP) is a national civil rights York develops the East Brooklyn economy through the institution for Latinos in the United States. LJP’s LATIN@S development and retention of sustainable businesses, as well At Work (LAW) project defends the rights of Latina as initiatives to expand the assets of community residents. immigrants who are vulnerable to exploitation in the The Women Rise to Financial Independence (WRFI) workplace. LAW intends to focus on addressing sexual Program supports women — primarily female heads of harassment and gender-based discrimination in NYC by household and underserved older women and immigrants — educating low-wage Latina workers, their employers, in establishing or improving their businesses and stabilizing advocates and the general community about the rights and their financial position through protecting or recovering protections that exist for Latina workers and to use LJP’s credit worthiness, avoiding pending foreclosure, and legal resources to ensure that these rights are effectively improving their budgeting skills. defended and preserved. Make the Road New York Legal Information for Families Today Immigrant Women Opportunity Project Women’s Program Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island | $70,000 Citywide | $60,000 Make the Road New York brings together low-wage Legal Information for Families Today promotes system- immigrant workers; young people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual wide reform of courts and public agencies and provides and transgender community residents to promote equality, critical services to increase access to justice for children and justice and opportunity for all New Yorkers. The Immigrant families. The Women’s Program offers legal information, Women Economic Opportunity Project provides immigrant compassionate guidance, crisis intervention, and referrals women with job placement, adult literacy classes, job for job placement, income supports and financial literacy readiness services, and other supports to increase the for low-income mothers who are involved in child support, capacity of low-income immigrant women to develop custody or visitation cases without legal representation. marketable skills, obtain living wage jobs and a pathway to meaningful careers while creating jobs in their own Lexington Vocational Services communities. Deaf Women for Economic Independence The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 Mercy Center Lexington Vocational Services maximizes the quality of Adult Education and Work Readiness program life for deaf adults through employment services as they The Bronx, Manhattan | $60,000 achieve independence and productivity. The Deaf Women Mercy Center supports women and families in the Mott for Economic Independence program provides free and Haven section of the South Bronx, helping them move from comprehensive job placement and pre- and post-employment poverty to economic self-sufficiency. The Adult Education services. The program also aims to change workplace culture and Work Readiness program offers computer classes, job by educating and preparing employers to be more inclusive readiness training and career services to help immigrant of deaf individuals. women in the nation’s poorest Congressional district to succeed. Participants develop self-confidence, find Literacy Partners employment, and design career plans to stay employed and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for advance in a field for which they are well prepared. Immigrant Women: A Two-Generation Approach The Bronx, Manhattan | $60,000 Movement for Justice in El Barrio Literacy Partners (LP) provides free literacy classes in New Manhattan | $60,000 York City to families and individuals, ages 16 and older. LP’s Movement for Justice in El Barrio was founded when ESOL for Immigrant Women Program in the South Bronx Latina immigrant mothers joined to address negligence and helps women, many of whom are recent immigrants, achieve harassment from their landlord. Today, the Housing Justice the spoken and written fluency in English necessary to Program integrates community organizing, leadership compete in the job market. In addition, the program provides development and political education to build a grassroots, guidance for parental tasks such as helping children with majority-women social justice organization and to enhance homework and communicating with teachers. women’s leadership in the organization. In the “Liderazgo de Mujeres (Women’s Leadership) training initiative, women build skills and knowledge in housing law and tenants’ rights, the media, protests and direct actions, meetings and self- representation in court.

26 New York Legal Assistance Group: Legal Health Sanctuary for Families+ Women’s Stability Project Domestic Violence Workforce Initiative Citywide | $60,000 Citywide | $70,000 New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) is a nonprofit Sanctuary for Families provides integrated clinical, legal, law office providing free civil legal services to low-income shelter and economic empowerment services to domestic New Yorkers. LegalHealth, a unique project within NYLAG, violence victims and their children. These direct services are addresses the nonmedical needs of low-income individuals complemented by extensive community outreach, training with serious health problems. LegalHealth’s Women’s and education, and systems change advocacy. Through the Stability Project offers free legal services for women in NYC Domestic Violence Workforce Initiative, survivors receive job hospitals (particularly single female heads of households, readiness, career development, basic office skills and other underserved older women, pregnant women and new intensive in-house training. mothers) and training to healthcare professionals on patients’ legal issues. Sapna The Bronx, Queens | $70,000 Participatory Budgeting Project Sapna promotes social justice and economic empowerment of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $75,000 the South Asian immigrant women’s community in New York The Participatory Budgeting Project helps communities make City. Sapna builds collaborations with community members informed and democratic decisions about public spending and existing organizations, fosters the provision of accessible and revenue. Participatory Budgeting NYC (PBNYC) aims social and health services, and facilitates community research to increase participatory budgeting in NY City Council and program development that is responsive to the needs of districts and increase community control in government the community. decision-making. Through PBNYC, low-income women gain leadership skills while making informed spending and Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond Foundation revenue decisions for their communities. PBNYC’s goal is to Scholars Institute open other public funds for participatory decision-making The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 and generate class and gender equity in public spending. The Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond Foundation bridges obstacles and opportunity to help underserved young girls + Per Scholas and women attend and graduate college. Participants engage Women in Tech Program in activities and experiences that break down stereotypes and Citywide | $60,000 remove the limitations society has assigned due to gender, Located in the South Bronx, Per Scholas is New York City’s race and economic and social inequalities. By providing oldest and largest IT workforce development initiative. resources to overcome barriers, the Foundation helps each It offers free technical skills training – including computer, young woman reach her highest potential. printer and network administration skills. The Women + in Tech Program helps low-income women achieve Start Small. Think Big. financial stability by formalizing credentials or entering Citywide | $60,000 the information technology field as computer technicians. Start Small. Thing Big. (SSTB) provides financial and legal services to low-income women, immigrant and minority Red Umbrella Project entrepreneurs in NYC’s most underserved communities. The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 SSTB’s leadership development program, Entrepreneurship Through the lens of lived experiences, the Red Umbrella Pipeline, offers opportunities for low-income entrepreneurs Project (RedUP) reframes public dialogue surrounding the to scale their businesses via personal financial and business stigma and discrimination of individuals in the sex trade. coaching along with small business legal assistance. RedUP takes a three-pronged approach. 1) media/advocacy training to help sex trade workers challenge discrimination; 2) communication and transferable job skills to help people exit the sex trade industry; and 3) community organizing and advocacy to achieve social and political change.

NYWF Grantee Partner Start Small. Think Big.

+ Funded through the Walmart Foundation’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. ** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 27 STRIVE/East Harlem Employment Services Urban Upbound Women’s Empowerment Initiative Women Economic Security Initiative Citywide | $60,000 Queens | $60,000 STRIVE is a workforce development organization that Urban Upbound helps residents of four public housing increases economic security for New York City residents who neighborhoods in Western Queens achieve economic self- face the greatest impediments to employment—including sufficiency and break intergenerational cycles of poverty. recovering addicts, formerly incarcerated individuals, The Women’s Economic Security Initiative will work with recipients of public assistance, and the homeless. Their women to develop and expand leadership skills and improve Women’s Empowerment Initiative provides training, long-term financial security through an integrated set of wrap-around supportive services, job placement, and employment and banking services, as well as create a network retention services to low-income women in their Health of women-led community support systems. and Office Operations Training Program who possess significant barriers to employment, with an intentional Women’s Housing and Economic + focus on single mothers. Development Corporation Home-Based Childcare Training Institute Union Settlement Association The Bronx | $70,000 El Camino Health Pathways: The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Home Health Aide Training and Job Placement Corporation works with families in the South Bronx to Citywide | $60,000 advance greater access and equity for women in areas Union Settlement Association fosters leadership and self- of education, health, economic stability and mobility to sufficiency by helping families in East Harlem build better lead Bronx communities out of poverty. The Home-Based lives for themselves and their community. The El Camino Childcare Program gives low-income women a ladder to Health Pathways: Home Health Aide Training and Job economic self-sufficiency by helping them grow successful Placement program provides low-literacy women who lack childcare businesses. The program trains women in a GED with increased access to educational opportunities bookkeeping, business planning, health and safety, and child and prepares them for higher paying jobs in the high-growth, development. It also helps them access start-up funds, high-demand healthcare sectors by improving literacy and technical assistance and referrals. English levels. Year Up New York+ United Community Centers+ Young Women’s Initiative East New York Farms! Citywide | $60,000 Addressing Food Justice with Older Adults Year Up New York is a one-year intensive training and Brooklyn | $60,000 corporate internship program that empowers young adults United Community Centers is a neighborhood-based who possess a high school diploma or GED, but are otherwise multi-service organization that provides needed services disconnected from the economic mainstream, to reach their to families, adults and young people and involves residents potential through professional skills and higher education. of all racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds in efforts to The Young Women’s Initiative provides social services, address and resolve community issues. East New York Farms! support groups, gender-specific retreats and networking promotes economic development by creating markets where events to help young women become change agents in their local gardeners can sell their harvest and increasing access to own lives, families and communities. affordable, urban-grown food for local residents. Young Women’s Christian Association of Queens+ Upwardly Global+ Women to Work Citywide | $70,000 Queens | $70,000 Upwardly Global works to move working poor immigrants The YWCA of Queens provides a predominantly immigrant into financially sustainable employment. Through the and ESL community with comprehensive health care, Women’s Services Program, Upwardly Global helps financial guidance, education, and focused job training skills immigrant women professionals reclaim their professional to meet the needs of the community and establish economic careers in the U.S. and establish financial security for security for women. In the Women to Work program, low- themselves and their families. The program provides women income and unemployed immigrant women learn to become with a job-readiness program and other tools to overcome the home healthcare workers and administrative aides. Participants multiple barriers they face in entering the labor market. receive job training, ESOL classes, job readiness instruction, computer instruction, job placement, and career counseling.

+ Funded through the Walmart Foundation’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. ** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 28 29 HEALTH, We support programs that help women and girls to take control of their health and sexual rights SEXUAL RIGHTS AND and to obtain quality health care, including the REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE full range of reproductive health services.

THE POINT | MONICA The POINT Community Development Corporation (The POINT) is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. We work with our neighbors to celebrate the life and art of our community, an area traditionally defined solely in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools and substandard housing. We believe that the area’s residents, their talents and aspirations are THE POINT’s greatest assets. One of our participants, Monica*, exemplifies our motto, “People in the community create the community in which they want to live.” Monica grew up in a household where she was often discouraged from socializing in public. As the daughter of a single mother who was a former member of the US military, suffering from PTDS, and unable to work—Monica has endured several challenges, including homelessness this past year. Through a number of community programs, The POINT provided Monica with a space that allowed her to persevere and hone her leadership skills, despite the challenges facing her at home. She started as a participant in The POINT’s W.O.M.E.N.’s (Where Our Minds Empower Needs) group. She is a regular contributor to the group’s POP magazine, writing articles, poetry and creating artwork that get published several times a year. The program nurtured her mind and spirit which allowed her leadership skills to grow. She was invited to apply to and joined ACTION, where she is furthering her community work via environmental justice. Monica is currently working on a Waterfront Justice Campaign that allows her to help organize Hunts Point community members around issues pertaining to securing the South Bronx waterfront in the event of another superstorm, like Hurricane Sandy. Monica’s leadership skills have blossomed under W.O.M.E.N. and ACTION programs. She has been active in integrating the perspectives and lessons from the WOMEN’s program into the wider organization of The POINT, an accomplishment that speaks to the leadership skills that she has developed here. Monica also expresses herself confidently on social justice issues and is eager to spread awareness of the issues affecting her community. She has managed to maintain a solid B average and this year was appointed manager of school’s track team. Monica is a testament to The POINT’s mission of yielding transformative outcomes for both youth and community. THE POINT’s programs and activities foster independence and confidence, and in Monica we see just how much of an impact we have on our youth in our community. We have witnessed the radical change in Monica in the course of her journey to becoming a young woman. We look forward to seeing Monica excel as she graduates high school, goes on to college, and becomes a powerful leader.

*Names have been changed to protect identity.

30 BOOM! Health (Formerly Bronx AIDS Services) Community Health Action of Staten Island GO GIRL: Inside Out Young Women’s Task Force The Bronx | $60,000 Citywide | $60,000 Boom! Health provides non-hospital based HIV/AIDS Community Health Action of Staten Island empowers services to improve the lives of adults and adolescents in the individuals, families and communities to overcome Bronx who are HIV positive or at risk. The GO GIRL’s Inside health disparities caused by poverty, discrimination and Out program works to decrease HIV-associated behaviors lack of access. Through the Young Women’s Task Force among young women of color in the Bronx by addressing (YWTF), low-income adolescent women of color learn the underlying issues that serve as barriers to maintaining to avoid unintended pregnancies, HIV infection and other optimal health, while adding a college readiness component. sexually transmitted diseases. YWTF’s education and training program develops young women as peer leaders to deliver prevention messaging in their schools, homes and other settings.

NYWF Grantee Partner Callen-Lorde Community Health Center

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center Transgender Care Management Program Citywide | $60,000 Callen-Lorde Community Health Center provides quality NYWF Grantee Partner health care and related services to New York’s lesbian, gay, Correctional Association of New York bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning communities. The Center welcomes all who seek services, regardless of ability to pay. The Transgender Care Management Correctional Association of New York** Program address the need for targeted and sensitive medical Women in Prison Project (WIPP) care coordination services for transgender and gender Reproductive Justice Campaign nonconforming patients. Citywide | $75,000 The Correctional Association of New York (CA) works to Committee for Hispanic Children and Families create a more fair, just and humane criminal justice system. Young Women’s Advocacy Project (YWAP) CA’s Women in Prison Project (WIPP) facilitates leadership Citywide | $70,000 among currently and formerly incarcerated women to The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc.’s empower them to reform the criminal justice policies that (CHCF) mission is to combine education and advocacy directly affect their lives. WIPP’s Reproductive Justice for to expand opportunities for children and families, and Women in Prison Campaign helps ensure access to quality strengthen the voice of the Latino community. The Young reproductive healthcare and advances reproductive justice Women’s Advocacy Project (YWAP) is a new advocacy for incarcerated women. sub-program of CHCF’s Graduate, Prepare and Succeed (GPS) drop-out prevention program, which allows participants to learn leadership and advocacy skills, team and consensus building, as well as the function of local government and the constructs for promoting change via education about and subsequent selection of an issue related to health, sexual rights and reproductive justice.

** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 31 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Streetwise and Safe** New York Community Organizing and Citywide | $60,000 Leadership Development to Advance Dignity Streetwise and Safe (SAS) is an initiative of the Peter for Pregnant and Parenting Youth Cicchino Youth Project at the Urban Justice Center Citywide | $40,000 that builds and shares leadership, skills, knowledge and The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health community among young women and LGBTQ youth of color (NLIRH) advances a reproductive justice agenda focused who experience gender-based violence and discriminatory on Latinas, their families and communities. They focus on policing practices. Their “Know Your Rights” SAS Youth three critical and interconnected areas: abortion access and Leaders Program engages young women and LGBTQQ youth affordability; sexual and reproductive health equity; and of color in year-round programming through which they immigrant women’s health and rights. NLIRH’s NY Latina share information critical to reducing harms of interactions Advocacy Network (LAN) fosters the leadership of pregnant with law enforcement with their peers, advocate for systemic and parenting youth to advocate for policies that support changes to policing policies, and practices which jeopardize young parents, and better equips young Latinas to make their safety and infringe on their right to bodily and informed decisions about their reproductive health. reproductive autonomy.

SPARKS The POINT Community Development Center (Serving Pre- and Post-natal women and families The W.O.M.E.N. with Awareness, Relief, Knowledge and Support) (Where Our Minds Empower Needs) Project The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens | $60,000 The Bronx | $60,000 SPARKS helps women from low-income and Orthodox The POINT is dedicated to youth development and the Jewish communities in Brooklyn who suffer from Post- cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point Partum Depression (PPD) overcome the financial and cultural section of the South Bronx. The W.O.M.E.N. Project barriers that prevent them from seeking treatment. SPARKS’ engages girls and women ages 13 to 21 in peer education and programs offer women and their families information, prevention programming to increase awareness of HIV/STIs services and referrals for PPD, which if untreated can lead and teen pregnancy among young African American/Black to hospitalization for depression, self-neglect, child neglect and Latina/Hispanic women. and even infanticide and maternal suicide.

** Funded in Partnership with the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund. 32 2014 STRATEGIC PLAN

In 2014, NYWF launched a strategic planning process to chart our course over the next three years. As part of this process, input was gathered via surveys, group discussions, and one-on-one interviews with a variety of Foundation stakeholders, including current and former grantee partners and Board members, donors, volunteers, and staff, as well as experts and allies in the field. As a result, we are excited to build on our 27 years of success working in New York City by focusing on three main areas of growth over the next three years:

We will increase our focus on policy and advocacy opportunities that have the highest chance of being “game changers” for women, families and gender non-conforming Increasing our Investment in Policy Change and Systemic Impact communities in the areas of economic security, health and Policy Change and Systemic Impact safety. We will also play an increased role as a facilitator and convener of stakeholders to work collaboratively towards such systemic impact efforts.

We will leverage our knowledge and experience to promote learnings about what effectively promotes economic Advancing What Works justice for women and families in two areas: 1) community- Advancing What Works based solutions for engaging women, girls and gender non-conforming individuals 2) Effective models of philanthropy and grantmaking.

We will expand our reach and create new partnerships to increase our scope of influence and grow impact in ways broader than are possible alone—including cross-sectoral Expanding our Reach institutional partnerships with philanthropic, non-profit, governmental and research-focused stakeholders, as well as individual stakeholder groups such as millennials, young women and men.

NYWF Grantee Partners, SCO Family, Make the Road NY, Girls Write Now

33 PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESPONSIVE FUNDING

2014 RISE-NYC! The grantee partners involved, over the course of (Respond, Inspire, Solve, Engage) RISE-NYC! Initiative, are: Accion East; Brooklyn Workforce Innovations; Business Outreach Center 2014 was the culminating year of NYWF’s bold, Network; CHANGER; Community Voices Heard; 5-year initiative: RISE-NYC! (Respond, Inspire, Solve, Grameen America; Hour Children; Local Development Engage). This initiative—begun in 2009, during the Corporation of East New York; Make the Road NY; economic recession—was driven by our commitment Mercy Center; New York Legal Assistance Group; to support economic security for women and families. Legal Health; Sakhi for South Asian Women; STRIVE/ Although it was a time of philanthropic retrenchment, East Harlem Employment Services; Upwardly Global; we increased funding to respond to the urgent needs of Urban Upbound; Violence Intervention Program; women, families and communities during the Recession Women’s Housing and Economic Development crisis. We boldly stepped forward and effectively Corporation, and YWCA of Queens. mobilized financial and human resources to: In 2015, we will be disseminating a comprehensive • Increase economic security using microenterprise report on our findings from RISE-NYC. financing, training, and small business development. • Increase access to higher paying jobs in high-growth, high-demand sectors such as technology, healthcare, Healthy Aging Initiative and child care, as well as nontraditional fields, such as construction. The New York Women’s Foundation has expanded its focus on the complex relationship between aging • Increase family stability through access to work and economic security. The Foundation supports a and income supports such as child care, after-school dignified and empowered aging experience for all programs, and government benefits; and providing women. In 2014, through a funding partnership with urgent, culturally sensitive crisis intervention services. the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, NYWF NYWF’s investment of $4,917,500 in RISE-NYC! had launched the Healthy Aging Initiative, to enhance our powerful, multiplying effects: enabling 19 grantee grantee partners’ capacity to engage and supporter partners to serve 30,286 women, and creating an greater economic security for older women. NYWF additional benefit for 15,246 dependent children. supported three grantee partners, Center for Family The RISE-NYC! Initiative effectively reached women, Life, Urban Upbound, and YWCA of Queens, to families, and communities with the greatest need for design, develop, and/or enhance innovative programs economic stability. Accomplishment highlights of the targeting older women. These organizations are initiative include: supporting the start or expansion provided with an added value of engaging in an ongoing of over 440 businesses in economically distressed learning collaborative as they build new intervention communities; enabling 50% of women applicants approaches to reach older women. to obtain jobs; supporting 62% of enrolled women • Center for Family Life works with low-income to complete an education program. Latino and Asian women in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. • Urban Upbound works with low-income African American women in Far Rockaway, Queens. • YWCA of Queens works with low-income Asian women in Flushing, Queens.

34 HURRICANE SANDY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY FUND

While the floods of Hurricane Sandy have receded, underserved communities continue to find themselves in the center of the aftermath, lacking long-term safety and stability. Unemployment, homelessness, poor health, and isolation are persistent challenges that communities hardest hit by the storm face on a daily basis.

2014 marked the third year of The New York Women’s Foundation’s Hurricane Sandy Response and Recovery Fund, a four-year initiative created to address the devastation caused by the storm. The funding initiative supports organizations in the heaviest-hit neighborhoods as they continue to guide, supplement, and leverage city-wide and national recovery support. While emergency funding is necessary for relief, sustained funding is essential for long-term recovery, to ensure that the obstacles created and exacerbated by Hurricane Sandy do not become permanent spokes in the cycle of inequity in New York City. The Foundation designed the fund in recognition of the layered barriers that constrict the vitality of low-income individuals, families and communities. Through our support, Community Health Action of Staten Island, Good Old Lower East Side, Make the Road NY, and Urban Upbound invested in recovery strategies addressing employment, health care, and housing services. Their focused recovery efforts illuminate how grassroots work makes a critical difference in effectively and meaningfully addressing local community needs at an immediate and systemic level.

What is Working to Achieve Community-Authored Recovery

‘First responders’—Grantee partners responded as full community participants as they better equipped to identify, understand, and dynamically address underlying local recovery needs. Bolster resilience —As the cornerstones of communities, grantee partners stayed long after the crisis to support recovery of community threads that had been strained. Armed with local trust and deep community knowledge, grantee partners continued to provide disaster relief recovery support and expertise locally and internationally. Gumption—Grantee partners acted to evolve relief to recovery solutions—leveraging knowledge gained during relief work to reshape strategies to support long-term recovery. Ripple effects —Grantee partners employed a lens of systemic change to ensure that rebuilding would not reinforce preexisting inequities, but would create sustainable pathways to opportunity for low-income communities through policy and systemic change. Activating new leaders—Grantee partners engaged women within the community as leaders and created opportunities for employment, advocacy, and leading policy change. Silver lining of disaster focused partnerships —Active investment in the development of community networks allowed grantee partners to deepen reach in impacted neighborhoods and to develop long-term recovery strategies that reflect the needs and values of diverse communities.

Key Lesson Learned: Relief is not enough, recovery is the space for creating real change.

35 Initiative Against Sex Trafficking of Minors Collaborative Bridge Partnership Initiative — In 2014, the midpoint in our Initiative Against Sex A dynamic and shared learning experience Trafficking of Minors, The Foundation deepened The Foundation knows that investing in the its investment in prevention and early intervention leadership and capacity of grantee partners to strategies for girls, and gender fluid youth in New York develop collaborations with other local organizations City by integrating prevention-focused strategies into strengthens and deepens their collective efforts, and current programs that work with youth. creates lasting pathways to economic opportunity in the communities that they serve. To date, grantee partners in the Initiative have worked with 806 girls and young women, of whom 92% were In 2014, with funding from JPMorgan Chase, NYWF girls of color, and 52% were homeless or unstably launched a learning initiative that develops the capacity housed at the time of program entry. The participants of grantee partners through collaboration. It supports received access to a range of valuable, strength-based community-based organizations in creating deeper, resources that address economic stability, safety, and more integrated partnerships to facilitate their work. health. During 2014, 40% of young women and girls This concept honors the value that by collaborating participated in education programs; 40% received together we can actualize greater accomplishments. career counseling; 64% applied for jobs, and 25% Organic partnerships that have been identified as ready obtained employment—leading to $1,118,220 of for integration are directly funded in order to support projected annual earnings from employment to and maintain a ‘bridge’ between partner organizations. support stronger, brighter futures. Each organization brings its own strength and expertise to the table. This enables a more efficient In our fall grantmaking cycle, we awarded and integrated service provision. In addition, these one-year grants ranging from $30,000 to $80,000 alliances create dynamic service delivery models that to the following grantee partners: draw on the expertise of individual partners. Our intention is to facilitate a deeper, more robust Association of the Bar of the City of New York package of services and to serve a large number of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) women with finite resources. Center for Anti-Violence Education 2014 JPMorgan Chase Collaborative Center for Court Innovations Bridge Partnership Grantee Partners: Covenant House Business Outreach Center Network Day One New York Community Health Action of Staten Island The Door Footsteps Resiliency Advocacy Project Local Development Corporation of East New York

36 Partnership for Women’s Prosperity The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund As a participant in the Partnership for Women’s In 2014— for the seventh consecutive year—NYWF Prosperity (PWP)—a national partnership with five partnered with The Catalyst Fund at Groundswell other women’s foundations—The New York Women’s Fund, to increase investments and visibility of the vital Foundation is working to boost the economic power of contributions of women of color who are leaders in women across the USA, community by community. The the reproductive justice movement. The Foundation collective goal is to support economically vulnerable awarded grants to the following local community-based, women and girls to become financially secure through women-of-color led reproductive justice organizations: advancements in education, job training and employment, Correctional Association of New York and innovative strategies in workforce development. Service Women’s Action Network NYWF grantee partners funded under this initiative use strategies that range from basic skills development Streetwise and Safe to career advancement across many sectors and within high-demand industries that provide meaningful and livable wages. NYWF is achieving the goals of the PWP Nonprofit Board Engagement Partnership partnership through grantmaking, collaboration in a Since 2013, NYWF has partnered with Citi Community learning community, research and the development of Development to implement the Nonprofit Board best practices and strategies that build women’s long- Engagement Partnership, with the goal of strengthening term financial self-reliance and economic security. the governance of NYWF grantee partners by engaging The PWP grant supported NYWF by deepening our Citi women employees in nonprofit board placement investment in grantee partners serving women living at opportunities. or below the federal poverty level, including immigrant The New York Women’s Foundation would like to women, parenting teens, formerly incarcerated women, thank Citi for their ongoing partnership and their victims of violence and abuse, women on public assistance. commitment to strengthening their relationship with the community, by engaging women business leaders 2014 Partnership for Women’s Prosperity in community service. The following organizations Grantee Partners participated in the 2014 cohort, taking steps to strengthen their capacity to meet community needs: Business Outreach Network Chhaya Community Development Corporation Grameen America Community Voices Heard Hot Bread Kitchen Equality Now Per Scholas Girls Education & Mentoring Services (GEMS) Sanctuary for Families Girl Be Heard Start Small. Think Big. Girl Write Now Upwardly Global Participatory Budgeting Project Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo) Sanctuary for Families Year Up New York Start Small. Think Big. YWCA of Queens STRIVE International/ East Harlem Employment Services Women’s Housing and Economic Development PWP is supported by The Walmart Foundation. Corporation (WHEDCo)

37 CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE

As an early funder of emerging, women-led, community-based nonprofits, NYWF is fiercely committed to ensuring our grantee partners’ programmatic and organizational sustainability, as well as strengthening the leadership of their staff at all levels. In 2014, The Foundation provided a total of $543,000 in capacity-building support that leveraged the expertise of nonprofit consulting firms. This disbursement enabled one-on-one consulting services and cohort learning opportunities for our grantee partners. In addition, grantee partners could apply for individual capacity-building grants to pursue customized technical assistance services from consultants of their choosing. Finally, grantee partners had access to a variety of workshops and trainings through The Foundation’s continued partnership with the New York City Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative.

2014 Capacity Building Grants Capacity Building Grants in 2014:

The New York Women’s Foundation awarded Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice a total of $127,000 in capacity-building grants to ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York 22 grantee partners to strengthen organizational CHANGER infrastructure and increase the effectiveness of their programmatic activities. Organizations Chhaya Community Development Corporation requested assistance in the following areas: Committee for Hispanic Children and Families board development; communications; evaluation; Community Voices Heard fundraising; information technology; program CONNECT development, and strategic planning. Girl Be Heard Girls Write Now NYWF Grace Outreach Grantee Partner Grace Outreach Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees Legal Information for Families Today Local Development Corporation of East New York Make the Road New York Movement for Justice in El Barrio Per Scholas Sakhi for South Asian Women Sapna NYC Service Women’s Action Network Start Small. Think Big. Violence Intervention Program Voices UnBroken

38 2014 Capacity Building Partnerships 2014 New York City Capacity Building In 2014, The Foundation continued its capacity- Funder’s Collaborative building initiative through strategic partnerships The New York City Capacity Building Funder’s with nonprofit consulting firms. Through these Collaborative strengthens the leadership and partnerships, 51 of The Foundation’s grantee management capacity of our grantee partners partners participated in structured peer learning through a series of participatory workshops and opportunities, combined with one-on-one trainings on a variety of topics such as fundraising; consultations, to increase their organizational board development; financial management, and and programmatic capacities in leadership and communications. Workshops and trainings typically organizational development, and fundraising. range in length from a half-day to a series of full-day sessions, and are facilitated by technical assistance providers who tailor the trainings to the needs of the Cause Effective participants. Individual follow-up consultations are Provided a series of workshops and one-on-one often conducted at the end of each series. consultations for grantee partners to strengthen individual donor development and increase overall In addition to learning new skills and strategies fundraising capacity. for building organizational capacity, the trainings provide an excellent opportunity for grantees to share SEED experiences, increase their knowledge base, build learning partnerships and form valuable relationships. Piloted a comprehensive self-assessment for Through these offerings, The Foundation’s grantee the leadership teams at grantee organizations. Provided grantee partners with an online resource partners enhance their capacity, increase resources, for support on organizational sustainability, strengthen governance practices, and, ultimately, effective communications, team-work and improve service delivery and advocacy to low-income facilitative leadership. women and girls in New York City. In 2014, The Foundation partnered with the New York City Capacity Building Funder’s Collaborative NYWF Grantee Partner SAPNA NYC to offer grantee partners the following workshops and trainings:

Worker Center Legal Issues Advocacy Institute Lawyers Alliance Maggie Williams

Succession Planning Employment Law Carmen Rivera Lawyers Alliance

Affordable Housing 101 Fiscal Management Center for Urban Pedagogy FMA

Advocacy – City Hall Changes in Lobbying Laws Wayne Ho Lawyers Alliance

Zoning Law 101 Center for Urban Pedagogy

We are grateful to The New York Foundation; North Star Fund; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Scherman Foundation; Stonewall Community Foundation, and United Way of New York City for their partnership in 2014. 39 2014 STRATEGIC DISCRETIONARY AND PLANNING GRANTS

Strategic Discretionary Grants support efforts that respond to emerging issues or immediate needs that fall outside of the scope, size, or timing of The Foundation’s fall and spring guidelines in accordance with The Foundation’s mission.

In 2014, The Foundation awarded $344,250 in grants in this area to the following organizations:

Association of Fundraising Professionals NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault To support the Real Time Grantmaking education To support a multi-year City-wide Sexual Assault Campaign session at Fundraising Day in New York to reach youth in marginalized communities who are at high risk of sexual assault Black Women’s Blueprint To support participation in the Convention Against Torture and Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Other Cruel Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment To support the One Fair Wage Campaign and the NY Childcare Cooperative Caribbean Cultural Center To support the organization’s infrastructure planning Sakhi for South Asian Women and capacity building To support leadership transition and enhanced community engagement activities Cine Qua Non To support the distribution of the film “Simple Justice” St. Philip’s Church To support the Jillian’s Peak television project in achieving The College and Community Fellowship enhanced LGBTQ community engagement To support and scale up the Academic Success Program Welfare Rights Initiative Community Voices Heard To support implementation of a Policy Partnership Symposium To support facilitation of workshop sessions for the to increase access to education and training for low-income citywide Talking Transition civic engagement program New Yorkers

Dominican Women’s Development Center Women’s City Club of NY To support the organization’s enhanced community To support increased civic engagement and education efforts engagement work for women in New York City

High Water Women Foundation PowHer NY To support school-readiness efforts for low-income To support the development and launch of an inclusive New York City public school students statewide network committed to securing economic equality for all New York women Hot Bread Kitchen To support their culinary and entrepreneurial training for immigrant women

League of Professional Theatre Women To support the organization’s strategic planning process

Literacy Partners To support facilitation of workshop sessions for the citywide Talking Transition civic engagement program

Make the Road New York To support facilitation of workshop sessions for the citywide Talking Transition civic engagement program

Maura Clark-Ita Ford To support the organization’s infrastructure and capacity building

NYWF Grantee Partner Sakhi for South Asian Women

40 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION

The New York Women’s Foundation raises awareness of critical issues to women through the release of in-depth reports and through public events that engage partners and experts from a variety of fields.

Voices from the Field: What’s Working: Promoting Innovative Blueprint for Investing in Women 60+ Entrepreneurship for Women In November 2014, The New York Women’s In October 2014, The New York Women’s Foundation launched their Voices from the Foundation launched What’s Working, a series of Field series, which comprises four Blueprint for conversations that aim to engage expert partners, Investing in Women reports that explore the educate the public and advance a more just and position, needs, and strategies for supporting the sustainable economy. In a climate of great economic security and contributions of low-income NYC inequality, the challenges facing underinvested women during one of four major developmental populations as they seek economic security are periods: ages 0-8, 9-24, 25-29, and 60+. Its goals are ever more difficult, and women in particular face to: (1) broaden understanding of the key role and even greater obstacles. We have initiated a series of issues of NYC’s low-income girls and women; (2) discussions with experts in community, government, stimulate broad, productive discussion of how best policy and philanthropy, to better explore issues to support those roles and address those issues; in today’s economic environment. This series is a and (3) catalyze bold investment into promising space for provocative conversation that will spur strategies and solutions. ideas, partnerships and potential solutions and opportunities to help women succeed in New The first report,Blueprint for Investing in York City and beyond. Women 60+, was released in November 2014 and highlighted the many challenges facing older women The first in this series of discussions focused including caregiving responsibilities for adult on Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship for children and grandchildren, access to benefits, social Women and highlighted the efforts already taking connectedness, and health education and support. place to develop innovative entrepreneurship models that take advantage of the inherent strengths For more information on the Voices from the Field of women, particularly low-income and immigrant series and the executive summary and full Blueprint women, and provide them with the additional skills for Investing in Women 60+ report visit and resources that they need for success. nywf.org/voices-from-the-field The discussion also explored the best practices for supporting these models and scaling them up to achieve greater impact.

(from left to right) Ana Oliveira, NYWF President & CEO, Panelists: (from left to right) Panelists: Jessamyn W. Rodriguez, Founder & CEO, Melissa Nieves, Director of Adult Education, Union Settlement Association, Hot Bread Kitchen, Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer, NYC Department Bobbie Sackman, Director of Public Policy, Council of Senior Centers and of Small Business Services, Assoc. Professor of Law Carmen Huertas- Services of NYC, Ruth Finkelstein, Associate Director, Robert N. Butler Noble, Director of the Community & Economic Development Clinic at CUNY Columbia Aging Center, Katherine Acey, Executive Director, GRIOT School of Law, Moderator: Natalie Abatemarco, Managing Director, (Gay Reunion in Our Time) Circle, Moderator: Irma Rodriguez, Executive Citi Community Development Director at Queens Community House & NYWF Board Member, Report Author: Susan Leicher, Thompson & Columbus, Inc. 41 NYWF GRANTEE PARTNERS: 1988–2014

A Better Balance: Central Brooklyn Partnership Family Learning Center The Work and Family Legal Center Central Harlem Partnership, Inc. Family Violence Project of the A.C.E. - OUT, Inc. CHANGER, INC. Urban Justice Center ACCION New York Chhaya Community Development Corporation FIERCE! Action for Community Empowerment Chica Luna Productions, Inc. Figure Skating in Harlem Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice Child Care, Inc. Financial Clinic African Hope Committee Child Welfare Organizing Project Fire Safety Education Fund African Peoples Council Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association First Girls Congress Collaborative African Services Committee, Inc. (W.E.P.& G.W.H.S. Project) First Saturday in October, Inc. Agenda for Children Tomorrow Cidadão Global \ Global Citizen Footsteps, Inc. ALIGN: the Alliance for a Greater New York Coalition for Battered Women’s Advocates Friends of Island Academy Alonzo Daughtry Family Life Services Coalition for the Homeless Girl Be Heard America SCORES New York College and Community Fellowship, Inc. (formerly Project Girl Performance Collective) American Indian Community House, Inc. (AICH) Committee for Hispanic Children and Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) American Woman’s Economic Development Families, Inc. Girls for Gender Equity, Inc. Corporation (AWED) Committee for Humanitarian Assistance Girls Incorporated of New York City Amethyst Women’s Project, Inc. to Iranian Refugees, Inc. (C.H.A.I.R.) Girls Write Now, Inc. ANDOLAN Organizing South Asian Workers Community Advocates for Educational Global American Council for Children Excellence Arab-American Family Support Center and Families, Inc. 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Grantee partner presenter Rhizlane Fizazi from Hot Bread Kitchen and Lavender Light performance Grantee partner speaker Tenaja Jordan from The Hetrick-Martin Institute

2014 Celebrating Women Breakfast honorees Soffiyah Elijah, Gloria Steinem, 2014 Celebrating Women Breakfast Co-Chairs, Jennifer Giacobbe, Taina Bien-Aimé, Jessamyn W. Rodriguez with NYWF Board Chair, Anne Delaney Karen Reynolds Sharkey, and Kwanza R. Butler

Circle of Sisters for Social Change member Arlene Bascom, Grants Advisory Committee member Ieisha Gray and former board member Anita Channapati Century Award recipient Gloria Steinem 2014 2014 NYWF: A LOOK BACK | Celebrating Women® Breakfast

NYWF President and CEO Ana Oliveira, Board alumna Silda Palerm, Board member and CWB co-chair Taina Bien-Aime, Honorary Board chair Abby Disney, honoree Soffiyah Elijah, Former Mayor of NYC David Dinkins, honoree Gloria Steinem, honoree Jessamyn W. Rodriguez, Board Chair Anne Delaney, Board Member and CWB Co-Chair Karen Reynolds Sharkey, and Board Members Stephanie Wang-Breal and Cathy Isaacson

2014 Century Award recipient Gloria Steinem, NYWF Honorary Board Chair Abby Disney, and Celebrating Women Award recipient Jessamyn W. Rodriguez

Singer and songwriter Judy Collins with Century Award recipient Gloria Steinem

Guests at the 2014 Celebrating Women Breakfast

Bennie Edgerson, grantee partner speaker from Accion East

Guest at the 2014 Celebrating Women Breakfast

For more photos please go to www.nywf.org/about/2014-year-in-pictures/ NYWF: A LOOK BACK | Neighborhood Dinner in Manhattan 2014

NYWF President and CEO Ana Oliveira, Emcee and Executive Director of Grand St. Settlement Margarita Rosa, Former Board President and 20th Anniversary award recipient Millie Chan, Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Women Giving Circle and Neighborhood Leadership NYWF Board alumnae Barbara Brizzi Wynne, Martha M. Ferry, Commissioner of NYC Award recipient Hali Lee, and Co-owner of Chinatown Ice Cream Factory and Spirit of Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Silda Palerm, Entrepreneurship award recipient Christina Seid and Board member Lisa Holton

NYWF Board alumna Sharon Myrie with NYWF Board alumna Nancy Dorsinville, Julie McGee Board Chair Anne Delaney, and Board alumna Antoinette LaBelle 20th Anniversary Recognition Award recipients Marion Kaplan and Millie Chan

Guests enjoying a toast at Jing Fong restaurant in Chinatown

Performance by Lower East Side Girls Club Chorus

Performance by Wally Ruiz and Trio Cristal

Committee for the Future reunion co-chair Yael Jekogian, Director of Individual Giving Madeline Holder, and Circle of Sisters member Carol Schlitt 2014 NYWF: A LOOK BACK | A Night at the Plaza Fall Gala 2014

Performance by NYWF grantee NYWF Advisory Council Chair and parnter, Girl Be Heard Past Board Chair, Diana L. Taylor, accepting her Walking Stick award Ski Johnson performance

Ted Bunch and Tony Porter, co-founders and co-directors of A CALL TO MEN and Fall Gala award recipients with Pamela Shiffman, Executive Director of the NoVo Foundation

Orange is the New Black star Danielle Brooks with Soffiyah Elijah, Board alumnae Barbara Brizzi Wynne, NYWF Board Chair Anne Delaney, Fall Gala award recipients Diana L. Taylor, Ted Bunch, Tony Porter, Executive Director of Correctional Ceclia M. Gaston, and Board Member Anne Pasternak, and NYWF President and CEO Ana Oliveira Association of New York Merble Reagon

Fall Gala emcee and Parks & Recreation star Retta NYWF Board Chair Anne Delaney, board member Yvonne Quinn, Renee Landegger, with NYWF Board member Kwanza Butler Susan Rose, board alumna Sharon Myrie, and board member Grainne McNamara.

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STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES Year Ended December 31, 2014 with Comparative Totals for 2013

YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2014 2013

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total Support and revenue: Contributions & grants $ 1,257,615 $ 697,594 - $ 1,955,209 $ 3,725,928 Special events 2,939,819 - - 2,939,819 2,507,647 Donated goods and services 110,041 - - 110,041 144,303 Investment income (losses), net 422,570 175,219 - 597,789 1,854,758 Other income - - - 0 0 Net assets released from restrictions 3,894,453 (3,894,453) - 0 0 Total support and revenue 8,624,498 (3,021,640) - 5,602,858 8,232,636

Expenses: Grants, research, public education & leadership development 7,620,427 - - 7,620,427 7,344,278 Administration 515,303 - - 515,303 553,300 Fundraising 1,628,610 - - 1,628,610 1,793,597 Total expenses 9,764,340 - - 9,764,340 9,691,175 Change in net assets (1,139,842) (3,021,640) - (4,161,482) (1,458,539) Net assets – January 1 11,702,069 6,014,578 $1,799,595 19,516,242 20,974,781 Net assets – December 31 $10,562,227 $ 2,992,938 $1,799,595 $15,354,760 $19,516,242

FISCAL YEAR 2014

Sources of Revenue*

59% Special Events $2,939,819 39 % Contributions & Grants $1,955,209 2% Donated Goods & Services $110,041

* excludes $597,789 Net Realized and Unrealized gains on investments

Expenditures

78% Programs $7,620,427 17% Fundraising $1,628,610 5% Administration $515,303

58 Summarized Financial Statements

STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION As of December 31, 2014, and 2013

ASSETS 2014 2013

Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,989,096 $ 8,897,514 Investments 9,231,828 9,094,522 Pledges receivable, net 1,427,115 3,990,755 Prepaid expenses 111,808 102,406 Property and equipment, net 180,233 198,672 Other assets 102,357 100,287 $16,042,437 $22,384,156

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 266,334 $ 181,338 Grants payable 140,000 2,362,500 Deferred rent liability 155,843 143,576 Deferred contribution revenue 125,500 180,500 Total liabilities 687,677 2,867,914

Net assets: Unrestricted: Current 3,684,267 4,955,332 Board designated endowment 6,877,960 6,746,737 Total unrestricted 10,562,227 11,702,069 Temporarily restricted 2,992,938 6,014,578 Permanently restricted 1,799,595 1,799,595 Total net assets 15,354,760 19,516,242 $16,042,437 $22,384,156

2014 Grantmaking

46% Economic Security $2,435,000 22% Anti-Violence & Safety $ 1,160,000 10% Health, Sexual Rights & Reproductive Justice $ 545,000 17% Capacity Building and Strategic Discretionary $ 898,600 5% Hurricane Sandy Fund $ 250,000

Total Grants $5,288,600

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