New Heights 2014 Annual Report

Leaders. Champions. Student-Athletes.

2014 ANNUAL

REPORT

COURT // CLASSROOM // COMMUNITY

New Heights Leadership

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, EMERGING LEADERS COUNCIL & STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARK PATRICOF, BOARD CHAIR MANAGING PARTNER, MESA

DUANE FIEDLER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

ANDREW NATHAN, VICE CHAIR CEO, MERITAGE PROPERTIES

SHER KHAN STRATEGIC PARTNER MANAGER, GOOGLE

VICKI ZUBOVIC, SECRETARY DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, KIPP NYC

SHERRI KING-O’CONNOR* MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

KIERAN GOODWIN, TREASURER CO-FOUNDER, PANNING CAPITAL NICK BLATCHFORD, FOUNDER CEO, FIVE-STAR BASKETBALL RODERICK BLAYLOCK BRAND DIRECTOR, DIAGEO MELINDA BRETT RISK ASSURANCE MANAGER, PWC

RICHARD ROBERTS DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, RED STONE EQUITY PARTNERS JOSEPH D. SAMBERG CEO, JDS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT TED SMITH (EX-OFFICIO) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW HEIGHTS

ROCKY KURITA SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, D.E. SHAW

RON TRICHON MANAGING DIRECTOR, BARCLAYS

NINA LESAVOY MANAGING DIRECTOR, AVEC CAPITAL

TY WALLACH PARTNER, PAULSON & CO.

MEGHAN MACKAY MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SCHOOLS, SUCCESS ACADEMY, NYC

ANDREW COLAO, GENERAL COUNSEL PARTNER, WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES

EMERGING LEADERS COUNCIL JOSHUA GREENBERG, CHAIR GLENVIEW CAPITAL

ALFONSO COSTA JR. USA FIRST PAC

ELENA PEREZ EATBIGFISH

DANELL RAAB DELOITTE

RACHEL ARBOR GREYCROFT PARTNERS

ALICIA JAYO FALCONWOOD CORPORATION

DOMINIC MARTIN ICAP

BRANDON ADAMS TURNER BROADCASTING

NOAH LEVINE SEED PROJECT

CHRIS MOORE SHORETEL

JEREMY SNEPAR NEW YORK CODE + DESIGN ACADEMY

JADE CHAN DOUGLAS ELLIMAN

CAMERON LEWIS GOLDMAN SACHS

FELIX NAVARRO GOLDMAN SACHS

MATT STEHLE ZEARN

NEW HEIGHTS STAFF CHRIS ALESI – COLLEGE ASSIST COORDINATOR

SEKOU HAMER – ACADEMIC COORDINATOR

RAHME ANDERSON – PROGRAM COORDINATOR

MAURICE HICKS – ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

ADAM BERKOWITZ – ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BRENNAN MEAGHER – DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

ROSHARD BRYANT – SUMMER ACADEMY DIRECTOR

JACK PACELLE – PROGRAM AND EVALUATION ASSOCIATE

OSWALD CROSS – PROGRAM COORDINATOR

ROCK ROSA – PROGRAM COORDINATOR

ASHLEY FAISON – DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

TED SMITH – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

LI’ESHA GARCIA – FINANCE AND OPERATIONS CONSULTANT

*In memoriam (1974-2014)

Message from the Leadership Team

2014: Getting Stronger

This report details our accomplishments in 2014, and it looks to the future as New Heights continues to build on our achievements and head into an exciting year—our 10th anniversary in 2015.

In the following pages, you will see the results of the hard work put forth by our student-athletes and their families this past year. You will also read about the tireless efforts exhibited by our amazing team of board members, staff, coaches, tutors and volunteers.

In 2014, New Heights’ ninth anniversary, we built organizational capacity as we implemented our new Strategic Plan and focused on growth and enhancement. This past year, we expanded our Board of Directors, strengthened our staff, focused on our Summer Academy expansion, and continued to provide our high school and college preparation services to over 200 youth. We are continuing to identify new ways to educate and empower inner-city youth to be leaders, champions, and student-athletes.

In a city that only graduates roughly half of its high school students, New Heights proudly graduated 100% of our seniors this year, achieving this milestone every year since 2005. At New Heights, the basketball court continues to be a “classroom” where we encourage our participants to develop and apply leadership skills by challenging them to resolve interpersonal conflicts among teammates; demonstrate teamwork and dedication in training and competition; and display respect toward others. Most importantly, New Heights provides student-athletes direct access to academic and life skill resources that low-income students rarely have.

2014 was also a milestone year, as we raised a record amount of funding—over $1.8M—to support and better serve our student-athletes and their families. We also know that records are always meant to be broken, and to do this, we need your continued support. Whether it is sponsoring a team, volunteering as a tutor or coach, or cheering our youth in competition, our student-athletes will only continue to scale New Heights with your support. Thank you for positively impacting the lives of hundreds of promising NYC youth!

In Appreciation,

Mark Patricof Board Chairman

Ted Smith Executive Director

Leaders Champions Student-Athletes ANNUAL REPORT

2014 WHAT’S INSIDE

Our Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What We Do. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Box Score. . . . . . . . . . 6 Our Bedrock.. . . . . . . . . 6-7 Class of 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Alums in the Pros. . . . . . 10 Profiles of Success. . . 10-11 Hoops Highlights. . . . . . . . 12 New Heights Spotlight. . . 13 Financials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Supporters. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

OUR MISSION To educate and empower promising inner-city youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing the skills necessary for success in high school, college and life.

OUR VISION All young athletes will OUR VISION

have the values and All young athletes will skills necessary to have the values and become leaderstoin their skills necessary communities and become leaders in succeed their in life beyond sports communities and succeed in life beyond sports.

New Heights Programs Basketball and Leadership Development: New Heights fields 17 teams that compete locally and regionally, and in some cases, nationally.

Basketball serves as a hook that engages our participants in our academic programs. In addition, the basketball court is a “classroom” where leadership and life skills are developed.

Academic Support: New Heights runs a comprehensive academic support program for our student-athletes. Each participant in need receives support to stay on track for promotion, ultimately leading to high school and college matriculation.

High School Assist helps our fourth through eighth grade studentathletes succeed in elementary/middle school and leverage that success to gain admission to excellent college preparatory high schools. Services include: test preparation, high school visits, financial aid workshops, and individualized counseling to support students and families.

BASKETBALL & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

WHO WE SERVE NYC youth 10-18 WHO WEages SERVE

fromyouth socio-economically NYC ages 10-18 disadvantaged from socio-economically backgrounds who have disadvantaged a passion forwho basketball backgrounds have a passion for basketball.

OUR IMPACT For nearly 10 years, OUR IMPACT

we’ve maintained For nearly 10 years, a 100% high school we’ve maintained a 100% graduation rate for high school graduation our student athletes rate for our student and a 98% athletes andcollege a 98% matriculation rate. college matriculation Currently we have 85 rate.

Currently we have alums playing college 85 alums playing college basketball. basketball.

100% $50M high school graduation rate since 2005

in scholarship/financial aid awarded to student-athletes

WHAT WE DO COURT // CLASSROOM // COMMUNITY

College Assist provides our high school student-athletes with the individual support necessary to gain admission to top colleges and universities. Services include SAT/ACT prep, school visits, financial aid workshops, life skills development and NCAA recruiting guidance.

Summer Academy develops our students’ academic, athletic and leadership skills through a full-day, six-week program for rising fifth-ninth graders. Hosted at the Loyola School in Manhattan, the academic programming is focused on improving students’ Math, Language Arts and Leadership skills, while promoting the New Heights values of Teamwork, Respect, Excellence and Effort (TREE).

Provide an integrated sports-based youth development model for inner-city NYC youth with a passion for basketball.

We harness the love of the game by fielding local and travel teams and supplying them with academic enrichment and college preparatory programs along with communityservice initiatives.

HIGH SCHOOL ASSIST

COLLEGE ASSIST

SUMMER ACADEMY

331

245

100%

student-athletes placed in college prep high schools

New Heights graduates have matriculated to college - 98%

of Summer Academy team leaders were NH alums

THE BOX SCORE New Heights served over 200 student-athletes, ages 10-18, primarily from underserved NYC neighborhoods.

70% 60% 66%

live in N. Manhattan, the Bronx or Central Brooklyn will be first generation college graduates receive free or reduced lunch

IDENTIFY promising studentathletes primarily from Northern Manhattan, the Bronx and Central Brooklyn

OUR PROGRAM BEDROCK

BUILD

academic, athletic and leadership skills

50% 50%

Male Female

64% 13% 12% 11% 60% 40%

African-American White Bi-Racial Latino In High School In 4th - 8th

ENGAGE

youth in academic, athletic, and leadership development through basketball

ENSURE

access to a high quality education

CONGRATULATIONS

Class of 2014 HADIYA BLACK Concordia College CIDNEY BROWN Trinity College KAYSE BROWN Cheyney University JANICHA DIAZ Florida State Community College

MICHAEL BOURKE University of New Haven

DUPREE MCBRAYER Sunrise Christian Academy

TAMARA SIMPSON Yale University

CHINEDU NATHAN EKWU Davidson College

MIKE NZEI Seton Hall University

JASMINE SINA SUNY Binghamton DAQUANA SMITH University of New Haven ERIKA STEEVES Philips Exeter Academy

DANELLE GIBSON Felician College

DOMINIQUE WARD Univ. of Rhode Island

MARIKA GORDON CUNY LaGuardia

TAYLOR WILLIAMS Manhattan College

AALIYAH JONES Fordham University

CHELSEA ROBINSON Graceland University

PAUL JORGENSON George Washington University TYSHAWN MILES Drexel University CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON Sacred Heart University GLENN SANABRIA St. Francis College

SUPPORT

INVEST

youth through adolescence and transition into adulthood

in each youth intensively preparing them to succeed in first-rate high schools and colleges

healthy fitness & nutritional habits

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION

TYLER RAYSOR University of Rhode Island

DAISYA DRAYTON Mohawk Valley College

DEVELOP

100%

SHAPE

identities as studentathletes and leaders

JR LYNCH St. Andrew’s School (RI)

WE SHOOT // WE SCORE

100%

of teams receive leadership and life skills training

100% high school graduation rate since 2005

100% of teams participate in community service

NEW HEIGHTS ALUMS IN THE PROS David Coley Stony Brook Slovakia

Nadeirah McKenith St. John’s Minnesota Lynx/Israel

Devon Collier Oregon State Israel

Tyrone Nash Notre Dame France

James Feldeine Quinnipiac Italy

Doris Ortega St. Bonaventure Puerto Rico

Branden Frazier Fordham Holland

Josh Owens Stanford Italy

Lance Goulbourne Vanderbilt Turkey

Taysha Pye William & Mary Italy

Carmen Guzman UAB France

Manny Quezada San Francisco Brazil

Jon Han Fairfield Puerto Rico

Lance Thomas Duke Oklahoma City Thunder

Randall Hanke Providence Sweden

Kiril Wachsmann Iona Uruguay

Sade Jackson Adelphi Germany

Jerrell Williams LaSalle Luxembourg

James Feldeine, New Heights Class of 2006

PROFILES OF SUCCESS TYSHAWN MYLES An Overachiever

THE SCOUTING REPORT Years with New Heights: 6 High School: WHEELS College: Drexel University

After joining New Heights in 8th grade, Tyshawn went on to WHEELS (Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School), where he was coached by former New Heights’ staff member Josh Krinsky. There, he led his team to the PSAL A Championship his senior season. After working hard in the classroom and on the basketball court – in addition to overcoming personal challenges – Ty is now a freshman at Drexel University on a full athletic scholarship.

“New Heights isn’t just an AAU basketball program, it’s a place where you build life skills and friendships that last a lifetime.”

OUMOU KANOUTE A Triple Threat

THE SCOUTING REPORT Years with New Heights: 4 High School: Westminster School

Oumou is currently a sophomore at the Westminster School (CT), where she receives a full scholarship and runs track and plays on the girls’ basketball team. She maintains a 3.5 GPA and is one of the most popular and well-liked students on campus. This past summer, with New Heights’ support, Oumou attended the fourweek New York Code & Design Academy, which is run in partnership with Google. She was also featured on Fox 5 News and said, “My main goal is to grasp as much info as I can and start a club at my school for incoming freshmen and encourage girls to get involved.”

“New Heights has opened so many opportunities for me including having the privilege to attend one of the top 50 boarding schools in the country.”

REMEMBERING SHERRI While there was much to celebrate at New Heights in 2014, we also suffered a great loss. The New Heights family was saddened by the passing of a true champion of our youth and an inspirational leader of our organization for over a decade – Sherri King O’Connor.

Sherri started with New Heights as a volunteer tutor over 10 years ago and her passion for youth and education was infectious.

After years of working directly with our student-athletes, Sherri transitioned to a leadership role on our Board of Directors in 2008.

While splitting her time between NYC and Charlottesville, VA, Sherri always made time for New Heights and made our young people a priority.

Sherri is an alum of Duke University and received her MBA from NYU. Sherri went on to have a very successful career on Wall Street, making an impact at many of the country’s top firms. Yet, her passions always focused on two main areas – her family and education.

Sherri and her family – husband Pat and three wonderful children, Stella, Bo and Knox – will always remain a part of our family. Sherri’s impact lives on at New Heights and she will continue to be a shining light helping guide our programs and youth.

JACK PACELLE A Pioneer

THE SCOUTING REPORT Years with New Heights: 1 High School: Poly Prep College: Wesleyan University

Sherri King O’Connor 1974-2014

ROSHARD BRYANT A Leader

THE SCOUTING REPORT Years with New Heights: 9 High School: Suffield Academy College: Amherst College

As a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, Jack applied and was accepted to the Americorps VISTA program.

Through a new partnership between New Heights and Americorps, Jack has the distinction of being our first VISTA hire. A native of Brooklyn and a Poly Prep alum, Jack has returned home to make a positive mark on his community and New Heights. He made an immediate impact in a variety of roles, but his focus has been on program data and evaluation. As a huge sports fan and student-athlete himself, Jack has brought one of our core values – Teamwork – to the New Heights family.

After joining New Heights as a sophomore while attending a public high school in the Bronx, Roshard and his family decided he wanted to make a change and attend a boarding school. With the support of New Heights’ High School Assist program, he chose to attend Suffield Academy (CT) over several other top boarding school options. He thrived there and moved on to Amherst College (MA).

Roshard has stayed involved with New Heights in various capacities while in college and this past year became the first program alum to serve as our Summer Academy Director at the Loyola School.

“I am continuously inspired by the successes of our studentathletes and the devotion of my fellow staff members.”

“New Heights helped me develop the leadership skills necessary to oversee Summer Academy.”

THANK YOU TEAM SPONSORS

CHAMPION’S CIRCLE E.G. Morse, Alan Schrager and Ty Wallach (16U Boys) TopSpin (14U Boys)

LEADER’S CIRCLE

2014 HOOPS HIGHLIGHTS

Ted Lundberg & Family (12U Girls) Stratton & Rhonda Heath (12U Boys) BBDO/Mountain Dew (15U Boys)

Seventeen boys and girls teams combined to win a staggering 40 tournaments this past season. Three of our high school teams finished ranked in the top 10 in the country, led by our 16U Boys team who won five tournaments and were the consensus No. 1 team in the country.

BOYS

GIRLS

● 1 7U: Led by Moe Hicks, our group shined during its first season on the Under Armour Circuit, winning the prestigious UA Pittsburgh Jam Fest and being consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the nation.

● 1 7U Blue: Led by Rock Rosa, this group finished No. 3 in the nation (according to Kenny Kallina Scouting), beating nine other top-10 teams. They made the title game at the Boo Williams Invitational (Hampton, Va.), the Run for the Roses (Lexington, Ky.) and the Battle in the Boro (Franklin, Tenn.).

● 16U: Chris Alesi’s squad established themselves as the top team in the nation with a 39-3 record. They won the Southern Jam Fest, UA Pitt Jam Fest, NERR Super 16, the Sunflower Showcase and the prestigious season-culminating UA Finals in Atlanta. ● 1 5U: Coaches Rahme Anderson & Roosevelt Byers championed this group, which finished No. 11 in the nation. They won titles at the Spring Fling, the NERR Super 16 and made the championship game at the Southern Jam Fest & Buzzer Beater Classic. ● 14U: Led by Rodney Frazier & Tony Davis, they improved all season and were champs at the Junior Nationals, BBall Spotlight AC Showcase, Live City, Funsport Game Time, and Boys & Girls Invitational. ● 1 3U: Coached by Steve Alvarado, they won the Spring Fling, Holiday Showdown, Funsport Game Time & AAU Super Regionals and made the chip in the USBA Nationals in Myrtle Beach. SC. ● 1 2U: Dave Williams helped this group capture the Junior Nationals and Hoops by the River crowns. ● 1 1U: Our newly formed 5th grade group captured four titles on the year – the Junior Nationals, Father’s Day Classic, Top Tier event and the NYC Invitational.

● 1 7U White: Coach Mike Toro’s team ended the season on a high note, winning 6 of their last 8 games, including the chip of Uptown Challenge. ● 1 5U Blue: Chez Williams’ crew played “up” most of the season and finished 4th at the Adidas Nationals in Suwanee, Ga.; made the semifinals at Boo Williams and went undefeated at the Summer Slam and the Apache Paschall Memorial Showcase. ● 1 5U White: Led by Oliver Behagen, this crew competed in several outstanding events and had winning records at the Uptown Challenge, Rose Classic and NJ Sparks event. ● 1 3U: Joe Sapia’s crew won several events this season, including the Blue Chip Nationals, Slam Jam and HUNC Summer Leagues and made the championship in three other tournaments. ● 1 2U: This group dominated the competition, winning four championships, including the Rose Classic, DYCD, Slam Jam and Holcombe Rucker.

Summer Academy student-athletes enjoying their trip to the Museum of Natural History.

NEW HEIGHTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT ●O PEN HOUSE: New Heights hosted over 100 people at its 11th annual High School Open House at the JCC in Manhattan on October 18. Over 325 student-athletes have matriculated to the best public, private, parochial and boarding schools in the city and country based, in part, on introductions made at this event. ●P HILLY TRIP: Over 50 middle school studentathletes spent the day visiting Westtown (a top boarding school in Pennsylvania), attending a Villanova basketball game (and watching 3 New Heights alums) and touring historic Philadelphia, including a stop at the Liberty Bell. ●S HOOT-A-THON: All 17 teams participated in New Heights’ inaugural Shoot-a-Thon, helping raise over $50,000 to support our College Bound program. ●A TLANTA/MLK: During a trip to Atlanta for the Under Armour Finals, three high school boys’ teams spent the day at the Martin Luther King Jr. historical site. The group had an exclusive tour of MLK’s childhood home and watched a film on the influence of young people during the Civil Rights movement. ●M ENTOR DAY/CLOSING BELL: Several high school students were granted access to YOUTH INC.’s Mentor Day for Kids at Canaccord Genuity. The same group was also invited to ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ Marketsite on October 21.

High school sophomore Milicia “Mimi” Reid featured on the NASDAQ Billboard in Times Square.

2014 FINANCIALS 100% BOARD GIVING

REVENUE ANALYSIS

EXPENSE ANALYSIS

■ Board/Individuals: $299,424

■ 80% - Program: $1,412,480

■ Foundation/Corporate Contributions:

$678,931 ■ Fundraising Events: $644,095 ■ In-Kind/Other: $212,216 Total: $1,834,666

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80%

DIRECT TO PROGRAM

■ 8% - Administration: $148,950 ■ 12% - Fundraising: $217,882 Total: $1,779,312

*These represent unaudited FY14 numbers

2014 SUPPORTERS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY FOUNDATION SUPPORT

Samberg Family Foundation

FoxRock Partners

Altman Foundation

San Francisco Foundation

Arbor Brothers

State Street Foundation

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP

AYCO Foundation

Taproot Foundation

Berkowitz Family Foundation

Sysco

Bulldogs Care Foundation

Youth I.N.C.

Carl Marks Foundation

Zip Car

Charles Hayden Foundation

Glenview Capital Management Goldman Sachs Instinet Holdings Inc. James & Co. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Douglas B. Gardner Foundation

CORPORATE SUPPORT

Edward and Dorothy Perkins Foundation

AIG

Meritage Properties

Foundation for Global Sports Development

BBDO

MDC Partners

Bank of America

MESA Global

Hecksher Foundation

Barclays

Morgan Stanley

Hyde and Watson Foundation

Beyond Sport

Movado

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

Body Armor

National Basketball Association

Patrina Foundation

Bulldog Advisors

Nomura

PIMCO Foundation

Centerbridge Foundation

Panning Capital

Pinkerton Foundation

Clarion Capital Partners

Up2Us

Price Family Foundation

Credit Suisse

Under Armour

Rona Jaffe Foundation

Deutsche Bank

WallachBeth Capital

Rona & Randolph M. Nelson Foundation

Diageo Foundation

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Eagle Transfer Corp.

Wieden + Kennedy

Madison Square Garden

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