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Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) empowers young men to avoid involvement in the criminal justice system by reshaping their futures through educational achievement, meaningful employment, and financial independence. GOSO focuses on the individuals’ capacities and strengths, as well as developmental needs and emotional well-being. Our aim is to promote personal, professional, and intellec tual growth through goal-oriented programming and comprehensive social suppo rt services.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 04
Changing the Conversation
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SAVE East Harlem
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Letter from Mark Goldsmith President & CEO
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Our Impact
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Letter from Rég André Board Chair
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Growing as a Leader –Isaiah Saunders
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Who We Serve
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My Education Goes Beyond a Classroom –Kailib Jenkins
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Our Approach
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Board & Staff
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Reentry Services
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Ways to Give
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Community-Based Services
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Our Supporters
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GOSOWorks Employer Map
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Financial Statement
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CHANGING THE CONVERSATION At GOSO, redefining reentry includes changing the conversation around criminal justice, starting with the language we use. By using humanizing, person-first language, we can more fully support the aspirations of our participants as well as others who are formerly-incarcerated and/or justice-involved.
Person-first language reminds us that people are not defined by their criminal background. They are people first, before anything else. In this way, person-first language humanizes individuals who have experienced marginalization and breaks down the stigma that separates people and communities. Language has a lot of power — power to help and power to hurt. Below you can find examples of person-first language, as well as language to avoid when discussing issues around incarceration and criminal justice involvement.
GOSO Participants GOSO is a fairly unique program. One reason is that the young men who are enrolled in our program are active and voluntary participants. In recognition of this, we use the term “participant” to refer to our guys, and encourage others to do the same.
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Justice-Involved We use the term “justice-involved” because it is both humanzing and accurate when discussing the young men with whom we work. All young men at GOSO are participants; of those, many have had some kind of involvement in the criminal justice system, though not all have been incarcerated.
Formerly-Incarcerated and Returning Citizens While the term “formerly-incarcerated” is often used in our field, many have also started using the phrase “returning citizen.” “Returning citizen” de-stigmatizes the experiences of those who have been incarcerated while emphasizing the goal of reintegration into the community and society.
PHRASES TO AVOID
PHRASES TO USE INSTEAD
Inmate, prisoner
Incarcerated person, person who is incarcerated, person in detention
Convict, criminal, felon, offender, delinquent
Person convicted of a crime, person with justice system involvement
Ex-convict, ex-criminal, ex-felon, ex-offender
Formerly justice-involved, person with previous justice system involvement
Ex-prisoner, former prisoner, parolee, probationer
Formerly-incarcerated, returning citizen
At-risk
Vulnerable to justice system involvement
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LETTER FROM MARK GOLDSMITH Dear Friends, If you wanted to visit me at the headquarters of GOSO, which I founded in 2004, you would have had to meet me at a Starbucks in downtown Manhattan. Every day I arrived at my “office” — a small table in the coffee shop — and charged into my day of one-on-one meetings with young men seeking to break the cycle of incarceration. For the first year, it was just me sitting across the café table from a young man ready for change but unsure of where to begin. That first year helped me understand the obstacles standing between these young men and a life of personal and professional success: Not having a place to sleep at night; insufficient funds for necessities like a Metrocard; lack of job skills or education to secure meaningful employment and financial stability. Add to that complex mental and emotional stressors, it was clear that these men needed a robust support system beyond what I alone could offer. So, in 2005, I decamped from the coffeeshop and established GOSO in East Harlem. Flash forward fifteen years and I’m immensely proud of what GOSO has become: a recognized leader in supporting justiceinvolved young men in NYC. Our signature approach, the Three E’s, seeks to support participants emotionally so that they can thrive and succeed in their educational and employment pursuits. And it’s working: Our recidivism rate is less than 15%, far below the national average. We’re humbled by the trust our participants have in us, their GOSO team. We’re proud of the recognition they (and we) are receiving:
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[GOSO is] able to reach individuals in communities that most city agencies, most community-based organizations would struggle to reach. They’re able to put them on a trajectory towards a better, healthier lifestyle, link them to necessary resources, mentor, and coach individuals so they have the support and ability to thrive, just like every other New Yorker. ––Eric Cumberbatch, Mayor’s Office to Prevent Gun Violence
GOSO has changed significantly since 2004. Our office is no longer a table at a cafe, and our team is no longer just me, but an entire staff of people dedicated to our mission. What hasn’t changed is that our participants have us in their corner. We’ve been there for them for the past 15 years and will continue to be there for them for the next 15. GOSO is all about the guys! I want to thank you so much for your continued and generous support of GOSO. Sincerely,
Mark Goldsmith President & CEO
Dear Friends, Every day, young men are walking through the doors of GOSO’s East Harlem headquarters and finding a team of people ready to invest in their personal success. Each participant has someone to see his potential, believe in his passion, and be his champion. We make a pact with our participants: do the work and show up, physically and mentally, and we’ll do the same for you. Every day, GOSO staff delivers on their promise, providing holistic support that prioritizes the mental and emotional well-being of our participants alongside the resources they need to succeed As a result, GOSO participants are thriving and creating community – a brotherhood of ambitious young men encouraging one another forward. Seeing this dynamic inspired one of GOSO’s most successful new initiatives, the Leaders in Training (LIT) program. This program offers a framework for participants interested in developing leadership abilities to become an effective and respected voice among their peers. The men in our inaugural cohort will receive training in conflict mediation, basic legal rights and much more. LIT fosters a sense of agency among participants, pushing them to be catalysts for change.
LETTER FROM RÉG ANDRÉ
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Delivering on our promise to participants also means continuing to expand GOSO’s services to address their most fundamental needs: We’re expanding our staff to offer even more resources to participants. Our new housing and benefits specialist connects our participants with stable housing and benefits like health care and SNAP. We’ve also hired an Employment Development Associate who focuses on employment opportunities for our adolescent participants. We’re building out an Advanced Curriculum that will offer more opportunities for our participants to learn skills like salary negotiation, financial literacy, civics, and entrepreneurship. I’m in awe of the incredible work being done by GOSO participants and staff. Our methods are working, our capacity is growing and we’re thankful to all those whose support powers us forward. Sincerely,
Réginal André Chairman, Board of Directors
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WHO WE SERVE
BOROUGH
33% Bronx
41%
Participants GOSO serves 16- to 24-year-old justice-involved young men who reside in New York City. Our work brings us to the jails on Rikers Island, Upstate Prisons, and Juvenile Detention Centers, where we hope to encourage participants to enter our community program in East Harlem.
Manhattan
7%
Queens
GOSO serves approximately 1,000 active participants across our community and reentry programs. This includes 500 participants in the community program, 350 in our Upstate Correspondence Program, and 150 in the jails on Rikers Island. Aside from our work with active participants, we also connect with hundreds of young men who are currently incarcerated, providing information on our services and inviting them to take the first step in radically reshaping their lives.
17% 1%
Brooklyn
Staten Island
1%
RACE/ETHNICITY
65%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
26%
HISPANIC/LATINO
5%
BIRACIAL MULTI-RACIAL
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2%
WHITE/CAUCASIAN
1%
OTHER
1%
outside of New York City
OUR APPROACH
MORE DEMOGRAPHICS
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16
24
Average age of participants
GOSO’s work is framed by our Three E’s: Education, Employment, and Emotional Well-being. We believe that all three work together to form a foundation on which GOSO participants can build their futures.
EDUCATION
20%
25%
50%
of participants are fathers
GOSO encourages participants to earn their high school equivalency diploma at our on-site school, or in an off-site high school or equivalency program. We support participants in exploring different educational opportunities, including trade school and college-level education, depending on their goals and aspirations.
EMPLOYMENT
of active participants have reported a trauma score of clinical significance (PCL-5 Trauma Screen) since 2018
of participants are experiencing homelessness or are unstably housed
Meaningful work experience that builds skills and opens doors is a crucial pathway to self-reliance. Since its inception, GOSO has provided comprehensive job readiness training to all participants, providing the tools and guidance to help them enter the workforce. Understanding the barriers that justice-involved people face in the job market, our GOSOWorks program connects participants with internship-to-employment opportunities to help level the playing field and assist our participants in earning full-time employment.
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING A unique aspect of GOSO’s programming is our strong emphasis on mental health. Our staff of licensed social workers seeks to ensure that every participant has the support necessary to achieve their goals, avoid recidivism, and maintain their independence. More than 50% of GOSO participants present with a mental health issue, such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, or a substance use disorder. Through assessment, individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluations, and referrals to more comprehensive treatment, our staff works with participants to address these issues so they can perform at their best in their community, in school, and on the job.
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REENTRY SERVICES Rikers Island GOSO staff and interns recruit and provide supportive programming to eligible young men on Rikers Island. This includes those sentenced to relatively minor crimes (and who will complete their sentences on Rikers Island), as well as those detained on the Island awaiting adjudication of their cases. We primarily recruit in dorms, cells, and in the Department of Education schools across various Rikers Island jails. Our primary goal on Rikers Island is to recruit participants for our community program upon release. For sentenced participants, we are able to arrange appointments upon release as we know when they are returning to the community. For those who are unsentenced and have an uncertain release date, we focus on court advocacy. We provide supportive counseling in the context of this uncertainty and prepare some participants for potentially long prison sentences.
Adolescent Detention and Reentry With the adoption of Raise the Age legislation, which changed the age of adult criminal responsibility for most crimes in New York from 16 to 18, adolescents who were previously detained and/or incarcerated are now housed in adolescent detention facilities. There are two main facilities in New York City; Horizon in the Bronx and Crossroads in Brooklyn. Our long-term objective is to provide both recruitment and programming to Horizon and Crossroads, running workshops and groups, as well as reentry planning and care coordination.
Upstate Correspondence Upstate correspondence is the most cohesive and consistent program we offer to participants incarcerated in New York State Prisons. Many of our correspondents were participants in our Rikers Island or Adolescent Detention programs and were sentenced to Upstate prisons, and others have discovered GOSO while Upstate. We also correspond with participants in Federal prisons and occasionally those on Rikers Island or in City jails. Through our letters, we provide emotional support to participants, some of whom have very long sentences, as well as encouragement to be productive while incarcerated. We send books and consistently counsel participants to work towards their high school equivalency diploma, college credits, and vocational certifications, and to maintain prison-based employment. As with our Reentry program as a whole, the goal is for participants to return home and join our community program, if they do not age out before they’re released (if they do age out, we refer them to another reentry program upon release.)
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FPO GOSO believes that planning for successful reentry starts the day someone is detained or incarcerated. As such, GOSO has built a robust reentry program that seeks to recruit and support young men during their detention or incarceration, advocate for them in court and with parole boards, and help plan for effective reentry into the community.
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COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES
Career Management and Mental Health Services
GOSO’s Community Program has been based in East Harlem since 2004. While all aspects of GOSO’s programming are important to the overall success of those we serve, our Community Program is central to our mission of assisting participants to achieve their personal and professional goals and avoid (re)involvement in the criminal justice system.
Two-Week Job Readiness Curriculum The Two-Week Job Readiness Curriculum is the foundation of our community program and provides the skills training essential for our participants’ success. In two weeks, entry-level participants actively engage in sixteen workshops that cover the basics of finding and maintaining a job: Networking and Job Search, Resume and Cover Letter Writing, Effective Workplace Habits, Time Management, and more. The curriculum culminates with a final interview; equipped with a resume and cover letter, interview attire, and the skills developed over the course of the workshops. Upon passing the final interview, individuals become full participants (eligible for all of our program opportunities) and earn a $100 stipend.
Adolescent Curriculum GOSO’s Adolescent Curriculum is a modified version of our TwoWeek Job Readiness Curriculum designed for 16- to 18-year-old participants who are still attending public school full-time. The Adolescent Curriculum runs on Monday and Tuesday evenings during the school year, and introduces students to a variety of employment and educational pathways in anticipation of high school graduation.
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GOSO is one of the few reentry programs that utilizes licensed social workers to provide therapeutically-informed case management services to participants. Each participant is assigned a licensed social worker, known as a Career Manager, with whom they work to create a Progress Plan of goals and how to obtain them. Approximately 50% of justice-involved people are diagnosed with a mental illness, and our staff can provide effective treatment in the form of individual or group psychotherapy. If necessary, they refer participants out to more intensive mental health services, such as psychiatric and psychopharmacological services.
Court Advocacy GOSO provides court advocacy to assist our participants in avoiding jail-time, based on their commitment to our program, or to mitigate a potential sentence as part of a plea deal. Our participants may need to appear in court for a variety of reasons: being out on bail, accepting a plea deal, parole or probation violation, rearrest, etc. Those who are currently detained go to court regularly from Rikers Island. We support by interacting with participants’ attorneys, District Attorneys and Judges, and by appearing in court to vouch for a participants’ progress. We also write hundreds of letters a year attesting to participants’ hard work, in our program and in the community. Over the last decade, we have earned a reputation as a program that can provide meaningful services in lieu of jail or prison, and support participants to avoid re-involvement in the justice system.
Everyday Resources GOSO’s offices are places where our participants can come and have their everyday needs met. They can visit our donation closet to receive professional and casual clothing, hygiene products, furniture, bedding, and more. We have a full-stocked communal kitchen where our guys can have a meal or snack while they spend time at GOSO. Participants have unlimited access to computers, phones, and printers during hours of operation. We also provide vouchers for local barbershops so participants can get a fresh haircut for an upcoming interview or networking event.
GOSOEd
Leaders in Training (LIT) Program
In collaboration with the Department of Education (DOE), GOSO has established a high school equivalency program at our East Harlem-based Education Center. Our Pathways-to-Graduation (P2G) class makes education more accessible to our participants. Staff members and volunteer tutors are always available to assist students who need extra support. Students receive breakfast, lunch, and MetroCards for transportation to and from class. Beyond our P2G class, we support participants who aspire to attend college by referring them to programs that help them to enroll in and pay for college.
The Leaders in Training (LIT) program provides advanced GOSO participants with opportunities to give back and to develop the skills needed to work in social services. Our nine LIT Ambassadors are peer mentors in our community, and are required to provide 10 hours of service to GOSO each week. They facilitate groups, assist new participants with job readiness, and provide general support. Through LIT, they will complete six trainings on essential skills, such as motivational interviewing and conflict resolution. This peer model makes GOSO’s programming more holistic and effective, while at the same time providing a pathway to careers in the field of human services.
GOSOWorks GOSOWorks is a wage-subsidy program that connects GOSO participants to employment opportunities with local businesses around NYC. Utilizing funding from the City of New York, we screen, interview, and place participants who have completed the Two-Week Job Readiness Curriculum in internship-toemployment (I2E) opportunities. A GOSOWorks internship is often the first employment experience for many participants, and it helps them use and develop the personal and professional skills needed to succeed in life. Our staffing solutions are available at no cost to employers for the first 240 hours of work, after which employers can hire our participants. We prepare participants well for the workplace, provide them with continued support after they are employed, and encourage them to continue to pursue education and training. With this support, they become outstanding employees, ready to grow with the challenges of the job.
Vocational Training and Certification We provide free access to monthly vocational trainings at our GOSO Education Center, in order to prepare our participants for careers in industries like construction, maintenance, and warehousing. Vocational offerings include the OSHA 30-Hour Construction certification, OSHA 10-Hour General Industries certification, 4-Hour Scaffolding and 4-Hour Flaggers certifications, and the 8-Hour Preassignment and 16-Hour on-the-job Security courses. We also cover the cost of professional licensing, like the New York State Security Guard license and the Drivers License Pre-licensing training course. Career Managers also work one-on-one with participants to identify off-site training opportunities that can improve their employability and open up new career opportunities and high-paid positions. Whenever possible, we supplement the cost of training and testing.
Housing and Benefits Program About half of GOSO’s participants face housing issues, creating barriers to successful reentry into the community such as: difficulty securing and maintaining employment, completing education, and addressing physical and emotional well-being. GOSO recognizes that individual success is not possible without a safe and affordable space to call home, and our Housing Program provides critical resources to participants experiencing housing instability and homelessness. We connect participants to available housing resources, such as grants, vouchers, and stipends; advocate for participants with housing court involvement; guide them through applications for affordable housing lotteries; and assist with identifying emergency shelter.
GOSOWorks isn’t a staffing agency. It’s a person-centered approach to employement. ––Nick Zolnierowski, GOSOWorks Manager
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FPO GOSO changed my life. I used to be on a different path, but now GOSO has helped me and I am able to be myself and do my thing. ––Aparicio S., Participant
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OSOWORKS MPLOYER MAP
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COMMUNITY PARTNER
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Stand Against Violence East Harlem (SAVE) is a GOSO community partner, and its team works to reduce violence in our East Harlem community.
SAVE is a branch of the national Cure Violence program, which has sites across the U.S. The Cure Violence model seeks to stop the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control — detecting and interrupting conflicts, identifying and treating the highest risk individuals, and changing social norms. SAVE Outreach Workers and Violence Interrupters proactively engage the community to prevent violence and gang involvement through outreach, community events, and mentoring. They also intervene after acute acts of violence in the area to prevent retaliation and seek to mediate. SAVE provides their own programming for community members and refers younger participants to GOSO if interested.
SAVE’S GOALS Interrupt Transmission
Reduce Highest Risk
Change Community Norms
• Prevent Retaliations
• Assess Highest Risk
• Respond to Shootings
• Mediate Conflicts
• Change Behaviors
• Organize Community
• Keep Conflicts “Cool”
• Provide Treatment
• Spread Positive Norms
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OUR IMPACT
Over the last three years, fewer than 15% of active and inactive participants have returned to prison or jail, compared to a national average of 67% for the same group. Among active participants, our 2019 recidivism rate is 3%.
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IN 2019:
DURING THE 2018–2019 SCHOOL YEAR:
GOSO participants earned 132 vocational training certificates, including OSHA 30-Hour Construction and 8- and 16-Hour Security Guard training.
23 participants were enrolled in our on-site Pathway to Graduation class. Of those, 12 earned their high school equivalency diplomas. 17 participants enrolled in college courses.
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
ANNUAL COST PER CLIENT
COURT ADVOCACY
71%
$302,296
304
of GOSO’s participants are engaged in work and/or school.
69%
Riker’s Island
$7,500 GOSO
letters of support
23
advocacy calls
38
court appearances
ITEMS SENT UPSTATE
of GOSO participants placed in a subsidized internshipto-employment placement achieve full-time employment, post-placement.
170
120
letters
books
682
holiday and birthday cards
ENROLLMENT
OVERALL
1,034
Upstate Correspondence
Community Program
496
Reentry
350
Rikers Island
172
Federal
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OUR STORIES My Education Goes Beyond a Classroom
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Kailib Jenkins I first met Chelsea Kraimer (GOSO Senior Career Manager) when I was incarcerated on Rikers Island in 2016. All throughout my incarceration she visited me and stayed in contact with me — often sending me books and holiday cards so I knew someone cared. She also helped me navigate the court system so I could get out and come to GOSO as soon as possible. When I came home from Rikers, I immediately started coming to GOSO. I quickly took advantage of the programs and obtained several licenses through the various vocational trainings. I also enrolled in the on-site school, which was a huge turning point in my life. Enrolling in the GOSOEd program and earning my high school equivalency diploma has been my proudest accomplishment. To me, without an education, it’s hard to get by. I am thankful for the education staff who were so encouraging and invested in my success. I’ve learned that education is not just about informational knowledge — it’s also about self-control and being able to think and adapt quickly in different situations. Education means constantly pushing yourself to learn and be curious. Now that I’m a graduate, I tutor other GOSO Guys who are enrolled in school. I want to help other people get their diploma, since so many people helped me. I tell them how important and life-changing having an education can be long-term.
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Being at GOSO has changed my whole mindset. Before this I had a more negative outlook, and now I look to the positives in everything. I’m able to think more clearly, and I use my intelligence over my emotions. I acknowledge my mistakes and proactively work to improve things. GOSO taught me to take any shortcomings I have as opportunities to grow and become better. GOSO seems too good to be true when I tell people about it, but it really is this good. Everyone on staff genuinely wants to help and see everyone succeed. Everyone at GOSO feels like family. When I see all these people investing their energy into GOSO, it motivates me to want to dedicate my time to helping other people as well. In the future I want to be able to continue to support others, and maybe even invest in GOSO to help expand their program to help people in more places. And I’ll still be learning. Always learning.
Growing as a Leader Isaiah Saunders
When I got into GOSO, I was at a point in my life where I wasn’t doing anything and my friend realized that. He was going here, so he referred me to come. At first I was kind of skeptical, but then I saw people actually doing something with their lives and helping others, so I came and dedicated myself.
FPO
When I started GOSOWorks, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. At first I wanted to be a lawyer, then I wanted to be a conductor for the MTA, and then I wanted to do sanitation. All the while, in GOSOWorks, I was learning skills useful to me in any career - interview skills, how to code switch, how to present myself at the right place and the right time, how to talk to people, and how to read people’s emotions on their faces. When GOSO got me a job at the Johnson Community Center working with kids, I quickly felt I had found my life’s calling. I have my high school diploma and I’m in college now. Education is a way to a better life, a way out of the hood, a way to get money in my pockets, and a way to become a role model. I’m studying early childhood education because I want to continue my work at Johnson and be a mentor for kids. I talk to really young kids who are gang members, and I tell them my story to try to get them on a better path. I explain that I was a gang member, and that GOSO helped me realize that my potential and purpose could be so much greater than the streets. GOSO helped me grow into a leader. I’m in the Leader-inTraining (LIT) program, which means I’m a mentor for guys who enter GOSO’s program. I talk to the younger guys and tell them about the importance of investing in work and school and making something of themselves. One day, I want to professionally teach and mentor kids, so knowing how to be a leader is very important for me. I see being a leader as having a positive image for people to follow and look up to. Since coming to GOSO, I don’t do the stuff that I used to do anymore. I don’t smoke weed or hang with gang members. I’m more respectful to my family and pay more attention to them. I see the bigger picture now - to get up out of the hood, to be a role model, and to show people who don’t believe in me that I can do it. Now I know what I want to do with my life. I’m on a straight path to success. Once GOSO helped me get a job, I was able to pay for food that I wasn’t able to get before. GOSO got me counseling, and I could tell my Career Manager really cared. I never had a program that cared about me as a person. They didn’t see me as a client or an item - they saw me as family, and that made me want to keep coming back.
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BOARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ADVISORY DIRECTORS
ACTION BOARD
CHAIRMAN
John Atchison Community leader & Owner John Atchison Salon
Sarah Wolf
Reginald André VICE CHAIRMAN
Norman Merritt SECRETARY
Ira Wachtel
Joe Azelby John Berman Richard Block Matthew Bloom Wendy Bosalavage Daniel Goldberg Robert Harwood-Matthews Simone Hicks Charles Kushner Erich Linker Sam Martin Caliph Mathis Jeremy Miller Brian Murrell Paul Netter Fred Pfaff Ashish Prashar Julian Taub Kimberly Till Edie Weiner Jake Weinig
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Judge Michael Corriero New York State Judge for 28 years Andrew Konigsberg Deputy Managing Partner Deloitte Consulting LLP John Leguizamo Actor, stage and screen Gloria Ortiz GOSO Co-Founder & Principal Horizon Academy
CHAIRPERSON
Wes Adams Josh Barer Rachel Bloom Alex Borden Katie Brosca Marcus Byrd Ana Frischtak Kwame Fynn Tasia Hawkins Simone Hicks Viveka Hulyalkar Madeline Knight Madison Linville Kalima Mayo-Perez Emmanuel Onakoya Melvin Pina Jeannie Roberts Matthew Satchell Colin Skaf Trevor Smith Colleen Sullivan Marisa Taney Sam White
STAFF GOSO STAFF
SAVE STAFF
Mark L. Goldsmith Co-founder, President, and CEO
PROGRAM
Geoffrey Golia, LCSW Associate Executive Director
Julia Friedman, LCSW Senior Director of Community Programs
DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS
Shaquala Santiago, LCSW Senior Director of Client Programs
Kristin Pulkkinen Chief Development Officer Emily Barnard Manager of Communications, Events, and Volunteers Andrea Miller Development Manager
FINANCE AND OPERATIONS Debbie Li, MPA Chief Financial and Operations Manager Fred Keaton Finance and Contracts Manager
Lauren Bricker, LMSW Senior Career Manager and Director of Educational Programming Chelsea Kraimer, LMSW Senior Career Manager and Director of Reentry Services Abigail Boynton, LMSW Housing and Benefits Coordinator Timothy Bustle, LMSW Career Manager and Adolescent Reentry Coordinator Jannee Davis, LMSW Career Manager and Coordinator of Vocational Services
Shantel Acevedo Administrative Assistant Carlos (Charlie) Diaz Activities Coordinator Veronica Echeverri LMSW Career Manager Ben Harker Coordinator of Reentry Services at Rikers Island Anna Kalm Employment Development Associate Nikeshia Reis, LMSW, MA Career Manager and Coordinator of Court Advocacy and Adolescent Programming Alyssa Sargent, LMSW Coordinator of Measurement and Outcomes Nick Zolnierowski GOSOWorks Manager
Brandon Chisolm Outreach Worker James Pat Grace Outreach Worker Javon Alexander Outreach Worker Supervisor Jedidiah Jimoh Outreach Worker Omar Jackson Program Manager Kareem McCutheon Outreach Worker LaTonya Ray Community Coordinator Nicole Myers-Hudgins Education and Employment Specialist
Emile Keller Office Manager Kimberly Arroyo Administrative Assistant
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Give your Time
GOSO is always looking for passionate and energetic volunteers who share a commitment to changing the lives of court-involved young men. Volunteers continue to provide invaluable services and programs to complement the work of our staff. Work with our participants as a tutor, help with resume writing and interview skills, aid in special events, and more. To learn more, visit gosonyc.org/get-involved or contact GOSO’s Manager of Communications, Events, and Volunteers, Emily Barnard at ebarnard@gosonyc.org.
Become a GOSOWorks Employer Partner
You can help provide a meaningful and valuable work experience for one or more of our program participants, while gaining a hard-working and committed member for your team. If you would like to learn more about becoming an internship provider, please email GOSOWorks Manager, Nick Zolnierowski, at nzolnierowski@gosonyc.org.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 SUPPORTERS $100,000+
$10,000–$24,999
$5,000 - $9,999
$2,500 - $4,999
The Pinkerton Foundation Tiger Foundation
Joseph Azelby Bank Hapoalim Gary Barnett Jamie and Matthew Bloom Bobby Cayre Cornerstone Macro LLC Nancy Crate Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Attorney Business Account Samantha and Matthew Fremont-Smith Thomas Gallagher Goldman Sachs Kohlberg Foundation Diane Manley McCann World Group Doug McKeige Norm Merritt Neal Milch Family Charitable Foundation Paul Netter Ari Shapell Starcom Media Services Dean Starker Michael Steven Swell The Barker Welfare Foundation The Beacon Giving Group of the Brooklyn Community Foundation The Dillon Fund The Hyde and Watson Foundation Jason Zullin
Ben Ashkenazy Jennifer Barbetta Dale and Max Berger John Berman Lorne Buchman Martin Feinman Paul Friedman Matthew Galligan Brent Gledhill Global Holdings Management Group Inc. Ryan Gould Robert Harwood-Matthews Brandon Hendelman Kidz Concepts Jeffrey Loria Bonnie Maslin Aleta Maxwell James McNamara Neill Nuttall Annie Omous One Step Up C. Parker Family Charitable Trust Peter Craig Russell Steve Sachs C. Glenn Schor The Rosen Family Fund Devon Walsh Edie Weiner Jacob Weinig
Nicole and Bernard Andre Reginald Andre Josh Barer Jonathan Barry Wendy Bosalavage Clarence Brenan Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Inc. Charles & Brenda Saka Family Foundation Lynne Ward and Joe Cotter Daniel Goldberg Google Elizabeth Kostolansky Catherine Birndorf Labow and Dan Labow Meena Lakdawala-Flynn LinkedIn M&T Charitable Foundation Malachite Capital Management LLC Benjamin Mandel Gabby and Don McCree Jeremy Miller Elaine and Simon Parisier Sheila Patel Riemer & Braunstein LLP Mark Scott Thomas Tesauro Karen van Bergen
$50,000–$99,999 Freya and Richard Block BTIG, LLC The Heckscher Foundation for Children The J.M. Kaplan Fund Seryl and Charles Kushner Van Ameringen Foundation
$25,000–$49,999 CIT Brian Murrell Michael Siegel The John & Wendy Neu Foundation The Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Tradition
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$500 - $999 In 2018, I started my freshman year at SUNY Albany with help from GOSO. Thank you for all of your support that helped me get here. ––Ben S., Participant
$1,000 - $2,499 Diane and Arthur Abbey Alex Adjmi Alexandra Allen Steven Alves Benedict Canyon Equity Holdings LLC Gregory Boyd Timothy Bradley Jennifer Burleigh Dawn Cardi Rudolph and Susan Cluff Nicole Cooke-Andre Amy Cooney Fred Cooper John Daly Gina De Givenchy Vivian and Paul Diamond Bethany D’Mezza Patricia Duffy Daniel Finnie Lawrence Fuchs Kwame Fynn Chad Gallant Scott Goldsmith Thomas Gordon Douglas Grinspan Cynthia and Stanley Gutkowski Steve Gutman Jay Harris Scott and Zina Hassel Michael Huber Leissa Jackmauh
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Raymond James Stephen Judson Steven Kornblau Marc Lifshin Kalima Mayo-Perez Jordan Mcdonough Lesley Milch Neal Miranda One Hundred Black Men Inc. Erica Orange Julia Pershan Cohen Fred Pfaff Robert Renner S&P Global Foundation Stephen Sander Michael Schwartz Meri Selver Terence Skyrm Doug Steiner George Stonbely Bob Swanton Monali Vora Raevin Walters Lucy Walton Tammy and Jerry Weintraub Susan Chadick Weiss Sam White Tamara and Gerald Winetraub Sue Yi Erik Zablocki Bachir Zeroual
5 Bay Street Phase 2 LLC c/o Triangle Equities Wes Adams Jennifer and Ben Adams Adam Altman Barbara and David Arky Linda and Samuel Basch Nelson Boyce Catherine Brink Nicholas Brountas Natalia Burgett Paul Carlucci Melissa Cascadden Alexander Cheek Kelly Corroon Leigh Denny Ilene and Richard Dolins Susan and Bruce Fein Stuart Feiner Dimia Fogam Barbara Friedman Michael Froy Mark Goldsmith Andrea Grant Leonard Greco David Greenberg Daniel Hibbert Oliver Hicks Richard Horowitz Jeffrey Hurant Danny Kirsch Bill Kolb Leonless Kornegay Sergey Kraytman Maya Kremen George Lam Anna Leipsic Ann Loughran Kelsey Louie Christopher Lvoff Marte Maintenance LLC Samuel Martin Mark Mauriello
Michael Miele Richard Murray Dylan O’Shea Norman Palmer Elizabeth Pash Siv Paumgarten Brad Pelo Elizabeth and Carl Pforzheimer Nicole Pullenross Tom Reilly Kevin Relihan Nicole Ross Annie Ryerson Annabella Salas Carly Scales Evan Schwartzberg Shaw Mandelbaum Family Foundation Jeffrey Siegel George Simpson Colin Skaf Marilyn Skony Stamm Geraldine and Daniel Soba Peter Sorge Emily Stark Philip Szewczyk Julian Taub Parker Thelander Kimberly Till The Tzedek Fund at Schwab Charitable Maarten Vandersman Karen and Ira Wachtel Colby Webb Jared Weiner Erika and Seth Weinstein Danielle Winfield Suzzanne Yao
$250 - $499 Natalie and John Adams Alliance Bernstein L.P American Express Maria Anagnostos Stephen Barr Singleton Beato Paolo Belfiglio Adele Bernhard Evan Blank Rachel Bloom Katie Brosca Marian Bull Eunice Byun Gregory Calnon Leslie Cawdron Stephen Christian Sonia Coman Michael Cooney Laurie Coots James Costello Goretti Cunha Sherene De Palma Al Diaz Junette Earl Sameh Fakhouri Ashley Fischer Avi Flombaum David Fogel Jim Follett Brian Fortson Dava and Donald Freed Todd Fremont-Smith Karen Friedman Michelle Froah Jerry Garcia Daniel Genis Eric Glass Daniel Gossels Karel Greenberg Francis Greenburger Shamit Grover Jennifer Hamani Chris Hecht Alexandra Hess
Adrienne Himmelberger Marene Jennings Ira Kawaller George William Kirchner Joanna Knobler Peggi Einhorn and Michael Lasky Anne Lim O’Brien Pamela and Erich Linker Tyler Lohman Kevin Madden Aaron Mandelbaum Jaisal Mariwala Janice Mcfadden Matthew McKenna Alexander Mills Kathleen Napolitano Stephanie Neville George Nguyen Lisa Opoku Busumbru Delila Osmankovic Michael Parkinson Christopher Petracca Gary Podorowsky Point 72 Asset Management Selma Rayfiel John Regan Vince Rosdahl Jill Ross Sam Rudick Joelle Sander Vlad Shubert Adam Simkins Bradley Skaf Denise Smyth Erin Summe Chris Suozzi Troy Thornton Angelo Valenti Daniel van Starrenburg Ada Varchola Mehboob Virani Bhavika Vyas Michelle and Joseph Wachtel Margaret and Knute Walker
Todd Weinberg Dick Westwood Whitney Wilcox Jenna Wisch Michael Wohlstadter Michael Wolfson Lucy Xin George Yazbek Wael Younan Simon Ziff
FPO I want to say thank you to GOSO for all of the opportunities and doors they’ve opened for me. If not for GOSO, I’m not sure what I would be doing, so thank you for helping to create these opportunities. ––Keybo C., Participant
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