Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club 2013 Annual Report

KIPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB 2013 ANNUAL REPORT

“ALADDIN” Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse May 9-10, 2014

THE WORLD’S GAME A time-tested Boys & Girls Club strategy is to provide athletic programs that bring in youngsters, who will also avail themselves of programming in civic leadership, education, career development, etc.

Recognizing that soccer is the world’s game, we have stepped up our program in soccer as a means to reach more immigrant youngsters, and we thank The New York Community Trust for a grant to help us do this. In so doing we expect to achieve an increasingly diversified membership more reflective of the Bronx’ extraordinarily vibrant ethnic and cultural mosaic.

We found the youngsters below and their coaches, from Mexico, practicing soccer in a Bronx parking lot. Said we: “Come to the Boys & Girls Club. You are welcome here.”

MISSION STATEMENT Our mission is to enrich and enhance the quality of life for young people by providing educational and developmental programs, with special emphasis on youngsters between ages 6-18 who come from disadvantaged or disenfranchised circumstances.

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President's Message

REACHING DISENFRANCHISED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES Dear Patrons and Friends: It is a fact of life that we are often surprised to discover something new about things that we think we know well. So it is with the burgeoning immigrant population in the Bronx. Throughout this annual report the reader will see evidence of the growing and welcome participation of sub-Saharan African, Central and South American populations in the Bronx in Kips Bay programming.

We note the US Census’ 2010 observation that the Bronx is the most diverse county in America. Although not unaware of many newcomers calling the Bronx home, we set out to assess how many immigrants we are reaching today. We found, for example, that many youngsters who are children of immigrants benefit from our scholarship program. (See “Key Findings of 2013 Outcome Measurement Report” elsewhere in this report.)

We also set about to increase our outreach to children of immigrants through a targeted soccer program outreach. If we pull such youngsters in, they will avail themselves of other services such as education, job experience, civic and leadership clubs, the arts, and more.

This helps to accomplish our mission, and fulfills our commitment to “enrich and enhance the quality of life for young people…with special emphasis on youngsters…who come from disadvantaged or disenfranchised circumstances.”

Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club provides a path up to opportunity and inclusion for those just starting to rise in this bountiful land, whether natives or immigrants. Your support for our events and appeals helps us do this.

Thank you for your partnership in a great cause.

Most sincerely,

James P. Druckman President

kips bay boys & girls club THE MERRY-GO-ROUND Several years ago, in her talk at our Annual Meeting of Members, one of our scholarship recipients called Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club a merry-go-round. It was a metaphor to describe her long membership in Kips Bay from a young girl right through her teen years and high school graduation. Kips Bay, she said, was a merry-go-round of activities that she could jump on and experience, get off, and jump on again for a new activity, challenge and opportunity to grow.

It is an apt description of the opportunity that awaits any youngster, ages 6 to 18, who can select from a wide array of activities at Kips Bay. Providing that opportunity, for 11,000 girls and boys annually at 10 Bronx locations, is a great challenge. Imagine offering programming in education and career development, sports and healthy living, civic and leadership clubs, and the arts to all club members on a limited budget that must be raised anew each year.

For nearly 100 years, with the support of voluntary leaders, foundations, corporations, and thousands of individual donors, Kips Bay has been that wonderful merry-go-round. I thank each and all.

In the pages that follow we introduce some of the children riding the merry-go-round, and highlight our latest annual Outcome Measurement Report. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Daniel Quintero Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse June 2014

Trustee Curtis Minnis, Sr. (left) and Daniel Quintero (right) greet scholarship recipient Rohan Johnson.

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Few club members make us as proud as our scholarship recipients. Pictured on this page and the preceding page are two, Kristen Rosado and Rohan Johnson, that we’d like to introduce to you — our patrons, colleagues and friends. Your support helps us give them a Boys & Girls Club.

Kristen, age 15, comes from a Kips Bay family, her dad having attended as a child and her older sister being a member since the age of 7. A sophomore at Cathedral High School in Manhattan, Kristen maintains a GPA of 96% in the “Gateway to Health” tract for students who want to enter medical professions. Kristen likes Cathedral’s discipline and stress on academics. At Kips Bay Kristen fulfills her voluntary requirement in the education department, working with younger children in book club, homework help and TACH preparation (Test of Admission for Catholic High Schools).

“Kips Bay,” Kristen says, “is a place away from home where you can do your homework or just hang out. The women (staff) are motherly and keep you in check and make sure you do your homework.” This summer Kristen will attend a science and technology entry program at Fordham University. How does this 15-year-old look at the world? “Take the world as it is, but strive to improve it.”

Soft spoken Rohan, age 14, is a freshman at St. Raymond High School in the Bronx, where he has a GPA of 88%. The child of Jamaican parents, Rohan, like Kristen, comes from a Kips Bay family. His older brother, now in a doctoral program at Penn State, was in our scholarship program as a high school student, and his older sister is currently being assisted by a Kips Bay scholarship at SUNY Buffalo.

How does this young man look at the world? “My view of the world is to focus on younger kids. I‘d like to make our kids better, have a good childhood, get married and have children. They should be good students and good people outside of school.”

What is the best thing about Kips Bay for Rohan? “Going to see my kids (ones he tutors) at Kips Bay. They like to see me. They bring joy in my life.”

Photo right. Daniel Quintero, Kristen Rosado, Curtis Minnis, Sr.

EDUCATING FOR THE FUTURE

( l to r) Esme Adusei age 14, Baffour Adusei age 12, and Michael Revilla age 12, in the bright and comfortable education center of the Frederic R. & Margaret Coudert Clubhouse, the first on site Boys & Girls Club to serve the needy and congested West Bronx Heights.

Esme Adusei, above left, is an outgoing 9th grader who likes science and math and maintains a 91% GPA. She comes to Kips Bay almost every day, often doing her science and ELA homework online in the education center computer lab. A child of immigrants to the USA from the African country of Ghana, Esma wants to be a doctor because “you do good for people”. At Kips Bay, she says, “I have people here I can talk with and express my feelings with.”

Soft spoken Baffour Adusei, Esme’s brother, above center, likes math and maintains a 90% average in 7th grade at CIS 303 in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. After school he can usually be found at our Coudert Clubhouse where he says he comes every day the club is open. His favorite activities are computer literacy and playing basketball. Our staff, he says, “are friendly and help you with problems in everyday life.”

Michael Revilla has come to Kips Bay year-round – after-school and summer day camp – for 2 years He says: ”I’m trying to stay focused in school, on my grades, going to high school and graduating.” His favorite subject is math and he wants to work in technology, computers and/ or music.

In Kips Bay’s 2013 Outcome Measurement Report a sample of 120 Coudert Clubhouse youngsters outperformed their School District 9 grade level peers on the ELA and math scores on the New York State annual standardized testing. Fifty-five percent (55%) of enrollees’ parents were born outside of the US, not including Puerto Rico.

KEY FINDINGS of 2013 OUTCOME MEASUREMENT REPORT • Our sample of club members surveyed for the 2013 Outcome Measurement Report continued to outperform their district, school and grade-level peers on the New York State annual standardized tests for English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics as they did in 2012.

• A high percentage of our sample of high school seniors graduate on time (92%). Of the graduates the highest percentage enters college (62%). Others are looking for work, going to a trade school, or entered trade school.

• The Bronx is a haven for immigrants, the U. S. Census reported in 2010 that the Bronx is the most diverse county in the United States. Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club fulfills its mission to serve youngsters who need us most, in part, by enrolling substantial numbers of immigrants’ children. For example, at PS 67, 54% of the sample are the children of foreign born parents (not including those of parents born in Puerto Rico). At PS 140, 22% of parents were born in the Dominican Republic, 16% in sub-Saharan Africa, 11% in Mexico or Central America and 7% in the West Indies.

At PS 304, 21% were born in Ecuador, 13% in Asia and 4% in Albania.

• Members utilize Kips Bay extensively, 89.6% reporting that they attend every day the club is open.

• Club members’ favorite activities are the sports and fitness programs, followed by performing arts, education and leadership clubs. When asked to name the best thing that happened to them at Kips Bay, members chose making new friends first, followed by going on field trips, parties, recognition for success in competitions, interacting with staff and summer camp.

• The report included select data from our first alumni survey conducted online. Among the findings: 28% say the club saved their life, 28% became more committed to their education; and only 4% failed to obtain a high school diploma, while 28% completed some college, and 36% earned a BA, MA or professional degree.

• The 54 current scholarship recipients — 38 college students and 16 high school students — were surveyed. Their average college GPA is 3.1 and their high school cumulative average is 89.36%. Their favorite activity at Kips Bay was/is the education program, including for many, tutoring other youngsters as part of the service commitment for scholarship holders. Their average length of Kips Bay membership is 9.4 years.

• Interestingly, a high percentage of scholarship recipients’ parents are foreign born, including 30% Jamaican, 10% African, and 10% West Indian. This finding suggests the sociological observation that immigrants and children of immigrants often work especially hard to succeed.

Thank You So Very Much SUPER CHAMPION - Over $1,000,000 New York City Department of Youth & Community Development

PLATINUM - $100,000 - $999,999 Boys & Girls Clubs of America Charles Hayden Foundation Ms. Cynthia Coudert & Mr. Brian Morris Mr. & Mrs. James P. Druckman Estate of Frederic R. Coudert, III Frederic R. Coudert Foundation House Beautiful - Kate Kelly Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Mott New York Design Center NYC Department for the Aging NYS Department of Health The Pinkerton Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Manuel A.Villafa単a

GOLD CIRCLE - $50,000 - $99,999 Architectural Digest - Margaret Russell Benjamin Moore & Company The Clark Foundation Cottages & Gardens Publications

French-American Aid for Children Georgia Hiden Charitable Foundation Mr. Montague H. Hackett, Jr. HELP USA

KitchenAid New York Yankees Foundation Orinoco Foundation Laura P. Rosenwald

SILVER CIRCLE - $25,000 - $49,999 Crain & Ventolo Associates Gary P. Crain DavosPharma - H. Barry Robins Ferris Foundation

Marjorie S. Fisher Jennifer Steinbrenner Swindal Kravet, Inc. Washington Square Fund NYC Human Resources Administration Mrs. Caroline Cummings Rafferty

BENEFACTORS - $10,000 - $24,999 1stdibs.com American Express Publishing Edward F. Kelly Anonymous Ms. Sarah L. Boles Mr. Mario P. Borini Bunny Williams Incorporated Charles Pavarini, III Design Christopher Guy Consolidated Edison - Eric Soto Dering Hall Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dienst James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller

Drake Design Associates, Inc. GOYA Foods, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Gress Ingrao, Inc. Mr. Bart Loomis Mr. & Mrs. Francois J. Maisonrouge Mr. & Mrs. Curtis O. Minnis, Sr. NYC Parks Foundation New York State Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs Pfizer Foundation PNC Foundation Mrs. Jackie Quillen

Ralph Lauren Home Richard Mishaan Design Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust Sanford L. Smith & Associates Scalamandre - Louis Renzo Cynthia V.A. Schaffner Schumacher James Allan Smith Traditional Home Turkey Hill Dairy UPS Foundation

PATRONS - $3,000 - $9,999 Anthony Lawrence - Belfair AP Interiors The Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc. Barbara Ostrom Associates Beauvais Carpet Lawrence B. Benenson Ms. Jill Faye Bokor Branca, Inc. Ms. Katherine Brodsky Canard, Inc. Celebrity Moving Clarkstown International

Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation The Coca-Cola Company Nathaniel B. Tollison Mr. & Mrs. Martin Cohen Crown Products David Scott Interiors, Ltd. Delta Air Lines, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Armand J. Del Medico Doyle New York Eve Robinson Associates, Inc. F. Schumacher & Co. Fairmont Insurance

Felicia Zwebner Design Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fownes GTL Construction, LLC Angelo M. Monaco Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Goldstein The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Hersch J & P Decorators K.E.B. Pest Control, LLC - Edwin Beltran Lamb Financial Group Lenox, Inc.

Thank You So Very Much PATRONS - $3,000 - $9,999 (Continued) Ms. Silvina Leone Mark Hampton, LLC McMillen, Inc. - Elizabeth Pyne Michael S. Smith, Inc. Ms. Debralee Nelson & Mr. Christopher Grimm New Era Mr. Peer T. Pedersen Pepsico Foundation, Inc. Profiles

Regina Caterers, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Rogers, Jr. Paul H. Ross Rowan Family Foundation, Inc. S.W. Witter-Daire Mr. Marc Santo Domingo The Seth Sprague Education & Charitable Foundation SilverLining Interiors, Inc. Sims Metal Management

Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Smits Mr. & Mrs. Jay Snyder Sony Electronics, Inc. Ms. Patricia M. Sovern Mr. Adam Spence Studio Sofield Taconic Builders The TJX Foundation, Inc. The Wall Street Journal Thomas Pheasant, Inc.

FRIENDS - $1,000 - $2,999 Mr. & Mrs. Nick Albano, Jr. Mrs. Peter Allport Associated Artists, LLC Available Light of New York Ms. Cristina Azario BJS Assoc Interior Design Ms. Debra Black Bograd Kids, Inc. The Brass Center Brett Design, Inc. Brian J. McCarthy, Inc. Yvonne K. Brown Ms. Janice Browne Calder Interiors, Inc. Joseph Carini/Carini Lang Ms. Madeline Carlson Mr. Lawrence Chan Charlotte Moss Interior Design, LLC Citadel Security Agency Coca Cola Bottling Company Jim Stone Coffinier Ku Design CSC Holding, Inc. Cullman & Kravis, Inc. Darren Henault Interiors David Kleinberg Design Associates DĂŠcor By Guillaume Departures Magazine Dienst + Dotter Dineen Architecture + Design PC Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. Docutrend Imaging Solutions Mr. John Doyle Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Duval Mr. & Mrs. Roger Einiger Emily Summers Design Associates Empire Office Furniture Etos F.S.I. of New York, Ltd. Fanuka, Inc. Ferguson Cohen, LLP Mr. Patrick Fitzsimmons Mr. & Mrs. Brian E. Flaherty Mr. William Flaherty

Fort Street Studio Fraser Associates Geoffrey Bradfield Interiors Mr. & Mrs. Bert Getz Mr. Elliot Gould Mr. & Mrs. F. Cecil Grace Mr. & Mrs. Farrow J. Grace Ms. Antonia M. Grumbach Ms. Joan Harden Mr. & Mrs. Dennis S. Hersch The H.O.P.E. for Youth Foundation Mr. Vincent Intrieri Iris Designs Mr. & Mrs. Lance Isham James Rixner Interior Design Jennifer Watty Interior Architecture John L. McHugh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George S. Kaufman Keep It Up, Inc. Kim Eng Securities Koonyeung Young Mr. & Mrs. James A. Lebenthal Mr. Wayne F. Lee Mr. Michael Leva Mr. James Lewis Lexus Loeb & Troper, LLC Mr. Arthur L. Loeb LOM Property Consulting Lone Pine Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Lopopolo Lorriane Letendre & Associates Ms. Susan Lyne Mr. Richard Madell Mr. & Mrs. Nino Magliocco Magni Design, Inc. Ms. Gigi Mahon Maison Gerard, Ltd. Malina Foundation, Inc. Sheldon Mallah Martin Printing Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeil Ms. Ronay Menschel Mr. Robert G. Merrick

Milbank Mr. Gregory D. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Gary Moyer Nancy Boszhardt, Inc. Nina Reeves Odegard, Inc. Paul Ferrante, Inc. Peter Cosola Incorporated Pfizer, Inc. Ms. Nancy Piraquive Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Quintero RBC Wealth Management RM General Contractor Corp.

Mr. & Mrs. Robin Roberts Rona Landman Interior Design Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Rosen Mr. Joseph Z. Rosenthal Sacco Carpet Corporation Mr. Mortimer D.A. Sackler Sage Chemical Mr. Stephen Salny Sandra Nunnerley, Inc. Sara Story Design Mr. & Mrs. William Sargent Scott Sanders, LLC Shelly Tile, Inc. Sherrill Canet Interiors, Ltd. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mr. Sanford Smith Stark Carpet Corporation Mr. John H. Stewart Susan K. Gutfreund, Inc. Suzanne Rheinstein & Associates The Stuart Foundation Thomas Pheasant, Inc. Uberto, Ltd. Veranda Magazine Verizon Foundation Vivian Hedges Interiors III W.B. Mason William Hodgins Incorporated YMCA Retirement Fund

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Above Mr. Miranda (front row with hat) and original cast member Chris Jackson (next to him) pose with thrilled cast members.

The performing arts program has had many accomplishments over the years and none more outstanding than our April 2013 production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical, “In The Heights.” Thirty-five members of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club were joined by cast members from the Broadway musical acting as mentors, and returning performing arts alumni as producer/director/mentors.

“IN THE HEIGHTS”

“IN THE HEIGHTS”

(l. to r. foreground) Daniel Yearwood, Helmuth ”Junior” Rodriguez, Ansi Rodriguez

(l. to r. foreground) Loreal Quiroz, Breanna Encarnacion, Daniella Agosto

Trustees* James P. Druckman, President Mrs. W. Ward Carey†, Vice President Cynthia Coudert, Vice President Daniel W. Dienst, Vice President Gary P. Crain Armand J. Del Medico Brian E. Flaherty Gregory A. Hersch Edward F. Kelly Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge

Scott A. Gress, Vice President Curtis O. Minnis, Sr., Vice President/Secretary Debralee Nelson, Vice President/Treasurer Richard Mishaan Mrs. Charles H. Mott Elizabeth Pyne Caroline Cummings Rafferty H. Barry Robins Margaret Russell

Cynthia V. A. Schaffner Michael L. Siden Robert K. Smits Patricia M. Sovern Lockhart Steele Nathaniel Brent Tollison

Honorary Trustees Mrs. E. Albert Berol† Mario P. Borini Mrs. Henry Fownes Montague H. Hackett, Jr. Harry Hinson

Arthur M. Rogers, Jr. Paul H. Ross Dennis Smith Hon. Leslie Crocker Snyder John R. Suydam, Jr.

Dr. Manuel A. Villafaña Mrs. Manuel A. Villafaña Mrs. John G. Winslow

Women’s Committee Ms. Patricia Grever-Quackenbush, Co-Chairman Ms. Megan Smythe, Co-Chairman Mrs. Douglas L. Bendt Mrs. Seymour W. Bernstein Mrs. John W. Chappell Ms. Carsten Davies Ms. Trisha Duval Mrs. Jon J. Fields Ms. Nancy Lesher-Whaley Ms. Maureen Lynch Mrs. Frederick W. Martens

Ms. Mia Mayer Mrs. Charles H. Mott Ms. Maureen Mulhern Ms. Lorraine Oler Ms. Paulette Pascarella Ms. Jeanne Passante Ms. Gay Schaye Mrs. Deborah SpaederMcWilliams

Ms. Katherine Stephens Ms. Nancy A. Stratford Mrs. Marilyn White Ms. Jan Alane Wysocki Honorary Members Mrs. W. Ward Carey† Mrs. Henry Fownes Mrs. Neil McConnell

Senior Staff Daniel Quintero, Executive Director Yvonne K. Brown, Director of Operations Yosef Korn, Controller Jose Rodriguez, Director of Community Center Programs Harold Maldonado, Area Director – Frederic R. & Margaret Coudert & Lucile Palmaro Clubhouses

* for FY 2013 † deceased

Tony Santiago, Director of Foundation and Government Giving Nazira Handal-Poffel, Director of Special Events Yvette St. Just, Director of Administrative Affairs Jody Saltzman, Legal Counsel

Summary of Income and Expenses For year ended September 30, 2013

Revenue:

Income Sources

Special Events: Government Grants: Foundations: Individuals: Camp fees and other support: Corporations: Total:

$1,573,885 3,344,824 744,644 205,139 556,932 122,456 6,547,880

9% Camp Fees & Other

2% Corporations 24% Special Events

3% Individuals 11% Foundations

51% Government Grants

Expenses:

Program Service Expenses

Education: Career and Character Development: Sports, Fitness & Health: Social Recreation & The Arts: Camp: Senior Center: Total:

4,082,983 1,219,592 547,160 571,315 228,164 333,682 6,982,896

3% Camp

5% Senior Center

8% Social Recreation & the Arts

8% Sports, Fitness & Health 59% Education

17% Career & Character Development

Supporting Services:

Expense Distribution

Administration: Fundraising and public relations: Total Supporting Services:

968,358 1,107,427 2,075,785

Total Expenses:

$9,058,681

Ending Net Asset Balance:

12% Fundraising & Public Relations

11% Administration

$27,985,059 77% Program Services

The accounts of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club Inc. for fiscal year 2013 have been examined by Loeb & Troper, L.L.P., Certified Public Accountants. Detailed figures are available upon request including figures on Investments and Capital Improvements. Annual operating deficits, if any, are addressed with transfers from endowment resources.

Debralee Nelson, Treasurer

FA R E W E L L Y V O N N E B R O W N

(l. to r.) Charles Mott, Anne Mott, Gary Crain, the “Divine Miss B.”

October 30, 2013. At the lovingly-decorated-for-the-occasion performance space of the Frederic R. & Margaret Coudert Clubhouse, we gathered to reminisce, laugh out loud, shed some tears, and show our love and admiration for Yvonne Brown, retiring after a remarkable career in the Boys & Girls Club Movement.

So many came – touched in some way by “Miss B.” Trustees, staff and colleagues, club members, alumni, family and friends – all joined in a salute to a unique human being.

Few know, even at Kips Bay, the full scope of the many responsibilities and core knowledge that Yvonne Brown mastered in order to have served as an outstanding Director of Operations since 1998.

During the period, Kips Bay experienced remarkable growth in membership and service locations. Government funding grew substantially concomitant with prodigious growth in reporting requirements, regulations and budgetary management.

Technology needs and outcome measurement exigencies mushroomed. Staff training and blending a multi-site work force into a dedicated team sharing a common culture and commitment to our children were demanding and ongoing requirements.

The assignment was Herculean. Yvonne Brown knocked it out of the park. An organization, many thousands of youngsters and their families, the national Boys & Girls Club Movement, and New York City’s neediest borough are in her debt.

THANK YOU YVONNE

Executive Director’s Message

almost 100 In 2015, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club will turn 100 years old. We were born on Manhattan’s East Side on February 8, 1915. That evening the Kips Bay Neighborhood Association met to discuss the problem of roving gangs of boys wreaking havoc and resolved to create a Boys Club. In the first year, a few volunteers took regular turns mentoring 105 boys while organizing boxing matches and games.

As Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club builds towards its centennial in year 2015, we stand firm on our commitment to serve children in the most comprehensive manner possible. I personally had the good fortune of growing up at Kips Bay. Back then it was enough to have a safe place to play and grow, a place which consisted basically of a gymnasium, a game room and maybe a study hall. If you walk into one of our Clubs today, you’re bound to observe youngsters in their reading labs using their Nook tablets as a tool to develop their comprehension skills. If you entered into another area you might get a glimpse of a group of pre-teens working on their schoolwork in our computer lab, and if you went on to the teen center, you might observe our teenagers learning how to drive on our UPS Road Code driver simulator. Pretty high-tech, huh? A far cry from when I was a member.

Kips Bay's ROI (return on investment) is having our youngsters attend the Club on a daily basis, ultimately graduate high school, then attend a college of their choice or vocational training school that will develop them to meet the challenges of our society. It's encouraging to the administration of this organization that over the last three years we surveyed over 200 high school seniors of which 90% of them graduated on time and 62% of them went on to college, both figures well above the average in the inner-city. This is the real return on investment that in turn empowers our children, fuels our economy and keeps our neighborhoods and communities vibrant and productive As a young man I was fortunate enough to take advantage of the services Kips Bay offers. Over the last 17 years as the Chief Professional Officer, my goal has always been to have as many children experience what I experienced as a child. As always, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club remains committed to the future of our children and the communities we serve. Your investment and support inspires us to continue to change the lives of young people. Whether your support is new, of many years, or somewhere in between, you are a partner in a great mission, and I thank you.

Daniel Quintero Executive Director

A young Daniel Quintero playing baseball at Kips Bay.

NUTRITION EDUCATION

In 2003 the U.S. Surgeon General reported on an alarming increase in the national rate of youth obesity. Checking with nearby Jacobi Medical Center, we found that obesity rates are much elevated in the Bronx. Obesity prevention and nutrition programming have been a regular feature at Kips Bay since. Celebrity chef and nutritionist Marge Perry (www.asweetandsavorylife.com), top photo, taught a cooking and nutrition class in 2013 at the Coudert Clubhouse. Bottom photo includes Trustee Debralee Nelson, who recruited Ms. Perry, along with club members who take part in our Nutrition Program.