FISCAL YEAR 2016 ANNUAL REPORT DEAR FRIENDS,

In FY 2016, Project STEP exceeded our expectatons with our “I look forward to the opportunity to work closely with students marking personal and collectve achievements that outstanding teaching artsts, students, and board that believes made their families, our staf, teachers, and supporters proud. in its worthy mission. Throughout my career I have been focused Our Board of Directors carefully managed the planned and invested in supportng young musicians, and providing them retrement of our able Executve Director Mary Jafee. with opportunites to build their future as successful people.” We named a Search Commitee, headed by Board Member – Gabriella Sanna Diane Austn, that succeeded in fnding us an outstanding new leader, Gabriella Sanna, as our new Executve Director. We present this year’s annual report to you, knowing your support helps provide our students with a limitless future. Because of Project STEP’s growing natonal reputaton, world Thank you. class musicians honored us by conductng fve masterclasses. They included world renowned cellist Johannes Moser, the Boston Cello Quartet, Apple Hill String Quartet, Triple Helix Trio, and a lesson full of laughs and learning from the Sincerely, great Maestro Thomas Wilkins. We also welcomed a visit from Jane Chu, Chair, the Natonal Endowment for the Arts, a long term funder and supporter of our work.

Project STEP was featured in Strings Magazine as “the country’s longest-running [35 years!] youth organizaton dedicated to racial balance” in classical music. Our mission to address the underrepresentaton of certain minorites in the classical music profession is as clear today as it was when we were founded in 1982.

In June of 2016, we welcomed Gabriella Sanna as our new Executve Director. Gabriella is an accomplished performer, Dianne Luby Gabriella Sanna teacher, and arts administrator, with over 18 years of Chair, Board of Directors Executve Director progressively responsible experience in arts organizatons and schools. Her most recent positon was as the Director of the Dedham School of Music. OUR MISSION

Project STEP recognizes that certain racial and ethnic minorites are vastly underrepresented in classical music. Our mission is to address this imbalance by identfying musically talented children from underrepresented Boston and surrounding communites and providing these children with comprehensive music and instructon. We set the highest standards for our students, provide mentoring and performance opportunites, and create a network of support for our students, their families, and their communites.

Core Values (1) We believe that the classical music profession should refect racial and ethnic diversity.

(2) We believe that children, if identfed at an early age and immersed in long-term, rigorous music instructon, can fourish as professional classical musicians and as individuals, regardless of their ultmate career choice.

(3) We believe that our students can reach their full potental when held to high standards and provided with the support and actve engagement of teachers, mentors, family members, and alumni.

(4) We believe that music can change lives and that the disciplined study of classical music enhances educatonal opportunites and opens doors for our students and their communites. PROGRAMS Each year, about four students from FOCUS are selected to contnue their musical studies in Project STEP’s core Project STEP alum Lev Mamuya (above), currently in the Harvard/New England Conservatory joint degree program, mentors a Project STEP program (grades 1-12). Each student receives weekly student. Mentoring is an integral part of the Project STEP curriculum private lessons, theory and/or solfège classes, chamber and serves as a means to inspire success through positve role models. music, , summer music camp support, and an instrument. In additon, they receive enrichment Project STEP provides a contnuum of music instructon opportunites including masterclasses and residencies that begins when we enroll 50-100 fve-year-olds from with renowned chamber ensembles, and tckets to the Boston Public School system in our FOCUS Program, dozens of concerts each year. Project STEP is a model for and contnues through Grade 12. FOCUS introduces creatve youth development. In the course of studying kindergartners from underrepresented ethnicites to the music, young people develop social, creatve, problem study of music at an early age, generatng enthusiasm solving, collaboraton, and critcal thinking skills. These and providing a bridge for further study at Boston-area skills are widely transferrable and enable youth to reach music schools. It is also a gateway to the next level of their full potental as musicians, students, and productve Project STEP. members of society. FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

By building extensive student and family support systems into the program itself, Project STEP is able to hold students to - and help them reach - high standards of achievement. Incoming families are paired with “buddy” families, which allows older children to mentor incoming children and experienced parents to provide guidance for new parents. Families spend hours together each Saturday in the lounge at Symphony Hall while their children are in class, and all parents are part of the Parents’ Council which meets monthly for ‘parent pulse checks’ and workshops on practcal issues related to their children’s music educaton. That Council elects two representatves to the Board of Directors who serve as full votng members and help shape organizatonal policies. These parent representatves facilitate communicaton between parents and staf. At the end of each year, Project STEP hosts a Spring Recital with a fundraising component planned and executed by the Parents’ Council. STEP’s depth of support for parents and families creates an atmosphere of encouragement, ownership, and responsibility. Parents are crucial to our students’ success, and their actve involvement is one of STEP’s greatest strengths.

“Project STEP is more than talented children and expert faculty; it is also made of a network of real families who juggle multple obligatons. Despite all the other facets of our lives, we have chosen to prioritze Project STEP. We can’t help but follow in amazement as the program guides our children to new heights we couldn’t have imagined.” - STEP Parent 2016 SNAPSHOT

The 2015/2016 year was flled with events, concerts, and collaboratons including fve masterclasses with world- class performers, fve workshops with Triple Helix Piano Trio, the Boston Society workshop, FOCUS Recital, Annual Spring Recital & Parents’ Beneft, Senior Recital, and over 80 hours of community service concerts performed by our students.

HIGHLIGHTS: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS RECEPTION Project STEP performed at a recepton in Symphony Hall for the Natonal Endowment for the Arts hosted by the Massachusets Cultural Council. TRIPLE HELIX BENEFIT CONCERT– Project STEP and the Triple Helix Piano Trio presented their second joint beneft concert with guests from the string ensemble A Far Cry to celebrate the life and legacy of Judith Sandler, a long-tme friend of the Piano Trio. MLK JR. DAY – The Project STEP community celebrated the life and legacy of Martn Luther King, Jr. This event included musical performances and a panel discussion about the role of race in classical music with Rev. Michael Haynes as well as Christopher Lydon from WBUR. FRIENDRAISER – This fundraising event at Scholars was an excitng opportunity for us to spend an evening with PERFORMANCES: new friends, welcome back long-tme supporters, and share a short performance from STEP students. Arts and Business Council of Boston, Boston Children’s Museum, Brookhaven, Classical Cartoon Festval, TUFTS UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION COLLABORATION JP Morgan Boston ofces, Lexington Symphony Festval, Tufs music compositon students worked with Project Massachusets General Hospital Diversity in Neurology STEP students for months, culminated in the creaton of luncheon, Newbury Court, Race Amity Natonal musical premieres performed by our students and Conference, Violence Transformed Fundraiser, and featured in the Tufs media. Winsor Music Beneft Concert. WE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE...AGAIN! Njioma (), Tristan (violin), and alumni Lev (cello) and Jordan (bass) formed a quartet that greeted guests as they Project STEP was asked back to the White House for the arrived. The students also joined the United States Marine second tme in two years to perform for the State Dinner Band for several “strolling” songs as guests made their honoring the United States’ 50-year relatonship with way from the formal dining room to the evening’s enter- Singapore. Our students impressed over 200 guests that tainment room. As the evening drew to a close, President atended the event, including Vice President Joe Biden, Obama addressed his guests and thanked Massachusets State Senator Ed Markey, and Secretary of Project STEP by name! State John F. Kerry.

ABOVE: August 2, 2016 - President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, and Mrs. Lee Hsien Loong join State Dinner performers, Project Step Youth Quartet and staf for a group photo in the Blue Room of the White House. Photo by Chuck Kennedy IMPACT

In 2015, the Center for Collaboratve Educaton and the Annenberg Insttute for School Reform documented the major opportunity gaps that persist for Black and Latno males in the Boston Public Schools. These gaps impede their learning and lead to lower 4-year graduaton rates than those of their white peers (Black students: 70%, Latno students: 64%, white students: 76%). In contrast, 100% of Project STEP’s graduates go on to college or conservatory afer graduatng from high school, and excel in music studies, compettons, and academics. During their studies at Project STEP, students receive high levels of training and support that likely would not be accessible to them otherwise. They are able to break through socio-economic barriers to become excellent musicians, creatve and successful students, and productve members of society. Project STEP ofers a diferent path for Black and Latno youth by cultvatng their talents, maintaining high expectatons, and providing them with the support they need to succeed.

“Project STEP helps you in school. It improves how you think.” –STEP Student

Above - Triple Helix Piano Trio violinist Bayla Keyes mentors Project STEP student Alba during a Saturday workshop. MEET OUR STUDENTS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Project STEP is pleased to bestow the 2016 Eleanor L. Campbell Scholarship to Njioma (above) and the Arthur Kravitz Scholarship to Itsva (below).

SCHOLARS

In 2007, Barbara N. Kravitz established a scholarship for one advanced STEP student to be selected each year in memory of her Jordan Calixto (above) recently completed his undergraduate studies husband, Dr. Arthur Kravitz. As Past at the studying double bass with Albert Laszlo. Before President of the Board, he loved Juilliard, he studied with Helen Stevenson from age fve to seventeen classical music and believed strongly in the mission of Project STEP. at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, then studied with Don Palma (co-founder of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and In the same year, Judge Levin H. professor at Yale and New England Conservatory) during his senior year. Campbell established a scholarship Jordan atended the Aspen Music Festval under the Vincent Wilkinson fund in honor of his wife, Eleanor L. scholarship in 2013, the Natonal Orchestral Insttute in 2015, and the Campbell, a long-tme Project STEP Orford Music Festval in 2016. On top of playing in the Juilliard Orchestra, supporter. Jordan played with the Lab Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble with various conductors including Alan Gilbert, Vladimir Jurowski, and Peter Scholars are chosen on the basis Oundjian. Jordan will be contnuing his studies at Yale University’s School of merit, dedicaton, and of Music Graduate program with Don Palma. community involvement. SUMMER CAMPS

Music camps are ofen some of the most productve and infuental experiences for our students. In gorgeous country setngs, students have many hours each day to play chamber and orchestra music with students from all over the world. Away from academic and other day to day obligatons that compete with music, they enjoy relaxed but determined goal-oriented music making in combination with fun and healthy outdoor experiences. Their identtes as music students are heightened by being surrounded with campers who share and celebrate their passion. The combinaton of intensity, beauty, structure, physical freedom, and bonds formed among campers and members of the faculty contribute to lifelong memories. Tayja and Maria (above) at Apple Hill in New Hampshire. Amalia, Keilina, Solomon, and Tamara (below) at Encore/CODA in Maine. This summer, our students atended camps that included Greenwood, Boston University Tanglewood Insttute (BUTI), Point , Brevard, Kinhaven, Encore/CODA, and Apple Hill. Students also travelled abroad to the Vianden Festval in Luxembourg and went on tour with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra to Spain.

This incredible opportunity is provided to every Project STEP student for two to six weeks each summer. In order to help cover the costs of these programs, making them accessible for our students, we combine funds from Project STEP, special support from Susan Rothenberg and the Janey Fund, Winsor Music contributons, The Willow Tree Fund, The Mary Saudek Jafee Fund, and scholarships from the camps themselves.

“Another great thing about STEP is that they send everyone to music camp every summer. My frst summer I atended Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. That camp is the best thing that has ever happened to me in my whole life...” - STEP Student LEADERSHIP & STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD OF ADVISORS Dianne Luby, President Nina L. Dogget Gregory E. Bulger, Treasurer Randall Hiller, Past President Jessica M. Fenton, Clerk Jackie Jenkins-Scot Diane M. Austn Patricia Krol Rochelle A. Burgos, Parent Rep Rachel S. Moore Mark Churchill William Moyer Goetz B. Eaton Daniel I. Palant Christna M. Frangos Ann Hobson Pilot Meghan K. Jasani Wendy Putnam Shiela Kibbe, BU Rep Astrid Schween Hon. Antoinete McLean Leoney Martha Batchelor Volpe Karen McInnis Margaret Williams-DeCelles, Christophe Oliver Past President Elisa C. Pepe Owen Young Christopher Reuning Cheri Robartes STAFF Kerby Roberson, Parent Rep Gabriella Sanna, Executve Director Diana E. Rodriguez Javier R. Caballero, Artstc Director Jessica Schmidt, BSO Rep Leigh C. Kelter, Marcus Thompson Director of Insttutonal Relatons Catherine J. Toppin Jodie McMenamin, Manager of Individual Giving FACULTY Alison L. Fessler, Jason Amos Susan Jarvis Gwendoline Thornblade Special thanks to the following Board Communicatons Coordinator Laura Blustein Mickey Katz Emileigh Vandiver members for their service during Mariana Green-Hill, Artstc Advisor James Buswell Anna Korsunsky Sophie Vilker fscal year 2016: Mathew M. Smith, Artstc Jonathan Butler Leonard Matczynski Donald Weilerstein Richard Cornell, Past BU Rep Coordinator Javier Caballero Dubravka Moshfegh Peter Zazofsky Leslie Wu Foley, Past NEC Rep Elisabeth Christensen Farhoud Moshfegh John Ziarko Graham Robinson PARTNERS Mark Churchill Mai Motobuchi Boston Symphony Orchestra Fudeko Takahashi Cohler Irina Muresanu Boston University Daniel Doña Chris Rathbun New England Conservatory Linda Emmanuel Magdalena Richter Sassan Haghighi Aristdes Rivas Mariana Green-Hill Daniel Stepner Kyoko Horowitz Andrew Kohji Taylor Yasuko Ishibashi Deborah Thompson $1,000 + CONT’D Margo Brinton and Eldon Park Daniel and Barbara Palant Kerby Roberson & Gabrielle Bercy Roberson SUPPORTERS & FRIENDS The Parents & Families of Project STEP Burton D. and Gloria Rose William H. and Kathleen Rousseau Robert and Susan Saudek Alfred and Gilda Slifa Stephen Saudek and Janice Durham Ann and Phil Smith Astrid C. Schween Ann Scot COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT $5,000 + Emilie D. Steele Marcus A. Thompson David and Marie Louise Scudder A Far Cry Anonymous Kim Whiteley Margaret Shepherd Boston Symphony Orchestra The Gregory E. Bulger Foundaton Margaret Williams-DeCelles Marylen Sternweiler BSO Educaton Department/ Susan Oakie Bush Sidney and Deanna Wolk Catherine J. Toppin Symphony for Our City Goetz Eaton and Ted Stuart Davis Edith Walker Boston University Martha and Donald Farley Family George Wiltsee Carriage House of Johnson Foundaton $500 + John Winslow and Emily Bailey String Instruments Jessica Margolin Fenton Anonymous Benjamin Zander Johannes Moser and Douglas Fenton David and Holly Ambler New England Conservatory Louis H. Hamel, Jr. Ali Aziz Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music Dianne Luby Diane Baehre $250 + Wendy Putnam and the Concord Christopher Reuning Susan Bryant Michael Aleman Chamber Music Society Michael T. Sherman Ann S. and Robert Buxbaum Michele and James Banker Rutman’s Violins James and Norma Smith John Y. Campbell and Susanna Peyton Regina Campbell Marcus Thompson and the Boston John and Samantha Williams Anna L. and Peter B. Davol John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chamber Music Society Winsor Music Christna M. Frangos Merissa and Vincent Dufrend Triple Helix Piano Trio William Goldstein Ann Elliot Harriet Feinberg Owen Young $1,000 + James W. Gorman, Jr. and Terri Lorenz Tyler Hardin Will Fickes Diane M. Austn Linda J. Hefner Marie Lou Francoeur IN MEMORIAM and Dr. Aaron J. Nurick Ruth L. Hertz Robert Frank and Jennifer Coplon Louis H. Hamel, Jr. Peter Boberg Randall Hiller Eileen and Barney Freiberg-Dale Dorothy Burstein Jackie Jenkins-Scot and James Scot Jeanne-Pierre and Rose Gombay INDIVIDUAL DONORS Jack Campbell Liza Ketchum and John H. Straus Sandra Gotkin Mark Churchill $200,000 + The Hon. Antoinete E. Leoney Michael Maynard and Ilene Greenberg Dharma Cortes and Rodolfo Vega Barbara N. Kravitz Constance Lewis Susan M. Halby George L. Fosque Carol Lobron Joanna Helferich Luz Danielle Gibbard Richard and Nancy Lubin Eloise W. Hodges $50,000 + Daniel Goldberg and Donna Small Richard Macmillan Joshua Hofman-Senn The Hon. Levin H. Campbell Louise Hauser Evelyn McFadden Wen Huang Sandra S. and Carl D. Jafee Judith McMichael and Jim Foster David and Gillian Jenkins Nathaniel Jafee $30,000 + Anne Mollet Dianna Johnston Johnson String Instrument Susan Rothenberg Kyra Montagu Leigh and Chris Kelter Claudia Lavin The Willow Tree Fund Robert and Jane Morse Pat Krol and Stephen Chiument Mary Lincoln Glenn Myers Keith and Emiley Lockhart Meghan K. Jasani and Adam Margolin Paul O’Shea Judith Lubershane $10,000 + Karen McInnis Harry and Francis Ostrander Robert and Claudia Luck Nat and Diana Alpert Bill and Betsy Moyer Susan W. and Stephen Paine Susan Luckman Diane Asseo Griliches Christophe and Tara Oliver $100+ CONT’D Lisa Sebell-Nevins Wendy Hudson Patricia Sheehan SUPPORTERS & FRIENDS Miles Ito Epp Sonin Mary and Ben Jafee Alan Strauss Peter Janout John L. Thorndike Sherry and Ralph Jones Karen Torres Robert and Sandra Van Langen $250+ CONT’D Lisa Wong and Lynn Chang William Joplin Barbara Kassler Harold Vaughn Cynthia Mazareas Nancy Chodorow Karen Kennedy Sophie Vilker Paul and Jodie McMenamin Magnolia Contreras Judith H. Kidd Mark Volpe & Martha Batchelor Volpe Lixing Pan Cynthia Coombs-Harbert Jamie Kirsch and Diana Lemly Sue Watson Elisa Pepe Linda Cory Allen Ernest Klein Denise Gafey and Jason Webb William J. and Lia G. Poorvu Bruce and Susan Creditor Diane A. Lapon Bernard E. Weichsel Richard P. and Claire W. Morse Joan P. and Ronald C. Curhan Jasper J. Lawson Constance V.R. White Diana Rodriguez Edith L. Dabney Lucian Leape Edward Graver & Anne Peverada Young Samuela and Phyllis Rubinovitz Belden and Pamela Daniels Elliot D. and Lenore Zug Lobel Lois C. Russell Robert Davis Susan Lucas Rodney Saenz Bruce adn Maddy Donof Up to $100 M. Scot Mampe Susan S. Saudek Annete Dorsky Loismay Abeles Mary Martn Rhoda Schneider Athanasios Dousis Sprague Ackley Lois McCloskey Phyllis Selter Diane Driver Helen Adelman Kenneth and Margaret McIntosh Ellen and Jay Sklar Marion Duclos Mary Beth Alger Tom McNaugher Steven Snider Robert and Dianthe Eisendrath Iris Alkalay Ralph and Sylvia Memolo Gwendoline Thornblade Stephanie Engel Cornell Allen Ndidi Menkit Michael Tsuk and Edith Epstein James Evans Carol Allen Irene Merwin Alex Wagner David and Susan Fedo Bernice L. Auslander Paul Monsky and Beverly Woodward Ruth Plaut and Lloyd Weinreb Timothy Felter Saad Bahbahani William O. and Sandra M. Flannery Ellen E. Moyer Roxana Bajdechi Henri Fouda Jason Myers Ronald P. Barron and Ina K. Wilhelm $100+ Marjorie and Lawrence Franko Cornelia Nichols George and Holly Batchelor Anonymous Patricia Gefner Thomas Novak Sergio Bellot William and Susan Adams Ray Goldberg Abosede Odunsi Bob Berger Judith Adler Nadja B. Gould Anne Pearson Rachel Berger Donald Allen Mary Beth Grady Ann Hobson Pilot and Prentce Pilot Carla Bregman Sandy Bakalar Michael Gratan Harold I. and Francis Prat John Brennan Faith Barnes Robert Hagopian Wendy Putnam Geroge R. Bulger Arny Berger Helen Hagopian Abram and Martha Recht Julian Bullit Norman Bitsoli Juanita L. Hardrick Hilary Respass John Bumstead Ellen Braverman Judith Harkins Cheri Robartes Luis and Bianca Burgos Katherine Brobeck Natalie Harrington Nancy B. Roberts Aline Benoit and Marshall Burlingame Henry T. and Melinda C. Brown Goerge and Daphne Hatsopoulos William Rothbard Derek Campbell Michael and Susan Brown Deborah Hauser Elliot Paul and Martha Rothman Penelope Caponigro Christopher Buono Christopher and Kathy Heckscher Nancy Cirillo Ruggiero Toni-Lee Capossela Valerie Busby Luisa Hefernan Carol Hofman and Michael Schafer Christne Capota Javier Caballero Edwin and Mary Hiller Barbara Schnuer Delvyn Case Barbara Carroll Thomas J. and Lois Schwab Vanessa Mulvey Anne Watson Born Bridget Mundy Genie Weekley SUPPORTERS & FRIENDS Murali Nagendranath Karen Campbell and Ray Wellbaum Kali Nave James and Valerie Wiegel UP TO $100 CONT’D John R. and Rita B. Glover Evelyn and John Neumeyer John and Linda Willson Katrina Castelli Andrew Gola Diana M. Nugent Danielle Wilson Alice and John Catarino Alexander Goodin Susan Onderdonk Jackie Wolf and David Perlman Mark Cataudella John W. and Gretchen Graef Cynthia Orrell Gail Wood Hsiu Chang Lucy Gram David Pap Maggie Zager Melinda C. Cheston Mary-Ann Greene Diane Pepe Mary Christe Shelly Grubman Penny and Jim Peters IN-KIND SUPPORT Laura Christopherson Gregory and Toni Hall Julie Ramsey and David Cutright A Far Cry Ed Colet Angela Han Jacob Ratlif Jodie Baehre Art Katherine and Tom Colleran Denise Harbison Peter and Suzanne Read Boston Pops Richard Cornell Hala Hazar Kelly Reed Boston Symphony Orchestra Sally Cross Dean L. and Linda Hearn Lee Ridgway Brewers Fork Restaurant Beth Croty Ryan Hersey-Starr Linda Rinearson Johnson String Instrument Andrea D’Iorio Kerton Robin Honig Eva Rodriguez Donna Kim of The Perfect Details Jonathan Dacanay Andra Hotchkiss Adelia Romeo Hyat Regency Hotel Hassan Dasht Louise M. Huddleston David and Krana Rosen Hillary Kassler and Wilfred Mamuya Natalie Davis Roberta Humez Mary Rosenthal New England Conservatory John and Irene Decoulos Emily Hyman Jessi Rosinski Rhonda Rider Maria Decoulos Svetlana Javakhyan Marlene Rotblat Scholars Bistro and Lounge Katherine Delmonico Nabila Kabir Nathan Rothstein Seaport Boston Hotel Dawn Eades Roger and Judith Kamm Mathew Rufng Ani Karamyan Stuart Sadick Henry and Florence Einhorn CORPORATE, BUSINESS, & Brenda Engel Todd Katzman Joel Schafer Irene Falite Sara Kitaef Penny Schwartz COMMUNITY SUPPORT David and Elaine Feingold Michael and Nancy Leavit John Scot A Foggy Word Evan Fekete Judson Leonard Joyce and Bert Serwitz Ali’s Rot Restaurant Jill Fischer Contance R. Levine Judy Shaw Ashmont Auto Collision Jason and Asuka Fisher Marion Lipson Alice Shire Boston Symphony Orchestra Gail Flacket Roberta Lojko William S. and Bete L. Siegel Boston University School of Music Amy Flemming-Fessler & Scot Fessler Bernard and Louise Lown Julie Silberman Brookhaven at Lexington Jane L. Forsyth John and Olive Malcolm Herndon Snider Carloyn Mapes Music Jim Foster Dwight Marsh Nancy Stanton Silvia Curry/Rivers School of Music Georgia Frangos Courtney Martn Dan Stepner D’Laly’s Beauty Salon Koula Frangos David Mason Megumi Stohs Lewis Ethnica Catering Cassandra Frangos Molly McCarthy Sue Szwed and Mitch Lansky Jireh Beauty Salon and Spa Judith Friedman Lisa Mcdonnell Michael Tabak Johnson String Instrument Carole Friedman Owen McLean Benz-Nay and Ermita Theodore J.P. Morgan Lillian H. Garber Judith Mcmanus Judith Ebel Tsipis Just Next Door Cards and Gifs Thomas L. and Annemarie Gauger Heather McPherson Linda Turner Lake Isle Woods Associaton Trust Denise Gelfand Luis Montalvo Emileigh Vandiver Mario’s Restaurant Co. Lorraine Gerstl Joyce Green and Guy Moss Christne J. Watson New England Conservatory of Music CORPORATE, BUSINESS, & COMMUNITY SUPPORT CONT’D New England Philharmonic

Partners Health Care Sailboats to Go, LLC. Schneider Electric North America Fnd. Scholars Bistro and Lounge South End Community Health Center Teak Media + Communicatons Triple Helix Piano Trio Winsor Music William Brown and Sons

FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Barr-Klarman Arts Capacity Building Kanter Kallman Foundaton, Inc. Initatve Klarman Family Foundaton Bloomberg Philanthropies Linde Family Foundaton Boston Cultural Council Massachusets Cultural Council Cabot Family Charitable Trust Richard P. and Claire W. Morse Charles H. Bond Trust Foundaton City of Boston Mu Phi Epsilon Foundaton Corkin Charitable Foundaton Natonal Endowment for the Arts Curhan Family Fund Amelia Peabody Foundaton Lincoln and Therese Filene Savage Family Foundaton Foundaton, Inc Shames Family Foundaton Charles and Sara Goldberg The Willow Tree Fund Charitable Trust Yawkey Foundaton Above - Past Project STEP Executve Director Mary S. Jafee joins Jane Chu, The Janey Fund Chairman of the Natonal Endowment for the Arts, as well as members of the Massachusets Cultural Council for a recepton at Symphony Hall. Project STEP students performed for all guests and met with members of both organizatons to discuss their experience in the program. FINANCIALS SOURCES OF INCOME $863,208

Sources of Income Support from Individuals $ 515,840 Support from Foundaton & Government grants $ 241,484 Investment income $ 34,625 Donated space, instruments, services $ 58,124 Fees & honoraria $ 13,135 Total Income $ 863,208

Use of Funds Program $ 451,164 Administratve $ 136,488 Fundraising $ 91,824 All expenses $ 679,476 USES OF FUNDS $679,476 Surplus before investment losses $ 183,732 Gains / Losses on investments $ (53,901) Surplus $ 129,831 FINANCIALS

Project STEP, Inc. Statement of Financial Positon June 30, 2016 and 2015

Statement of Financial Position 2016 2015

ASSETS

Checking Account 50,614 57,936 Investments 1,482,642 1,288,776 Receivables, net 160,500 241,824

Office equipment, net of depreciation of $13,870 and $10,374 in 2016 and 2015, respectively 12,721 7,172 Music instruments, net of depreciation of $264,970 and $255,653 in 2016 and 2015, respectively 81,767 75,484

Total Assets 1,788,244 1,675,196

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSSETS

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses 15,351 32,134 Total Liabilities 15,351 32,134

Net assets Unrestricted 1,283,217 1,080,034 Temporarily restricted 102,576 175,928 Permanently restricted 387,100 387,100 Total net assets 1,772,893 1,643,062

Total liabilities and net assets 1,788,244 1,675,196

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Photos by Michael J. Lutch