20 08 The New York City Coalition Against Hunger’s Annual Report
Front page photo: Families on line to receive pantry bags of food at Saint Benedict-the-Moor’s Neighborhood Center located in one of the most densely populated and poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx. ŠMay 2009
moving fam i l i e s beyond th e soup k i tch e n
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents the more than 1,200
non-profit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the more than 1.3 million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to meet the immediate food needs of low-income New Yorkers and enact innovative solutions to help them move “beyond the soup kitchen� to self-sufficiency. For more information about the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, visit www.nyccah.org.
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dear Friends, As you well know, this is a challenging time in New York and the nation. But while Wall Street had its fortunes temporarily decline in 2008, it’s New York City’s working families, including children, who have most been harmed by the soaring joblessness and poverty. More parents than any time in decades were forced to make decisions about whether to pay rent or purchase milk for their babies. This also means New York’s food pantries and soup kitchens were serving 28% more people in 2008 than in 2007. With the increased demand for emergency food, over 68% of New York’s food pantries and soup kitchens had to turn people away or otherwise ration food because they lacked the resources to fulfill the growing demand. All of this together means that anti-hunger related policies were even more critical in 2008 than in years past and the Coalition Against Hunger continued to rise to the occasion to be at the forefront of the anti-hunger policy debates. And we won major policy victories, many which are listed on page 41. We’ve made tremendous progress in the past year and hope we can count on your continued support in the fight to ensure that all New Yorkers have the resources to provide food for their families and to move beyond the soup kitchen towards economic independence. Sincerely,
Joel S. Berg executive director
daniel B. Ripps Chair, Board of directors
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a d v o cat e 7 Interfaith Voices Against Hunger (IVAH) 9 Policy Research & Development Project 10 Communications Initiative
c o nn e ct 13 Emergency Food Action Center 15 Benefits Access Program 17 Farm Fresh Produce Project
engage 21 AmeriCorps*VISTA Program 22 AmeriCorps State Program 23 Volunteer Matching Center 25 Craig Murphey Fellowship
f i nanc i a l stat u s 27 Revenue & Expenses 29 Statement of Activities 31 Public & Private Funding 33 Donors
Y e ar - at- a - g l anc e 41 Highlights from the Year 42 Events
W h o w e ar e 45 Board of Directors 46 Staff
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Photo from our Faces of Hunger photo collection. Visit www.nyccah.org/faces/index.html to see more.
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En g a g i n g p antr i e s & k i tch e ns i n ant i - h u n g e r p o l i cy d e bat e s & c o mm u n i ty act i o n
i nt e rfa i th v o i c e s a g a i nst h u n g e r
Realizing that the anti-hunger movement is only as strong as the anti-hunger policies governing it, the New York City Coalition
Against Hunger’s community-based organizing and advocacy program has worked to engage religious and civic leaders, people of diverse faiths, and food pantry and soup kitchen clients themselves in advocating for effective policies to alleviate hunger and poverty in New York City. Through our Empowering others newly expanded Community Action Board (CAB) program, we have worked to engage and empower low-income people to improve and evaluate agency operations and to actively engage in anti-hunger policy issues. At the City level, this past year, the Coalition Against Hunger worked successfully with the Bloomberg Administration and City officials to start an in-classroom breakfast pilot project Fought for in-school which the Administration recently pledged to expand to over breakfast program 250 schools. By bringing the breakfast meals directly into the classroom rather than forcing low-income children to eat in a separate room, this program increases participation, improves education, reduces tardiness and absenteeism and brings millions of extra federal dollars into the City’s economy. The Coalition also testified separately before the following New York City Council Committees: General Welfare, Education and Health, Community Development, Civil Rights and Consumer Affairs. In these testimonies, the Coalition highlighted the importance of expanding the in-classroom breakfast program, eliminating barriers to food stamps (especially the finger-imaging requirement), and committing to comprehensive policies at the city level that would increase low-income communities’ ability to access living wage jobs and affordable housing.
Increased access The Coalition helped spur Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City to fresh produce Council Speaker Christine Quinn to implement a new Green Carts Initiative to bring fresh produce vendors/supermarkets into low-income areas, which has significantly increased access to fresh produce in these areas of the City. At the State level, the Coalition successfully urged Governor Paterson to reverse most of the state funding cuts to the
Executive Director Joel Berg, joined leading elected officials (left to right: Kevin Concannon, USDA Under Secretary for Food, Consumer, and Nutrition Services, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Councilman Bill DeBlasio, Senator Charles Schumer, and Donna Smith, State Program Director of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service) on 9/11 to call attention to the growing issue of hunger in the City and urge more effective volunteer actions to combat it.
Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (HPNAP), Increased state a fund which helps food pantries and soup kitchens provide funding of HPNAP more nutritious food to hungry families and provided detailed suggestions to him about concrete ways to expand and improve utilization of food stamp and child nutrition benefits throughout the state.
Mobilized efforts for At the federal level, the Coalition mobilized community-based Federal Farm Bill organizations and elected officials to successfully play a critical role in efforts to ensure that the Federal Economic Recovery Bill included an historic $20 billion extra in anti-hunger aid. Perhaps most importantly, NYCCAH laid out a comprehensive plan to end childhood hunger by 2015. In the next year, the Coalition will work at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure this goal remains a priority in the policy agenda.
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PO l i cy r e s e arch & D e v e l o p m e nt
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Only in New York City, and with organizations such as the Coalition, does so little money do so much. - The Community Food and Nutrition Report
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As the economy continued its precipitous decline in 2008, more
New Yorkers were forced to join the lines at food pantries and soup kitchens at the same time as more emergency food programs reported being hit by funding cuts. In the New York City Coalition Against Hunger’s Annual Hunger Charting current hunger trends Survey* entitled No Bailout for the Hungry: Funding Slashed to Emergency Food Providers as Hunger in NYC Continues to Soar, emergency food providers reported serving 28% more people in 2008 than they had in the previous year. As a result of the influx of people needing emergency food, 68.8% of emergency food agencies in 2008 - up from 59% in 2007 - reported that they did not have enough food to fulfill demand. At the same time as agencies reported skyrocketing need for their programs, they experienced budget cuts on the federal, state, and city levels. In 2008, 72.3% of responding agencies reported a decrease in government money and food in the past year and 70.8% of them reported an overall decrease in money and food in the past year. The report is an effective tool in the Coalition’s ongoing anti-hunger advocacy and policy work and provides the Building awareness about necessary data to support the need for increased funding and the hunger need support of emergency feeding programs in New York City. It is also the single most cited hunger research report each year by New York City’s media and elected officials. *The full survey report is available at www.nyccah.org.
c o mm u n i cat i o ns i n i t i at i v e
Interfaith Voices Against Hunger organizer, Ali Yannias, speaks with radio station WFUV about the importance of empowering New Yorkers to advocate on behalf of their community’s hungry in a press event at a Harlem soup kitchen.
To effectively communicate the hunger issue to the community, NYCCAH’s Communications Initiative uses mass media, the Internet, newsletters, and other creative ways of message delivery to advance its development, anti-hunger policy and advocacy agenda. As a result of our consistent and persistent communication of the urgent needs of the 1.3 million people without enough food in New York City, NYCCAH was highlighted in a total of 97 media citations in the past yearincluding 21 national and 76 local placements. To inform anti-hunger advocates, the network of food pantries and soup kitchens, and the greater New York community about hunger and the concrete ways they can help address it, NYCCAH provides comprehensive information through our website (www.nyccah.org) which features a “Hunger Blog” on hunger-related news items, as well as the fully automated volunteer match system, which links individuals and groups of volunteers to one of the 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries in the City. Through our use of Web 2.0 technology, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and our monthly electronic newsletter Hunger Headlines, we constantly seek to expand our message to new audiences of supporters.
Interested in receiving up-to-date hunger news? Go to www.nyccah.org
Photo from our Faces of Hunger photo collection. Visit www.nyccah.org/faces/index.html to see more.
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C o nn e ct i n g r e s o u rc e s t o p antr i e s & k i tch e ns thr o u g h c o mm u n i ty a l l i anc e s , c o ns u l t i n g services & C o mm u n i ty s u p p o rt e d A g r i c u lt u r e p r o g rams
e m e r g e ncy f o o d act i o n c e nt e r
Ari Briski and Karl Bradley, AmeriCorps VISTAs with NYCCAH, support Manhattan’s Nourishing Kitchen soup kitchen by tabling at a Skills-based Volunteer Orientation Session.
In 2008, the Emergency Food Action Center helped build the capacity of over 250 charitable food agencies by providing free
of cost one-on-one and multi-agency technical assistance workshops to help these agencies improve their programs and operations. The program provided hard-pressed and underresourced food pantries and soup kitchens throughout New York City’s five boroughs with outreach and comprehensive technical assistance on issues related to fundraising, financial and project management, nutrition education, technology, client services, and board and project development.
Strengthening infrastructures This assistance helped emergency food programs strengthen their infrastructures in order to provide more and better quality food to those in need, as well as to connect the over 1.3 million people forced to depend on them for food with public benefits and long-term solutions to move them toward economic selfsufficiency. Providing technical assistance The program also helped organize over ten NYCCAH sponsored neighborhood-based networks of pantries and kitchens which are successfully bringing together Emergency Food Programs (EFP) for regular meetings to coordinate
NYCCAH’s advocacy team, pictured above with clients of Bronx soup kitchens and food pantries involved in NYCCAH’s Community Action Board project, after testifying before a listening session of United States Department of Agriculture on how to meet President Obama’s goal of ending child hunger in the U.S. by 2015.
services, harmonize hours of operations, and plan joint operational activities, such as Community Supported Agriculture projects and unified client tracking systems. In conjunction with the AmeriCorps*VISTA program, NYCCAH has helped these agencies secure funding to hold events such as nutrition classes and hunger awareness block parties and strengthen their outreach to the community.
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6 b e n e f i ts A cc e ss p r o g ram
With the reality that over 500,000 New Yorkers are eligible for food stamps (now also known as SNAP, the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program), but not receiving them, the Benefits Access Program helps pantries and kitchens connect their clients with public benefit programs including Food
Our Benefits Outreach Consultant, Jen Kirby, pre-screens a potential food stamp applicant at a Paperless Office System Project site in Brooklyn. By the end of 2008, over 2,600 New Yorkers applied for food stamps - with over 2,200 receiving benefits - through P.O.S..
Stamps; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits; School Meals; Summer Meals; and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), each of which greatly increases their clients’ access to affordable, nutritious food.
Coordinated outreach As of the end of 2008, through the Food Stamps Paperless & pre-screenings Office System (POS) Project - a partnership between NYCCAH, the City of New York, the Food Bank for New York City and six host food pantries and soup kitchens – over 2,600 low-income New Yorkers have applied for food stamps online at pantries and kitchens with over 2,200 receiving benefits.
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Please convey my thanks to Jen Kirby for her gentle, delightful and effective shepherding. In approximately 50 minutes Jen completed the entire food stamp application and arranged the telephone appointment with HRA. The process was not only painless, but pleasurable. I have received and am using my EBT card. Appreciatively, Pelda Levey, November 2008
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As a citywide partner in the United Way of New York City’s Food Card Access Project, NYCCAH identifies appropriate sites throughout the city where community-based groups can inform individuals of their potential eligibility for food stamps through pre-screenings and, if desired, schedule appointments at a local food stamps office. In 2008, NYCCAH helped to coordinate outreach and pre-screening at over 200 sites, including health clinics, schools, libraries, supermarkets, senior centers and banks as well as soup kitchens and food pantries.
Connected New NYCCAH has performed extensive outreach through the Yorkers to food aid creation and distribution of neighborhood-specific, comprehensive guides to local food resources, including detailed lists of local emergency feeding sites and food stamps and WIC offices. Some versions of these ‘Street Sheets’ have been translated into Spanish and Chinese and have proven effective in increasing the participation of income-eligible New Yorkers in public benefit programs – with emphasis on the Food Stamps Program. In 2008, NYCCAH distributed over 75,000 of these Street Sheets, covering 14 distinct New York City neighborhoods, to over 300 community-based agencies and organizations. NYCCAH’s outreach and advocacy work played a lead role in increasing enrollment in the Food Stamps Program by 147,000 people in New York City between January and December 2008, giving low-income New Yorkers more than $213 million extra per year in food purchasing power.
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F arm fr e sh p r o d u c e p r o j e ct
With the firm belief that nutritious food is not a luxury that should only be available to upper- and middle-income New Yorkers, the Coalition
Against Hunger worked with Just Food, the United Way of New York City, and Hunger Action Network of New York State to expand the Farm Fresh Produce Project to a second site in 2008. A citywide program model connecting small farms with low-, middle-, and upperincome New Yorkers, the program is increasing the consumption of fresh New York State-grown produce in targeted neighborhoods, by enabling low-income residents to obtain the produce free or with their food stamp benefits and enabling other residents to purchase the produce at market rates. The centerpiece of the program is a unique Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model which distributes both institutional shares of fresh produce to pantries and kitchens as well as family shares, a third of which are received by low-income people using food stamp benefits and scholarships. In 2008, the two sites in West Harlem and Long Island City distributed a total of over 55,000 pounds of fresh produce, exceeding program expectations. After evaluating these outcomes, the project partners collaborated closely with local farmers, community organizations, and emergency food providers to expand the program to a third neighborhood in Brooklyn and will continue to expand in the next year.
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I loved participating in the CSA. My family loved the fresh, organic produce and being introduced to a greater variety of vegetables then we would normally eat. I was also glad to participate in a program that provided fresh produce to a low-income community. - Michele, Long Island City CSA
ABOVE: The West Harlem CSA members, one of which is pictured above with a leaf of collard green, have volunteered a total of over 10,000 hours of their time to keep the CSA in operation and in community activities in the past two and a half years. Today there are approximately 98 households receiving vegetable shares at this CSA. Last year a total of 9,020 pounds of fresh, organic vegetables were delivered to families participating in the CSA. LEFT: West Harlem CSA members enjoy their tour of Cascade HIlls, the local farm that supplies their monthly shares of fresh, affordable produce, during their annual farm trip.
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Photo from our Faces of Hunger photo collection. Visit www.nyccah.org/faces/index.html to see more.
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e n g a g i n g th e c o mm u n i ty i n th e f i g ht t o end hunger
am e r i c o r p s * VI S T A p r o g ram
Molly Leimontas, a 2008 VISTA Alum who served at East New York’s Bishop Cook Center Food Pantry, visits a local farm that provides fresh, affordable produce to low-income New Yorkers.
The AmeriCorps*VISTA Program is a federally-funded program that
places full-time developing leaders at pantries and kitchens in all five boroughs of New York City for a one-year term of service. VISTA members provide full-time capacity building assistance to improve the daily operations of host agencies Building capacity at and organize cooperative neighborhood networks to confront kitchens & pantries hunger and poverty in their communities.
Each VISTA member works closely with their host agencies to develop administrative and programmatic infrastructure and to build the capacity to meet both the short- and long-term needs of the low-income New Yorkers the agencies serve. VISTA members assist with the coordination and facilitation of Neighborhood Networks, which allow feeding agencies to Training future come together to share ideas, collaborate on joint projects, anti-hunger leaders and strategize on new initiatives to fight hunger. In 2008, VISTA members recruited and coordinated over 570 unpaid community volunteers who have served a total of over 1,800 hours, secured over $71,000 in grant funding, and over $151,000 of in-kind donations.
A m e r i c o r p s * stat e p r o g ram
2008-2009 All Saint’s Roman Catholic Church Food Pantry VISTA Sites Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Cook Center for Human Services Brooklyn Rescue Mission Child Development Support Corporation Episcopal Charities Family Life Development Center Father’s Heart Ministries St. John’s Bread & Life United Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood
In 2008, NYCCAH placed 26 national service participants in full- or part-time service at food pantries, soup kitchens, and anti-poverty organizations throughout New York City. The AmeriCorps team complements the capacity-building work of the VISTA members by providing services that are essential to keeping these hard-pressed agencies operating on a day-to-day basis and to make sustainable impact on these agencies. The members work closely with grassroots agencies to provide direct service to, recruit volunteers for, and develop community resources to build the capacity of these organizations. Each of these program goals strengthens the work of the anti-hunger movement in the City by providing on-site assistance to these agencies. In addition, the program develops young leaders to be more aware of, sensitive to, and involved in anti-hunger work. In 2008, 26 AmeriCorps members have served a total of 11,541 hours, recruited 792 volunteers who served 8,003 hours, and distributed 58,544 pantry bags to 42,575 people.
AmeriCorps Service Day, South Bronx
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v o l u nt e e r match i n g c e nt e r
Gina Puzzanghera, Executive Director of the Nourishing Kitchen in Spanish Harlem, shares her cooking skills with a volunteer-in-training.
To tap into New York City’s highly valuable skilled volunteers,
the Volunteer Matching Center annually links over a thousand volunteers with food pantries and soup kitchens in need of assistance. Not only do these volunteers help agencies grow, create new programs, strengthen existing programs, and Matching need introduce new and innovative methods to help clients move with assistance towards self-sufficiency, but the volunteers also experience hunger in a new way, by personally interacting with the individuals in need of food and the needs of these hard-working agencies. Through NYCCAH’s newly launched, fully-automated volunteer matching site (nyccah.org/volunteermatching), we mobilize community action through the volunteer matching feature which allows volunteers to search for opportunities by zip code, subway line, area of specialization, and date and time availability. The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Serve-a-Thon event is one of the highlights of the Volunteer Matching Center, when NYCCAH coordinates a three-day citywide event to connect volunteers to Coordinating annual projects at food pantries and soup kitchens around New York. MLK Serve-a-Thon Volunteers spend the weekend cleaning, painting, packing pantry bags, and distributing food stamps materials to grocery store customers. This year over 400 volunteers celebrated the 5th Annual Serve-A-Thon by contributing 1,800 volunteer hours to 30 soup kitchens and food pantries across the City.
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A MLK Serve-a-Thon volunteer helps clean a soup kitchen and afterschool program, Abounding Grace, that serves low-income families in the Lower East Side.
cra i g m u r p h e y f e l l o wsh i p f u n d
Craig worked tirelessly to ensure that all New Yorkers - especially the 1 in 5 children without enough food - have access to fresh, local, affordable food.
Through the Craig Murphey Fellowship fund NYCCAH commemorates the life of Craig Murphey – a strongly committed anti-hunger advocate who served as a community organizer with NYCCAH and who tragically passed away in a bicycle accident in Brooklyn in October 2007. Continuing Craig’s commitment to the anti-hunger and community organizing movements, NYCCAH established the Craig Murphey Fellowship Fund to support a fellowship program focused on anti-hunger, community-based work. The first Craig Murphey fellow, Michael Paone, worked in 2008 throughout the West Harlem area to organize the community around anti-hunger issues and to build awareness about the 1.3 million people throughout New York City who live in homes that don’t have enough nutritious food for their families. During his fellowship, Michael coordinated a West Harlem-based Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) which connected a local New York farmer’s fresh produce to West Harlem residents by making it highly accessible and offering affordable pricing options (including food stamps) so that all socioeconomic levels are able to participate in the program. Through community meetings, Michael was able to continue Craig’s legacy of motivating the community to actively engage in the social-justice issues facing our community.
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F i nanc i a l s :
T h e f i nanc i a l s u p p o rt e rs wh o ma k e th e s e ant i - h u n g e r p r o g rams p o ss i b l e . . .
r e v e n u e & e x p e ns e s *
Total Revenue FY08
Individual Donations & Miscellaneous Income 10% Religious organizations 5% Corporations 9% Public Funding 44% Private Foundations 32%
Total Expenses FY08
Program Expenses 82% Management & General 11%
Fundraising 7%
Total
Total Revenue Public Funding
$ 593,652
Private Foundations
444,813
Corporations
126,194
Religious Organizations
67,087
Individual Donations & Miscellaneous Income
Total Revenue Fiscal Year 2008
138,046 $ 1,369,792
Total Expense $ 966,241
Program Expenses
Management & General
Fundraising
131,618 78,942
Total Expense fiscal year 2008
$ 1,176,801
*from January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008
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Contract services Grants and contributions
Total
Revenues and support from operations:
Temporarily Restricted
Unrestricted
stat e m e nt o f act i v i t i e s *
$ 713,850
-
$ 713,850
302,713
347,129
649,842
Investment income
2,128
-
2,128
Other income
3,972
-
3,972
1,022,663
347,129
1,369,792
Satisfaction of program restrictions
91,453
(91,453)
-
Satisfaction of time restrictions
20,000
(20,000)
-
Total revenues and support from operations 1,134,116
235,676
1,369,792
966,241
-
966,241
131,618
-
131,618
78,942
-
78,942
1,176,801
-
1,176,801
(42,685)
235,676
192,991
231,445
-
231,445
Total
Net assets released from restrictions:
Operating expenses: Program services
Supporting services: Management and general Fundraising Total operating expenses Change in net assets Net assets, beginning of year as prev. reported Prior period adjustments Net assets, beginning of year, restated
Net assets, end of year
19,922
10,000
29,922
251,367
10,000
261,367
$ 208,682
245,676
454,358
Total
stat e m e nt o f f i nanc i a l s *
Assets Cash and cash equivalents
$ 172,183 94,245
Contracts receivable
Grants and contributions receivable
173,088 7,918
Prepaid expenses
Security deposit
Property and equipment, net
447,434
Total current assets
6,498 11,965 465,897
Total assets
l i ab i l i t i e s & n e t ass e ts Current liabilities:
11,539
Account payable and accrued expenses
11,539
Total liabilities
Net Assets: Unrestricted
208,682
245,676
Temporarily restricted
Total net assets
Total liabilities and net assets
454,358 $ 465,897
*1 January 2008 - 31 December 2008
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Pr i v at e f u n d e rs
Corporate All Island Signs and Lighting
Altria Group Apollo Real Estate Management Bridge Between, Inc. Delta Resources, Inc. Designs by ... Masque East Side Entrees, Inc. GMAC Financial Services MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings , Inc. Moody’s Investors Service Murphey & Associates Sales, Inc Palmer Asphalt Company Pocantico Resources Inc. Quartet Financial Systems, Inc. Troutman Sanders LLP
Foundations & Agnes Gund Foundation Other Private Funders Altman Foundation
Cathedral of St. John the Divine Catholic Charities Central Synagogue Church of Pentecost USA, Inc. Common Cents New York, Inc. Congregation Shaare Zedek FGE Food & Dietician/Nutrition Team PLLC Green Guerillas Hunger Action Network New York State The Hyde and Watson Foundation Independence Community Foundation Jewish Communal Fund Kirkland & Ellis Foundation MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger New York City Association of Hotel Con. New York Community Trust Public Health Solutions Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Scherman Foundation, Inc Share Our Strength Shore Family Foundation Inc. Trinity Church Wall Street United Way of New York City Varnum DeRose Charitable Trust
p u b l i c f u n d e rs
public funders Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Assemblymember Richard N. Gottfried City Councilmember Annabel Palma City Councilmember Helen D. Foster Council on the Environment of New York City Federal Corporation for National and Community Services - AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps*VISTA Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer New York City Council NYC Human Resources Administration/Dept. of Social Services-Paperless Office System State Senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr. State Senator Liz Krueger
d o n o rs $1,000+ Dana Buchman & Thomas Farber James A. Coyle Kerry Eschwie Richard Foley Beatrice & Lloyd Frank Dahlia Garza Roy Goodman Lyssa Ichikawa & Craig Murphey Friends Lauren & Joel Jacob Mamie Kanfer Jeffrey Katrencik Erika Lapinskas Alix McAlpine & Craig Murphey Friends Matt McQuade & Lehman Brothers Employees Angello Monello Janice & Robert Murphey Lee Neibart Christina Pak Daniel B. Ripps Gail & Judah Schorr Cecile & Jerry Shore Diana L. Taylor Lisa S. Villareal Adam Wolfensohn Naomi R. Wolfensohn
$500+ Rabbi Julia Andelman
Valerie Boucard & Fernand Sirvent Cathy & James Boyd Mary & Timothy Brosnan Dan Chung Gemma George William Greenblatt Daniel John Havlik Kerri Jackson Adina Konikoff Robyn Neff Julianne Rana Kenneth D. Reichel
Deborah Rieders Betty Schoen Maureen Sheehan Natalia Sucre Sidney Sutter Nancy A. Tomaselli
$150+ Anisa Alhilali
Morgan Altobello Bruce Amedick Michael N. Balsamo, Esq. Nancy Banks Heather Barc Heather Barnard Christine Barnes Bernard Berner Linda Blumberg Karen Bowen Karen Brenner & Robert Stein Elizabeth Fisher & Jeremy Brown Richard Byers Peter Calandra Gerald Calder Nika Carlson Emily Conner Christopher Cox Dante Dincecco Matthew Doheny Jennifer Eduardo Stephen Facey Ellen & Michael Funck Deborah Gaffin Molly Garber Lorenzo Geroso Patsy Glazer Eliot B. Goldstein Lynn Greene Andrew Holm Deborah Hsieh Aziz Huq
Arlene Katz Nichols & Jeffrey Nichols Robert & Debra Kauffman Gail & Kevin Kelly Sara Kennedy Robert L. Krulak Elizabeth S. Lara Leslie Larson Marcia Larson Margaret & Wallace Larson Evelyn S. Lipori Susan Littwin Marjorie A. Malan Patricia Malin Andrea Masley Neil Mayle Marie & Charles Miller Mark A. Misener & Stephen P. Cohen Lisa Nesser Robert Peavey Lewis Polishook Sal Portillo Jennie & David Rosenn Stephanie & Darone Ruskay Russell Family Phillip A. Saperia Heather Saposnick Ari Siegel Daniel Spira Karen Sullivan David Tutera Charles J. Vedral Nina Warren John & Helen Wengler Catherine Wolf Alexander Wolfson Ka Wing Yuen
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d o n o rs up to $150 Jesse J. Abel
Scott Abeles Maggie Aboleda Brooke Addison Iris Addison Siby Thomas Adina Cassandra Agredo Nancy & Dixon Allen Ilana Altman Ivette P. Alvarado Jeffrey Ambers George M. Anders Cheryl Andrews Emily R.M. Ansbacher Visitacion J. Arirao Rick Azim Leah V. Ball Helen Barron William Battaglia Petra Bebas G. Beers & J. Chowanec James Bell Johnana Bennett-Torres Gloria & Franklyn Berkowitz Ameya G. Bijoor Peter R Bingenheimer Stephanie Kosmos & Geoffrey Bird Nancy M Bizzell Kathleen F. Black Ellen Bloomer & Kate Thomas Jessyka Braffith Amy Brown Craig W. Brownell Gustavo Bruckner Nancy Butkus Kristen Cabildo Jonathan Carmona Carolina Casperson Coleen Celentano
Florence Celestin Richard Celestin Diana Chapin Matthew E. Chiavaroli Troy Chiles Dana Choi Elizabeth Chow Francis Chu Gina Cicero Frank Cisneros Ruth Clayton Andrew Collins Diane Connors Colleen Cosgrove Tasha Cox Nolan Crohn Dana Crosby-Collier Linda Crownover Olivia Crvaric Sally Jo Cummings & Anthony Jannelli Damian DaCosta Michela Daliana Virginia Daugherty Alice Davis Deborah L. Davis Alissa Deakin Tracey R. Deal Barbara Deinhardt & Daniel Silverman Louise DePaola Bryan Derballa Peter DeRosa Marit Dewhurst Marcia DiLiberto Jacques Dole Jonathan Dolger Janet Dorman Susan Drewery Kenneth Dupuis Elizabeth & J.J. Eberle Scott E. Eckas
Kenedy Egan Walla Elsheikh Agatha Emmett Christine Esteban Jean & John Etzel Lia Eustacheuich Joe Evangelista Pizzurro Family Henry Farnum Tristan Fausto Ian Fearon Sara Feldman L. Chapin Fish May Fisher Jack D. Flam Stacey L. Flanagan Eileen Flannigan Lauren Flax Marissa Fleishman Stacey Francis Harold Frank Marian & William Hewitt Hillary Frey Iris R. Frey Jeffrey D. Gano Gabrielle Gantz Jason James George Anitra Gerald Eskedor Gethim Omar Gheith Alyssa Giachino Paul G. Giangola Eun Kyung Go Bryan P. Goff Nancy Goldberg Stephen Goldberg Jung S. Go-Lee Ayana Gordon Lori B. Gordy Betsy Gotbaum Kathryn Greene Barbara Grimm-Crawford
Jomil M. Guerrero Cassie Gyuricza Jeseka Hahn Lara L. Hall Nancy Handler Elizabeth Haranas Evan C. Harding Marisa Harford Pierina and Vijay Hari Lois Marie Harrigan Jenna Harris Norma K. Harris Vincent Harris Donald Mann & Geraldine Hazzard-Mann Denise Henderson Kelsey Henderson Martha & Barry Herman Jacquelyn Hill L. Christian Hines Sherri Soup Holloway Mel Huang Michelle Hush Ann Hutchison Donna & Robert Hutt Oya Bisi Idera-Abdullah Suzanne C. Immerman Sandy Jimenez Cheryl Johnson-Harris David Jones Julian M. Jordan Leila Joseph Marc Kaadi Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz Lori & Steven Kantorowitz Joanne & Richard Kassnove Michael Katz Jo Ann Kelly-Orr Jeffrey Kern Sarah Kim Marilyn & Edmond King Lindsey Konkel
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d o n o rs up to $150 Natalia Kory (continued) Barbara & Jerry Krasner
Karin Shewer-Krugman & Michael Krugman Justin Laguna Brad Lander Nathalie Larionov Wallace Larson Hannah Laufer-Rottman Christine Lawrence Kim Anh Le Wendy Lehmann Hannah Levy David Lewis Talesha Lewis Xiao Yan Y. Liang Robin Limmer I-Fan Lin Stephanie M. Lin Lannie J. Lorence Mark Lotto Doris Lum Elyssa Maldanado Janet Mangano Ellen & Marc Mappen Tina Marinic Tom Marion James Marotto Mayte & Joseph Martino Shyam Kulin Maskai Nancy Moira Matthews Rachel Max Gay A. Mayer Matthieu McAuliffe Laura McCormack Robin McCoy Gene McElroy & Dale Steinberg Patricia McInerney Randy McKenzie Patricia Mechael Rosemarie Medina
Georgia & Joe Melnick Joy & Thomas Mendelsohn David Michaeli Amanda Miller Shaleema Mitchell Deloris Moore Jonathan Morgan James Morotto Carrie Anne Murphey Harold Murphey Margaret Murphey Marianne Nebel Alissa Neil Robert Y. Newell Arline H Nolan Mary Ann O’Hara Maria A. Oldaker Emmanuel Onyenyili Joanne Orr-Luceri Gianna Palazzo Sandya Pannappan Kimberly Patrick Robert Paulson Shelia S. Perkins Charmaine B. Pinnock Nicholas A. Polsky Janet Poppendieck Rachel Porter Stuart Post Mojgan & Omid Pourmoradi Mike Pratt Alden Finch Prouty Bernard Prudhomme Gerry Raker Sarathi Ray Gillen Reagan Jan G. Reeder Barry Reich Scott Rembrandt Paulette A. Richards
Laurie & Jose Rios Julia G. Ripps Dana Robinson Eduardo Rodriguez Rachel Rodriguez Vanesa Rodriquez JoAnn Rosen Asaf Rosenheim Mila Rosenthal Alix Ross Andrew L. Rubinson Drew S. Ruffini Russell Family Lola Michael Russell Erald Sakiqi Abigail Schade Joan & Elliott Schnabel Dava Schub Valerie Schuman Judith Semkow Jean Serro Rohit Sethi Linda Setlech Barbara Shapiro Margaret McKeever Sheerer Hyun & Johnny Shin Ruth W Shults Sloane Silver Esmeralda Simmons Stacey Simonelli Melissa Sklarz Elizabeth Slavutsky Deanna M. Smith Willeen Smith Ethel R. Sobel Sheryl Spanier Anya & Parri Spector Jonathan Spira Michael Spira Beverly & William Spotz Rhoda & Merrill H. Stern, DDS
Peter Stevenson Mariane St-Maurice Lewis Straus Sandy Linda Su Amy Sugin Bob Summer Beatrice & Nathan Taubenfeld Bishop Taylor Bethene Trexel & Jon Tenney John Teti Jr. Keith Thomas Thang T. Ton Marie Torre Joseph Torres Jill Totenberg Ann Tritschler Lisa Troland Barbara Va Lord Susan & Peter Valdes-Dapena Sonia Valdiviezo Claire VanBlaricum Greg Villepique Stephanie Vinson James Vlasto Mark F. Walsh Corey Washington Jeremy Weedon Jesse Wegman Karen M. Weidman Alison Weininger Stephen Weyer Jackie Wideman Wilhelms Family Lon Wilhelms Seth Williams Judith & Anthony Wilson Sharon Wilson Doreen Wohl
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up to $150 Gary Wolfe (continued) Wollaeger Family
Barbara Woods Dianne Young Martha K. Zebrowski Matthew Zuss Ariela Zycherman
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f i nanc i a l s
th e y e ar - at- a - g l anc e :
H i g h l i g ht i n g maj o r e v e nts & ach i e v e m e nts fr o m 2 0 0 8
h i g h l i g hts fr o m 2 0 0 8
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Laid out a comprehensive plan to end childhood hunger by 2015. In the next year, the Coalition will work at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure this goal remains a priority in the policy agenda.
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Worked with the Bloomberg Administration and City officials to increase the participation of low-income children in the City’s School Breakfast Program, resulting in the Mayor pledging to
expand an in-classroom breakfast pilot to 250 schools. Engaged 14 full-time AmeriCorps national service participants who helped pantries and kitchens coordinate their services, recruit volunteers, and increase their food distributions.
Successfully launched and expanded our Farm Fresh Program
providing over 50,000 pounds of healthy, fresh, New York State-grown produce to low-income areas through a Community Supported Agriculture Program that accepts food stamp benefits and offers scholarships.
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Brought together Senator Charles Schumer, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and New York City anti-hunger advocates to call for a strong nutrition title in the Federal Farm Bill which resulted in an additional $10 billion in anti-hunger and nutrition funding over ten years.
Expanded a pioneering project that enabled over 2,600 low-income New Yorkers to apply for food stamps online at pilot food pantries and soup kitchens. Helped spur Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council to implement a new Green Carts Initiative to bring fresh produce vendors/supermarkets into low-income areas.
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Recruited over 400 volunteers for a citywide volunteer event at food pantries and soup kitchens for the fifth annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Serve-a-Thon in January 2008.
E v e nts
Marking Our Silver
Anniversary
Top from left: Board of Directors Dr. Jeffrey Nichols, Maureen Sheehan, Timothy Brosnan, and Board Chair Daniel Ripps honor the Scherman Foundation, represented by Sandra Silverman, with Joel Berg. Bottom: Councilman Bill DeBlasio, Sandra Silverman, and Councilman Eric Gioia.
To celebrate its 25th year of fighting hunger in New York City, NYCCAH hon-
ored long-term supporters, the Scherman Foundation and Councilmen Bill DeBlasio and Eric Gioia, at a December 2nd reception hosted at the offices of Paul Weiss LLP. Marking NYCCAH’s silver anniversary, the event included attendees from NYCCAH’s Board of Directors, NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, leadership and friends of the Scherman Foundation, long-term friends and supporters of the Coalition, as well as City officials from the Human Resources Administration. The event raised just over $22,200 – if you would like to give a gift in honor of the Coalition’s 25th Anniversary, please go to www.nyccah.org or send a check with memo item: 25th Anniversary.
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e v e nts
NYCCAH Leadership opens NASDAQ Market in Times Square
In the midst of the shopping frenzy in Times Square the Friday after Thanksgiving, NYCCAH was featured at the opening bell ceremony at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. Senior Executives from NASDAQ as well as our Executive Director, Joel Berg, Councilman Eric Gioia and other NYCCAH friends and supporters were featured on many of the morning TV networks that show the opening of the market.
Carnegie Hall Features Coalition Against Hunger’s Work
In 2008, Coalition supporters, staff, and food pantry and soup kitchen clients joined at Carnegie Hall for a concert featuring the Colorado-based a capella choir, Jubilate! Sacred Singers. Thanks to the generosity of choir members and donors, the Coalition was able to offer over 800 complimentary tickets to our dedicated supporters, volunteers, and to those who work for and use the services at food pantries and soup kitchens. The event raised over $5,000 in support for the fight against hunger.
Living Tribute to Craig Murphey
In October 2008, NYCCAH honored Craig Murphey (see page 25) and his family at the Living Tribute to Craig Murphey Anti-Hunger event, which took place at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. The Fellowship has raised over $20,000, but to continue the Fellowship in 2009-2010, we need your help. Please designate your donation to the Craig Murphey Fellowship Fund at nyccah.org or via check made out to NYCCAH with the memo indicating “Craig Murphey Fellowship Fund.”
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B o ar d o f D i r e ct o rs
Daniel B. Ripps, Chair
Vice President Development Resource Group Inc.
Maureen Sheehan, Secretary
Development Director Part of the Solution (POTS)
Jeffrey Nichols, MD, Treasurer
Vice President for Medical Service Cabrini Elder Care Consortium
Timothy Brosnan
Assistant Vice President Moody’s Investors Service Global Real Estate Group
Bisi Iderabdullah
Executive Director Imani House, Inc.
Lewis Straus
USDA Food and Nutrition Service (retired)
staff
Andrew Barrett Craig Murphey Fellow for Anti-Hunger Building
Joel Berg
Executive Director
Britt Boyd
Volunteer & Community Initiatives Coordinator
victoria dumbuya
National Service Program Coordinator
Esther Larson
Director of Development
Reggie Miller
VISTA Program Coordinator
Michael Paone
Community Organizer
Carrette Perkins
Director of Programs
George Spira
Director of Finance & Administration
Jim Wengler
Director of Benefits Access
Ali yannias
Coordinator of the Interfaith Voices Against Hunger (IVAH)
Online Resources
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