Josephine Herrick Project
Teaching Photography to Change the Way We See
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We envision a vibrant, creative society in which all people can express themselves actively through images and engage positively in their communities. Through our multi week free programs we teach digital photography and creative story telling to those who are disadvantaged by poverty, prejudice or discrimination, including disabled veterans, youth and adults with physical, psycho-social, intellectual disabilities, recent immigrants and refugees, isolated seniors and youth at risk. We support them to be able to communicate the way that they see and their vision to others and exhibit their work in public buildings, places and spaces, accessible to all, and place it online and distribute it through social media. Photography is a deeply transformative medium, and the most accessible art form, giving a voice to those who feel as though they don’t have one, or that theirs is marginalized. It gives them the opportunity to share their perspectives and help others see differently.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The public International High Schools program
Working with public International High Schools in New York City.
Disabled Veterans
Working with disabled Veterans.
The F Stop Project
Working with partners, working with a variety of residents of Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, the largest public housing development in the United States. Teaching seniors, veterans, youth at risk, and English Language learners, and exhibiting their photographs on the streets, in the local park and in the gardens in and around the Houses.
Seeing Differently 1
Programs working with youth and young adults on the autism spectrum
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Goals
We envision a vibrant, creative society in which all people can express themselves actively through images and engage positively in their communities.
Our 5-year strategy posits the following goals:
1. Effective Governance: To reshape our Board and ensure we have a high-performing Board and leadership team flourishing on the basis of a culture of trust, collaboration, and accountability.
2. Financial Sustainability: To be financially sound and fiscally responsible with a funding portfolio that is diversified across a variety of funding sources including earned income, corporate support and sponsorships, government and foundation grants and individual giving.
3. Program Excellence: To deliver photography programs that consistently enable our students to change the way they see, express themselves and build their engagement with local communities; and, to build new and relevant programs that strengthen their abilities to influence their own futures and that of their communities.
4. Brand Recognition: To be recognized by a growing, supportive community as an organization that delivers compelling, effective, and life-improving and socially relevant programs to individuals facing hardships or obstacles in life through a communications strategies and plans, including social media.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We teach action oriented programs, including Photography for Advocacy, Photography for Activism and Community journalism and more general introductions to photography and storytelling that engage our students in directly with their communities, through photowalks and community related projects and exhibited their works in public in their communities.
We are keen to empower our students to use photography as a tool for showing and persuading others about what they see to others and developing the confidence to begin to change their own futures and their environment.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Josephine Herrick Project (JHP) has a 78 year old history of delivery programs across New York city and New York State.
We work in partnership with over 30 community based hosting partners selected according to shared values and goals, including the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at NYU, a range of New York City schools who are part of the public International High School Network - with new Americans, first generation immigrants and refugees; Settlement Houses in some of the most deprived and underserved communities, disability support associations, public libraries, and the VA - hospitals and Veteran Centers.
We work with a pool of professional photographer teaching artists for who we provide specialized training as required for working with us and with our specialist audiences and partners.
JHP runs approximately 25-30 programs a year, currently teaching 350 students a year, and through our public exhibitions, at least 5,000 viewers.
We have a small but flexible back office staff who manage all our work.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
With a very small team and over 30 dedicated teaching artists, the Josephine Herrick Project (JHP) has been able continues to expand its reach in programming and strengthen its partnerships and curriculum.
Josephine Herrick Project holds a collection of over 8000 items from over its 75 year history. It is mostly photographs, that include 900 negatives of servicemen going to war in WWII, other WWII photographs taken by Josephine Herrick; Photographs from the 1940s-present of veterans learning photography in VA hospitals and more.
The collection is a potentially valuable resource for interested scholars. The goal is to process the collection, digitize it and make it accessible to the public.
JHP has a small office space, and would like a dedicated classroom space with computers and photography software to be able to teach more advanced classes to JHP alumni.
Financials
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Operations
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Josephine Herrick Project
Board of directorsas of 11/21/2021
Ms. Miriam Leuchter
Ron Sharpe
Craig Nisnewitz
J. Randall Bourne
Mark Hempel
Adriana Echavarria
Board leadership practices
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes