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A COMMUNITY OF LEADERSNORTH STAR FUND | 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
A COMMUNITY OF LEADERSNORTH STAR FUND | 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
North Star Fund is New York City’s community foundation working to create a city rooted in the values of equality, economic justice and peace. By connecting with and inspiring donors, raising money for grants, and providing technical assistance, we foster community leadership and build grassroots movements to achieve lasting social change.
North Star Fund has just completed one of its best years ever.
Our success is the result of the commitment and generosity of our donor community. Their support helped make possible the many significant victories that our grantee community achieved on a range of issues highlighted in the pages that follow.
In this year’s annual report, we take a moment to hear from several key leaders of our donor community. Their diverse backgrounds and experiences are inspiring, and their shared perspectives help us imagine a better New York and a better world — and why giving through North Star Fund will help to get us there.
Dear Friend,
How did a new organization of domestic workers find sustained support
to get the nation’s first ever statewide law devoted to safeguarding their
basic workplace protections?
Where did an organization find solace and support after they’d spent
years getting a bill safeguarding housing for people with HIV / AIDS
through an often dysfunctional state legislature, only to have the
Governor veto it at the last moment?
And where did a group of formerly incarcerated women, who were
forced to endure the humiliation of giving birth while shackled to
the delivery table, turn to finance a campaign to end this horrible
practice in state prisons?
The answer is North Star Fund. Thanks to all those who were part of
our donor community over the past year — and there were more than
500 of you giving at every level. Together, we not only weathered the
fundraising challenges of a continued recession, we provided grants
and technical assistance totalling $2,559,539 to 124 groups doing
critical social justice work.
I am delighted to report that this summer, North Star Fund’s leadership
team completed our new strategic grantmaking vision after many
months of work — you’ll find details inside. Our plan is rooted in the
lessons learned from 30 years as New York’s community foundation
supporting new and emerging grassroots activist groups. In the decade
ahead, North Star Fund will make an even deeper investment in strong
leadership in every neighborhood of New York City, and in the ability
of the groups in those neighborhoods to work together.
Please know how deeply your involvement matters. We hope you will
find time to join us in person in the coming year to share your ideas,
network, and learn about activists on the ground who every day, with
head, heart and bullhorn, are taking on City Hall so we all feel proud
to call New York home.
All the best,
Hugh Hogan
Executive Director
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One of our “Lessons at 30” reported in last year’s annual report was the importance of investing in leaders with vision and skill. As we put the final touches on a new grantmaking vision and plan this fall, we also wanted to celebrate some of the outstanding donor leaders who make our work possible. All are activists in their own right. And they are at the heart of who we are as an organization: a growing community of New Yorkers committed heart and soul to helping those pushed to the margins to stand up and get heard. They are:
MARIA CASTANEDA
Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU1199
North Star Fund donor since 2010
BARBARA WINSLOW
Professor, Brooklyn College
Director and Founder,
Shirley Chisholm Center for
Brooklyn Women’s Activism
North Star Fund donor since 1989
KATRINA SCHAFFER
Instructional Assistant,
Lexington School for the Deaf
Board Co-Chair,
Resource Generation
North Star Fund donor since 2009
ARVA RICE
CEO, New York Urban League
North Star Fund Donor since 2002
VINCENT MCGEE
Senior Advisor,
Atlantic Philanthropies
North Star Fund donor since 1981
VICTOR QUINTANA
Senior Program Officer,
Unitarian Universalist Veatch
Program at Shelter Rock
North Star Fund donor since 1988
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ARVA RICE
I woke up being the grandchild of sharecroppers — my parents picked
cotton in Arkansas. When you wake up with that background and
experience, it propels you to try to make a change and to be committed
to that change. You wonder why your parents had the experience that
they did, versus somebody else’s parents. And you try to make your own
life better, but also to work on changing the conditions so that people
wake up closer to an equal footing.
That’s what initially attracted me to North Star Fund. North Star
brings people together. It gives folks a sense of what positive leadership
looks like. It provides people with the concrete skills to become
better leaders.
MARIA CASTANEDA
Growing up in the Philippines in the 1970s, in Quezon
City near Manila, my parents always inculcated in us
the values of respect and the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto
others that which you would want others to do unto
you.’ When I was growing up, our country was in social
turmoil. There was a lot of activism against government
corruption and multinationals getting tax breaks while
the workers didn’t have the right to organize, to strike,
or to collectively bargain.
When I came to New York, I became a volunteer for the Philippine
Center for Immigrant Rights, a community organization that was
supported by North Star Fund. As part of my networking, I linked
up with SEIU1199, who eventually hired me as an organizer.
VICTOR QUINTANA
I attribute my political and personal transformation to the United States
Marine Corps. It was in 1967 when I was 18 years old and had just
finished a year of college. I decided that college was not where I wanted
to be. So I joined the Marine Corps because I thought that fighting for
my country and pursuing my manhood by being a warrior was the
way to go. Growing up in Harlem, I hadn’t faced American racism in
its rawest form. A group of us were sent together from New York City
Rally on June 17, 2010 to urge Governor
Paterson to sign the Domestic Workers Bill
of Rights into law. Credit: Brian Palmer
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to travel to Parris Island, South Carolina to boot camp.
When we arrived, this white staff sergeant, a short guy,
a southerner, got on board and just started ranting and
raving at us. “You niggers and spics: you’re now mine.
Get off my bus.” Then, when I got shipped to Vietnam,
all I kept hearing was, “Gook this, gook that.”
When I came back to school in 1969, I reflected on my Vietnam
experience and the reasons that had driven me to join the Marine
Corps. I started paying attention to the arguments against the
war. And I saw that I had been deceived.
I became a student activist and joined with other Puerto Rican students
organizing for a Puerto Rican studies department. Then I became
involved with groups organizing in the community around issues like
poverty, inadequate housing and poor education. The activism of that
time was very energized and very political. In a sense it had a lot of
Utopian thinking. But it also had very focused demands.
I joined North Star Fund’s community funding board in the early 1980s.
That was my first exposure to philanthropy. The board involves activists
and organizers who are trying to build sustainable organizations while
waging campaigns to transform public policy and structures. It gave
me a real sense of what was happening in the city beyond what I was
personally involved in.
VINCENT MCGEE
My concern for social justice grew from
family, school and church. As I grew
up, I experienced people who professed
religion but who also had racist views,
and that shocked me into wondering,
“Well, how do you change that?” My
commitment to theories about peace or
justice were challenged by the reality
of the working world and then by the
Vietnam War. I went to the University of
Rochester at the height of the movement
to stop that war. The president of the
Press conference for the Dream Act at Staten
Island Borough Hall, organized by El Centro del
Inmigrante, June 21, 2010. Credit: Brian Palmer
university praised me on the front page of the Rochester papers for
being a student leader organizing others who wanted a religious
studies department.
Four months later, when I burned my draft card, the president wanted
to get me expelled. The dean of my division said to him, “Do you want
to read your comments about Vinny on the front page of the Democrat
and Chronicle several months ago? He’s following his conscience.”
In the 1970s, young people of wealth around the country
began to organize their own public foundations. North
Star Fund was one of them. I was friendly with the early
founders, especially Toby D’Oench, Obie Benz, Anne
Hess, Martin Bunzl and Shelley Korman. They were
very serious, very careful, and effective. I was an early
donor, and have continued to give through the years.
I think North Star’s current leadership is seizing the
moment and will take the foundation to a bigger volume
of grantmaking and a stronger articulation of the values
we all feel are important.
BARBARA WINSLOW
I grew up privileged — in Scarsdale, New York. I wasn’t fond of growing
up there, and rebelled. I supported Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic
candidate for President of the United States in 1952, when almost
everyone around me supported Eisenhower. I opposed the death penalty
in my sixth grade school debate, where I was roundly booed. For the
Feminist Memoir Project (Three Rivers Press, 1998), I wrote that I was
an “alienated mess of contradictions.”
In 1961, I set off for Antioch College, a progressive independent school,
where I found people who were involved in social justice struggles.
The 60s were the catalyst for my involvement in progressive social
change. I was involved in the civil rights movement, the anti-war and
students’ movement, and women’s movement. Everybody I know who
was involved in the 60s has stayed engaged in different ways . I came
to North Star in the 1980’s, where I was welcomed as an activist and a
donor — and did not have to feel guilty that I am both.
Toby D
’
Oench, Marc Weiss, Vincent
McGee and Anne Hess at the 2008
Community Gala. Credit: Brian Palmer
In 2004, North Star Fund quickly raised
$55,000 for the historic peace marches
organized by United for Peace and Justice.
Credit: Amy Ponce
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KATRINA SCHAFFER
I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. They are very quiet,
very conservative. But I credit my parents, especially my mother, for
giving me a different perspective about the world. My mom grew up in
the countryside of Germany. She came to the United States because
she wanted a better life as a woman than the one that was presented to
her there. Alongside that, my youngest sister is a person with cerebral
palsy and other special needs. Growing up, I watched my mother and
father become advocates for my sister’s life and watched my sister’s
determination and ambition to lead the life she wants come up against
the way society treats people with special needs. My mom also instilled
in me the values of kindness and patience, of being able to listen to
people and hear their experience, of bringing passion and heart to my
work and the issues I care about. Thanks to her, and my whole family,
I can see issues that affect my own life, and then relate those to issues
that affect other people more directly.
Since the first day that I stepped into New York City, I’ve heard North
Star Fund’s name. Over and over, I found that the most exciting work
that was being done in New York had received both start-up funding
and continuing support from North Star. So when I was ready to be
more involved with supporting local efforts, North Star Fund was the
first group I turned to.
Members and staff of Rights for
Imprisoned People with Psychiatric
Disabilities (RIPPD) before a rally at
City Hall Park. Credit: Amy Ponce
“For many years, North Star Fund has helped to seed innovative new
projects that other funders wouldn’t take the risk on. As a result, the
groups we have supported have become stronger and more effective
base-building community organizing groups. With these new guidelines,
North Star can support groups at multiple stages of their development —
not just start-ups.”
— Kevin RyanNorth Star Fund board member Program Officer, New York Foundation
2010 GRANT CATEGORIES
Grassroots Action Grants North Star Fund will continue to award
half of our activist-led grantmaking dollars as grants of $5,000
and $10,000 to new, emerging groups who are reaching out through
the tools of community organizing to engage more community
people as leaders and grassroots activists in New York City’s most
marginalized communities.
Movement Leadership Grants A centerpiece of our new grants vision,
$50,000 grants over two years will make a deeper investment of general
support in effective organizations that have already shown a strong
record of success in their community organizing work.
Innovative Activ ism Grants A new grant category that continues a
hallmark of North Star’s support for grassroots groups, these $10,000
grants will support social justice work beyond community organizing
including cultural, art and media projects, as well as resources for
activism and community organizing.
Grassroots Strategy Grants Another new category, members of our
community funding committee will now be able to invest in a great
campaign idea to achieve concrete change. These $15,000 grants will
enable groups to access additional research, legal, media, policy and
organizing expertise at a critical strategic moment.
Building Leadership & Movements
OUR EXPANDED GRANTMAKING VISION
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BARBARA WINSLOW
North Star Fund keeps the idea of social justice alive. It’s not a passive
foundation. It wants to build organizations that take on the issue of
social, economic and political inequality and the idea that it’s inequality
that makes urban life difficult and violent. By supporting organizations,
we empower individuals. We allow people to see that they can make
change — that they can have more control over their own lives and the
lives of families and friends.
VICTOR QUINTANA
The role that North Star has played, is playing, and will continue to
play is to support those emerging groups that are trying to address the
problems of the day. It’s about housing. It’s about employment. It’s about
discrimination. It’s about fair treatment. It’s about incarceration and
poverty. The issues don’t change. They manifest themselves differently
in different periods and I think the strength of North Star has always
been to support the groups that are emerging in new communities
with new strategies and that have a fresh take on how to solve these
persistent problems.
ARVA RICE
If North Star doesn’t continue to support
the folks who are left behind and left
out, then who’s going to do it? Through
North Star, we can be the first donors
and the first people to bring attention
and resources to those folks who are at
the frontline of making change at the
community level. For instance, North
Star was the first foundation to fund
AIDS activism when no one else would
touch it — no one. North Star continues to
create that space where donors can come
together and realize that they really
are leaders.
Staff and members of New York City AIDS
Housing Network (NYCAHN) / VOCAL.
Credit: BJ Formento
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VINCENT MCGEE
New York is a very important place because of the role it
plays in the country — and the world. It always amazes
me that things that what we and others support in New
York City come to our attention more often from people
elsewhere in the country who are watching what goes on
here. New York is so complicated and sometimes so torn
up by competition and politics that good things get lost.
My hope is that the work that North Star funds in New
York will play a role in a bigger vision of the world and
what justice means.
KATRINA SCHAFFER
North Star continues to look for cutting edge groups and smaller
groups that would struggle to find funding — groups that are doing
really creative and difficult things through the framework of
community organizing. It already has that history of finding ‘gems
in the rough’ and giving them start up funding. But one thing that
I find especially exciting is the move towards greater collaboration
among organizations. There is so much more power when groups
come together to overlap, share, network and work collectively.
And North Star has taken the lead in supporting those kinds of
collaborations among groups.
Rally and vigil for immigration reform
at Staten Island Borough Hall.
Grantee participants included El Centro
del Inmigrante, Make the Road NY
and Eye Openers. Credit: Brian Palmer
Jason Franklin, a North Star Fund board member and executive
director of Bolder Giving, puts it succinctly: “None of us is going
to change the situation of inequality in New York City by ourselves.
But rather than saying, ‘I can’t change it; I won’t do anything,’
say, I can’t change it alone. But I’ll take one step with others.’”
North Star Fund’s donor programs provide a space for donors to
connect and network with each other, as well as the work of our
grantees. Through briefings, exchanges and events, donors have
an opportunity to interact with New York’s most creative and effective
grassroots community organizing groups. And through workshops
on socially responsible investing, wealth management and estate
planning, they learn innovative approaches to managing their assets
to support social change.
North Star Fund needs your leadership. To learn about opportunities
to get involved, sign up for our email newsletter on our website.
You’ll learn what our grantees are doing and what our supporters are
thinking. And you’ll be notified about North Star Fund workshops
and events.
Deepening Donor Involvement and Leadership in Social Justice
OUR DONOR PROGRAMS
Members and staff of Brandworkers
International, winners of the 2010
North Star Frederick Douglass Award.
Credit: Brian Palmer
At the 2010 Community Gala,
Left to Right: William vanden Heuvel,
Katrina vanden Heuvel, and
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
Credit: Carolina Kroon
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Yvonne Moore (left), Director of the Daphne Foundation,
makes a point at funders briefing on families and poverty
held at our offices. Credit: Miriam Fogelson
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NORTH STAR FUND GRANTEE
Led by Domestic
Workers United,
working with
DAMAYAN,
Adhikaar, Haitian
Women for Haitian
Refugees, Andolan
THE WIN
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
Enforceable state
law provides for
a standard work
day, overtime
pay, disability
benefits, a day of
rest, and workplace
protections against
harassment.
NORTH STAR FUND GRANTEE
Mothers on the
Move (MOM)
THE PROBLEM
A fertilizer plant
processing toxic
sludge generates
harmful fumes,
affecting nearby
residential
neighborhoods.
In the Way: New York Organic
Fertilizer Com-
pany, an indiffer-
ent polluter, more
concerned about
profits than people.
THE WIN
Operations halted for review at a polluting facility in the South Bronx
South Bronx
residents can again
open their windows
and enjoy being
outside. A local
park will be
expanded and
improved.
OUR DONORS MADE IT HAPPEN
Women on the Rise
Telling HerStory
(WORTH)
New Immigrant
Community
Empowerment
(NICE)
New York City AIDS
Housing Network
(NYCAHN) /
VOCAL
THE PROBLEM
Many domestic work-
ers work long hours
with no overtime
pay, no days off, and
without protection
against verbal and
physical abuse.
In the Way: Decades
of workers fair treat-
ment laws that left
out domestic work-
ers. State legislators
hostile to immigrant
workers and labor
rights.
Incarcerated
women forced
to give birth while
chained to the
delivery table.
In the Way: Entrenched
practices at the
state Department
of Correctional
Services.
An entrenched
political bureaucra-
cy actively hostile
to efforts to
increase civic
engagement in low
income and
immigrant
communities.
In the Way: Historically low
voting turn-out
in the Latino
immigrant
community.
People living with
HIV / AIDS can pay
upwards of 70% of
their income on
housing, leaving
little left over for
medical treatment
and personal care.
In the Way: Municipalities not
realizing that this
is a cost-saving
measure.
Anti-Shackling Law
Safety and dignity
for women, and
children born
with respect.
Mobilizing 1000 Voters in Queens District 25
A progressive
candidate with
strong ties to the
Latino community
was elected by a
margin of
600 votes.
State legislature passes bill limiting housing costs to 30% of income for New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS
While Governor
Paterson vetoed this
bill, it has a strong
chance of becoming
law by 2012. People
will be able to stay
in their homes and
out of shelters, pro-
tecting their health
and saving taxpayers
millions of dollars.
NY / NJ Teamsters
for a Democratic
Union
Arab Women in
the Arts and Media
(AWAAM) and New
York City Labor-
Religion Coalition
Movement for
Justice in el Barrio
Previous leadership
negotiated conces-
sionary contracts
that allowed employ-
ers to hire tiers of
low-wage employees
who received no
pension or benefit
contribution.
In the Way: Union officials
uninterested in
organizing or
vigorous contract
enforcement.
Students forced
to choose between
school and
their culture.
In the Way: Mayoral veto.
Incompetent
management
company.
In the Way: Multinational
corporation
gentrifying East
Harlem.
Stronger Teamster Local 814 Leadership
Restored health
care benefits and
increases in wages.
City Council passes resolution to recog-nize two important Muslim sacred days as official school holidays
While Mayor
Bloomberg vetoed
the bill, the 50
to 1 City Council
approval suggests
eventual passage,
another step for
respecting religious
equality and fair
treatment for
all New Yorkers.
Bad management fired for 47 buildings in East Harlem
Through strong
community
organizing and
legal enforcement,
more than 1,100
families will have
better affordable
housing.
Grantee Wins in 2009 / 2010
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BARBARA WINSLOW
I believe in leadership by example, meaning you just can’t tell
somebody, “Give money.” I think of all the donors we have honored
over the past many years, all of them are also politically engaged.
They understand the problems of building an organization that fights
against homelessness. Or for daycare. Or for reproductive rights.
Or for lesbian and gay rights — because these honorees
have been working on these issues as well. That’s what
makes North Star donors unique.
I’ve been involved in creating the largest archive of
materials about Shirley Chisholm, who was the first
African-American woman elected to Congress and
the first woman to mount a serious campaign for the
Democratic nomination for the presidency. A very
gutsy woman. I would like to believe that everybody
has the potential to be a leader in their own right —
you don’t have to be a Shirley Chisholm.
Everybody has a potential to make an important
contribution.
VINCENT MCGEE
Donors can be leaders by preaching less and bringing other people
into a discussion of a new issue or a new possibility. Philanthropic
leadership is about patience, listening and trying to meet people where
they are and then working with them to move beyond limitations. I
think it’s important not to wear an “I’m a progressive” badge on your
shirt or on your forehead, but to lead by example, to try to develop
projects or a style of funding that you can invite people into and to
share and to talk about — to make time for people. I’ve had incredible
good fortune to work with people who were leaders ahead of the game
and who were patient enough to sit down and talk with me and work
through some tough issues. A leader in philanthropy finds leaders at
work in communities or organizations and supports them. That’s the
point of social justice philanthropy.
Members and staff of Women on the
Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH),
winners of the 2010 North Star Frederick
Douglass Award. Credit: Carolina Kroon
At a public visioning session held in March,
2010 for the Greening Western Queens Fund.
Credit: Gerard Gaskin
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KATRINA SCHAFFER
I’m co-chair of the board of Resource Generation, an organization
that supports and challenges young people with wealth to develop
critical analysis around the politics of class and social justice issues,
and to figure out how to leverage their money and privilege through
social justice philanthropy. Resource Generation, like North Star, is
an amazing organization and I’ve grown exponentially in all areas
of my life through my involvement there. One of the things I’ve learned
is that the best organizing and leadership comes from within the
community. They’ve lived the problem, and have spent a lot of time
thinking and talking about the solution. So usually, when you think
about people struggling for social justice, it’s about people who are
working to gain access to something that has been denied — such as
healthcare, or civil rights, or a quality education.
The flipside of that situation is the people holding power and privilege
who want to support grassroots community organizing. They, too, can
be leaders in organizing their own community from within. By working
within projects such as Resource Generation and North Star, activists
who also become donors can gain the analysis and education about
what lies at the heart of social justice giving.
VICTOR QUINTANA
I’m a bit older, so I rarely think much in Utopian terms. I think more
about the challenges of the day and how we could address the challenges
that people have around equity and democracy and housing — you know
the concrete stuff. How can we build sustainable institutions that have
the capacity to mobilize people to make life better for
themselves, right now? The key is to build sustainable
organizations and networks and coalitions where people
are engaged, and have the resources to assess their
needs and the needs of their communities, their country
and the world. And I say world because we live in a
globalized reality. We must build organizations that are
knitted together and have the democratic processes and
the action plans to challenge the formidable forces that
have a different agenda than meeting peoples’ needs.
Rally and vigil for immigration
reform at Staten Island Borough Hall.
Credit: Brian Palmer
MARIA CASTANEDA
One quality of a leader that I practice is being a good listener. You
listen to what people say, the issues that they care about, the issues
that are affecting them, and then as a leader you try to
internalize and understand it, and then work with them
to solve the issues. These qualities are learned in the
process of organizing. If you know that the only way that
you can solve a problem is by involving the people who
are directly affected by the problem, then you have to
listen to them, strategize with them, and get them to
take action.
Donors can be leaders in all of those ways. And donors
have influence through their contributions and through
the other resources they bring to bear to support
organizations that have good social justice missions.
ARVA RICE
There’s something that’s really powerful about being able to provide a
financial resource to something that you believe in — to be able to use
the term “donor” for yourself. Yes, we’re volunteers, and we’re activists,
and we’re even leaders. But to use that word “donor” as a person of color
is a powerful word. I think that it’s easier to be a leader within the North
Star community, where you have a group of people who are pulling
together their resources in order to further social change. Sure, you can
be a donor and a change agent individually. But anytime that you can do
anything collectively, it’s stronger. So it follows that doing philanthropy
collectively makes you stronger as well.
At 2010 North Star News Prize,
Hugh Hogan (left) and Gene Carroll
(right). Credit: Brian Palmer
North Star Fund
’
s Community Funding
Committee discusses grant proposals.
Left to Right: Henry Serrano, Jackie Mann,
Kavitha Mediratta, Hildy Karp,
Wanda Imasuen. Credit: Miriam Fogelson
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GENERAL PROGRAM Twice a year, North Star Fund awards New
York
’
s best new and emerging community
groups working in four strategic priority areas:
ENSURING ECONOMIC JUSTICE $15,000
Brandworkers International
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Metropolitan Council on Housing
Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(NICE)
Right to the City NYC
VAMOS Unidos
$10,000
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
Brooklyn Congregations United
Brooklyn Movement Center
Center for Immigrant Families
Committee for Transport Workers’ Rights
El Centro del Inmigrante
Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Housing Here and Now
NY/NJ Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU)
Queens Congregations United for Action
Street Vendor Project
$5,000
Bronx Land Trust
Bushwick Housing Independence Project
Cidadao Global/Global Citizen
Eye Openers: Youth Against Violence
Organization
New York State Youth Leadership Council
New York City Community Garden Coalition
Teachers Unite
ENDING INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION $15,000
La Union
Lakou New York
Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric
Disabilities (RIPPD)
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)
$10,000
Al Awda New York
Center for Urban Pedagogy
Rise Magazine
$5,000
Jahajee Sisters Empowering Indo-Caribbean
Women
Justice Committee
Sistas on the Rise
GRANTMAKING
Sharing ideas for grant programs at Greening
Western Queens Fund public visioning sessions.
Credit: Gerard Gaskin
PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
$15,000
Families for Freedom
$10,000
Coalition for Parole Restoration
$5,000
AWAAM: Arab Women Active in the Arts
and Media
Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood
Improvement Association
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City
Ojo de Agua, Arte y Producción
SECURING PEACE AND JUSTICE / ENDING MILITARISM
$10,000
Bronx News Network
IndyKids
RAPID RESPONSE Expedited grants that enable groups to
respond quickly to late-breaking events.
Bail Out the People Movement
Brooklyn Congregations United
CHANGER
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Domestic Workers United
El Centro del Inmigrante
La Union
Lakou New York
Make the Road New York
MinKwon Center for Community Action
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(NICE)
New York City AIDS Housing
Network (NYCAHN)/VOCAL
New York Immigration Coalition
Picture the Homeless
Public Policy & Education Fund
Three Rivers Community Foundation
Women in Prison Project, The Correctional
Association of New York
SPECIAL INITIATIVE
HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF To provide assistance through grassroots
channels following the January 12
earthquake that devastated Haiti.
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
US SOCIAL FORUM Funding totalling $30,000 to support leaders
and activists from New York City grassroots
groups to attend the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
Community Voices Heard
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association
Domestic Workers United
Families for Freedom
Families United for Racial and Economic
Equality (FUREE)
La Union
Make the Road New York
Mothers on the Move
Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(NICE)
People’s Production House
Picture the Homeless
NORTH STAR NEWS PRIZE
Applied Research Center (directed by Rinku Sen)
Bronx Children’s Museum (directed by Ellis Cose)
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DONOR ADVISED GRANTS North Star Fund partners with individual
donors, foundations and businesses to find
and support cutting edge work in line with
our partners
’
giving priorities.
ANONYMOUS
Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
(APICHA)
Girls Education and Mentoring
Services (GEMS)
Sex Workers Project
Women in Prison Project, The Correctional
Association of New York
CARIBOU FUND Coro New York Leadership Center
International School of Brooklyn
Literacy Assistance Center
CITGO SOUTH BRONX SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Asociacion de Egresados de la UASD
Asociacion de Provincias Dominicanas
(AsoProDom)
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!)
Bronx Alternative Action
Casa Atabex Aché - The House of
Womyn’s Power
Centro de Servicios Cooperativos (CESECOOP)
Cooperativa de Mujeres en Accion
Critical Resistance - New York City
Cultural Renaissance for Economic
Revitalization (CRER)
For a Better Bronx
Freedom Community Resource Center
Friends of Brook Park
Green Worker Cooperatives
Green Youth Collective
Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood
Improvement Association
Mass Transit Street Theater and Video
Mi Rincon Favorito
Mision San Juan Bautista
More Gardens! Fund
Mothers on the Move
Movimiento La Peña del Bronx
Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and
Development (MWIRD)
NI-KE-HURA
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
Servicing Our Youth (SOY)
Servicio de Educación Básica (SEBI)
Seven Neighborhood Action Partnership (SNAP)
Sistas on the Rise
South Bronx Food Cooperative
Taller Experimental de Arte
JOANNE LUKOMNIK FUND FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM
Physicians for a National Health Program /
NY Chapter
JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND Civic Participation
Community Voices Heard
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
(FUREE)
Make the Road New York
MinKwon Center for Community Action
New York City AIDS Housing Network
(NYCAHN) / VOCAL
Pushback Network
Voter Enfranchisement Project
Community Media
Bronx News Network
People’s Production House
Prometheus Radio Project
KINDLING FUND Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
(FUREE)
New York City AIDS Housing Network
(NYCAHN) / VOCAL
Prison Policy Initiative
Project South
Resource Generation
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive
Health Collective
Third Wave Foundation
NYC VENTURE PHILANTHROPY FUND Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective
RASHAWN BRAZELL FUND SCHOLARSHIPS
Isaiah Sypher to attend Wesleyan University
Nafissatou Traore to attend Hunter College
REN FUND FOR JUSTICE Likhaan
Squeaky Wheel Productions
Street Vendor Project
United for a Fair Economy
VAMOS Unidos
Wittsand Project/Peer Africa
SUNSHINE LADY FUND Center for Urban Pedagogy
Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio
Rise Magazine
WILLIAM WATERMAN JR. MEMORIAL FUND
Association for Neighborhood &
Housing Development
Brandworkers International
Commission on the Public’s Health System
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
IndyKids
Just Food
Kalabash Food Coop
Lakou New York
New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(NICE)
New York Foundation for the Arts /
Urban Art Beat
Pitzer College
River Park Nursery School
Social, Educational and Development Fund
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research
and Action (TIGRA), NY
Urban Agenda
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
On January 12, 2010, a North Star Fund Rapid Response Grant
enabled members of Domestic Workers United and their allied
organizations to travel to Albany and meet with elected officials
on the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Right: Narbada Chhetri
from Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice.
Above: Joycelyn Gill-Campbell of Domestic Workers United.
Credit: Brian Palmer
PHILANTHROPIC PROGRAMS
North Star Fund continued to build our program of networking
and learning opportunities for individual donors and foundations.
We expanded our series on mission-related investing, partnering
with Confluence Philanthropy to present experts from As You Sow
Foundation, Center for Political Accountability, Trillium Asset
Management, The New Economics Foundation, and the Contact
Fund. These experts and gatherings provided guidance on managing
money to achieve social change for individual donors, trustees and
foundation staff, while also deepening their investment savvy and
providing networking opportunities to create a stronger network of
progressive investors.
North Star Fund also undertook a detailed survey of donor programming
at eight philanthropic peer organizations and evaluated several years
of our own pilot activities. The research and evaluation results will be
incorporated into an ambitious new program of donor networking and
learning events to be launched in 2011, in order to expand the network of
New Yorkers committed to funding grassroots driven change.
COMMUNITY GALA
This year’s Community Gala at the Tribeca Rooftop sold
out early, with 350 New Yorkers from all backgrounds
coming together to celebrate social justice philanthropy
and helping to raise a record $407,000 for North Star’s
donor and grants programs.
2010 North Star Fund Awards
At this year’s Community Gala, the North Star Award
recognized four outstanding New Yorkers who have
made significant contributions to social justice.
Maria Castaneda serves as Secretary-Treasurer of
SEIU1199 — the largest local union in the world. Maria
has fought for living wage laws, health care insurance
for all, and a safe working environment for healthcare
In 2010, North Star Fund began our fourth decade of connecting donors in support of grassroots driven social change.
YEAR IN REVIEW
North Star Award honorees.
Left to Right: Katrina vanden Heuvel,
Katherine Acey, Asad Mahmoud,
Maria Castaneda.
Credit: Carolina Kroon
workers. Early in her career as an organizer, her group received its first
grant from the North Star Fund.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is a powerhouse full of courage vision and
leadership in her role as editor and publisher of The Nation, the
lively weekly magazine that presents news and viewpoints through
a progressive lens. Katrina is also a longtime donor and supporter
of North Star Fund.
Asad Mahmood, as the Managing Director of the Global Social
Investment Fund at Deutsche Bank, engages large institutional
investors, not-for-profit organizations, and leading foundations in
pioneering social venture projects with broad and lasting impact.
He also co-founded the Chaaya Community Development Corporation,
which received one of its first foundation grants from North Star.
Katherine Acey got her philanthropic start at North Star as one of the
foundation’s first staff members. Today, after nearly four decades as
a philanthropic activist and leader of the only foundation solely devoted
to funding LGBTQ organizing on a global scale, the Astraea Lesbian
Foundation for Justice, she carries forward a vision of community-
based progressive philanthropy, and a commitment to lesbian and
women’s philanthropy.
2010 North Star Fund Frederick Douglass Awards
The North Star Frederick Douglass Award is awarded to North Star
Fund grantees that have made significant advances to create equality,
economic justice and peace.
Brandworkers International empowers employees in the retail and
food industries to become social change leaders, and holds employers
accountable for workplace conditions.
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) builds leadership
among currently and formerly incarcerated women to change public
policy, and in the process, transform their lives and the lives of
their families.
Left to Right: Deepa Fernandes,
Oona Chatterjee, Kai Wright,
Katrina vanden Heuvel,
Roland Martin, Rinku Sen,
Ellis Cose, Farai Chideya.
Credit: Brian Palmer
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NEWS PRIZE
On a crisp morning in mid-October, more than 100 people gathered
for the North Star News Prize reception. The News Prize recognizes
journalists, media makers and communications professionals of color
who have made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding
of social justice.
Ellis Cose began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the
Chicago Sun-Times — becoming, at the age of 19, the youngest editorial
page columnist ever employed by a major Chicago daily. Ellis is the
author of several books as well as a columnist and contributing editor
for Newsweek magazine.
Rinku Sen is the President and Executive Director of the Applied
Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. ARC
is a public policy institute advancing racial justice through research,
advocacy and journalism.
This year’s North Star News Prize featured a panel discussion on the
impact of the recession on low-income communities. Deepa Fernandes,
2008 New Prize winner and the director of People’s Production House,
moderated the panel, which featured radio talk show host and
CNN commentator Roland Martin; Pop + Politics founder and NPR
commentator Farai Chideya; and ColorLines magazine’s Kai Wright.
GREENING WESTERN QUEENS
In the fall of 2009, North Star Fund launched the
“Greening Western Queens Fund,” a new $7.9
million initiative to invest in energy-efficiency and
environmental projects in the Western Queens
community affected by a July 2006 electric power
outage. This program is supported by funds from
the community’s settlement with Con Edison. The
Public Service Commission of the State of New
York selected North Star Fund to administer the
project because of our expertise in facilitating
community-led grantmaking programs. Noise from
the elevated 7 train and planes heading to La Guardia
combined with few parks make this a neighborhood
Joo-Hyun Kang facilitates a community
discussion at a Greening Western
Queens Fund visioning session.
Credit: Gerard Gaskin
that craves trees, open space and a healthier environment. The new
fund will invest in tree planting and other environmental and energy
efficiency projects.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Building Capacity and Sustainability
For the sixth year, North Star Fund has collaboratively partnered with
other progressive foundations to provide a technical assistance program
for our grantees that builds their leadership and capacity. This year’s
partners included New York Foundation, Union Square Awards, New
York Women’s Foundation, Daphne Foundation, Stonewall Community
Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and
New York Women’s Foundation. Topics ranged from proposal writing
and strategic communications to lobbying and financial management.
We are especially proud of a two-day community organizing training
that enabled grantee groups to deepen member outreach and campaign
development skills.
FOR THE LOVE OF JUSTICE
On February 16, 2010, a spirited group of 100 North
Star supporters showed off their finest dance moves at
a fundraiser organized by our board of directors. Our
supporters braved the snow and the cold, and turned up
the heat for social justice.
THE ROOTS An Online Guide to Activism in New York
The development of North Star’s dynamic new website
continued with the launch of The Roots, a searchable
database of grassroots groups in New York. The Roots
allows activists, philanthropists and researchers to locate
and read about the impacts of community organizing
and activism in neighborhoods across the New York
metropolitan area.
Salsa competition at For the Love of
Justice. Credit: Gerard Gaskin
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BETTY MILLARD
Betty Millard — feminist, political activist, writer, photographer, and
philanthropist — died in her home in New York City on March 6, 2010.
As an early North Star Fund Board member and a founding donor to
the organization, Betty provided leadership that inspired founding staff
members and fellow donors to grow the foundation over decades.
In 1997, she established the Betty Millard Charitable Unitrust and
named North Star Fund the primary beneficiary, leaving as her legacy
a bequest of $829,806 to support North Star’s vital mission.
We are deeply grateful not only for her generosity and leadership to
North Star Fund, but for the contributions she made over a lifetime
to help create a more just and equitable world for all of us.
C. EDWIN BAKER
Raised in the small town of Madisonville, Kentucky, Ed Baker
graduated from Stanford University and Yale Law School. For most
of his adult life, Ed was a law professor, including the last 28 years at
the University of Pennsylvania. Ed was a man who walked his talk
and stood up for liberty, equality and justice. He was a scholar and
a man who lived simply, because he believed that luxury dulled our
understanding of the world’s inequities and injustices.
Sadly, after being a stalwart supporter of North Star Fund’s vision
for many years, Ed died suddenly on December 8, 2009, at the age
of 62. We are honored that the trustees of Ed’s estate recognized the
confluence of North Star Fund’s work and Ed’s values and self-sacrifice
by donating $250,000 from the C. Edwin Baker 2001 Trust.
It is with great admiration and respect that we appreciate Betty and Ed
for their humanity, thoughtfulness and tremendous generosity. These
gifts will advance our commitment to making New York City a better
place for many years to come. In the year ahead, North Star Fund will
be announcing an annual memorial grant in honor of Betty and Ed.
To learn more about planned giving or designating North Star Fund
as a beneficiary, please contact our Development Office.
tel 212 620 9110 email Isabelle@northstarfund.org
IN MEMORIAM
OVER $25,000Abigail Disney and
Pierre Hauser *
Barbara Winslow!
Betty Millard and Family
Caribou Fund
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Ford Foundation
Funding Exchange
Member Endowment
Greening Western Queens
Settlement Fund
Jean Riesman
Johnson Family Foundation
Joseph Rosenmiller
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Michael J. Hirschhorn and
Jimena P. Martinez
Robert Nixon
Rose and Sherle Wagner
Foundation
Starry Night Fund
William Waterman Jr.
Memorial Fund
$10,000 – $24,999Amy Wagner
Anne H. Hess and
Craig Kaplan !
Anonymous
Asa Johnson
Christina McInerney
Deutsche Bank
Mary Sichel
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss
Sunshine Lady Foundation
The Elias Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
Vincent McGee
$5,000 – $9,9991199SEIU United Healthcare
Workers East
Anonymous
Astraea Lesbian Foundation
for Justice
C. Edwin Baker
Corners Fund
Cushman & Wakefield
Elspeth Gilmore
Flo Wiener and Rick Hobish
Katherine Acey
Katrina Schaffer "
Knight Foundation
Liz Hirsch
Lola Lloyd Horwitz
Lucy Winton
Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos
and Adam Bartos
Mark Reed and Daria Ilunga
Michael Ratner !
and Karen Ranucci
New York Community Trust
Nick Freudenberg
Open Society Institute
Peter Brest
Service Employees
International Union (SEIU)
Steve Seltzer
Susan Penick
Toby D’Oench and Tani Takagi
$1,000 – $4,9991199 SEIU Childcare
Corporation
Alexandra Jacobus
Allan Guggenheim
Anonymous (5)
Arline Segal
Arva Rice
Barbara Yanni
Barbara Zeluck
Basil Paterson, Esq.
Bencom LLC
Bennet Hecht
Beth and Bob Sheehan
Bill and Melinda
vanden Heuvel
Byron and Joan Lapham
Chase
Chris Cardona
Chris Cooper and
Marianne Leone
Christopher Wang
Clara Bingham
CWA Local 1180
Dan Silverman and
Barbara Deinhardt
David and Gisela Gamper
David Strathairn
Deborah Slaner Larkin
Donna Katzin and
Alan Altschuler
Elise Boddie * and
Maitland Stewart
Enterprise Fleet Management
Eugenia and David Ames
Foley Family Foundation
Frank and Jinx Roosevelt
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Gerry and Sheldon Wallman
Hal Strelnick
Hugh Hogan * and
Patrick Moffitt
Jeff Swartzendruber
Jeffrey and Eva Kittay
Jonathan Schorr *
JSL Foundation
Kevin Ryan *
Larry D. Lyons
Leslie A. Abbey and
Stephen M. Dietz
Local 420, DC 37, AFSCME
Local Initiatives Support
Corporation
Lule Demmissie * and
Carmelyn Malalis
Lynda Rodolitz
Maddy deLone and
Bobby Cohen
Maggie Williams *
Mali Sananikone Gaw
OUR DONORS
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Marion S. and Irwin Kaplan
Martin Dunn
Martin Scheinman
Merry Tucker
Molly and David Vaux
N. Cheng & Co., P.C.
Naomi Sobel
Newmark Knight Frank
Nisha Atre Richardson *
Paul Merrill
Premier Coach Tours, LLC
R. Rubin Family Foundation
Rosemary Moore
Sam Wiener
SEIU Local 32BJ
Sharon Wyse and David Satz
Sidney Hillman Foundation
Sister Fund
Susan Butler-Plum
Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Sylvia Weiss
Theo Yang Copley
United States Fund for
UNICEF
$500 – $999Alex Counts
Amber Patton
Augusta Y. Thomas, AFGE
Brian Dever
Brooklyn for Peace
Bruce Morrow and
Catherine Gund
Cathy Raphael
Center for Constitutional
Rights
Committee of Interns and
Residents SEIU
Consolidated Color Press
David Becker
Dobkin Family Foundation
Ellen McLean
Erika Olson
Eve Levy and Michael Salvato
Exeplex, LLC
Eye Openers/Youth Against
Violence
F. B. Heron Foundation
Fae Beaudry
Gene Carroll !
and Barbara Kopple
Georgia Bougadis
Gill Foundation
Gladstein, Reif, &
Meginniss, LLP
Gordon Johnson and
Nancy Lee
Harriet Goldberg and
Gregory Johnson
Helen Cohen and
Mark Lipman
IVCi, LLC
Jamie Tresselt
Jason Franklin *
Jennifer Merschdorf *
and Jeffrey Gannon
Jim Metzinger
Joanna Pozen
Jonathan Arac
June Wu
Karen Zelermyer and
Tami Gold
Kathy Goldman *
Kingdon Capital
Management, LLC
LaTeisha Moore
Leah Sandholm
Levy Ratner, P.C.
Local 2110, UAW
Marcela Hahn and
Albie Kelley
Marilyn Neimark and
Alisa Solomon
Marina Heung
Marjorie Fine
Marjorie Smith
Media Democracy Fund
Michael Reynnells
Michael Seltzer and
Ralph Tachuk
Michelle O’Brien
Mike Pratt
Ms. Foundation for Women
Nathalia Kapetanakis
Nicholas Kapetanakis
Oona Chatterjee *
Peace Development Fund
Peter G. Meyer
Professional Staff Congress
Rachel and Andrew Hee
Rachel Sherman
Region 9A UAW
Richard Lefkowitz
Ruth Messinger
Sally Gottesman
Sally K. Donaldson, Ph.D.
Samora Fund
Sara Gould
Sarah Hansen* and Sally Kohn
Schott Foundation for
Public Education
Sheraton New York Hotel
and Towers
Sheri Cyd Sandler
Solangel Cubas Minotta *
Tara Mack *
The Correctional Association
The New York Women’s
Foundation
Victor and Anne Navasky
Victor Quintana
Wendy vanden Heuvel
Willis of New York, Inc.
$100 – $4991199 SEIU Training and
Employment Funds
Abato, Rubenstein, and
Abato, P.A.
Access Staffing, LLC
Adele and Sam Braude
Adhikaar for Human
Rights and Social Justice
Ahovi Kponou
Alison Moss/
Food Trends Catering
Allison Cheston
Allison K. Oldehoff
Amelia Tuminaro and
Michael Berlin
Ana Cepin and Ricardo Camilo
Andrea Swenson
Andrew Menard
Annika Many
Anonymous (6)
APICHA
Appalachian Community Fund
Arab Women Active in the Arts
and Media (AWAAM)
Ariel Foxman
Audra Acey
Barbara and Eugene Monick
Benita Miller
Bill Leavitt
Bob Siegel
Brian and Caroline Endless
Brian Kauffman
Brooklyn Young Mothers’
Collective
Bruce Auerbach
Bruce Green
Bruce Herman
Bushwick Housing
Independence Project
Carl Swanson
Carol Lynch and Lon Risley
Cheryl Gould
Chris Silvera, Local 808, I.B.T.
Christine Rico
Cidadao Global
Clarence Elie-Rivera
Community Voices Heard
Coy Pugh
Daniel Rose
Danielle Spurlock
David A. Korman
David E. and
Francine Alexander
David Elcock
David Russo
David Wagner and
Elizabeth Cecil
Deborah Clifford
Diana Correa
District Council 37, AFSCME
Dom and Mardi Tuminaro
Donna Dolan
Donna Schaper
Douglas Booth and
Margaret Simpson
Dr. Beth Singer
El Centro del Inmigrante
Elizabeth Miller
Ellen Brooks
Ellen Gurzinsky
Emily Kessler
Faith Pennick
For a Better Bronx
Fortune Society
Friends of Brook Park
George Pillsbury and
Mary Tiseo
Gerald and Melanie Moffitt
Good Old Lower East Side
Griot Circle
Harriet Cohen
Heather Rees
Heidi Klaimitz
Henry Serrano * "
Hildy Karp "
Jaecyne Howell
James Sober
Janet Wolfe
Jason Babbie
Jason Solle
Jean Passanante and
Jack Shannon
Jeffrey Blum
Joan Budd
Jo-Ann Mort
Joe Esposito
John Breitbart
John Sasko
Jonathan Wiener
Joseph Lipofsky
Joyce Nardulli
Judith Gerson
Judy Lee and Bill Herbert
June Makela and
Mark Fischweicher
Justine Kirby
KC Wagner
Kendell Burroughs
Kenrick Ross
Kevin Jennings and Jeff Davis
Kristin Tyler
La Union
Leonard Rodberg
Leonora Wiener
Linda and Paul Merschdorf
Linn Shapiro
Lisa Philp and Bill Bragin
Lise Vogel
Liz Gaynes
Lloyd Martinez
Local 1549 NYC Clerical
Administration Employees
Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW
Lorraine Monchak
Lynn Adelman
Lynn Cothren
Lynn Lane
Majora Carter
and James Chase
Marc Brooks
Marc Cole
Marcia Lawther
Maria Hinojosa
!
Marie Varghese
Martha Baker
Mary Stiehl
Mass Transit Street Theater
Maya Iwata
Mi Rincón Favorito
Michael Franklin
Michael McKee
Miguel Ortiz
Ming Jack Po
Miram Bader
Nancy Holmstrom and
Richard Smith
Nancy Kricorian and
James Schamus
National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health
Ned Kaufman
Patti Clarkson
Paula Gellman
Peggy Jarrell Kaplan
People’s Production House
Peter and Cora Weiss
Peter Beaudry
3534
Peter Kanning
Polly Withers
Posner-Wallace Foundation
Pyle, Rome & Ehrenberg, PC
Radha Patel
Rebecca and Paul Feuerstein
RESIST
Richard Mittenthal
Rinku Sen
Riptide Communications
Robert Hawkins
Robert Spencer
Roger and
Jennifer Tjong Tjin Tai
Ron and Ardelia Stewart
Ron Hanft
Ronna Brown
Rosalie Friend, Ph.D.
Rosalie Sassano
Rose Coppola and
Eileen Goldberg
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Roz Lee and Beverly Tillery
Sandra Roche
Sarah DeFeo
Sean Tenner
Sheila McDaniel *
Staci Alziebler
Stella Zahn
Susan Kupfer
Susan Langholz-Ceccarelli and
Joe Ceccarelli
Susan Lee
Thomas Wolf
Todd Maisch
Unionwear
United for a Fair Economy
Vivien Johnson
Vreni Hommes
$1 – $991199 SEIU League Labor
Management Project
Adam Gasiewicz
Adam Murphree
Adam Riegelhaupt
Albert Chung
Alejandra Dominguez
Alison Breward
Allan and Sallejane Seif
Andrea Roy
Anjana Malhotra
Anna Berg
Anne and Sidney Emerman
Anonymous (5)
Anthony Hernandez
Anthony Parker
Anthony Presata
Barbara Taveras
Bernard D. Tuchman
Border Crossers
Cameron Smith
Catherine Barnett
Cecilia Clarke
Christina Batorski
Christina Hemphill
cori schmanke parrish
CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME
Cynthia Greenberg
Cynthia Wong
Dagny Rodriguez
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers
Association
Damon Hewitt
Darryl Tom
Deborah Kochan and
Mathew Stephenson
Eleanor Bader
Elizabeth Lublina
Erica Waples
Erika Teutsch
Eskedar Getahun
Evie Joselow
Families Rally for
Emancipation and
Empowerment (FREE)
Frances Goldin
Gay Brookes
Ghesal Amiri
Gina Miller
Gloria Rodriguez
Greater New York Labor-
Religion Coalition
Gregg Wolfson
Ileana Infante
IndyKids
Iyassu Sebhat
Jackson Potter
Jaime Juan
Jaime Wolf
James Narron
Janai Nelson
Jane Penn
Jayne Hoffman
Jean Thompson
Jessi Hempel
Jill Hamberg
Joan Garver Anderson
Jodieann Nelson
John Hammond
Juan Tosado
Judith Quintana
Justin Swartz
Karyn Clark
Kate Black
Kimberly Hendler
Kimberly Wroblewski
Kingsbridge Heights
Neighborhood
Improvement Association
Korean American Community
Foundation
Kristen Cabildo
Kristina Rizga
Kurt Winiecki
Laura Kopp
Leslie Cagan and
Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
Lillian Moy
Linda Cronin-Gross
Lynn Faria
Lynn Lewis
Lynne Mayocole
Mario Lugay
Mark Leger and
John Robertson
Maya Winfrey
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Meghan McDermott
Michael Nahas
Michael Steven and
Debby Smith
Michelle Alexandre
Minerva Delgado
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Mision San Juan Bautista
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Associates, Inc.
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Nina Callaway
NODUTDOL
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Northeast Two-Spirit Society
NYC AIDS Housing Network
Olukemi Ilesanmi
Owusu Slater
Patricia Swann
Patricia Yanez
Paul O’Neil
Peter Kwiatek
Pratt Center for Community
Development
Public Sector/CUNY
Campaign
Rebecca Novak
Richard Ward
Rights for Imprisoned
People with Psychiatric
Disabilities
Robert Cermele
Robert Elder
Ronald Nelson
Rosalind Freundlich
Sally Evers
Sally Lee and Josh Heisler
Sandra Sirota
Sarah Ludwig * "
Scott Barshay and
Rachel Penn
Sean Basinski
Shannon Hales
Sishush Maru
Sonia Deane Williams
Stephanie Cuomo Dillon
Steven Jervis
Susan Bowers-Johnson
Susan Cohen
Tamar Kraft-Stolar
Thomas Assefa "
Thomas Hilgers
Toni Levi
USAction Education Fund
Vicki Fox
Wanda Imasuen "
Wendy Herm
Wilson Remodeling
Yemane Demmissie
HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUNDAdam Murphree
Albert Chung
Alejandra Dominguez
Anonymous (7)
Anthony Presata
Barbara Yanni
Brian and Caroline Endless
Christina Batorski
Coy Pugh
Danielle Spurlock
Darryl Tom
David Wagner and
Elizabeth Cecil
Deborah Kochan and
Mathew Stephenson
Diana Correa
Douglas Booth and
Margaret Simpson
Elizabeth Lublina
Ellen McLean
Fae Beaudry
Gene Carroll and
Barbara Kopple
Ghesal Amiri
Gloria Rodriguez
Jackson Potter
Jaecyne Howell
Janai Nelson
Janet Wolfe
Jean Thompson
Jim Metzinger
Jonathan Schorr *
Joyce Nardulli
Karyn Clark
Kimberly Wroblewski
Kristin Tyler
Kurt Winiecki
Laura Kopp
Linda Cronin-Gross
Lynda Rodolitz
Marc Brooks
Mario Lugay
Michelle Alexandre
Miram Bader
Miriam Neptune
Monte Stott and
Associates, Inc.
Murielle Placide
Peter Beaudry
Rebecca Novak
Richard Ward
Sally Lee and Josh Heisler
Sandra Roche
Scott Barshay and Rachel Penn
Sean Basinski
Sean Tenner
Solangel Cubas Minotta *
Susan Langholz-Ceccarelli
and Joe Ceccarelli
Thomas Hilgers
Thomas Wolf
Todd Maisch
Vivien Johnson
Wilson Remodeling
TRIBUTE GIFTSIn Honor of Katherine Acey
Audra Acey
David Becker
Ellen Gurzinsky
Gill Foundation
Harriet Cohen
Karen Zelermyer and
Tami Gold
KC Wagner
Kevin Jennings and Jeff Davis
Leslie Cagan and
Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
Liz Hirsch
Marion S. and Irwin Kaplan
Ms. Foundation for Women
Sara Gould
Sister Fund
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In Honor of Elise Boddie
Damon Hewitt
Ron and Ardelia Stewart
In Honor of Maria Castaneda
1199 SEIU Childcare
Corporation
1199 SEIU League Labor
Management Project
1199 SEIU Training and
Employment Funds
1199SEIU United Healthcare
Workers East
Abato, Rubenstein,
and Abato, P.A.
Access Staffing, LLC
Alison Moss/Food Trends
Catering
Augusta Y. Thomas, AFGE
Basil Paterson, Esq.
Bencom LLC
Chase
Committee of Interns and
Residents SEIU
Consolidated Color Press
Cushman & Wakefield
Enterprise Fleet Management
Exeplex, LLC
Gina Miller
IVCi, LLC
Martin Scheinman
N. Cheng & Co., P.C.
Premier Coach Tours, LLC
Pyle, Rome & Ehrenberg
Service Employees
International Union (SEIU)
Sheraton New York Hotel
and Towers
Unionwear
United States Fund for
UNICEF
Willis of New York, Inc.
In Honor of Jason Cooper,
Susan Herbert, Al Musella,
and Anne Musella
Judy Lee and Bill Herbert
In Honor of Toby D’Oench
George Pillsbury and
Mary Tiseo
In Honor of Lule Demmissie
Carl Swanson
David Russo
Justin Swartz
Wendy Herm
Yemane Demmissie
In Honor of Hugh Hogan
and Patrick Moffitt
Ariel Foxman
Michael J. Hirschhorn and
Jimena P. Martinez
In Honor of Rachel Hogan
Moffitt and Jane Hogan
Moffitt
Mary Stiehl
In Honor of Asad Mahmood
Alex Counts
Anonymous
Local Initiatives Support
Corporation
Posner-Wallace Foundation
In Honor of Sheila McDaniel
David Elcock
Evie Joselow
Kendell Burroughs
Ron Hanft
In Honor of
Jennifer Merschdorf
Linda and Paul Merschdorf
In Honor of Nancy Meyer
and Marc Weiss
Sylvia Weiss
In Honor of Sylvia Pecker
Judy Lee and Bill Herbert
In Honor of
Nisha Atre Richardson
Ahovi Kponou
Amber Patton
Ana Cepin and Ricardo Camilo
Gregg Wolfson
Jaime Juan
Marc Cole
Rachel and Andrew Hee
Roger and Jennifer
Tjong Tjin Tai
In Honor of Christen Schaffer
Leah Sandholm
In Honor of
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bill and Melinda
vanden Heuvel
Cheryl Gould
Jonathan Wiener
Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and
Adam Bartos
Peter and Cora Weiss
Sidney Hillman Foundation
Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
USAction Education Fund
Victor and Anne Navasky
Wendy vanden Heuvel
In Honor of Barbara Winslow
Bruce Auerbach
Deborah Slaner Larkin
Eugenia and David Ames
Paula Gellman
In Honor of Dottie Shtob
Judy Lee and Bill Herbert
MEMORIAL GIFTSIn Memory of
Betty Kapetanakis
Rosalie Sassano
Sally Evers
In Memory of Esta Armstrong
Erika Teutsch
WAYS TO GIVE
Each year, we raise most of our grant money from a diverse network of individuals, families, and businesses — from people like you. But just as resources come in many forms, there are many ways to give to North Star Fund.
You can put your money to work
right away by donating online at
northstarfund.org
You can mail a check to North Star Fund
You can keep your commitment going
by becoming a monthly sustainer.
You can invest in change by liberating
appreciated stocks, bonds, real property,
or life insurance.
You can celebrate friends, family,
and heroes with a tribute gift.
You can direct your own grants while also
supporting North Star Fund by opening a
donor-advised fund.
You can remember a legacy of social
justice through a memorial gift.
You can establish your own legacy by
planning now to leave a bequest.
For more ideas and information, please visit northstarfund.org /ways2give
For expert guidance on making a giving plan, please contact
Isabelle Leighton, North Star Fund’s Development Officer.
tel 212 620 9110 email Isabelle@northstarfund.org
* Member, Board of Directors
! Member, Advisory Board
" Member, Community
Funding Committee
Find out more, and donate online at www.northstarfund.org / support37
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TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY Year Ended June 30, 2010 UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL
Public Support, Revenue and Gains:
Public Support 2,283409 3,803,370 6,086,779
Revenue and Gains/(Losses) 169,554 747 170,301
Net Assets Released from Restrictions 1,715,179 (1,715,159) 0
Total Support, Revenue and Gains 4,168,142 2,088,938 0 6,257,080
Expenses:
Program Services 2,259,539 2,259,539
Supporting Services:
Management and General 186,640 186,640
Fundraising 419,247 419,247
Total Supporting Services 414,745 414,745
Total Expenses 2,978,786 0 0 2,978,786
(Decrease) Increase in Net Assets 1,189,356 2,088,938 0 3,278,294
Net Assets, Beginning of Year 837,456 424,832 1,000,000 2,262,288
Net Assets, End of Year 2,026,812 2,513,770 1,000,000 5,540,582
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Year Ended June 30, 2010
Assets Cash and Interest Bearing Deposits 2,839,837
Promises to Give 1,855,392
Investments 1,038,893
Fixed Assets
(net of accumulated depreciation) 108,830
Other Assets 26,627
Total Assets 5,869,579
Liabilities
Accrued Expenses 8,395
Other Liabilities 320,602
Total Liabilities 328,997
Net Assets
Unrestricted 2,026,812
Temporarily Restricted * 2,513,770
Permanently Restricted ** 1,000,000
Total Net Assets 5,540,582
Total Liabilities and Net Assets 5,869,579
* Temporarily Restricted Net Assets:
North Star Fund receives donor
advised contributions that are held
until donors recommend which
organizations will receive grants.
At June 30, 2010, the temporarily
restricted net asset balance of
$424,832 represents the amount
of donor contributions still held by
North Star Fund.
** Permanently Restricted Net Assets:
During a prior fi scal year, a donor
made a $1,000,000 irrevocable pledge
to establish the Betty Kapetanakis
Memorial Endowment Fund.
The purpose of the fund is to generate
unrestricted income. The principal
cannot, under any circumstances,
be drawn upon.
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES NORTH STAR FUND GRANTMAKING
$17,500 $21,500 $91,000 $656,960 $144,950 $1,170,041 $1,330,988 $1,453,950$311,469 $304,050 $380,000 $368,335 $463,840 $504,450 $517,277 $535,491
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$1,000,000
$500,000
$0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Donor Advised GrantsActivist-Led Grants
* During the year ended June
30, 2008, North Star Fund
entered into an agreement
with a donor advised partner
who was interested in making
large grants in the South
Bronx. This three-year part-
nership brought signifi cant
resources to a marginalized
area of New York City. During
the year ended June 30, 2010,
the New York State Public
Service Commission selected
North Star Fund as Greening
Projects Administrator to de-
velop a grantmaking program
that will result in nearly $7.9
million in grants to green the
infrastructure of neighbor-
hoods in Western Queens.
Total Grants and Programs
$2,559,539
86%
INCOME
Individual Donors
$1,960,220
31%
Fees and Investments
$222,590
4%
Foundation Partners
$175,000
3%
Donor Advised
Partners*
$3,899,270
62%
EXPENSES
Grants and Programs
$1,105,589
37%
Management and General
$186,640
6%
Development
$232,607
8%
Donor Advised Grants
$1,453,950
49%
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Elise Boddie
Oona Chatterjee, Chair
Lule Demmissie
Jason Franklin, Treasurer
Kathy Goldman
Sarah Hansen
Pierre Hauser
Sarah Ludwig
Tara Mack
Jennifer Merschdorf
Sheila McDaniel
Randall Quan
Julissa Reynoso
Nisha Atre Richardson, Secretary
Kevin Ryan, Vice Chair
Jonathan Schorr
Aarti Shahani
Maxim Thorne
In Memoriam:
Betty Kapetanakis, 1952 — 2002
COMMUNITY FUNDING
COMMITTEE
Sarah Ludwig, Co-Chair
Henry Serrano, Co-Chair
Carrie Gleason
Charles Long
Desiree Marshall
Ejeris Dixon
Hildy Karp
Jackie Mann
Jose Lopez
Joycelyn Gill-Campbell
Katrina Schaffer
Kevin Ryan
Nicole Lewis
Rob Robinson
Sarah Hansen
Steve Choi
Thomas Assefa
Valeria Treves
Wanda Imasuen
IN-KIND AND
CONSULTING SUPPORT
Alex Ellsworth
Alicia Korten, ReNual
AllSector Technology
Amy Ponce
Amy Sutnick Plotch
Andy Collazo,
Abrazos Music
& Entertainment
Anne Gardon
Brian Palmer
Carolina Kroon
Chien-Li Chung,
Camelthorn, LLC
Gerard Gaskin
Joo-Hyun Kang
Keith Miyake
ADVISORY BOARD
Gene Carroll
Maria Hinojosa
Craig Kaplan
Pamela Koslow
Manning Marable, Ph.D.
Monami Maulik
Iris Morales
Michael Ratner
Arva Rice
John Sayles
Cornel West, Ph.D.
Barbara Winslow
In Memoriam:
Grace Paley, 1922 — 2007
David Hunter, 1916 — 2000
NORTH STAR FUND STAFF
Hugh Hogan
Executive Director
Diana Correa
Deputy Director for Programs
and Strategic Initiatives
cori schmanke parrish
Deputy Director of Finance
and Operations
Lucia Gajda
Events Associate
Mark Leger
Communications Manager
Isabelle H. Leighton
Development Officer
Victor Tobar
Administrative Coordinator
Monica Thalla
and Emerson Soto
Betty Kapetanakis
Memorial Interns
Lee Delgado
Mya Kagan
Miriam Fogelson
Noah Scalin, Another Limited
Rebellion Design
Olga Sanabria
Paul Getsos
Patrick Moffitt
Sara Pisani, CPA
Scott Lu
Sharon Wyse
Steven McCutcheon
Susan Fine and Christie Auw,
Oases Real Estate
Thor Ritz
ANNUAL REPORT
Design
Hyperakt Design Group, Inc.
Photography
Brian Palmer
Miriam Fogelson
BJ Formento
Gerard Gaskin
Carolina Kroon
Printing
Recycled Paper Printing
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2203New York, NY 10018 – 6656
tel 212 620 9110fax 212 620 8178
www.northstarfund.org