North Star News: 2009
Year-end Grantee Victories
As the year draws to a close, North Star Fund is pleased to report on three significant advances made during December by our grantees. Community-phobic Kingsbridge Armory Mall Nixed On Monday, December 14, the New York City Council quashed...
Community Voices Heard
In 1994 the Clinton administration cut welfare spending while promising to support welfare recipients through job training programs. The cuts in social spending and insufficient "welfare to work" programs placed low-income New Yorkers in an even more precarious financial...
Nisha Atre Richardson
I came to North Star after years of working in the corporate world. I had been politically active in college and had been looking for a catalyst for getting active again. North Star fit the bill. I was impressed...
Meet Isabelle Leighton, Our New Development Officer
Isabelle H. Leighton has joined North Star Fund as its Development Officer, responsible for managing fundraising and cultivation events, and for building relationships with individual donors, family and private foundations, and corporations. She is charged with expanding and diversifying...
Greening Western Queens
North Star Fund Chosen to Administer $8 Million Environmental Justice Program In the fall of 2009, North Star Fund will launch the "Greening Western Queens Fund," a new $8 million initiative to invest in energy-efficiency and environmental projects in...
Our 2009 Annual Report: Three Lessons from Three Decades
The new North Star Fund Annual Report has arrived, and we're very proud of it. This annual report is our 30th anniversary issue, and looks back over three decades of social justice philanthropy. It offers three lessons that have...
Funding Exchange Seeks Executive Director
North Star Fund is a member of the Funding Exchange, a national network of social justice foundations. The Funding Exchange, located in New York City, is seeking an executive director who has a social justice background and is looking for...
SEYCO: Training the Next Generation of Community Leaders
They come from Harlem, Jackson Heights, the South Bronx and Crown Heights. They are immigration reform activists, organizers for racial justice, and the children of immigrants, domestic workers and street vendors. The interns in the 2009 Summer Employment for...
Tony Lopez: Why I Give
Tony Lopez believes strongly in giving back. As he was growing up in the South Bronx, volunteers and mentors engrained in him a commitment to investing in his community. Tony, a life-long education reform advocate, supports North Star Fund...
VAMOS Unidos: Organizing New York City's Immigrant Street Vendors
From the beginning, North Star Fund has been at the intersection of immigrant rights and labor organizing. In New York, a city of immigrants and a city of commerce, both have always been inextricably intertwined. Street vending is a time-honored...
Kevin Ryan: Why I Give
North Star Fund has changed the city. Groups that North Star supported from the beginning have grown to become the most effective ones around. In 1992, Kevin Ryan had just graduated from the Robert F. Wagner School for Public...
Amelia Tuminaro: Why I Give
Amelia Tuminaro epitomizes a North Star Fund donor activist. She gives as much as she can each year from her own checkbook. And she doubles her support of grassroots activism through North Star Fund by organizing her network of...
Celebrating LGBT Philanthropic and Grassroots Activism
"The struggle for Lesbian, Gay, BiSexual, Transgender and Queer equality has always been anchored from our great cities like New York. And North Star Fund has been a proud and visible supporter of the LGBT movement from the outset...
Border Crossers
As a teenager, Sachi Feris immersed herself in new cultures by participating in international exchange programs. In college, she recognized the irony of focusing her attention on exploring diversity abroad, while growing up in New York City she hardly...
Theo Yang Copley
Theo Yang Copley was a co-chair of the 2009 30th Anniversary Community Gala. I first learned about North Star Fund in 2006 through my work with Resource Generation (RG). RG is a national organization that supports young people with...
African American Community Brunch
"It's time for donors of color to make philanthropy more diverse and inclusive," said Yvonne Moore, Executive Director of the Daphne Foundation. She added,"North Star Fund is committed to this and that's why I volunteered to be a host"...
2009 SEYCO Grantees Announced
North Star Fund recently announced the 2009 grant recipients of the Summer Employment in Youth Community Organizing (SEYCO) program. Since 2002, North Star Fund has partnered with New York Foundation on the SEYCO program to provide funding for our...
Turning 30: What We've Learned
Turning thirty. It is one of life's great moments. You've got some experience under your belt, but still have youthful energy and the anticipation of possibility. As North Star Fund prepares to celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2009, we're...
Grassroots with Netroots: First Steps
If you've visited our website before, you'll notice that we have a new online home. In the next few weeks, we'll be introducing new content about our mission, vision and program to create a stronger grassroots social justice movement. Our...
Maggie Williams
When people come to a North Star Fund event they feel that sense of community--that they're a part of something that's bigger than all of us. . . Maggie Williams is a co-chair of the 2009 30th Anniversary Community Gala. North Star...
Diana Correa Joins North Star Fund
Diana Correa joins the North Star Fund staff as the first Deputy Director for Programs & Strategic Initiatives. Beginning in January 2009, Diana will be responsible for increasing North Star Fund's philanthropic partnerships, expanding our grants and support for New...
