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annual report for 2009
Dear
Friends,
During 2010, The Family Place will be looking back on its 30 years
of service to Washington’s families. Much more important, we are
looking forward to being a source of critical help for families for
as long as we are needed. We renew our pledge to be there for
families in need, knowing we can count on the loyal support of the
hundreds of individuals and organizations that give so generously
to support The Family Place’s mission.
During our 30 years in Washington, leaders have come to recognize
the importance of family support, education, and services during
the first years of a child’s life. Interventions that contribute to
families’ stability and to the capacity to nurture their children help
set a new generation on the path to well being, success in school,
and productive lives.
This report emphasizes The Family Place’s accomplishments during
2009. But first let’s look back to TFP’s very first client...
1980
Looking back...
On a cold late November day in 1979,
Rosa, a nineteen-year old girl, hobbled on crutches into the
half-painted basement on Columbia Road where volunteers
were cleaning up to prepare for the opening of a new family
support center. A hospital emergency room nurse had sent her
there to get help. Newly arrived from El Salvador, speaking no
English, and unable to find the cousins she intended to meet up
with, Rosa had slipped on the ice, fallen down a flight of stairs,
and broken her leg. The hospital set her broken bone and they
also diagnosed her pregnancy. The Family Place was on its way.
In 2009, nearly 600 families came to the cozy row house on
16th Street NW that TFP has owned since 1986. As it turns out,
the majority of the thousands of families who have participated
at TFP over the years are Spanish-speaking immigrants from
Central America and Mexico. We’ve also provided services to
hundreds of African-American families and to people of many
diverse backgrounds. They have shared their stories, each one
unique, but united by common threads: crisis, uncertainty about
where to turn, poverty, a pregnancy or a child at risk, and a
desire for a helping hand.
The Family Place was able to stand by Rosa through many
steps and missteps. She found her cousins, entered prenatal
care, delivered a healthy baby girl and, some years later,
became an American citizen. She has done well.
In 2010, it is likely that an even greater number of families
will come to The Family Place. Attracted by our programs and
hospitality, they are driven by the pressing need for services,
education, advice, referrals, and companionship. Virtually
every one of our families feels the impact of the recession.
With our programs we seek to help them weather the storm,
and bring their children through safely to a better life.
Thanks to all of you who are making this possible.
The Staff, Board, Participants,
and Volunteers of the Family Place
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2009
At The Family Place
In 2009 five hundred and ninety
seven families were served.
This represents an increase of 43% from
2008 when 416 families participated.
The increase, we think, is due to the severe
and worsening economic stresses our
families experienced. Since the numbers
of The Family Place staff did not increase
– also due to the stress of recession on
our donors – this meant our devoted staff
had to work harder, and rely more on
volunteers and collaborative work with
other organization. Our revenues for 2009
remained steady: $635,276.
Special Activities
3 Catalogue for Philanthropy:
The Family Place was selected to be
featured in the
2009/10 Catalogue for
Philanthropy: Greater
Washington. Sixty-eight
exceptional nonprofits
were chosen from a field of over 250
applicants. “Charities were selected for
excellence, innovation, cost-effectiveness,
and financial transparency—and for what
they can teach us about the
extraordinary ways that philanthropy
works,” said Barbara Harman, Executive
Director of the Harman Family
Foundation and President of the
Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater
Washington. She continued to say that
“these are certainly among the best small
charities in the Washington, DC region.”
3 “Soccer Moms for Obama” honored
The Family Place at its Presidential
Inaugural Ball on January 17th. They
also spent a day volunteering at The
Family Place. Members of The Family
Place family also celebrated The
People’s Inaugural Gala Weekend and
Ball in January with other community
organizations and friends.
3 Holiday parties, graduation
ceremonies, and “field trips” are
eagerly anticipated and well attended.
Parents and children went to the Public
Library for story time and to sign up
for library cards. The Air and Space
Museum, the Zoo, the Washington
Monument, and nearby places to
swim were popular destinations. We
participated in a Stroller March at the
Capitol to support legislation benefiting
children’s health, and celebrated
Children’s Day with toys, gifts and a
barbecue in Rock Creek Park.
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3 Gala Art Exhibition Our 2008 annual
report contained a paragraph describing
the Gala Art Exhibition held at the
Mexican Cultural Institute in October of
that year. In this report we would like to
identify and thank each artist who gave
so generously of his or her time as well
as donated fifty per cent and sometimes
more of the proceeds they received from
the sale of their works at the Gala to The
Family Place. These artists include:
Constance Bergfors • Martha Jackson-Jarvis
Sondra Arkin • Eve Henessa
Joseph Barbaccia • Carles Guasch
Lenny Campello • Linn Meyers
Salvador Casco • Adrienne Moumin
Willem de Looper • Kevin Postupack
Minna Newman Nathanson •Nina Falk
Katya Romero • Raimundo Rubio
In addition, a special thank you to Joan
Belmar as curator of the Exhibit as well as
to Frank Yurrita, Minna Newman Nathanson,
and Salvador Casco.
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20092009
At The Family Place
Summary of Services Provided
PROGRAM
OVERALL PROGRAMS & SERVICES
n
n
n
TFP served 597 families in 2009
3 04 were new Families
293 were returning families.
This represents a 43% increase from 2008.
Program/participation was as follows:
104 of the families came for the family literacy
program
n 88 children participated in our early childhood
education classes
n A total of 2936 healthy lunches were served
n 76 families came for the Spanish literacy program
n 5
0 women came for prenatal classes,
counseling, and case management
n 1
26 Students participated in a combination of
our 2 types of parenting classes.
n 8
9 women participated in our nutrition classes.
n 6
7 women came for the domestic violence
support group.
n 9 women came for Court Advocacy to get a CPO
n 9
7 families participated in case management
sessions conducted by family support workers
and family literacy staff
n 9
1 families received home and/or hospital visits
n 1
57 families were referred to other
organizations by our Intake Worker and Family
Support Workers
n
EMERGENCY & BRIEF SERVICESEmergency and brief material support given
to participants (made available through donations)
n 53 Food Bags - distributed
n 185 Participants received donated clothing
n 58 Layettes – distributed
n 1291 Diapers – distributed
n 112 Cans of baby food and 409 cans of
formula
n 1
60 Participants were helped to fill out social
services forms.
n 1028 Toys were giving to children.
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2009 Financial Statement
4%
Religious
Organizations
Program Services
1%
Individuals
Businesses,
Organizations
13%
75%
2009
39%
2009
Expenses
Revenue
43%
Foundations
18%
Government
7%
Management
& General
Fundraising
2009 Revenue
Foundations
$249,250
39%
$26,457
4%
Government
$270,804
43%
Individuals
$82,370
13%
$5,690
1%
$705
0%
$635,276 100%
Program Services
$471,815
75%
Management & General
$110,905 18%
Fundraising
$43,860 7%
$626,580 100%
Religious Organizations
Businesses, Organizations
Other
Total Support
2009 Expenses
Net Expenses
Net Assets, Beginning Of Year $163,014
Net Assets, End Of Year
$171,710
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2009 Donors
$30,000 AND ABOVE
The Barbara Bush Foundation
for Family Literacy
DC Gov’t—OSSE Even Start Grant
DC Gov’t—OSSE Adult & Family
Education Grant
Katharine Pollard Maddux
Foundation Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer
Foundation
Foundation To Promote Open
Society $20,000–29,999
DC Children & Youth
Investment Trust
Ann Barnet
$10,000–19,999
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz
Foundation
Clark-Winchcole Foundation
DC Gov’t-Office of Latino Affairs
Eighth Day Faith Community
Inter-American Development
Bank
Hattie M. Strong Foundation
$5,000–9,999
International Monetary Fund
Eve Tetaz
$1,000–4,999
Ruth K. & Henry J. Aaron
Sharon & Gar Alperovitz
George & Dorothy Avery
DC Education Compact
The Charles Delmar Foundation
Tilden Edwards
Festival Church
Nancy Folger
Harvey & Alice Galper
Gannett Foundation
Rosemary & Lawrence Garr
Ellen E. Grooms & James S.
Edmonds
Caroline Isber Reuter
The Kairos Trust
Claude & Nancy Keener
Charitable Fund
Terry & Margaret Lenzner
Carl Leubsdorf & Susan Page
Jonathan & Nina Marks
Ruth Uhlmann & Craig Mathews
Helen H. McConnell
Linda McNeil
Laura Mol
Carolyn M. & Jerry S. Parr
Jack & Ann Parr
Ruth & Stephen Pollak
Potters House Church
Oralia Puente
Earl & Carol Ravenal
Robert E. Richardson
Alice M. Rivlin
Rotary Foundation of
Washington DC
Eleanor & Peter Szanton
Target
Vanguard Charitable
Endowment Program
Mendelle T. Woodley
W.S.A. of St Albans Church
$500–999
Anonymous Bethesda Friends Meeting
Beyond Dispute Associates
Deborah A. Bombard
Susan & Joseph Bredekamp
CFC of the National Capital Area
Laurence E. Platt
Linda & Richard Roeckelein
Women of St. Francis
Ronald & Pamela Taylor
$100–499
Daniel & Karin Akerson Toni K. Allen
Mary A. Anders
Karen Anderson
Marion S. Ballard
Jean Barbey, M.D. &
Charlotte Barbey,M.D.
Beth Barnet & Michael Dinovi
Michael D. & Estella I. Barnet
Janel Baskerville
Lewis Baskerville
Philip Birnbaum
Jan P. Bogrow & John R. Felder
Hadley Boyd
Sara J. Boyd
Ruth & Michael Brannon
Susan & Charles Britt, Sr
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Jeannette T. Brophy
Carole B. Brown
Lynda & George Carlson
Robin & John Cavanagh
The Church of the Saviour
Jane Meleney Coe
Carla & David Cohen
Joseph Collier
Community of Christ
Joya B. Cox
Nona E. Cresswell
John G. & Marjorie Daly
Richard & Andrea Danzig
Esther Delaplaine & Stanley
Cohen
Lowell & Diane Dodge
Gloria D. Eng Duke M.D.
Deborah Dusault
Daniel & Polly Park Dyer
Mary C. & Robert C. Eager
Nancy B. & Condit N. Eddy
David & Elizabeth Edminster
Pauline N. Engle
Anthony & Eileen Essaye
Ellanor and Matthew Fink
Rachel & Joseph Firschein
Barbara B. & Herbert Franklin
Letitia A. Gomez
Ruth B. Gramlich
Thomas Gutierrez
Joyce Linn Hedges
Thomas & Carolyn Hubers
Anne Adele Jarman
Marion & C. Loring Jetton, Jr.
Gregory & Erika Jonrd
Jubilee Church
Sally Kaplan
Anna Karavangelos
Anne L. & David E. Kendall
G. Thomas & Rosalie F. Kingsley
Charlotte P. Kowitch
Belle & Roger Kuhn
Stephen Kurzman
Richard C. & Ann F. Leahy
Arnold & Sandra Leibowitz
Bruce A. & Sharron P. Levine
Janice Lynn & Jay W. Lipp
Gail S. MacColl
Marcia Macdonald
Kayla L. McClurg
John D. McCririe
Michael & Pat McGinnis
Rita & Raymond McGovern
G & D McKnew
Edward J. & Catherine Minkel
Morton A. & Anita Mintz
Anne S. & Alan B. Morrison
Marcella R. Mosher
James & Minna Nathanson
Marilyn & Walter Noll
Matilde Palmer
Sylvia Holton Peterson
Gale & Barbara Quist
Thorburn Reid
Peter Riddleberger
Carol Ridker
John & Ann Rigby
Christopher & Nalini Rogers
Della M. & Rustum Roy
Elizabeth T & Cameron H.
Sanders, Jr
Herman Schwartz
Mary Helen and Ralph
Schwarzkopf
Judith G. Scott
Daniel & Maxine Singer
Margaret Plank & David Souders
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Patrick M. & Michelle Steil Bryski
Sybil L. Stokes
Bob M. Traa & Ximena
Traa-Valarezo
Stefan & Marilyn Tucker
Wendy R. Uhlmann
United Methodist Women/
Chevy Chase United
Methodist Church
Ann E. Webber
Valeria Wedolowski
Susan J. Weiss
Robert & Anita Wellen
William Willcox & Harriet Tyson
Jonathan Willen
Stephen & Faith Williams
Barbara A. Yellen & Philip West
UP TO $99
Mary Lee Barker
Noelle B. Beatty
Dr. J. Alan & Audrey Beech
Joanne Bintz
Norman Birnbaum
Jean R. Bower
Elizabeth M. Branner
Barbara Blair Busch
Mary Jane Checchi
Hope Childs
Edward S. & Ruth P. Cogen
Lenore & George Cohen
Lisa & Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies
Richard Dane &
Lorna T. Zimmerman-Dane
Bettina B. Delsesto
Marian W. & Peter B. Edelman
Fern L. Edwards
Deborah Eichorn
Herbert Estrada
Roxanne & Robert Fleming, II
Margie A. Ford
Thomas H. & Elizabeth S. Fox
Letitia Gardner
Alan E. Gober, M.D.
Walter & Brent Goo
Ernest Grant
Alexander & Jayne Lynn Greene
Robert & Deborah Groberg
Margery T. Gummere
Sally J. Hanlon
Frances Lukens Hays
Robert E. Herzstein
Mary & Laurence I. Hewes, III
Anne S. Hobler
Elizabeth W. Hofmeister
Carol A. Holt
Janet E. Hudson
Robert L. Higgins
Gregory & Elizabeth Ingram
Natalia Isaza & Pablo Guerrero
Stephanie Koenig
Ralph Krause
Steve Kurkoski
Sharon Zern Lloyd
Stephen & Helen Low
Donald & Susan C. Lubick
Christine W. Lynn
Gloria & Donald Mc Clanen
Caryn Fiscella &
Wallace Meissner
Michael & Christine Morfit
Abner Oakes
Geraldine F. Pilzer
Cruz Ramirez
Elizabeth Rogers
Donna L. Rosen
Manuel & Fanchon Silberstein
Robert L. Smith
Richard & Katrinka Sloan
Nevzer G. Stacey
Christina J. Steiner
Ruth W. Stokes
Joel & Valerie Truitt
Barbara K. & Robert F. Turek
Michelle Whelpton & Linda Fox
Janice Zalen
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2009 Donations, Volunteers &
In Kind Donations
Precision Wall Tech Inc. Athey
donated labor and supplies to
paint the entire inside of The
Family Place.
The US Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce and Catholic
Charities donated office and
classroom furniture.
202design donated the design
of TFP’s 2008 Annual Report.
Jeff Allen
American Institute for Research
Juan Argueta
Chakya Armstrong
Tracie Armstrong
Dorothy and George Avery
Amy Bacon
Monifa Barrow-Wass
SarahLyn Baxter
Charles & Susan Bien
Rocio Bolaños
Edith Briggs
Rebecca Campany
Jaime Carrasco
Edith Chirino
Jose Chivalan
The Christ Child Society
Paul Devereaux
Dickstein Shapiro LLC
Karina Echevarria
Sarah Fairbanks
Cindy Ferris
The Festival Center
The Festival Church
Richard Gould
Heather Graham
Megan Gray
Rebecca Heller
Jose Luis Hernandez
Inter-American Development
Bank
Edward Janney
Keys for the Homeless
Gladys Juarez
Sally Kaplan
David Kaufmann
Benedetta A. Kissel
Pedro Labarca
Lyndsay Layton
Linda Levine
Inessa Lourienen
Tamara McClarkin
George Washington University
Mebane Michael/ Dillard Tony
Adriane Mendoza
Santos N. Mercado
Mayhar Moffidi
Leith Modry
Charlie Oakes
Payne
Francis Peale
Nerida Pineda
Juan Carlos Ramírez
Norma Reyes
Wilson Reynolds
Leyla Sabet
Charles Church Saint
Laura Seldman
Spanish Catholic Center
Vicki Bor
Temple Sinai Social Action
Committee
Temple Sinai/Nursery School
Parents
Evanngeline Tomlinson
David Uhlman
Gretchen Van Fossan and
Theo Smith
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Volunteers
Perfecto Amaya
Lucy Arteaga
Grace Barnet
Fabian Benitez
Dawn Bennett-Ingold
Danika Benson
Barbara Busch
Alejandra Canales
Hernan Charoski
Juan Carlos Chong
Courtney Cobb
Aura Colmani
Juana De Jesus
Patrice Dizzeba
Christine Eddy
Sarah Fairbanks
Cindy Ferris
Jimena Garrote
Francisca Gomez
Walter Guzman
Holly Harmon
Shelby Hicks
Dawn Ingold-Bennett
Gloria Jurado
Natalia Laguyas
Maria Lamiero
Haley Landis
Fiona Lewis
Dilcia Martinez
Nadia Martinez
Jaime Monllor
Esmeraldita Munoz
Board and Staff
Natalia Naguyas
Milagro Nunez
Romina Ordonez
Ann Parr
Yolanda Pilligua
Ingrid Prieto
Fazia Pusteila
Rodrigo Quiroga
Felipe Ramos
Rebecca Razulis
Maria Jose Rendini
Maria Reynolds
Gerardo Rodriguez
Virginia Rose
Natalia Rumyantseya
Ricardo Sierra
Cecilia Sleiman
Ana Tacite
Teodula Tapia
Miriam Turcios
Elena Uriostegui
Miguel Ventura
Cealia Via
Ana Willis
Board of Directors
Alice Galper (Chair)
Helen H. McConnell (Secretary)
Caroline Isber (Treasurer)
Ruth Kotell Aaron
Ann B. Barnet
Yisel Cabrera
Anabel Cruz
Kendall Dorman
Jennifer Katherine Elena
Lawrence D Garr
Jaime J. Monllor (2007–2010)
Morgan O’Brian (1980–2009)
Carolyn Parr (2002–2009)
Oralia Puente
Lourdes Quinteros
Roland Roebuck (2002–2009)
Ruth Uhlmann
Judith Watson (Elected 2010)
Andrew Zovko (Elected 2010)
honors the
memory of
DOTTIE
AVERY
long time friend,
supporter and
Board member.
Consultants
Ernest Grant
Vikki Gregory Brooks
Claudia Campos
Matilde Palmer
Ana Jaramillo
Anna Pollack
Mosaica
The Family Place
Staff
Haley Wiggins (Executive Dir.)
Rebeca Barge
Tony Brun
Angelica Castro
Maria Cespedes (Joined 2010)
Shawn Chakrabarti (Joined 2010)
Meghan Ferris
Lidia Fleitas
Alessandra Gonzalez (Joined 2010)
Elsy Gomez (2002 – 2009)
Barbara Harrison
Molly Hewes (2006–2009)
Dorna Lange (2009-2010)
Aydee Perez (2009–2009)
Luz Prieto
Sandra Rincon (2007–2009)
Katherine Rosas
Karen Uribarri-Tibabuzo
Luceila Uribe
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