Cekpet
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
CEKPET, Ltd./dba KidzHOME – House of Multicultural Education/dba Malenkaya Kompaniya is a grass-roots non-profit organization of immigrant parents interested in a good education for their children. Since immigrant families come from various backgrounds, they often do not know how to navigate American educational system and how to help their children to thrive in school.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Russian Children's Theater Studio
The program includes acting, speech and movement classes and workshops for children from 5 to 18; shows, art exhibits, role games, and performances for the whole community. The classes and shows are in Russian and English.
Mommy and Me in Russian
Program for toddlers and caregivers in Russian, helps develop language skills, fine and gross motor skills, and social skills.
Spanish Children's Theater Studio
We try to help children keep heritage language and culture and improve their creative and performing skills by staging shows in Spanish
Mommy and Me in Spanish
Program for toddlers and caregivers in Spanish, helps develop language skills, fine and gross motor skills, and social skills.
Singing and Vocal Development
Program for development of vocal abilities of children of various ages
Arts and Drawing
Development of of drawing skills, learning of basic art techniques and history of art
Language classes
Classes of Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, and Ukrainian languages for children and adults
Theater Summer Camp
A program for children from 5 to 13 years old that helps them develop their performing, creative, and language skills, make new friends, and have fun during summer break.
Theater Mini-Camp during School Closure
Fun and interactive program for kids from 5 to 13 years old that helps them develop their creative, performing and language skills during short breaks
Where we work
Awards
Cross River Bank Grant 2022
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
Affiliations & memberships
NYC Mayoral Message for the Russian Olympiada 2019
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We try to combine American values with those of the heritage culture, helping families adjust to the US educational system while keeping the heritage language. Our goals are to attract kids to reading in any language, help them thrive in school, develop their creative skills, and maintain inter-generational ties within the family.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
In order to achieve our goals, we conduct various classes, educational workshops, and theater shows, publish children's literary magazine in Russian, organize the Olympiada of Spoken Russian (together with the American Council of Teachers of Russian), contests, and other events.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have wonderful staff of volunteers, most whom have been with us since 2008, and some new talented people joined recently. Our volunteers have education, skills, and experience that permit them work with children and families and create exciting programs.
We have been doing Russian children's theater studio since 2008, and now we have started a Spanish children's theater studio. We organize free or low cost shows, performances, role games, and contests that attract families with children not only from Brooklyn, but also from other boroughs of NYC, from many states of the USA and even from abroad. We publish Russian literary magazine for children since 2006.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2008 we have shown more that one hundred shows and performances for children. The total number of our students is more that 350. We twice participated in the Festival of the Russian children's theaters in the US in Washington, DC, and won the award for the best classical work (when we staged The Little Prince). We conducted twelve Olympiadas of Spoken Russian (together with the American Council of Teachers of Russian).
Now we rent our own premises and want to organize a children's theater festival in NYC. We have also started a Spanish children's theater studio and hope it will be as popular as the Russian one.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is hard to come up with good questions to ask people, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Cekpet
Board of directorsas of 05/14/2024
Ms Margarita Finkelshteyn
Elena Argush
School Plus
Ekaterina Klimchenko
Lara Wolfe
Victoria Sumina
Ross Kamenetsky
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Not applicable -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
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? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.