Dear Friends:

The New York Urban League is on the move! Thanks in large part to Jean-Marie Horovitz, our out-going Chairman, and an impressive and committed board, we have increased our operating efficiency and sharpened our mission by focusing on the most important areas of need in New York: education and employment. In keeping with this mission, we have helped hundreds of thousands of needy New Yorkers by making education and employment referrals, educating teenagers about becoming good parents, preventing foster care through education and counseling, supporting networking activities with the NYUL Young Professionals and providing scholarships to college bound high school students.

In order to help pay for these services, we needed to raise significant funds via our fundraising efforts – and we did. This past year, we had excellent success with the Whitney M. Young Football Classic, the Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner and the Champions of Diversity Awards Breakfast.

Looking forward, we plan to increase our program capacity, sharpen our focus on those who will be tomorrow’s leaders and advocate for appropriate employee diversity among all employers with a special emphasis on the major construction projects in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, i.e., the Freedom Tower, the Jacob Javits Center expansion and the new sports stadiums and arena.

Our plans are ambitious, but we can only grow with your support. Please be generous and help us by supporting our efforts and getting others to do the same. Our programs are proven as we have an excellent track record of success. We have recently added several impressive new members to the board and all of us are completely dedicated to our mission.

I want to offer sincere thanks to Jean-Marie Horovitz for his extraordinary leadership and dedication over the past six years as our Chairman. We are fortunate that he will continue to serve on the board. Thanks also to each and every board member. We have had many difficult issues to deal with over the past year and every board member rose to the occasion. Thank you all.

Finally, on behalf of the board, I want to thank all of you who have supported us in the past. We look forward to working with you to empower and provide equal access to African Americans and other disenfranchised New Yorkers through our education and employment programs.

Sincerely,

 

Noel Hankin