Fiscal Year 2012 Annual www.childrensvillage.org Report www.childrensvillage.org Founded in 1851, The Children's Village is a charitable organization that specializes in working with the most vulnerable children and families in the New York metropolitan region. The Children’s Village reaches thousands of children, teens and families through a variety of innovative community-based and residential programs. The Village was named Agency of the Year by the Alliance for Children and Families, is approved by the Better Business Bureau, and this year was re-accredited by The Council on Accreditation. Administrative Office and Residential Campus One Echo Hills Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 914-693-0600 New York City Office 2090 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. New York, NY 10027 212-932-9009 Bronx Office 400 E. Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10468 718-220-4700 To volunteer, donate, or get involved visit our website or follow CV1851 on About The Children’s Village
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Fiscal Year 2012
Annual
www.childrensvillage.org
Report
www.childrensvillage.org
Founded in 1851, The Children's Village is a charitable organization thatspecializes in working with the most vulnerable children and families in theNew York metropolitan region. The Children’s Village reaches thousands ofchildren, teens and families through a variety of innovative community-basedand residential programs. The Village was named Agency of the Year by theAlliance for Children and Families, is approved by the Better Business Bureau,and this year was re-accredited by The Council on Accreditation.
Administrative Office andResidential Campus
One Echo HillsDobbs Ferry, NY 10522
914-693-0600
New York City Office2090 Adam Clayton
Powell Blvd.New York, NY 10027
212-932-9009
Bronx Office400 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10468718-220-4700
To volunteer, donate, or get involved visit our website or follow CV1851 on
About The Children’s Village
Children need love and unconditional belonging, and family is where thathappens best. Our goal in everything we do is to strengthen those importantrelationships and, when that fails, create new loving families and sustain themfor the future. Our work has expanded in recent years, but everything we docontinues to be about keeping children safe and families together!
Today, our campus in Dobbs Ferry is no longer the “home” where childrencome to live, but rather a short-term “emergency room” where we stabilizebehavior, provide intervention, and prepare youth to be successful. Our workin the community now spans all five boroughs of New York City as well as thelower Hudson Valley with family support services, shelters, street outreach, anda clinic for families in our beautiful new Bronx office. And we are sharing ourexpertise overseas, providing help to professionals working with families in theNetherlands and Iraq.
I am delighted to share that The Children’s Village has been selected as asemi-finalist in the 2012 New York Nonprofit Excellence Awards. This is atremendous honor, and I am proud of our staff members whose dedicationand expertise make a difference to so many people every day.
I hope the pages of this report give you an understand-ing of the tremendous impact your generosity has on thelives of children and families. Thank you for choosing tosupport this important work.
Jeremy C. Kohomban, Ph.D.President and CEO
Your support helped keep more than 10,000 children safeand families together this past year. On behalf of all ofthem, thank you!
Meet Some of the People You Helped to Succeed
Numbers Served
Residential School
Day School
Family Preservation& Reunification
Shelters & SupportedHousing
Foster Homes
Immigration Services
Crisis Stabilization
701
74
2,230
310
363
371
127
123
107
589
5,279
10,274
WAY Home
Affordable Housing
Polo Grounds CommunityCenter
Community OutreachThis does not include
677 hotline calls.
Total
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Deanna - No Longer Homeless
Deanna is bright, cheerful, and optimistic. Although, after lis-tening to the story of her relatively short life, one wondershow she maintains her positive outlook. In a short time,Deanna lost her mother to suicide, was abandoned by herfather, and kicked out by her grandparents. “I was really lostand had no idea what to do,” Deanna said.
A school counselor referred her to CV’s Transitional Living Program (TLP), andher bleak situation started to turn around. In the 15 months that Deanna hasbeen in the program, she graduated high school, worked several jobs, built asavings account, and is working on her cosmetology license.
Deanna credits a lot of her growth to the work she’s done with her therapist,Dr. Beverly Richard. “Knowing I have someone to talk to really makes a differ-ence,” she said. “I had a lot of pain and hurt feelings to figure out, but I’mdoing really well now.”
Deanna’s next challenge will be leaving TLP and living independently. “I don’tknow what’s next, but I’m looking forward to whatever it is.”
Todd - Out of Jail and Back on Track
Sixteen-year-old Todd made a lot of mistakes. He hada history of truancy, was using drugs and had joined agang. Not surprisingly, he ended up in detention afterbeing arrested with a gun.
Statistically, 75% of youth who leave detention go rightback in within a year. CV’s Multisystemic Therapy(MST) Program helps kids like Todd beat those odds.Therapists work with the family intensively for just a fewmonths, but during that time, they help the family learnto solve problems on their own.
When the MST team met Todd’s family, they found that things were worsethan they thought. Todd’s 10 year old sister had begun down the same path,and there was a real risk that she would be taken from their mother. The CVteam helped their mom develop a plan for both children that includedclosely supervised activities, that encourage good choices and tough conse-quences for poor ones.
Todd is attending school regularly, joined the basketball team, and has devel-oped some positive friends. His sister continues to following in his path, now apositive one.
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Outcomes
Children Find FamiliesAdoptions mean family, and family means having people who will love youthrough mistakes and setbacks. Too often, children enter foster care and lan-guish there year after year with their con-nections to family slipping away.
Last year, CV helped 33 children find a per-manent family through adoption, exceed-ing our goal by 26%. In addition, through ourfoster care program dozens of other youngpeople were connected to families who willsupport them through young adulthood.
Each child who is welcomed into a perma-nent family is more likely to have the kind ofchildhood that leads to becoming a productive adult.
Public Cost Savings Annually: $825,000One year of foster care costs an average of $25,000. Finding 33 children permanent families saved thepublic $825,000 in just one year. Many children who enter foster care stay several years.
Grads Have a World of PossiblitiesWalking across the stage and receiving ahigh school diploma is not just a milestone inone’s life. High school graduation is the start-ing point for college, vocational training, orsuccessful employment.
Many of our students are the first graduates intheir families. For them, it can be the key tobreaking out of an intergenerational cycle ofpoverty.
This past year, 91% of students at our residential school graduated—our high-est percentage ever. When compared to a graduation rate of less than 55%for New York City schools, the accomplishment of our students and educatorsis even more impressive.
Helping students graduate not only saves taxpayers in future spending, it alsogives young adults the tools to live productively with a sense of accomplish-ment and dignity.
Public Cost Savings: $1.87 millionHigh school graduates earn, on average, $280,000 more in their lifetimes than if they did not finish school.In addition, each black male high school graduate saves $186,500 in taxes paid and reductions in healthcare, crime, and welfare over the course of a lifetime. This year’s 10 graduates will save the public $1.87million dollars. Data gathered from research by Cutler Consulting funded by the Jim Casey YouthOpportunities Initiative and the Center for Cost-Based Studies at Columbia University.
The ultimate goal of all our programs is to prepare youth to be successful asadults. Following are some of the achievements and outcomes in 2012.
Teens Stay HomeWhen teens are out of control, often theonly solution is to remove them from theirhomes. This can result in multiple andlengthy stays in residential centers or evenprison. Our Preventive Program helps fami-lies get their youth on track before serioustrouble ever starts.
In the past year, 97% of teens in this pro-gram, all of whom were at risk of removal,
remained at home. This success came from engaging the entire family inlearning and practicing the skills to be successful and support each other.
Public Cost Savings annually: $6.4 millionResidential programs cost approximately $125,000 annually. It only costs $8,000 to serve one family in ourPreventive Program. Assuming that 75% of the 75 families served in the program would have at least oneyouth removed, CV’s Preventive Program saved $6.4 million of public dollars last year, plus significantpublic dollars in the future by avoiding incarceration, food assistance, public health care, and other socialservices.
Teens Avoid HomelessnessOvercoming homelessness is complicated.The financial challenges can take a decadeto overcome and the emotional distress andshame can be debilitating. Our solution is tohelp teens before they hit rock bottom.
The Life’s Bridges Supported Housing pro-gram is designed to provide homeless teensnot just a place to live, but also the life skillsand emotional support needed to live inde-pendently.
Last year, 83% of teens living in Life’s Bridges transitioned from the programdirectly to permanent housing. They left with a job, money in a savings ac-count, and a support network of personal and professional contacts. Many ofthese young adults are already working toward a college degree. See page 3to read about one successful Life’s Bridges’ grad.
Public Cost Savings: $660,000+Homeless individuals stay in a shelter for an average of three years throughout their lifetimes at a cost of$69,000. Life’s Bridges costs $21,000 on average and provides youth with the tools needed to defeat
chronic homelessness. Just keeping 15 youth out of shelters saves taxpayer $660,000 plus savings inthe reduction of social services over a lifetime. Data gathered from the Coalition for the Homeless. 54
Please Note . . .The names listed in this Annual Report have supported our work throughfinancial contributions, gifts in kind, or volunteering during the past fiscalyear (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012). We sincerely hope that this list iscomplete, but if we have inadvertently omitted your name, please bringit to our attention. We are grateful to every one of our supporters.
Program ExpensesResidential SchoolFamily Preservation & ReunificationFoster HomesDivision of Immigration ServicesMedical & Mental HealthShelters & Short-term ResidentialAffordable HousingCrisis StabilizationCommunity Outreach to YouthPolo Grounds Community CenterWAY Home
Management & GeneralFundraising
Operating Expenses:
Government Grants & ContractsAffordable Housing (Rent)Interest IncomeMiscellaneous
The Children’s Village Summary of Operations - FY2012Excerpts from the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.
52,887,7005,730,000309,900
$57,018,1001,075,000
50,00040,000
Operating Revenue:
Contributions, Grants, Events (net)Restricted - Program SpecificUnrestricted
1) This Operations Summary does NOT reflect depreciation expense and othernon-cash accounting activity.
2) The Consolidated Audited Financial Statements will be available in 1/13.
3) The IRS Form 990 will be available on our website in May, 2013.
Fundraising
With your help, The Children’s Village raised $3.4 million from private individu-als, foundations, and corporations in fiscal year 2012. This includes funds raisedfor programs, capital funds, and legacy gifts which, by Board resolution, areused to grow our endowment. In addition to private dollars, the Agency won$1.6 million in competitive government grants to start new programs or en-hance existing ones. All of these funds were critical not only to keeping theorganization financially sound, but also to furthering our charitable mission ofproviding quality programming for children and families.
Cost as a percentage of funds raised is 6.2%. Or, 93 cents of every dollarraised supports future or current programs and operations.
Private Oonations for Operating SupportProgram supportUnrestricted
Private Donations for Non-Operating SupportCapitalEndowmentPlanned Giving
Competitive Governement Grants
Total Fundraising
Fundraising Cost
$1,739,630
1,693,708
1,576,342
$5,009,680
$309,900
$1,106,529633,101
1,150,097438,330105,281
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David Koenigsberg &Ada Huang
Jeremy & LisaKohomban
Barry & Lori KupferbergDirk & Mary LandisYoung Lae & In-YoungLee
Raymond MaciociJed ManocherianRobert & Diana MattsonStephen Mc Culloch &Kathleen Crowley
Daniel McCarthy & MitraMeshgin-Poosh
McGraw Hill CompaniesGabriel & MarielaMelamed
Lee & Pam MinerMorgan StanleyPeter & Patricia MuratoreMichael & Linda MureO'Connor Davies Munns& Dobbin, LLP
Richard & Ellen PassovPepsi Bottling GroupPfizer, Inc.Stone & Debra PhillipsHarrison & MargaretPierce
Jackie PlumezJohn & Madryn Priesing
Brian & Luann GoldfarbGoldman Sachs & Co.Bunny Grossinger &Al Kaltman
Jason & Jennifer HaasSusan HabermannRobert & Buffy HallinanJill Hayman & LeslieNelson
Patrick HerreraWilliam & Hope HirshornGeorge & Ellen HodorJonathan & Judy HoffDavid HowePeter & Carol HoweBrett Humpreys &Samantha Merton
IBM CorporationJackson Lewis, LLPLawrence & EricaJaeger
Jonathan & LindaKamen
Robert & Jane KeiterKeyBank CorporateBanking
Kipp Star College PrepCharter School
Kirkwood FoundationDavid & Jan KittayKleen Sweep ContainerServices, Inc.
Matching GiftsThe following companies have made contributionson behalf of their employees through their MatchingGift Programs:
Alliance Bernstein MasterCard WorldwideAXA Foundation MBIA FoundationBarclays Capital McGraw Hill FoundationThe Chase Manhattan The New York CommunityFoundation Trust
Doris Duke Foundation PepsiCo FoundationGoldman Sachs & Co. Pfizer, Inc.Macquarie Group UBSFoundation Limited Unilever
When you are making a donation to The Children’sVillage, please check to see if your company has amatching gift program. Every dollar counts!
Deutsche BankEnterpriseGrant ThorntonMichael & Betty JoHannigan
Hogan Lovells US LLPJVKellyGroup, Inc.Pat LanzaLeaden Associates, Inc.Thomas & ElizabethMartin
MDC Partners, Inc.Daniel & JosephineMolino
Mount Carmel PharmacyPaul D. SchurgotFoundation
Armand & JanicePaganelli
Roger & JoannePaganelli
Leslie & Yvonne PollackDavid & ElisabethPoppick
Robert & Ardis JamesFoundationArthur & RebeccaSamberg
Luis Carlos SarmientoSodexoSontag Advisory, LLCSteele Family Foundation
$1,000 to $4,999Ernest & KathyAbrahamson
AFECLee & Jeanne Allen
Most of the gifts we receive throughout theyear are not designated for a particular pur-pose and are used to support CV’s ongoingwork. We thank you for this support which al-lows us to apply funds where they are neededmost. Gifts for specific programs are listed sep-arately.
McMillan, Constabile,Maker & Perone, LLPMorgan Stanley SmithBarney
Steve & Vickie MorrisCatherine MulhernDaniel & Susan NobelNaomi OppmannOxman Tulis KirkpatrickWhyatt & Geiger LLPRye Police AssociationAntonio & Randee PolitoPresbyterian Church ofMt. Kisco
Helen RayPhilip & Lois RosenRosin SteinhagenMendelSacred Heart AcademyGlen & Ann SatherValerie ScanlonJeffrey & Linda SolomonDavid StomskiLisa TaneThe Hebrew Home forthe Aged at Riverdale
The Millennium Group,Inc.
The Presbyterian ChurchTimko & Moses LLPThomas & Ali TurnerUnited HealthcareScott Univer & KarenMesberg
Francine & BernardVernon
XL Insurance
Up to $499AnonymousJonathan AbesEmmanuel AcevedoAnthony AdamoSally AdamsStefanie AdlerAetnaYvonne AlbaneseNorm & CaroleAlexander
Phil & Cathy AlfusRobert Allan & DianneSchirripa
Paul AllendeAlliance BernsteinNed & Melissa AllisIris AmbertAdelaide CarolynAmend
Honor & Memorial GiftsAn Honor or Memorial Gift offers you a thoughtful, caring way toremember a loved one or special occasion while contributing to ourvital mission of helping children and families.
Gifts were madein Memory of:Ann FrankAase Grethe HolbyShirley MaiselPeter SchellhornIrving Simon
To make an Honor or Memorial Gift, please contact the DevelopmentDepartment at 914-693-0600 ext. 1224 or go to www.childrensvillage.org. We
will send a card to your loved one notifying him or her of the gift. If you wish,we will include a message from you.
Jonathan AbesAnthony AdamoRaymond & SandiBienstock
Iain & Linda BruceShawn & Stacey EwaldPaul & Lori FeldmanBarbara Flicker
Scott & AbbyGreenspun
Lawrence & EricaJaeger
Stephanie KleinBarry & Lori KupferbergJoshua LauritoKathleen McDonough& Giulio Pierotti
Ron & Andrea NeumanPhilip & Cini PalmerPam PetersonPeter & Janet PoillonAlan & Amy RosenJeffrey & Linda SolomonTim & Erin StevensRobert & Denise TaurielloMonique Tuttle
Amateur triathlete and CV TrusteeGregg Bienstock uses his racing for agood cause with his “Tri-ing for CV” cam-paign. Since its inception, Tri-ing for CVhas raised almost $250,000. Listed hereare donors from July 2011 to June 2012.
Tri-ing for CV
Julia ShubikDaniel ShurtsMatthew SilvestriPeter Simmons & HaigChahinian
Leonard & Gail SimonNoah SimonLinda & Richard SitmanIona SmithRachel SmithHerbert & CatherineSmith
Lynsy Smithson-StanleyDan SolomonJohn & Elizabeth StahlDoris StammMartha StanifordNorman StantonRichard SteuerTim & Erin StevensScott StowellBarbara StutzJoseph & Linda StutzSuffern High SchoolSUNY Empire StateCollege
Other ProgramsMazzarelli ChiropracticHealth Center
Robert & EllenGutenstein
Project IMPACTFrench-American Aid forChildren
Some programs, such as Books for Boys,Assistance Dog Training, and the WAYHome, are made possible through pri-vate support. We thank you for help-ing us keep these important programsalive.
Restricted Gifts Marianne Durand-DuffyEd & Anna FilardiDarlene FinneganFirst Unitarian Church ofWestchester
Candida FittsFood Bank forWestchester
Jane FosterBarbara FragomenCasey
Ann GaillardCadence GenereauxSalma GoldsteinErica GrahamMary Pat GreeffDeborah GreenbergSharon HummersLisa JoyceDeborah KjeldsenDiana KlingnerKori LannonMary LuisiSusan MacDonaldJeryl MalloyLauren MandellFrank & Ann ManningGina MartinThe Max & VictoriaDreyfus Foundation
Lone Pine FoundationThe Charles A. FrueauffFoundation
The Mary A. and John M.McCarthy Foundation
New Yorkers For ChildrenThe PinkertonFoundation
Tudor Foundation
WAY WorksDavid & BarbaraGarodnick
David & Cathi LuskiMaximumFoundation
Polo GroundsCitizens Committee forNew York CityHenry & Ann Rose SimonCooperatieve CentraleRaiffeisen -Boerenleenbank, B.A.
ToyotaShawn Hiner-Leamon
RecreationJanet I. BentonThe Keith HaringFoundation
Mark & Jennifer KlionLee & Pam MinerGeorge & Suzy Whaling
SanctuaryAstoria Federal SavingsCheryl BarrettKerry BascioLamia BeydounGretchen BiggsBJ's Charitable FundCecilia BowersDavid & Janine BussStuart & Barbara CaplanDebra CelebreKatharine ChapmanChing-Hua Chen-RitzoCourtney ChernaLaura CoashAdrienne ColemanLeslie CooperCooperative ExtensionAssociation of RocklandCounty
Lisa CrawfordPatty CromieGwendolyn DaySuzanne DiddelSusan Fern Doyle
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Legacy SocietyThe Children’s Village Legacy Societywas formed in 2010 to honor the manyfriends who have made a lasting com-mitment to our work by rememberingThe Children’s Village in their estateplans or making a planned gift. Thesegifts will help to secure the future of CVfor years to come.
Platinum CircleJanet I. BentonPaul & Barbara JenkelWilliam & Anne KrupmanJames & JacquelineMannThomas & ElizabethMartinThe Simon Family
Legacy MembersEugene & Ingrid AlbertDavid & Fran AlexanderLois S. AmendGregg & Beth BienstockJames CayneJacques R. ChabrierPeter Cieszko & JenniferBradyNan DaleRobert & TraciDeConcini
Edward & Jirina EmersonAmelia Jones FeinbergAnthony & Judie GellerMatthew & MargaretGoldsteinEdward & EuniceGoodingDonald & FrancesHerdrickGeorge & Ellen HodorFrederick & HarriettHoldsworthMarjorie Luce JohnstonReginald S. KoehlerJeremy & LisaKohombanKevin & Shayme LifeSalvatore & LouiseMessina
John & Madryn PriesingJeanne RichmanAnthony Riotto & LynnKlein
Thomas & AllisonRobbinsJohn & Betty RussellJames SauvilleMichael & PamelaSchaenenH. Axel Schupf & SaraLee SchupfSabin & BeverelyStreeterSteve & Deborah TroupTwelve Good DeedsPeter & Linda WeillerGeorge & Suzy WhalingTherese WiedmannMichael & JenniferWoods
If you have mentioned The Children's Village in your will, give us the opportunityto show our appreciation that you have become a partner in our future by be-coming a member of The Children's Village Legacy Society. Members will havea permanent listing in our Annual Report and have their names engraved onthe Donor Wall recently erected in Wetmore Hall.
For more information or to enroll in the Legacy Society,please call Linda Stutz at 914-693-0600 ext. 1413
Each year we receive thousands of do-nations of goods that enhance ourprograms and our families’ lives. Manyof these donations come in during theholidays or are used at events to helpus raise needed funds. Whatever yourgift, thank you.
St. John's ChurchStewartsStop and ShopStrang Middle SchoolSts. John and PaulSchool
SubwaySuffern Senior HighSchool
St. Anthony of PaduaChurch
Tantillo's FarmTargetTeamworxToga BikesTokens N TicketsTorino's BakeryUptown 99Uptown Deli 2Uptown LaundromatWalmartWestchester School ofBeauty Culture
Windslow Heating & ACWoodlands CommunityTemple
World Hotels 152Youth Mission of Life
Hudson ValleyRenegades
IBMInterfaith CaringCommunity
Jimbo's HamburgerPlace
Jones Family GroupThe Journal NewsJumpin' JakesJunior League ofWestchester-on-Hudson
Each year hundreds of people volunteertheir time to enhance the lives of the chil-dren we serve. Listed here are activevolunteers during the last fiscal year. Weapologize that we cannot list the namesof everyone who volunteered as part ofa group or corporation.
Volunteers
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Every Wednesday morning,our volunteer “In-Kinders”group collects, sorts, and
GroupsAlpha Phi AlphaFraternityGrace Baptist ChurchInterfaith CaringCommunityKappa Alpha PsiFraternityMasterCard WorldwideMercy College RotaractClubMorgan StanleyPresbyterian Church ofMt. KiscoPace UniversityPepsi Beverage Co.Pepsi Bottling GroupScarsdale Rotary ClubScarsdale Woman'sClubSt. Matthias ChurchThe ChilesUnion Baptist ChurchThe Masters SchoolYouth Mission of Life
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PepsiCo adopted a cottage on our Dobbs Ferry campus three years ago, and theyvisit every month to play games, share meals, and
get to know the boys.
TRUSTEES
SECRETARYJanet I. Benton
Lois S. AmendGregg Bienstock
Leonard ComberiateHeidi DavidsonEmma DeVito
Edward GoodingDavid D. Howe
Kevin J. LifePamela Loscher
William A. KrupmanJames E. MannThomas MartinRobert Mattson
Susan Anspach NobelAnthony RiottoRobert S. RobbinAdriana SarmientoMichael SchaenenMark ScherzerSanjay SinglaDavid W. SmithAaron C. SokolikJames M. TimkoFrancine VernonMichael J. Woods
HONORARY MEMBERSFr. Benedict Groeschel
Stone Phillips
TRUSTEES EMERITIMargery Luce JohnstonEsther RidderPRESIDENT AND CEO
Jeremy C. Kohomban, Ph.D.
Our TrusteesWe would like to extend special thanks to our Board of Trustees whoseleadership, guidance, and support makes our work possible.
CHAIRMANNoah Simon
SECRETARYRosario Gumpeng
MEMBERS
Manuela AlbirMatthew BishMark Corritori
Steven Kay
Kyle LazarusAaron MackAli MirianRick Parra
Leadership CouncilThis group of young professionals supports our work not just financially, butalso through their time, energy, and enthusiasm.
