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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