IMPACT THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP 2019 IMPACT REPORT SEPTEMBER 2020 TABLEOUR OFMISSION CONTENTS DEAR FRIENDS, The TEAK Fellowship believes that motivation and potential,3 Mission not economic circumstances, should determine a student’s future. TEAK unlocks access 6 TEAK’s Impact to outstanding education and transformative While 2019 seems as if a lifetime ago to all of us, we write today to acknowledge and thank all of you, our loyal 8 High School Matriculation and ever-expanding circle of friends, for your generous support of The TEAK Fellowship. To be honest, 2019 experiences for exceptional NYC students, who use was the cause of some concern on our part as to whether our Fellowship could raise the annual revenue that these10 College opportunities Matriculation to change their lives and the we had in the recent past so soon after completing a wildly successful $3.5M capital campaign to support our world13 Distinguished around them. Donors growth plan. This Impact Report should serve to put that concern to rest. With your ongoing devotion to our mission and your belief in our ability to execute on it, TEAK enjoyed another banner year on the fund-raising 15 Events front. 18 2019 Donors Our TEAK community will remember 2019 as the year in which our Fellowship began making good on its 19 In-Kind Gifts & Special Thanks strategic and financial plan to increase our Fellowship by 15 students per class or by 50% and maintain that 22 Financials rate of growth over the next decade. In 2019, TEAK set out to deliver on our promise to all of you that we would not expand our numbers for the sake of expansion, nor would we make any compromises to the breadth, depth, 24 How You Can Help and overall quality of our program for which our Fellowship has been known for over 20 years. This Impact 25 Staff & Board Report will provide you with a brief update as to our ongoing success. TEAK continues to provide the largest class in our 22-year history (and our nine other classes) with our same signature high-quality academic instruction and individualized support. We continue to prepare our Fellows for admission and success at our Nation’s most prestigious secondary schools, colleges, and universities. We continue to cultivate the next generation of highly trained, ethical, and diverse leaders. Normally, we would invite you to celebrate our ongoing achievements at our annual Gala, but there is nothing normal about 2020. There will be no Gala. Like you, TEAK has endured a series of epic events, ones that have had a profound effect on our Fellowship. We have spent months mitigating the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on our particular 320 students. We have also spent weeks focusing on how to support these same students as they try to make sense of what has transpired relative to systemic racism and oppression as well as a pandemic that disproportionately affects our Fellows and their communities. To that end, TEAK will assess its practices, make changes where necessary, and play a role in our Nation’s renewed efforts to become a more inclusive and just society. There is much to celebrate relative to 2019, as our Impact Report suggests. That said, we believe you would take particular pride in the manner in which the TEAK community responded when challenged as never before. With your assistance, TEAK has not missed a beat. Again, we thank you and look forward to the next time we are in each others’ presence, perhaps more than ever. John F. Green Marc Becker Executive Director Chairman of the Board of Trustees OUR MISSION The TEAK Fellowship believes that motivation and potential, not economic circumstances, should determine a student’s future. TEAK unlocks access to outstanding education and transformative experiences for exceptional NYC students, who use these opportunities to change their lives and the world around them. TEAK’S IMPACT IN 2019, 219 102 321 Middle School and + College Scholars = highly motivated TEAK SERVED High School Fellows and recent graduates students 1 out of 4 New Yorkers live at or below the poverty line. TEAK Fellows are among them. 100% of Class 16 86% of Class 1380 average SAT score Fellows gained admission 16 Fellows held for the Class of 2019, to highly competitive leadership positions 400+ higher than the colleges including 56% in high school. national average to Ivy League Institutions. 242 COLLEGE GRADUATES WITH CAREERS IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES 34% 19% 14% THE UNIQUE COMBINATION OF SCHOLARSHIP, Non-profit/ Finance and Medical Education/ Business Professions Public Policy LEADERSHIP, CITIZENSHIP, AND FELLOWSHIP ENSURES 96% of College Scholars from Class THAT TEAK GRADUATES HAVE BOTH THE ACADEMIC AND 12 will graduate from college in 6 years or less. SOCIAL CAPITAL TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. 12% 9% 4% Media/ Engineering/ Law Advertising/ Technology Journalism 6 HIGH SCHOOL MATRICULATION – TEAK CLASS 20 Mahbuba Afreen Brearley School Elwyn Mitchell Brooklyn Latin School Washieu Anan Browning School Sophia Munoz St. Andrew’s School Jason Arriaza Regis High School Victoria Ortiz Phillips Academy Andover Jessie Buestan Groton School Jonathan Rodriguez NEST+M - MS 539 Elizabeth Bugayev George School Agustin Romero Bard High School Early College Heidi Cruz Columbia Secondary School Marco Salvatierra Little Red School House & Elisabeth Ahmed Diallo Friends Seminary Irwin High School Basma Elbagory Calhoun School Shadab Sharif Trevor Day School Hope Flowers Phillips Exeter Academy Mya Soto Museum School Mariam Fofana Riverdale Country School Emma Torres Nightingale-Bamford School Angel Huitzil Xavier High School Mahamadou Touray Loomis Chaffee School Fred Javier Phillips Academy Andover Annie Vaca Kew Forest School Moises King-Baker Choate Rosemary Hall Zahali Vauclena Masters School Simisola Lawal Deerfield Academy Franklyn Yadaicela George School HIGH SCHOOL MATRICULATION* [1999-2019] Boarding Schools Blair Academy, NJ (2) The Hill School, PA (1) Phillips Exeter Academy, NH (20) Brooks School, MA (3) The Hotchkiss School, CT (7) Purnell School, NJ (1) Cate School, CA (3) Kent School, CT (2) St. Andrew’s School, DE (8) Choate Rosemary Hall, CT (12) The Lawrenceville School, NJ (4) St. George’s School, RI (7) Church Farm School, PA (2) Loomis Chaffee School, CT (7) St. Mark’s School (4) Concord Academy, MA (14) The Masters School, NY (3) St. Paul’s School, NH (9) Dana Hall School, MA (1) Mercursburg Academy, PA (2) The School at Church Farm, PA (1) Darrow School, NY (3) Milton Academy, MA (10) The Taft School, CT (7) Deerfield Academy, MA (12) Miss Hall’s School, MA (1) Thacher School (2) Emma Willard School, NY (1) Miss Porter’s School, CT (3) Westminster School, CT (3) Episcopal High School, VA (12) Northfield Mount Hermon School, MA (9) Westtown School, PA (4) George School, PA (2) Peddie School, NJ (9) The Williston Northampton School, MA (1) Groton School, MA (5) Phillips Academy Andover, MA (20) Day Schools Academy of Mount St. Ursula (1) Columbia Secondary School (1) Marymount School (1) Aquinas High School (1) Convent of the Sacred Heart (7) Museum School (1) Archbishop Molloy High School (1) The Dalton School (8) NEST+M - MS 539 (1) Bard High School Early College (7) Ethical Culture Fieldston School (9) The Nightingale-Bamford School (5) The Berkeley Carroll School (14) Fordham Preparatory School (6) Notre Dame School (1) The Brearley School (8) Friends Seminary (8) The Packer Collegiate Institute (11) The Bronx High School of Science (4) Grace Church School (3) Poly Prep Country Day School (5) Brooklyn Friends School (6) Hackley School (1) Regis High School (7) The Brooklyn Latin School (2) The Hewitt School (6) Riverdale Country School (23) Brooklyn Technical High School (1) The High Schoool for Math, Science, Saint Ann’s School (7) Top 5 Schools TEAK Fellows The Browning School (6) and Engineering (1) Saint Vincent Ferrer High School (1) 6 Fellows received the honor Matriculated To Over The Years The Calhoun School (2) Horace Mann School (8) Spence School (11) of Valedictorian and 3 Fellows Cardinal Spellman High School (2) Kew Forest School (1) Stuyvesant High School (9) 1) Riverdale Country School received the honor of The Chapin School (4) Little Red School House and Elisabeth Trevor Day School (7) 2) Phillips Academy Andover Collegiate School (6) Irwin High School (16) Trinity School (13) Salutatorian from their middle 3) Phillips Exeter Academy Columbia Grammar Manhattan Center for Science W.C. Bryant Honors Program (1) schools in 2019. 4) LREI & Preparatory School (4) and Mathematics (1) Xavier High School (7) 5) Concord Academy * Number in parenthesis indicates students who have matriculated to school 8 COLLEGE MATRICULATION – TEAK CLASS 16 Mashiyat Ahmed Johns Hopkins University Bilal Morsi University of Pennsylvania Hadassah Akinyele Tufts University Protik Nandy University of Pennsylvania Esther Amao University of Pennsylvania Michael Ortiz Cornell University Kamryn Bacchus-Larode Rice University Raja Promige University of Pennsylvania Adrian Balvuena Union College Nathalie Rodriguez Columbia University Shaunjaney Bryan Brown University Jessica Sang Swarthmore College Alexander Castillo Claremont McKenna College Steven Sinchi Cornell University Jadie Deleon Columbia University Jayden Thompson Occidental Colege Kalif Grant University of Pennsylvania Edwin Vargas Babson College Ashley Hernandez Davidson College Andrea Viera Cornell University Ramar Jackson Lafayette College Vance White Brown University Aaron Magloire Yale University Tasnima Zaman Columbia University Roberto Martinez Franklin & Marshall College COLLEGE MATRICULATION** [2004-2019] Allegheny College (1) Franklin & Marshall College (7) Pomona College (2) Amherst College (14) George Washington University (4) Princeton University (11) Babson College (4) Georgetown University (1) Rice University (1) Barnard College (9) Gettysburg College (4) Rochester Institute of Technology (2) Bates College (1) Goucher College (1) Skidmore College (1) Boston College (1) Green Mountain College (1) St. Joseph’s University (1) Boston University (1) Hamilton College (1) St.