SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.

Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. 520 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 866-735-1234 212-971-7600 www.selfhelp.net

SELFHELP AT 80: BUILDING UPON OUR HISTORIC PROMISE 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 1936 – 2015

SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC. 2015 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND MANAGEMENT STAFF WHEN THE TIME CAME, A SMALL GROUP

SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015 - 2016 MANAGEMENT STAFF DEAR FRIENDS November 10, 1936. It was a chilly November evening when a small group of recent German émigrés came together in the living room of a Manhattan apartment. Their purpose: to take action to rescue their friends, neighbors, and relatives who Officers Directors Stuart C. Kaplan Adeena Horowitz, LMSW Carol Durham, RN, PCC Chief Executive Officer Administrative Director, Director, Clinical Operations were still stranded in Europe and facing increased danger from the Nazi regime. President Edward B. Cohen Nazi Victim Services Program Raymond V.J. Schrag Scott Drassinower From this initial meeting, the organization we know today as Selfhelp Community Russell Lusak Karen H. Geller, RN, JD Jeffrey S. Jacob Co-Chairmen Senior Vice President Patricia L. Kaufman Director, Services was born. Barry Konig Ernest L. Bial Managing Director, Risk Management Lisa J. Krenzel, MD Victor A. Wyler Michael Grieco, CPA, CVA Senior Communities Carol Levin We are proud to present our 80th Anniversary Annual Report, and we invite you Senior Vice President, Mohini Mishra, CASP, LMSW Vice Presidents Paul Levinsohn to journey with us through Selfhelp’s fascinating story. Over the decades, our Financial Strategy Dorothy Kern Programs Director, Housing Matthew A. Cantor Ralph P. Marash Managing Director, constituency has greatly expanded and our service offerings have increased in Peter H. Jakes Alfred E. Netter Kevin T. Byrne, Esq. Real Estate Sandy Myers Peter Model Ronald F. Ries number. Yet, the values that guided Selfhelp from its inception are ever-present. Vice President, Human Resources Director, Steven G. Tepper Sheryl Silverstein, DMD Living independently with dignity remains the motif that runs through our history and and Labor Relations Elizabeth Lynn Government and External Relations Brian R. Steinwurtzel Treasurer Managing Director, still drives our work 80 years later. This is illustrated, time and again, through Carol Kahn Strauss Peter L. Simmons Lois Deutsch Grants and Research Sherry Perlman those we serve: Tai Wang Vice President, Development Director, Development Secretary Nancy Kelly Sullivan Dennis Baum Mrs. K., an 85-year old Holocaust survivor of limited means, receives a free hearing aid and Tova Klein, LCSW Managing Director, Brooke Samuelson exclaims, “After years of solitude and quiet, a whole new world has entered my ears and mind...” Vice President, Long Island LHCSA Programs Director, NORCs Senior Communities Mayer Waxman, LMSW Samantha Schoenberger SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION BOARD 2015 - 2016 Mr. S., 100 years young, enjoys visiting with his fellow residents at Selfhelp’s Harry and Hanan Simhon, LMSW Managing Director, Director, Housing Development Jeanette Weinberg Apartments, and the comfort of knowing that his Selfhelp social worker is just Vice President, Senior Communities and Sustainability Nazi Victim Services Program Officers Trustees down the hall. Neil Actable Doreen Seligson Chairman Michael A. Bamberger Robert H. Scheibe Evelyn J. Wolff Director, Information Technology Director, Human Resources Mrs. A., homebound and recovering from a stroke, rekindles her love of music and the arts Dennis Baum Ernest L. Bial Raymond V.J. Schrag Vice President, Bert E. Brodsky Victor A. Wyler Real Estate Development Koku Badasu, RN Lisa S. Trub through classes she takes as a participant in our Virtual Senior Center. Vice Chair Matthew A. Cantor Jeffrey Zorek Director, LHCSA Director, Debrah Lee Charatan Jeffrey S. Jacob David Dring and City Home Care Programs Affordable Housing Development Executive Director, MISSION CONTENTS Secretary Stuart C. Kaplan Peter Model Karin Shewer Krugman Selfhelp Innovations Erin Brennan, MPS, QDCP Angela Williams, LCSW Senior Programs Director, Programs Director, Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to 1 Executive Letter 24 Overview of Programs and Services Ilse Melamid Advisory Board Joshua Mermelstein Linda Pekunka SHARP/Clearview Senior Center Case Management maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and 3 Then & Now: 1936–2015 26 Financial Statements Stanley J. Reifer Administrator, Shelley Einhorn at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home 17 Looking Ahead 30 Founders Society Thomas H. Roche Executive Services Lisa Buynak, RN Michael F. Price health care, and social services and will lead in applying 20 Caring for Generations: 31 Providing Support Richard Scharf Director, Patient Services Sandra Priest Rose Karen DeOssie, LMSW Long Island LHCSA new methods and technologies to address changing A Salute to Long-time Members of 37 Working Together Administrative Director, needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve the Selfhelp Family 40 Contact Information Nazi Victim Services Program Ellen Ceriale as the “last surviving relative” to its historic constituency, 22 Highlights From an Outstanding Year 41 Officers, Directors, and Management Staff SELFHELP HONORARY LIFE MEMBER: Rita Shewer Director, LHCSA, victims of Nazi persecution. Quality and Compliance WHEN THE TIME CAME A SMALL GROUP STEPPED FORWARD…

Thanks to their long-term home health aide, Cheryl, Mr. and Mrs. F. live safely at home • In keeping with New York City’s plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable despite his dementia and her physical impairments. housing, we are building two new apartment buildings, and have one on the drawing board, which will yield 244 new units of affordable housing specifically for seniors. Eighty years ago, Selfhelp assisted refugees as they rebuilt their lives in America. We are also speaking with our partners about new opportunities. Today, we continue to provide essential services to Holocaust survivors and to a broader community of older adults, including immigrants from all over the world. • We are planning our fifth International Conference, which will bring together We touch the lives of over 20,000 clients in 26 sites throughout New York City and professionals who work with Holocaust survivors from all over the world. Our last Nassau County. Conference attracted 300 attendees, and focused on issues of resilience, the long- term effects of trauma, child survivors, and benefits and restitution. Our founders imbued Selfhelp with a spirit of innovation, unfettered vision, and willingness to navigate uncharted territory. Today, we are among the largest • Outcome measurement has become an integral part of our work. Our clients and most highly regarded human service organizations in the New York have long provided us with anecdotal evidence attesting that our programs are metropolitan area. transformational. We are confirming their feedback with more formal research. For example, with funds from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, we are working with an We mark our eightieth year with celebrations and with a commitment to retaining external evaluator to examine how the services we provide in affordable housing the spirit of our founders, even as we continue to evolve in response to a new health reduce health care costs. And, we are working with managed care partners to plan an and human services environment and changing client needs. Here are some of our evaluation of how the Virtual Senior Center impacts avoidable hospitalizations and current projects: emergency room use.

• We are engaging with health care providers regarding the use of social services We remain grateful for your companionship and your support along our journey. to reduce the need for hospitalization, under New York State’s Delivery System Whether we are reflecting back, or looking ahead, our friends and supporters have Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. At the same time, we are developing ensured that Selfhelp remains strong, innovative and responsive to the changing new models of service which blend social services with health promotion and environment. With your continued partnership, we look forward to touching the lives prevention activities. of tens of thousands of new families, far into the future.

SINCERELY,

Dennis Baum Stuart C. Kaplan Raymond V.J. Schrag, Stuart C. Kaplan Raymond V.J. Schrag and Dennis Baum. President, Board of Directors Chairman, SCS Foundation Chief Executive Officer 1 1936 TO 2015

2 …AND TOOK ACTION

1936 Our Story Begins

In the living room of a Manhattan apartment on November 10, 1936, a group of German émigrés gather to discuss the plight of their compatriots, anxious to escape the threat of Hitler’s tyranny. Selfhelp for German Refugees is created.

“ It was the time when the Nazi regime unfolded its murderous designs, when even the reluctant, in growing numbers, realized that they had to leave their homes…”

– T.S., a Selfhelp Founder

3 1939 - 1941 Refugees Arrive in Increasing Numbers

War erupts and waves of refugees approach Selfhelp for assistance. Volunteers from Selfhelp respond by guiding confused immigrants through a maze of bureaucratic paperwork, and help provide food, shelter, clothing, employment and financial assistance.

THEN AND NOW

Selfhelp’s early volunteers initiated services. Three comprehensive case Selfhelp retains its commitment to the personal service that would management programs provide victims of Nazi persecution, and has become our organization’s hallmark. intensive support to elders living in also built upon its experience to Today, Selfhelp’s social workers at the community in Brooklyn, Queens benefit tens of thousands of clients our affordable apartment buildings, and Manhattan. Last year alone, representing a broad spectrum of senior centers, and NORCs provide these programs leveraged nearly $3.6 cultures and ethnicities. advocacy to help clients obtain million in support for food, housing, Pictured above: Selfhelp Social Worker Julia benefits and entitlements, and transportation, and other life Pilosov with Martin Lande House resident referrals to a myriad of social essentials for needy older adults. Aida Balay.

4 1946 – 1956 Selfhelp Begins to Serve Holocaust Survivors

Following World War II, Selfhelp is called upon to assist Holocaust survivors and other displaced persons who come to the United States without family, homes or funds. Many are ill, and all are devastated by the horrors they have experienced.

THEN AND NOW

Our founders promised “to serve Most people are surprised to learn dislocation, and deprivation they as the last surviving relative to that there are still nearly 60,000 suffered decades ago. Selfhelp’s victims of Nazi persecution.” While Holocaust survivors living in the New professionals are well versed in the war ended more than 70 years York City area, and that over half of the psychological impact of the ago, Selfhelp’s work with survivors them are living at or below 150% of Holocaust, and are experts in remains very much alive. Today, the poverty line (a mere $16,335 for accessing a wide range of benefits Selfhelp is the oldest and largest an individual). Many are becoming available to survivors. Sensitivity organization in North America frailer and more in need of services training is provided to the cohort providing comprehensive services to as they age. of home health aides that work Holocaust survivors – nearly 4,700 with this population. The crises experienced by survivors in the last year alone. today often stem from the acute loss, Pictured above: Dancing at a Selfhelp Coffee House.

5 1950 1955 1960s Summer Vacation United Help is Established Fundraising Concerts who perform before sold-out audiences. Program Begins Feature Renowned Artists These fundraising events help Selfhelp A sister organization to Selfhelp, to serve its rapidly expanding client By the early 1950s, Selfhelp’s summer United Help is created to raise Long-time Selfhelp friends and population – nearly 5,000 by Selfhelp’s vacation program provides refugees and administer funds to help Jewish supporters fondly recall the concerts 25th anniversary in 1961. and Holocaust survivors with much refugees from all of Europe. – originally held in private homes and needed respite. The program expands then at larger venues such as Carnegie to several locations over the next few Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Celebrated decades, including Fleischmann’s and artists such as Isaac Stern and Pinchas Hunter House. Zuckerman are among the musicians

“ The very low death rate and the fact that in more than four and a half years only one tenant needed to be transferred to a home for the aged indicates the value of suitable housing …and the importance of stand-by services that can be delivered when needed…”

– Excerpted from Selfhelp’s 1968 Annual Report

6 1964 Affordable Housing for As a result of this program’s Holocaust Survivors overwhelming success, Selfhelp develops the innovative notion of Selfhelp becomes convinced that building an apartment complex with placing the elderly in old age or supportive services where seniors nursing homes would precipitate could live independently among their decline. A staff of newly hired friends with similar interests. In professional social workers visits 1964, the Helen R. Scheuer House clients regularly in their own homes opened its doors to 200 tenants in to provide counseling, arrange for Queens. It is the first state-aided homemaker services, and respond to project to be built in New York by a emergencies. not-for-profit organization.

THEN AND NOW

Selfhelp now operates nine housing Services include supportive sites, which provide over 1,300 counseling, community nursing seniors with affordable and supportive visits, innovative aging services housing in Queens and on Long technologies, advocacy for Island. Two more buildings are entitlements and benefits, home under construction, in the Bronx health care, medication management and Brooklyn. and housekeeping, all available if and when requested. Selfhelp’s buildings offer much more than just an affordable place to Pictured above: Rendering of Selfhelp’s live. Onsite social workers promote eleventh building, currently under residents’ independence and quality of construction in Brooklyn and scheduled to life as they age in their homes. open in early 2017.

7 1969 1972 Name Change to Selfhelp Project Pilot Opens to help seniors live independently Community-based Programs Community Services in their own homes. Counseling Open for Nazi Victims Project Pilot is established on is offered regarding entitlements After several interim name changes, Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the and benefits that may be available, Selfhelp’s vital work for victims of Nazi Selfhelp Community Services is chosen first of our three case management such as financial assistance, home persecution expands with the to reflect the organization’s compre- programs. These programs perform delivered meals, home care and establishment of community-based hensive network of community-based evaluations and coordinate services housekeeping services. programs in Washington Heights and services and the broader population Queens. Similar programs subsequently it now serves. open in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Nassau County.

“ It should be noted that about 100 of our homemakers are women that came to this country as victims of Nazi persecution and who had been associated with Selfhelp for 20 or more years.”

– Excerpted from Selfhelp’s 1968 Annual Report

8 1973 First Senior Center is Established in Queens

Selfhelp’s first senior center is established in Latimer Gardens in 1973, with the goal of giving isolated older adults the opportunity for creative engagement, a nutritious hot meal, and direct services.

THEN AND NOW

Today, Selfhelp operates five Michael Bloomberg as one of New robust senior centers in Queens, York City’s ten Innovative Senior which provide 9,300 individuals Centers. Four hundred members a with a daily mix of educational, day stream through the doors of this cultural, recreational, and wellness flagship center for a full schedule of programming. In 2012, Selfhelp’s computer learning, choral instruction, creative senior center programming formal dancing, Wii bowling, led to a signal honor: the designation citizenship preparation, healthy of our Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince eating, exercise and much more. Street Senior Center by then-Mayor Pictured above: Tai Chi at the Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center.

9 1977 Opening of the and homemakers. Selfhelp formally Guthery Institute for Home inaugurated its Homemaker Services Care Training program in 1941, and its Home Nursing Service in 1942. When waves of émigrés arrived on these shores, the men were often By 1977, Selfhelp has become the difficult to employ, as many needed largest provider of home care in to improve their English and receive the metropolitan area, and receives new training in order to qualify for the a grant from the New York State jobs that were available. The women, Department of Labor to provide however, could work immediately, formal training to home health aides. and they did so as practical nurses

THEN AND NOW

Today, Selfhelp annually provides from welfare to work. Most have With 1,700 active home health aides tuition-free training, certification, never been gainfully employed. on our roster, today Selfhelp delivers employment, and mentorship to over 2 million hours of in-home After three weeks of training and approximately 350 of New York’s hard- care to elderly, frail, and disabled a hands-on certification process, to-employ individuals, preparing them individuals. aides are eligibile for employment for employment in the profession of with Selfhelp’s Licensed Home Pictured above: Mr. Farkas and his home care. Many are single parents, Care Services Agency or another Selfhelp Home Health Aide, Toure Ndeye. recent immigrants, or adults struggling home care provider. to become self-sufficient by moving

10 1983 1986 1989 1990 Selfhelp Joins UJA- Nazi Victim Guardianship SHARP Opens in Queens NORCs Join the Selfhelp Federation of New York as Program is Established Network of Services Selfhelp’s Alzheimer’s Resource a Member Agency As some survivors are unable to Program (SHARP) is established Selfhelp emerges as a leader in We greatly value our close partnership manage their own financial or to meet the tremendous need for providing social and health services with UJA-Federation, which provides domestic affairs, Selfhelp seeks services and support for those affected to residents of Naturally Occurring Selfhelp with vital support for both permission from the Court to by Alzheimer’s disease and their Retirement Communities (NORCs), our fundamental programs and our become their legal guardian, charged families. This program provides communities of older adults who have pioneering initiatives. They are tireless with acting in their best interests a warm, nurturing, and secure aged in place, so that they may remain advocates for our clients and have on their behalf so that they may environment for men and women independent in their own homes. recently redoubled their commitment continue to live as independently as with Alzheimer’s and other forms Today Selfhelp operates four NORC to the many Holocaust survivors possible. Today, Selfhelp operates of dementia. SHARP also provides programs in Queens. served by Selfhelp. UJA-Federation has the only Guardianship program in caregivers with a welcome and needed Community Guardianship provided Selfhelp with generous core North America designed specifically respite, and offers support groups that Program Begins funding and program grants as well as for Holocaust survivors. There is are conducted in a nonjudgmental technical assistance, introductions to no Selfhelp program that better and supportive atmosphere. Selfhelp’s experience providing funders, outreach to elected officials, epitomizes the sacred promise made guardianship services for Nazi victims and much more. by our founders – “to serve as the last leads to its winning one of three surviving relative to victims of Nazi contracts with the City of New York to persecution.” provide court-appointed guardianship services to vulnerable adults.

11 1993 1995 1996 2003 Claims Conference Certified Home Health Selfhelp Organizes First Senior Source is Initiated Funding Enables Expansion Agency Opens International Conference for Throughout the decades, Selfhelp of Services Professionals Working with Selfhelp opens a Certified Home has assisted thousands of low-income Holocaust Surviviors Selfhelp’s Brooklyn Holocaust Survivor Health Agency (CHHA) to provide seniors in accessing the services they program opens its doors with funding a full spectrum of home care Selfhelp hosts its first International need to remain independent. Senior from the Conference on Jewish services to Selfhelp clients as well as Conference at Congregation Source was created to make this vital Material Claims Against Germany. Due individuals and families infected or Habonim. The two-day event includes service available to all. An affordable, to the large population of survivors in affected by HIV/AIDS. Today, under sessions on best practices, the unique private-pay geriatric care management Brooklyn, a second program site opens a new designation from the New needs of aging survivors, and the program, Senior Source helps families in 2008. Thanks to Claims Conference York State Department of Health, intergenerational transmission by developing, coordinating, and funding, Selfhelp triples the number the CHHA offers in-home skilled of trauma. Three International overseeing a personalized care plan, of survivors served annually between nursing, physical therapy, and other Conferences would follow, in 2003, tailored to the unique needs and 1996 and 2004. professional services to a broader 2006 and 2011, growing both in lifestyles of their loved ones. population of adults. size and scope.

12 2006 Aging Services Technology

With the advent of personal computers in the 1980s, Selfhelp introduces computer training programs for seniors. In 2006, Selfhelp’s Board of Directors adapts Selfhelp’s mission statement to include a commitment to using pioneering new technologies to meet clients’ changing needs.

THEN AND NOW

Today, Selfhelp offers computer learning seniors. It was launched as a public- museums, chat with friends, enjoy yoga, centers in all five senior centers, and private partnership in collaboration learn wellness tips and discuss politics much more: unobtrusive sensors that with Microsoft, the NYC Department from their own homes. issue alerts about illness or emergencies; for the Aging, and the NYC Department The Virtual Senior Center has attracted telehealth programs that make seniors of Information Technology & interest from around the world, active partners in monitoring their Telecommunications in March 2010. including visitors from Australia, Israel, health, “cognitive stimulation programs” Today, it has grown to become a lifeline France, Japan, and Northern Ireland. that help maintain mental acuity, and for over 225 participants throughout Selfhelp’s acclaimed Virtual Senior New York City, on Long Island and in Pictured above: Residents of the Martin Center for the isolated homebound. Baltimore, Chicago and San Diego. Lande House enjoy music and movement Participants take part in intriguing along with their friends participating The Virtual Senior Center creates new live classes facilitated by hundreds of virtually from their homes. social networks for otherwise shut-in instructors, attend tours of world-famous

13 2008 2009 2010 2012 Creation of the Selfhelp Selfhelp Publishes Definitive Passing the Torch – Selfhelp Brings Witness Community Services White Paper on Holocaust Launch of Selfhelp NextGen Theater to New York Foundation Board Survivors in New York The official launch of Selfhelp Begun in Israel by JDC-Eshel, The Witness To ensure the longevity of our new To plan for the future provision of NextGen in October of 2010 marks an Theater Program is an innovative and emo- initiatives, the Selfhelp Community services to Holocaust survivors, in 2009 important and momentous occasion tional intergenerational, full-year “jour- Services Foundation is founded to raise, Selfhelp undertakes a demographic for Selfhelp Community Services. ney” for Holocaust survivors and high manage and steward philanthropic analysis of the existing population of Comprised of young professionals, school students. Guided by a trained funds to support the work of Selfhelp Nazi victims in New York, and projects NextGen’s raison d’être is to advance drama therapist, the two generations Community Services, Inc. Today, their numbers and needs through Selfhelp’s mission through outreach, elicit and reveal each survivor’s experi- nineteen trustees actively serve on the year 2025. Holocaust Survivors in education, volunteerism and ences, and explore issues of war, loss and Selfhelp’s Foundation Board. New York, Today Through 2025 has fundraising. To date, this vibrant group trauma. The survivors are the narrators, become a highly regarded resource, has undertaken a Memoirs project to and the students work with them to widely referenced and used by those document and preserve the histories draw out their stories and re-enact their providing service to the survivor of Holocaust survivors and has hosted wartime experiences on stage at the community. In 2013, Selfhelp updates numerous film screenings, Coffee end of the year. These moving accounts the report, using new data available Houses and much more. highlight the survivors’ memories, pain from UJA-Federation of New York’s and resilience through the eyes, ears and Jewish Community Study. This update speech of youth. confirms that the number of survivors In its first year, Selfhelp partnered with requiring services is rising, and projects the Yeshiva of Flatbush. Four years significant needs for home health care later, we are working with five schools: and financial assistance as they age and The Trinity School, The Heschel become increasingly ill and frail. School, SAR Academy, Yeshiva of Flatbush and Ramaz.

14 2013 2013 The Defiant Requiem: out-of-tune piano. They sang for New Partnerships such as the Virtual Senior Center. Verdi at Terezín – other prisoners, German officers, and Three Selfhelp programs are housed Kimmel Housing Development a Landmark Event delegates of the International Red at the Westbury site: the Abraham Cross – singing in a spirit of defiance Foundation Scharf Center for Holocaust Survivor Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is a that could not be spoken. Selfhelp expands its affordable housing Services, the Long Island Licensed multi-media presentation of Verdi’s portfolio to Long Island through an Home Care Services Agency and our Requiem Mass, as performed by In April 2013, Selfhelp worked with affiliation with the Kimmel Housing Long Island Community Guardian Jewish prisoners in Theresienstadt UJA-Federation of New York and the Development Foundation. Selfhelp program. Detention Camp from 1943 until Defiant Requiem Foundation to hold serves as the asset manager and oversees October 1944, when the last members a performance of Defiant Requiem at Hunter’s Point South Project with operations of two affordable housing of the chorus were transferred to Avery Fisher Hall, to raise both funds TF Cornerstone and awareness for Holocaust survivors developments in Westbury. Auschwitz. The prisoners, led by Selfhelp is named as the developer, in need. So successful was this event, conductor Rafael Schächter, learned Residents can now enjoy Kimmel along with TF Cornerstone, in the that an encore performance took place their parts by rote from a single score, Foundation programs and access upcoming Hunter’s Point South on March 9, 2015. and were accompanied by a legless, Selfhelp’s wide network of services, building development on the Long Island City, Queens waterfront. Selfhelp wins this high-profile “ ...[Dad] loved being part of the opportunity because of its decades of experience in creating and operating Virtual Senior Center....it opened affordable housing. for him such a wealth and depth of information....I know deep in my heart it added more time with us and we will be forever grateful.”

– A grateful family

15 2014 2015 Balancing Incentives Federal and City Charles B. Wang Community Program Grants Government Funding for Health Center Holocaust Survivors As New York State seeks to reduce An important expansion to our spending on Medicaid, it explores New funding from the New York City Housing with Services model, the mechanisms for drawing on social Council and the Federal government Charles B. Wang Community Health services to improve the health of is awarded to support the needs of Center opens its doors. Residents of low-income seniors. Selfhelp receives Holocaust survivors. Selfhelp is a Selfhelp’s housing, along with their three major grants to provide case primary beneficiary. Both funding neighbors, now have immediate access management to new populations, streams are the result of concerted to high-quality medical care from introduce health and wellness advocacy campaigns in which Selfhelp primary and specialty providers. services into housing, and support played a crucial role. Selfhelp’s Housing Model is those recently discharged from the NY Connects Internationally Recognized hospital so they are less likely to be readmitted. Recognizing our deep expertise in Selfhelp’s CEO, Stuart C. Kaplan, was both case management and home invited to present at the International care, Selfhelp is selected by the New Association of Homes and Services York City Department for the Aging to for the Aging’s annual conference in operate NY Connects, a call-in center Australia. Mr. Kaplan spoke before an providing information, counseling audience of 1,000 professionals on and referrals regarding long-term care Selfhelp’s novel approach to Housing services. with Services.

16 LOOKING AHEAD • The Virtual Senior Center is • New opportunities are expanding with new funding emerging to blend social from the New York City Council services and health care under to nearly double the number New York State’s health reform. of participants. And, we have Selfhelp is working with laid the groundwork to begin hospitals and other providers marketing this vital service to develop new models to directly to families. support patient care.

17 • Selfhelp is engaged in ground- • Our new Care Transitions • Two new senior apartment breaking research to demonstrate program – first funded in 2014 – buildings are currently under the effects of its Housing with will be extended with new State construction and scheduled Services model on reducing funding. The program provides to open in 2016 and 2017. The health care costs. Funding from coaching and social services so buildings, located in the Bronx The JPMorgan Chase Foundation that patients recently discharged and Brooklyn, will collectively is underwriting an external from the hospital will be less add 144 units of affordable evaluation by Dr. Michael likely to return. housing to Selfhelp’s portfolio. Gusmano of the Hastings Center.

Pictured at right: Rendering of Selfhelp’s tenth building, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, scheduled to open in early 2016.

18 19 CARING FOR GENERATIONS: A SALUTE TO LONG-TIME MEMBERS OF THE SELFHELP FAMILY

THE NETTER FAMILY HARRY & HILDA SPANIER

Four generations of leadership From dedicated employees to and service treasured clients and friends

For nearly 75 years, the Netter family’s too did Kurt and his wife Alice instill Roza Spanier was one of Selfhelp’s first Harry tended to the building’s Jewish life name has been synonymous with this same imperative in their children. tenants in 1965, when Selfhelp opened the as well. He helped build the Synagogue, outstanding leadership and dedicated Indeed, Nadine, Ron, and Fred have doors to our first affordable senior hous- shopped for the Torah scrolls and built its service. continued the family legacy with 38 years ing site, the Helen R. Scheuer House, in ark. He also built the annual Chanukah Flushing, Queens … and there has been Their involvement began in the early and counting of collective service on Menorah, prominently displayed in the a member of the family living in one of 1940’s, shortly after fleeing Europe to Selfhelp’s Board, including leadership lobby, and constructed the communal Selfhelp’s apartment buildings ever since. escape Nazi persecution. Upon arrival roles on our Nazi Victim Services, Home Sukkah each year. Roza was so pleased with the warm, famil- in America, they felt compelled to help Care and Development Committees. ial environment and the available on-site At the age of 70, Harry retired. He and Hilda other refugees and sought out Selfhelp. The Netter family’s legacy continues services that she encouraged her son Harry, relocated to an upstairs apartment in the Kaete Gruenfeld Netter, matriarch of the with the fourth generation, Jamie and and his wife, Hilda, to join her in Queens. In same building they had cared for, and settled family and one of our earliest volunteers, Kate -- daughters of Judi and Fred Netter 1970, Harry accepted the position of Building into their new role as “regular residents” worked tirelessly to help immigrants -- who are members of Selfhelp’s young Superintendent at Selfhelp’s second build- of the Martin Lande House. As Holocaust find employment and settle in their new leadership division, Selfhelp NextGen. ing, the Martin Lande House, and Harry and survivors, they felt a special kinship with their homeland. neighbors. They also enjoyed dancing and With their extraordinary generosity of Hilda and their two children became the very socializing at Selfhelp’s Coffee Houses. And Kaete was soon followed by her son Kurt, time, resources and spirit, the Netter first inhabitants of this brand new residence. who joined the Selfhelp Board of Directors as they both aged and daily chores became Family has not only been a part of, but “It seemed like one family,” Hilda recalls, in 1951 and served as its Treasurer and more difficult, our building social workers has also helped write the history of when asked to describe what life in the build- then President. His tenure would span arranged for their meals to be delivered and Selfhelp. Their collective energy, insight, ing was like back then. “It was just beautiful.” more than 50 years. With a keen business their needs tended to. and commitment have helped shape At the time, the majority of tenants living in sense, financial acumen and deep passion Selfhelp into the strong and vibrant our senior housing were Holocaust survi- Sadly Harry passed away four years ago, but for our mission, he presided over Selfhelp’s organization it is today. vors from Germany and Austria, who were his legacy lives on in the stories told by his most dramatic period of growth in senior rebuilding their lives. In addition to main- beloved wife Hilda – still a Martin Lande resi- services, housing, home care and programs Pictured above: Nadine, Ron and Fred taining the physical aspects of the building, dent – and the memories of his daughter and for victims of the Holocaust. In honor Netter with their late Mother, Alice, at Harry also took on the additional responsibil- those passed on to his beautiful grandchil- of his devotion and profound impact, the dedication of Selfhelp’s K. Fred Netter ity of caring for all of its tenants. “Harry was dren and great-grandchildren. The Selfhelp Selfhelp’s Board Room proudly bears his Board Room. a workaholic,” Hilda says. “He would say to family is indeed grateful to the Spanier family name. everyone: ‘Call me anytime – day or night,’ for decades of dedicated service to our resi- Just as Kaete imbued Kurt with a sense and they did.” Whether they needed a faucet dents and for their treasured friendship. of responsibility to make the world a fixed, a cup of tea, a ride to the hospital or a better place for those less fortunate, so few minutes of conversation, Harry was always there, and Hilda was right by his side.

20 CARING FOR GENERATIONS: A SALUTE TO LONG-TIME MEMBERS OF THE SELFHELP FAMILY

LAVERNE GREEN MARION LUST-COHEN

Committed staff member and A Legacy of compassion friend for 41 years and service

“Dedicated, warm, caring and trusted,” home. It is an awesome event and it gives For the past 65 years, Marion Lust-Cohen Marion’s efforts on behalf of her fellow are the words that best describe Laverne our seniors a needed place to go for the has set the example for dedication and émigrés, who came without family, friends Green, one of Selfhelp’s most respected holiday.” One volunteer found the event exemplary service to Selfhelp and our or funds, included everything from and longest serving staff members. Laverne so “awesome” that he contacted our CEO clients, both as a volunteer and staff collecting clothing and household items began her career as an Administrative to explore further involvement at Selfhelp. member. She has also been an integral part to finding job openings for them at local Assistant with Selfhelp’s Project Pilot When asked how he knew so much about of the agency’s evolution from a volunteer- department stores. She was also able to program on the Upper West Side in 1974. our work, he replied that over the years led group of “émigrés helping émigrés” provide them with the support, compassion Over the years she has worked under Laverne, his Selfhelp contact, had educated to the robust and vital not-for-profit and encouragement necessary to begin eight different program directors, three him well. He is now an active member of organization we know today. their healing and acculturation process. CEO’s and five Board Presidents. She our Board of Directors. Having been a refugee herself, Marion had has witnessed other changes too – office During her tenure, Marion was also active first-hand knowledge regarding the needs relocations, the agency’s computerization, When asked what has kept her at the same on the team responsible for placing of those arriving from Europe. As a child, and a slew of new regulations and benefit job for so many years, Laverne responds, émigrés who could no longer take care of her parents sent her with a group of other programs – but, as she says there has always “being able to help people and know that themselves with willing families in private children to Holland. She then escaped been one constant: “the way the work I made a difference.” Indeed, during her homes. Moreover, when Selfhelp built its to England, where she first worked as a is done and the commitment to doing tenure, Laverne has helped thousands of first housing complex in Flushing, she was domestic and then trained as a nurse. In everything possible to keep each client in clients access the programs and services on hand to interview prospective tenants 1946, her aunt and uncle sponsored her their home. That has remained the same.” they need to remain independent, and that and to recommend them for permanent even includes assisting the children of past entry to the United States. and affordable residency. No matter the task – answering the phones, clients. Once settled in New York, she was quickly taking information on a client referral, or Marion continued working at Selfhelp until recruited as a volunteer for Selfhelp to arranging for the first delivery of meals And now after 41 long and wonderful her retirement in the late 1980’s. Not one assist newly arrived Holocaust survivors on wheels – Laverne is always friendly, years, Laverne is retiring. Her warmth, to rest on her laurels, she returned to her and other displaced individuals from knowledgeable and willing to help. But of compassion and friendship will be sorely role as a volunteer – holding numerous Europe settle in New York and begin their all her many responsibilities, her favorite missed by her colleagues and clients alike. leadership roles – and has remained active lives anew. “It was always my wish to help is the annual Thanksgiving dinner, which She has truly made an important impact with us ever since. people,” said Marion, “and when I had the she helps to arrange with our partner, the and set the bar high, serving as a role opportunity to work with Selfhelp, I was Throughout her storied and successful Trinity School. This event is a highlight of model for the provision of high-quality and very happy to do so.” This connection later involvement with Selfhelp, Marion’s the season for the nearly 250 seniors who compassionate care. grew into her being hired as one of our dedication has contributed to and laid attend each year. “The students perform first full-time paid employees. the groundwork for so many of our for our clients, serve them dinner and achievements. We are profoundly grateful even give out goody bags for them to take to her for her lifetime of service.

21 HIGHLIGHTS FROM AN OUTSTANDING YEAR

Spring Cocktail Benefit Defiant Requiem: A New Chapter for Verdi at Terezín – Nazi Victim Services The Encore Performance

Honorees Martin Greenfield, Evelyn J. Selfhelp Board member Brian R. Hanan Simhon Wolff and Benjamin P.D. Schrag Steinwurtzel (r), with his wife Rochelle and her grandfather Mendel Lebovitch at the In August of 2015, Hanan Simhon Avery Fisher Hall performance. was appointed as Selfhelp’s new Vice Selfhelp’s 2015 Spring Cocktail Benefit President for Nazi Victim Services. took place on Monday, June 8th at The March 9th encore performance Hanan succeeded Elihu Kover, under Grand Hyatt New York. of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, whose leadership Selfhelp’s Nazi Victim The Benefit paid tribute to renowned was a shining success. In collaboration Services program grew exponentially in suit maker and author, Martin with our partners, UJA-Federation of size, scope and effectiveness. Greenfield, a true hero who rebuilt New York and the Defiant Requiem Hanan joined Selfhelp more than 16 his life out of the ashes of the Foundation, the event raised years ago and has distinguished himself Holocaust; Benjamin P.D. Schrag, $1.8 million for UJA-Federation’s in continuously expanded roles, most a third generation Selfhelp leader, Community Initiative for Holocaust recently as Managing Director, Senior Selfhelp NextGen member, and EVP Survivors (CIHS), exceeding our set Communities. He served for nine years of Prime Clerk LLC; and Evelyn J. goal of $1 million. Thanks to generous as an accomplished social services Wolff, Selfhelp’s VP for Real Estate underwriters, who funded all expenses professional and supervisor in Selfhelp’s Development, who has dedicated associated with the performance, every Nazi Victim Services Program and is thus her life’s work to ensuring that high dollar raised will provide assistance intimately familiar with the challenges quality affordable housing is accessible for Selfhelp’s Holocaust survivors, facing aging Holocaust survivors. to low and middle income individuals. along with those served by our UJA- Federation sister organizations. We look forward to Hanan’s Close to 400 guests attended and over contributions to this vital and historic $530,000 was raised to support a broad Our sincerest thanks to the Event program. range of programs and services. Chairs: Board member Carol Levin, Sondra and Howard Hoffen, and Patti Kenner.

22 Construction Begins Selfhelp’s Virtual Senior Center New York City Council Expansion of the on Selfhelp’s Eleventh Selected for a Riklis Prize Provides Vital Funding: Virtual Senior Center Affordable Residence The Survivor Initiative

Construction begins at 333 Lenox Road. At the award ceremony l to r: Holocaust survivor clients Mr. and A Virtual Senior Center class in action. CEO Stuart C. Kaplan and Board member Mrs. Younger at the City Council Event Selfhelp will expand its Housing with Ralph P. Marash with management staff New York City Council Member Paul Services program to Brooklyn, with the Tova Klein, Elizabeth Lynn, David Dring On September 9, 2015, City Council Vallone has sponsored an initiative to anticipated opening in early 2017 of a and Lois Deutsch. Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, promote healthy aging. After much new affordable residence located at 333 Council Member Rafael Espinal, advocacy, the Vallone Initiative will Lenox Road. The building will add 57 We are delighted to announce that and the City Council Jewish Caucus enable Selfhelp to expand the Virtual new affordable apartments to Selfhelp’s Selfhelp was the second-place recipient gathered together with dozens of Senior Center into five new senior portfolio, providing vitally needed of the 2015 prestigious Riklis Family New York City leaders and nearly 100 centers and into the lives of 158 housing with services for approximately Prize in Social Enterprise for our Holocaust survivors to celebrate the additional homebound seniors. This 75 residents. innovative work with the Virtual Senior launch of the City Council’s new three- will bring the total number of Virtual Center. The prize is awarded annually year $1.5 million Survivor Initiative. Senior Center participants to 383. by the Riklis Family to UJA-Federation Selfhelp was awarded $165,000 – the We are proud to report that over the agencies for projects that achieve a program’s largest allocation to any one past year, Selfhelp’s Virtual Senior double bottom line of earned revenue agency. These funds will be used to Center provided homebound seniors and social good. provide essential support to vulnerable with 17,228 hours of programming survivors. and 2,339 unique classes.

23 OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

NAZI VICTIM SERVICES HOME HEALTH CARE The oldest and largest program A leading provider of home health in North America providing care in the New York City metropolitan comprehensive services to area, Selfhelp annually delivers over Holocaust survivors, Selfhelp offers two million hours of home care a full continuum of care, including to elderly or frail individuals, and enhanced case management, families at-risk. Services are designed home health care, housekeeping, to maintain independent living and financial management/guardianship, include skilled nursing, assistance with social programs, emergency activities of daily living, housekeeping, financial assistance, and more. homemaking and therapeutic care. Selfhelp’s highly regarded training AFFORDABLE SENIOR program provides high-caliber HOUSING education and certification to 350 Selfhelp’s nine affordable apartment home health aides each year. buildings offer seniors the opportunity to lead independent lives in a warm SENIOR CENTERS and supportive environment. Each Selfhelp’s five senior centers, including dwelling has emergency response one of the first to be designated by systems and closed-circuit TV the City of New York as an Innovative surveillance, and is close to public Senior Center, offer a wide variety Selfhelp Nurse, Wan Io Kuong assists residents in completing paperwork. transportation and Selfhelp senior of life-enhancing programs such as centers. Residents have access to computer classes, concerts, lectures, on-site services, including health and and health and wellness workshops, wellness, social work, skilled nursing as well as nutritious meals for seniors and home care when, and if, needed. living in the surrounding communities. Three of these senior centers are now key sites for Selfhelp’s expanding Virtual Senior Center.

24 CASE MANAGEMENT ALZHEIMER’S PROGRAMS CARE TRANSITIONS SELFHELP INNOVATIONS Selfhelp’s three comprehensive Case The Selfhelp Alzheimer’s Resource Aimed at reducing the rate of hospital Selfhelp has pioneered a number of Management programs help seniors Program (SHARP) provides social readmissions, our Care Transitions technologies aimed at enhancing the through a collaborative process of adult day care, assessment and referral, program provides coaching and short quality of later life. From congregate assessment, planning, facilitation, together with music therapy and other term case management to patients telehealth services to Virtual Senior care coordination, evaluation, social activities for individuals in the at three hospitals in Queens who Center programming, Selfhelp and advocacy. Expert assistance is early to mid-stages of Alzheimer’s are identified as being at risk of continually seeks new “high-tech, provided in accessing entitlements disease. The program also offers readmission. Coaching takes place high-touch” models to maintain and benefits, as well as financial support groups for caregivers. in the hospital, at home and via wellness and to re-engage and energize assistance, home delivered meals and telephone during the first 30-days post vulnerable, isolated seniors across chore services. The goal is to enable COMMUNITY GUARDIANSHIP discharge. The goal is to maximize New York City as well as nationwide. vulnerable seniors to continue to live Selfhelp’s Community Guardian understanding and compliance with independently in their own homes. Program serves as court-appointed discharge plans as well as to improve legal guardian for clients referred by access to health and social services. SENIOR SOURCE Adult Protective Services (APS), who For adults seeking a portal of entry are over 18 years of age and unable NY CONNECTS to all health and other forms of care, to manage their financial or domestic Selfhelp’s new NY Connects Program Senior Source provides access to a affairs. of Queens opened its doors and took Care Manager 24 hours a day, 7 days its first call on September 30th, 2015. a week. A fee-for-service geriatric NATURALLY OCCURRING The goal of the program is to provide care management program, Senior RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES consistent, comprehensive, locally Source helps clients and their families (NORCs) based information and assistance on navigate the maze of health care and Selfhelp’s NORC programs provide long term care services and supports residential options, monitor and senior residents in four large for individuals, caregivers and families. support ongoing care, and prepare for cooperative housing complexes with future care needs. the supportive services they need to continue living in their own homes. Selfhelp’s on-site services include case management, counseling, health screenings, and social, recreational, and educational programs.

25 SELFHELP ASSETS 2015 2014 COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Current assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 7,047,624 $ 4,782,838 AND AFFILIATES Investments 11,454,822 11,547,707 Accounts receivable - net 10,889,350 10,556,801 Contributions receivable and other Current Assets 3,649,429 2,713,271 Guardianship assets held in trust 16,305,110 17,798,777 Combined Total current assets 49,346,335 47,399,394 Balance Sheet Restricted assets and funded reserves - cash 4,818,164 3,860,467 As of June 30, 2015 and 2014 Other assets Assets held for deferred compensation - investments 1,011,457 1,158,527 Deferred financing costs and development fees 2,284,606 2,032,008 Fixed assets - net 127,739,533 123,620,657

The accompanying financial Total other assets 131,035,596 126,811,192 statements have been extracted $ 185,200,095 $ 178,071,053 from the compilation reports issued total assets by independent certified public accountants. The compilation reports LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 2015 2014 are available upon request to Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. at Current liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 6,972,081 $ 5,933,284 520 Eighth Avenue, Accrued salaries and related benefits payable 8,958,821 2,363,769 New York, NY 10018. Due Third Parties and Other Liabilities 6,101,101 6,294,077 Loans and mortgages payable 9,924,216 2,264,363 Guardianship assets held in trust 16,305,110 17,798,777 Total current liabilities 48,261,329 34,654,270

Long-term liabilities Deferred compensation payable 1,345,827 1,221,453 Deferred rent payable 1,337,868 1,111,325 Capital advances 14,403,600 14,403,600 Line of credit, notes, loans and mortgages payable 43,759,423 53,009,382 Total long-term liabilities 60,846,718 69,745,760

Total liabilities 109,108,047 104,400,030

Net assets Unrestricted 68,702,292 65,794,483 Temporarily restricted 7,389,756 7,876,540 Total net assets as restated 76,092,048 73,671,023

total liabilities and net assets $ 185,200,095 $ 178,071,053

26 ASSETS 2015 2014 SELFHELP TOTALS 2015 2014 COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Current assets Cash and cash equivalents 7,047,624 4,782,838 AND AFFILIATES Investments 11,454,822 11,547,707 Revenues, Grants and Contributions Accounts receivable - net 10,889,350 10,556,801 Home care revenue $ 40,549,277 $ 39,360,543 Contributions receivable and other Current Assets 3,649,429 2,713,271 Government revenue 11,975,035 9,585,642 Guardianship assets held in trust 16,305,110 17,798,777 Combined Contributions and program grants 15,195,579 * 15,543,101 * Total current assets 49,346,335 47,399,394 Statement of Rental income 11,834,850 11,894,618 Program revenue 1,342,462 587,086 Restricted assets and funded reserves - cash 4,818,164 3,860,467 Activities Investment Activity 300,789 2,701,861 Total Revenues, Grants and Contributions 81,197,992 79,672,851 Other assets Assets held for deferred compensation - investments 1,011,457 1,158,527 For the years ended Deferred financing costs and development fees 2,284,606 2,032,008 June 30, 2015 and 2014 Fixed assets - net 127,739,533 123,620,657 Operating expenses Home care programs 39,837,593 36,540,998 Total other assets 131,035,596 126,811,192 * These amounts do not include approximately $0.9 million and Housing programs 6,074,570 5,704,897 185,200,095 178,071,053 total assets $2.2 million of contributions and Community programs 20,860,877 19,503,856 related income earned by the Management and general 11,953,578 11,376,179 Selfhelp Community Services LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 2015 2014 Fund raising 863,176 964,906 Foundation in fiscal years ended Current liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses 6,972,081 5,933,284 June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2014, Total operating expenses 79,589,794 74,090,836 Accrued salaries and related benefits payable 8,958,821 2,363,769 respectively. Due Third Parties and Other Liabilities 6,101,101 6,294,077 Income from operations before depreciation and amortization and other changes 1,608,198 5,582,015 Loans and mortgages payable 9,924,216 2,264,363 Depreciation and amortization (4,799,947) (4,595,639) Guardianship assets held in trust 16,305,110 17,798,777 Total current liabilities 48,261,329 34,654,270 Income (loss) from operations before other changes (3,191,749) 986,376

Long-term liabilities Deferred compensation payable 1,345,827 1,221,453 Other changes Deferred rent payable 1,337,868 1,111,325 Contributions for Investment in Limited partnerships 671,898 Capital advances 14,403,600 14,403,600 Equity contributions from Equity Partners 6,496,022 1,608,854 Line of credit, notes, loans and mortgages payable 43,759,423 53,009,382 Prior year revenue adjustments (1,221,037) Total long-term liabilities 60,846,718 69,745,760 Reserve for investment in SinglePoint Care Network, LLC (1,776,053) Total liabilities 109,108,047 104,400,030 Change in net assets 3,976,171 (401,860) Net assets Unrestricted 68,702,292 65,794,483 Temporarily restricted 7,389,756 7,876,540 Net assets - beginning of year prior to restatement 73,671,023 73,565,191 Total net assets as restated 76,092,048 73,671,023 total liabilities and net assets 185,200,095 178,071,053 Net asset adjustments (1,555,146) 507,692 Restated net assets - beginning of year 72,115,877 74,072,883

net assets - end of year $ 76,092,048 $ 73,671,023

27 SELFHELP ASSETS 2015 2014 COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC. $ $ D/B/A SCS FOUNDATION Cash 719,381 584,488 Investments 5,683,737 5,335,304 Contributions receivable 187,262 342,542 Prepaid expenses — 17,833 Due from Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. 276,863 271,541 Equipment, net 7,870 — Balance Sheet $ 6,875,113$ 6,551,708 As of June 30, 2015 and 2014 total assets

The accompanying financial LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 2015 2014 statements have been extracted from audit reports issued by independent certified public Liabilities accountants. The audit reports are Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 5,200 $ 14,685 available upon request to Selfhelp Grants Payable 920,000 — Community Services, Inc. at Total Liabilities 925,200 14,685 520 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018. Net assets Unrestricted 653,710 675,864 Temporarily restricted 5,296,203 5,861,159 Total net assets 5,949,913 6,537,023

total liabilities and net assets $ 6,875,113 $ 6,551,708

28 SELFHELP 2015 2014 COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC. D/B/A SCS FOUNDATION Revenues and other support Contributions $ 251,937 $ 74,284 Special Event Revenue 548,791 1,199,528 Investment gains 115,016 883,378 Statement of Total revenues, investment gains and other support 915,744 2,157,190

Activities Expenses For the years ended Program services 1,300,303 1,739,883 June 30, 2015 and 2014 Management and general 35,028 32,623 Fund raising 30,589 68,718 Direct cost of special events 136,934 185,176 Total expenses 1,502,854 2,026,400

Change in net assets (587,110) 130,790

Net assets - beginning of year 6,537,023 6,406,233

net assets - end of year $ 5,949,913$ 6,537,023

29 Benefactor Elizabeth K. Dollard Charitable Trust Marguerite Lambert The Grunebaum Family Fund $1,000,000 and Over Enterprise Community Partners Dora Lauinger The Grunebaum Foundation, Inc. Leo & Julia Forchheimer Foundation Courtney and Paul Levinsohn The Helen Hotze Haas Foundation Anonymous Beatrice and Hans Frank Lini Lipton Renée and Frederick S. Herman Conference on Jewish Material Lotte & Max Heine Philanthropic David J. and Bobbie Marks Family Greta D. Horn Claims Against Germany Fund Fund Magda and Max H. Hull FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Jewish Communal Fund Charlotte S. Neu Irish American Diamond Dealers Funds JPMorgan Chase Foundation Newmark Holdings/ Rochelle and Association Jewish Philanthropic Fund C.L.C. Kramer Foundation Brian R. Steinwurtzel Michele and Jeffrey Jacob of 1933, Inc. The Walter and Augusta Levy Family Susan and Stanley Reifer Karen and Walter Joelson The Leir Charitable Foundations Helen and Rita Lurie Foundation Margrit Wreschner Rustow Walter Kann Foundation Bernice Manocherian Maspeth Federal Savings The Samberg Family Foundation Peter Kaufmann Founders Society Ilse Melamid National Fund of the Republic of Raymond V.J. Schrag Family Fund Laurie Kayden Foundation Leo Model Foundation Austria for Victims of National Franz W. Sichel Foundation Karin Shewer Krugman and Michael From our earliest days, Selfhelp K. Fred and Alice Netter Socialism Marianne and John H. Slade Krugman The Netter Foundation The New York Community Trust J.T. Tai & Co Foundation Isabel Marcal and Thomas Roche has been blessed by the involvement Newmark Holdings / Jeffrey Gural Righteous Persons Foundation Carol and Steven Tepper Alfred, Lee and Peter Mayer of scores of individuals committed The Price Family Foundation, Inc. Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation Isaac H. Tuttle Fund Foundation to our mission. Robin Hood Foundation United Way of New York City Unitarian Universalist Congregation Eva and Ewald Mayer Sandra Priest Rose Otto and Fran Walter Foundation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, NY Mary J. Mayer S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Wolfensohn Family Foundation Gerda and Wolfgang Wassermann Virginia McGuire Foundation Selfhelp’s Founders Society Foundation, Inc. Marguerite and Alfred Wyler The Weininger Foundation Beth and Joshua Mermelstein recognizes our generous friends Joan C. and Eric S. Sondheimer Nell and Victor A. Wyler The Wilf Family Foundation Selma T. & Jacques H. Mitrani UJA-Federation of New York Foundation and partners who have supported United Help, Inc. Marion and Peter Mosheim us with cumulative donations of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Sustainer Patron Don Mullen and Nisha Warfield $25,000 or more. Foundation, Inc. $100,000 and Over $50,000 and Over Judi and Alfred E. Netter Kaethe Oppenheimer Anonymous (5) Anonymous (5) The William Petschek Family We offer our deepest appreciation Visionary AARP Foundation Alexander Abraham Foundation John Remak to our Founders ~ both present $500,000 and Over Rita A. Aranow Louis and Anne Abrons Remak-Mosenthal Fund Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Foundation, Inc. Leo Rosner Foundation and those no longer with us ~ Anonymous (2) Holdings, Inc. Andrew W. Albstein/ Goldberg Rita and Frank Shewer who have helped to make Selfhelp Carnegie Corporation of New York Phylis and Michael Bamberger Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP SIG Susquehanna Foundation Community Services the vital Consumer Technology Association The Beker Foundation Rita A. Aranow Family Fund Corinne and Peter Simmons Foundation Leo H. Bendit Charitable Foundation Jonathan Babkow Barbara R. Sobernheim organization it is today. Shelley and Steven Einhorn The David Berg Foundation Paul and Peggy Bernstein Verein zur Unterstutzung Dana Golding and Richard Scharf Bloomberg L.P. Corporate Giving Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc. van Ameringen Foundation Inc. Herman C. Goldsmith Program Brooklyn Community Foundation Weil Gotshal & Manges Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Muriel and Bert Brodsky The Calamus Foundation The Judith C. White Foundation Fund Kimberly and Matthew A. Cantor Capital One Bank Wildwood Fund The JPB Foundation Centennial Foundation Citi Laure and Henry J. Zacharias Nadine Netter Levy Debrah Lee Charatan and Steven Miriam and Arthur Diamond Vivian and Jim Zelter Melodie and Martin Scharf I. Holm Charitable Trust Ruth Grunebaum Sondheimer and Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Eberstadt Douglas Elliman Property Manfred Sondheimer Vera and Werner Gamby Management Founder Moses Ginsberg Family Foundation The Eleanor, Adam & Mel Dubin $25,000 and Over Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert Foundation Ambassador W. Gottesman Jean Eastman Charitable Fund Anonymous (4) $250,000 and Over Eugene and Emily Grant John H. Elton Else Adler Erica Harold The Feuerring Foundation Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Anonymous (3) Insignia / ESG, Inc. The Shirley and William Fleischer Richard Aronson and Joyce Anne-Margaret and Dennis Baum Karen and Peter Jakes Family Foundation, Inc. Kirschner Ilse and Frederick Baum Stuart C. and Rosemary Kaplan Hilda Frank Ruth Aschkenasy Martha and Ernest L. Bial Morris & Nellie L. Kawaler Mary Ann Fribourg Charlene Kahn Berman J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation Foundation Hans Friedenthal Bezalel Foundation, Inc. / The Dorothy Coleman Andrea Klepetar-Fallek Paula and Jerry Gottesman Sonneborn Foundation

30 City Center Box Office Procida Companies Selfhelp is a grateful recipient of Comprehensive Case Management CohnReznick, LLP Marjorie and Seymour Richman major annual support from: for Holocaust Survivors The deKay Foundation Carole and Ronald Ries Core Operating Support Grant Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Alice and Paul Roche Pillar- $5,000,000 and over Claire Edersheim Sarah and Eric Rosand Core Services for Holocaust Survivors Conference on Jewish Material The Edouard Foundation Marianne and John Schiffer Fresh Meadows NORC – SSP Claims Against Germany Herman Forbes Charitable Trust Hans Schindler Jeanette Solomon Cultural Arts Rudolph and Hilda U. Forchheimer Schocken Foundation Conference on Jewish Material Program Foundation Walter and Charlotte Schoeman Claims Against Germany for Fraternal Order of Bendin- Cathy Schoen and Lawrence Improving Quality of Life for the provision of essential social Sosnowicer Philanthropic Fund Zacharias Holocaust Survivors services to Jewish victims of Nazi Ellen and Kenneth Grossman Peter Schweitzer persecution New York Times Neediest Cases Nadine Habousha and Edward B. Seed the Dream Foundation Providing Cash/Direct Assistance Grant Cohen Eleanor T. Seidel Memorial Fund Conference on Jewish Material Nancy and Jeffrey Halis The Senator Foundation Support Claims Against Germany for Oceanside Pre-Development Project Fanya Gottesfeld Heller and Ben Sheryl Silverstein and Edwin Deepest thanks to our Supporters the Austrian Holocaust Survivor Queensview/North Queensview Heller Ginsberg Emergency Assistance Program for the Fiscal Year 2015 NORC – Jeanette Solomon Cultural Liselotte Heymann Beryl Snyder Conference on Jewish Material Arts Program Hannah Hirschfeld Selma Sondheimer (July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015) Claims Against Germany for the Riklis Prize in Innovation Marianne Homburger Sally and Joel Spivack Emergency Assistance Program Victor Homburger State of Israel Bonds Key: for Nazi Victims at the direction of Selfhelp NORCs Health Indicators Marie and Jerry Hornstein Leonard Stern * Selfhelp Board Member * the United States District Court Program Humanitarian Aid Foundation Rosemary Stevens ◊ SCS Foundation Trustee ◊ supervising the lawsuit In Re: Selfhelp Safety Net: Comprehensive IBI Group-Gruzen Samton Architects The Philip & Lynn Straus Foundation # Defiant Requiem Supporter # Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation Case Management for Elderly and IOLA Fund of the State of New York Esther and Henry Swieca Kimmel Housing Development Foundation Board ^ (Swiss Banks) Disabled Jews The Irving Foundation The Margot Sundheimer Foundation ˚ ‡ Deceased ‡ Jewish Federation of Greater TD Charitable Foundation Conference on Jewish Material Selfhelp Senior Center Music Program Seattle United Way of Long Island Claims Against Germany Holocaust Social Gatherings for Holocaust JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Henry Voremburg Emergency Assistance Program Survivors Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation Olga and Hans Warmbrunn from the Harry and Jeanette Judith and Paul Konigsberg Jan Weil Weinberg Holocaust Survivor Witness Theater The Kupferberg Foundation Elsbeth and Harry D. Weilheimer Emergency Assistance Fund, Seryl and Charles Kushner Family Bernard Weissman administered by the Conference Selfhelp also receives major Foundation The Robert I. Wishnick Foundation on Jewish Material Claims Against funding from: Carol and Jerry Levin Janet and Jeffrey Zorek Germany for the short-term needs of Marjorie and Stephen M. Levy Lisl and John Zorek Jewish victims of Nazi persecution Nassau County Department of Social Loeb & Troper LLP Funds from the Rabbi Israel Services Lilli Lowenthal Miller Fund for Shoah Research, New York City Eva and Henry B. Lust Endowment Bequests are not included Documentation and Education of Administration for Children’s Fund in this listing. the Conference on Jewish Material Services Marion Lust-Cohen Claims Against Germany Adult Protective Services Jonah Mandelbaum Department for the Aging Ralph P. Marash Claims Conference In-Home Department of Health Margot S. Maron Services Program funded by German Department of Housing, Lee and Alfred Mayer government, for physically and Preservation and Development Reggie and Peter Mayer financially vulnerable Jewish Nazi Housing Authority Elizabeth and George Melamid victims Housing Development Corporation Metzger-Price Fund Human Resources Administration Erika and Ernest Michael Benefactor-$1,000,000-$5,000,000 Borough Presidents Tres Hanley-Millman and Paul Members of the City Council Millman Ilse Melamid ◊ # The Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation UJA-Federation of New York New York State Cynthia Neiditch, Counsel Abstract Department of Health New York Hospital Queens Bi-Annual Lecture for Professionals Homes and Community Renewal O.C.F. Foundation Working with Holocaust Survivors Office for the Aging Orange Capital, LLC Big Six Towers NORC –Jeanette Office of Temporary & Disability Marianne J. Phiebig Solomon Cultural Arts Program Assistance

31 U.S. Centers for Medicare & Nell and Victor A. Wyler *◊ # ^ Willkie Farr and Gallagher Pacesetter - $1,000 and Over Medicaid Services Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch Champion - $10,000 and Over Anonymous (3) Visionary - $500,000 and Over Partner - $5,000 and Over Alliant Insurance Services Anonymous (2) Arel Capital # Dana Golding and Richard Scharf ◊ # Andrew W. Albstein/ Goldberg Anonymous Cindy and Leo Asen Bernice Manocherian Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP # Alzheimer’s Foundation of America John and Staci Barber Martin and Melodie Scharf Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Rita A. Aranow Family Fund Renee Baruch Holdings, Inc. Ariel Property Advisors# FRAN EIZENSTAT LEGACY PROJECT Martin Baskin and Jacquie Kennedy Sustainer - $100,000 and Over The Calamus Foundation Bank of America Merrill Lynch Susan Baumel-Cornicello and Capital One Bank The Gretchen Beinecke (formerly Project Legacy) Anthony Cornicello # Anonymous Centennial Foundation # Charitable Trust Michael and Barbara Bebon Consumer Technology Association Debrah Lee Charatan ◊ and The Briarwood Organization The Fran Eizenstat Legacy Project Benchmark Title Agency, LLC Foundation Steven I. Holm # Bronx Pro Group Leo H. Bendit Charitable Foundation Eugene and Emily Grant Family Chase # CohnReznick, LLP was created to ensure the necessary Nancy and Robert S. Blank Foundation Claire Edersheim Douglas Elliman Property funding to care for the last generation Christina and Howard Blaustein Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Fund Shelley and Steven Einhorn Management of Holocaust survivors – specifically Jane and Stanley Blum Jewish Communal Fund Empire BlueCross BlueShield Douglaston Development Charles and Tammy Brass JPMorgan Chase Foundation Healthplus Elissa and Scott Drassinower * those who are frail, alone and, much Bright Power, Inc. Leo Model Foundation *◊ Fraternal Order of Bendin- Enterprise Community Partners too often, impoverished. A brainchild Muriel and Bert Brodsky ◊ Robin Hood Foundation Sosnowicer Philanthropic Fund Hilda U. Forchheimer of Co-Chairs Dennis Baum and Scott Brubaker Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation Mary Ann Fribourg # Lucy and William Friedman Lori and Susan Buchbinder Nadine Habousha and Goldman Sachs Karin Shewer Krugman, the Legacy Kevin T. Byrne Patron - $50,000 and Over Edward B. Cohen *# Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Committee is composed mainly of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Fanya Gottesfeld Heller and Robert W. Gottesman those who, because of their family Sandra and Stewart Cahn Phylis and Michael Bamberger ◊ Ben Heller # Ellen and Kenneth Grossman Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP Kimberly and Matthew A. Cantor *◊ # Lotte & Max Heine Philanthropic Fund Pearl and Nathan Halegua # background or personal interest, share Joseph M. & Barbara Cohen Paula and Jerry Gottesman # Hess-Levy Family Foundation Cathy Hull & Neil Janovic a passion to help Holocaust survivors Foundation Michele and Jeffrey S. Jacob *◊ Karen and Peter H. Jakes *# Family Fund in need. We gratefully acknowledge Paolo Costagli Inc. Jewish Philanthropic Fund of 1933, Inc. Stuart C. ◊ ^ and Robert G. Irvine Harriet and Steven Croman Karin Shewer Krugman ◊ Rosemary Kaplan # Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation the efforts of Honorary Chairman Dattner Architects and Michael Krugman C.L.C. Kramer Foundation, Inc. Ethel Law and Barry Konig *# Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat. Margy-Ruth and Perry Davis Maspeth Federal Savings The Kupferberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Lang Elisabeth de Picciotto The Netter Foundation # Seryl and Charles Kushner Family Lettire Construction Corp. David Descoteaux and Julia van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. Foundation # Levy Holm Pellegrino & Drath LLP Mavrodin Eva and Henry B. Lust Isabel Marcal and Lois Deutsch Founder - $25,000 and Over Endowment Fund Thomas H. Roche ◊ Florence and Michael Edelstein Manhasset Community Fund Miller Buckfire & Co. LLC Susan Erlich # Anonymous Ralph P. Marash *# MountCo Construction & Family Management Corporation Anne-Margaret and Dennis Baum *◊ David J. and Bobbie Marks Family Development Corp. Helene and Ziel Feldman Martha and Ernest L. Bial *◊ Fund Don Mullen and Nisha Warfield The Feuerring Foundation Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc. Virginia McGuire Foundation Carole and Ronald F. Ries *# Fiduciary Trust International # Miriam and Arthur Diamond Beth and Joshua Mermelstein ◊ Rockabill Advisors LLC Fifth Avenue Synagogue Women’s Charitable Trust National Fund of the Republic of Jim Rosenberg Club Edith K. Friedlander Austria for Victims of National Cathy Schoen and Lawrence Laura Finkelstein Erica Harold Socialism Zacharias # Fisher Associates Andrea Klepetar-Fallek # Cynthia Neiditch, Counsel Abstract # Susan R. Schulman Janie and Robert Fisher Carol and Jerry Levin *# Prime Clerk Elizabeth and Robert Sheehan Ilan Folman-Cohen Courtney and Paul Levinsohn * Sarah and Eric Rosand Sheryl Silverstein *^ and Matthew Fotis # Nadine Netter Levy Benjamin and Alison Schrag Edwin Ginsberg Judith and Herbert Freedman Helen and Rita Lurie Foundation Seed the Dream Foundation # The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Michael Freeman Selma T. & Jacques H. Mitrani Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Foundation, Inc. Eugen Friedlaender Foundation Foundation J.T. Tai & Co. Foundation, Inc. Harry and Rachel Skydell & Mark and The Frishberg Family Judi and Alfred E. Netter *# Carol and Steven G. Tepper *# ^ Linda Karasick # Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Newmark Holdings#/The Gural and Diane and Stanley Vickers # The Philip & Lynn Straus Foundation Helen Gidali Steinwurtzel * Families Hans Wertheimer TF Cornerstone GKC Industries Inc. Raymond V.J. Schrag Family Fund * ◊ # The Wilf Family Foundation Tai * and Tony Wang Scott Goldenberg #

32 Clifford and Katherine Goldsmith Matrix Asset Advisors, LLC Michael and Joan Steinberg Diane and Marshall Felenstein Philanthropic Fund Alfred, Lee and Peter Mayer Sterling Risk Dorothy and Kenneth Finger Herman C. Goldsmith Foundation Jeff and Susie Stern # Dorothea H. Fingerhood Fund Lucille and Richard M. Goldsmith Harriet L. Mayer Jerome L. Stern Family Foundation Martita and Chris Fleming Joanie Lekisch Goldstein Mary J. Mayer ‡ Carol Kahn Strauss * Eric Fornari Frank K. Gottschalk The Meno Lissauer Foundation Alan and Jackie Stuart Janet Fried Helaine and Fred Gould # Metzger-Price Fund, Inc. Shoshana and Christopher Sugahara Stephen Goldstein Sharon and Peter Green Edward J. Miller/ Miller Realty Bona Sun Mr. Alex Gorlin Nicole Greenblatt Associates The Margot Sundheimer Foundation H2M Architects Michael and Theresa Grieco Millstein & Co. Terra CRG, Adam & Sita Hess # Racheline Habousha David and Heather Groban Joff Mitchell Susanna Todd Maggie and Brett Harwood Ellie Heller and Suzie Stadler Mobile Health The Torkin Family Andrée Hayum Pamela and Jonathan Henes Marion and Peter Mosheim Vivian Torres Eva and Terry Herndon Lyn S. Hill National Equity Fund Peter Travers Gregory and Elisabeth Hersch David Himelberg Foundation Nixon Peabody LLP Robb Tretter June and Ron Hersh Hinman Straub P.C. The Nussbaum Family Foundation Judy and Morris Tuchman David and Particia Hogan SELFHELP NEXTGEN Shelley Erlich Holm and Paul E. Joe Osnoss United Healthcare Services, Inc. Gayle and Miles Horn Hammerschlag, MD Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Charlotte Vonvogt Chan Lee Hsieh Jerry Hornstein Garrison LLP The Wagner Family Foundation Selfhelp NextGen is a dynamic group Norma and Gerald Hurwitz Elizabeth Horton and James Silbert The Pearl Family Foundation Nina and James Warfield Marc Jahr of young professionals from the New Carol and Serge Hoyda Robert Pellegrino # Kenneth Werner Roe Jasen # Chan Lee Hsieh People Care, Inc. Westwood Realty Associates York City area deeply committed to Jewel Date Company, Inc. The Hudson Companies, Inc. Marianne J. Phiebig Andrew Wilson Selfhelp’s mission of maintaining John Kaiteris Roger H. Hull Mark and Jamie Pollack Deanne and Charles Winnick Michael Kane the independence and dignity of Heinz Hutzler Michael Pomeranc Erika and Ken Witover Kasirer Consulting IBI Group-Gruzen Samton Architects Rabbi David and Sylvia Posner Evelyn J. Wolff ^ and Thomas Frankel seniors and at-risk populations. The Marcie and Gary Kesner Irish American Diamond Dealers Rachel L. Posner MJ Wyatt group maintains a special focus on Helen Khuu Gary Jacob The Posner Family Peter L. Zimroth Kimmel Housing Development enhancing the lives of Holocaust Jordana Jacobson Steven Poznyansky, D.D.S Foundation Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Property Resources Corporation Friend - $500 and Over survivors, and seeks to ensure that Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect PC Katcher Meghan and Alexander Rein the promise made by our founders - to Ellen and Ronald Kisner ^ Katsky Korins LLP Kurt E. Reinsberg Anonymous (5) Klearview Appliance and Blady serve as the “last surviving relative” Gary and Diane Katz # Marjorie Richman Philip Abelson Family Judith and Uri Kaufthal Arleen and Robert S. Rifkind Access Staffing to victims of Nazi persecution - is Cara and Jeffrey Klein Marc Kieselstein Andrea and Cal Roberts # Sari and Arthur Agatston fulfilled. Since its inception in 2010, Daniela and Steven Klein Tova Klein Ayelet and Aaron Rosen # AllianceBernstein Rhoda Koenig Selfhelp NextGen has organized Arthur Kokot Liane and Fred Rosenberg Richard Aronson and Joyce Deena and Martin H. Kohn Judith and Paul Konigsberg Margrit Wreschner Rustow‡ Kirschner volunteer projects, film screenings, Vai Leng Kong John S. Koppel Zahava and Avi Ryzman Josef Athanas and outreach events in an effort to Alan Kornberg Reynold S. Koppel Sandpiper Fund Fritzi and Jean Warner Baer Betty and Arthur Kowaloff educate their peers regarding the Elihu Kover and Teresa Moogan Robert H. Scheibe ◊ # Gabrielle Bamberger Denise and Allen Kozin Jeane and Merrill Kraines # Steven Schmigelski Herma and Charles Barber needs of some of the most vulnerable Ross M. Kwasteniet Terry and Jack Lebewohl Walter and Charlotte Schoeman Julie Behrens, Project Urbanista members of our community. To Yaffa and Gustaw Landau # Laurie and David Lederman Gabriele Schoenfeld Mortimer Berkowitz III Lisa Laukitis get involved or learn more, visit Pauline and Martin Leitzes Jeanette and Peter Schrag Cesia and Frank Blaichman Ji Li and Shi Miao Sun Che King Leo Bella Sekons and Charles Blaichman Karen Brenner and Robert Stein www.selfhelp.net/selfhelp-nextgen Richard Lirtzman Gloria and Laurence Lieberman Ursula Serluca and Kenneth R. Haas # Cliff Broder or email [email protected]. Evelyn Machauf Lini Lipton Jill and Howard Sharfstein # Robert Campagna Marc O. Mandel Ester Lisker and Avi Wrobel Stephen Siegel Nancy and Jeffrey Chin Jaime Marks Kelly and Russell Lusak Corinne and Peter L. Simmons* Brenda Lewis Cooper Donna and Helmut Meyerbach Marion Lust-Cohen Richard Singer Sally and Joe Cooper Reginald G. Moncrieff, DDS Georgia Malone # Deborah and Scott Smith Kimberly F. Davis Patrick Nash, Jr. Shirley Manoocherian Barbara Somerfield and John G. Anna Spector Decker National Bank of New York City James Marden Guffey, Jr. Harvey and Susan Drucker Martin Newman Marvin Markus Sally and Joel Spivack Marjorie and Martin Elbaum Anna Oliver Nancy Maruyama and Charles Cahn Stawski Partners Rachel and Melvin Epstein Adam Paul Carol and Arthur Maslow Arthur Steinberg Tom Epstein Marshall Peller

33 Felicia Perlman AlixPartners Carol Dallos Bronwen and Warren Haskel Abraham and Linda Podolsky Leslie and Danny Arnedos Marlies K. Danziger Helen Hausmann Sally and Jack Pomeranc Marilyn Aron Mary Delbanco Jack Heaney Queens Council on the Arts Chi Hoi Au Linda Yohay Denning Janet and Mark Hershey Vera Rausnitz Hildegard Bachert David Detjen Julie Hertzberg Red Stone Equity Partners Edward L. Barlow and Frances Hill Ms. Rosalind Devon Stephanie and Steve Hessler Susan and Stanley J. Reifer ◊ CONFERENCE ON JEWISH Barlow Moy Y. Dong Gruss Hirsch Family Fund Denice H. Rein MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST Carrianne Basler Doris M. and Leo Dreyfuss Chun Sau Ho and Yuk Sing Wong Barbara and Frank Resneck Ellen and Larry Bauer Xianhong Du Tony and Monica Ho Jeremy Robbins GERMANY Claire Bazinet Maja M. Dubois Lillian J. Hoffman Sheila Johnson Robbins Paul S. Berger Nancy and Jeffrey Edelstein Lilo Hoffman Ronald Roel ^ Selfhelp and the Claims Conference Katherine Bernick Adam Eilenberg # David Hollander Arlene and Robert Rosenberg # Deena K. and Josh Bernstein Eliyahu L. Ellman Barbara and Myron Holtz Margaret Rosskamm share a collaborative history dating Lois and Stephen Bernstein Judith Engel Lisa and John Horten Eric C. Roth, Friedman-Roth Realty back more than five decades. The Ruth Bernstein Tobe Epstein Jack and Erica Howard-Potter Services LLC Claims Conference has played the Ofra Biener Magda Fenyo Dr. and Mrs. Russel Huang Edward Sassower Sherry Bisken-Cohen Robert C. Ferber Xiu Ying Huang and Tin-Wei Cheng Arlene W. Saxonhouse essential role in enabling Selfhelp Erika Bloomfield Jo Ellen Finkel and Donald S. Yu Min Huang Karl Seib and Joan Dacey-Seib to grow its services to meet the Art and Arlene Boshnack # Bernstein Chad Husnick Adam Shanosky increasing needs of victims of Nazi Mariko and Steven Braham Jason Finkelstein Hsiao-Lan Hsia Shearman & Sterling LLP Lili Brandon Miriam and Ira Flatow Liu Yu Lin Hsu Linda and Gilbert Snyder persecution throughout the New York Irene Brenner Jacqueline Fowler Qiong Shan Hu Sontag Advisory metropolitan area. With invaluable Eileen and Michael Brod Brian Fox Michael Jacobs Stanan Management Corp. Claims Conference funding, Selfhelp Matthew Brown Marcel Fridman Jeffries LLC Jeffrey Stark Centrical Medical Imaging Inc. Doris and Michael Fried Hung Mei Jiu and Ke Tong Chu Stockbridge Group has expanded the size and scope Wendy and Lee Chaikin Elizabeth Fried Karen and Walter Joelson Gloria and Fred Strauss of its Nazi victim services network. Hau Ying Chan Joseph Friedman Tsu-Ti Juo Strong Foundation of New York This funding has been instrumental Yu Ping Chan Joyce and David Friedman Barbara and Walter Kahn Summit Funding Yuen-Chuen Chan Karen Friedman Shoshana Kaish Marlene and Marshall Turner in Selfhelp’s ability to offer services Yuk Mei Chan Joseph and Olga Garay Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Alice Ullmann in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Nassau Hung Chih Chao Lucy Gerstein Howard Kaly Unitarian Universalist Congregation County and in broadening services Nancy and Eddie Charatan Carlotta Giglio Nancy Kam at Shelter Rock Chavurat Tikvah Ruth Golbin Judith and Stephen ‡ Kamberg Sue Vaccaro in Manhattan and Queens. Programs Agnes Chen Abigail S. Gold Jonathan M. Kamen Aharon Vaknin, Cosmic Fischer such as emergency cash assistance Jane L. Chen and Wai Sun Gold City Supermarket Inc. Robert and Jayne Kamlot Locks and Doors # and subsidized home care have Jui Chou Chen Lee Jason Goldberg Hsiu Lan Kao Wadowski Family Lih and Tao Shing Chen Edith and Fred Goldsmith Carole Karlsruher Charles B. Wang Community Health helped thousands of Nazi victims live Tao Fen Cheng Robert Goldstein Raquelle Kaye Center with dignity. On behalf of those we Ming Y. and Marie Chin Erica Gorin Margot and John Keller Anne and Mark Wasserman # serve, we are ever grateful for such Nancy Chin Alexandra and John Graubert Christine and Harry Kent Barbara Weinstein and Louis Thomson and Cynthia Chou Christopher Greco, Partner, Kirkland Thomas Kim Bernstein critical funding, which helps provide David and Yok Yen Chow and Ellis, LLP Peter L. Klausner Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld this aging and fragile population with Miu Ling Chung Joan Shapiro Green Marlene and Gerald Kolbert William Gallagher Associates care they so rightfully deserve. Kate Coburn Judy A. Greenberg Phyllis R. Korff, Esq # Sigmund Wissner-Gross Eve Cohen Leo Greenberg Susan Kossowsky David Wohlstadter Howard Cohen Ellen and David Greene Michael Kowal Michael S. Zarin ^ Libby and Richard Cohen Ashley Gregory Donna Kramer and Ron Cohen Ken Ziman Marcie Cohen Walter E. Gross Adam Krukas Drs. Alicia and Vladimir Zwass Marion Pagel Cohen and Arthur Zita Grossman Diane Krumholz Cohen Bud Gruenberg Solomon Kupitz Supporter - $100 and Over Marsha Cohen Allan Guggenheim Edith Kurzweil Phyllis and Steven Cohen Jean and David Gumpert Chee Kwong & Liza Poon Anonymous (17) Barbara and Bertram Cohn Robert Gutenstein Siu Yen Kwong and Ngon Toy Lee Deanna and Bernard Abramowitz Theodore and Alice Ginott Cohn Mok Su Ha and David Lam Natasha Labovitz Anne Herzberg Adler and Philanthropic Fund Susan Harbert Kui Lam and Lai Wa Kwok Stephen Adler Eugenia Connerat Arlene Harriton Salina Lam and Eddie T. Chie Meryl and Stewart Ain Mark Conrad Herbert Harwitt Phyllis Lampell

34 Li Fang Lao Katherine and San Y. Moy Linda Sittenfeld Tak Yum and Yet Yin Tam Silvia and Peter Last Johen Na Helen Siu Xing Yan Zhao Clara Lato Simon and Maguy Naparstek Tom Snelprove Yao Jun Zhong Carol and Michael Laub Susan and Michael Nash Fran Snyder and David Voremberg Ruth Zielenziger Dorothy Lebach Irene Nightingale Nettler Nancy Solomon Serena Zou Elizabeth and Benjamin Lee Lore Newburg Fern and Adrian Sondheimer Margot C. Lehman Angela C. Ni Fred and Linda Sondheimer Selfhelp would also like to Jacqueline Leitzes Betty Nichols Vivian and Werner Sonn acknowledge the generosity of Wendy Leong Blanca Nickels # Jaclyn Stark donors whose gifts of $99 or less Adele Lerner Susan and Lloyd Niven Suzanne Steinberg are too numerous to list. Charles and Beth Lesch Erika Novick Gene Stern Cecile and Heinz Levi Philanthropic Richard Nye Paula and Michael Stoler # Fund Vlasta and Andrew Odell Clarence C. Stowbridge Caring for Generations Tribute Fund Walter E. Levi Stephen O’Mara Linda and David Strauss In Honor Of: Carol and Joel Levy Leah Mason Oppenheimer and John Raphael Strauss The following individuals were Hedy Levy Oppenheimer Rachel Strickland recognized by friends and family as Irma Levy Amy Oshinsky Clarence C. Strowbridge they celebrated special occasions: Susan and Judd Levy Kathleen A. Parisi Jaimee Stulberg Zhong Qin Li David Pauker Gloria and Mark Szrajer Janeta Abelson Yanny Lie Frederick and Jennifer Pazmino Barbara Taff Erica Van Adelsberg Deborah Lipton Debbie Plumer Karen and Jeffrey Tanenbaum Manny and Sabina Anstendig Vladimir Lipyanskiy Melvin Polisher Nina Tang George Antonopoulos Mei Feng Liu Mrs. Barbara F. Poll ‡ Judith and Michael Tartell Evelyne Appel Trudy Lory SUPPORTING SELFHELP Michele Pollack Tony Tay Dick Aronson Diane and Stephen J. Lovell Sam Pollack Christian Tempke Leo Asen Janet Lowe Nancy and Charles Posternak Victoria M. Todd Declan Edward Baum Helen Lowenstein We greatly appreciate all Regina and Otto Pretsfelder Heather Tsang Michele Becker Michael Lubell contributions and are deeply Fee Yip Quim Kwai Kwan Tse Bea and Irving Bello Vivian and Jeffrey Lui Terrence Quinn Alex Vandenborg Ernest L. Bial *◊ thankful for our wonderful The Rong Lung Helen D. “Heidi” Reavis An Mei Wang Noah Alexander Blank Jung Cheng Ma donors. To donate to Selfhelp, or Caroline Reckler Gui Fang Wang Laura and Josh Chaise Lisa and Laurence Mack # to receive additional information Janet and Herbert Rosenberg John Waters Debrah Lee Charatan ◊ Emily Magid Jean & Menachem Rosensaft Walter J. Weil Debrah Lee Charatan ◊ and Steven about our 80th Anniversary Anne Mahoney Steven Ross Marie-Helene Weill I. Holm Abraham Malach Annual Campaign – Propelling Lisa and Elliot Sander John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Edward B. Cohen * Eva Mallis Us Forward, the Caring for Anita and Mark Sarna Foundation Rachel Crowe Robin and Mark Mandell Rosa Scheck Barbara Weisen and Richard Mr. and Mrs. Enrico DeBuono Generations Tribute Fund, Estate Annette and Paul Marcus Elizabeth Scheines and Ronald Elton Rosenberg Margart Demeny Chris Marcus Planning, or Matching Gifts Jean K. Schoen Naomi and Alfred Weissenberg Henry Dessauer Melanie and Hal Marcus Program, please contact Selfhelp’s Charlotte and Peter Schoenfeld William H. Weitzer Lois Deutsch and Mark Weintraub Theodora Marten Sophie Schorr-Reiner Lois T. Weldon Ruth Dimow Development Department at 212- Jeanne and Leo Maxbauer Edward Schrag Eva S. Wertheimer Scott Drassinower * Susan L. Mayer and 971-7764, or visit our website at Sally and Francis Schrag Vivian Weston Lydia Ecker Stephan S. Cowan www.selfhelp.net/donate. Vicki and Steven J. Schreiber Meryl Wiener and Barry A. Bryer Helen Eines James J. Mazza, Jr. Sylvia and Louis Schulman Jess Wittenberg Isak Eines Patrick McGonigle # Anthony and Claudia Schwartz Ida Wolecki Gisele Garelik Pamela McNally Barbara Schwarz Chi Heung Wong and Shui Huen Tai Dana Golding and Richard Scharf ◊ Mrs. Ilse Meckauer Trudy Schwarz Hing Xiang Trading Inc. Mikhaila Goldman Linda and Richard Melnikoff Renata Manasse Schwebel Jia Hui Xiong Herman C. Goldsmith Eric Mendelsohn Jordan Searles ShuXu Xu and Mu Xuan Huang Eric Goldstein Simon Meredith George W. Seidenberger Mark Yachnin Erica Gorin Brenda and Norbert Mester Daci Shen Alice Yan Sy Haber Milkes Family Zhan Shu Alexandra Lai Yee Nadine Habousha and Edward B. Alexandra and Scott Miller Lilian Sicular Amy Yim Cohen * Lynn Montz and John Leubsdorf Cynthia and David Simonoff Stephen L. Yonaty Norma and Jerry Hurwitz Suzanne and Harvey Morgan Sinnreich Kosakoff & Messina LLP # Hsiang Yu and Pan Janes Aubrey Jacobs Heather Moore and Martin Shnay Barrett Sinowitz Ann Foo Woo Yuen Peter H. Jakes *

35 Stuart C. ◊ ^ and Rosemary Kaplan Laura Weisberg Shiya Klig Vera Stein Werner Anya Hong Lilian Sicular Stuart C. Kaplan ◊ ^ Jack Werner Hannelore and Richard U. Koppel Jean Wolf Tanya Houseknecht Smile Design Manhattan - Katz Family Hans Wertheimer Margarete Koppel Else Wolff Housing Conservation Coordinators Dr. Lee Gause Robin Kaufman Andrew Wilson William Lang Frances Yohay IBI Group - Gruzen Samton Joan Sobsey Josh Kaufthal Irwin Wissner Albert Lato Laure Zacharias Peter Jakes South Brooklyn Legal Services John Keller Max Witek Phyllis W. Leff JASA - Joshua Rotkin & Dianne Starbucks - Nancy Murgalo Howard Kimmel ^ Evelyn J. Wolff ^ Vivian Lerner Pro Bono Services Woodburn UJA-Federation of New York Kimmel Housing Development Nell and Victor Wyler *◊ ^ Peter Levy Grateful appreciation to our friends JCC Manhattan UJA- Federation of New York - Foundation Victor A. Wyler *◊ ^ Ronnie Leyser who have given so generously of Jewish Community Center of Lawyers Division Frank & Jennie Krystal Yifan Yang and Thomas Wang Naomi “Niki” Lindwarm their time and talent: Greater Coney Island UJA-Federation of New York - Katharine La Forte Hedy Linstone Jokercise - Howard Newman Westchester Robert Lebowitz Caring for Generation Tribute Fund Edith Lowe Adam Abraham Ralph Jones Unitarian Universalist Congregation Brenda Leff In Memory Of: Annemarie Maass Mark Alpert David Jou at Shelter Rock Jackie Leitzes Contributions to Selfhelp were Anne-Marie and George Manasse Allen Healthcare - Abby Conway & Andrew Kaufman Urban Justice Center Carol* and Jerry Levin made in memory of the following David Marzouk Donna Rasmussen Jeane Kraines Lucy Van Horn Beatrice Levy loved ones this year: L. Mayer Paula Arboleda Rena Lauer Evelyn Vela Nadine Netter Levy Regina Mayer Arnold & Porter – Steven G. Tepper Giovanni Lemus Vanessa Walker Hal Linstone Natalie Abramow Edith Melcer The Atria of Riverdale Sidney Lipstein Lisbeth Wolgel Matthew Lusak Mary Arnedos Irene Nathan Jerry Berkson Mary Lucich Ekaterina Yakovleva Alice Maltz Bert Askwith Elihu Nemeroff Jane Berliner Joe Margolin Shao Mei Zhang Ilse Melamid ◊ Lucy Bachrach K. Fred Netter Ernest L. Bial, Esq. Ronald C. Mayer Joshua Mermelstein ◊ Mollie Backer Kurt Netter B’nai Brith Masbia In-Kind Donations Thekla Meyerbach Dora Bergstein Gideon Nettler Deborah Brandt Sean McBride We thank the following for their Ernest Michel Hilda Bondi Grace S. Nierenberg Bronx House MetroPlus Health Plan generosity: Irene and Henry Muller Pearl Brown Yehuda Nir Bronx Legal Services MFY Legal Services Amy Newman Walter and Lottie Bymel Elsbeth Oppenheimer Larry Carp Patty Mitchell The Consulate General of the Caroline Edith Odell JoAnn Canary Dora Ostermann Natalie Carrasco Neighborhood Housing Services Federal Republic of Germany Sam Pollack Rose Conrad Marie Pekunka CenterLight Newman Ferrara LLP Claire Edersheim Raphael Posner Larry Cormier Albert Phiebig Peijin Chen New York Cares Rosalind Falco Rosina Quinn Ruth Wolf Ehrlich Samuel Pisar Megan Christ New York City Department of The Barry & Florence Friedberg JCC Ronald F. Ries* Isak Eines Barbara Poll Con Edison - Susan Miserandino Sanitation - Iggy Tarranova The Great Neck Synagogue Henry Rieser Erlich, Gluck and Jacobovits families Rosina Quinn Congregation Habonim New York City Department of Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Andrea and Cal Roberts Miles Felder Seymour Richman Scott Drassinower - Cloud 9 Internet Transportation - Eric Mui Center of Nassau County David Roberts Malvine Fischer Frieda Roos Rose Dumond New York City Poison Control - IPRO Ayelet and Aaron Rosen Esther Folman Margrit Wreschner Rustow Aviva Dworkin Jean Louie Joe’s Coffee Margrit Wreschner Rustow Helen Fox Ellen Sarroff El Centro Del Immigrante – New York Legal Assistance Group Joshua Isak Magdalena Sanchez Florence Friedberg Kaete and Erich Scheibe Staten Island MetroPlus Health Plan JCC of the Greater Five Towns SAR Students Anthony Giglio Betty Schneider Elderplan North Shore Forest Hills Hospital - JCC of Harrison, NY Martin Scharf Abe Goldman Paul Schrag Elderplan - Alma Rosa Ted Lehman Leir Charitable Foundations Henry Schenker Lilly Grab Kurt Schubach Camilla Enders Plainview Library New York Hospital Queens Rabbi Marc Schneier Herbert and Pearl Gross Morris Secemski EPIC - Laura Mulhivill Megan Quinn New York Mets Benjamin P.D. Schrag Irene Grace Hausner Jean Secher Evelyn Frank Legal Assistance Group Rider’s Alliance - Masha Burina New York Yankees Raymond V.J. Schrag *◊ Mariane and Sylvan Hayum Abraham Shmookler Fairview Nursing Home - Diane Rite-Aid - Roxana Aghas Karen Nichols Michael Sharon Curtis Hereld Robert Paul Shmookler LaFranco Rite-Aid Pharmacy North Queensview Homes, Inc. Stacy Shirk Renée Herman Hilde Siegel Allilsa Fernandez Riverdale Y Senior Center North Shore-LIJ Health System Noah Smith Sarah Hynes Lee Sommer Fox Rehabilitation - Riverdale YM-YWHA The North Shore Synagogue Walter Spier Inge Isler Eric and Lottie Joan Sondheimer Steven Birdwell, PT Guille Rodriguez Oppenheimer Angels Joel L. Spivack Aubrey Jacobs Dr. Ralph Stein Galchus & Gordon - Jennifer Rolnick Fred Pazmino Brian R. Steinwurtzel * Elaine Jaffe Anita Steinacher Ronna Gordon-Galchus John Rossi Queens Christian Alliance Church Gene Stern Cyril Jalon Norbert Stern Allan H. Goldberg Dakshesh Sahghavi Queens Fresh Meadows, LLC. Fred Strauss Marjorie Jonas Leslie Strauss Gerald Goldhaber Saint John’s University School of Queensview, Inc. Gloria Strauss Louis Kahaner Margot Sundheimer Goldman Sachs Pharmacy Regal Heights Leslie Strauss Arno Kahn Gennady Sushansky Ursula Hampton Nina Schearer, MD Stanley Reifer Steve Tepper *^ Stephen Kamberg Ng Wah Theung Health Plus – AmeriGroup, Raymond V.J. Schrag, Esq. Rite Aid Pharmacy Carol and Steve Tepper *^ Lily Kaplan Sonja Waitzner Igor Tchebotarev Lara Schweller Sid Jacobson JCC Sonja Waitzner Goldy Katz Hans and Olga Warmbrunn Chiu Zhi Heng Carolyn Sharzer Starbucks Ruth Weil Harry Katz Harry D. Weilheimer Michelle Hill Jill Sherman, Esq Starkey Hearing Foundation

36 The YM-YWHA of Washington AARP Heights and Inwood AARP Bill Payer Program AARP Defensive Driving Estates AARP Foundation We acknowledge with deep The Abraham Joshua Heschel School appreciation the friends who Action Reconciliation Service for Peace remembered Selfhelp through their Adelphi University School of Social Work legacies and bequests: Adult Protective Services Advisory Council Alzheimer’s Association of New York City George B. Adler Charitable Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Remainder Trust Amber Court Estate of Helga N. Alten American Cancer Society Estate of Marvin D. Einhorn Working Together American Diabetes Association Estate of Werner Gamby American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Estate of Ilona Gerstel We salute our many Community Anibic Vocational Program Estate of Greta D. Horn Applebees, Fresh Meadows Estate of Ellen G. Kaufman Partners who, through working ARC XVI Fort Washington Senior Center Estate of Pierre de Menasce together, enable Selfhelp to fulfill its ArchCare Estate of Alice Netter commitment to the thousands of New Arthritis Foundation Estate of Heinz G. Neumann Asian Americans for Equality Estate of Claire Rosenberg Yorkers who rely on us for care. Association of Ghetto Survivors from FSU Estate of Trudy Sommer Association of Holocaust Survivors from FSU Estate of Herta Weil Atria Riverdale Austrian Consulate General Bank of America Merrill Lynch Barry & Florence Friedberg JCC Bayside High School Big Six Towers Play ‘n’ Learn Nursery School Bikur Cholim Blue Card B’nai B’rith Project HOPE Boulevard ALP Bronx Inter-Agency Council on the Aging Bronx Jewish Community Council Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging & Longevity of Hunter College Sadin Institute on Law & Public Policy Brooklyn Borough-Wide Interagency Council on Aging Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Brooklyn Museum Bukharian Jewish Community Center CAPE Capital One Cardozo Bet Tzedek Legal Services Carter Burden Senior Center Catholic Charities Catholic Charities - Friendly Visitor Program Catholic Immigrant Services The Center for Disability Rights Pooled Trust To make a donation to Selfhelp, or Center for Hearing and Communication to receive additional information Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about Selfhelp’s 80th Anniversary CenterLight Healthcare Campaign - Propelling Us Forward, Central Queens YM-YWHA our Caring for Generations Central Queens YM-YWHA Bereavement Counseling Group Tribute Fund, Estate Planning, or Chinese-American Planning Council Matching Gifts Programs, please City Drugs Pharmacy contact Selfhelp’s Development Citymeals-on-Wheels Department at 212-971-7764, or visit Columbia University School of Occupational Therapy our website at www.selfhelp.net 37 Columbia University School of Social Work Hands on Physical Therapy Community Board #8 - Bronx Hannah Senesh Community Day School Con Edison Health Guard Pharmacy Concerts in Motion Healthfirst Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany HeartShare Congregation Habonim UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - YCT Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Heights and Hills Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations (COJECO) An affiliate agency of UJA- Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Council of Jewish Organizations (COJO) Federation of New York since 1983, Home Care Planning Solutions CUNY School of Law - Main Street Legal Services Hospital for Special Surgery CUNY School of Professional Studies - Nursing Program Selfhelp Community Services has Humana Dakim BrainFitness, Inc. been the recipient of generous Hunter College - Silberman School of Social Work Dancing Dreams core funding and program grants Independence Care Systems (ICS) DOROT, Inc. Inside Broadway Duane Reade Pharmacy as well as a multitude of essential JCC of the Greater Five Towns East Midwood Jewish Center organizational services. Just as Jewish Association Serving the Aging East Side Council on the Aging importantly, the warm partnership Jewish Association Serving the Aging - Adult Protective Services Easter Seals Senior Employment Program Jewish Association Serving the Aging - West Side Senior Center East-West School of International Studies that Selfhelp enjoys with our Jewish Association Serving the Aging - Queens Legal Services for the Educational Alliance colleagues at UJA-Federation has Elderly Elderplan offered us entrée to their network Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services Elders Share the Arts Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Elmhurst Hospital of relationships throughout the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst EmblemHealth New York City community. We are Jewish Federations of North America Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus exceptionally grateful for initiatives Jewish Guild for the Blind Employee Assistance Program Jewish Home LifeCare Encore Community Services that have enabled us to leverage The Jewish Museum Enterprise Community Partners UJA support, such as the New York The Jewish Theological Seminary, Center for Pastoral Education EssenMED House Calls Times Neediest Campaign, advocacy Jokercise Euclid Hall Kimmel Housing Development Foundation Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program at NYLAG work with government agencies, Kingsborough Community College Evergreen Community Garden and introductions to individuals and Korean American Senior Citizens Society of Greater New York (KASCS) Fedcap foundations. We are proud to have Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Flatbush Jewish Center LeadingAge Florence F. Smith Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program once again been a co-sponsor of LeadingAge New York Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín The Legal Aid Society Flushing Hospital Medical Center and to be a primary beneficiary of Leir Retreat Center, Inc. Flushing House Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Flushing Library this event. We take this opportunity Lexington Hearing and Speech Center Flushing Meadows Corona Park Al Oerter to publicly thank UJA-Federation Life Alert Recreation Center/Aquatic Center of New York for their steadfast Lifenet - Mental Health Referral Services Flushing Savings Bank Lighthouse International Flushing Town Hall support and commitment to Selfhelp Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center FoodBank Community Services. Lincoln Square Synagogue Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work LiveOn NY Forest Hills Jewish Center Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation Fountain House Long Island Jewish Medical Center Francis Lewis High School Long Island University Occupational Therapy Program Frank Sinatra School of Performing Arts Long Island University School of Social Work Goddard Riverside Community Center Maimonides Medical Center - Department of Psychiatry God’s Love We Deliver Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks Martin Luther King, Jr. Daycare GuildNet Medicare Rights Center Hamilton-Madison House Medicare Savings Program Coalition (MSP) HANAC Senior Citizens Residence Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center HANAC Transportation Program Mental Health Association of NYC

38 Metro Care Pharmacy New York Hall of Science SAGE Queens Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty New York Historical Society Service Program for Older People (SPOP) Metropolitan Jewish Health Care System New York/Presbyterian - Queens Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders Metropolitan Transit Authority - Access-A-Ride New York Housing Conference Services Now for Adult Persons (SNAP) MFY Legal Services New York Immigration Coalition Shield Institute Mid-Island Y JCC New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) Slater and Beckerman Montefiore Medical Center - Department of Geriatric Psychiatry New York Memory Center St. Johns University School of Law Mount Sinai Hospital of Manhattan-Hospice and Palliative Care New York Philharmonic Starbucks Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens New York Public Library Starkey Hearing Technologies Museum of Jewish Heritage New York State Adult Day Services Association, Inc. Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York State Bar Association - Elder Law Section Sunnyside CAPE Geriatric Museum of Tolerance New York State Comptroller’s Office Sunnyside Case Management Agency Musicians on Call New York State Department of Health Sunnyside Citywide Homecare Services, Inc. Nan Shan Senior Center New York State Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Program (EPIC) Sunnyside Community Services National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - New York City Chapter New York State Homes and Community Renewal Sunnyside EISEP National Council on Aging New York State Office for the Aging Supportive Housing Network of New York National Housing Conference New York University - College of Nursing Temple Beth Shalom - Roslyn National Leased Housing Association New York University - Silver School of Social Work Temple Emanu-El National Low Income Housing Coalition New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Theatre Development Fund The New School North Shore-LIJ Health System Touchstone Health New York Cares Northshore MLTC Touro College New York City Bar Association - Committee on Legal Problems of Aging NYSARC, Inc. Touro College, School of Health Sciences - Occupational Therapy Program and Committee on Disabilities Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) Transitional Services for New York New York City Council Palm Gardens Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation Trinity School New York City Department for the Aging Panera Bread UJA-Federation of New York New York City Department for the Aging - Bill Payer Program Park Avenue Synagogue UJA-Federation of New York - Engage Jewish Services Corps New York City Department for the Aging - Grandparent Support Program Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation UJA-Federation of New York - Long Island Connections New York City Department for the Aging - Health Promotion Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) UJA-Federation of New York - Westchester New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Philips Lifeline United Hospital Fund New York City Department of Education Occupational Training Center Physical Therapy Doctor United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn (UJO) New York City Department of Emergency Management Poland Spring Water University Optometric Center SUNY College of Optometry New York City Department of Finance Polish Jewish Dialogue Committee U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs New York City Department of Health Postal Inspector (New York State) VISIONS New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Project FIND Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) New York City Department of Mental Health Queens Botanical Garden Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) New York City Department of Transportation - Safety Education Department Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility Walgreens Pharmacy New York City Fire Department Queens Chapter of Holocaust Survivors, Inc. Charles B. Wang Community Health Center New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation Queens College Washington Heights - Inwood Council on Aging New York City Housing Authority - Office for the Aging Queens Interagency Council on the Aging Weill-Cornell Medical Center New York City Housing Development Corporation Queens Jewish Community Council West Side Inter-Agency Council on Aging New York City Human Resources Administration Queens Library Women in Housing and Finance New York City Parks Department Queens Symphony Orchestra Woodcrest Rehabilitation & Residential Healthcare Center New York City Police Department Queens Theatre in the Park Woodside Senior Assistance Program 104th Police Precinct Ramaz High School YAI 109th Police Precinct Ravenswood NORC/RISE Yeshiva University - Wurzweiler School of Social Work 112th Police Precinct Regal Heights Adult Day Health Care Yeshivah of Flatbush High School 114th Police Precinct Renaissance Charter School YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood 115th Police Precinct Retired Senior Volunteer Program of the Community Services Society York College New York City Schools Ridgewood YMCA Zucker Hillside Hospital IS 73 Rite Aid Pharmacy IS 237 Riverdale Y Senior Center PS 24 Riverdale YM-YWHA PS 169 Ronald Fatoullah & Associates PS 228 Roots and Branches Theater PS 280 Rubin Museum of Art New York Donated Dental Service (DDS) Samuel Field Y New York Downtown Hospital - Kress Vision Program SAR High School

39 CONTACT US

NAZI VICTIM SERVICES Washington Heights Harry and Jeanette Weinberg SENIOR CENTERS Long Island Licensed Home Care NYC Community Guardian PROGRAM The Kohn-Melamid Center for Apartments Services Agency (LHCSA) Program Austin Street Senior Center Holocaust Survivor Services 45-35 Kissena Boulevard, 516-505-2571 212-971-7776 Bronx 718-520-8197 212-781-7200 Flushing 11355 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, 718-239-3177 106-06 Queens Boulevard, New York City Licensed Home 620 Fort Washington Avenue, New York 10018 990 Pelham Parkway South, Selfhelp K-VII Associates LLC Forest Hills 11375 Care Services Agency (LHCSA) New York 10040 John L. Davis, Program Director Bronx 10461 137-39 45th Avenue, Rosann Rosado, Program Director 212-971-7697 Roni Miller, Program Director Amy Newman, Program Director Flushing 11355 Nassau County Guardianship Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince HOME HEALTH AIDE TRAINING Financial Management Unit/ Program Brooklyn Apex I Senior Citizens Housing Street Innovative Senior Center PROGRAMS: Guardianship 212 971-7776 Midwood Kimmel Housing I 718-886-5777 212-971-5475 Manhattan 498 Union Avenue, 718-646-7500 498 Union Avenue, 45-25 Kissena Boulevard, 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, 212-971-7782 Westbury, 11590 1523 Avenue M, Brooklyn 11230 Westbury 11590 Flushing 11355 New York 10018 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th floor Patricia Kaufman, Managing Director Sharon Wang, Program Director Jinsheng Qiu, Program Director Ruth Rosado, Program Director Apex II Workforce Family Housing New York 10018 NY Connects Kensington Kimmel Housing II Clearview Senior Center Frances David, RN, Training Manager Witness Theater Program 718-559-4400 Henry J. and Erna D. Leir 512 Union Avenue, 718-224-7888 212 971-7768 Nassau County 45-35 Kissena Boulevard Center for Holocaust Survivors Westbury 11590 208-11 26th Avenue, 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, 516-505-2571 Flushing, 11355 Henny and Friedrich Brodnitz Bayside 11360 New York 10018 498 Union Avenue, Westbury 11590 Wendy Zinman-Szachar, LMSW, Case Management Program NATURALLY OCCURRING Erin Brennan, Senior Eve Udesky, Program Director Nancy Kelly Sullivan, Managing Program Director 718-633-1300 RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES Programs Director Director, Long Island LHCSA 419 Church Avenue, Financial Assistance Programs (NORCs) Selfhelp Alzheimer’s Resource Latimer Gardens Senior Center Brooklyn 11218 212 971-7765 Program (SHARP) Big Six Towers NORC Program 718-961-3660 CASE MANAGEMENT Mariam Khachatryan, 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, 718-631-1886 718-565-6569 34-30 137th Street, PROGRAMS Program Director, New York 10018 208-11 26th Avenue, 59-55 47th Avenue, Flushing 11354 Russian Nazi Victim Program Lauren Hecht, Director Project Pilot Bayside 11360 Woodside 11377 Cheryl Gersh, Program Director 212-787-8106 Erin Brennan, Manhattan Brooke Samuelson, HOUSING Maspeth Senior Center 520 Eighth Avenue, 18th Floor, Senior Programs Director Abraham Scharf Center for Programs Director 718-429-3636 New York 10024 Holocaust Survivor Services For housing applications, please Senior Source Fresh Meadows Senior Program 69-61 Grand Avenue, Eli Brett, Program Director 212-971-5475 call 718-886-1412. 212-971-5474 718-454-6286 Maspeth 11378 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, For other inquiries, please call Queens North 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, 67-00 192nd Street, Maria Dixon, Program Director New York 10018 Mohini Mishra, Programs Director 718-321-8194 New York 10018 Fresh Meadows 11365 Robin Kaufman, Program Director at 718-762-6803. 45-25 Kissena Boulevard, Angela Williams, LCSW, Brooke Samuelson, Programs Director HOME CARE Flushing 11355 Programs Director, Nassau County Helen R. Scheuer House Northridge/Brulene/Southridge Homemaking Program Fen Fang Yuan, Program Director Case Management Abraham Scharf Center for 45-25 Kissena Boulevard, NORC Program 212-971-5480 Holocaust Survivor Services Flushing 11355 Selfhelp Safety Net 718-396-5425 SELFHELP INNOVATIONS 516-481-1865 Housekeeping Program 718-633-1300 Martin Lande House 34-10 94th Street, 498 Union Avenue, 212-971-7613 419 Church Avenue, 137-47 45th Avenue, Jackson Heights 11372 212-971-7708 Westbury, 11590 Brooklyn 11218 Flushing 11355 Long Island Licensed Home Care 520 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, Gina Goldman, Program Coordinator Queensview/North Queensview Tanya Clarke, Program Coordinator Services Agency (LHCSA) New York 10018 Scheuer House of Bayside NORC Program Queens 516-505-2571 David Dring, Executive Director 208-11 26th Avenue, 718-278-4148 OTHER COMMUNITY 718-268-1252 Bayside 11360 33-34 Crescent Street, New York City Licensed Home PROGRAMS 70-20 Austin Street, Long Island City 11106 Care Services Agency (LHCSA) Forest Hills 11375 Scheuer House of Flushing Care Transitions - Balanced Colette Leon, Program Director 212-971-5490 138-52 Elder Avenue, Incentive Program (BIP) Flushing 11355 HOME CARE INTAKE: 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, 11355 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg House Certified Home Health Agency 718 766-5433 140-16 45th Avenue, (CHHA) Angela Williams, LCSW, Programs Flushing 11355 212-971-5471 Director, Case Management 40 OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND MANAGEMENT STAFF WHEN THE TIME CAME, A SMALL GROUP

SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015 - 2016 MANAGEMENT STAFF DEAR FRIENDS November 10, 1936. It was a chilly November evening when a small group of recent German émigrés came together in the living room of a Manhattan apartment. Their purpose: to take action to rescue their friends, neighbors, and relatives who Officers Directors Stuart C. Kaplan Adeena Horowitz, LMSW Carol Durham, RN, PCC Chief Executive Officer Administrative Director, Director, Clinical Operations were still stranded in Europe and facing increased danger from the Nazi regime. President Edward B. Cohen Nazi Victim Services Program Raymond V.J. Schrag Scott Drassinower From this initial meeting, the organization we know today as Selfhelp Community Russell Lusak Karen H. Geller, RN, JD Jeffrey S. Jacob Co-Chairmen Senior Vice President Patricia L. Kaufman Director, Services was born. Barry Konig Ernest L. Bial Managing Director, Risk Management Lisa J. Krenzel, MD Victor A. Wyler Michael Grieco, CPA, CVA Senior Communities Carol Levin We are proud to present our 80th Anniversary Annual Report, and we invite you Senior Vice President, Mohini Mishra, CASP, LMSW Vice Presidents Paul Levinsohn to journey with us through Selfhelp’s fascinating story. Over the decades, our Financial Strategy Dorothy Kern Programs Director, Housing Matthew A. Cantor Ralph P. Marash Managing Director, constituency has greatly expanded and our service offerings have increased in Peter H. Jakes Alfred E. Netter Kevin T. Byrne, Esq. Real Estate Sandy Myers Peter Model Ronald F. Ries number. Yet, the values that guided Selfhelp from its inception are ever-present. Vice President, Human Resources Director, Steven G. Tepper Sheryl Silverstein, DMD Living independently with dignity remains the motif that runs through our history and and Labor Relations Elizabeth Lynn Government and External Relations Brian R. Steinwurtzel Treasurer Managing Director, still drives our work 80 years later. This is illustrated, time and again, through Carol Kahn Strauss Peter L. Simmons Lois Deutsch Grants and Research Sherry Perlman those we serve: Tai Wang Vice President, Development Director, Development Secretary Nancy Kelly Sullivan Dennis Baum Mrs. K., an 85-year old Holocaust survivor of limited means, receives a free hearing aid and Tova Klein, LCSW Managing Director, Brooke Samuelson exclaims, “After years of solitude and quiet, a whole new world has entered my ears and mind...” Vice President, Long Island LHCSA Programs Director, NORCs Senior Communities Mayer Waxman, LMSW Samantha Schoenberger SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION BOARD 2015 - 2016 Mr. S., 100 years young, enjoys visiting with his fellow residents at Selfhelp’s Harry and Hanan Simhon, LMSW Managing Director, Director, Housing Development Jeanette Weinberg Apartments, and the comfort of knowing that his Selfhelp social worker is just Vice President, Senior Communities and Sustainability Nazi Victim Services Program Officers Trustees down the hall. Neil Actable Doreen Seligson Chairman Michael A. Bamberger Robert H. Scheibe Evelyn J. Wolff Director, Information Technology Director, Human Resources Mrs. A., homebound and recovering from a stroke, rekindles her love of music and the arts Dennis Baum Ernest L. Bial Raymond V.J. Schrag Vice President, Bert E. Brodsky Victor A. Wyler Real Estate Development Koku Badasu, RN Lisa S. Trub through classes she takes as a participant in our Virtual Senior Center. Vice Chair Matthew A. Cantor Jeffrey Zorek Director, LHCSA Director, Debrah Lee Charatan Jeffrey S. Jacob David Dring and City Home Care Programs Affordable Housing Development Executive Director, MISSION CONTENTS Secretary Stuart C. Kaplan Peter Model Karin Shewer Krugman Selfhelp Innovations Erin Brennan, MPS, QDCP Angela Williams, LCSW Senior Programs Director, Programs Director, Selfhelp is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to 1 Executive Letter 24 Overview of Programs and Services Ilse Melamid Advisory Board Joshua Mermelstein Linda Pekunka SHARP/Clearview Senior Center Case Management maintaining the independence and dignity of seniors and 3 Then & Now: 1936–2015 26 Financial Statements Stanley J. Reifer Administrator, Shelley Einhorn at-risk populations through a spectrum of housing, home 17 Looking Ahead 30 Founders Society Thomas H. Roche Executive Services Lisa Buynak, RN Michael F. Price health care, and social services and will lead in applying 20 Caring for Generations: 31 Providing Support Richard Scharf Director, Patient Services Sandra Priest Rose Karen DeOssie, LMSW Long Island LHCSA new methods and technologies to address changing A Salute to Long-time Members of 37 Working Together Administrative Director, needs of its community. Selfhelp will continue to serve the Selfhelp Family 40 Contact Information Nazi Victim Services Program Ellen Ceriale as the “last surviving relative” to its historic constituency, 22 Highlights From an Outstanding Year 41 Officers, Directors, and Management Staff SELFHELP HONORARY LIFE MEMBER: Rita Shewer Director, LHCSA, victims of Nazi persecution. Quality and Compliance SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. & SCS FOUNDATION, INC.

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