A YEAR OF

RESILIENCE

2023 Annual Report

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2023.

A Letter from our CEO and Board Chair

“The resilience of our patients, who find their way to us often despite all odds, motivates us to keep fighting to preserve and enhance our services and protect our freedoms.”

What we love most about our work at Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is that every day, we make our rights – our human rights to bodily autonomy – a reality. Our staff of nurses, clinicians, patient care associates, social workers, educators, patient care navigators, and outreach teams are the foot soldiers in our fight for reproductive freedom. Without the critical services they provide, reproductive freedom would only be hypothetical.

This year at PPGNY, our incredible staff around the state will provide services to almost 90,000 patients, and our work to end health inequities extends beyond our brick-and-mortar health centers. This past year, we laid the groundwork to launch our new Virtual Health Center – a safe space for patients to connect with our trusted health care providers without having to leave home. With this critical launch, PPGNY will connect with more than 2,500 patients in urban, suburban, and rural areas of New York State – offering everything from screenings for sexually transmitted infections to medication abortion. We are living up to our promise to meet people when and where they need us.

Yet every day, in the provision of health care and our broad range of educational and supportive services, our staff witness firsthand the shattered state of our health care system as it shows up in individual people’s lives – a system that forces people into difficult “choices” that should not exist in our democracy. We who cherish the ideals of freedom and equality, which are meant to be core tenets of democracy, cannot rest when people are “choosing” between seeking medical care or feeding their families.

When people are going without health care because they have been stigmatized and shamed for the sex they have, for their pregnancy outcomes, or for their family structures. And when people have to travel hundreds or even thousands of miles to seek medical refuge from abortion bans, gender-affirming care bans, and authoritarian laws so profound that any pregnancy loss is criminalized. These real experiences are individually horrifying and heart-wrenching, and together, they represent an unconscionable state of our society that is literally costing people their lives. We believe that every day our health centers are open and providing services means that we are pushing our nation in the direction of democracy.

The resilience of our patients, who find their way to us often despite all odds, motivates us to keep fighting to preserve and enhance our services and protect our freedoms, especially in the face of a new batch of bogus legal challenges to abortion care. Anti-abortion and anti-democracy actors think they can weaponize the courts to limit our rights against the will of the people. We cannot – and will not let them.

Around the country and here in New York, when people choose, vote, organize, and fight for health care access, they are securing their own rights and freedoms. We know we can count on you to stay in this fight. The months and years ahead are going to take all of us.

We are strong, we are here, and we are never backing down. 

Bill Borner Headshot

Bill Borner,
Board Chair

Wendy Stark,
President & CEO

PPGNY

At a Glance

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124,666 Patient Visits

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178,397 STI Tests

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14,097 Youth Reached through Workshops & Outreach

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13,990 In-Clinic Abortions

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4,473 Transgender Hormone Therapy Visits

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351 Vasectomy Visits

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8,203 Sliding Scale Visits

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632 Survivor Support Services Hotline Calls

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2,773 Virtual Visits

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578 People Reached through Professional Trainings

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16,477 Medication Abortions

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8,632 Breast Exams

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10,243 LARC Insertions

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716 Adults Reached through Adult Role Models Program

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9,757 Pap Tests

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28 Professional Development Trainings

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1,159 Instances of Emotional Support Counseling through Survivor Support Services

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900 Attendees of PPGNY's LGBTQ Sensitivity Professional Training

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580 People Served by Survivor Support Services

🩵 124,666 Patient Visits 🩵 178,397 STI Tests 🩵 14,097 Youth Reached through Workshops & Outreach 🩵 13,990 In-Clinic Abortions 🩵 4,473 Transgender Hormone Therapy Visits 🩵 351 Vasectomy Visits 🩵 8,203 Sliding Scale Visits 🩵 632 Survivor Support Services Hotline Calls 🩵 2,773 Virtual Visits 🩵 578 People Reached through Professional Trainings 🩵 16,477 Medication Abortions 🩵 8,632 Breast Exams 🩵 10,243 LARC Insertions 🩵 716 Adults Reached through Adult Role Models Program 🩵 9,757 Pap Tests 🩵 28 Professional Development Trainings 🩵 1,159 Instances of Emotional Support Counseling through Survivor Support Services 🩵 900 Attendees of PPGNY's LGBTQ Sensitivity Professional Training 🩵 580 People Served by Survivor Support Services

A YEAR OF

Streamlining the

Patient Experience 

We successfully transitioned to the new Epic electronic medical records (EMR) system and launched MyChart.

Epic enhances PPGNY’s ability to unify more than 300 health care providers, nurses, financial counselors, social workers, and other expert health care professionals into one centralized medical records and finance information system. Through the new EMR, PPGNY clinicians can easily access a patient’s medical history and needs, allowing the patient to seamlessly continue their health care journey at any PPGNY health center. The EMR upgrade also outfits patients with the tools they need to take better control of their health through the launch of Epic’s patient portal, MyChart, which has better streamlined the telehealth experience. 

The MyChart portal
has streamlined
patient care.

  • View upcoming appointments, medications, test results, bills, and more

  • Book or cancel appointments

  • Access a telehealth visit when and where it’s convenient

This year our centers provided:

124,666
Patient Visits

178,397
STI Tests

16,477
 Medication Abortions

13,990
In-Clinic Abortions

10,243
LARC Insertions

9,757
Pap Tests

8,632
Breast Exams

8,203
Sliding Scale Visits

4,473
Transgender Hormone Therapy Visits

2,773
Virtual Visits

351
 Vasectomy Visits

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A YEAR OF 

Community Outreach

and Engagement

In the spring and summer of 2023, PPGNY reached an audience of 10 million with our award-winning Abortion Access campaign.

This campaign, funded by a New York State grant, successfully expanded awareness of PPGNY’s abortion care services to communities across New York State and included:

  • billboards

  • salon posters

  • bus ads

  • digital ads

  • social media promotion

  • radio ads

PPGNY proudly named abortion throughout the campaign, assuring abortion access is available for anyone, no matter what, in our state, despite ongoing attacks against reproductive rights across the country in a post-Roe world.

Education & Training

Recognizing the multiple needs of our community partners, we prioritized initiatives aimed at ensuring inclusivity for the most marginalized, including youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/IDD), LGBTQ+ youth, and migrant families.

The Education and Training team secured renewed funding for Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP), receiving a total of 6 contracts across each of PPGNY’s three regions. We also secured renewed funding for the Office of Population Affairs Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Project STIQ, which has now been renamed Project STAR (Supporting Teens Access and Rights) and has expanded to four boroughs.

14,097
Youth Reached through Workshops and Outreach

8,609
Adults Reached through Workshops and Outreach

578
People Reached through Professional Trainings

28
Professional Development Trainings Hosted

Community Engagement

Amid nationwide anti-LGBT legislation and restrictive abortion laws, our community engagement programs aim to empower and enhance the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes of marginalized communities, including communities of color, LGBTQ+ people, and those impacted by violence.

This year, Community Engagement:

  • secured funding to deepen our work with New York Latinx communities

  • received EPIC training to greater support underserved populations in our state

  • launched critical partnerships with the New York Public Library and the Hempstead Adult Education Program

  • hosted the grand opening of the Learning Annex at our Corning Health Center

We continued to support the leadership of the Newburgh and Poughkeepsie Healthy Black and Latinx Coalitions (NHBLC and PHBLC) in the Mid-Hudson Valley, with 35-45 community partners in attendance monthly. Our outreach reached almost 10,000 individuals this year.

1,159
Instances of Emotional Support Counseling through Survivor Support Services

900
Attendees of PPGNY’s LGBTQ Sensitivity Professional Trainings

580
People Served by the Survivor Support Services Program

632
Survivor Support Services Hotline Calls

  • Promotora Tabling at Wakefield Library

  • Volunteers Assembling Care Kits for Patients

    Attendees at a Promotores de Salud Presentation

  • Promotores de Salud Presentation in the Bronx

  • Teens and Staff at PPGNY's Youth Retreat

  • PPGNY Youth Health Promoters

  • PPGNY Youth Health Promoters Tabling at Teens Take the Met

  • Survivor Support Services Team at a Tabling Event

People living with HIV and newly infected patients are now able to initiate antiretroviral therapy at PPGNY’s Bronx health center.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and Project Street Beat launched the Daphne Hazel Achievement Project, a new fully integrated HIV health care and prevention services program in the South Bronx. 

PPGNY’s Equity & Learning team emphasized education via an affiliate-wide equity training requirement for staff that included the launch of the DEI Collective, the Equity Fundamentals Training Series, and Affinity Caucuses.

  • 1,140 Staff Visits in DEI Collective Meetings

  • 527 Staff Visits in Affinity Caucuses

  • 329 Staff Visits in Equity Conversations with Dr. Lake, a bonus equity learning series

  • 309 Staff Members Completed the Equity Fundamentals Series

A YEAR OF 

Galvanizing Support

and Action

PPGNY organizers and activists led Gavels Off Our Bodies, a political education and mobilization initiative, in response to a meritless lawsuit out of Texas that threatened national access to medication abortion. We brought together leading lawyers, advocates, and scholars to educate our communities about these threats, collected stories from patients and activists, and galvanized over 500 supporters for action.

External Affairs department posing at the Gavels Off Our Bodies event.jpg

We celebrated

a WIN!

The Equal Rights Amendment was passed in the second consecutive session of the New York State legislature and laid the groundwork for continued organizing to ratify the ERA to go to voters on the ballot.

  • Staff and Volunteers at Harlem Pride

  • Volunteers Assembling Care Kits for Patients

    Volunteers Assembling Care Kits for Patients

  • Illumination on the New York County Supreme Courthouse

  • Voter Registration Tabling

  • Poughkeepsie Health Center Escorts

  • PPGNY Pride Flag

  • Abortion Ad on Mobile Truck at Gavels Off Our Bodies Event

  • Canvassers in Brooklyn, NY

  • Volunteers Assembling Care Kits for Patients

  • Staff Tabling at Ithaca, NY Reggae Fest

  • Canvassers in Poughkeepsie, NY

  • Staff and Volunteers at Harlem Pride

  • Canvassers in Saratoga, NY

  • Canvassers with PPGNY's Abortion is Health Care Post Cards

A YEAR OF 

Donor Support

  • Betty Kowaloff, Ruth Levin, Elizabeth Rosenman, and Peggy Danziger

  • PPGNY's Five Boro Bike Tour Team

  • Chrissy Teigan and Padma Lakshmi, Honorees at PPGNY's Spring Into Action Gala

  • Senator Chuck Schumer and Attorney General Leticia James at PPGNY's Spring Into Action Gala

  • PPGNY Staff and Attendees at the Hudson Valley Gala

  • Lexi Fried, Runner on PPGNY's NYC Marathon Team

  • PPGNY's Rhinebeck Fundraiser

  • PPGNY's Winter Party Committee

  • Nancy David and Shedric Cole at PPGNY's Spring Into Action Gala

  • Megan Smith, Runner on PPGNY’s 2023 NYC Half Marathon Team

    Megan Smith, Runner on PPGNY’s 2023 NYC Half Marathon Team

  • Guests at the September 2022 Rhinebeck Area Benefit

    Guests at the September 2022 Rhinebeck Area Benefit

  • The Vagina Monologues performance benefitting PPGNY in Rosendale, NY

    The Vagina Monologues performance benefitting PPGNY in Rosendale, NY

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is here for all New Yorkers and your support makes our work possible.

Our Financials

Where Our Operating Funds Come From

Patient Services: $33,295,977
Contributions: $25,073,588
Government Grants: $23,835,795
Other Revenue: $9,616,230

How Our Funds Were Spent

Program Services
Patient Services: $65,598,241
Education and Outreach: $12,260,719
Public Affairs and Advocacy: $4,206,919
Total Program Services: $82,065,879

Administration: $16,256,676
Development/Fundraising: $4,953,255

Our Leadership

  • Wendy Stark
    President & CEO

    Keith Corso
    Chief Development Officer

    Gillian Dean, MD, MPH
    Chief Medical Officer

    Dawn J. McClary, Esq.
    General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

    Dipal A. Shah
    Chief External Affairs Officer

    Natalie Callis, DNP, RN-BC, NEA-BC
    Chief Nursing Officer

  • William J. Borner
    Chair

    Aimee Furdyna
    Vice Chair

    Andrea J. Hagan
    Treasurer

    Norris Kirby
    Secretary

  • Members:

    David Ackman, M.D.
    Marla Carruthers
    Amy Carver
    Ana G. Cepin, M.D.
    Mireya C. D’Angelo
    Katie Danziger
    Jan R. Figueira
    Caitlin Fiss, M.D.
    Dylan Glendinning
    Michelle Knudsen
    Scott Lenowitz
    Ruth Levin
    Millicent K. Ruffin, Ph.D.
    Moitri C. Savard, M.D.
    Karen Seltzer
    Robin Sigman
    Sally Strauss, Esq.
    Tom Uhlman
    Sarah Wolfolds

    Emeritus:

    Cathy A. Cramer
    Peggy Danziger
    Wendy MacKenzie
    Diane L. Max
    Laura A. Philips, Ph.D.
    Elizabeth F. Rosenman
    Patricia J. Volland

    Honorary:

    Andrew L. Herz
    Betty Kowaloff
    John N. Mayberry