BuildaBridge 2010 Annual Report

BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL

Behold the smiles on these young people's faces. These are the smiles of hope.

These two young people danced for joy and hope in a Haiti orphanage after BuildaBridge Artistson-Call helped leaders and residents clear dangerous debris from the site and develop their first sacred space for play and creativity.

ANNUAL REPORT 2010

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STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Angel was a little girl who constantly needed to be the center of attention and would act out when new kids came to the transitional housing shelter, becoming belligerent and nasty. One day, she was sent into the hallway to reflect on her behavior while the other children continued to learn an African growing dance about seeds. The metaphor of the lesson taught that everyone has the elements they need inside of them, which will germinate if given the right conditions, such as nurturing, love, and empathy. When Angel finally emerged from the hallway, teary-eyed but contrite, she was given the opportunity to do her solo seed dance; this was a moment of redemption, of acceptance and of trying again. At the completion of her dance, Angel collapsed into the teacher’s arms, crying. Her peers, of their own accord, gathered around her and gave her “rain” by fluttering their fingertips all along her curled form. They embraced her and the whole room swayed to the tempo of understanding and forgiveness, of sacrificing for the sake of someone who may not have earned compassion--she had terrorized everyone in the room--but who still needed and deserved it. Every child grasped that her vulnerability created a space for the community to join together and support her, and the dance planted seeds in all of them far surpassing the anticipated outcomes of the lesson plan. - Story from dance class with Magi Ross

CORE PHILOSPHY Our work is:  Arts-integrated  Relational and child-centered  Collaborative  Purposeful and intentional  Contextual  Focused on holistic restorative transformation  Our motto for working with kids is: Speak a Blessing into the life of every child every day through the arts. We define a blessing (a universal principle of good will) as speaking and teaching hope and healing into a child’s future through words of truth & encouragement.

All BuildaBridge programming is child-centered, hope-infused and trauma-informed in order to spur both personal and community transformation through arts-integrated education and intervention. Magira Ross, Director of Community Programs, explains “the most gratifying outcome is to witness that change taking place, the recognition within the child that they can change the world themselves, that they are valued as individuals and as members of their community.” We focus on arts for life’s sake (as opposed to arts for art’s sake). Our first concern is with children and youth and their needs. The creative arts are tools in the capable hands of artist mentors who build relationships with their students. They engage the arts as metaphor for teaching valuable life lessons and skills. The arts are powerful for children in some very concrete terms. BuildaBridge fights poverty through arts-based community development and personal transformation. We call this “arts in restorative transformation” and we integrate this in all of our programs. We recall the story of Angel, who used the art of dance for her personal, restorative transformation within a caring, nurturing and encouraging environment of her peers.

BuildaBridge is motivated to do the work we do out of our commitment to see the most vulnerable of our world's children transformed through the power of relational art-making. In other words, we want kids to grow up to be resilient, healthy, creative, positive, mature, contributing members of society, in spite of the often harsh conditions of poverty.

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2010 YEAR IN REVIEW Administration 2010 was a year of exciting transformation for BuildaBridge. From 2005 to 2010, BuildaBridge grew as an organization thanks to multiple teams of AmeriCorps Vista workers who helped build our internal capacity and fulfill the roles of coordinators, administrative assistants, and associates; and thanks to the full time staff and leadership of our Community Programs by Charlene Melhorn and Anna Murphey, both of whom left BuildaBridge in 2010 and 2009 respectively to pursue Master’s degrees.

In 2010 BuildaBridge hired two full time experienced, qualified and dedicated staff members. The Programs Administrator oversees all programming, volunteer coordination, development, and office administration. The Shelter Liaison position was expanded to coordinate community programming. During this time period, the co-founders committed more of their time to BuildaBridge. In 2009, Dr. Nix-Early (Co-founder & COO) retired from her university deanship and increased her volunteer time from 10 to 30 hours per week.

Co-Founders Drs. Corbitt & Nix-Early present Institute certificates to participants

Children painting a community mural in Mathare Valley, Kenya

Another major step forward for BuildaBridge in 2010 was the establishment of an online assessment tool with funding from the Non-Profit Finance Fund and the Lindback Foundation. In years past, teaching artists completed paper assessments, paper attendance sheets, and had a limited number of places to tell their stories. In alignment with our hopes to streamline technology, go green, and orchestrate an organized system of program observation and assessment accessible to artists everywhere we serve, BuildaBridge launched the Online Assessment in September 2010.

The format of the assessment is based on the BuildaBridge Classroom Model, evaluating the teaching artists’ outcomes in the four goal areas of artistic, academic, social skills and spiritual/character development. This online assessment now allows BuildaBridge to track the assessment and progress of all programs, domestically and internationally.

Our Mission BuildaBridge is a nonprofit arts education and intervention organization that engages the transformative power of the arts to bring hope and healing to children, families and communities in the tough places of the world. BuildaBridge spans barriers of race, class, faith and culture to promote holistic personal, family and community development. Committed to principles of love, compassion, justice, reconciliation and service to others, BuildaBridge motivates, enlists, trains and connects those with artistic gifts to those in greatest need. BuildaBridge offers unique programs featuring cross-cultural perspectives and artsintegrated approaches that are child-centered, trauma-informed and hope-infused.

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Artist-on-Call & Trainer Jill Kane leads a training for 25 artists in Nicaragua

Kenyan Artist-on-Call assists students with a mural during the Diaspora of Hope to Mathare Valley

Artist-on-Call Nechama Tarlow teaches correct fingering to a student learning the recorder at the Haiti Arts Camp

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS BuildaBridge International travels the world to restore hope and healing to communities affected by cultural and religious conflict, environmental catastrophe, poverty, illness, and social injustice. Through its specialized team service projects and arts intervention programs, BuildaBridge International promotes dialogue, understanding, healing, reconciliation, and community development with partners throughout the world. All of BuildaBridge’s international initiatives involve collaborations with local artists and organizations and include the following goals: 

Catalyze local organizations to integrate arts into their programming with children and youth

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Establish networks for organizations and artists seeking to meet the needs of children, youth and communities

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Provide direct service opportunities for those interested in local & international relief & education projects

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Develop and share local resources appropriate to the cultural context

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Build the capacity and sustainability of local organizations by providing personnel resources, training, expanded curriculum, improved administration, and local resources

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Research and document the impact of artists and art-making in the restoration of lives and communities

Artist-on-Call Majalisa Fritzhuspen teaching music to students during the Diaspora of Hope to Guatemala

Artist-on-Call Rachel Windholz makes dance costumes with students out of rice sacks in Haiti.

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Haiti Arts Relief & Development The Haiti Arts Relief and Development (HARD) initiative is an arts intervention and restoration development program that focuses on children in communities of poverty and crisis in Haiti. This initiative works through the strong alliances with individuals and organizations that are involved in the reconstruction and rebuilding efforts in the Republic of Haiti since the January 12, 2010 earthquake that destroyed the capital and surrounding cities and the Cholera disease epidemic that spread throughout the country.

BuildaBridge has made a 10-year commitment to work in Haiti.

After an initial site visit by Drs. Corbitt and Nix-Early in March of 2010, a team of 13 Artists on Call traveled to Haiti in July 2010 and conducted the following in alignment with the Arts Relief and Development Strategy:  Collaborated with two organizations (Louis Pierrot School in

Ponte Sonde and Madame Luc’s orphanage) to provide training and holistic wellness through arts camps to 103 children  Trained 28 Haitian Artists in arts-based methods of psycho-

social support and restoration at North Haiti Christian University  Created a safe space for orphans living among the debris

from their earthquake-ravaged orphanage building

Arts camp participants from BuildaBridge’s alliance, Louis Pierrot School in Ponte Sonde, Haiti

Diaspora of Hope We have learned over the years that children are children wherever they are. They suffer the same problems, respond the same to play and creativity, and deserve the best for their lives. Children, regardless of their culture or social background, respond to our teaching strategies of ritual, structure, restorative discipline, art as metaphor, speaking blessings, and artist as mentor. Children everywhere in the world need hope and healing. Since the inception of DOH in 2007, BuildaBridge has conducted 19 camps in seven countries and three U.S. States.

During 2010, Diaspora of Hope took place in the following locations: Atlanta—collaborated with Refugee Family Services (RFS) in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to provide both training and assistance in direct arts service. Artist-on-Call Sarah Thompson traveled with Dr. Nathan Corbitt to Atlanta in July 2010 and conducted a 2-day training for artists and RFS employees, along with a week-long camp for 75 children.

Montana—collaborated with Northern Cheyenne Tribe in August 2010. Along with Drs. Nix-Early and Corbitt, one Artist-onCall joined three local artists in Lame Deer, Montana, to conduct the Healing Tree Arts for Hope Camp. Children learned of their Northern Cheyenne traditions and culture through visual arts and music with help from master artist J. D. Old Mouse, the official flute maker for the Northern Cheyenne.

Guatemala— partnered with a new Central American alliance, Centro de Alcance. Four Artists-on-Call, each from a different art discipline, traveled to Guatemala City and trained eight teachers and sixteen teaching assistants in Hope curriculum and the BuildaBridge Classroom model. Artists then led a week-long Arts for Hope Camp serving 63 children.

Nairobi, Kenya—Working in conjunction with established BuildaBridge Artist-on-Call Kaylie Sauter, two additional Artists on Call traveled to Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya, to assist with the Arts for Hope camp. Serving over 65 children, the camp has been the result of BuildaBridge’s continued partnership with the Inspiration Center and Strategies for Trans2010 Diaspora of Hope Statistics formation organization for three years in a row.  Locations: Atlanta, Montana, Kenya, Guatemala, Nicaragua—Jill Kane, BuildaBridge’s Harrisburg Liaison, Nicaragua traveled to Nicaragua to enhance the skills capacity of local  Artists on Call volunteers: 19 artists. She trained 25 community workers and artists in utilizing the arts to transform their communities.  Participants served (children + local artists): 300 5

Artist-on-Call Spotlight: Kaylie Sauter In 2010, Kaylie Sauter attended the BuildaBridge Institute, furthering her education and skills in the use of the therapeutic art-making. Kaylie originally committed to work six months with BuildaBridge’s partners in Mathare Valley, Kenya. Her experience in Kenya has been so positive for both herself and the children she teaches, that she decided to extended her stay to one year as of March 2011. Kaylie teaches weekly arts classes for 40 children, engages in artist networking and training, and assists in the coordination of 3 separate Arts for Hope Camps throughout the Nairobi region.

Kaylie presenting arts camp completion certificates to students in Mathare Valley, Kenya

How We Are Like Coil Pots – Blog by Kaylie Sauter, November 2010 I think I like doing sculpture better than painting. First off I think making something 3 dimensional captures the children’s enthusiasm and energy; they are able to both learn the process of mixing the clay as well as how to form the clay after it is mixed; I am able to connect the projects with more meaningful applications; the result of each project is a handmade object, which the children can keep; the possibilities with sculpture is expansive because of the variety of materials that are at our disposal; creativity takes a front seat and it is easy to find inexpensive projects that are very impressive.

Last Saturday was our last salt dough class. My intention with using salt dough clay so much was to introduce the kids to using clay with something simple, yet building their familiarity and skills before going on to other types of clay. We talked about the importance of what is inside of ourselves, as I walked them step-by-step, how to make a coil pot. In reiteration of the previous weeks, I connected ourselves with the clay- unga (flour- the good stuff) and chumvi (salt- the bad stuff)- all mixed up together in one form… ourselves. We start small when we are born and do not hold much knowledge, but as we grow we can hold more and store things inside ourselves. Similarly, you can build up a coil pot and as the pot grows in size it can also hold more inside of it. We brainstormed about what we would want to be inside of each one of us and wrote it on the big piece of brown paper I tape to the wall each week. Here are the words the kids want inside of themselves: faith, joy, peace, laughter, happiness, faith, humility, hope, love. As they patted out a piece of clay for the base of their pot, each chose one word and wrote this on the base with a sharp stick to represent that one thing that they want to be inside of them.

After that I gave them a plastic cup, providing a form to wind the coil around; explaining the importance of scoring each surface before connecting the coils and then blending the coils together so that the pieces of clay do not separate….They got so into this- and are becoming increasingly creative without my prompting! I saw sculpted faces, coil decorations and coffee mug handles on their pots! Once the pots dry they will be ready for painting next week!

The children are maintaining their uniqueness more and thinking independently. At first the children would copy each other’s artwork but now they are learning that their own painting and ideas are valuable enough that they do not have to feel insecure about what they are doing.

Kaylie’s students in front of their community mural in progress, Kenya

“One thing I realized in this class is the children respond so much to positive recognition. As I passed out graduation certificates, one by one and talked about each child's painting who was graduating, the children showed their attention and reverence to the child who was being recognized in a way that is rare in the classroom. And the child who was being praised, even the ones who act up frequently, would stand silent and still because they were proud to be talked about positively and it was like I was able to recognize traits in them, however small, that would then encourage the child to continue moving in the well behaved, good-art-student direction. By naming the good qualities, the children seemed to be motivated to fulfill these predictions.” - Kaylie Sauter 6

Institute attendees participate in a drama skills workshop

Institute attendees discuss and share what they have learned at the Institute

Nancy engages in the broken pot exercise

INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND TRANSFORMATION The BuildaBridge Institute is a training and applied research academy designed to prepare artists, youth workers, community and congregational leaders, teachers, social service professionals, and nonprofit organization personnel to integrate the arts effectively in education, social services and community development. A special one-day Arts Relief course was added in 2010 and constitutes the beginning of a third track training in psychological first aid and the role of the arts in disaster relief.

The 2010 Institute was attended by 43 participants and 24 faculty and staff, over half of whom have participated in previous years. Participants came from Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New York, Guatemala, Haiti, Australia, and Scotland. Since its inception in 2002, the Philadelphia-based Institute has trained over 500 artists and community workers from 14 countries in how to engage the arts in transforamtion for education, community and economic development. The Insititute is also proud of a faculty body of 85 professionals from around the world. Beginning with BuildaBridge's first annual Institute in 2002 and including miniinstitutes conducted around the world, BuildaBridge has trained just under 1,000 artists and community workers.

The 2010 Institute offered two simultaneous tracks along with Skills Development Workshops Drumming, Hip-Hop Studio, Transformational Drama, Cross-Cultural Skills for Community and Overseas Service, Mask Making, and Care for the Caregiver. In four Methods Lab Practicum classes, participants observed Master Teachers in direct arts service with youth and seniors in local shelters and retirement homes. Methods Lab classes included visual arts, drama, dance and music therapy.

2010 Institute Statistics  Participants: 43  Faculty & Staff: 24  Graduate students (4-year old partnership with Eastern University for the M.A. in Urban Studies— Arts in Transformation concentration): 5 To the left: Institute attendees participate in the Arts in Education course held at the BuildaBridge House on the first night of the Institute

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Institute Attendee Spotlight: Nancy Perez Creating alternatives to gang membership in Guatemala Abbreviated from an article written by Henry J. Holcomb, BuildaBridge volunteer Artist-on-Call and board member “Had lunch today with one of my BuildaBridge Institute classmates, Nancy Perez, 27, of Guatemala City in Central America, and heard a story I’ll be thinking about for a very long time. Four years ago she founded an all-volunteer organization called Sonrisas, which means “smile.” It works with children who live in hard neighborhoods ruled by gangs. They come from large families where the younger children are raised by older children. This happened when she was in her early 20s, just out of college with a degree in architecture and a full-time city government job as an urban planner……she won an Italian government scholarship for students in underdeveloped nations and earned a masters degree in urban development from 700-year-old Sapienza, the oldest and largest university in Rome. Back home in Central America she began to use her artistic talent — “I like painting, music and dancing” — to teach the children in the cemetery. She and her friends had no experience in teaching. They showed up every Saturday and did their best to Nancy Perez learning drumming at the Institute share values and form relationships with them. They coordinated with local artists. They helped the children write a play which they presented at Christmas …Now, instead of one-day workshops, they teach four-month courses that allow the students to achieve something. Meanwhile, Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt, president and cofounder of BuildaBridge, was becoming known among people who work with children in Guatemala. He and others from BuildaBridge, including board member Ronald W. Hevey, at the invitation of local officials, had taken the BuildaBridge program inside a local prison to help transform young lives. One thing led to another and Ms. Perez learned about BuildaBridge and decided to come here to partici“You will be exposed to ideas, pate in our annual Institute…Before she came she already knew what she wanted concepts and training you didn't to do. She wants to strengthen and articulate what she and her five-member volknow you needed but will be very unteer board are doing with 110 children so they can replicate it in many highglad you have obtained by the end of the conference. “ risk neighborhoods.

2010 Institute Alumnus

“We have a vision. We want to create a workable model we can repeat over and over,” she said.

She wants to work toward ending the class system in Guatemala. “Our higher and lower classes are very segregated. Some people don’t even know about the poverty we have,” she said. “I don’t think we can make progress as a nation if we don’t come together as one people, one community.”

BuildaBridge has been very helpful, she said, helping her develop ways to not just teach artistic skills. She now sees ways to use the arts as a metaphor for life, a way to teach skills that allow children to develop hope and skills to implement their hopes.

When they get older and the gangs try to recruit them, we want to give them values and skills so “they won’t choose that life because they have experienced other things.”

Being here for the institute is much more than a training course that sends her home with a head and notebook full of ideas and skills. It is the beginning of a long-term mentoring relationship with BuildaBridge.”

Nancy Perez leading a class of children in Guatemala

“I'm a photographer and spent a whole year at a cultural center in Nicaragua teaching photography to kids and I utilized lots of skills I learned from BuildaBridge in the classroom including activities to get kids to participate and ideas for helping them to think creatively.”

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Teaching Artist Andrew Christman leads children in a community mural at a transitional shelter

Students in front of their Discovery class’ artwork

Student draws what she sees in nature during Artology

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS BuildaBridge Community provides arts-integrated intervention and education to children and families in underserved communities. In collaboration with local schools, community centers, transitional homes, and religious congregations in Philadelphia, BuildaBridge Community delivers creative arts educational experiences, and therapeutic intervention through art-making in music, drama, dance, creative writing, visual arts, and culinary arts as metaphor to teach life and social skills, character building and academic skills. BuildaBridge has 3 Philadelphia community programs: Discovery, Artology and Healing.

A core concept of BuildaBridge's work is the use of art-making as metaphor to build self confidence and strengthen personal life skills such as conflict resolution and problem solving.

BuildaBridge Community Programs:  Give children a voice through artistic expression  Train every volunteer, artist, and shelter worker to act as a role model and mentor who demonstrates love, com-

passion, community, and a vision for the child's future  Provide consistent and quality arts programming for children to meet state education standards for arts education  Offer stability, structure and safety to children living in chaotic environments  Recruit volunteers who can meet the growing demand for additional programs in transitional homes  Train parents, through our Healing Place curriculum, to recognize trauma in their children and continue the devel-

opment and provision of arts therapy services in select transitional contexts  Develop an on-site arts-education Community Studio to be constructed behind BuildaBridge offices  Develop and implement full time after school programming in Germantown for school-aged youth

2010 Community Statistics Artology 2010  Students served: 62  Staff: 15  Volunteers: 30

Discovery 2010 Winter & Spring  Students Served: 260  Volunteer Assistants = 20  Teaching Artists = 8 9

Discovery 2010 Fall  Students Served: 123  Volunteer assistants = 7  Teaching artists = 7

Discovery The 2010 program was funded in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Children’s Homeless Initiative of the School District of Philadelphia and was offered at the following sites: Dignity Housing, Jane Addams Place, St. Barnabas Mission, Project Rainbow, Peoples Emergency Center, Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association, and Women Against Abuse.

Discovery served students who were: 

61% Female, 39% Male

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86% African-American, 12% Hispanic, 2% Caucasian

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94% from families with incomes of $20,000 or less ; 50% from families receiving food stamps

Water garden art installation in an abandoned lot on Clearview Street.

BuildaBridge serves 350-400 youth annually in Philadelphia, totaling 2,745 since the year 2000

Artology

Artology Pre and Post test results:

Artology sparks students’ curiosity through a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum of art and science and utilizing Philadelphia's park system as its interactive classroom. The camp serves low income students from BuildaBridge’s partner sites in North, West, and North West Philadelphia. Artology 2010 focused on water as a theme of exploration and the program grew from 5 to 7 weeks (4 weeks for grades 6-8 and 3 weeks for grades 4-5). Participation increased from 41 to 64 students, a 56% increase. 23% of the participants were returning students from previous years. 41% of students had perfect or near perfect (only missing one day) attendance.

6-8th graders showed significant change in 6 out of 7 “Internal Locus of Control Questions” on the Pre/ Post Test

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93% of students demonstrated overall positive change from pre to post test.

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Both grades tested an average 41% positive change in both science and art knowledge

Growth Highlights:  Program expanded from 5 to 7 weeks

Artology served students who were:

 Increased participation from 41 in 2009 to 62 in 2010

 48% female, 52% male

(56% increase)

 86% African American

 First registration waitlist for 6-8th grades.

 83% from families at

 Added community project partners Tookany, Tacony-

Frankford Watershed, to create a water garden and host a reception where students served as both artists and “tour guides” for neighbors and parents.

or below Federal Poverty Level or from lowincome households

 More than doubled revenue support from $43,600 to

 25% coping with

$94,464 (increase of 117%)

homelessness

Water garden installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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 New funding from Philadelphia Cultural Fund and

Artology is offered free of charge, allowing many students to attend who would not be able to otherwise take advantage of quality summer programming.

BNY Mellon Charitable Trust  Increased final art show participation at the Philadel-

phia Museum of Art from 36% in 2009 to 62% in 2010  The Philadelphia Museum of Art camp closing and

exhibit opening attendance increased from 100 in 2009 to 200 students, family, friends, staff, and public in 2010.

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PRIORITY GOALS As BuildaBridge looks to the new decade, our priorities will be: 

Board enhancement and engagement

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Succession and long-range planning

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Increased donor support – moving toward 70% individual donor support from the current 8

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Engaging professional level volunteers

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Creating a virtual technology infrastructure to support development, volunteer (Artists on Call) management, accounting, training, and alliances

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Developing the BuildaBridge Institute Online to enhance and expand the training of community arts workers in Philadelphia and abroad

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Increase our alliance partners for education, training and service

Total Number of 2010 Volunteer Hours: 8,170.25 Using the Independent Sector* hourly volunteer rate of $21.36, the BuildaBridge estimated dollar value for volunteer time in 2010: $174,516.54.

ALLIANCES While much of our effort focuses on direct service to children, an equally important part of our strategy is partnering with organizations working consistently among the poor.

2010 COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR DISCOVERY, ARTOLOGY & HEALING: People’s Emergency Center Women Against Abuse Lutheran Settlement House/ Jane Addams Place Drueding Center/ Project Rainbow Episcopal Community Services/ St. Barnabas Mission Dignity Housing Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Assoc.

Woodstock Family Center Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network Second Baptist Church of Germantown Art-Reach Lucien Crump Gallery Tookany, Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Inc. Philadelphia Museum of Art Drexel University’s Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program Germantown Community Connection West Central Germantown Neighbors

Total Number of 2010 Volunteers: 85 *http://www.independentsector.org/ volunteer_time

INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES: Inspiration Center (Nairobi, Kenya) Center for Transforming Mission (Guatemala & Kenya) Practical Compassion (Haiti) Sonrisas (Guatemala) La Limonada (Guatemala) Refugee Family Services (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Atlantic Bridge (Netherlands)

INSTITUTE PARTNERS: Eastern University MA in Urban Studies program Bryn Mawr College Artists-on-Call gather for a training 11

BUILDABRIDGE STAFF 2010 Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt Dr. Vivian Nix-Early Danielle Dembrosky Magira Ross

Student draws during Artology camp

President and CEO, Co-Founder COO, Co-Founder Programs Administrator Community Programs Coordinator/Shelter Liaison & Master Teaching Artist

Karen Vaccaro Kent Kissinger

Program Coordinator Accountant

Mharyln Merritt Kim Jupinka Magyar Alina Tudose Maeva Renaud Ripley Robinson John Austin Kari Reed Rebekah Leeper Andrew Christman Gina Ferrera Chiwishi Abney Angela Watson Mindy Flexer Brandi Jeter Danielle Boyer-Graves Camille Edwards Sarah Thompson Maritza Ogarro Julie Rosen

Development Associate, AmeriCorps Vista Office Assistant, AmeriCorps Vista Institute Coordinator Haiti Arts Relief Marketing & Development Liaison Webmaster IT Specialist Graphic Designer Graphic Designer Visual Arts Teaching Artist Drumming Teaching Artist Culinary Arts Teaching Artist Dance Teaching Artist Visual Arts Teaching Artist Drama Teaching Artist Culinary Arts Teaching Artist Drama & Creative Writing Teaching Artist Photography & Visual Arts Teaching Artist Hip Hop Dance Teaching Artist Visual Arts Teaching Artist

BOARD MEMBERS Cheryl Wade (2006-2013) Board Chair Director for Philanthropy The Kendal Corporation

Lisa Jordan (2010-2013) Attorney Berner Klaw & Watson LLP

Ronald W. Hevey, Sr. (2007-2014) Artist, Retired DEC Executive

Diane Robertson (2007-2010) Director of Health Technology Assessment ECRI Institute

Bill Davis (2008-2011) Logistics Specializing in Public Health Doctors Without Borders Charles Holmes, CPA (2009-2012) Managing Partner Holmes & Company, LLC Henry Holcomb (2008-2011) Journalist & Strategist Retired staff writer and editor The Philadelphia Inquirer Retired President Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia

Carla Romarte-Knipel (2007-2010) Interim Ministry Specialist American Baptist Churches Board Member and Secretary American Baptist Historical Society David Knipel (2007-2013) Legal Council & Interim Ministry Specialist American Baptist Churches Saman Khan (2010-2014) Eighth Grade English Teacher World Communication Charter School 12

PRINCIPALS Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt (2000-Present) President and Co-Founder BuildaBridge International Professor of Urban Studies Eastern University Dr. Vivian Nix-Early (2000-Present) COO and Co-Founder BuildaBridge International Former Dean of Students School for Social Change at Eastern University

FINANCIAL REPORT

1%

11%

Total Income: $427,009

8% Contributions $35,163

8%

Grant Income $172,042

3%

Program Income $121,030

Registration Fees/Rental $14,021

40%

International Trip Income $35,494 In-kind contributions $47,365

29%

Miscellaneous $1,894

Total Expenses: $409,028 Administration 14%

Total Number of Individual Donors: 327 Community Sub-programs as a % of Total Community Programs Expenses

Institute 12% International 12%

Community 62%

Discovery

71.9%

Artology

27.5%

Healing

.6%

SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONS INTERNATIONAL Huston Foundation

COMMUNITY—Discovery $5,000

COMMUNITY - Artology

Volpe & Koenig Foundation

$10,000

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Youth Initiative Grant

$50,000

Lincoln Financial Foundation

$5,000

National Endowment for the Arts

$20,000

Sharone Lee Garvin Fund

$2,800

School District of Philadelphia Office of Specialized Services

$75,000

Douty Foundation

$2,500

ADMINISTRATION

The Adam & Maria Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls Allen Hilles Fund

$4,000

United Way Agenda for Solutions

$4,000

Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Support Community Outreach Program (SCOP), City Dept. of Human Services American Baptist Home Mission

$5,000

$2,500

$10,000

The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Wayne Presbyterian Church

BNY Mellon

$10,000

Lindback Foundation for the Artist Mentor Online Training Non-Profit Finance Fund Capacity Building Grant with Technical Assistance Technology/On-line Institute

$3,000

PWDC Work Force Development City ARRA Funds

$2,919

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$2,500 $11,016

$7,000

$30,000