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Page 1: 2018 - Step Up

2018Celebrating 20 Years of Confident Girls

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A Look Back 1998-2018

1998 was the year that Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated a little company called Google, Bill Clinton was impeached, Viagra was approved by the FDA, and Harry Potter was published in the United States.

It was also the year that I invited a group of friends and colleagues over to my rental on 1599 Sunset Plaza Drive.

We hatched Step Up while sitting on my living room floor; the name jumped out at us from the pages of a J. Crew catalogue – “STEP UP for spring.”

We were so young - entertainment industry professionals wanting to use our skills and access to media for something beyond ourselves.

While I am proud to have the official title of ‘founder,’ the reality is I was more of a catalyst and then subsequently the glue. The ‘founders’ of Step Up are numerous.

In the beginning, we had no idea what we were doing - but we had a really good time doing it!

Our fundraisers were varied in locale, venue and substance.

Thanks to technology, for better or for worse, our world is a radically different one than two decades ago.

But the conscious-raising movements over this last year have reminded us all something those of us gathered in my living room 20 whole years ago already knew: women who band together can indeed make a difference.

One word comes to mind when I reflect on our 20 years of service - and that word is “hope,” as we look to the next 20 years.

On behalf of the organization and especially our teens, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

— Step Up Founder Kaye Popofsky Kramer

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A Look Back 1998-2018

Thank You to Our Founding Board

Adriana Alberghetti

Vanassa Alexander

Dara Cohen

Marina Glass

Paige Golberg

Amy Guenther

Lisa Hallerman

Erica Huggins

Pam Kohl

JJ Klein

Nancy Mendelson

Lisa Moiselle

Liza Anne Oestreich

Kaye Popofsky

Dawn Saltzman

Nelie Shah

Dannielle Thomas

Lori Zuker

Thank You to Our Founding Members

Laurie Arent

Rowena Arguelles

Debora Bergman

Stacey Boniello

Sara Bottfeld

Robbie Brenner

Melissa Bretz

Julia Buchwald

Stephanie Comer

Katherine Dalli

Naomi Despres

Anne Marie Donoghue

Channing Dungey

Lara Ebersole

Shana Eddy

Cornelia Frame

Jenny Fritz

Suzanne Fritz

Christine Fugatti

Amy Giangardella

Julie Guzman

Shauna Hellewell

Kristen Jones

Leslie Klotz

Danielle Knight

Jo Levi

Kristen March

Robyn Meisenger

Andrea Nelson

Nicole Pfeffer

Paula Reeve

Madeline Ryan

Erin Simon

Lainie Sorkin

Lisa Stolper

Tiffany Wagner

Julie Wixon

Heather Zeegan

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Step Up’s Impact

As the organization celebrated 20 years of confident girls, we look back at Step Up teens and alumnae who confidently shared their stories.

INSPIRATION AWARDS TEEN HONOREE

Viviana, Step Up Class of 2018

“As young as 4-years-old, I had my confidence just completely shattered by someone in my family who was supposed to make me feel loved and wanted. As a result, I became so afraid to talk to people and developed this habit of wearing a mask. At a young age, we are taught that crying is weak; showing any type of emotion is weak; that we must suck it up, like a “man.” So every time I wanted to cry I would do one of two things: hide somewhere and cry, or act like I was fine. I would never talk to someone about how I truly felt.

As time went on, wearing a mask became so easy for me and it wasn’t until I was in middle school that I began to see the consequences. It started off with me crying for no reason. I would make up any story I could think of at the moment, “it’s cause my stomach hurts. I don’t feel well. I got into a fight with my best friend.” Whatever I could think of that would not make me sound crazy. I didn’t know what was going on with me. I figured it’s probably nothing; it’s just a phase, so I ignored it and brushed it off.

Sophomore year of high school, I began getting panic and anxiety attacks in school, making it difficult to fully focus in class. The thought of being at home, left with my thoughts and feelings made me depressed. I felt imprisoned like a caged bird, like I was drowning and I couldn’t breathe. In addition to not feeling emotionally safe, I didn’t feel physically safe at home. I remember helping my next door neighbor, Israel, with his math homework when all of a sudden we hear gunshots being fired. However, the gunshots were not what threw us off, considering the fact that we hear those all the time, It was how loud the gunshots sounded, as if they were right outside my door. I got up and peeked through the blinds of my window, and I see this semi-bald man wearing a white muscle shirt, black pants, walking right outside the fence on the sidewalk with a gun in his hands. My friend comes to check, and I push him to the ground, telling him “duck, he has a gun.” I asked Israel, “What do we do?” He replied, “Call the police!” I rushed to the phone, and I called 911.

The blind in my room is still missing, and I remember how I was afraid to do my homework at my desk by the window. I thought that the

gang members were going to be searching for me since I was the one who called the police. I remember how I would get a panic attack in bed when I heard fireworks go off because the sound reminded me so much of that day.

And then one day this amazing organization for girls called Step Up came to my school. I decided that enough was enough, so I took a leap of faith and joined. And let me tell you, it was one of the best decisions of my entire life.

Sophomore year, as a person who felt alone, Step Up provided a safe place for me to open up, talk about what I was feeling and not have to worry about being judged by others. It was a like our own little support group in which I was finally able to build the confidence to reach out for help from family and professionals. During junior year of high school, because the same girls were still in Step Up, we grew closer and closer, learning more about each other, telling each other stuff we wouldn’t share outside of Step Up about our struggles, what we’ve gone through, and how we’ve dealt with it. Step Up has provided me with people I can turn to when I felt lost, people I can turn to for advice whether a mentor, facilitator, or my very own Step Up sisters. Step Up provided me with a family, something I felt was I was losing at home.

However, I began to get extremely busy with school and made the huge mistake of not going to my therapy sessions anymore. My depression and anxiety came back stronger than ever. It got to the point where I would pray every night that I would not wake up the next morning. The only thing keeping me alive at this point was the fear of God. One day, I was given the opportunity to go to a Step Up event that would include a mystery special guest. I knew in my heart that

it would be someone who would a lot to me. On March 23, 2017, for the first time in a while, I was excited to wake up and prepare for the day I had been waiting for my entire life, the day I met Selena Gomez. The moment Selena, my all-time hero, walked in the room, I cried because I regained hope and realized that I didn’t want to die any time soon, but I wanted to live to change someone’s life for the better, the way Selena did mine.

Now as a Step Up senior in the Young Luminaries program and as a Step Up ambassador, I’ve gotten the pleasure to help our sophomore girls throughout their journey every week. I am able to take what my mentors have taught me over the years and pass it down to my sophomore girls. When I look at them, I see myself when I was their age, going through what I’ve gone through. It makes me happy knowing that I get to be that sisterly figure they turn to when they need advice.

In this way, Step Up has helped me learn to help other people, and is preparing me for my future. This fall, I will be attending UC Riverside, and in 20 years I hope to be a clinical psychologist. Throughout my journey, I’ve learned that being strong doesn’t mean putting on a façade but allowing yourself to be vulnerable. As a result, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to help others on their journey who may be struggling with their own mental health. I want people to realize that it’s okay not being okay; that they are not alone and there are millions of other people going through the same thing.

Sometimes us teenagers feel like our whole world is falling apart, but all it takes are amazing and powerful woman like you to give us a hand and make us feel like we got this. Thank you.”

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SHINE & DINE ALUMNA HONOREE

English, Step Up Class of 2014

“As a teen, I was involved in Step Up during my entire high school career, 2010 through 2014. Recently, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I reflect on how we often use moments like graduation to compare our success and failures to others. I thought I was only confident when I was winning, and I could post my success story on social media or talk about it with my peers. However, I realize that my confidence is much more than the successes in my life, it’s my ultimate survival technique.

Thinking about my journey to Step Up, it all started in my high school’s journalism room. The other Schurz HS Step Up teens and I were eating pizza when a teen program facilitator, Shannon Matesky, came into the room and started spittin’

bars. My first experience seeing someone do spoken word live was what made me commit to not only Step Up, but my undying love for poetry and words. Poetry gave me a reason to want to be great at something. Accompanied with my mom and family’s support, I realized that I wanted to commit to excellence and be a person with purpose. It was then when I recognized that I had the confidence to get through high school. Let’s be real, high school for some is not easy. Many people I graduated with were the first in their families to graduate high school. Many students from my high school, myself included, were also the first to go to college. I think having the mindset of being driven and confident in spaces where it is not common for people like me, being a woman of color, to excel, is an act of survival. You have to be the best at what you do in all aspects to get your chance at a life of comfort. My journey to success is powered by confidence.

However, I do realize that you should not tie your self-worth to success in general. There is a lot of personal growth that made me feel worthy in times where I did not do well or when I was not as successful. Most of it was academic, because I have been in school majority of my life. I realized that it is not all about being smart. Sometimes I found myself being confident and brave in spaces that were created to keep me inferior. Especially when I started college, because as a young Black woman, I learned quickly to work twice as hard and not shy away from something because no one in that space looks like me. On top of the school work and extracurricular activities, I had to reaffirm (to others mostly) that I was qualified to be there. My survival technique, confidence, allowed me to excel despite the turbulence in art and creativity. In accepting mentorship and guidance, I felt unwaveringly independent.

College for me wasn’t all about sleepless nights in the undergraduate library, the freshman 15, 9AM classes and 11:59PM deadlines. College for me was performing at open mic nights and WORD concerts, helping my residents through some of the most difficult times in their lives, and making friends and mistakes that I will remember and cherish for a lifetime. Most of all, college was a defining moment for me and my personal definition of confidence. I learned the art of being confident by being one of the only Black women in my minor classes, by having honest conversations about femininity and being a womanist with my best friend (who studied gender and women studies and agrees that we should never argue with men for free), and by dissecting my notions of the world one conversation and experience at a time.

I felt more confident when I walked back into a class after I failed an econ exam. I knew that this class was not going to define me in the future. (I also knew I had no interest in the exciting life of being an economist.) I walked back into that class, eager to learn how to be better. Because of that, I felt more confident walking into a class I was struggling in than I did when I walked into a class I received high marks from because I knew I had to work hard to survive it. I felt more confident when I got denial letters from on-campus organizations and job offers. After every “no,” I evaluated what my true passion was and sought to accomplish it in other ways. Whether that means applying my abilities to a different positions to get what I want, at the end of the day, every “no” gave me more room and opportunity to pursue my future “yes’s” and “congratulations!” I felt more confident with my personal journal, where I got express myself without filtering it for public consumption, than

I did when I performed something out loud in front of an audience. I learned that my confidence was not always exclusive to when my life is comfortable. My confidence, however, is always tied to my ability to get through hard times that often prompted insecurity and self-doubt.

When I was a Step Up teen, I was confident and college-bound. Today, I am confident and degreed from one of the best universities in the nation. Whenever there is a day I feel uninspired and down, I know that my confidence has many forms, and I am anticipating a burst of it soon. My mom, my sisters, my best friends and organizations like Step Up each aided in my ability to feel confident enough every day. They taught patience by being survivors and courageous in times of trouble. Most of all, they taught me how to be sisterly because we are always leaning on one another when we need that boost of confidence (with an occasional “yassss”).

Even though I graduated from Step Up over four years ago, the lessons I learned about confidence and resilience, and the support I received and continue to receive from Step Up mentors, aided me in my journey. To think it all started in my high school’s journalism room, then an internship through Step Up at Diversity MBA my junior year of high school. My confidence got me my degree and my internships. One day, my confidence will push me to enroll in law school and practice family law. My confidence will give me more real world experiences that will fuel my passion for people, public service, and creating a change in the communities where I grew up. If there is one thing I am sure of, more than anything, it is that both triumphs and challenges have given me 22,

almost 23 years of confidence!”

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POWER HOUR ALUMNA HONOREE

Chanel, Step Up Class of 2018

“The Chanel today is nothing like the 9th grader who started coming to Step Up four years ago. That Chanel had been in The Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx since the 6th grade, and thought she had everything figured out. Her main focus was having a good laugh with her friends. She wasn’t really into trying new things, was a little judgmental and sometimes could be known for her attitude. I still don’t know what the attitude was all about, but it was definitely there.

I’m grateful to Step Up for growing with me in the past four years. Step Up has exposed me to people, experiences and opportunities I probably would not have had if they had not supported me and seen my potential.

One of my favorite Step Up field trips was when we got to visit to Coach’s headquarters in the 10th grade. I walked into that building, and I was amazed. I had no idea that Coach had their headquarters in New York City and that the company had such a long history. While we were there, we got to talk with lots of different women who worked there. I felt really special to be sitting across from people who actually designed the bags that I’d see in magazines and in stores. Later, I spoke with someone on the finance team, and later someone in marketing. All these different people, with very different jobs, worked for this brand. Toward the end of the visit, we had to choose a bag and create a pitch for it. It was a lot of fun, and I never knew that pitching was a job, or that you could work in fashion even if you were not a designer. It was there that I first got interested in marketing.

Last year, was probably one of my favorite years at Step Up. There were so many corporate field trips, and I

met so many great people. In May, 11th-graders were invited to a Saturday session that focused on preparing us to interview for summer internships and take professional headshots. While waiting to get my makeup done for my headshots, I met a bunch of girls who went to Step Up at different schools and everyone was so nice. I really did feel like I was part of a sisterhood, even though we all went to different schools, we were all getting this experience together. Earlier in the year, I went on a college tour to Sienna College and really liked it. During the Step Up session, I was paired with a mentor who actually attended Sienna. I got to ask her tons of questions about the school, and her answers really solidified me wanting to go. Right now, Sienna is pretty high on my list of colleges—so please, keep your fingers crossed for me.

There were so many cool companies I had the chance to visit, but meeting the mentors was always the best part. I just remember always leaving those trips thinking, “Wow. That job sounds pretty cool.” I feel like I’d leave one trip, and be completely decided on a career and then go another, and realize I actually want to do something totally different.

But that’s one of the best things about

Step Up. I’ve realized that there are so

many different journeys that can lead

to success. You just need to believe in

yourself, and show up for yourself and

you’ll get there.

So I told you a little about 9th grade

Chanel. The Chanel in front you,

actually loves meeting new people

and finding out what they do. I also

love trying new foods, which I can

thank Step Up for, too. Actually, at

this very event last year, I tried tomato

basil mozzarella bruschetta for the

first time. It’s delicious, where has this

combo been my whole life? But back

to Chanel. Clearly, I love trying new

foods. But I also know how to ask for

help to solve problems, and I’m not

afraid of getting things wrong on my

first try. Right now, I’m super interested

in economics, and learning about

how social systems work, but I feel

like a career in media could be in my

future. Whichever way, I know that I’ll

be successful, and I’ll be able to thank

these past four years for much of it.

Thank you Step Up, for showing me

what it looks like to show up for myself,

and believing in me.”

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Step Up’s Impact

2018 BY THE NUMBERS

3307 number of hours of Step Up programming offered during 2018

3045 number of hours of Step Up after-school programming offered

1950 teens enrolled in Step Up

728 number of girls paired with mentors at one of Step Up’s mentorship conferences

128 number of seniors in the Step Up Class of 2018

126 number of hours of Step Up Young Luminaries programming offered to Step Up seniors

93 number of Step Up programs held this year

76 percent of teens who report feeling more career-focused after a year of Step Up

73 percent of teens who report feeling more confident after a year of Step Up

71 percent of teens who report feeling better prepared for college after a year of Step Up

70 number of hours of mentorship offered at Step Up mentorship conferences

66 number of hours of career exploration mentorship offered on Step Up’s Pathways to Professions corporate field trips

33 number of Pathways to Professions corporate field trips

29 number of Step Up partner high schools

17 number of seniors placed in summer internships through Step Up

14 number of Step Up-hosted mentorship conferences

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PARTNERS

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$1,000,000+Coach Foundation

$200,000+Benefit Cosmetics

Oath Foundation

$100,000+Anonymous Donor

$50,000+ArcelorMittal

JCPenney Communities Foundation

NBCUniversal

Plum Spring Foundation

$25,000+Allstate Insurance Company

American Airlines

Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation

Ernst & Young LLP

Eva Longoria Foundation

Exelon

Good American

Ketchum

KPMG

MJK Family Foundation

Pepsico

The Container Store

Trunk Club

ULTA Beauty

US Bank

Young Women’s Leadership Network

$10,000+

24 Seven Talent

Accenture

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP

Cali’flour Foods

C’est Moi

Cinema Giants

CSP Foundation

Disney/ABC Television Group

Finkelstein Foundation

First Data

Frog Crossing Foundation Inc.

GE

Google

Group M

Hulu

IT Cosmetics

Kendra Scott

Lockton

Marketo

Media Monks

Media Temple

PARTNERS

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Michael Stars, Inc.

Neutrogena

Northern Trust

Omnicom

Protiviti

PwC

Southwest Airlines

Tarte Cosmetics

The Fossil Group

The Hoglund Foundation

The John Buck Company

The Walt Disney Company Foundation

Too Faced Cosmetics

$5,000+

20th Century Fox

Aerotropolis Atlanta

AIG

Angelo Family Charitable Foundation

Aon

Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP

Bill Bass Foundation

Bluestone Lane

BMO Financial Group

Boston Consulting Group

Byline Bank

Capital Group Companies

Chicago Trading Company

ComEd

Comerica Bank

Concord Music

Epsilon

Euromonitor International

Foot Locker, Inc.

Fossil Foundation

Group SJR LLC

GrubHub

Howard Hughes Corporation

ICM

IRI

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises

Marie Keese Lelash Foundation

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

OpenSlate

Panda Restaurant Group Inc.

Prinz Law Firm

Refinery 29

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skylar Body

Southern California Edison

Stampede

Standard Motor Products, Inc.

StartEngine

PARTNERSCONTINUED

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Stout Risius Ross, Inc.

T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation

The Annenberg Foundation

The Forest Fund Inc.

The Palitz Charitable Lead Annuity Trust

The Terri & Verne Holoubek Family Foundation

TJ Maxx

Trina Turk

TrueBlue

United Talent Agency

Vedder Price

Weber Shandwick

Wells Fargo Foundation

White Horse Productions

WME

WSM Foundation

Yext

$2,500+Adina Reytor

American Express

Arbonne Charitable Foundation

Ariel Investments

At Home Group

Bandier

Billingsley Company

Brown Advisory

CAA

E! Entertainment

First Citizens Bank

Fox Rothschild LLP

HBO

Hexagon Analytics & Strategy

Holland & Knight

Jones Lang Lasalle

Lifeway Foods Inc.

McGuireWoods LLP

Mosse Foundation

New City Church

Nine-Eighteen Fine Jewelry

NiSource Inc.

Publicis Groupe

Revolutions Per Minute

Sewell BMW of Grapevine

Showpad

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

Spotify

SPR Consulting

The American Gem Trade Association

The Benevity Community Impact Fund

U.S. Bank Foundation

Universal Pictures

Ziffren Brittenham LLP

PARTNERSCONTINUED

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LEADERSHIP

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NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORSCHAIR Barri Rafferty, CEO North America and partner, Ketchum

Marnie Kain Cacossa - EVP, Grey GroupTamika Chambers

Margaret Coady, executive director, Coach Foundation and Corporate Social Responsibility, Coach, Inc.Erin Collins, managing director, KPMG LLP

Leslie DeHoff, partner, EYAngela Elbert, partner, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP

Heather Foster, VP, Finn PartnersDiane Holland, global chief financial officer, POSSIBLE

Sara Holoubek, CEO, Luminary LabsTodd Kahn, president and chief administrative officer, Coach Inc.

Kaye Popofsky Kramer, founder, Step UpKeli Lee, EVP, talent and casting, ABC Entertainment Group

Sara Link, head of Citizen AOL, president, AOL Charitable FoundationMolly Luetkemeyer, principal, M. Design Interiors

Jenni Luke, CEO, Step UpKelley Schadt, director of marketing, The Container Store

Cindy SobelWendi Sturgis, EVP, Sales and Service, Yext

Marcy Twete, director, ArcelorMittal FoundationMaria Walker, global lead partner, private equity, KPMG

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SUPPORTERS$5,000+

Alex Meneses

Andrya Smith

Anonymous Donor

Anonymous Donor

Channing Dungey

Chris Rock

Christy DeMott

Cindy Sobel

Courtney Kivowitz

Danielle Sanchez-Witzel

Diane Holland

Eniko Hart

Gretchen Wolf

Jessica Goodman

Leila Shin

Margie Moreno

Maria Walker

Mark & Lynda Coffman

Megan Wolfe

Molly Luetkemeyer

Nicole Townsend

Steve Idoux

Todd Kahn

$2,500+

Angela Elbert

Annette Lilly

Ashley Forman

Beth Spurgeon

Blair Rich

Carolyn Rumer

Cecelia Largura

Dana Hall

Diane Reichenberger

Donna Brickell

Erica Messer

Erin Collins

Gina Judge

Jennifer Traff

Jessica McLaughlin

Jill Simonson Luciano

Joan Kupersmith Larkin

Karen French

Kathy Ford

Kaye Popofsky Kramer

Kelly Hanker

Lauren Klein

Maggie Neuwald

Marcy Twete

Maria Salcedo

Melissa Mann

Michelle Aragon

Nancy Carell

Nicole Durham

Peg Rowe

Piyush Chaudhari

Sara Holoubek

Stephanie Kensicki

Susanna Felleman

Tara Crimin

Tara Simon

$1,000+

Adriana Alberghetti

Alethea Hannemann

Alison Deyette

Amie Luke

Ana Perez

Andi Ohl Garten

Andrea Carter

Angela Wright

Anna Tom

Anne Sissel

Annette Moore

Argelia Velasco

Arla Lach

Baaba Holland

Barbara Allen-Watkins

Barri Rafferty

Bernard Judge

Beth Cofsky

Beth Perry

Brittany Hveem

Bruce Slovin

Catherine Mayone

Chaqueva Robinson

Christine Palkovic

Clare and Warren Dern

Danielle Barrett

Danielle Garcia

David Rafferty

Dawn Jackson Blatner

Deborah Mack

Diane Mizota

Eileen Dordek

Ela Choina

Elizabeth Malone

Elizabeth McCune

Elizabeth Naftali

Elizabeth Watters Roberts

Emily Milman

Engrid Pitts-Smith

Eowyn Ford

Erin Crawford

Erin Mandel

Frans Vermeulen

Gabriela Neves

Garnesha Ezediaro

Gauri Chawla

Gillian Bar

Gina Kiefer

Hilary Smith

Imani Daniel

Jackie Smith

Jaclyn Bivins

Jamie Kogan

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SUPPORTERS

Jan Coonley

Jana Augsberger

Jane McCart

Janet Marzett

Jared Hall

Jazmine Gonzalez

Jeanne Elfant Festa

Jenna Karadbil

Jennifer Blair

Jennifer Cavanuagh

Jennifer Romans

JoAnna Foyle

Joe Lucas

Judith Meguire

Julie Darmody

Julieta LaMalfa

Karl and Laura Slovin

Kate Baxter

Kate Burian

Kathi Seifert

Kathryn Brtko

Kathy Morris

Katie Rak

Katie Smith

Katrina Craigwell

Keith Granet

Kim Burgan

Kimberly AuBuchon

Kira Copperman

Kiran Pinto

Kristen Prinz

Lacey Chabert

Lee Rierson and Hadley Rierson

Linda Sweet

Lindsey Padgett

Lisa Karp

Liz O’Connor

Liz Rank

Lizabeth Kohler

Lois Buwalda

Lori Kozak

Louisa Shipnuck

Lucy Billingsley

Lynette Jones

Madeline Loef

Margaret Coady

Maria Vermeulen

Marietta Daniel

Marina Cohn

Mark Harrison

Marnie Kain Cacossa

Marnie Owens

Marquel Reddish

Maureen Lippe

Max Carmona

Maya Brenner

Meghan Sporleder

Melanie Barr-Levey

Melissa Hartman

Melody Rose

Meredith Hampton

Merle Dandridge

Michelle Weiss

Mike & John August

Mitch Smelkinson

Naana Grant-Acquah

Nami Choe

Nancy Rizzuto

Nicole Wetzell

Patricia Neuwirth

Paul Nelson

Philline Parlan Zitin

Prama Bhatt

Rachel Begun

Rebecca Bacon

Rebecca Weigman

Rob Flaherty

Robin Faerber

Roger French

Rose Ann Abraham

Sally Lou Loveman

Serena Cervantes

Shay Bahramirad

Shayna Cook

Shelby Parnes

Shelly DeMott

Soma Gupta

Stacee Hasenbalg

Stacy Wabeke

Sunnnie Givens

Susan Genco

Susan Healy

Susie Shaw-Hammesfahr

Suzanne Lerner

Suzanne O’Donnell

Tara Kaesebier

Thomas South

Torrey Littlejohn

Tracy DeFreitas

Tracy Preston

Vanessa Colman

Vanessa Martinez

Vanessa Salinas Beckstrom

Walter Z. Falconer

Wendi Sturgis

William French

Yotam Ariav

Zenola Campbell

CONTINUED

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STAFF

Jenni Luke, chief executive officer

Nickie Acero, manager, data strategy, teen programs

Jane Baron, teen programs facilitator

Kate Baxter, executive director

Nya Brooks, teen programs facilitator

Benita Brown, teen programs facilitator

Jenny Camacho, teen programs facilitator

Jessica Champness, VP, development

Leslie Cortez, teen programs facilitator

Briana Crowe, teen programs facilitator

Tiera Diaz, teen programs manager

Amanda Flores, development and events manager

Hollis Heath, senior manager, teen programs

Jennifer Hernandez, teen programs facilitator

Lubna Hindi, manager, individual giving

Margaret Humphries, teen programs facilitator

Jamie Kogan, director of development

Allison Leanos, senior manager, communications

Sofia Lilly, teen programs manager

Venus Devnani McClelland, chief operating officer

Mara Meyers, teen programs facilitator

Kendal Phelps, teen programs facilitator

Stephanie Ponce, teen programs facilitator

Jessica Smith, development and events manager

Katherine Sutton, organizational services coordinator

Cordelia Tullous, executive director

Kia Whitney, senior manager, teen programs

Erica Wynn, teen programs facilitator

Alissa Zito, VP, communications

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FINANCIALS

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Programs

79%($3,157,760)

Fundraising & Development

10%($415,275)

Administrative

11% ($442,267)

EXPENSES $4,015,302

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Donations

36%($1,558,979)

Special Events

23%($1,003,110)

Grants

40%($1,747,516)

Interest & Dividends

1%($18,838)

INCOME $4,328,443

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Inspiration Awards

14%($35,919)

Power Hour

7%($17,500)

Shine & Dine

14%($35,700)

Other

64%($159,734)

IN KIND $248,853

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