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ANNUAL REPORT 2015
Photo by David Gipson
...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. From Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
OUR MISSION
Founded in 1937 by the Rev.
Norman Vincent Peale (left) and
psychiatrist Smiley Blanton
(right), the Blanton-Peale
Institute strives to alleviate
human suffering and to affirm
the meaningfulness and
abundance of life. We are
committed through our clinic and
educational programs to helping
people in emotional need to
search for solutions to social, psychological, and spiritual problems and to training clinicians
who understand the combined strength of psychology and religion.
INTERIM PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
It has been my privilege to serve as Interim President and CEO of
Blanton-Peale from March 2014 until June 2015. This has been an
eventful time. In March Blanton-Peale moved to its new quarters
at 7 West 30th Street. In April our former president, the Rev. Dr.
Paul Bradley passed away after a long illness. In June our board
of trustees under Elizabeth Peale Allen, held a retreat at which it
was agreed to establish a scholarship fund to support our Clinic
and Counseling Center and our Graduate Institute. The goal for
that fund was $100,000. We have already raised over $80,000 of
that amount and have begun awarding scholarships to students in
our Psychoanalytic training program. Board members also
contributed over $12,000 to support the accreditation process for
our Graduate Institute with the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis. Meanwhile,
our Graduate Institute has increased the enrollment in the Psychoanalytic training program and
has absorbed the responsibilities of our former Pastoral Care and Counseling Program in English
by offering a series of public courses on issues of importance to today’s society. Our Korean
program in Pastoral Care and Counseling continues to grow as it ministers to Korean pastors and
lay leaders in this country. Our Clinic and Counseling Center has also continued to expand, so
much so that we have developed plans for expansion into a second floor at 7 West 30th Street. In
keeping with our desire to expand and to break new paths our administrative staff has met
regularly with Board member David Harris to discuss strategies for development, marketing, and
branding. An important event of the year was the announcement by the board in May of the
appointment of Rev. Shari Brink, formerly of Marble Collegiate Church, as Blanton-Peale’s new
President and CEO as of June 15th.
We are particularly indebted to our board Chair, Elizabeth Peale Allen, and the Peale
Foundation, to Stephanie and Lawrence Bailey and the Marble Collegiate Church Easter
Offering, to the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Richard and Helen DeVos
Foundation, the Hyde and Watson Foundation, and the Sy Syms Foundation for their consistent
support, and to Lauren McGill for her mother’s bequest of $100,000, which will be used for our
expansion fund and for scholarships in the Institute and aid to the needy in the clinic.
At our annual gala at the Yale Club in May we presented the Norman Vincent Peale Award for
Positive Thinking to Dr. Jack Templeton and the John Templeton Foundation, to William Dodge
Rueckert and the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, to Sister Carol Perry and Marble Collegiate
Church and to Rev. Samuel Chang Kil Kim and the Protestant Abbey Mission. We are grateful to
these honorees and their associated organizations for their significant support of the gala.
In its perhaps small way Blanton-Peale hopes to change the world. We are concerned with
intractable problems plaguing individuals and society as a whole. We are searching for effective
ways of confronting issues such as cyber bullying and adolescent depression. In our clinic we
address the specific problems of individuals and in so doing decrease the pain those individuals
might cause for themselves and the people with whom they come into contact. Helping a victim
or perpetrator of child abuse we stop a chain of abuse that transcends generations and is
exponentially destructive. Through our training Institute, the student body of which includes
residents from parts of the world where psychotherapy is essentially unknown, we recognize the
importance of education to reach adults who can return to their cultures with moral authority. We
train individuals of diverse backgrounds to address problems in their own societies for the
betterment of these societies.
Our objective is to accept all comers to our clinic and all qualified applicants to our training
program regardless of financial ability to pay. Finally, in keeping with the mission of our
founders, all of our programs recognize the power of the combined wisdom and understandings
of psychology and spirituality to confront human problems.
David A. Leeming
Emeritus President
BLANTON-PEALE’S NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO
Rev. Shari K. Brink joins the Blanton-Peale Institute as its
President and C.E.O., having served the last five year at Marble
Collegiate Church. As Minister for Strategic Advancement at
Marble, Rev. Brink led the Marble community in discerning its
future for a new era of ministry and in garnering the financial
resources needed for its dynamic ministry. Prior to Marble,
Shari served as Director of Development at Auburn Seminary,
an institute for religious leaders in today’s complex, multi-faith,
media-saturated world. She has also served on the national staff
of the Reformed Church in America as Director of Strategic
Planning, and as a minister both in Los Angeles, California and
in Colts Neck, New Jersey.
Rev. Brink looks forward to working with the board and staff of
Blanton-Peale in addressing the spiritual and psychological
problems of contemporary life. She says, “’The glory of God is
every creature fully alive.’ So wrote Irenaeus in the second century. I believe that the world is
more as it should be when each of us is fully alive – alive spiritually and alive psychologically. I
look forward to strengthening and expanding Blanton-Peale’s impact, both on individuals who
come alive through work with well-trained therapists, and a synergistic impact on our city.”
THE BLANTON-PEALE COUNSELING CENTER
The Blanton-Peale Counseling Center, under the direction of Ann Springer, LCSW, is a non-
sectarian, non-profit mental health counseling center licensed by the New York State Office of
Mental Health. The center offers individual, couples and, family therapy to a diverse population
from adolescents to senior citizens. Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and group
work are among the services provided. Our staff, represents a wide range of approaches, cultural-
ethnic identities (including some 11 languages), and faith traditions. The staff includes
psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, clinically trained social workers, mental health counselors, and
psychoanalysts. Training is provided for residents in Blanton-Peale’s Psychoanalytic program, as
well as second year social work interns from local universities and colleges. This year, four
internships were provided for second year graduate students. Social work interns represented
Fordham, NYU, and Hunter. A fourth came from Hofstra’s Marriage and Family therapy
program. In September we will welcome four more interns. This summer we will have a part
time paid intern. She is a college student who is majoring in psychology and has a keen desire to
see how a clinic runs. She will give much needed assistance with administrative tasks.
650 clients were seen in multiple sessions in the past year. The total number of sessions at the
Center for the fiscal year was 26,000. We are running close to capacity. To meet our increased
demand we have added Saturday hours and have increased the number of evening therapists.
Smaller non-profit service agencies like Blanton-Peale can make a difference in health care,
especially in a city with a wide-reach like NYC. Our facility has no catchment and offers sliding
scale fees. For many, high deductibles on insurance policies make weekly therapy prohibitive
without these low cost fees.
The clinic is audited regularly by the New York State Office of Mental Health.
THE BLANTON-PEALE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
The Graduate Institute at Blanton-Peale operates under an Absolute Charter from the State of
New York and provides training leading to eligibility to sit for the New York State License to
practice Psychoanalysis. In 2005 the New York State Education Department approved and
registered the Institute's Psychoanalytic Program as a licensable program under Subchapter A of
the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education (Chapter II of Title 8 of the Official
Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York).
The Director of Training and Dean of the Institute is Nunzio Gubitosa.
The residency in Psychoanalysis is a four-year, comprehensive and intensive post-graduate
program. The program is unique in that it offers one of the only accredited Post-Graduate
Training Programs in New York City that provides courses, on site patient work, and individual
and case conference supervision emphasizing the integration and articulation of emerging
theoretical and clinical skills with spiritual/religious and symbolic/theological reflection. The
Graduate Institute like the Blanton-Peale Counseling Center and Clinic, is sensitive to the issues
of religious and cultural diversity. The administration, faculty, supervisors, therapists and
training residents reflect a wide divergence of racial and cultural backgrounds and numerous
faith traditions.The Institute also offers workshops, enrichment courses, and specialized training.
Two residents, Sister Patience Quayson
and Rev Joseph Medlin, graduated from
the Psychoanalytic program this June and
are now eligible to sit for the New York
State Exam in leading to licensure in
Psychoanalysis.
Graduate Institute Residents Sister Patience
Quayson and Rev Charles Udokang
PASTORAL CARE AND COUNSELING STUDIES IN KOREAN
The mission of the Korean Pastoral Care Studies Program is to enable Korean clergy and lay
leaders to enhance their ministries by introducing them to the concepts of psychology and giving
them the opportunity to practice learned skills under supervision in their pastoral work. Students
come to think of their ministries differently as they learn counseling theory, concepts of human
development, systems theory and crisis
management. By studying their own
professional development and by
participation in Process Groups,
students learn to apply the concepts of
psychology to themselves and to others
to whom they minister.
The Korean Pastoral Care Studies
Program is directed by Angella Son,
M.Div, Ph.D . In May 40 students
graduated from the program.
ANNUAL GALA
2015 Norman Vincent Peale Awards for Positive Thinking
Service and Philanthropy
The women and men to whom we have presented the Norman Vincent Peale Award for Positive
Thinking over the years have honored the founders’ vision by seeking to make the world a better
place for us all. At this year’s gala we honored individuals and the organizations they represent. In
so doing we celebrated service and philanthropy. These individuals and their associated
organizations have provided service to humanity and the philanthropy that makes such service
possible.
THE AWARDEES
William Dodge Rueckert. For the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation
Mr. Rueckert is President of the
Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation.
He was introduced by Dr. David A.
Leeming, President Emeritus and
Interim CEO of Blanton-Peale.
The Cleveland H. Dodge
Foundation, like Blanton-Peale, is
committed to the “betterment of
mankind.” The foundation is
deeply committed to such
activities as relief organizations in
the Middle East and the
education of underprivileged youth here.
Dr Jack Templeton. For Sir John Templeton and the JohnTempleton Foundation
Dr. Jack Templeton succeeded his
father, Sir John Templeton, as
President of the Templeton
Foundation. Dr. Jack passed away
only a few days after the gala
following a long illness. He was
represented at the gala by his
daughter, Heather Templeton Dill,
In her introduction of Heather Dill,
Elizabeth Peale Allen, Chair of the
Blanton-Peale Board of Trustees,
quoted Sir John Templeton: “We
often find a common element among those who become wise. Wisdom often includes a
forgetting of self and focusing on service to others.” Ms. Allen went on to say, “Heather, your
legacy is a perfect match to that of Blanton Peale.”
Rev. Dr. Samuel Chang Kil Kim. For the Protestant Abbey Mission
Rev. Kim is President of the
Protestant Abbey Mission and Pastor
Emeritus of the Presbyterian Church
of New Jersey. He was introduced by
Rev. Dr. Angella Son, Director of
Blanton-Peale’s Korean Program in
Pastoral Care and Counselling. “For
Dr. Kim, positive thinking about what
is good for the church took priority
over tradition. He and his wife Rev.
Dr. Esther Kim are pioneers among
Korean-Americans and he is an
embodiment of deep commitment to God and compassion for others, especially the poor,
wounded, and broken-hearted.”
Sister Carol Perry, SU. For Marble Collegiate Church
Sister Carol is resident Bible
Scholar at Marble Collegiate
Church. She was introduced
by Stephanie M. Bailey,
Chair of the Board of Elders
and Deacons, Marble
Collegiate Church and a
member of the Blanton-Peale
Board. In her acceptance of
the award Sister Carol
remembered, “It was almost
35 years ago that Norman
Vincent Peale and I sat in his
office and wondered what we
were about to do. It was an unprecedented ecumenical moment. He was about to hire a Catholic
sister to be the adult Bible teacher at a major Protestant church – Marble Collegiate Church - and
I was about to be that ground-breaker! I came to teach. Instead, I learned. I found I was part of
a church where Positive Thinking, was not just a message from the pulpit. It was in the fiber of
every congregant, and it was a directing force in their outreach to a community larger than those
who filled the pews.”
GALA PARTICIPANTS
The honorees and their
introducers
Gala Chairs, Meg
Armstrong and Greg
Lozier
Shari Brink with Board Chair
Elizabeth Peale Allen
Rev Kim and friends
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Clinic Client Coordinators Astha
Mootoo and Diana Barone
President and President Emeritus
Gala Photographs by David Gipson
DONORS JULY 1, 2014-JUNE 30, 2015
Blanton-Peale Partners: - $25,000 - $124,999
Cleveland Dodge Foundation – William D. Rueckert, President
Dr. Samuel Chang Kil Kim
The Peale Foundation
Blanton-Peale Benefactors: - $10,000 - $24,999
David Harris, Esq.
Sy Syms Foundation
Dr. (Jack) John Templeton – The John Templeton Foundation
Blanton-Peale Patrons: - $5,000 - $9,999
Meg Armstrong and Greg Lozier
Stephanie and Lawrence Bailey
Carret Asset Management, LLC
Collegiate Church Corporation – Casey Kemper, Exec. VP
Jinsoo Kim
Marble Collegiate Church – Dr. Michael Brown, Senior Minister
New York Theological Seminary – Dr. Dale Irvin, President
David P. Pearson
Sunny Marketing Systems, Inc. – Henry, Sunny, John and Jenny Kang
Blanton-Peale Sponsors: - $1,000 - $4,999
Elizabeth Peale Allen
American Bible Society – Dr. Roy Peterson, President & CEO
Maria Alvarado
Rev. Shari K. Brink
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP - Macculloch M. Irving, Esq
Churchwomen’s League for Patriotic Service
Janine Craane
Valery Craane
Mrs. William E. Dearden
Drucker Associates, LLC - Harvey Drucker
Anne G. Garonzik
Guideposts Associates, Inc. – John F. Temple, President & CEO
John Hagedorn, Ph.D.
Gloria Caliandro Hegy
Helpern Architects, P.C. - David Helpern
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Keller
Casey and Mary Kemper
Hong Il Kim and Soon Kum Hong
David and Pamela Leeming
M. Lauren McGill
Metzger-Price Fund, Inc.
Jean Wilson and Mark J. Menting
Jeremiah Milbank III
Nigel Morgan
Sr. Carol Perry, SU for Marble Collegiate Church
John E. and Eleanor Rorer
Rosen Johnson Architects, PC
Henry Vander Plaat
Natalie and James S. Venetos
Youth Foundation, Inc.
Victoria Zoellner
Blanton-Peale: - Associates: $500 - $999
Bonnie Greaves
Marie Hedbavny
Kinn Real Estate Counselors - William Kinn
Erik Kolbell
Dr. Judith A. Kramer
Joan Kuck
Jerome Link
Alice Owens
Rebeca Radillo
TD Wealth - Gordon G. Hazel
May Weng
James Wisecup
Blanton-Peale Friends: - Friends up to $500
Auburn Theological Seminary – Dr. Katherine Rhodes Henderson, President
Michael and Vicki Avila
Timothy Barrett
Carol Bischoff
Ann English
Margaret Everett
Joseph Famularo
Thomas J. Fenaughty
Jeffrey D. Forchelli, Esq.
Wayne B. Garff
Goodsearch
Anne E. Impellizzeri
Ann Kern and Jerome Gotkin
Peter Krulewitch
Paul Leeming
William Lutz
Susan M. Lynch
The Very Rev. James Parks Morton
Rev. Msgr. William M. Naughton
John S. and Lydia Peale
Betty Purkey
Denise Richardson
Faith Childs and Harris Schrank
Rev. Dr. Angella Son
Roger W. Smith
Fran Taylor
United Way of New York
Robert Williams
BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE AND
BLANTON-PEALE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
COMBINING STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
JUNE 30, 2014
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents 14,544$ -$ 14,544$
Insurance fees receivable 261,342 - 261,342
Tuition fees receivable - 5,730 5,730
Other receivables 5,305 - 5,305
Marketable securities 331,316 - 331,316
Prepaid expenses 33,686 - 33,686
Security deposits 47,560 - 47,560
Intercompany receivable (payable) (26,387) 26,387 -
Total current assets 667,366 32,117 699,483
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation 434,672 - 434,672
TOTAL ASSETS 1,102,038$ 32,117$ 1,134,155$
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current liabilities
Cash overdraft 21,080$ -$ 21,080$
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 222,305 - 222,305
Rent payable 538,698 - 538,698
Current portion of long-term debt 91,754 - 91,754
Total current liabilities 873,837 - 873,837
Long-term liabilities
Term note - bank 300,000 - 300,000
Equipment term note 6,062 - 6,062
Capital lease 38,926 - 38,926
344,988 - 344,988
Less: current portion (91,754) - (91,754)
Total long-term liabilities 253,234 - 253,234
Total liabilities 1,127,071 - 1,127,071
Net Assets
Unrestricted (197,788) - (197,788)
Temporarily restricted - - -
Permanently restricted 172,755 32,117 204,872
Total net assets (25,033) 32,117 7,084
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 1,102,038$ 32,117$ 1,134,155$
Blanton-Peale
Institute
Blanton-Peale
Graduate Institute Total
Financial Reports
****Subsequent to the year ended June 30, 2014, the accumulated rent liability in the amount of $538,698 was forgiven by the landlord
BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE AND
BLANTON-PEALE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
COMBINING STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014
Revenue and support
Grants and contributions
Foundations 68,250$ 5,000$ 73,250$
Corporate 43,870 - 43,870
Individuals 17,364 2,500 19,864
129,484 7,500 136,984
Special events
Direct benefit to donors 26,986 - 26,986
Less: costs of direct benefits to donors (26,986) - (26,986)
Contributions:
Excess ticket sales revenue 53,364 - 53,364
Advertising 24,500 - 24,500
Other contributions 9,030 - 9,030
86,894 - 86,894
Total grants and contributions 216,378 7,500 223,878
Program service revenue
Counseling center fees 1,607,715 - 1,607,715
Tuition and supervision - 458,460 458,460
Total program service revenue 1,607,715 458,460 2,066,175
Other income
Unrealized holding gain on securities 28,462 - 28,462
Realized gain on sale of securities 16,239 - 16,239
Interest and dividend income 7,404 - 7,404
Royalty income 1,210 - 1,210
Miscellaneous income 2,829 - 2,829
Total other income 56,144 - 56,144
Change in obligation to affilliate (379,209) 379,209 -
Net assets released from restrictions - - -
1,501,028 845,169 2,346,197
Expenses
Program services 1,285,281 518,015 1,803,296
Supporting services
Management and general 228,215 223,718 451,933
Fundraising 100,552 103,436 203,988
1,614,048 845,169 2,459,217
Decrease in net assets (113,020) - (113,020)
Net assets - beginning of year 87,987 32,117 120,104
Net assets - end of year (25,033)$ 32,117$ 7,084$
Combining Totals Total
Blanton-Peale Institute Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute
Total
TOTAL
Income
Contributions $90,000
Special Events $150,000
Grants $50,000
Educational Program Tuition & Fees $440,000
Clinic Revenue $1,843,435
Major Donors Pledged $125,000
Total Income $2,698,435
Expense Payment of Loan Principle $75,000
General- Rent $208,000
Special Events (Gala and Conferences) $35,000
Per Diem- Therapists, Supervisors, Faculty $895,000
Payroll- Senior Administration, Staff & Taxes $1,053,800
Operating- Utilities/Phone/Internet $40,000
Operating- Service (Janit/Security/Legal/Audit/IT) $85,900
Operating- Supplies/Postage/Printing/Dues/Misc. $37,200
Operating- Payroll/Bank/CC/Insurance proc. Fees $43,200
Operating- Liability/Workers Comp/Directors Ins. $49,500
Operating- Equipment and Software Leases $30,000
Operating- Employee Health Benefits $65,000
Total Expense $2,617,600
Budget Surplus/Deficit $80,835
Institute Wide Initiatives
Payment of Loan Interest $11,000
Web Site and Information Feeds $15,000
Donor Cultivation $7,500
Public Programming $5,000
Budget Surplus/Deficit Net Initiatives $42,335
Capital Expansion Fund Pledged $50,000
BLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE AND
BLANTON-PEALE GRADUATE INSTITUTE
COMBINING PROGRAM BUDGET
FINANCIAL YEAR JULY 1, 2015 THRU JUNE 30, 2016
Blanton-Peale Administrative Staff
Rev Shari K. Brink
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jane Roberts, B.A.
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Timothy M. Roberts
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Ann Springer, L.C.S.W.
Clinic Director
Nunzio Gubitosa, M.A., M.Phil, L.P., L,M.H.C.
Dean and Director of Psychoanalytic Training
Rev. Dr. Angella Son, Ph.D.
Director of the Korean Pastoral Care Program
Nancy Moore Simpson, B.S.
Executive Assistant, Registrar, Development Coordinator, Secretary to the Board
Ramesh Persaud, B.S.C.
Controller
Astha R. Mootoo, L.M.S.W., M.P.H.
Client Coordinator
Diana Barone, L.M.S.W.
Client Coordinator
Blanton-Peale Board of Trustees
Elizabeth Peale Allen (Chair), Chairman, Guideposts
Meg Armstrong, The Leadership Group
Stephanie M. Bailey (Treasurer), Director, Consolidated Edison
The Rev. Shari K. Brink. President and CEO, Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling
Center (beginning June 15, 2015)
The Rev. Dr. John Hagedorn, The Counseling Center (retiring July 1, 2015)
David L.Harris, Esq., Lowenstein Sandler PC
The Rev Dr. Dale Irvin, President, New York Theological Seminary
Macculloch M., Irving, Esq. , Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
John M. Kang, Esq., Sunny Marketing Systems
Casey R. Kemper (Vice Chair), EVP/COO, Collegiate Church Corp.
The Rev. Erik M. Kobell, LCSW, Psychotherapist
David A. Leeming, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Blanton-Peale (term ends June 15, 2015)
The Rev. Dr. James J. Wisecup, Riverside Counseling Center
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