THE POINT CDC Yearbook 2015 - 2016

WHERE COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY CONNECT

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Mission THE POINT Community Development Corporation is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. We work with our neighbors to celebrate the life and art of our community, an area traditionally defined solely in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools and substandard housing. We believe the area’s residents, their talents and aspirations, are THE POINT’s greatest assets.

THE POINT offers a multi-faceted approach to asset-based community development. It’s programming falls within three main headings - Youth Development, Arts and Culture and Community Development - all aimed at the comprehensive revitalization of Hunts Point.

SUPPORT THE POINT • Mail a check to: THE POINT CDC 940 Garrison Avenue. Bronx NY 10474 • Make an in-kind donation • Volunteer • Join our mailing list at www.thepoint.org and get programs updates.

For more info call: 718-542-4139

THE POINT CDC Board of Directors and Staff 2016 - 2017 Board of Directors Michael Glazebrook, Chairperson Qiana Mickie, Secretary Svati Lelyveld,Treasurer Sarah C. Lee Jodi Schneider Karen Vanterpool Leighton Wynter R. Edward Lee, CSW, Emeritus

ADMINISTRATION Danny R. Peralta, Executive Managing Director Maria Torres, President & Chief Operating Officer Angela A. Tovar, Director of Community Development Rachelle Fernandez Chief Fiscal Officer Irene Perez, Office Manager / Director of Human Resources Dania Silverio, Events & Building Coordinator Amy CheN, Grant Writer Michael Crew, Fund DEvelopment Associate

YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Alicia Clarke, Carey Clark, Alejandra Delfin, Yamil Lora, Rossemary Gomez, Teresa Rivera, Demi Lei Rivera, Rebecca Rosado, Earl Skinner, Tiffany Williams, Travon Brown Yves Celestin, Charlie Irizarry, Polly Solomon,Tarik Solomon

TEACHING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY Bashira Webb • Kelston Bascom • Joseph Gilmore + Maria Malizia Alejandra Delfin • Yamil LOra • Ryan Johnson • Mark Nevers David Holdin + Jeremy Gouacide + Andrew Lopez

INTERNS Zil Mistry (NYEJA Fellow 2015) Shanice Rivera, Maragete Rodriguez, Sandy Soto, Omotayo Oladimeji, Rafael Arias (CUNY Servce Corps) Crystal Howze, Jose Flores, Wabu Blacknow (BHSVA) Lee Crews (SISDA Music Intern) Joely Dejesus, Jawhan Davis (WILDCat HS)

Facilities Moises Marques, Robert Johnson Thank you to POINT staff who connect the community creatively and selflessly throughout the year. You are all the TRUE HEROES of Hunts Point - Thank you beyond words!

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STUDENTS

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Laisha Canales

Giovanni Candido

Christopher Candido

Atiah Smalls

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Arielle williams

Chiemarie uneandy

Christopher a. matos

Houleymatou gory

Sofia de leon

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STUDENTS

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Victor Reyes

Mercedes Candido

Joana Vazquez

Mariam gory

Chimdindu Nwosy

Iyasaia beltre Iykelle

Dereck Garcia

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STUDENTS

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Roger Morales

Nia Scott

Allen Castro

Nazaree Guerrero

Angelique

Marquis jones

Iyasia beltre

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STUDENTS

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E Ricardo silva

Samuel scott

Brenda candido

JabriL smalls

Allen Carmona

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F Lareini gotay

Nicholas watson

Lamont smalls

Cordel davidson

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Stephanie Almodovar

Ashanti Meade

Zenaida de Leon

Tyler Stover

Brandon Valdivieso

Kimberly Fuentes

A.C.T.I.O.N.

Edward Martinez

Andy Gonzalez

Brandon Almodovar

Joselyn Rivero

Julian Acevedo

Kudirat Alimi

THE POINT’S AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

Every Tuesday night the Bronx Originals (aka the BXO’s) teen, Hip-Hop crew dances at THE POINT. We study Hip-Hop dance and culture. The BXO crew is led

by Forza Malizia Dance Company. In addition to leading the BXO’s, Forza Malizia also teaches dance for THE POINT After School Program.

‘Share It Monday’ dance performance with After School!

The BXO’s after at Turn Up Tuesday rehearsal in the POINT Dance Studio

Forza Malizia Dance Co. teachers

The BXO’s in 2014, our inaugural year at THE POINT

In the Music class of After School Program kids explore several musical instruments including the drums, the guitar, the bass guitar, the melodica and various percussion instruments. The kids learn to play music together in a band formation and to improvise while paying close attention to support and listen to one another.

Studio band class

Exploring La Conga

Playing in a band formation

Ricardo Playing the Drums

This year students develop and refine their skills in creating works of art. They experiment with different mediums and techniques, from mosaic, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, paper sculptures to crafts, while learning the elements of art and the principles of design. They learn how to analyze, reflect and talk about their work as well as other students work. One of the highlights of this year was our visit to a local art gallery, More Pointz, where they met artist Eric Orr and heard about his experience as an artist while looking at his work trajectory and new work of art, a serie of African masks painting in vinyl records. Back in the classroom they created unique pieces of work inspired by this artist.

CODING COMIC

Code Monkey Island play test Digital graphic novel that teaches children the logic of coding. We want to marry narrative to coding. We are planning to build a platform where children can re-write (re-visualize).

Code Monkey Island play test

A narrative by changing the logic of events. This means that if a child changes a variable in the narrative the whole narrative is potentially re-written, just like real life! Our target audience are 8-10 yr olds.

Code Monkey Island play test

Code Monkey Island play test

Our program name is called Circus. We teach a free social Circus class for the ages of 12-21. Circus is just the title of the class but it’s pretty much gymnastics coupled with entertainment. What we teach is tumbling, parkour, aerials, juggling (scarves, balls, rings, clubs, fire clubs), trapeze, lira, silks, Chinese yoyo, spinning plates, rolling globe, rollabolla, pirimids, counter balancing, contortions, performing skills, safety form and technique, etc. There is a lot going on in circus from rolls to eating fire. We build leadership skills and self-confidence, and also teach our students all the circus skills we know so that they can some day run the program. There is almost too much to say but please you are always welcomed to come in and see the Circus class or our shows your-

Photo By Wesley Dejesus

Student work in darkroom

Photo By Roy Baizan

ICP @The Point instructors: Emmely Pierre-Louis, Jamaal Levine, Isabel Figueroa, Ifetayo Abdus-Salam, Elena Hermosa, Chantal Heijnen, Ilene Squire, Guillermo “G” Giraldo During the 2015-2016 school year, ICP at THE POINT celebrated their 23rd Vantage Point Exhibition, titled “Bronx Eyes” This is are newest exhibition show. Our teens students, Tony Baizan, Anthony De la Rosa, Dion Rodriguez and Brigit Tejada

have branched out from our classroom/lab and are

now enrolled in Advanced Photo Classes at The International Center of Photography’s Teen Academy. Where students have the opportunity to learn color and digital photography as well as enhance their white & black skills.

Student work in darkroom

Student working in the studio

Students learning about the work on the wall

Vantage Point 23: Bronx Eyes ICP at THE POINT Student Exhibition Launched in 1997, ICP at THE POINT is a year-round photography-based collaboration that includes a classroom/studio, black-and-white darkroom, and gallery.

Through weekly classes for pre-teens and teens, the program teaches photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change.

© Jade Stewart

Bronx Eyes is an exhibition of student photographs from the past four years, which celebrates the power of their individual voices and shared experiences.

To see the Bronx through the eyes of its own, the images reveal a unique and essential representation of local stories and truths.

Featured Artists Marissa Alicea, Marlon Allen, Elisaac Alvarez, Roy Baizan, Tony Baizan, Cristal Bautista, Kayla Beltran, Jasmin Chabla, Boris Cortes, Antonio Cruz, Britney Cuevas, Wesley DeJesus, Brianna Diaz, Daniela Dipre, Ajohntae Dixon, Nailea Dominguez, Alexa Duran, Preston Fulwood, Alberto Garcia, Fritzi Garcia, Evan Guzman, Diana Herrera Cuautle, Aesetou Hydara, Raymond Jimenez, Stephanie Martinez, Artie Medina, Eduardo Montalvo, Sebastian Peralta, Tayvhon Pierce, Shandale Ricketts, Margarete Rodriguez, Rick Rodriguez, Alexa Seda, Victoria Spaulding, Jada Stewart, Sabrina Vasquez Alexandria Velazquez, Nicholas Watson, Shanice Workman

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© Diana Herrera Cuautle

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As part of the A.C.T.I.O.N. integration pilot program students designed and executed a mural, based on their active campaigns, Redefining Rehabilitation, Waterfront Justice, Food Justice and the Sheridan Expressway. Taking the class they got introduced to the history of mural making from its origins in Mexico to current community mural movements in the United States that use muraling as a tool to spread political and social messages to their communities. The students collaborated on the concept of the mural and came out with a four pieces mobil mural that could be hung or carried as banners for demonstrations or as presentations to their community.

Youth from ACTION together with students from Horace Mann starting our gardening season early!

THE POINT’s teen community leadership group A.C.T.I.O.N. engages local Bronx youth to work to identify social and environmental justice issues facing Hunts Point and learn how to be community organizers and activists. A.C.T.I.O.N. is committed to learning and addressing said issues with the guidance and support of community members, organizational partners and other stakeholders. A.C.T.I.O.N. members receive training in leadership, media, and environmental policy. The program also provides academic support throughout the school year and assists with internship placement and college access opportunities.

ACTION prepping for the 1st Fun ACTION Monday of the year with Afterschool Program Staff.

This year saw new partnerships for our campaigns and strengthening of familiar ties with longtime partners. Our Sheridan Campaign team planned and executed the 2nd Annual Sheridan Teen Summit with youth from YMPJ. This year’s event, held at Hyde Leadership Charter School, helped usher renewed awareness about the decommissioning of the Sheridan Expressway to an entire high school campus directly affected by the underutilized highway.

ACTION prepping for the 1st Fun ACTION Monday of the year with Afterschool Program Staff.

The Redefining Rehabilitation campaign also now counts with a new partner with Urban Youth Collaborative. UYC is an alliance that brings together New York City students to fight for real education reform that puts students first. Demanding a high quality education for all students, our young people struggle for social, economic, and racial justice in our schools and communities. With the inclusion of The Point to this coalition, our youth now have an opportunity to funnel

Facilitator from UYC leading workshop on School-to-Prison pipeline

their energy and knowledge of the School-to-Prison pipeline into initiatives that connect them to other young people doing similar work across the city!

ACTION member working on music as part of Integration pilot

Urban Food Justice team received support from the Horace Mann School on the start of gardening season.

After leading the Riverdale schools’ students on an environmental justice tour of Hunts Point, ACTION led the gardening session where both team planted fruits, vegetables and herbs in our campus garden!

Our Waterfront Justice team inaugurated THE POINT’s new Resiliency Lab with a session with our partners from the New York City Environmental

Justice Alliance. The youth learned about the environmental vulnerabilities Hunts Point faces and what ideas and plans are established to correct them.

Member of Urban Food Justice working on stencil for banner art work

The Women’s Group is a support group for women identified youth of the ages 13 to 24. Our mission is to create a safe space for young women to learn, grow and express themselves. Our favorite project is our zine, POP. We create our own media, due to a lack to representation in mainstream magazines. This year we are also celebrating our 8th annual Female Flava. This year’s theme is Digital Sisterhood; we will focus on how digital media influences social justice movements.

“I have the right” campaign with Project Envision

Bronx poet, Mariposa leading a writting workshop Anti Street Harassment Rally

All our issue of POP

Misra taking pictures for our latest issue of POP

Ashanti setting up our table at Mommas Hip Hop Kitchen

Open Hydrant Theater Company @ The Point in The Bronx presents the new, outrageous musical, “FOOLS IN LOVE”. This musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is part of The Conquer Your ShakesFEAR Series. “Fools in Love” is intended to introduce children to Shakespeare, and according to The New York Times, it does the job with exaggeration and pure silliness. The comedy is set in the era of “Happy Days” and poodle skirts, in a California town called West Athens, where four teenagers hang out at a diner and discuss their romantic problems and plans. Hermia loves Lysander but is being pressured to marry Demetrius.

On the sidelines, Helena pines for Demetrius, who finds her completely unappealing and tells her so. Conceived by Sarah Rosenberg and Luis Reyes Cardenas and adapted by Sarah Rosenberg, they have kept Shakespeare’s language (accented with an occasional “huh?” or “oh, all right”), letting young theatergoers grasp meaning through context.

Each year our students learn not only how to cook and became teen chefs, but also consider their relationship to food in the most diverse ways possible, including edible products, materials, experiences, environments and processes. This year as their final project students looked into making products for their homes, they printed shopping canvas bags using vegetables as stamps, and made coasters from mosaic tiles. Each week students enhance their culinary skills, and food design awareness, as well as learning about nutrition and food justice while preparing a meal for their community. This year we had a special visit from pastry chef Benjamin Elbirt with whom we learn how to bake cookies and cupcakes.

We are a group of young Men exploring music and the world of Digital Media Technology. We share and play music!

THE POINT CAMPUS FOR THE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENT Workshops, NOCD-NY CityWide Forum, Animals/Botanicals Exhibit

The workshops became a theme of an exhibition, Animals/Botanicals, a POINTWide Exhibition including 30 some artists and 60 some works of art. It’s opening was the back-drop of Natural Occurring Cultural District’s (NOCD-NY) City Wide Forum hosted by THE POINT, a platform for exploring the value of culture that happens from The Neighborhood Up.

The Campus was really busy this year. Aficionado had workshops from late spring to November in the Brick House. Our work was inspired by artist/ biologist, Brandon Ballengée’s project, Frameworks of Absence, that pictures the degradation of the environment and the 6th Great Extinction. In an intuitive way, we took Brandon’s work and through research reclaimed our local extinct or endangered species by making stencil portraits that were printed on hand made kites and flown whenever the wind at the campus would allow. The joy of drawing and kite-flying combined was AWAY a sort of resurrection.

The Bronx Museum Holiday Market, Bronx Artists Documentary Project, The Bronx Speaks: Our Home- Bronx Art Space Bronx Museum Holiday Market. THE POINT’s Winter Festival morphed into the Bronx Museum Holiday Market curated by Peregrine Falcon, Stencil on handThe Museum, THE POINT, made kite, by David Yearwood, AficioThe South Bronx Farmer’s nado Workshops, (Extinction/Resurrection) at The Campus.

Market and The Bronx Beer

Hall. This collaboration created a much larger audience for POINT artists and artisans. Featured artists were Joe and Kevin Melendez (7 yrs old) who made beautiful ornament designs, that sold very well!

POINT/Aficionado artists continue to be honored by inclusion in the Bronx Artists Documentary Project at book launches at the Bronx Museum and Montefiore Hospital.

THE POINT presented three artists at The Bronx Arts Alliance yearly exhibit, titled this year: The Bronx Speaks: Our Home: The theme responds to the current wave of displacement threatening the rich cultural identity of the South Bronx. Sharon De La Cruz, Eric Orr, and Sien Ide brought their own vision to this theme. The

works were shown at Bronx Uniting the Colors of the Art Space.

Bronx” and encouraging an awareness of our fellow bugs, fishes, birds and animals in the fabulous diversity of The Bronx.

THE POINT hosts The Hope Center Exhibit, “Heart , Home, Health” where artists participating in their aids rehabilitation program displayed their work at the Point.

THE POINT Atrium Aficionado Workshops,The Hope Center at THE POINT Ongoing Aficionado Workshops on Wednesday evenings went back to basics with life drawing guided by “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards; exercises that coax the brain to detach from vertical to lateral thinking. We are now applying this work to making portraits of John Ahearn’s ( artist in residence) sculptural portraits of POINT folk of all ages and making banners for the Fish Parade based on “nouns of assembly”: a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a rainbow of butterflies — We are inspired by the Fish Parade’s theme this year “

EVERYWHERE: BUGSTOCK 2016!

Visiting Artist / Biologist, Brandon Ballengée, returned for his third residency at THE POINT to conduct workshops on biodiversity, engaging a visiting group of Native American students and young

citizen scientists at THE POINT in learning about local species through observation of live gathered from The Bronx River, fossilized dinosaur poop and eating roasted bugs on pizza to be capped with a field trip to Hunter’s Island in Pelham Bay Park in May.

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John Ahearn (New York in the year of 1951) is a founding member of the Collaborative Projects, Inc. and co-organizer of the “Times Square Show” of 1980. Ahearn has collaborated with Rigoberto Torres (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 1960) throughout many projects.

During the 1980’s and 1990’s, the collaborators carried out many outdoors murals in the Bronx. Both artists continue working on public projects and exhibitions worldwide. This year John work with our students at the after-school program as models with the goal to created a public art piece for the facade at THE POINT. www.johnahearn.com/

Apache artist from the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona came to THE POINT for his second residency in June of 2016. His first in 2009, was a training in skate board stencil design for a group of 20 young students. He inspired them with his fierce identity politics as a Native American and his great artistry.

His influence resulted in two youth-led skateboard design collaboratives: Eco-Ryders and Polido Skateboards based on fusing Skateboard Design with Environmental Justice.

When he returned in June to make his iconic mural “Fort Apache, The Bronx” which overturned negative stereotypes generated by the film from 1981, we were proud that he referred the THE POINT as his home away from home. His second visit coincided with THE POINT’s South Bronx-wide partnership with Partnership for Parks and The Fund for Public Health to build a skate park on the Hunts Point Peninsula. His presence in our work was and is seminal to this initiative.

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REDHOOK Through the generous support and mentorship of Jim Moffat of Red Hook Labs and Estate 4, our Program teaches digital photography, video and Zines in high schools and community centers in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Led by Joseph Gilmore, Bashira Webb and Mark Nevers,Students who were part of Point programming and now teachers themselves, the program instructs in camera and studio skills at all levels and has had numerous local and international exhibitions to great acclaim, including an ongoing educational exchange partnership with the highly esteemed FOAM Museum of Amsterdam. There has been everything from class trips to Vogue magazine and a wonderful tour by Tonne Goodman, its Fashion Director, to chronicling the everchanging Brooklyn waterfront. The Project has produced dynamic engaging work by the students and instructors helping to connect their neighborhoods and their talents to the world at large in a truly outstanding way.

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Acknowledgements 826 Literacy • 92nd Street Y • A1 Food Distribution • Abayomi Babatunde DJ Black Icon • Abada Capoeira • Abraham Perez • A.C.T.I.O.N. (Activist Coming To Inform Our Neighborhood) • Advocates for Youth • After School Alliance • Alessandro Cajariti Crivelli and Max Senise /Estate 4 • Allegro Coffee • Alicia Grullon • Anne Lawrence • Amanda Leacock • Amy Crumly • Incksa Lonius • Andy Brown • Andrew Gurewich • Anti-Violence Project • Anya Warburg • AscendTex Outfitter • John & Laura Avedon • The Avedon Foundation• BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance • Barry Rosen • BASCOM CATERING • Beats, Rhymes and Life • Betsy Davidson • Benjamin Elbirt • Blank Plate • Boswyck Farms • Bowling Green University • Brecht Forum • Bronx Auto Glass • Bronx Beer Hall • Bronx Charter School of the Arts • Bronx Classic Bikes • Bronx Community Health Network • Bronx Council of Arts • Bronx Defenders • Bronx Documentary Center • Bronx Museum of The Arts • Bronx Hip-Hop 101 • Bronx High School For Visual Arts • Bronx Writing Academy • Build-On • Bydale Foundation • Caribbean Cultural Center • Carl Van Putton • Carmen Garcia • CASES • Casita Maria • CEOptions • Cirque Du Monde • Cirque Du Soleil • Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo • City Lore • City Year New York • Cliff Bar • Citizen Schools @ MS 323 • Community Board 2 • Community Food Advocates - Lunch 4 Learning Campaign • Corbin Hill Farm • CUNY Service Corps 2015 • Cooper Union • Bronx River Alliance • Darius Davis • Davendra Surujpaul • DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) • Diana Revson • Dignity In Schools Campaign - NYC • DJ Jazzy Jay • Don Kao & Project Reach NYC • Doug Miles • Down East Seafood • Downtown Arts Festival • DOE OTH • DreamYard • Evonny Escoto • Father and Son BBQ • FDNY Ladder 48 and Engine Company 94 • Floor Royalty Crew • Betty Fonseca • Caio Fonseca • Isabel Fonseca • Flor Perez • Fordham University & Gabelli School of Business • Forza Malizia Dance Company • Frank Fournier • Free Arts, NYC • From The Bronx • Gina Arias & Bronx Teen Connect • Global Kids, Inc. • H&R Block • HEART • Hive Digital Media Fund •Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work• Hunter 83 College Silberman School of Social work • Hunts Point Alliance for Children • Hunts Point Express • Hunts Point Library • Hunts Point Recreation Center •The Hitchcock Family• Hush Tours • HIVE NYC Learning Network • Hyde Leadership Academy • ICP 2014 -2015 Instructors • IDEA • In Good Company • Inside Out Project Team • James and Amanda Moffat • Red Hook Labs• James J. Peters VA Hospital • Jason Rosario • Jewelbriel • Jim Warburg • Anya Warburg and Move This World•Joanne Olivencia • JR & Marc Azouley • John Murphy • Joe and Jerelyn of The Knowledge House • Julia Palmer Library Grant Cohort 2015 • Jump Start • Just Food • Kanako Okuda • Kelly Street Gardens • David Kupferstein • Lamarvin Johnson • Los Seis del Sur •Ms. Latoya Kittrell• Lucia Hernandez - Bryant Ave. Community Garden • Mainland Media • Materials for the Arts • Maria Malizia • Mariposa • Melissa Fernandez • Armine Miliken• Merck Family Foundation • Michael Glazebrook • Michael Kamper • Michael Laing • Michelle Cordero • Mileisley Cid • Misra Walker • Morris Heights Health Center • Monroe College • Montefiore Medical Center •Roy Moskowitz• Mr. Willie Dynamite • Mrs. Cybeale Ross • Mrs. Manfredonia • M.S. 424 • Ms. Heather of City Year • Ms. Louise • Ms. Marie • Myrtho Gardiner • Natasha Campbell • New Settlement Apartments College Access Center • New York Foundation • New Yorkers for Parks • News 12 The Bronx • NOCD-NY • NY Cares • NYC Bridge Project • NYC Parks • NYC-EJA • NYU School of Occupational Therapy • Office Of Congressman Jose E. Serrano • Omar Rodriguez • Open Hydrant Theater • Ofronama Biu • Outward Bound NYC • PAL @ PS 48 • PASE • Paul Lipson • Paul Smith • Lisa Persky and Andy Zax• Pio Mendes • Planned Parenthood • Project Hope • PS 48 Marching Band • PS 75 • PS 62 • Real Life Church • Recycle a Bicycle • Red Hook Initiative • Rhea Keller • Reshma for Public Advocate • Robert Bowne Foundation • Russell Goings • Russell Greenleaf • Sabor con Nilsa • Sari Siegel & Julian Lamb • Scholastic Awards • SEBCO/SISDA • Shakespeare Society • School of Visual Arts • Simon Bolivar Foundation • South Brooklyn Community High School • St. Athanasius School • St. Ignatius School • STEM 2 GETHER • Stephanie Campos • Stephanie Dyer • Stephen Frailey• SVA • South Brooklyn Community HS • Summer Stage NYC • Summit Academy Charter School • SUNY NEW PALTZ • Superman Sound • Sustainable South Bronx •Sam Swope • The Academy for Teachers• Suzanne Martell• Steve and Sylvia Ohler • Tanya Field & The BLK ProjeK • TATS CRU *Teaching Assistants and Guest Artists • The 41st Precinct • The After School Corporation • The Brenner Family Foundation • The Bronx Children’s Museum • The Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade • The Columbus Campus Pep Band • The Hamond Family Foundation • The House of Spoof Collective • The Hunts Point Academy of Music • The JM Kaplan Fund • The Justice Committee NYC • The Latin American Baseball Academy • Lawyers Alliance For NY • The Laundromat Project • The New York Women’s Foundation • The Pinkerton Foundation • THE POINT Board of Directors • The Scherman Foundation • The Wine Cellarage THEARTOFLYRICS • TME Pro Studios • Tim Vetter • Tools of War • Tribal Stone • UNITAS • United Health Center • United Health Plan • Universal Partnership • UPS • Urban Word NYC • Urban Youth Collaborative • Variety the Children’s Charity & Young Variety • Vista Foods • William Marshall • Stephen Warnke and Susan Sommer • W.O.M.E.N. • YMCA Castle Hill • YMCA New Americans Welcome Center • Yolanda Colon • Yolanda Rodriguez Visitors to THE POINT’s Campus and supporters of events year round • All families who trust us with their children on a daily basis • All POINT staff families for supporting us on our mission to build community - thank you for the inspiration!

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