ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013

New Haven Reads is a beautiful, simple

equation: Trained volunteer tutors work
one-on-one with students to build skills,
confidence, and school success. Parents
find a commƵnity that offers hope
and support. Tutors get satisfaction,
intangible joy – and real hugs.

Hello New Haven Reads!

I just wanted to drop a note to tell you that Mikai passed
his (reading) tests. Mikai was in jeopardy of staying back
a grade, because his score was so low... He started New
Haven Reads at an 18... He passed with an over 30 score.
The teacher called me this morning and we were both in
tears. Thank you for all the work you put into helping our
children succeed, it really does take a village and neither
myself nor Mikai could have done it without your help!

E-mail From a Very Happy Parent

 2011-12 REVENUE 2011-12 EXPENSES

5% 3%
7% 12%

46% 85%
42%

Non-Government Grants Program

Government Grants Fundraising

ŽŶƚƌŝďƵƟŽŶƐ Admin
Events / Other

COST TO RUN NEW HAVEN READS 2011-12: $ 388,500

BY THE NUMBERS
550 students receive one-on-one tutoring each week
3 loca ons
42 pre-K and K students served in literacy readiness programs
3 six-week SAT classes during the year
Over 100,000 books provided to the community each year
Over 200 students on the waitlist
All programs offered at no cost to par cipants

IMPACT
100% of students tested raised literacy scores this academic year
98% of parents reported improvement in their child’s academic performance
97% of parents are “sa sfied” or “very sa sfied” with NHR
78% of students say that NHR has made them be er readers
72% of students say NHR has helped them do be er in school
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PARENTS
STUDENTS
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WHAT I “You should go because it ’s the
best place to become smarter.”

TELL MY 2nd grader

FRIENDS “ This is a great place, you’ll

want to stay forever.”

ABOUT 5th grader

NEW “It helps with things you struggle

with and the tutors are nice.”
9th grader
HAVEN “You should come because you get

READS free books and you learn more!”

4th grader

“Now I raise my hand [in school], and people look at me and say,
‘Hey, smart girl.’ Kids bug me and say, ‘Give me the answers.”
Kayla, fourth grade STUDENT

“As a parent, you do whatever it is you have to do to help your

child. He has progressed tremendously. Once he got in here, the
reading, it changed.”
Charlstina, PARENT of Jason, 7th grade

“The amazing thing about this place is the passion. All the
people who volunteer here are here because they want to be
here and make a difference in the lives of kids. And kids, too,
they don’t have to come. There is a community, family feeling.”
Pam, VOLUNTEER tutor

www.NewHavenReads.org
DONORS
July 2012 - June 2013
$25,000 and up
Community Foundation for
Greater New Haven
Seedlings Foundation
United Way of Greater New
Haven
$10,000 - $24,999
Bruce Alexander
Ethel and Eric Berger
Class of 1955
Coach Foundation
Community Development Block
Grant
Covidien
Andrew and Eileen Eder
First Niagara Bank Foundation
Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi
Kirsten and Jim Levinsohn
Linda Lorimer and Charles Ellis
Michael and Marian Moore
NewAlliance Foundation
PVH Foundation
Sharon Oster and Ray Fair
Jodi and Marc Schneider
Ted Snyder
$7,500- $9,999
Ken and Susan Fellows
Debbie Freedman and Ben
Ledbetter
$2,500-$7,499
Anonymous
AT&T
BAR
David A Beckerman Foundation Ethel and Abe Lapides
Kathy and Scott Flora
Garden Homes Fund
Pete Goldsmith
Higher One CARES
Miles and Elizabeth Lasater
Cindy and David Leffell
Sharon and Dan Milikowsky
People’s United Bank
Paul and Martha Samuelson
United Illuminating
Carter and Lissa Winstanley
$1000- $2499
Community Services Fund
Pierre Cremieux and Denise
Jarvinen
Dollar General Literacy
Foundation
First Church of Christ in New
Haven
Frederick and Sandra Rose
Foundation
Bob Gelbach
Gray Organschi Architecture
Junior League of Greater New
Haven
Mike and Patty Michienzi
Netter Family Fund
David Newton
Sandra Olsen
Laura Pappano and Tom Lynch
David and Ann Parnigoni
Robert B. Knight Fund
Robert Reidy
Steve and Carol Ross
Alexa and Christian Schlieker
Thomas and Ginger Scott
Jeffrey and Clarky Sonnenfeld
Michael Stratton and Shel
Swanson
The Study at Yale
University Church in Yale
$500-$999
ACT II
Anne and Nicholas Afragola
Anonymous (3)
Will Baker
Jay and Grace Bright
Guido and Anne Calabresi
Michael Caplan and JoAnne
Burger
Judith Chevalier and Steven
Podos
Claire’s Corner Copia
ConnCAN
Eileen and Rick Davis
Peter and Constance Dickinson
Foundation
Larry Favre
Christel Haberland
Roger Ibbotson and Jody
Sindelar
Najmi Jarwala
Joe and Cindy Goldberg Family
Foundation
Cindy Kissin and John Jacobson
Eric Kraus
Nick Lloyd and Megan Craig
Jackie and Keith Lorch
Henry Lord
Mark and Gretchen Lytle
Jane Mackie and Joe Farrell
Donald Margulies and Lynn
Street
Emily Maston
Barry Nalebuff and Helen
Kauder
New Haven Investment Fund
Russell Outler
Shana and Olaf Schneider
Steven Silverstein and Cathy
Raduns
Ronald Smith
Linda Winkler and Don Herzog
Yale Health Center
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Michael Zaccagnino
$250-$499
Kymbel Branch
Lisa Brandeis
Robert Buckholz and Anne
Fontaine
Kevin and Roxanne Coady
Francis and Jincie Duane
Tom Eisen and Liz Jonas
David and Joanne Goldblum
David and Gretchen Highsmith
John Kim and Eileen Ohnell Kim
Mareike Koertner
John Lapides and Melanie
Ginter
Alan and Ann Levinsohn
Lucky Seven Foundation
David Margolis
Thomas and Elsee McEachin
Bruce and Renee McIntyre
Mark and Lora Morrow
Grayson and Rosita Murphy
Benjamin Polak and Stefanie
Markovits
Ken and Leslie Pucker
William Reese and Dorothy
Hurt
Peter Salovey and Marta Moret
Robert Shulman and Stephanie
Spangler
David and Lisa Totman
Dean Vallas and Debra
Pemstein
Richard and Patricia Vancil
John and Keri Ward
$100- $249
Melinda Agsten
Anonymous
Steven Banks
Mary Barnes
Edward and Vicki Bass
William and Donna Batsford
Ellen Bell
Howard and Shirley Benjamin
Greg Berg and Nina Binin
Barry Berman and Peggy
McCarthy
Richard and Chay Bershtein
Barbara and Robert Bettigole
Robert Bjornson
Harold Bornstein Jr.
Fiona and Mark Bradford
Peter and Julia Brennan
Elizabeth Burbank
Maureen Burke
Heather and Victor Calabrese
Susan Carney
Richard Casden
Mark Cherishing
George and Marty Cohen
James Cohen and Frances
DeToro
Susan Compton
Congregation Mishkan Israel
Claire Criscuolo
Art Dart
Stephen and Clo Davis
Phil Dickey and Andrea Silber
Christopher and Barbara Dixon
Pamela Duncan Orefice
Steve Ecker and Anne Dailey
Hulda Einarsdottir
Kathy Ellis
Bruce and Mary Fichandler
Alan and Jennifer Friedman
William and Deborah Friedman
Stuart Gardner and Renee
Chotiner
William and Kel Ginsberg
Rolfe and Carol Gjellstad
Nina Glickson and John Worth
David
Darlene Gost
Philip Haile and Shannon
Callaway
Annie Harper
Charlie Hatton
Bill and Nancy Horowitz
Valerie Horsley
Douglas James and Kim Bohen
David and Stacey Katz
Charles and Gretchen Kingsley
George and Meghan Knight
Leslie and Harlan Krumholz
Brenda Kursawe
Nick and Jean Lamont
Margarita Lessard
Richard and Deborah Lifton
Pat Lowe
Lowe Co, Inc
James and Kaye Maggart
Marc and Margaret Mann
Althea Marshall
Matt and Elizabeth McCleery
Stephen McGovern
Geri McSherry
Claudia Merson
Andrew and Susan Metrick
Kelly Mikelson In-Kind Donations
Susan Molde Yale University
Paul Myerson and Giselle Science Park Development
Wagner Corporation
New Haven Public Schools 8th The Study at Yale
Grade TAG Cindy S. Kissin Consulting
Charles and Melorie Noble Claire’s Corner Copia
James and Jayne O’Brien Jackson Lewis, LLP
Bruce Peabody
Roberta Pereira
Bristol Street renovation
Edward and Margie Pikaart
IKEA New Haven
Alec and Drika Purves
Gray Organschi Architecture
Michael Quintal
Aegis Electric
Douglas Rae and Ellen Shuman
Chapel Plumbing
Chandrashekhar and Madhu
JIG DesignBuild (Gray
Rao
Organschi)
Ridge Road School PTA
Joe’s Paint and Floor Store
David Rosen and Barbara Goren
Lowe Co, Inc.
Tom Sansone and Ruth
Reliance Environmental
Beardsley
Ring ’s End Lumber
Carol and Carlo Sarmiento
Cynthia Savo
Mark Schlesinger
Jim and Cis Serling
Richard Seroussi
William and Betsy Sledge
Rick and Tanya Smith
Hollis Stauber
Shelley and Louis Stein
Lynda Stoller Johnson
Susan Stout
Patricia Stumpf
Stephanie Telpin
Beverly and Henry Theuer
Lee and Alison Theuer
Stephanie Tompkins
Monica Torpey
The Valley Community
Foundation
Rhonda Vegliante
Chris Vertefeuille
Peter Webster and Mary Lou
Aleskie
Jenya Weinreb
Ed and Mary Lou Winnick
Prescott Wiske and Carol Clay
Wiske
Yale University (SCI Park
Outreach)
Andrew Zehner and Suzanne
Whitty
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Board Members: Special Thanks to Depar ng Board Members:

Lisa Gray, President Ethel Berger, John Edwards, Cindy Leffell, Shana Schneider
Laura Pappano, Vice President
Alexa Schlieker, Treasurer
Jodi Schneider, Secretary Credits
Heather Calabrese New Haven Reads Development Commi ee
Larry Favre Photo credits: New Haven Reads and Judy Sirota Rosenthal
Peter Goldsmith Annual Report Graphic Designer: Claire Craven
Kirsten Levinsohn Special thanks to Drew Smith
Maria Markham Printer: Tyco Prin ng, New Haven
Grayson Murphy
Susan Ne er
Sharon Oster
Russell Outler
Stephanie Tompkins