MAXCourage 2022 Annual Report
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Dear Friends,<br />
As <strong>MAXCourage</strong> begins its 32nd year, I am happy to report on our strong financial position,<br />
our outlook for the future, and our plans for further expansion. It’s been a year of change and<br />
growth at <strong>MAXCourage</strong>.<br />
Our new Program Director, Molly McCafferty, joined us this summer. She is the first teacher to<br />
serve in this role, coming to us from a Boston Charter School. With Molly working in tandem<br />
with Board Member Jane Skelton, we have an updated curriculum for the <strong>2022</strong>-2023 school<br />
year, detailed further along in this publication.<br />
FINANCES<br />
FY22 was a successful year in terms of revenue at $450k, while expenses remained<br />
unchanged. Revenue increased 70% from the prior year, and 35% from the year prior to the<br />
pandemic. We received new grant funding from the following foundations: Liberty Mutual,<br />
The Red Sox Foundation, AC Ratshesky Foundation, Commonwealth Corporation,<br />
Northeastern Community Partners, and Love Tito’s Corporation. The return of an “in person<br />
gala, which also served as our belated 30th anniversary celebration, added to the success of<br />
the year. The gala grossed $217k in revenue, with 30% of attendees new to <strong>MAXCourage</strong>.<br />
On the expansion side, in 2021-<strong>2022</strong> we added 55 new schools and have furthered our<br />
Gateway City expansion with Worcester for the <strong>2022</strong>-2023 school year. With a lens of<br />
accessibility and equity, we have begun to offer our curriculum in a series of writer’s workshops<br />
in partnership with after school programs all over Boston. A renewed strategic partnership with<br />
Boston Public Library allows our curriculum to exist in youth programs in branches all over the<br />
city. Additionally, retired teachers, many of whom taught the <strong>MAXCourage</strong> Curriculum, are<br />
now supporting students with <strong>MAXCourage</strong> through the Boston Teachers’ Union’s “Homework<br />
Helpers” program. New partnerships with Roxbury Youth Services and Menino YMCA Hyde<br />
Park are also providing our program to communities that may not currently have a school<br />
connection with <strong>MAXCourage</strong>.<br />
This Fall, we have convened a Teachers Consortium, as a means for seasoned <strong>MAXCourage</strong><br />
teachers to connect with those newer to our curriculum, with an eye to sharing best practices<br />
for implementation. Teachers have flexibility with the curriculum to best serve the needs of<br />
their classrooms,. Some use the original novels and curriculum guides, others have used our<br />
publication, The Courage of Children: Boston and Beyond, as the “mentor text” for their ELA<br />
units. Children in Boston, New Bedford, and Barnstable are able to read each other’s stories<br />
alongside stories from Mongolia, Yemen, and Belize, among others. Supporting teachers, and<br />
therefore supporting students, has been <strong>MAXCourage</strong>’s mission since day one.<br />
This year, our Board of Directors created a Sustainability Committee with a focus on Diversity,<br />
Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. All Board Members and staff have been asked to complete<br />
a certification in DEIB on LinkedIn—this certification does not expire. With new funding, we<br />
will begin alumni outreach and database updates later this year with a Northeastern Co-op<br />
student. Additionally, on the Board side, 100% of Board Members supported <strong>MAXCourage</strong><br />
financially this year, with 65% giving a three-year pledge to show sustainability of funding.<br />
In-Kind<br />
Gifts<br />
12%<br />
Investment<br />
14%<br />
Other<br />
0%<br />
FY22 REVENUE<br />
Temp Restricted<br />
5%<br />
Unrestricted Gifts<br />
39%<br />
Events, net<br />
of expense<br />
21%<br />
Grants<br />
9%<br />
FY21 EXPENDITURES<br />
Program<br />
70%<br />
Administrative<br />
16%<br />
Advancement<br />
14%<br />
HOW TO HELP<br />
To make a monetary donation, please go<br />
to maxcourage.org/donate or use your<br />
smartphone camera to access<br />
this QR code below.<br />
Every donation helps as we raise every dollar<br />
in support of our curriculum, provided<br />
completely free to all teachers and students.<br />
If you can support us, please check to see if<br />
your employer provides an opportunity for a<br />
matching gift!<br />
To volunteer for our now virtual essay<br />
judging day in February, please contact<br />
our program director, Molly McCafferty,<br />
at molly@maxcourage.org<br />
Please contact us if you can connect us with<br />
a new school or school system nationally or<br />
internationally.<br />
Save the date and join us for our 2023<br />
Gala on May 5, 2023. Consider sponsoring<br />
a table — details to follow!<br />
CONNECT WITH US<br />
maxcourage.org<br />
SUPPORTING TEACHERS<br />
& STUDENTS SINCE 1991<br />
Watch this space—it’s an exciting time here at <strong>MAXCourage</strong> and I look forward to keeping you<br />
updated. Please save the date for our 2023 Gala on May 5th. Feel free to reach out to me with<br />
any questions at carrie@maxcourage.org.<br />
In Gratitude,<br />
Thank you for your support!<br />
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<strong>Annual</strong> Giving <strong>2022</strong><br />
July 1, 2021—June 30, <strong>2022</strong><br />
Carrie Coughlin<br />
Executive Director<br />
263 Huntington Ave., Box 366. Boston, MA 02115<br />
617-373-7399 Info@maxcourage.org<br />
“I aimed for the sky even if it felt like<br />
I was buried deep into the ground.”<br />
— A <strong>MAXCourage</strong> participant
CURRICULUM UPDATE<br />
Prompted by feedback from the program’s teachers and caregivers—and by the broader<br />
context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its disruptions to students’ academic, social, and<br />
emotional development—<strong>MAXCourage</strong> set out this year to update its well-established<br />
curriculum. The goal of the update is to systematize and strengthen the seamless integration<br />
of ELA and SEL skill-building that our program, by the very nature of its mission, is uniquely<br />
well-positioned to deliver. Each classroom activity in the guide is explicitly aligned with both<br />
Common Core State Standards for 6th grade ELA, and with SEL Competencies from the<br />
framework developed by CASEL, the nation’s leading organization advancing evidence-based<br />
best practices for Social-Emotional Learning. Some activities have been carried over from<br />
previous iterations of our curriculum and refined, while others are completely new. In all of<br />
them, students are asked to think, read, write, and speak about how people can enact their<br />
character values in response to adversity.<br />
Designed to be flexible to individual classrooms’<br />
unique needs, the teaching guide can be<br />
used alongside any novel being taught,<br />
and teachers are empowered to use<br />
whichever elements work for them.<br />
The mini-lessons build towards the<br />
longstanding and beloved capstone<br />
project of the program, in which<br />
students write personal narratives<br />
about an experience of courage in<br />
their lives. A panel of community<br />
members selects a number<br />
of these essays for publication<br />
in <strong>MAXCourage</strong>’s annual book,<br />
providing a platform to amplify youth<br />
voices and storytelling.<br />
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has been a leader in<br />
the SEL movement since first introducing the term more than two decades ago. The CASEL 5<br />
addresses five broad, interrelated areas of competence and examples for each: self-awareness,<br />
self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.<br />
The CASEL 5 can be taught and applied at various developmental stages from childhood to<br />
adulthood and across diverse cultural contexts to articulate what students should know and<br />
be able to do for academic success, school and civic engagement, health and wellness, and<br />
fulfilling careers. Source: www.casel.org<br />
Students’ Highlights<br />
• “Writing the essay”<br />
• “Reading about other<br />
kids’ definition of<br />
courage”<br />
• “Sharing my story and<br />
hearing others”<br />
• “Writing about myself<br />
from my heart”<br />
• “Learning about Max”<br />
• “How I was able to<br />
have a voice and talk<br />
about things that I’ve<br />
gone through”<br />
• “Being able to express<br />
things that you’ve been<br />
bottling up”<br />
• “Improving on my<br />
writing skills”<br />
• “Getting published<br />
in a book”<br />
TEACHERS REPORT DUE TO MAXCOURAGE:<br />
Increased Empathy<br />
Increased Self Awareness<br />
Increased Community in Classroom<br />
Increased Enjoyment in Writing<br />
Increased Enjoyment in Reading<br />
PARENTS REPORT DUE TO MAXCOURAGE:<br />
Students now understand the meaning<br />
of courage<br />
Increased student empathy<br />
Increased student self awareness<br />
Increased student individual courage<br />
Increased enjoyment in writing<br />
Increased enjoyment in reading<br />
GOVERNANCE<br />
BOARD OF TRUSTEES<br />
Stephanie Warburg,<br />
President<br />
BOARD MEMBERS<br />
Brant Binder<br />
Amy d’Ablemont<br />
Burnes<br />
Astrid Burns<br />
Sally Fay Cottingham<br />
Mimi Neal Eger<br />
BOARD EMERITUS<br />
Carrie Minot Bell<br />
Suzanne Fisher<br />
Bloomberg<br />
Barbara Hawkins<br />
ADVISORY COUNCIL<br />
Katie Schuller Bleakie<br />
Lisa Clark<br />
Janet Coleman<br />
Merry Conway<br />
Kit Cunningham<br />
Heather Faris<br />
Carmen Fields<br />
Robert Gittens, Esq.<br />
CJ Hacker<br />
Jill Lenhardt<br />
Kate Lubin<br />
Ann Ogilvie<br />
Macdonald<br />
77%<br />
85%<br />
62%<br />
73%<br />
46%<br />
100%<br />
74%<br />
68%<br />
76%<br />
68%<br />
48%<br />
Frederick Warburg,<br />
Vice President<br />
Pamela Humphrey<br />
Joan Bennett<br />
Kennedy<br />
Elizabeth<br />
Goodenough<br />
Ann Gund<br />
Katherine<br />
McManmon Hoyt<br />
Julie Joyal<br />
Kasey Kaufman<br />
Rona Kiley<br />
Marsha Yamaykina<br />
MacLean<br />
Kristen Suliivan<br />
McEntyre<br />
Ryan Naples<br />
STAFF<br />
Carrie Coughlin,<br />
Executive Director<br />
Gil Leaf<br />
Karen Leopold<br />
Lois Lowry<br />
Alexandra Marshall<br />
Martha Pierce<br />
Diana Rowan<br />
Rockefeller<br />
Alex Saltonstall<br />
Max Warburg<br />
100%<br />
STUDENTS REPORT<br />
THEY WOULD<br />
CHANGE NOTHING<br />
ABOUT THE<br />
CURRICULUM<br />
Elizabeth Evans D’Ascensao,<br />
Secretary<br />
Julie Norman<br />
Samuel Plimpton<br />
Diane Schmalense<br />
Clayton Schuller<br />
Jane Skelton<br />
Molly McCafferty,<br />
Program Director<br />
Donna Storer<br />
Rev. Liz Walker<br />
Lisa Walker<br />
Jonathan Warburg<br />
Janet Wu<br />
Joyce Yaffee<br />
FY22 DONORS<br />
$25,000<br />
Gordon & Llura Gund 1993<br />
Foundation<br />
$20,000—$24,999<br />
Barbara Jordan &<br />
Robert Pemberton<br />
Liberty Mutual Foundation<br />
Sigrid & Ladd Thorne<br />
$10,000–$19,999<br />
Liz and Jeremiah Daly<br />
Barbara Hawkins<br />
Lucile & William Hicks<br />
Barbara & Amos Hostetter<br />
Chris & Jacquelyn Light<br />
Kate Lubin & Glendon Sutton/<br />
Richard K. Lubin Foundation<br />
Lisa Pierpont & Brant Binder<br />
A.C. Ratshesky Foundation<br />
$5,000–$9,999<br />
Nancy Adams & Scott Schoen<br />
Carrie Minot Bell & George Bell<br />
Daphne & Brandon Berger<br />
Jennifer & Jonathan Block<br />
Richard Burnes<br />
Astrid & Thomas Burns<br />
Edmund & Betsy Cabot<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Amy & Ethan d’Ablemont Burnes<br />
Swanee Hunt<br />
Jill Lenhardt<br />
Marsha & Mark MacLean<br />
Berneda Meeks, J &<br />
E Slavik Foundation<br />
Julia Norman<br />
Suzanne Bernard Plimpton<br />
& Samuel S. Plimpton, Jr.<br />
Diane & Richard Schmalensee<br />
Jennifer & Steve Walske<br />
Stephanie & Jonathan Warburg<br />
Ashley & Alex Wayman<br />
$2,500 - $4,999<br />
Fiona & James Benenson<br />
Mimi & George Bennett<br />
Commonwealth<br />
Corporation - Workforce<br />
Training Fund Program<br />
Mimi & Bryan Eger<br />
Fifth Generation Inc.,<br />
Love, Tito’s<br />
Elizabeth Goodenough &<br />
James Leaf<br />
Ann & Graham Gund<br />
C.J. & Michael Hacker<br />
Elizabeth L. Johnson Fund<br />
Holly & Bruce Johnstone<br />
Kristen Sullivan McEntyre<br />
Pfeiffer Foster Fund<br />
Helen Randolph<br />
The Red Sox Foundation<br />
Sarah & Hans Sherman<br />
Joan & Edwin Tiffany<br />
Julia Turner & Ben Wasserstein<br />
Frederick Warburg<br />
Lynda Schweitzer Wood<br />
$1,000–$2,499<br />
Katie Schuller Bleakie<br />
Suzanne & Jeffrey Bloomberg<br />
Kathleen Bratton & Brian Wruble<br />
Patricia & Timothy Brennan<br />
Angela & Benjamin Cavallo<br />
Whitney Cheever<br />
Christopher Comenos<br />
Jamie & Kevin Connors<br />
Joan & Prescott Crocker<br />
Cummings Community Giving<br />
Margaret & Dave Donahue<br />
Sarah & William Ducas<br />
Courtney & Tim Egan<br />
Katherine Fellens<br />
Hilary & Christopher Gabrieli<br />
Robert Greenglass<br />
Kristin & John Gulliver<br />
Ann & John Hall<br />
Susan & C. Michael Hazard<br />
Katherine McManmon Hoyt<br />
& Robert Hoyt<br />
Kasey Kaufman & Michael<br />
Horwitz<br />
Angela & Jeff Laliberte<br />
Joyce & Edward Lawrence<br />
Heejin Lho<br />
Ellie Malloy<br />
Bridget & Joel Marquis<br />
Alexandra Marshall &<br />
James Carroll<br />
Northeastern University City &<br />
Community Engagement<br />
Lia & William Poorvu<br />
Hadley & Alexander Powell<br />
Tina Rathborne<br />
Anne & James Righter<br />
Diana Rowan Rockefeller<br />
Susan & David Rockefeller<br />
Laura & Alexander Saltonstall<br />
Jessica & Daniel Schmitz<br />
Clayton & Emily Schuller<br />
Ellen & Steven Segal<br />
Kristin & Roger Servison<br />
Susan Sloan & Arthur Clarke<br />
Epp Sonin & Arie Derkson<br />
Fredericka & Howard<br />
Stevenson<br />
Lisa Taffe<br />
Ladd Thorne Jr.<br />
Jonathan Wilson<br />
Joyce Yaffee<br />
$500–$999<br />
The Alchemy Foundation<br />
Meghan & David Almquist<br />
Gabrielle Baron<br />
Christina Bascom<br />
Elizabeth & Joseph Bascom<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Enid L. Beal & Alan Wolfe<br />
Rachel & Ryan Belanger<br />
Pia Ostros & Juan Ignacio<br />
Betanzo<br />
Yvan Bodart<br />
Kimberly Boyd<br />
Nancy & Jack Braitmayer<br />
Kennett Burnes<br />
Mabel H. Cabot<br />
Danielle Chaplick/Gallagher<br />
Benefit Services<br />
Brooke Chamberlain Cook<br />
Nancy & Laury Coolidge<br />
Sally Fay Cottingham<br />
Kit Cunningham<br />
Gene & Lloyd Dahmen<br />
Lynn & Bruce Dayton<br />
Natalia Egan<br />
Martha A. Erickson<br />
Carmen Fields & Lorenz Finison<br />
Alexander Fuller<br />
Betty & Russell Gaudreau<br />
Bess & James Hughes<br />
Mary Johnson<br />
Katherine & Nick Keches<br />
Kathleen Kenney<br />
Lauren Krzynowek & Tyler Hart<br />
Yelena Lembersky<br />
Anne & Colin McNay<br />
Kyle Morrisey<br />
Greg Munroe<br />
Kathy Neal<br />
Nutter McLennan & Fish LLC<br />
Chelsea & Andy O’Brien<br />
Stephen Owen<br />
Slocumb & E. Lee Perry<br />
Wendy & Samuel S. Plimpton Sr.<br />
Sue & Bernard Pucker<br />
Eliza & Richie Quincy<br />
Patty & Charles Ribakoff<br />
Louise Riemer<br />
Zainub & Justin Ruane<br />
Donna & Robert Storer<br />
Patricia & David Straus<br />
David Van Ness Taylor<br />
Phyllis Vineyard<br />
Lisa & David Walker<br />
Victoria & Thomas Whitney<br />
$250–$499<br />
Lisa & Joel Alvord<br />
Lynne & Richard Breed<br />
Andrew Brewster<br />
Karen Britton<br />
C & P Buttenwieser Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Chapin<br />
David Cody<br />
Merry & John Conway<br />
CJ Coughlin & Tim Croke<br />
Jennifer & Nicholas Crocker<br />
Darnell Dunn<br />
Whitney & Gavin Fitts<br />
Barbara Glauber<br />
Vicky Graboys<br />
Susan Hackley & Paul Henry<br />
Irina Iatco<br />
Judy & Roger Kamm<br />
Lawrence Lawler<br />
Otile McManus<br />
Barbara Millen<br />
Ryan Thomas Naples<br />
Carolyn & Robert Osteen<br />
Whitney & Ryan Patton<br />
Elizabeth Robbins<br />
Barbara Rodriguez<br />
Condee N. Russo<br />
Bridget & James Saltonstall<br />
Tina & Paul Schmid<br />
Brent Shay<br />
Ellen C. L. Simmons<br />
Jane Skelton<br />
Callie & Jason Slocum<br />
Michael Smith<br />
John Snyder<br />
Robert Straus<br />
Kate & Benjamin Taylor<br />
Emily Thompson<br />
Karen Tobin<br />
Lucie Wall<br />
$249 & UNDER<br />
Francis D. Adams<br />
Liga & Martins Aldins<br />
Blakeman Hazzard Allen<br />
Anne T. Almy<br />
Gwen Art<br />
Anne Ashmore-Hudson<br />
Carolyn Attenborough<br />
Andrea Bloch &<br />
William McPadden<br />
Steven and Ellen Branfman<br />
Gloria and David Brewster<br />
Ginny and James Bride<br />
Edith Moricz-Cody and Alan<br />
Cody<br />
Pat and Larry Kreger Cohan<br />
Sally Stoddard Collier<br />
Linzee Coolidge<br />
Sandra and William Dick<br />
Richard Dimino<br />
Catharine-Mary Donovan<br />
Margaret Dray<br />
Alexandra Fallon<br />
Heather Faris<br />
Rebecca Forkner<br />
Hugh Fortmiller<br />
Blanche & Adel Foz<br />
Robert Gittens<br />
Susan Green<br />
Grossman Family Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Susan M. Halby<br />
Bridget Halligan<br />
Elin & John Harris<br />
Trevania & John Henderson<br />
Zachary Kastenhuber<br />
Martha King<br />
David Lawton<br />
Mary Ellen Hawes Lees<br />
Karen Leopold<br />
Lyn Lloyd<br />
Melissa Ludtke<br />
Helen Marston<br />
Deirdre & Peter Martin<br />
Hope & Shaw McDermott<br />
Nancy McFadden<br />
Bernard H. Mehlman<br />
Parinaz Motamedy<br />
Kathryn O’Connell<br />
Ashley Perkins<br />
Katharine Pillsbury<br />
David Podell<br />
Christina Ramey<br />
Elizabeth & Christopher Reece<br />
Susan & Gordon Richardson<br />
Catherine Rurode<br />
David Russell<br />
Margaret & Paul Schmid<br />
Missy & Robert Shay<br />
Elaine Shiang<br />
Salwa Smith<br />
Lee Sprague<br />
Marjorie Staub<br />
Margaret Talcott<br />
Nancy & David Thompson<br />
Susan Trausch<br />
Gay Vervaet<br />
Hannah Vokey<br />
Kathleen Wattles<br />
Judith Wheelock<br />
Anna Whitcomb<br />
Elizabeth & Benjamin White<br />
Virginia B Wickwire<br />
Pamela and Barry Zuckerman<br />
IN KIND DONATIONS<br />
Daphne & Brandon Berger<br />
Astrid & Tommy Burns<br />
Kate Coughlin &<br />
Jonathan Hausner<br />
Jamie & Kevin Connors<br />
Elizabeth Evans D’Ascensao<br />
Mimi & Bryan Eger<br />
Haley Fortier<br />
Holland & Knight, LLP<br />
Kristen Sullivan McEntyre<br />
Northeastern University<br />
Diane and Richard Schmalensee
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