Groundswell's FY14 Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT

“IT’S NOT A DREAM IF YOU WILL IT” PHOTO CREDIT: CHRISTINA REILLY

As Groundswell approaches our 20th anniversary, thousands of youth in our programs have completed nearly 500 public art projects in more than 75 neighborhoods.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Letter from the Board Chair.......................................... 3 A Message from the Executive Director........................... 4 Summer Leadership Institute.......................................... 6 2013/2014 In Review......................................................... 8 Afterschool Programs..................................................... 10 School and Community-Based Programs......................12 Special Initiatives............................................................. 14 Our Donors....................................................................... 16 2013/2014 Financials...................................................17

Annual Report 2014 1

GROUNDSWELL BOARD CHAIR DAVID GOLDSTEIN AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMY SANANMAN WITH A TEEN EMPOWERMENT MURAL APPRENTICESHIP TEAM

LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

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Groundswell works with over 50 community partners and serves 600 - 800 youth each year.

LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

dear friends

Over the past year, Groundswell has undertaken many ambitious initiatives, which together strengthen the crosssector impact of our work and prepare the organization for a remarkable upcoming milestone.

We welcome the opportunity now to reflect on the successes and challenges of the past year and outline a vision for the future, rooted in our mission to use art as a tool for social change, toward a more just and equitable world.

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In 2017, Groundswell will celebrate 20 years as New York’s leading organization dedicated to community-based public art. Twenty years. Five hundred murals. Hundreds of community-based organizations. Thousands of young people.

David Goldstein President

As we approach this important benchmark, we have asked ourselves a critical question:

Nazli Parvizi Vice President Cedric Gaddy Treasurer Menshahat Ebron Secretary Joe Charczenko Ricardo Cortés Jay DeDapper Christine Haney Carolina Jannicelli Raquiba LaBrie Jenny Laden Samantha Rhulen

How can we best leverage our 20th anniversary to amplify the voices of the youth and community partners we have engaged over the past two decades while offering New Yorkers a singular opportunity to engage in a citywide celebration of socially engaged public art?

Working with a broad range of experts from diverse fields, including filmmakers, curators, public relations specialists, artists, and stakeholders like you, Groundswell is envisioning a 20th anniversary celebration which exemplifies our mission and sets the stage for continued growth and transformation.

Key elements of our celebration will include an exhibition that activates the city through public art and a series of short documentary films spotlighting the unique voices behind our murals. We look forward to celebrating together and invite you now to reach out if you are interested to learn more.

As the enclosed pages illustrate, over the past year Groundswell prepared for this milestone by engaging hundreds of young people and community members in the creation of high-quality artworks that add to and elevate our public art collection.

Whether in a community playground in the Bronx, a long-term residence for men in recovery, or a public school classroom on Rikers Island, each collaboratively created mural is a testament to the power of art to generate inspiration, tools, and agency for young people and passersby.

There was no better way to ramp up to our 20th celebration than with the presentation of Transform/Restore: Brownsville, a major two-year public art initiative and a highlight of the 47 public artworks collaboratively created by Groundswell youth and artists in FY14.

Transform/Restore: Brownsville uses public art as a tool to affirm a positive identify for Brownsville, give voice to young adult probation clients and other marginalized youth, and educate neighborhood residents about the rich history and hidden treasures of their community, all to inspire a change of heart and behavior locally and citywide.

In the project’s first year, 45 young adult probation clients partnered with Groundswell youth leaders and the New York City Department of Probation and Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District to create three monumental public artworks along historic Pitkin Avenue. Our work in Brownsville to date covers 8,000 square feet of wall space and has generated 21 national and local press articles.

Transform/Restore: Brownsville was presented with funding from the prestigious and highly competitive “Our Town” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as support from Governor Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Initiative.

In FY14, Groundswell also launched a new partnership with THIRTEEN / WNET New York Public Media. Through this collaboration, Groundswell’s Making His’tory team, with the help of Groundswell’s Youth Media Council, shared learning about the prison industrial complex with thousands of young people. We invite you to watch the web documentary online at thirteen.org/groundswell and join the conversation on social media by using #groundswellnyc.

As you will see in the enclosed financials, Groundswell also demonstrated an important level of fiscal discipline and stability, with steady growth in both net assets and operating revenue. We continued to contribute to our growing investment fund, which will support us in achieving our ambitious 20th anniversary vision and carry us into our next twenty years.

Each day, I am inspired by the talented individuals that make Groundswell’s work possible, including staff, artists, young people, Board members, and community partners.

I welcome the chance to recognize my committed colleagues Didi Goldenhar, Maura Greaney, and Rob Krulak, who recently stepped down from Groundswell’s Board of Directors. I would also like to welcome our generous new members of the Director’s Circle.

In closing, thank you for all you do to support Groundswell’s work, today and into the future.

Sincerely, DAVID GOLDSTEIN BOARD CHAIR

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Message from the Executive Director

scaffold Up!

For many years, funders and consultants pushed Groundswell to A critical component of the model is the process of “badging” to show how youth and community partners can objectively chart, document, evaluate, and measure their choose an identity. progressive achievement within a project and over several projects.

They would repeatedly ask us the same question: “Are you an arts organization, a youth development organization, or a capacity building organization?”

Youth and community partners identify Pins (or outcomes) they would like to achieve.

Scaffold Up!™ provides all stakeholders with a clear picture and better understanding of the multiple goals of each project and how the success of each stakeholder is interdependent.

On a cold Saturday in January 2013, at a Groundswell retreat, we decided that we did not have to choose. We determined that we are an arts organization, a youth development organization, AND a capacity building organization.

This realization led to the development of our theory of change model, Scaffold Up!™, created with the help of hundreds of committed stakeholders like you.

We transformed the “scaffolded mural” making process into a way to think about measuring aggregate youth, community partner, and artistic achievement against the organization’s annual goals and to use this data to inform program design and development.

DIEGO RIVERA “MAKING A FRESCO“ ©THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

Scaffold Up!™ outlines how our work impacts youth, partner organizations, and the field of public art. It is a dashboard for success: a single snap-shot that captures Groundswell’s impact across these domains.

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The challenge is then for a young person or a community partner to “earn” a Pin. In turn, Groundswell must provide young people and community partners with opportunities to succeed through rigorous program supports that are sequential and developmentally appropriate.

By building the model, we have had to move beyond counting participants, partners, and projects and squarely into how we are using art as a tool for social change in the lives of communities and youth.

Since that momentous retreat in January 2013, a total of 996 Pins have been awarded to 292 youth. One hundred and seventeen youth have moved from Platform I to Platform II and twenty-one youth have moved from Platform II to Platform III. This past summer, we piloted our Community Partner Tower Pins and this winter will finalize our Art Towers. This year, all Groundswell’s work plans are framed in the Towers.

From youth participants to the Board of Directors, we are using dashboards and Pin projections to guide and evaluate our work.

As we look forward toward our 20th anniversary, we are excited to present our model and the lessons we learned along the way as a case study for others interested in developing a transparent set of promises they can make to their stakeholders.

When I think back two years ago to our 2013 retreat when Groundswell began to articulate its impact on young people, community partners, and the field, I am reminded of the great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera’s The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (“Making a Fresco”) (1931).

The mural illustrates Rivera himself (sitting on the second scaffold platform, back to viewer) as well as the many other planners, assistants, plasterers, architects, funders, designers, and engineers required to create this piece.

This masterpiece depicts how a large scale creation—whether making a fresco, building a city, or indeed, using art as a tool for social change— requires the collective work of many people with a range of skills across many sectors and disciplines.

This piece embodies what a social change model should also aspire to: provide its workers with inspiration and an image of the just and equitable world we are trying to create.

We cannot thank you, our committed supporters, enough for the important role you play in our collective work.

Sincerely, amy sananman executive director

Through Groundswell’s Scaffold Up! model, youth and community partners identify Pins (or outcomes) they would like to achieve.

MISSION

“HIT THE BRAKES ON DWI AND CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH”

Groundswell brings together youth, artists, and community organizations through our Scaffold Up!™ model to make public art that advances social change, for a more just and equitable world. Our projects beautify neighborhoods, engage youth in societal and personal transformation, and give expression to ideas and perspectives that are underrepresented in the public dialogue.

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SUMMER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

Groundswell’s Summer Leadership Institute is an intensive job training opportunity that employs more than 120 young people over seven weeks each summer. Two professional artists lead each youth mural team through the research, design, and creation of a high-quality, permanently installed work of public art for an underserved New York City neighborhood. In 2014, 145 participants, nearly all of them public school students or recent graduates, created eight monumental works of public art.

This is my second summer with Groundswell, and I was so happy to get to be involved again. Through this project, I learned how to work as a group, how to grid, and how to transfer the image to the wall, which I found pretty challenging. I think this project is particularly powerful becuase it was created by teen girls for teen girls— something that you don’t see happening a lot.

Gina Roseborough Groundswell Platform II Youth Participant

Aspire to Inspire

Briding Transformation

Groundswell youth and young adult probation clients created “Aspire to Inspire” to give voice to disconnected youth in South Jamaica in an effort to combat the high school drop out crisis. Following a sequential narrative from left to right, the mural unfolds from ‘The House of Growth,’ to the ‘Learning Pool,’ and finally to the ‘Ocean of Opportunity,’ symbolizing movement toward educational goals by gaining inspiration, tools, and agency.

Groundswell engaged VIP Community Services clients in the creation of a monumental mural to generate public awareness around the complex issue of chemical dependency.

In support of the recoverybased treatment program provided by VIP Community Services and its New York State partner the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Groundswell collaborated with volunteers at the facility to leverage the artmaking process as a catalyst for healing and self-discovery.

The team drew inspiration from the self-taught artists on display at the American Folk Art Museum and incorporated quilt patterns they found there.

In collaboration with Jamaica Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON) and PS 116 Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall,12 x 115 ft Location 107-25 Wren Place Jamaica, Queens Lead Artist DonChristian Jones

“GUIDED GATEWAYS”

Assistant Artist Sofia Maldonado

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Youth Artists La’Teek Anderson, Shania Brown, Kayalee Chung, Nafeesa Davis, Phillipe Etienne, Wilson Feliciano, Jasper Kerbs, Troy King, Roberto Lorenzo, Ousmane Ly, Aisha Mackey del Pratt, Iyana Makelemi, Krystal Mercado, Jordan Nelson, Leah Newell, Tobi Oniyinde, Sundiatta Small, and Anthony Williams

In collaboration with VIP Community Services Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall,18 x 30 ft Location 764 East 176th Street Tremont, Bronx Lead Artist Marc Evan Assistant Artist Raul Ayala Participant Artists Twenty-one VIP Community Services clients

100% of FY14 core program participants created personalized Scaffold Up! achievement Ladders, collectively earning 539 Pins.

Guided Gateways

Groundswell’s all-female Voices Her’d team created a mural designed to spark dialogue around young women’s reproductive health. The mural presents a new perspective on supporting growth and development through self-love.

The central figures are a pair of women connected through the Warrior Pose. The elder woman guides the younger safely through the gateway to womanhood, symbolizing the shared responsibility of mentorship.

In collaboration with Food Bazaar Supermarket Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 22 x 109 ft

Hit the Brakes on DWI and Choose the Right Path

As Vision Zero gains momentum, Groundswell youth focused on using art to educate New Yorkers about the dangers of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). The mural encourages every member of the community to play their part in stopping DWI. The slogan “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” is presented in both English and Spanish, reflecting the demographics of the community. Design elements include a subway train moving passengers away from road accidents toward safe streets.

In collaboration with NYC DOT and Food Bazaar Supermarket

Location 17-59 Ridgewood Place Bushwick, Brooklyn

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 20 x 100 ft

Lead Artist Crystal Bruno

Location 34-20 Junction Boulevard Jackson Heights, Queens

Lead Artist Lauren Bacchus Youth Artists Molly Baum, Tricia Brown, Sammi Chen, Danielle Claiborne, Kylene Colon, Idejah Dillard, Justine Garmean, Lihui Guo, Jeanie Lee, Joyglenn Lionel, Salena Ma, Star-Imara McBain, Tiffany Moore, Stephanie Nan, Violent Ponce, Keyla Rijo, Armani Robinson, and Gina Roseborough

Co-Lead Artists Olivia Fu Angel Garcia Youth Artists Adrien Acevedo, Ranin Ali, Durrell Baxter, Ernst Blanchard, Devin Bullock, Cynthia Espinosa, Rondlin Florveus, Asanta Hawthorne, Carlos Loiaza, Nicholas Luna, Ejiro Oghafor, Shania Reid, Asia Rosado, DeJean Rose, McRonald Russell, and Charles Tang

It’s Not a Dream If You Will It

Our Journey to Clean Water

“It’s Not A Dream If You Will It” is inspired by Theodore Herzl’s famous quote – “If you will it, it is no dream” – and encourages the transformation of participants and viewers.

As the third mural to be unveiled among a series of five created through Groundswell’s Transform/Restore: Brownsville initiative, the mural supports the transformation of the narrative of Brownsville through public art. The mural reexamines Brownsville’s assets and heroes, and encourages residents to create change.

Groundswell youth created a mural celebrating Greenpoint’s history of environmental activism and highlighting the importance of watershed stewardship at a critical moment in the neighborhood’s trajectory. The mural, installed on MS 126 Magnet School for Environmental Engineering, depicts a woman pouring a glass of water safely stewarded from the Catskills Watershed to her tap.

In collaboration with NYC DOP and Pitkin Avenue BID

Medium & Size Acrylic on Parachute Cloth, 65 x 32 ft

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 45 x 60 ft Location 62 Herzl Street Brownsville, Brooklyn Lead Artist Misha Tyutyunik Assistant Artist Justin Batten Youth Artists Massiah Berkley, Davin Collins, Shakeema Cox, Andre Cuenca, Onikca Davidson, Jameara Eliacin, Nathaniel James, Emmanuel Knight, Ashley Lahoz, Cody Levy, Rashawn Love, Tameel Marshall, Destiny Perez, Sean Turner, Samuel Walker, and Elon Xie

P.I.C.T.U.R.E.S Prison Industrial Complex: Tyranny Undermining Rights, Education and Society

We All Share One Sky

Groundswell’s all-male Making His’tory team, including some court-involved members, rasied awareness of the prison-industrial complex and explored the meaning of freedom within the context of mass incarceration. The team’s research focused on Michelle Alexander’s seminal text The New Jim Crow. A police booking photo image of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken after his arrest for civil rights organizing, is central to the design.

In partnership with The Trust for Public Land, Groundswell youth created a mural to serve as a backdrop to a new playground planned for the CS 300 Twin Parks campus, which houses CS 300, IS 129, and Kappa III. For many in the community, the building is not just a school, but a home.

Through the transformation of the schoolyard through public art, youth artists supported community stakeholders in creating a beautiful public space where young people’s futures can take flight.

In collaboration with Food Bazaar Supermarket and Brownsville Stronger Together

In collaboration with The Trust for Public Land, CS 300, IS 129, and Kappa III

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 18 x 80 ft

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 20 x 90 ft

Location 424 Leonard Street Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Location 417 Junius Street Brownsville, Brooklyn

Location 2050 Prospect Avenue Tremont, Bronx

Lead Artist Yana Dimitrova

Lead Artist Esteban del Valle

Lead Artist Pasqualina Azzarello

Assistant Artist Ruth Hoffheimer

Assistant Artist Jose de Jesus Rodriguez

Youth Artists Gabriela Balderas, Damarcus Bruno, Coyellene Davis, Jordan Davis, Marcos Diaz, Yingying Ding, John Fermin, David Fermin, Andrew Fernandez, Meng Gao, Dariel Leonardo, Gary Li, Jimmy Lugo, Brandon Merlos, Malik Singleton, Matthew Sotomayor, Daizah Staton, Vaquine Stewart, Leslie Valette, and Cherry Wen

Youth Artists Kamal Abdelrahman, Gustavo Bahena, Elijah Barrington, Genesis Barrington, Christopher Carabello, Shane Daniely, Jesus Fabian, Fabio Gomez, Quamel Greene, Shinear Lowe, Ruhshaun Marshall, Jahmarle Mattis, Jonathan Needham, Jonathan Santiago, Nicholas Sutton, and Anthony Warfield

Assistant Artists Ifeatuanya Chiejina Chris Soria

In collaboration with NYC DEP and The Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce

Youth Artists Dajean Aiken, Ryan Aiken, Michael Bannister, Juana Euceda, Walter Euceda, Jasmine Gallard, Donte Johnson, Deanne Lema, Malikah Mahone, Mariana Nava, Salome Noel, Christian Nunez, Denise Pena, Angie Roman, Adlaine St. John Rungu, and Soroiya Sutton Annual Report 2014 7

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

ArtWorks for Freedom

NYC Department of Education

Barrett Design and Development, LLC

NYC Department of Environmental Protection

BLICK Art Materials

NYC Department of Parks and Recreation

Broadway Stages, Ltd.

NYC Department of Probation

Elaine and Norm Brodsky

NYC Department of Transportation

Coalition School for Social Change

NYC Department of Youth and Community Development

Center for Court Innovation

Pathways College Preparatory School

CS 300

Pitkin Avenue BID

Dunkin’ Donuts

Planned Parenthood NYC

East Brooklyn Community High School

“BRIDGING TRANSFORMATION”

Bogopa Service Corp. DBA Food Bazaar Supermarket

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PS 24 PS 29

Goldman Properties

PS 54

Horizon Juvenile Center

PS 109

Industry City

PS 116

IS 61

PS 155

IS 129

PS 232

IS 291

PS 307

IS 298

Roux Associates, Inc.

Jamaica NeON

Southside United HDFC - Los Sures

Kappa III

Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center

Montefiore Medical Center

Talking Transition

MS 51

The Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce

Northeast Bronx Senior Center

The Trust for Public Land

NYC Council Member Julissa Ferreras

The Urban Assembly Unison School

NYC Council Member Vincent Gentile

The Walentas Family Foundation

NYC Council Member Jumaane Williams

Lori and Kevin Thompson

NYC Department of Correction

VIP Community Services

In FY14, Groundswell artists, youth, and community-based partners created 47 new works of public art, covering 21,722 square feet across all five boroughs.

1 Aspire to Inspire, JAMAICA

23 Our Journey to Clean Water, GREENPOINT

2 BLICK Industry City, SUNSET PARK

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3 Bridging Transformation, TREMONT 4 Brooklyn: Here and Now, DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN 5 Care. No Matter What, NOHO

BROWNSVILLE

25 Recovery Diaspora, THE BOWERY

6 Dream, Perchance, Rebuild!, SUNSET PARK

P.I.C.T.U.R.E.S. Prison Industrial Complex: Tyranny Undermining Rights, Education, and Society,

26 Safety Sign Project Alert and Ready Wins the Race, HOWARD BEACH

7 Eat Well, Stay Active, Live Long, MOTT HAVEN

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8 Empowerment of the Unified

World, CORONA 9 Envisioning Your Future, EAST FLATBUSH 10 Growing Gowanus, GOWANUS 11 Guided Gateways, BUSHWICK 12 Hidden Treasures of Brownsville, BROWNSVILLE 13 Hit the Brakes on DWI and Choose the Right Path, JACKSON HEIGHTS

17 Live to Learn and Learn to Live, RIKERS ISLAND

EAST HARLEM

28 Safety Sign Project Children Crossing, VINEGAR HILL 29 Safety Sign Project It Can Wait, GOWANUS

Safety Sign Project Slow Down, Children Crossing, No Speeding, EAST HARLEM

47 Youth Leadership, WEST VILLAGE

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36 Stages of Greenpoint, GREENPOINT

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37 Talking Transition, TRIBECA

MANHATTAN

38 The Explosion of Wonder, ST. ALBANS 27,34

20 Moving Forward, BROWNSVILLE

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40 The Peace of Womenkind, LACONIA 41 The Seasons of 4 Downing, CLINTON HILL

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42 Tree of Health, NORWOOD

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43 What You See is Not Who I Am, GOWANUS

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CASTLETON CORNERS

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18 Many Faces of Our Community, SUNSET PARK 19 Mother of All, MORRISANA

BRONX

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39 The History of Afterschool, LOWER MANHATTAN

Safety Sign Project Kids Are Around So Please Slow Down, Safety Sign Project Slow Down at the Intersection,

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35 Safety Sign Project Stop Look Walk, YORKVILLE

31 Safety Sign Project 45 Urban Garden, NORWOOD Keep Your Eyes on the Road, FORDHAM

YEAR IN REVIEW

46 Violence Destroys the Light of Today, EAST FLATBUSH

30 Safety Sign Project Keep Your Eyes on the Road, 44 We All Share One Sky, BROWNSVILLE TREMONT

32 14 Honoring Our Veterans,

BAY RIDGE

15 It’s Not a Dream If You Will It, BROWNSVILLE 33 16 Journey to Success, BUSHWICK

Safety Sign Project Be Aware, Be Patient, Be Sober, Cherish Life,

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QUEENS STATEN ISLAND

21 No Nos Vamos, WILLIAMSBURG 22 On the Outside Looking In, WILLIAMSBURG Annual Report 2014 9

AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS

VOICES HER’D and MAKING HIS’TORY During spring afterschool sessions, Groundswell’s Voices Her’d program for young women and Making His’tory program for young men met weekly to research and discuss ideas for summer mural projects. The Voices Her’d team focused on reframing common narratives about young women’s reproductive health, from shaming to promoting self-love and affirmative decisionmaking. The Making His’tory team, including some court-involved members, chose to focus on the causes and effects of the prisonindustrial complex on communities of color. These research sessions helped to inform each team’s summer murals.

Portfolio Development Portfolio Development serves as a capstone to Groundswell’s broader youth programs. This pre-professional training program offers a unique opportunity for young artists interested in pursuing post-secondary art education. The curriculum is challenging, and it encourages youth to build technical skills, discover their artistic voices, and achieve their creative potentials. Of the college-eligible graduating seniors enrolled in the spring 2014 session, 100% were accepted to, and enrolled in, art school and college programs, including Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and New York University. Most received scholarships.

Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship (TEMA)

TEMA supports the development of artistic skills while furthering broader youth development objectives. In FY14, two TEMA sections with a total enrollment of 46 teens met weekly during three-hour sessions from October and June, for a total of 100 contact hours. Each section engaged participants in the creation of a work of art for a commissioning organization.

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“STAGES OF GREENPOINT”

As a group, Groundswell’s afterschool programs offer a suite of opportunities for youth to strengthen their skills in Groundswell’s Four C’s: Collaboration; Critical Thinking/Decision Making; Compassion; and Creativity. Each program is designed based on a traditional apprenticeship and uses a series of sequential skill-building activities to support young people’s success in our programs and in their lives more generally.

Stages of Greenpoint

This mural honors the past, present, and future of Greenpoint by tracing its history from being a powerhouse of shipping and transport to a haven of artistic influence. The collage-like imagery celebrates Greenpoint’s iconic landmarks, pays homage to the immigrant roots of the community, and represents the recent influx of the film and TV production industry. The mural celebrates many aspects of what makes Greenpoint a great place to live and work.

What You See Is Not Who I Am

Through a partnership with ArtWorks for Freedom, apprentices learned about the growing national and international epidemic of modern human enslavement, including sex trafficking, domestic indentured servitude, and agricultural labor abuse. As a community, they sought to spread awareness of these human rights violations and inspire others to take steps to stop trafficking.

They developed imagery to illuminate the different types of human trafficking and to educate others about how to report a suspected abuse to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline.

In collaboration with Elaine and Norm Brodsky, Roux Associates, Inc., Lori and Kevin Thompson, and The Walentas Family Foundation

In collaboration with ArtWorks for Freedom

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 16 x 12 ft

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wood, Twelve Panels, 4 x 4 ft each

Location 370 Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Location Traveling with ArtWorks for Freedom’s Global Cities Awareness Campaigns

Lead Artist Esteban del Valle

Lead Artist Nicole Schulman

Assistant Artist Angel Garcia Assistant Artist Edwin Velazquez

Youth Artists Youth Artists Adrien Acevedo, Noor Ain, Gloryann Anderson, Shacura Anderson, Dajean Aiken, Maybelline Amaya, Dakota Austin, Gustavo Bahena, Tyrik Bailey-Ferron, Donavon Bembridge, Jessie Chen, Kaya Chou-Kudu, Treyshuon Dennis, Marcos Diaz, Alejea Ernest, Cynthia Espinosa, David Fermin, John Fermin, Alberto Gonzalez Jr., Vinik Ernest, Ismael Escamilia, Juana Euceda, Quamel Greene, Devan Harper, Kevon John, Gary Johnson, Dariel Leonardo, Kaianna Griffifth, Nathaniel James, Ariyana Judge, Rosaura Munoz, XinHong Li, Mei Lin, Tiffany Moore, Savannah Pagan, Jordi Rosales, Stephanie Nan, Ejiro Oghafor, Tobi Oniyinde, Kyizom Phuntsok, Kimani Samuels, David Segarra, Matthew Sotomayor, and Raymond Reyes, and Jenny Zapata Safiyyah Wilkerson

100% of 2014’s college-eligible Portfolio Development participants advanced to Platform III and gained acceptance to prestigious college art programs.

“WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHO I AM” PHOTO CREDIT: MICHAEL SETO PHOTOGRAPHY

AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS

I want to encourage young artists to practice doing what they love. The only way to get better is to practice. It will be hard and time consuming but if you keep doing what you love at the end of the day it’ll be worth it.

Angel Garcia Former Youth Participant & Groundswell Lead Artist

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SCHOOL and Community-BASED PROGRAMS

BLICK Industry City

Through community commissions and school-based mural residencies, Groundswell works with a variety of community groups, non-profit organizations, public agencies, and public schools to bring important issues and perspectives to light, engage marginalized and underserved communities, and activate neglected spaces. Partners use our collaborative process to generate activism and shift attitudes around social justice concerns.

Created as a part of NYCxDESIGN Week 2014, a series of panels celebrate the history of Industry City, a hub of manufacturing in Sunset Park, and Brooklynbased BLICK Art Materials.

In collaboration with Industry City and BLICK Art Materials Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, Four Panels, 4 x 8 ft each Location : 220 36th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Lead Artist : Misha Tyutyunik Participants: Mariana Nava, Angie Roman, and Keyla Rijo Brooklyn: Here and Now

Groundswell apprentice artists worked with ten court-involved youth to create a mural celebrating the history of Brooklyn at the Kings County Criminal Court.

In collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation Medium & Size: Acrylic on Parachute Cloth, 250 sq ft Location: 120 Schermerhorn Street, Downtown Brooklyn Participants: Shannen Bristow, Marcos Diaz, Stephanie Nan, Sean Turner, and Brooklyn Justice Initiative Youth

“talking transition”

Dream, Perchance, Rebuild!

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Empowerment of the Unified World

Inspired by the multi-culturalism of Corona, this mural focuses on youth unity and how it might contribute to the future neighborhood development.

In collaboration with NYC Council Member Julissa Ferreras and IS 61 Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 8 x 24 ft Location: 97-27 57th Avenue, Corona, Queens Lead Artist: Sofia Maldonado Assistant Artist: Adan Palermo Participants: Eighteen public school students

Envisioning Your Future

This mural, the second at East Brooklyn Community High School, encourages students to think about their future goals and celebrates educational achievement.

In collaboration with East Brooklyn Community High School Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wall, 10 x 15 ft Location: 9517 Kings Highway, East Flatbush, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Misha Tyutyunik Assistant Artist: Justin Batten Participants: High school students

Created as a part of Industry City’s Come Together: Surviving Sandy exhibition, teen artists drew from stories of healing and recovery to celebrate the city’s resiliency post-Superstorm Sandy.

At Whole Foods Market’s flagship Brooklyn store, youth artists created mural panels celebrating healthy food and environmental sustainability.

In collaboration with Industry City

In collaboration with Whole Foods Market

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wall, 10 x 25 ft Location: 220 36th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Yana Dimitrova Assistant Artist: Angel Garcia Participants: Anayshah Bashier, Sammi Chan, Mercy Carpenter, Marcos Diaz, Jasper Kerbs, Tiana Ratcliff, and McRonald Russell

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, Two Panels 5 x 8 ½ ft each, Two Panels 7 ½ x 9 ft each Location: 214 Third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn Lead Artist: DonChristian Jones Assistant Artist: Adan Palermo Participants: Dajean Aiken, Miyah Harris, Emmanuel Knight, Rashawn Love, Mariana Nava, and Keshani Whint

Eat Well, Stay Active, Live Long

Honoring Our Veterans

Installed at Horizons Juvenile Center, this mural depicts the silhouettes of figures engaging in exercise and dance filled with imagery related to the food pyramid, clean water, and healthcare.

In collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Horizon Juvenile Center Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 4 x 8 ft Location: 560 Brook Avenue, Mott Haven, Bronx Lead Artist: Nicole Schulman Assistant Artist: Jess Poplawski Participants: Nine Horizons Juvenile Center residents

Growing Gowanus

This mural, installed at Fort Hamiliton Athletic Field, commemorates the commitment and sacrifices of members of the United States Armed Services.

In collaboration with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and NYC Council Member Vincent Gentile Medium & Size: Acrylic on Brick, 14 x 36 ft Location: 8301 Shore Road, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Esteban del Valle Participants: Kadeem Noel, Eric Palermo-Rojas, Oriane Piskula, Jose Rodriguez, Jonell Santiago, and Anthony Venturini

76% of other core program participants that received one-on-one college counseling were accepted to college, most with scholarships.

school and community-based programs

Journey to Success

On the Outside Looking In

The History of Afterschool

Urban Garden

Dunkin’ Donuts commissioned Groundswell to create a mural showcasing Williamsburg’s vibrant community and artistic identity.

During the National Afterschool Convention, Groundswell apprentice artists created mural panels tracing the history of education since 1900.

In collaboration with IS 291

In collaboration with Dunkin’ Donuts

In collaboration with NYC DYCD

This mural features an image of a hand watering a field of flowers in front of a cityscape and a window revealing a family working together in an urban garden.

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Metal, 8 x 20 ft Location: 231 Palmetto Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Misha Tyutyunik Assistant Artist: Angel Garcia Participants: Junior high school students

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wall, 8 x 30 ft Location: 182 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Misha Tyutyunik Participants: Robert Howell and Angie Roman

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Canvas, Three Panels 8 x 4 ft each Location: 156 William Street, 6th Floor, Lower Manhattan Lead Artist: Sophia Dawson Participants: Sammi Chan, Rashawn Love, and Angie Roman

In collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Horizon Juvenile Center

The Peace of Womenkind

Violence Destroys the Light of Today

Students at IS 291 worked in afterschool sessions to create a mural depicting educational opportunities and obstacles.

Many Faces of Our Community

This mural celebrates diversity related not only to culture and ethnicity, but also to diverse personalities, roles, styles, interests, and more.

In collaboration with PS 24 Medium & Size: Acrylic on Cement, Seven Pillars, 4 x 7 ft each Location: 427 38th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Olivia Fu Assistant Artist: Edwin Velazquez Participants: Eighteen middle school students

Mother of All

“Mother of All” features a surrealist image of a reclining mother and baby created for Montefiore Medical Center’s OB/GYN clinic.

In collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Horizon Juvenile Center Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 4 x 8 ft Location: 205 East 161st Street, Morrisana, Bronx Lead Artist: Nicole Schulman Assistant Artist: Jess Poplawski Participants: Six Horizons Juvenile Center residents

No Nos Vamos

Seniors from Los Sures created a mural visualizing their experiences growing up in South Williamsburg and their perceptions of recent changes to the neighborhood.

In collaboration with Southside United HDFC - Los Sures

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Parachute Cloth, 9 x 15 ft and 9 x 10 ft Location: 434 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Danielle McDonald Assistant Artist: Raul Ayala Participants: Eight seniors from Los Sures

Recovery Diaspora

Created as a capstone to Groundswell’s Recovery Diaspora initiative, this temporary installation was created in collaboration with Swoon on the famed Bowery Wall to unite communities-in-recovery post Superstorm Sandy citywide.

In collaboration with Goldman Properties and Swoon Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wall, 20 x 66 ft Location: Houston and Bowery, The Bowery, Manhattan Master Artist: Swoon Lead Artists: Yana Dimitrova and Misha Tyutyunik Assistant Artists: Angel Garcia and Jazmine Hayes

Talking Transition

These mural panels were created using drawings, poems, and ideas generated during workshops and discussions at the mayoral Talking Transition tent.

In collaboration with Talking Transition Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, Two Panels, 4 x 8 ft each Location: Canal Street & 6th Avenue, Tribeca, Manhattan Lead Artist: Chris Soria Participants: Sammi Chan, Philip Green, Miyah Harris, Robert Howell, Jasper Kerbs, Rashawn Love, Tymain McBee, Mady Mei, Mariana Nava, Kadeem Noel, Keyla Rijo, Angie Roman, and McRonald Russell

Young women Horizon Juvenile Center residents created a mural celebrating womanhood for the Montefiore Medical Center OB/GYN clinic.

IS 109 students developed a series of eight mural panels that warns against the causes of violence in the community and advocates for safe choices.

In collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Horizon Juvenile Center

In collaboration with IS 109 and NYC Council Member Jumaane Williams

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 4 x 8 ft Location: 3444 Kossuth Avenue, Laconia, Bronx Lead Artist: Nicole Schulman Assistant Artist: Jess Poplawski Participants: Six Horizon Juvenile Center residents

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, Eight Panels, 4 x 8 ft each Location: Glenwood Road & East 45th Street, East Flatbush, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Christopher Cardinale Assistant Artist: Adan Palermo Participants: Students at IS 109

The Seasons of 4 Downing

This mural celebrates the past and future of the former site of the eccentric “Broken Angel” house.

In collaboration with The Urban Assembly Unison School and Barrett Design and Development, LLC Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, Eight Panels, 8 x 4 ft each Location: 4 Downing Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Lead Artist: Misha Tuytuynik Assistant Artist: Ifeatuanya Chiejina Participants: Urban Assembly Unison School students

Tree of Health

This mural explores personal “blueprints” for success and acknowledges the diversity of success.

This mural depicts three windows showing healthy living essentials, including good nutrition, superimposed over a “tree of health.”

In collaboration with Pathways College Preparatory School

In collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Horizon Juvenile Center

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wall, 9 ½ x 24 ft Location: 109-89 204th Street, St. Albans, Queens Lead Artist: DonChristian Jones Assistant Artist: Justin Batten Participants: Twenty-two high school students

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 4 x 8 ft Location:3544 Jerome Avenue, Norwood, Bronx Lead Artist: Nicole Schulman Assistant Artist: Jess Poplawski Participants: Nine Horizons Juvenile Center residents

The Explosion of Wonder

Medium & Size: Acrylic on Wood, 4 x 8 ft Location: 3544 Jerome Avenue, Norwood, Bronx Lead Artist: Nicole Schulman Assistant Artist: Jess Poplawski Participants: Nine Horizons Juvenile Center residents

Youth Leadership

Groundswell youth explored four themes through art: anti-violence, teen leadership through service, health and well-being, and civic engagement.

In collaboration with NYC DYCD Medium & Size: Acrylic on Canvas, Four Panels, 4 x 6 ft each Location: 66 West 12th Street, West Village, Manhattan Lead Artist: Sophia Dawson Participants: Four DYCD Youth Ambassadors

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SPECIAL INITIATIVES

“learn to live and live to learn”

Driven by significant long-term partnerships with alternative sentencing programs, city agencies, and educational institutions, Groundswell’s special initiatives further our core justice and equity values and build toward long-term and meaningful change around target social justice issues.

TRANSFORM/RESTORE: BROWNSVILLE

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

JUVENILE JUSTICE

With support from the National Endowment for the Arts and its prestigious Our Town initiative, Groundswell presented the first year of Transform/ Restore: Brownsville, a two-year campaign designed to engage young adult probation clients and Brownsville residents in revealing the hidden treasures and assets of the community.

Throughout the year, Groundswell presents educational public art tours which strengthen and enliven the critical discourse surrounding community-based murals. Attendees discover the powerful impact of murals on the civic and visual landscape of the neighborhoods in which they are located. Tours often also visit a mural-in-process worksite, to introduce attendees to the talented professional artists and youth behind their creation. In FY14, Groundswell presented six educational tours, cultivating new and engaged audiences for public art.

Groundswell’s juvenile justice programming engages marginalized young people involved at all stages of the juvenile justice continuum.

Through intensive involvement with these youth, Groundswell provides them the inspiration, tools, and agency to avoid future contact with the court system and achieve success personally and professionally.

Over two years, Transform/Restore: Brownsville will use a series of participatory public art projects to provide talented youth with a highly visible platform to create permanent and positive change within their own neighborhood, while expanding their access to new opportunities, resources, and services.

During the initiative’s first year, Groundswell and our partners the NYC Department of Probation and Pitkin Avenue BID engaged 45 youth and hundreds of community members in the creation of three monumental murals along historic Pitkin Avenue. These murals celebrate Brownsville-born community leaders, illustrate Brownsville’s rich history, and invite neighborhood young people and residents to discover new connections with one another. To date, these murals have generated 21 positive local and national press hits for Brownsville.

Through Transform/Restore, Groundswell will provide a model for how public art can be used as a tool to affirm the positive identify of an under-resourced community, give voice to marginalized youth, educate neighborhood residents about the hidden treasures of their own community, raise awareness through the media of cross-sector solutions to complex problems, all to inspire a change of heart and behavior citywide.

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SAFETY SIGN INITIATIVE Groundswell and the NYC Department of Transportation developed the Traffic Safety Sign Residency Program to enable public school students to explore traffic safety information embodied in ambitious public initiatives such as Vision Zero through the creation of original street signs. Students at each of our partner schools collaboratively design unique street signs which are then digitally rendered by Groundswell artists, fabricated by the NYC DOT’s Sign Shop, and installed in nearby locations students identify.

Through this program, students strengthen visual literacy skills and learn how signs and symbols can communicate complex ideas. These signs play a meaningful role in increasing safety awareness and preventing traffic accidents in locations around each school.

The centerpiece of this initiative is Groundswell’s mural residency program for incarcerated youth. Through this program, Groundswell’s professional artists work with young people onsite at public high schools located within juvenile detention facilities. In FY14, Groundswell completed our ninth mural onsite in secure facilities.

During FY14, 34 young people sanctioned to Groundswell participated in our alternative sentencing program, TurnStyle, and successfully completed their court-mandated community service hours at our studio, developing accountability and work readiness skills.

Six young people, including TurnStyle graduates, participated in Segue, where they had the opportunity to learn more specialized artmaking skills necessary to participate in our broader youth programs. Segue also engaged teens referred to us by our social service agency partners, who worked alongside Groundswell youth leaders and young people transitioning from TurnStyle.

In FY14, Groundswell and NYC DOT partnered with 10 schools throughout the five boroughs, reaching over 150 students. Groundswell and NYC DOT also engaged seniors at the Northeast Bronx Senior Center and the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center.

92% of FY14 youth participants were underserved, marginalized, and/or economically disadvantaged.

“The hidden treasures of brownsville”

SPECIAL INITIATIVES

Groundswell’s approach supports our organization’s vision of restorative justice, in which those involved in the criminal justice system help repair the harm they have caused.

Groundswell’s projects also provide meaningful opportunities for justice-involved youth to complete community service that is engaging, meaningful, and educational.

Greg Berman Director Center for Court Innovation

Care. No Matter What.

Hidden Treasures of Brownsville

Learn to Live and Live to Learn

Moving Forward

Court-involved youth participating in Groundswell’s Segue program completed a mural for the interior of PPNYC’s Executive Office. The team researched the reproductive justice issues at the heart of Planned Parenthood’s mission to provide healthcare, innovative programs, and effective advocacy to thousands of women, teens, and families. A brilliant mandala anchors the mural and provides a centerpiece to reflect upon and celebrate the ongoing work of Planned Parenthood.

Inspired by the theme of hidden treasures, nine young probation clients completed a mural highlighting Brownsville’s strengths. Through the process, they discovered the most important assets within the community– themselves.

The final artwork invites other neighborhood residents to discover connections with one another and celebrate the talents and treasures hidden in their own hearts and minds. Created as a part of Transform/Restore: Brownsville.

“Live to Learn and Learn to Live” was created by a group of young men at East River Academy on Rikers Island. Through this project, teen artists had the unique opportunity to directly impact the jail environment by transforming an industrial hallway into a blank canvas. The teen artists reflected on the learning they have done in their lives to date, and then identified continued learning opportunities which might be harnessed to positively impact their futures.

Helping to create an inviting gateway to the historic Brownsville neighborhood, the textbased mural captures the cross-sector dynamism present within the neighborhood. Important community figures are highlighted throughout the mural, including renowned activist and educator Rosetta “Mother” Gaston, who founded the Heritage House at the Stone Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Created as a part of Transform/Restore: Brownsville.

In collaboration with Planned Parenthood NYC

In collaboration with Pitkin Avenue BID and NYC Department of Probation

In collaboration with NYC Department of Correction and NYC Department of Education

In collaboration with Pitkin Avenue BID and NYC Department of Probation

Medium & Size Acrylic on Parachute Cloth, 8 x 15 ft

Medium & Size Acrylic on Cinder Block, 250 sq. ft.

Medium & Size Acrylic on Wall, 9 x 26 ft

Medium & Size Acrylic on Brick, 38 x 12 ft

Location 26 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan

Location 1747 Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn

Location East River Academy, Rikers Island, Queens

Location 1788 Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn

Lead Artist Crystal Bruno

Lead Artist Chris Soria

Lead Artist Esteban del Valle

Lead Artist Chris Soria

Assistant Artist Jules Joseph

Assistant Artist Ramiro Davaro-Comas

Assistant Artist DonChristian Jones

Assistant Artist Ramiro Davaro-Comas

Participants Youth in Groundswell’s Segue program

Participants Nine young adult probation clients

Participants Fifteen incarcerated youth aged 16 – 18 years old

Participants Seventeen young adult probation clients Annual Report 2014 15

OUR DONORS Groundswell warmly thanks the following generous contributors.

Director’s Circle Helene Caloir & Dimitri Tzimas Robert & Lenore Davis Robin & David Edwards Mary Beth Kelly Paula Krulak Rob Kulak David Mendels & Leila Yassa Susan Ochshorn & Marc Gross Public Funders National Endowment for the Arts New York State Council on the Arts New York State Office of Children & Family Services New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, & Historic Preservation New York State Office of Public Safety Assembly Member Joan Millman Assembly Member Richard Gottfried New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York City Department of Youth & Community Development Council Member Julissa Ferreras Council Member Vincent Gentile Council Member Sara Gonzalez Council Member Letitia James Council Member Brad Lander Council Member Stephen Levin Council Member Domenic Recchia Council Member Jumaane Williams Annual Campaign $25,000 + Altman Foundation Davis, Polk & Wardwell EILEEN FISHER Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Lambent Foundation Pinkerton Foundation Surdna Foundation The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundations $10,000 – 24,999 Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Foundation David Rockefeller Fund Dedalus Foundation FCI Catering & Events

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Hayward Industries Irene B. Wolt Lifetime Trust Rob Krulak Lily Auchincloss Foundation Susan Ochshorn & Marc Gross Sills Foundation Sweet’N Low The Bay & Paul Foundations The Beth M. Uffner Arts Fund Variety The Children’s Charity William T. Grant Foundation Leila Yassa & David Mendels $5,000 – 9,999 Brooklyn Nets Catskill Watershed Corporation Robert & Lenore Davis Jay DeDapper & Tod Wohlfarth Robin & David Edwards Embrey Family Foundation Goldstein Hall PLLC David Goldstein & Sherri Greenbach Carolina & Jay Jannicelli Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation Jonathan Kier M&T Bank Samantha Rhulen Sagalyn Family Fund The Hyde & Watson Foundation $1,000 – 4,999 Ackler Wealth Management Benchmark Title Agency, LLC BET Networks Dina Bleecker & Jon Thompson Peter Bourbeau Broadway Stages LTD Norm & Elaine Brodsky Brooklyn Community Foundation Lisa & Dick Cashin Nick Charles Andrew Chin Ricardo Cortés Didi Goldenhar & Bill Kornblum DP Group General Contractors Sandra Erickson Fleischhacker Foundation Fund for the City of New York GKC Industries, LLC Renata Gomes Hamlin Ventures Christine & Timothy Haney Jeanne Haney & Diego Gomez Jenny Holzer Studio, LLC

K2New KA Design Group Mary Beth Kelly Suzanne Klotz Sandy Krulak Joyce Kwiecinski Raquiba LaBrie Legion Paper Corp.

Noah Lesser LISC LISC New York City Jessica Mayer MDG Design & Construction John Meltzer & Amy Tucker Meltzer Michael Andrews Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation Neil Moscowitz Jordan & Jean Nerenberg PhotoShelter Pop Weaver Mario Procida Michael Ratner & Karen Ranucci Roux Associates, Inc. Peter Sananman & Kathy Le Michelle Scheer & John Siemer Nicole Serratore Marcos Simonetti Anne & Jeff Smith TD Bank The Ethel & W. George Kennedy Family Foundation, Inc. The Richman Group Kevin Thompson Whole Foods Market Richard & Lisa Witten $500 – 999 Kenneth Alpert Linda Barth & James Debbs Janice Bloom & Adam Grumbach Bridge Street Development Corporation Chris Chambers Chicago Title Insurance Company Adina Cohen Colgate Scaffolding & Equipment Corporation Lisa Deller Nina Demartini-Day Stephen Earle & Mitchell Gross Menshahat Ebron Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation Jay & Patricia Freeman Cedric & Joanne Gaddy Maura Greaney

Seth & Judith Greenwald Matthew & Annie Hopkins James Jubak & Marie D’Amico Julius & Evelyn Melnick Foundation Paula Krulak Jenny Laden Maurice Menares Meridian International Center Terri Naini NBC Studios, LLC Joanne Nerenberg & Aaron Naparstek Michael Ognibene One To World Inc. Sharon Polli & Matt Gunn Jennifer Redmond Joanna Samuels & Jeremy Hockstein Grace & Vincent Schiraldi Barry Schwartz Michael Sullivan SUNY Downstate Medical Center The Walentas Family Foundation Jon Ulanet $250 –499 Brooklyn Navy Yard Jessica Bynoe Helene Caloir & Dimitri Tzimas Cornell Paper & Box Co., Inc. Marie De Lucia & Lee Solot Olivier DeHousse Carolyn Dobbs Jennifer Eisenberg Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP Alina Enggist Federated Title Services, LLC Stuart & Randi Feiner Leslie Findlen Rebecca Folkerth Faye Ginsburg & Fred Myers Janet Goldman Nicolas Grabar & Jennifer Sage Kathleen Hackett & Stephen Antonson Laura Hansen & James Stubbs Hester Street Collaborative Karen Brooks Hopkins Hudson Housing Capital, LLC Dan Jacobson & Amy Sumner Demetrio Kerrison Fredric King Rachel Klinghoffer Aaron Koffman Ellen Kozak Farah Malik

Thomas McMahon Lesley Melincoff & Perry Lee Angelina Mike Monadnock Construction, Inc. Elisabeth Mueller & Gara LaMarche Eileen & Peter Rhulen Elizabeth A. Sackler Amy Sananman & Mauricio Trenard Elisa Sananman Sydnee Sanchez & Jon Jorgl Launa Schweizer & Bill Lienhard SpaceWorks The Doe Fund Francine Wong Kim & Maria Yamasaki $100 - 249 Marite Acosta & Candy Argondizza Beth Applebaum-Manitsky Michele Arbeeny Tyndall Arrasmith & Zachary Jasie Karla Arria-Devoe Meg Barnette & Brad Lander Joanna Belcher Aaron Belkin Richard Bennett Matthew & Elissa Bernstein Marla Bobowick Scott Bond Isolde Brielmaier & Mangue Banzima Greg Brooks & Rachel Adams Lordan Bunch Susan Camerata Michael Capobianco Noreen Chadha Nick Cope & Rachel Mosler Hope Davis & John Walker Getta & David Denhardt Cornell Dewitt Nick Donovan Tim & Jo Drescher Soffiyah Elijah Harlan Eplan Deborah Fineman Alana Fishberg & Daryl Kessler Evan Gaffney Nina Goldman & Douglas Legg Sidney & Susan Goldstein Miriam Greenberg Katherine Gundeck Fred & Linda Handsman Morgan Handsman Deirdre Harriet-Walsh & Rene Boettcher Hiroko & Rich Karlen

Sharryn Kasmir & Benjamin Dulchin Robert Klein Steven Klein Russell Langsam & Anne Sherman Louis Lavalle Dorchen Leidholdt Al & Emily Lemer Michael Levine Magnusson Architecture & Planning Jennifer March-Joly Michelle Matland & David Kener Stacie McCormick Colleen McMenamin Alexandra Morgan Murals As Voice Daniel Murphy Rita Nakouzi & Touré Tim Neithercott Katelyn Norris Ryan Nuckel & Rachel Meyers Mike & Lara O’Shaughnessy David Ochshorn & Allison Barlow Julie Peterson Katherine Randall & Stephen Pred Hans Reichstetter Carlos Remolina Eric Reschke & Lillian Hope Bryony Romer & Josh Mack Merilyn Rovira & Carlos Rodrigues Tom Sachs Michael Sananman Sherry Schwartz Georgia Scurletis & Bob Puccio Jill & Evan Seigerman Joan Shafran & Rob Haimes Zahra Sherzad Craig & Diane Solomon Suzanne Spinrad & Edward Geffner Arthur & Melissa Spitalnick Michael Sturmer & Caroline Samuels Abby Subak Marueen Tarulli Ramon Villa & Dean Giordano Alex Villari & Amy Roth Danielle & Chris Wiedemann Ellen Yaroshefsky & Eric Paulos Bill Yates Your Part Time Controller, LLC Marsha & Gary Zibalese Crawford

Groundswell is grateful to all our supporters. This list includes gifts of $100 and above that supported Groundswell’s FY14 activities.

91¢ of each dollar donated directly supports Groundswell’s programs.

FinancIALS

Temporarily

Unrestricted Restricted Total

Unrestricted

INCOME

ASSETS

Contributions

Cash and Cash Equivalents

$469,629

$480,300

$949,929

Fundraising Benefits

190,855

190,855

Unrestricted

Less Direct Benefit Expenses

(18,992)

(18,992)

Board Designated Operating Reserve

256,985

Temporarily Restricted

207,500

Donated Services, Materials, and Supplies

$178,925

104,959

104,959

377,065

377,065

Interest Income

5,161

5,161

Unrealized Gain on Investments

4,990

4,990

Accounts Receivable

72,350

Other Income

5,350

5,350

Prepaid Expenses

34,196

Program Fees

Net Assets Released from Restrictions TOTAL REVENUE AND PUBLIC SUPPORT

350,042 $1489,059

(350,042) $130,258

$1,619,317

Unconditional Promises to Give 171,800

Restricted

372,800

Investments 161,821 Property and Equipment, at cost,

EXPENSES

Unrestricted

net of accumulated depreciation

84,353

Security Deposit

Program Services

$1,088,229

$1,088,229

Supporting Services

9,000

TOTAL ASSETS

$1,549,730

Management and General

137,513

137,513

LIABILITIES

Fundraising

119,034

119,034

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

$34,277

256,547

256,547

Refundable Advances

125,931

$1,344,776

$1,344,776

Total Supporting Services TOTAL EXPENSES CHANGE IN NET ASSETS

144,283

130,258

274,541

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR

562,165

511,936

1,074,101

$706,448

$642,194

$1,348,642

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR

Deferred Revenue

9,000

Deferred Rent

31,880

TOTAL LIABILITIES

$201,088

NET ASSETS Unrestricted Board Designated Operating Reserve Other

706,448 642,194

EXPENSES $1,348,642

Temporarily Restricted

81% Program expenses

Total Net Assets

10% Management & general expenses

9% Fundraising & development expenses

12% Benefit

7% Interest, donated services, & other income

23% Program fees

449,463

Total Unrestricted INCOME $1,619,317 58% Contributions

$256,985

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

1,348,642 $1,549,730

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Amy Sananman Executive Director Sharon Polli Deputy Executive Director

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: HISTORY OF PUBLIC ART, VISUAL LITERACY, AND COMMUNICATION SCAFFOLD UP! YOUTH TOWER PINS

Patrick Dougher Program Director Vanessa Hadox Development and Communications Manager Daonne Huff Project Manager Jules Joseph Youth Development Manager Bonnie Norlander Office Manager Chey Epps Program Assistant Cody Levy Studio Assistant John Santiago Public Ally Tiffany Viruet Youth Development Assistant

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