Our Funders
CWOP is currently supported by:
The Child Welfare Fund * The Daphne Foundation * JP Morgan/Ira W. DeCamp Foundation * Highbridge Partnership for Family Supports and Justice * The Fund for Social Change Parent Advocate Initiative * The Hite Foundation* Maidstone Foundation * The Marguerite Casey Foundation * New York Foundation * The Shannah Ley Foundation * Target * United Way of New York City * The Viola W. Bernard Foundation * Consulting agreements with: The Center for Family Representation / New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the Human Services Consortium of East Harlem / East Harlem Community Partnership Project * A variety of individual donors * Discretionary grants from New York City Council Members Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Annabel Palma, and New York State Senator Jose M. Serrano * The NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene * And a Quality Enhancement Grant from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Private Donors
Janet Acker
Joe Ackerman
Advocates for Children
Agenda for Children Tomorrow
Peter Ainslie
Ashley Albert
Anita Altman
Julie & Richard Altman
Asian Women Giving Circle
Juanita Ayala Vargas
Diane Babiar
Brenda Baker
Melissa Beck
Sandy Bernabei
Nancy Berry
Judy Blunt
Michael Bosnick
Anita Ditkoff Bragin
Bill Bragin
Eric Brettschneider
Bridge Builders Community Partnership
Frank Brochin
The Brooklyn Family Defense Project
Allison Brown
Steve Brown
Barbara Bryan
Linda Lausell Bryant
Melba Butler
Toni Cabat
Dawn Cardi
Alma Carten
Kevin Casey
Lisa Caswell
Center for Family Representation
Ellen Chesler
Children’s Aid Society
Children’s Village
Genevieve Christy
Citizens’ Committee for Children
Kathleen Cooney Clark
Coalition for Asian American Children
Coalition for Hispanic Family Services
Marc Cohan
Cantor Jen Cohen
Earl & Paula Cohen
Jill Cohen & Judy Halaby
Phyllis & Ted Cohen
Shirley Cohen
Holly Delaney Cole
Lourdes Colon
Community Voices Heard
Barbara Congelosi
Alison T. Conn
Diane Connolly
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA)
Lorial Crowder
John & Virginia Courtney
Michael Courtney
Regina Courtney
Debbie Cutler
Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez
Emily De La Torre
Georgette Delinois
Patricia Dempsey
Ellen Dennis
Kalima DeSuze
Stephen DiBrienza
Monica Drinane
Ira Dunkel & Alice Nicola
Ilze Earner
Kaela Economos
Chris & Kathleen Economos
Lauren Economos
Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families
Eugene & Laurel Eisner
Robin Anthony Elliott
Episcopal Social Services of New York, Inc.
Julie Farber
The Fershing family
Kara Finck
Henry & Lelar Floyd
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services students: Laura Daley, Shana Gibney, Dalia Maheu, Ernest Paige & Sara Solomon
Steven Frank
Fund for Social Change
Michael & Stephanie Garber
Luis Garcia
Linda Genereux
Ayda Girma
Kate Glasner
Olivia Goldberg
Fatima Goldman
Vickie Gomez
Eloisa Gordon
Christine Gottlieb
Warren Green & Anne Lown
Cory Greenberg
Jamie Greenberg
Rick Greenberg
Sarah Greenblatt
Nicole Grice
Mario Guerrero
Marty Guggenheim
Anita Gundanna
Robert Gutheil
George & Mary Halaby
Jack Halaby
Maureen & George Halaby
Marlene Halpern
Susan Halpern
Dana Hamilton
Tony Hannigan
Debra Harris
Ursula Hartwig-Flint
Keith Hefner
Dianne Heggie
Evelyne Heriveaux
Highbridge Community Life Center
Merrith Hockmeyer
Edwin & Vera Hoffman
Tom Hoffman
Edith Holzer
Bernard Horowitz
Human Services Consortium of East Harlem
Jacquelyn Israel
Crystal Jackson
Sabra Jackson
Susan Jacobs
Lisa Jacobson
Lori Jaroslow
Joe Jenkins
Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services
Kathleen & Peter Johnson
Marilyn Johnson
Bill Jones
Marissa Juico
Elliot Jurist
Suweba Kabiru
Morley Kamen
Robert & Ruth Kanner
Michael Katz
Caroline Kearney
Sandra Killett
Howard Knoll
Jeremy Kohomban
Gail Kong
James & Marian Krauskopf
Betsy Krebs
Tanya Krupat
Madeleine Kurtz
Elizabeth Kurzweil
Bikku Kuruvila
David Lansner & Carolyn Kubitschek
Douglas Lasdon
Mona LaVine
Nancy Lederman
Larry Lee
Legal Services NYC
Michael & Helen Levy
Celia Lewis
LIFT (Legal Information for Families Today)
Alfred Liu
Sue Lob
Alden & Beverly Longwell
Anne Lown
Myrna Lumbsden
Eve Madison-Rodsky
Jacob Maeroff
Yajaira Maldonado
Gary Mallon
Jessica Marcus
David Maurasse
John & Linda Mattingly
Jerry McCaffery
Nora McCarthy
Kathleen McGlade
Theresa McGovern
Brenda McGowan & Elaine Walsh
Elizabeth McKenna
MaryEllen McLaughlin
Yesenia Mercado
MercyFirst
Sania Metzger
Claude Meyers
Milano: The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Deirdre & Matthew Miller
Pilar Miller
Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
Carin Mirowitz
Terry Mizrahi
Kim Morcate
Nina Moreno
Joan Morse
Laura Mott
Beth Mount
John & Megan Mullarkey
Robert & Alicia Mullenbach
Richard Murphy
Wendy Naidich & Elliot Weiner
Laura Napoli
National Association of Social Workers- NYC Chapter
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections
Kim Nauer
Lynne Nayman
Denise Nelson
Sr. Mary Nerney
New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children
Sharwline Nicholson
Eric Nicklas
Janice Nittoli & Eric Andrus
Gessy Nixon
David Nocenti
The NYU Defense Clinic
Daniel Oscar
Norman Oder
Hank Orenstein
Bernard & Alice Boles Ott
Palladia, Inc.
Lynn Paltrow
The Parent Advocate Project Staff
Marion Pearl
The People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond
Lisa Philp
Susan Pines
Carlo Pittore
Jordan Pollinger
PS 171 (East Harlem)
Gemma Pujadas Ribeiro
Jim Purcell
Philip Reed
Ellen Remmer
Berry Richards
Rise Magazine
Lucia Rivieccio
John Robertson
Pereta Rodriguez
Rasa Rodriguez
Eve and Seth Rodsky
Fredda Rosen
Ellen Rosenberg
George Rosenfeld
Beth Rosenthal, Collaboration and Change LLC
Tim Ross
Vanessa Roth
Deborah Rubien
Geraldine Russo
Jack Ryan
Linda Sack
Julia Salamon
Michelle Salvaggio
Digna Sanchez
Jerome Sauvage & Carolyn Sauvage-Mar
Andrea Savage
SCAN (Supportive Children’s Advocacy Network)
Warren Scharf & Jane Spinak
Karen Thoreson Schlesinger
Monroe Schneider
Segal & Greenberg LLP
Gerry Seidman
Tyrone Sellers
Linda Selvin
Lauren Shapiro
Denis Sheeran
Dorothy Siegel
Herbert & Martha Siegel
Jane Silver
Madeline Silverman
Sidney & Eleanor Silverman
Beth Silverman-Yam
Hildy Simmons
Sinergia
Joti Singh
Navjot Singh
Ruth Singleton
Renee Skolaski
Lyn Slater
Beverly Smirni
Malcolm Smith
Toni Smith
Adam Solomon & Vicki Rosen-Solomon
Carol Spigner
Jane Spinak & Warren Scharf
Michael Stalonas
Roschel Holland Stearns
Jill Sternheimer
Alan Stricoff
Terry Dudnick Taffer
Reina Taveras
Lorraine Tempel
Amy Thesing
David Tobis & Risa Jaroslow
Jerome Tobis
Jonathan Tobis
Regina Trailweaver
Jamie Tresselt
Rona Trokie & Martin Silverman
Noel Tutunjian
United Way
The Urban Justice Center’s Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities Legal Advocacy Project
Alisande Salmon Vazquez
Joan Vermeulen
John & Nancy Volkman
Eric von Coelln
Paul Wachtel
Regina & George Wald
Gloria F. Waldman
Erika & Zachary Warzel
Terry Weiss
Samuel Weissman & Nancy Crown
Welfare Rights Initiative
Edward Wenzel
Jessica Wett
Stephen Whisnant
Andrew White & Melanie Kane
Tanya White
Zulema Ruby White Starr
Shirley Whitney
Denice Williams
Adrienne Williams-Myers
M. Katherine Williston
Kalindi Wilson
Benjamin Wolkowitz
Coletha Woodson
Fred Wulczyn
Elise Yablonski & Ralph Stone
Caroline Yu
Jennifer Zelinger
Donald & Barbara Zuccardy
Jill Zuccardy
Ruth Jane Zuckerman
Since our inception in 1994, CWOP has received support from the following sources:
Foundation and Corporate Support
Ben and Jerry’s Foundation
The Community Resource Exchange Reality Checks Fund
The Dr. Chakko Kuruvila Memorial Fund of Tides Foundation
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
The Fund for the City of New York
The New York Women’s Foundation
New Yorkers for Children
The North Star Fund
The Open Society Institute
The Public Welfare Foundation
The John & Carol Santoreli Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity’s 2007 Career Program Class Gift
The JP Morgan / Valentine Perry Snyder Fund
Elected Officials
Hon. Tracy Boyland, New York City Council
Hon. Helen Diane Foster, New York City Council
Hon. Roger Green, New York State Assembly
Hon. A. Gifford Miller, New York City Council
Hon. Philip Reed, New York City Council
Consulting Agreements and Subcontracts
Adoptions Together / District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
Casey Family Services Northeast Programs
The Center for Family Representation / New York State Office of Children and Family Services
The ACS CRADLE Systems of Care Initiative in Bedford Stuyvesant / United States Department of Health and Human Services
The North American Council on Adoptable Children / Pew Charitable Trusts
