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President’s Letter 1 Who We Are 2Transforming Lives: The Bowery Mission 4Changing Life Direction: Kids With A Promise 10 Special Events 2009 14 2010 and BeyondOur Purpose 16Our Goals 19Our Partnership 20 Financial Summary 23Our Board of Directors 24Our Senior Management 25

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PRESIDENT’S LETTERin 2009, The Bowery Mission And Kids wiTh A ProMise experienced the gracious hand of God protecting our work – leading us to take substantial costs out in the fall of 2008, but also to add core services and fundraising capabilities at the same time. The result was a 2009 in which we were able to relieve suffering for thousands more new yorkers caught in a disastrous economy, raise as many resources as in 2008 and finish the year positioned to play an increasing role in helping the least fortunate of new york. The Bowery Mission expanded its residential recovery programs by 15% in 2009 to help more of the home-less; reinforced meal services to meet an 11% jump in demand; and best of all, graduated 150 formerly homeless men and women to transformed lives of spiritual growth, sobriety, employ-ment and independent living. Through summer camping, mentoring and a new scholarship program, Kids with A Promise influenced the life direc-tion of a thousand children and youth, and created a new adventure-based program for developing leaders. The Bowery Mission also launched a new collaboration of faith-based providers in new york City: the rescue Alliance of nyC. in January 2009, its first project – the Don’t Walk By campaign – united seven partners, scores of churches and over 1,300 volunteers to canvass every street in Manhattan, reaching more than

1,200 homeless individuals with care. And Kids with A Promise prepared to move its children’s services toward an integrated model of year-round services to the same children with measurable outcomes. The aftershocks of the financial crisis remain with us, and new threats to the homeless and at-risk children loom on the horizon. homelessness in new york City is at levels unseen since 2001, and every day more children and their families slip into crippling poverty. Together, i believe we can transform lives – because every child deserves a chance, and every man or woman a second chance. we will need your help if we are to reach our goals and transform lives. This Annual report is more than a record of accomplishments – it is a call to action. your partnership with us can and will make a difference. i invite you to be a part of our vision.

sincerely,

edward MorganPresident & Ceo

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The Bowery Mission and Kids With A Promise is an impactful, results-oriented organization with one of the most respected and widely renowned compas-sionate care programs in New York City, three resi-dential recovery programs annually graduating 150 formerly homeless men and women, and two youth development programs serving nearly 1,000 children.

The Bowery Mission and Kids With A Promise comprise Christian Herald Association, a $10.8M faith-based charity that has served men, women and children across New York City for 130 years.

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The Bowery Mission is most known for its compassionate care services, but that is not all we do to help homeless men and women. hot meals, safe shelter, medical care, even haircuts are acts of compassion that invite homeless men and women to be restored to sobriety, employment and housing in our residential recovery programs: The Bowery Mission Discipleship Institute, The Bowery Mission Women’s Center at heartsease home, and The Bowery Mission Transitional Center. our residential recovery programs incorporate addiction and personal counseling, as well as education and vocational training within a faith-based context. each site offers long-term, practical solutions to chronic homelessness through life and employ-ment skills training, continuing education opportunities, single and group counseling, legal aid, job-readiness training and housing placement. in 2009, we increased our number of graduates by 10% over the previous year: 150 men and women with a transformed life. each one is now connected to God and family, committed to sobriety, employed, living independently, and implementing a plan for the future.

Compassionate Care The Bowery Mission staff worked alongside thousands of volunteers and received $2.9M in food, clothing and other items donated by nyC businesses, religious com-munities and churches from new york, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and ohio. This overflow of generosity helped us serve 840 hot, nutritious meals every day, give away 46,900 articles of clothing, host 73,700 nights of shelter, and provide 574 patient visits and 85 new pairs of eyeglasses through Bowery Medical services.

The Bowery Mission Discipleship Institute restoring broken men to a transformed life, the discipleship institute expanded bed capacity by a third to help more homeless men recover, resulting in 84 graduates. The Bowery Mission Transitional Center Operated in partnership with, and fully funded by, the City of New York since 1994, the Transitional Center has been among the city’s highest-ranked substance abuse recovery programs for nine years, and graduated 56 men to a stable, recovered life.

The Bowery Mission Women’s Center at Heartsease Home Entering its fifth year of service, the Women’s Center at Heartsease Home expanded bed capacity to accommodate twenty women at a time, and created a cooperative referral system with walter hoving home to better serve homeless women, resulting in 10 graduates.

THE BOWERy MISSIONtransforming lives:

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FebRuARy 2010 was a big deal for me, when I was asked to be supervisor of transportation at the bowery Mission. It was very emotional. I was being trusted. And to think, that only 14 months ago I was driving for the devil – but now I’m driving for the lord. December 2008 was a different time, and I was different. I had just come up from South Caroli-na, where I used to drive for drug dealers, delivering drugs to sup-port my cocaine habit. I almost got caught by the police and so I came to the bronx but ended up homeless. I rode the 6 train up and down for a week, and stayed away from the shelters. I didn’t have anybody here to help me and felt so isolated. on the streets, you don’t know who to trust, and all the time you’re afraid of being

assaulted or robbed. then I slept a couple of nights in the bowery Mission Chapel, and here I saw how different people were – they didn’t talk down to me, but spoke respectfully and really cared for me. that encouraged me to get into the Discipleship Institute. In the Institute’s classes and with the counselors, I learned how to deal with my addiction and pain-ful past. My relationship with God grew. through the Career Center I earned my commercial driver’s license. I started driving for the Mission – me, a man who used to deliver drugs is now delivering food and hope. I’ve driven over 3,000 miles already for the bowery Mission. From now on, I just want to help others, and pass on the op-portunity that was given to me. I’m Wilmon, and my life was trans-formed at the bowery Mission.

ROSIEDuRInG one oF My visits home, I looked at my 11-year old daughter and said “Honey, again I know I said it a thousand times, but I’m sorry.” She immediately said “Mom! Stop that, stop that! It’s behind us, its over. It’s ok.” To hear her say that just affirmed how restored I truly am. A series of storms pushed me to the edge: my husband’s depor-tation, the loss of my marriage… I was depressed and began using harder drugs to cope. I was like that for seven years. It seemed like only drugs could numb the pain, the helplessness, the loneli-ness. Fear repressed me, kept me from having a relationship with the God I loved. I felt like He could never love me, could never forgive me. eventually, every-thing fell apart – I lost custody of my children and my home. At the bowery Mission Wom-en’s Center, I found a mercy and a forgiveness in God I never knew existed, and regained a strong

relationship with Him. I found common ground with the other women in the home who had similar struggles. My counselors helped instill a discipline and structure I desperately needed in my life. they inspired me with their own stories of overcoming adversity. one on one counseling and classes helped me change my way of thinking, equipping me to overcome my past. I used to think my life was wasted away in all those years of drugs and depression. but now, I’m looking forward to all the years I have to serve God. I have a more intimate, tighter relation-ship with my kids now than I ever had before, and we plan to be reunited. I’m going to pursue my bachelor’s degree and I want to start a family business with my children. I’m committed to giving my children the same uncondi-tional love God gave me. I’m Rosie and my life was trans-formed at the bowery Mission.

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A weAK suPPorT sysTeM, an inadequate education and other disadvan-tages in childhood can often lead to homelessness. With a better first chance, homeless men and women may not have needed a second chance. Kids With A Promise exists to provide that better first chance by empowering at-risk children and youth with the community of support, educational opportu-nity, and spiritual foundation they need to achieve a promising future. in its 115th year Kids with A Promise worked with nearly 1,000 underprivileged children and youth in our two youth development programs – Mont Lawn Camp and Leader-ship Academy. Kids with A Promise is developing programming to shift its resources from church-based After school Programs to providing students with scholarships, men-toring and the comprehensive support they need to succeed. This renewed focus on educational achievement and year-round involvement will deepen our year-round commitment to the most at-risk children, and ensure the 1,000 children and youth with whom we work have a plan for the future, are committed to graduating, and are connected to Christ, a caring adult and a positive peer group.

Kids With A Promise Mont Lawn Camp Changing the life direction of at-risk youth since 1894, Mont Lawn Camp hosted 792 children for a week at summer camp, teaching them valuable lessons that connected them to their Creator and strengthened their faith and character. At our new Leadership Hill, 78 teenagers camped out under the stars, exercised leadership and self-discipline, hiked the Poconos’ peaks and canoed down the delaware river.

Kids With A Promise Leadership Academy instilling leadership qualities in teenage graduates of Mont Lawn Camp, the Leadership Academy connected 76 teenagers with 25 volunteers in group mentorship. in 2009, we gave 15 Promising Leader Awards to participants who demonstrated commitment to our core values through their volunteering, char-acter and achievements.

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GRoWInG up In SoMe parts of new york City can be tough. our neighborhoods and schools are not as bad as some think, but we do worry about our safety sometimes. We’ve all seen drug dealers selling on our corners, and smelled pot in our buildings. Gang members walk our halls and graffiti our schools. It’s hard to have to watch your back in your own school, your own neighborhood. It can really be a lot to deal with. Mont lawn Camp is really great because it took us away from all that for a while. It was good to be able to go outside for once without being wary, to just be free to have fun. learning about God in a way that made sense helped us connect to Him. Having a real relationship with God has strengthened us when home and school got tough. Mont lawn Camp and leadership Acad-emy also introduced us to good kids who are a positive influence

on us, and we’ve made friendships that are bound to last. our mentors are great too – they’re understand-ing, easy to talk to and give helpful advice. the Kids With A promise staff taught us to stay focused on our education, and to be leaders at school and in our neighborhoods. It’s like Kids With A promise as a whole is saying to us “you can live your own life above and apart from all the violence, drugs and other stuff around you. And here are some people to back you up and be there for you.” We don’t know any other program like it. because of Kids With A promise, we don’t feel disadvantaged. today we’re ready to graduate, to further our education and go on to do great things – like being a surgeon, an eMt, and a journalist. We’re tatiana, elijah and laura and we found the direction of our lives changed at Kids With A promise.

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SPECIAL EvENTS 2009

Celebration of Hope AuctionOur fifth annual silent and live auction this fall raised $100,000 to benefit The Bowery Mission Women’s Center at heartsease home. Cat Greenleaf of nBC news emceed the event for our 200 guests, who also enjoyed fine food pro-vided by legendary Chef Larry Forgione.

valentine galaThe Bowery Mission’s 10th Annual Valentine Gala honored John Catsi-matidis, Founder & Ceo of The red Apple Group, and Margo Catsimatidis, President of MCV Advertising. A crowd of 350 filled the iconic Rainbow room, danced and dined the night away, and raised nearly $600,000.

Broadway at The BoathouseA brand new benefit dinner at The Loeb Central Park Boathouse raised $100,000 for Mont Lawn Camp. our 180 guests were entertained by Broadway cast members from illustrious shows such as wicked and Les Miserables.

july fourth yacht PartyAboard the Valiant yacht, 80 guests

celebrated independence day with live entertainment, delicious food and front row seats to fantastic fireworks on the hudson river. These generous supporters also celebrated Mont Lawn Camp’s 115th anniversary, raising $60,000.

Bowery Mission Chapel 100th Anniversary CelebrationTo celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bowery Mission Chapel, we hosted a 5-night Anniversary Arts series, featuring local photographers, musi-cians, poets, historians and filmmakers to honor our Bowery community and history. Festivities concluded novem-ber 6th with a public ceremony hosted by Paula Zahn and attended by NYC’s government and business leaders

ThanksgivingThe Bowery Mission joined forces with Mercy Chefs and 720 volunteers to serve a record 3,481 meals on Thanksgiving. This was also the first year The Bowery Mission served in all 5 boroughs through our Thanksgiving outreach dinners.

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As we LooK To 2010 And Beyond, The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise continues to minister to men, women and children in new york City caught in cycles of poverty, hopelessness and dependencies of many kinds, seeing their lives transformed to hope, joy, lasting productivity and eternal life through the power of Jesus Christ. Thousands of new yorkers are trapped in a vicious cycle of low educational at-tainment, substance abuse dependency, broken support systems and deep, spiritual despair. They have the capacity for growth, change, productivity and spiritual wholeness, but the cycle of poverty is hard to escape. The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise offer the space and opportunity for God to restore and empower men, women and children. God brings restora-tion and vitality to troubled hearts and minds, changing the very course of our lives. we work with God in the midst of transformation, empowering the individu-al with practical solutions, such as education, vocational opportunity and mentor-ing to ensure self-sufficiency, strength of character and stability. Broken men and women are restored when we accomplish these things, and the next generation of children grows in character and competence. depen-dency turns into freedom, disconnected families rejoin, the fruit of labors are enjoyed, home is a safe and good place, and productive, prosperous futures are assured. This is the vision we have for every man, woman and child we help through The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise.

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We will be working on ways to expand the number of beds in The Bowery Mission’s residential recovery programs to see more transformed lives.

We will offer further compassionate alternatives to the large number of guests we serve daily at The Bowery Mission who are not physically or mentally able to enter residential recovery.

We will move our children’s ministries toward a model which works with children year-round to measurably change their life direction.

We will expand our partnership with other like-minded homeless service providers, through the initiative we founded – the Rescue Alliance of NYC.

in 2010, our ministry will be moving forward strongly on four fronts:

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we AsK For your partnership to help us see our vision become reality and our goals accomplished. your investment in The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise will reap the return of transformed lives. To involve, inform, and honor our investors, we have established the new york hope Partners, red door Giving society, women of impact and Bowery Mission young Philanthropists.

New york Hope PartnersThe Bowery Mission is almost entirely funded by private donations, grants, and a special group of friends called new york hope Partners who give regular, monthly gifts to The Bowery Mission. new york hope Partners help us save time and money on mailings, so that more resources go directly to homeless men and women, and at-risk children and youth. hope Partners enjoy invitations to local events, a ViP tour of The Bowery Mission, and an annual invitation to the President’s Breakfast. The Red Door giving SocietyRed Door Giving Society honors an influential league of donors who have made an annual contribution of $1,000 or more, as well as lifetime donors of 200 gifts or $250,000 cumulatively. Giving society members have the opportunity to network with other highly-committed donors and hear firsthand from men, women and children whose lives have been transformed and affected by The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise.

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Women of ImpactIn 2004 a group of hopeful, energetic and influential women helped renovate an upper east side townhouse and raise the funds to begin the only faith-based women’s residential recovery center in Manhattan: The Bowery Mission Women’s Center at Heartsease Home. Today that group of women has blossomed into the women of impact, a group of powerful women who each year seek to see the Women’s Center fully funded and thriving. women of impact advocate for the Center, recruit others, volunteer their time and expertise, and pray with and for the women. They form an integral part of the annual auction, graduation ceremonies, Christmas parties and other events to benefit the Women’s Center and the women it serves.

young Philanthropistsonly in its second year, the 200-person strong young Philanthropists has hosted four events to raise nearly $10,000 for The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise and volunteered on two service-learning projects. The young Philanthropists draw from civic-minded 20 to 30-something leaders in a variety of fields who want to use their time, talent, resources and connections to transform lives. Their mission is to raise a new generation of leaders committed to the work of The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise.

with the gracious hand of God protecting our work, 2009 was a successful year for The Bowery Mission and Kids with A Promise. we saw 150 lives trans-formed from hopelessness to hope, and 1,000 children and youth with a changed life direction. our partnership can do so much more for thousands of suffering new yorkers in 2010 and beyond. we hope you will join us.

CHRISTIAN HERALD ASSOCIATION, INC.

Support & Revenue (In the thousands) fy 2009 fy 2008 Individual Contributions2 $10,555 60% $4,561 40%Foundations & Corporations $1,084 6% $885 8%Government Contracts & Grants $1,579 9% $1,535 13%Gifts in Kind $2,904 17% $2,338 20%Special Events $692 4% $1,096 10%Investments & Trusts $329 2% $438 4%Program Fees3 $285 2% $402 4%Volunteer Services $85 0% $71 1%Other $27 0% $86 1%

Total Support & Revenue $17,540 100% $11,412 100% Expenses (In the thousands) fy 2009 fy 2008 Program Services The Bowery Mission Programs4 $6,313 58% $5,972 54% Kids With A Promise Programs5 $1,591 15% $1,859 17%Total Program Services $7,904 73% $7,831 71% Development & Public Awareness $1,784 16% $1,767 16%Management & General $1,159 11% $1,453 13%

Total Expenses $10,847 100% $11,051 100%

1 Consolidated summary for Christian Herald Association (The Bowery Mission & Kids With A Promise), Heartsease Home, and Christian Herald Housing Development Fund Corporation (operating The Bowery Mission Transitional Center). This includes all operating activities and excludes non-operating impacts (i.e., return on investments and depreciation expense). 2 Includes a significant unrestricted legacy gift of $6,536,000. A joint task force of Directors and Management has been formed to recommend to the Board of Directors how these funds should be used, both wisely and for the benefit of the individuals Christian Herald serves for years to come. 3 Includes fees for outside groups using Mont Lawn Camp and Retreat Center and nominal fees for Kids With A Promise programs. 4 Includes The Bowery Mission, The Bowery Mission Women’s Center, The Bowery Mission Transitional Center and Gift-in-Kind Operations. 5 Includes Kids With A Promise in-city programs and Mont Lawn Camp and Retreat Center.

60% individualcontributions

17% gifts in kind

9% government contracts & grants

6% foundations & corporations

2% program fees 2% investments & trusts

4% special events

58% BoweryMission programs

15% Kids With A Promise programs

16% development & public awareness

11% management& general

fINANCIAL SuMMARy & RATIOS1

Jan Nagel, ChairmanPartnerKPMG-LLPNew York, NY

Nicholas J. DeMarcoCEOActive BrandsNew York, NY

Dudley G. DieboldInvestorRoxbury, CT

Henry HigdonManaging PartnerHigdon Partners LLCNew York, NY

Victor J. HuebnerManaging Director, RetiredTD SecuritiesDobbs Ferry, NY

Stacy HockVolunteerNew York, NY

Douglas JohnFounder and PresidentConnecticut Marketing AssociatesWilton, CT

Donald KolowskyDivision President, RetiredPfizer Inc.Niantic, CT

Pamela LeggettVolunteerUpper Montclair, NJ

Bruce MaasbachManaging DirectorLuxury MortgageNew York, NY

Edward H. MorganPresident and CEOChristian Herald AssociationNew York, NY

Daniel NessAdministrator, RetiredLancaster, PA

Miguel SanchezAssociate ProfessorNyack CollegeNyack, NY

Beverly Ann SloanBusiness RepresentativeActor’s Equity AssociationNew York, NY

Charles W. VethFounder and PresidentCVM, Inc.Madison, CT

Thomas R. VogeleyInvestorDoylestown, PA

Vaughn WeimerManaging DirectorOaktree Asset Management, LLCNew York, NY

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President & CEOEdward Morgan

Vice President of OperationsBrian Johansson

Chief Financial OfficerRobert Depue

Director of DevelopmentJames Winans

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Administrative Headquarters132 Madison AvenueNew York, NY 100161-800-BOWERY-1www.bowery.orginfo@bowery.org

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