The Brooklyn Hospital Center, a 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization, welcomes many different kinds of support. We are also appreciative of our volunteers who offer the gift of their precious time.
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The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation, Inc.,[14] is a not-for-profit corporation, exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the foundation are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the IRS code.
Our Federal Tax I.D. number is 11-2936410.
As a not-for-profit, we depend upon the financial support of our community for our survival. You can make a donation with a credit card, by check or even with stock or securities. Please also note that your employer may offer a matching gift program.
Your gift will provide an immediate benefit to The Brooklyn Hospital Center while imparting a tax benefit for you and your family.
Planned Giving
Charitable gift annuities, charitable trusts, and pooled income funds can provide your family, and The Brooklyn Hospital Center, with perpetual income. Some plans offer more significant tax benefits than others.
Bequests
You may wish to consider leaving a lasting legacy of support for The Brooklyn Hospital Center in your will. You can name The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation as a direct beneficiary of specific assets or a portion of your estate. Your generosity will provide much needed resources to maintain and expand our facilities and our innovative patient care programs.
Your bequest may also qualify for estate tax planning benefits.
Endowment Funds
Endowments are created through generous contributions by patients, families and individuals concerned about the long-term wellbeing of The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Stock & Securities
Gifts of stock and other securities can provide the donor with substantial tax benefits on appreciation as well as an immediate tax deduction. Please contact us for more information.
Matching Gifts
Many employers have matching gift programs for cash, stock and marketable securities. Please consult with your human resources department to confirm the eligibility of your gift.
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation Staff
Debbie Niederhoffer, Chief Development Officer - 718.250.8599 or den9022@nyp.org[10]
Allison Hagemann, Development Manager - 718.250.6544 or aeh9010@nyp.org[11]
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Please contact any staff member above to help process your donation and answer any questions regarding other giving options.
Donate by Mail
Please make checks payable to:
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation, Inc. 121 DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11201
The year was 1839. Brooklyn was a city already 200 years old, with a population of 138,882. Cyrus P. Smith was Mayor, and except for an almshouse in Flatbush, there was no hospital in Brooklyn. One spring day, a gentleman from Buffalo broke a leg on Fulton Street, near City Hall. Mayor Smith, who witnessed the accident, realized that there was no place to take the stranger. So after having the man taken to a private house nearby and cared for at his expense, he began to talk to his friends of a new idea. Augustus Graham, Henry E. Pierrepont, A.A. Low, William Packer, and others shared the Mayor's vision and six years later, on May 8, 1845, The Brooklyn City Hospital was incorporated--the first voluntary hospital in Brooklyn.
Getting started was not easy. One account tells of a fundraising meeting at the Brooklyn Institute where $95 was collected. Nonetheless, the need for a hospital was so severe and the resolve of its founders so sure that, in 1846, Augustus Graham and other trustees purchased a two-story frame house on Hudson Avenue for $2,600, and on December 10, 1847, The Brooklyn City Hospital admitted its first patient.
By 1848, there was enough money contributed to purchase a plot of 74 lots, at $200 per lot, on DeKalb Avenue near old Fort Greene. On June 11, 1851, the cornerstone was laid by Mrs. Augustus Graham, whose husband--by then deceased--had contributed the total of $38,000 required to build the 160-bed hospital that has become The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Some 60 years later, in 1910, a group of immigrant Scotsmen led by Donald G. C. Sinclair, similarly motivated by the spirit of voluntarism and service to their community, resolved to construct a hospital, Caledonian Hospital, to provide basic health care in Flatbush and central Brooklyn, where none existed at the time. A wood-frame mansion at Parkside Avenue and St. Paul 's Place was converted to a 25-bed hospital and Caledonian opened its doors with a dedication to serve patients regardless of race or creed.
In 1982, The Brooklyn Hospital and Caledonian Hospital merged to become one hospital and in 1990 officially became The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
For 160 years, successive generations of Brooklyn leaders have acted to address the ever changing healthcare needs of the people of their borough. Through the decades, they have extended the frontiers of medicine, kept pace with advancing technologies, built and enhanced facilities, merged existing institutions to expand services, and developed new programs to serve their neighbors. The dream of Brooklyn 's first hospital has been fulfilled in the actions of countless individuals who have understood the importance of serving the people of Brooklyn.
Today's leaders are no less committed to the dream they have inherited. Their task is to plan for health care's future even as they stand at the brink of reform. Ahead are unprecedented challenges and uncertainties for the Hospital Center. Planning for the future will require a new vision, new resources and renewed courage to remain a leader.
The 160-year-old dream is alive and The Brooklyn Hospital Center's plan for the future will create new opportunities for protecting and improving the health of Brooklyn. Now is the time to continue to dream as well as to act; to believe as well as plan. It will require the involvement and support of all who believe in The Brooklyn Hospital Center and share dreams for its future.
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." ANATOLE FRANCE
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation Staff
Debbie Niederhoffer, VP & Chief Development Officer - 718.250.8599 or den9022@nyp.org[10]
Allison Hagemann, Development Manager - 718.250.6544 or aeh9010@nyp.org[11]
Donate Online
Click below to make a convenient online payment via Credit Card through our secure system.
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Donate by Phone or Email
Please contact any staff member above to help process your donation and answer any questions regarding other giving options.
Donate by Mail
Please make checks payable to:
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation, Inc. 121 DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11201
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. We welcome your support!
Please download an application[15] and our helpful tips[16] sheet. Once you have all the required documents (professional reference letter, titers/lab reports for MMR and Varicella, proof of at least 1 PPD test, originals of Social Security and 2 other IDs), please call 718.250.8393 for appointment.
We will do our best to find volunteer positions that match your preferences and skills.
Please DO NOT send anything via fax, mail or email.
Also, please note that our minimum commitment is 6 months.
Once again, thank you for the gift of your time and thank you for your patience as we enhance this important community program.
When you make a gift to The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation’s Annual Campaign, you join a select group of people who help save lives, heal and care for patients, comfort their families, teach good health, meet new challenges, and bring innovative healthcare to Brooklyn. All contributions to the Foundation support The Brooklyn Hospital Center and its mission. Every gift, no matter the size, helps TBHC deliver excellent healthcare to all, irrespective of their ability to pay.
Money from the Annual Campaign is used to support specific, important projects within The Brooklyn Hospital Center. For example, campaign funds helped us acquire a state-of-the-art Medical Simulation Center. Using computers and technologically advanced mannequins, the facility helps our residents and nurses-in-training to perfect a variety of diagnostic and clinical skills before performing them on real patients. In other years, funds from the Annual Campaigns paid for pediatric sleeper chairs and a wayfinding signage system enabling easy hospital navigation.
In 2011, the Foundation, using a portion of the 2010 Annual Campaign funds, initiated a grant-making program through which individual departments were able to apply for grants to fund equipment or a program that enabled them to improve patient care. A portion of the 2012 campaign funds will be directed to projects that employees themselves identify as being critical to best patient practices
Thank you so much -- because of your generosity the 2013 Founders Ball has sold out! To be placed on the waiting list contact Allison Hagemann. To show your support for this year's honorees, click "donate now" at right, so you can make your 100% tax deductible contribution.
Each June the Founders Ball brings The Brooklyn Hospital Family together to raise critically needed funds to advance the mission and vision of The Brooklyn Hospital Center and to recognize outstanding leaders both within our hospital and in our community. Last year’s celebration took place on June 6th, 2012, at Stage Six at Steiner Studios, raising a record breaking $908,000. Our thanks to all who supported this fantastic event!
We are excited to announce that the 28th Annual Founders Ball to benefit The Brooklyn Hospital Center will be held on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 on the floor of the Barclays Center! As the hometown hospital of the Barclays Center, The Brooklyn Hospital Center has the distinct honor of holding the very first fundraising event on the floor of the arena.
MaryAnne Gilmartin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Forest City Ratner Companies will receive the 2013 Founders Medal.
Benson Yeh, MD, FAAEM, VP Academic Affairs, CMIO, and DIO, The Brooklyn Hospital Center will receive the 2013 Walter E. Reed Medal.
Eric D. Moskow, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Data Driven Delivery Systems, L.L.C. will receive the 2013 Brooklyn Without Borders Medal.
Our distinguished Event Co-Chairs are, Brett Yormark, CEO of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center, and Robert B. Catell, Former Chairman, Keyspan & National Grid US and Chairman, Advanced Energy Center at SUNY Stony Brook.
Proceeds from the 2013 Founders Ball will be earmarked towards an initiative to renovate and modernize our Emergency Department, arguably, one of northern Brooklyn’s most urgent healthcare needs and a legacy gift to our local community.
We hope we can count on you to celebrate and support Brooklyn’s first voluntary hospital!
Click below for more information, or Click Here[19] to reserve online today!
15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY 11205 From Manhattan:
Via the Williamsburg Bridge (8 minutes from Bridge)
Cross the bridge on the outer roadway. Take the Broadway exit on your right. Bear right off of the exit and take Broadway Westbound (HSBC Bank will be on your right). Turn left onto Wythe Avenue. Turn right onto Clymer Street. Turn left onto Kent Avenue. Turn right onto Williamsburg Street West. Turn right onto Flushing Avenue and right at Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
Via the Manhattan Bridge (10 minutes from Bridge)
Cross bridge on upper or lower level. Pass Tillary Street and make a left onto Myrtle Avenue. Stay on Myrtle for about 1 mile. Turn left onto Washington Avenue. Go straight down Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
Via the Brooklyn Bridge (10 minutes from Bridge)
Cross the bridge and stay in the Left Lane. At the first light, turn left onto Tillary Street Remain on Tillary Street for five lights (Navy Street) (DO NOT merge left onto BQE ramp at Prince Street – 4th light) Tillary Street forks after Prince Street/BQE Ramp (stay in left lane) Tillary becomes Park Avenue at Navy Street Continue on Park Avenue for eight lights (Washington Avenue) Make left turn onto Washington Avenue and drive two blocks. Washington Avenue becomes Steiner Studios Entrance. From Queens/Long Island:
Via the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE/I-278 West)
Take Exit 31 (Wythe Avenue/Kent Avenue). Follow signs that say Brooklyn Navy Yard. Continue straight on this road, merging onto Williamsburg Street West. Turn right onto Flushing Avenue. Make a right onto Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios. From Staten Island:
Via the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE/I-278 East)
Take Exit 30 (Flushing Avenue) and make a left. Make a right on Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
$50,000 Silver Anniversary Underwriter One table of ten Premium seating, Cover Ad $25,000 Benefactor One table of ten Premium Seating, Gold Journal Ad $15,000 Leader One table of ten Preferred Seating, Silver Journal Ad $10,000 Patron One table of ten Full Page Journal Ad $6,000 Sponsor One table of ten Journal Listing
Tickets
$1,000 Supporter Preferred Seating for one, Journal Listing $ 500 Friend Seating for one
Contributions
We appreciate your generous support at any level. Click here[48] to download the order form.
Journal Advertisements
Click here[49] to learn more about journal advertisement opportunities.
Payment
To pay by check Please download an order form (see below) and submit with a check payable to The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation. Mail to: TBHF Silver Anniversary Founders Ball Benefit Office 355 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1001 New York, New York 10017 To pay online Click here to proceed to online payment[12].
Questions
Call Maria Vento at Lorelei Events at 212.838.2660, ext. 16 or email at foundersball@loreleievents.com[42] Donations for The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. (Federal Tax I.D. #11-2936410)
Please download an order form[53] and submit with a check payable to The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation. Mail to: TBHF 2009 Founders Ball Benefit Office 355 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1001 New York, NY 10017
15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY 11205
From Manhattan:
Via the Williamsburg Bridge (8 minutes from Bridge)
Cross the bridge on the outer roadway. Take the Broadway exit on your right. Bear right off of the exit and take Broadway Westbound (HSBC Bank will be on your right). Turn left onto Wythe Avenue. Turn right onto Clymer Street. Turn left onto Kent Avenue. Turn right onto Williamsburg Street West. Turn right onto Flushing Avenue and right at Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
Via the Manhattan Bridge (10 minutes from Bridge)
Cross bridge on upper or lower level. Pass Tillary Street and make a left onto Myrtle Avenue. Stay on Myrtle for about 1 mile. Turn left onto Washington Avenue. Go straight down Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
Via the Brooklyn Bridge (10 minutes from Bridge)
Cross the bridge and stay in the Left Lane. At the first light, turn left onto Tillary Street Remain on Tillary Street for five lights (Navy Street) (DO NOT merge left onto BQE ramp at Prince Street – 4th light) Tillary Street forks after Prince Street/BQE Ramp (stay in left lane) Tillary becomes Park Avenue at Navy Street Continue on Park Avenue for eight lights (Washington Avenue) Make left turn onto Washington Avenue and drive two blocks. Washington Avenue becomes Steiner Studios Entrance.
From Queens/ Long Island:
Via the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE/I-278 West)
Take Exit 31 (Wythe Avenue/Kent Avenue). Follow signs that say Brooklyn Navy Yard. Continue straight on this road, merging onto Williamsburg Street West. Turn right onto Flushing Avenue. Make a right onto Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
From Staten Island:
Via the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE/I-278 East)
Take Exit 30 (Flushing Avenue) and make a left. Make a right on Washington Avenue into Steiner Studios.
[57][57]Toys and games are crucial for helping children cope with medical procedures, physicians' office visits, and hospital stays. Play becomes a valuable and safe outlet for expressing feelings. Imagine being admitted to the hospital for one week out of every month. When children are diagnosed with cancer or a serious blood disorder it can be a full time job.
Sometimes these children require monthly, weekly or even daily visits to the hospital. These children endure frequent blood tests and invasive procedures. Each blood test or procedure is mitigated by a small prize. Most children who are crying from pain are able to smile when they are given a small toy.
The older children use videos, DVDs and computer games to distract themselves and pass the time.
Your gift to “Auntie Lu’s Toy Box” will keep a child occupied and happy during a turbulent time in his or her life. Toys must be brand new and should not be gift wrapped. Monetary donations also will help us purchase additional gifts for our very special children. With your financial help, we will be also able to supply a full scope of services to relieve families’ emotional and financial stress, from a simple cup of coffee, to lounge chairs, to family counseling and more.
The Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology eagerly accepts donations of new toys, games, and other items. Due to infection control standards, we cannot accept donations of used stuffed animals or used toys.
DONATION GUIDELINES
Thank you for your interest in the children at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. We hope the following guidelines help you to prepare for your donation or upcoming toy drive. When choosing items to donate, please remember we care for children of all ages – birth through 21 years old.
Toy distribution varies—Toys can either be distributed to the children on the day of the visit, used to restock the playroom, stored to be given out for birthday gifts or long hospital stays or rewards for bravery after difficult procedures. As a safety precaution, all toys must be inspected by the Child Life staff prior to being distributed. If you would like the toys to be given out by a Child Life staff member on the day of your donation, please bring approximately 7 toys for each age group listed below.
If you are interested in making a donation and want to donate something other than toys, here are a few ideas for alternative drives: Sticker/Kid Band-Aid Drive, DVD Drive, Arts & Crafts Drive, Personal Care Item Drive (deodorant, underwear, lotions, hair brushes, etc.)
Remember, all items must be NEW AND IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING.
Unfortunately we can not accept any of the following items: stuffed animals, food items, latex balloons, toy guns or items that promote violence, or religious items.
The Brooklyn Hospital Center's commitment to outstanding Graduate Medical Education spans more than 150 years. Dr. Walter E. Reed, who began his remarkable career in public health as a resident at Brooklyn Hospital in the late 19th century, exemplifies our tradition of medical excellence, which continues into the 21st century. Regardless of when you graduated, you may be proud of the contributions you made toward advancing Graduate Medical Education at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. Today our hospital sponsors more than 250 residents and fellows each year who train in a diverse range of medical specialties.
Your gift to our Graduate Medical Education Fund is tax deductible and will be earmarked specifically for Graduate Medical Education. Your generosity will help us to augment our excellent training programs and to renovate our resident facilities. This will make it possible for us to continue to attract the best and brightest doctors.
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation Staff
Debbie Niederhoffer, Chief Development Officer - 718.250.8599 or den9022@nyp.org[10]
Allison Hagemann, Development Manager - 718.250.6544 or aeh9010@nyp.org[11]
Donate Online
Click below to make a convenient online payment via Credit Card through our secure system.
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Donate by Phone or Email
Please contact any staff member above to help process your donation and answer any questions regarding other giving options.
Donate by Mail
Please make checks payable to:
The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation, Inc. 121 DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11201
2012 The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation Golf Classic and Dinner
Swinging in the Rain!
Tuesday October 2nd, 2012 at the Dyker Beach Golf Course
Our Gratitude
Thank you so much for participating in The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation’s Annual Golf Classic and Dinner; it was truly a day to remember.
While the weather proved to be challenging, we were overwhelmed by the wholehearted support and camaraderie of our hospital community. We at the Foundation are so lucky to have friends who play such an integral role in furthering the important mission of The Brooklyn Hospital Center. Together we netted over $30,000. Those proceeds will go to supporting TBHC’s mission.
Congratulations again to those of you who played well and left the course dripping with success!
Teeing Up For Next Year
Information on The Brooklyn Hospital Center Foundation’s 2013 Golf Classic and Dinner will be coming in the following months. Be sure to check back as we look forward to seeing many familiar faces next year along with a few new ones.
Photo Collage
Here are some photos of hardy souls enjoying themselves out on the links.
Allison Hagemann Development Manager Aeh9010@nyp.org[59] 718.250.8599
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Deborah Niederhoffer VP/Chief Development Officer Den9022@nyp.org[61] 718.250.8599
David Mullery Development Assistant Dvm9030@nyp.org[62] 718.250.6514
Owen Buckley Development Specialist Owb9002@nyp.org[63] 718.250.6596
