K I P S BAY B OY S & G I R L S C L U B 2 0 0 8 A N N UA L R E P O R T
December 19, 2008, 3:00 pm...going to the Boys & Girls Club...in the snow.
3:00 pm...a place to go
YOUTH-of-the-YEAR PROGRAM
(l. to r.) Daniel Davila, Diamond Bayron, Briana Johnson, Joseph DeShields, Demi Torres, Tierra Hollins
The annual Youth-of-the-Year Program is an important event in our program year, serving as a character and leadership building experience for the participants, and inspiring hundreds of younger club members to utilize their Kips Bay years to be the best that they can be. The program is an expression of a youth-development strategy that we employ throughout our curriculum -- to continually give opportunities for accomplishment and to recognize it in ways small and impromptu as well as formally. Here are the finalists for the 2009 program. Joseph DeShields was selected as Club Youth of the Year, who will represent Kips Bay in the state and national program.
MISSION STATEMENT The mission of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club is to improve and enhance the quality of life for all young people, ages 6 to 18, with special emphasis on those who need us most. Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club exists to assist as many young people as possible to realize and achieve their potential for growth and development, and to attain the skills necessary to live and succeed in a complex world. visit us @ the new www.kipsbay.org
President’s Message
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL & STILL-GROWING YEAR! In 2008 Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club completed its 93rd year of operation and 39th year at its flagship Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse. Our membership of young people totaled nearly 13,000, enrolled at eight sites in the Bronx and Camp Sebago in Harriman State Park. Kips Bay continues to make an enormous difference in the lives of many more young people than we might have imagined a short ten years ago. At each service venue our professional staff sets a high standard for after-school activities and fosters an environment rich in mentoring. On a daily basis we say to each youngster: “Welcome, participate, make new friends and learn about yourselves, leaving as more capable, competent and talented members of our vibrant society.” When I first visited the clubhouse, there was a wood-working shop; it is now a dance studio. We have added a swimming pool, the Bronx’ only ice skating rink, a gymnasium/performing arts hall, and even an air-supported dome for year-round sports. Our programs offer more diversity and opportunity than ever in our history. Sports and social recreation are just the beginning. Our scholarship awards now help 78 outstanding club members attend private high schools and colleges. Our remarkable summer employment program places more than 1,000 teens. We sponsor both on-line and in-person college visits. With the benefit of a 2008 federal grant secured by Congressman Joseph Crowley, we offer a pilot anti-obesity program we call “Get Fit, Get Light.” In late 2009 we will open a second clubhouse in the West Bronx Heights, an area of great need whose residents are eagerly awaiting a state-of-the-art Boys & Girls Club facility. In recognition of the generous support of the family of our recently deceased President of the Board of Trustees, Fritz Coudert, we are proud to name the new West Bronx facility the “Frederic R. and Margaret Coudert Clubhouse.” Looking ahead, our challenges are many and varied. Some of our traditional funding from municipal sources has already been reduced. Foundation gifts are understandably down. The new Coudert Clubhouse will add to annual membership by 3,000 youngsters and require one million dollars in annual operating costs. I thank each of our professional staff members led by our Executive Director, Dan Quintero, for their dedication. I also thank my colleagues on the Board of Trustees, supporting organizations and individual donors for their partnership, their financial contributions and their confidence that our programs make a difference! Thank you all.
Paul H. Ross President of the Board of Trustees
TOUGH TIMES...BEST OF TIMES Dear Friends of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club: Yes, it’s tough. Fundraising from foundations, corporations, individuals, government -- all down. But you knew that. If endowments are down, or sales, or a family’s income is diminished or worse, charitable giving is affected. What is to be done? In November of 2008 our finance committee met to reduce the newly adopted FY 09 budget by 8%. We froze vacancies and that has reduced expenses further. We have reduced retirement contributions for staff, and reduced programming hours for youngsters. More is on the table. What has changed? In the most fundamental way, nothing! We are still the positive place for kids. Youngsters still pursue a sports passion, get help in math, learn to swim, enjoy a hot dinner while waiting for a working parent to come home, or join the K-Company and perform at the circus… At Kips Bay it is the Best of Times. And we ask for your partnership…again.
THANK YOU PAUL SINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION
(l. to r.) Daniel Quintero, Annie Dickerson, Paul Ross, Margaret Hoover, Tony Santiago
Annie Dickerson, VP Singer Family Foundation, presents Daniel Quintero, Executive Director of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, with a munificent first-time gift of $50,000 on behalf of philanthropist Paul Singer. Paul H. Ross, President of the Kips Bay Board of Trustees, jointed Quintero in welcoming Dickerson and Margaret Hoover to the flagship Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse.
ALL-STAR “FANFEST” HELPS KIPS BAY
Kips Bay’s standing with Major League Baseball was demonstrated at this year’s All-Star game celebrations, promoted through the City as “Fanfest.” Fifty (50) of our youngsters stepped off the red carpet parade of All-Stars in mid-town, and our playground at the Palmaro Clubhouse was replaced compliments of Major League Baseball.
SUMMER DAY CAMP 2008 Summer Day Camp remains a valuable staple of our wide-ranging youth program. Our camp offers working parents the assurance that their youngsters will be safe, supervised and stimulated from (as early as) 7:30 am to (as late as) 7:00 pm, while provided with breakfast, lunch and snack. One technique that makes Day Camp work is the groups we form, which quickly bond and stay together for the whole summer, and are attended by the same Summer Youth Employment worker. This group posed during an afternoon arts and craft class.
“GET FIT, GET LIGHT” PROGRAM LAUNCHED
We call it “Get Fit, Get Light,” and it is our new obesity prevention program funded with a Center for Disease Control and Prevention grand sponsored by Congressman Joseph Crowley. The program combines vigorous exercise in “life-long” sports with instruction in nutrition and healthy living habits. The national crisis in youth obesity is greatly accentuated in the Bronx, as shown in data from the Family Weight Management Program of nearby Jacobi Medical Center, which helped us to design the program.
RICK GOINGS & TUPPERWARE BRING ICE-T TO KIPS BAY Rapper and “Law and Order” star Ice-T recently visited Kips Bay, courtesy of Rick Goings and Tupperware Corporation. Goings, Tupperware CEO and outgoing Chairman of Boys & Girls Club of America, frequently visits clubs with celebrity role models. Ice-T sat in on a session of “DJ Academy,” a new entrepreneurial teen program, in which 25 participants learn about the music industry and write and record their own songs. On this occasion, six lucky teens sang their own songs for Ice-T to critique. Touring the Palmaro Clubhouse, Ice-T came upon a group of club members from St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf (photo left) who taught him to sign “I love you.” Children from St. Joseph’s have attended Kips Bay programs for 25 years.
Ice-T and youngsters from St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf.
A R O U N D T H E L U C I L E PA L M A R O C L U B H O U S E Enjoying the Bronx’ only ice rink. Special thanks to the National Hockey League Players’ Association for a large equipment and uniform donation from their “Goals & Dreams” program.
Dancing with the Stars
Move over, Minnesota Fats
K-Company at the Circus
Kips Bay Mustangs
Photography: Edgar Pineda
Pajama day on Valentine’s Day
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH SUPER CHAMPION - $500,000-$1,000,000 Mr. & Mrs. Frederic R. "Fritz" Coudert New York City Department of Youth & Community Development Charles Hayden Foundation
CHAMPION - $100,000-$499,999 The After School Corporation City of New York Department for the Aging
New York State Department of Health The Pinkerton Foundation
GOLD CIRCLE - $50,000-$99,999 Benjamin Moore & Company Boys & Girls Clubs of America The Clark Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York Electrolux Major Appliances
French - American Aid for Children HELP USA Montague H. Hackett, Jr. Major League Baseball Charity Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Mott
O'Connor Capital Partners The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Turn 2 Foundation United States Office of Juvenile Justice
SILVER CIRCLE - $25,000-$49,999 The Bodman Foundation Crain & Ventolo Associates Filomen M. D'Agostino Foundation Corp. Lan Doctors
Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. New York Design Center-Jim Druckman NYS Office of Children & Family Services
Paul H. Ross Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust Washington Square Fund
BENEFACTORS - $10,000-$24,999 Architectural Digest AXA Foundation Best Buy Children's Foundation Ms. Sarah L. Boles Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Charles Pavarini, III Design Charlotte Moss Interior Design DavosPharma - Barry Robbins de Coizart Charitable Trust Dienst & Dotter Domingo Magazine
Mrs. Thomas Mellon Evans Mark E. Fabry First Republic Bank Mr. & Mrs. Henry Fownes Frederick C. Horner Trust GE Commercial Finance GOYA Foods K.E.B. Pest Control, LLC - Edwin Beltran Mr. & Mrs. Curtis O. Minnis, Sr. Ray Negron The New Yankee Stadium Community Fund
New York State Alliance of Boys & Girls Club Promesa Foundation Ronald McDonald House Mr. Arthur M. Rogers, Jr. SCO Family of Services Seth Sprague Education & Charitable Foundation Sims Metal Management Ltd. -Daniel W. Dienst St. Joseph School For the Deaf Travel+Leisure - Ed Kelly
PATRONS - $3,000-$9,999 Artistic Tile, Inc. Avery Boardman, Ltd. Baker Knapp & Tubbs Lawrence B. Benenson Mr. & Mrs. Mario P. Borini Cablevision Canard, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. W. Ward Carey Celebrity Moving Century Case Goods Cetra/Ruddy Incorporated CIBC World Markets Corp. Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust Crown Janitorial Products
Cullman & Kravis, Inc. The Dillon Fund Elle DĂŠcor Extra Bases Fairmount Insurance Gagne' Development Co. Scott A. Gress GTL Construction, LLC Mr. & Mrs. Dennis S. Hersch House Beautiful JD Audio & Video Design, Inc. Mr. Peter L. Keane Kraft Hardware Inc. Anthony Lawrence-Belfair
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Loppolo Mr. & Mrs. Francois J. Maisonrouge Mario Buatta, Inc. Metropolitan Home Profiles RBC Dain Rauscher The Robert Allen Group Harry Slatkin The Stuart Foundation TD Bank United Way of New York UPS Foundation Velvet Touch Mr. & Mrs. A. Manny Villafana
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FRIENDS - $1,000-$2,999
All American Collectibles Mrs. Ectra Nippert Ames Angelica AP Interiors Barbara Ostrom Associates Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bauer Bed Bath & Beyond Blair Design Associates, Inc. BP Architects The Brass Center Bronx Kids, Inc. Yvonne K. Brown Bulkley Dunton Publishing Group C. Stasky Associates Carole Gratale, Inc. Ciriello Manufacturing, Inc. Citadel Security Agency Ms. Janice Z. Clark Mr. Michael Clark Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation Cly-Del Manufacturing Company Coca Cola Bottling Company The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Creative Source Crown Trophy Darren Henault Interiors David Kleinberg Design Associates David Netto Design Dessins, Inc. Donghia Furniture/Textile, Ltd Duce Construction Duke Farms Foundation Duralee/Techstyle Multifabrics, Ltd. Ms. Teresa Dziedzic Eve Robinson Associates, Inc. Fanuka Custom Cabinets Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLC F.S.I. of New York, Ltd
Alyssa Bliss-Greenberg Antonia M. Grumbach Healing Barsanti, Inc. Henry Laird Smith Foundation Estate of Berenice Berke Hetkin H.O.P.E. for Youth Foundation Hudson Bay Environments, Inc. James A. MacDonald Foundation Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of New York, Inc. John L. McHugh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Randy Jones Kenneth Alpert Associates Kim Eng Securities Koonyeung’s Corporation Stephanie Krieger Dr. Jeanne K. Lawrence Lee Angelakis Linda Ruderman Interiors Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lindgren Arthur Loeb LOM Property Consulting Lona Design, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Luter Susan Lynch Manhattan Shade & Glass Co. Clare Elizabeth McKeon The Meehan Group Merrill Lynch Mikimoto America, Ltd Danielle Ann Millican Mr. Salvatore E. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Gary Moyer Nancy P. Durr Living Trust Pfizer, Inc. Philip Gorrivan Design P.L. Wire Tech, Inc. PNC Bank
Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Imports, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Quintero Regina Caterers, Inc. Related Richard Mishaan Design RM General Contractor Corp. Robert Couturier, Inc. Ropart Asset Management, LLC Rosita & Philippe Weissberg Center Safeway Construction Ent., Inc. Salsa Caterers, Inc. SB Schonfeld Fund Advisors, LLC Scalamandre Schering-Plough Research Mr. & Mrs. Charles Royce Sara Story Design Frances Schultz Sempra Metals Services Group -Brian E. Flaherty Shelly Tile, Inc. Stark Carpet Corporation Stephen Miller Siegel Architects PC, Inc. Tepper Galleries, Inc. Tri-Ling Contracting Corporation UFT Bronx Office United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America United Health Service, Inc. VBArchitect Verizon Verizon Foundation Walker Zanger W.B. Mason White Fleishner & Fino, LLP William McIntosh Design, LLC Young & Rubicam Mrs. Maryann C. Zacharia
PLEASE REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILLS AND TRUSTS
IN MEMORY FREDERIC R. “FRITZ” COUDERT
The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, deep and wide, Through which there flowed a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, For the sullen stream had no fears for him, He turned when he reached the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide.
Frederic Coudert, President of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, passed away on December 5, 2008. He gave this institution 46 years of pure passion. He was enormously generous, his spirit unconquerable. He was truly the “Bridge Builder” immortalized in Will Allen Dromgoole’s poem which hangs in the Palmaro Clubhouse lobby, a tribute to an earlier generation of Kips Bay voluntary leadership, which inluded Fritz as a young man.
"Old man," cried a fellow pilgrim near, "Why waste your strength with building here, Your journey will end with the ending day, And you never again will pass this way, You have crossed the chasm deep and wide. Why build you the bridge at the eventide?" The builder raised his old gray head: "Good friend, on the path I have come, There followed after me today A youth whose feet will pass this way. This chasm which has been naught to me, To that youngster may a pitfall be. He, too must cross in the twilight dim, Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."
Our new Clubhouse is gratefully named for Fritz and Margaret Coudert.
GODSPEED, FRITZ
-Will Allen Dromgoole
EVALUATING OUR WORK A time of economic downturn, when donors and government funders must make hard decisions regarding where they put their dollars, accentuates our burden to demonstrate that Boys & Girls Clubs both enhance young lives and have long-term positive effects. For us the gold standard in arguing for the value of our work is demonstrated in the three national alumni surveys conducted for Boys & Girls Clubs of America by Louis Harris Associates, most recently in 2007. Alumni reported that Boys & Girls Clubs continue to have both immediate and long-lasting impact on their lives. Among the key findings: 1. Up 5% from 1999, 57% of alumni said their Club literally saved their life. 2. Overall, 91% are satisfied with their adult life. 3. 61% became more committed to their education because of Boys & Girls Clubs. 4. 28% would have dropped out of high school if not for their Club. 5. Nationally, 21% of African-American males do not graduate from high school, while only 2% of Boys & Girls Club African-American males do not finish. 6. 34% of African-American Boys & Girls Club alumni earned a 4-year degree, compared to the national rate of 16%. 7. 51% achieved a higher level of education than they thought possible because they were inspired by their Club participation. We believe that these results would be fully mirrored in a sample of Kips Bay alumni based upon our observations, what our current Club members and alumni tell us, and the fact that Kips Bay is universally recognized as one of the premier clubs in the national network. Nevertheless the responsibility to continually assess and refine our outcomes is always present. Accordingly, beginning in early 2008, Kips Bay began to work with consultant John La Rocca of The Rensselaerville Institute to increase our skills in measuring outcomes from specific activities. We began with the pilot obesity-prevention initiative referenced elsewhere in this annual report. With Mr. La Rocca’s assistance outcomes were identified and projected outcomes were established. In the first pilot cycle of 60 participants we found that: 41% achieved a satisfactory level of nutrition knowledge, 30% modified their eating behavior in healthy ways, 67% exercised vigorously for 45 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks, and 83% lost at least 2% of their starting weight. This outcome quantification will continue as an ongoing priority. Numbers of participants in activities also help to tell our story. For example, in program year 2008 1,013 teens were placed in summer jobs, 52 youngsters participated in the Bronx’ only hockey instruction program, about 800 enrolled in some component of the baseball program, 1,400 got help with home work, 32 talented youngsters were members of the K-Company touring dance and vocal troupe, and 78 (triple the number from 4 years ago) received our scholarships to private high schools and colleges to cite just a few participation statistics.
Trustees Mrs. W. Ward Carey, Vice President Ms. Cynthia Coudert, Vice President Scott A. Gress, Vice President Mario P. Borini Steven L. Boyd Gary Crain Daniel W. Dienst James P. Druckman Mrs. Thomas M. Evans
Paul H. Ross, President Montague H. Hackett, Jr., Vice President Curtis O. Minnis, Sr., Vice President/Secretary Debralee Nelson, Vice President/Treasurer
Mark Fabry Brian E. Flaherty Jeffrey Pipes Guice Gregory A. Hersch Ed Kelly Ms. Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge
Mrs. Charles H. Mott Olivier Peardon Nicholas Radford Barry Robins Michael L. Siden Hon. Leslie Crocker Snyder
Honorary Trustees Mr. E. Albert Berol Mrs. Henry Fownes Harry Hinson Peter L. Keane
Arthur M. Rogers, Jr. Dennis Smith John R. Suydam, Jr.
Manuel A. Villafana Mrs. Manuel A. Villafana Mrs. John G. Winslow
Women’s Committee Mrs. Victoria C. Lindgren, Chairman Mrs. John L. McWilliams, Vice-Chairman Miss Lorinda J. Laub, Co-Chairman Mrs. Michael Nash Ambler Ms. Valerie Bannon Mrs. Seymour W. Bernstein Mrs. Philip J. Bowers Mrs. William J. Brennan, Jr. Mrs. W. Ward Carey Mrs. John W. Chappell Ms. J. Robert Collins, Jr. Mrs. David Condo Mrs. Kathryn M. Deane-Krantz Ms. Susan DeAngelis Ms. Jacqueline Didier Mrs. Patrick Duval Mrs. Thomas M. Evans Ms. Elizabeth Fallon Ms. Fran Fields Mrs. Jon J. Fields Mrs. Brian E. Flaherty Mrs. Henry Fownes Miss Mary B. Gallagher
Mrs. Philip C. Gorrivan Ms. Susan Zises Green Ms. Victoria Dayton Hansen Ms. Deborah Kanabis Ms. Natasha Kazmer Mrs. Robert LaBadie Mrs. John L. Lesher, Jr. Mrs. J. Michael Loening Ms. Stephanie Loomis Mrs. William B. MacRae Mrs. Frederick W. Martens, Jr. Ms. Mia Mayer Mrs. Neil A. McConnell Mrs. Charles H. Mott Mrs. John S. B. Oler Mrs. Ingrid Henrichsen O’Neill Miss Maria Parasugo Miss Frances Pildes Ms. Kelly Piper Mrs. Joseph Sambuco
Miss Jodi Sandman Miss. Kimberly Simonton Mrs. Andrew Solomon Ms. Laurel Southworth Ms. Katherine Stephens Mrs. Timothy J. Stone Mrs. Nancy Stratford-Jones Mrs. Michael J. Sullivan Mrs. Herbert W. Swain, Jr. Mrs. Leith Rutherfurd Talamo Ms. Valerie N. Urry Miss Stacy E. Waggoner Miss Allison P. Wagner Ms. Matsi Walsh Mrs. Jeannette Warner-Goldstein Mrs. Matthew Webster Mrs. Marilyn White Ms. Jan A. Wysocki
Board of Managers Edwin Beltran, President Nick Albano, Vice-President Ron Lawson, Treasurer Eileen Cruz-Minnis, Secretary
Fernando Brinn Debbie Del Franco Scott Fowler Curtis O. Minnis, Sr.
Jim Stone Danixa M. Vega Jonathan Williams Dee Wingfield
Senior Staff Daniel Quintero, Executive Director Yvonne K. Brown, Operations Director Andrew McFall, Deputy Operations Director Harold Maldonado, Senior Director of Program Development Yolonda Brisbane, Unit Director Lynn Galvin, Director of Sponsorships & Corporate Relations
Jose Rodriquez, Director of Community Based Sites Tony Santiago, Foundation & Gov. Director Jennifer Skoda, Special Events Director Yvette St. Just, Director of Administrative Affairs Robert K. Smits, Legal Counsel (pro bono)
SUMMARY OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FOR YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 I NCOME S OURCES
R EVENUE : SPECIAL EVENTS: GOVERNMENT GRANTS: FOUNDATIONS: INDIVIDUALS: RENTALS, INTEREST, DIVIDENDS: CAMP FEES AND OTHER SUPPORT: CORPORATIONS:
$1,737,863 3,176,666 1,600,400 2,387,941 441,371 549,322 185,101
TOTAL:
5% Camp Fees & Other 4% Rentals, Interest & Dividends
2% Corporations 17% Special Events
24% Individuals
32% Government Grants
10,078,664
16% Foundations
P ROGRAM S ERVICE E XPENSES
E XPENSES : EDUCATION: CAREER AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: SPORTS, FITNESS & HEALTH: SOCIAL RECREATION & THE ARTS: CAMP: SENIOR CENTER:
3,939,300 1,176,674 496,522 567,012 557,579 372,433
TOTAL:
7,019,520
8% Camp 8% Social Recreation & the Arts
7% Sports, Fitness & Health
55% Education
17% Career & Character Development
E XPENSE D ISTRIBUTION
S UPPORTING S ERVICES : ADMINISTRATION: FUNDRAISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS: TOTAL SUPPORTING SERVICES:
1,069,670 1,021,520 2,091,190
TOTAL EXPENSES:
$ 9,200,710
ENDING NET ASSET BALANCE:
5% Senior Center
12% Administration 11% Fundraising & Public Relations
$ 25,173,751 77% Program Services
The accounts of Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club Inc. for fiscal year 2008 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
THANKS YANKS! In 2008 the New York Yankees and Major League Baseball supported Kips Bay with a generous capital gift of $75,000 for our new Coudert Clubhouse, now under construction one mile north of Yankee Stadium in the West Bronx Heights. A second gift of $15,100 came via the “New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund.” At left Dan Quintero thanks Randy Levine in the now “old” Yankee Stadium “Great Moments Room.” Join us for this year’s Yankee game event in the magnificent new stadium. Tickets: 718893-8600 x245 Corporate Sponsorship especially welcome.
Randy Levine (left) President, New York Yankees, and Daniel Quintero at 2nd annual Yankee Stadium Evening.
ANGEL IN AMERICA A quarter century ago Angel Feliciano played with Daniel Quintero on the Lehman College baseball team. A young man from the tough Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, Angel went on to a 20-year career on Wall Street where, he says, “God blessed me.” Wanting to use his expertise (technology) to help needy kids, Angel joined the non-profit Per Scholas computer recycling organization, where he reconnected with Dan at Kips Bay. Angel then joined ASI System Integration Services, on the condition that he could make computer donations to Bronx children. At left, Angel makes a fall 2008 visit with a donation of 20 computers. Mr. Feliciano denies that Dan is holding pictures from those college days.
Daniel Quintero (left) Angel Feliciano
Executive Director’s Message
ONWARD & UPWARD It is with great angst that I address you this year with the acknowledgement that we are all not doing as well financially as we have in the past. That being said, our experience during the tough economic times is that our services are needed much more, and the demand becomes greater. While we have taken steps as an organization to retool, retrench, and tweak how we deliver our services, we’ve been fortunate thus far not to downsize what we consider one of our most valued resources: our staff. As we move forward, we are in the midst of concluding the construction on our new West Bronx site, while also implementing many new and needed programs. These include: Obesity Prevention, Media Arts Workshops, and Passport to Manhood. So while we have been fiscally conservative, we are still on the cutting edge of program development and meeting the needs of our children. In the 2009 program year we anticipate between 13,000 and 14,000 children. These children would not be able to take advantage of our very comprehensive and diverse services, e.g., job readiness, citizenship and leadership programs, dental services, technology, SAT Prep, and college readiness programs — along with our physical education and recreation programs — were it not for our loyal institutional and individual donors. So many of you join us every year to take part in and appreciate the biggest and best Show House in the nation. We are deeply grateful. Your attendance and ongoing support of our organization is important. The work we do is life changing for youngsters 6 through 18 and we cannot accomplish it without you. So now more than ever we ask for your help to help our children. Please consider donating time, resources, and relationships to our shared mission. Times are hard but together we can develop this city’s youth so they can be prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. The Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club rests on the shoulders of so many individuals...just like you. On behalf of the over 13,000 children in our programs, I thank you.
Daniel Quintero Executive Director
Daniel Quintero playing baseball at Kips Bay.
Invest With Us In Boys & Girls Clubs we often say that the most important thing that we, as administrators, must insure is that, every day, each child who walks through the door is met by an adult professional who cares. For Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, this is an enormous responsibility, given that 2,200 youngsters walk through our doors every day...more than 13,000 unduplicated Club Members this year. This is our promise to you when you invest your dollars and your time with Kips Bay: We will provide an environment, beginning with a talented and dedicated staff, that nourishes and guides every child and young adult.
Social Recreation director Danny Rivera exemplifies the commitment we live by every day: Each child who walks through the door is met by an adult professional who cares.
CONTACT US Daniel Quintero, 718-893-8600 x240, daniel.quintero@kipsbay.org Paul H. Ross, 212-867-8873, paulross@westoverassest.com Tony Santiago, 718-893-8600 x242, tony.santiago@kipsbay.org
Thank You