Annual Report FY2020 v1.8 02/18/2021 From the CEO & Board Chair This year will be one for the history books. On behalf of the board, staff, volunteers, and the thousands of people served by our programs, we are delighted to share Brooklyn Community Pride Center’s FY20 Annual Report. These pages describe another record-setting year for our impact and our reach, abruptly affected by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic during the final quarter of the year. What you’ll see is a continuation of the years-long trend of serving more and more people at our Bedford-Stuyvesant home, and then a quick pivot to a new way of engaging Brooklyn’s LGBTQ+ community. We expect the road to recovery from the pandemic to be a complicated one, but we’re already adapting to a new reality. We are doing more programming with fewer resources than ever before, and that’s thanks to the support from the community toward our vision of providing LGBTQ+ Brooklynites with top-notch services in reducing social isolation, workforce development, racial justice, health and wellness, immigration, and homelessness and housing. We continue to rely on and value sustained institutional relationships with organizations like the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Citi Community Development, CHUBB Personal Risk Services, H. van Ameringen Foundation, Lyft, Scharpf Family Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, Venable Foundation, New York Community Trust, and more. We also couldn’t do the work we do without ongoing support from our elected officials, especially in the last year before we launch the new Bedford Union Armory headquarters (coming mid-2021). Check our website for current hours of operation and safety protocols around in- person visits or sign up to take part in one of our many virtual program offerings. We hope to see you again really soon. Thank you for your investment in Brooklyn’s growing LGBTQ+ community! Floyd Rumohr Sonelius Kendrick-Smith Chief Executive Officer Board Chair 2 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 Vision & Value Proposition Our vision is to continue growing as Brooklyn’s premier network of programs and services for the LGBTQ+ community of New York City’s largest borough. Across the spectrum from young people to elders, Brooklyn Community Pride Center enables our community to actively participate in positive, life affirming activities. We offer a distinctive choice for residents of New York City’s largest borough to celebrate, heal, learn, create, organize, relax, socialize, and play. Brooklyn Community Pride Center is the only LGBTQ+ community center in and directly serving the residents of Brooklyn. Ours is a project of Brooklyn, for Brooklyn, and by Brooklyn. Brooklyn Community Pride Center provides services and support to the borough’s LGBTQ+ community through original programming and partnerships with other organizations. Mission3 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 Activities 1344 TOTAL CALENDAR ACTIVITIES* 160 140 120 100 80 60 NUMBER OF EVENTS NUMBER 40 20 0 JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN * Events at or sponsored by Brooklyn Community Pride Center open to the public or pre-registered participants. Includes virtual/online activities. 4 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 People Power 94 VOLUNTEERS 480 RECEPTION HOURS + 1800 PROGRAM FACILITATION, SPECIAL EVENTS & PROJECT HOURS $50K IN-KIND VALUE 5 FULL-TIME STAFF 8 PART-TIME STAFF 11 BOARD MEMBERS 5 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 VISITOR RACE: JULY 1, 2019-MARCH 13, 2020 Black/African 31% VisitorsCaucasian/White 38% Hispanic/Latinx 14% 1350+ Mixed or Not Listed 13% UNIQUE IN-PERSON VISITORS Other choices 4% (e.g. Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Indigenous) MARCH 14, 2020-JUNE 30, 2020 AGE GROUPS: 2500+ 33% are <25 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS SERVED VIA VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING 49% are 25-39 15% 10K+ are 40-59 3% TOTAL ENGAGEMENTS are 60+ (IN-PERSON 4,971, VIRTUAL 4,194, AND PHONE REFERRALS 227) Demographic data were provided through voluntary TRACKED IN FY20 self-disclosure during in-person engagements at the Center prior to closure for COVID-19. Anecdotal Numbers do not include people who declined to be tracked, and observational data suggests these figures are such as those attending anonymous recovery group roughly descriptive of the overall demographics of meetings, among others. our visitors and guests. Visitor Pronouns | 41% she/her | 40% he/him | 16% they/them | 3% something else 6 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 1122211222 73% Brooklynof visitors to the Center 11211 are from Brooklyn 1123711237 11206 Zip # of 11205 Code Visitors 11201 11216 500+ 1122111221 11221 200-499 11226 200-499 11217 11203 100-199 11238 11231 1121611216 11213 100-199 1123311233 11237 100-199 11238 100-199 11213 1120811208 11201 50-99 11215 11206 50-99 1120711207 11207 50-99 11225 11209 50-99 1121211212 11217 50-99 11232 11220 50-99 11225 50-99 11239 11233 50-99 1120311203 11205 <50 11226 11220 11218 11208 <50 1123611236 11210 <50 11211 <50 11212 <50 11219 11214 <50 11209 11215 <50 1121011210 11218 <50 11230 1123411234 11219 <50 11204 11222 <50 11228 11223 <50 11224 <50 11228 <50 11229 <50 11214 11230 <50 11229 11231 <50 11223 11232 <50 11234 <50 11235 <50 11236 <50 11235 11239 <50 11249 <50 11224 11204 <50 7 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 Pride Path forPride Path is a paid workforce Young development program for LGBTQ+ Adults young adults (18-24) at the beginning of their careers. We provide training, paid internships, connections to queer-friendly businesses, and support in finding permanent employment. 167 278 TOTAL NUMBER OF TOTAL SINCE INCEPTION APPLICATIONS 144 68 TOTAL SINCE INCEPTION TOTAL NUMBER ENROLLED 49 101 TOTAL NUMBER TOTAL SINCE INCEPTION PLACED IN INTERNSHIPS 24 $2,984 TOTAL NUMBER 46 COST PER ENROLLED TOTAL SINCE PLACED IN PARTICIPANT IN FY20 PERMANENT JOBS INCEPTION 62 26 TOTAL SINCE TOTAL NUMBER OF LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING INCEPTION EMPLOYERS WE PARTNERED WITH 8 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 Social Reach 7,600+ 4,700+ Facebook followers Twitter followers 4,200+ Instagram followers 4,000+ newsletter subscribers Follow us on most social media platforms by search for @lgbtbrooklyn. 9 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 We continue to make excellent progress toward the Vision 2025 framework released last year. VisionForemost among our key objectives:2025 we formally signed the 30-year lease on our new headquarters in Crown Heights. Our current Bedford-Stuyvesant location will remain open and become our first planned satellite location. Depending on the circumstances of safety and public health, we anticipate a public opening of the Crown Heights facility in mid-2021. We also revised the framework to include a sixth program strand: racial justice. While diversity, equity and inclusion have been part of our DNA since the beginning, we recognize an organization-wide need to address systemic racism in our community. With the addition of the new program strand, we are on track to develop robust programming to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ Brooklynites within the next few years. Click for the latest on our Strategic Vision at lgbtbrooklyn.org/vision-2025 > 2017 Restoration Plaza Bed-Stuy 2025 Coney Island Brooklyn 2021 Bedford-Union Armory Crown Heights 10 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 FY20 Financial Details July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 unaudited draft. FY20 audited financial statements are in process and will be published on our website when available. See all our financial statements at lgbtbrooklyn.org/annual-reports-financials Revenue FY20 Actuals Contributed Individuals $ 68,663 Foundations $ 219,553 Government $ 556,178 Corporations $ 114,705 Total Contributed $ 959,099 Total Earned $ 98,577 Total Revenue $ 1,057,676 Total In Kind $ 437,000* Expenses Personnel $ 611,502 Facilities & Equipment $ 104,516 Development and Fundraising $ 4,304 Programs $ 19,536 Marketing & Communications $ 29,859 General Operations $ 87,764 Total Expenses $ 857,280 Total In Kind $ 437,000* Surplus $ 158,396** Temporarily Restricted $ 42,000*** * Gilead prescription discount cards not included in Total Revenue or Total Expenses calculations. ** $158,396 surplus revenue has been set aside as cash reserve to manage through the Covid-19 pandemic. *** For release in FY21: New York Community Trust Council of Council of Fashion Designers of America. (CFDA) Vogue Initiative/New York City AIDS Fund $42,000. 11 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 2021 Goals 1 Serve 10,000 total unique visitors across two sites. 2 Open Brooklyn’s first mental health clinic at our Crown Heights HQ serving the LGBTQ+ community operated by Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. 3 Establish additional in-person and virtual programming in sports, recreation and other activities. 4 Operationalize our racial justice initiative by establishing anti-racist white working groups and implementing community-led programming for BIPOC audiences. 5 Build governance capacity of our board of directors through partnerships with Governance Matters, BoardLead, and others. 12 BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER FY20 Community Since 2009, we have engagedPartners in community partnerships that allow us to provide greater services to the Brooklyn LGBTQ+ community without duplicating the work of already-established organizations. Our FY2020 Community Partners were: CAMBA, The Family Centers at NYU Langone, and OASIS Latino L.G.B.T.S. Wellness Center. To learn more about virtual or space-sharing partnerships, please visit lgbtbrooklyn.org/office-sharing CAMBA CAMBA brought their Young Men’s Health Project (YMHP) to the Center on a regular basis with sexual health education and fun social activities. THE FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS AT NYU LANGONE The Family Health Centers at NYC Langone maintained a strong presence at the Center by providing safer sex kits, weekly HIV testing, and sponsored our monthly Women/TCNC Social Mixers. OASIS LATINO L.G.B.T.S. WELLNESS CENTER Based in Chelsea, OASIS works to help everyone have the healthiest sex lives they can though services that are culturally sensitive, linguistically appropriate, and tailored to meet the needs of the community.