Corporate Structure
Big Picture Foundation Corporate Structure
We have a three-part mission: 1) Kids use the arts to affect positive change in their local, national or global communities, through outreach projects. 2) Kids build a global community of friends, by pitching themes to each other, by using the arts to interpret the themes, and finally, by posting the results of their projects online. 3) Kids learn about world cultures, by getting to know each other, thereby breaking down prejudice and promoting tolerance.
We host 3 annual Global Galleries, to show BPF children’s arts accomplishments.
EIN: 81-4795736
Incorporated January 9th, 2017
501(c)(3) appointed by IRS on June 26th, 2016
Big Picture Foundation
369 Round Hill Road
Greenwich, CT 06831
Tel: (914) 980-7670
URL: https://bigpicturefoundation.org
Administration
Kim Tamalonis – Founder and Executive Director
Sakhile Matlhare – Global Communications Director – located in Botswana
PhD from Northwestern University in the sociology of the work of African diasporic artists
Board of Trustees
Brit Foster Rothstein – President
Chase Kreuter – Secretary
Daniel Kennefick – Treasurer
Evan Weiss (CEO of Neomantra Capital)
Adam Levi – Rye Arts Center Senior Director
Most Frequently Contributing Global Teachers
Rami Khalef – Iraq – Harsham Camp
Tejas Mehta – India – Teach for India/Anjali Khalsa English School
Pragya Tank – India – Teach for India/Anjali Khalsa English School
Chuantong Ma – China
Shpend Bengu – Albania
Sherry Tamalonis – USA – Greenwich Academy
UNHRC and IRD team – Jordan – Za’atari Camp
Sahana Gero – England – World Heart Beat Music Academy
Essential Programming Supporters
Nancy Pasquale – She understands our program and sits on the Rye Board of Ed
Shaheen Mistry – CEO Teach for India
UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) at the Za’atari Refugee Camp
IRD – International Relief and Development Organization
Robert Martin – BPF Insurance broker and father of BPF student
Robyn Kaminer – General programming support
Daniel Dardashi – Matches nonprofits with corporate sponsors (we will meet for the first time, this month)
Nicole Levitsky – RyeTV Director – works with BPF kids on a tv show
Greenwich Apple Store – Senior Manager, Michael Farewell, coordinates free BPF programs at the store.
Hagar Hajjar – Former head of Syria and Lebanon for the National Security Council, Former Speaker of the Treasury, and President of Greenwich Media Strategies
Greenwich Media Strategies provides strategic communications in the fields of counter-illicit finance, national security, and business messaging.
Ann Nicol – Executive Director of United Nations Association of New York City
Sandra Jackson-Dumont – Education Director at the Metropolitan Museum (inaccessible, but helps from afar)
Amy O’Reilly Rizzi – Deputy Chief Development Officer for The Fund for the Met at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shabaan Family
Aldis Family – for physically helping on past initiatives
Rye Library
Rye Town Hall
Rye Arts Center
Rye Rec ( we have met, but not yet launched the partnership)
No longer in active partnership: Church World Service Refugee Resettlement Organization
Kids Leadership Group
Aidan A. – General Manager
Delucia L – Friend Link (linking refugee children with fluent English speaking kids for art and conversation)
Chloe C – Friend Link (linking kids who are new to the area with old timers, for art and conversation)
Alexandra K. – Friend Link (linking kids who aren’t integrated into teams with kids on teams for art and conversation)
Scarlett K (MS) – Friend Link (linking kids with special needs with BPF playgroups)
Alexandra L – Secretary and News (Noggins in the Newsroom Program)
Keira B – Shared Themes (kid created art themes that are shared by all BPF global groups)
Charlie L – Change Bakers (kids who throw dinner party fundraisers for a list of causes)
Trey G – Manages kids who knit and loom hats (Knit Wits Program)
William W – Playgroups (groups of kids who meet regularly to work on BPF art projects)
Barrett R – Grant Writing
Joey M – Photography, Promo Videos, and BPF Benefits
Lucca C – Advertising
Sophie M – BPF TV Anchor
Sasha S – Social Media
Catherine W – Works on projects to empower local and global girls. She also works on projects to encourage progressive thinking about gender equality, among all
Carina RM – Keeps a list of kids who speak more than one language, fluently, and who would be willing to partner with a new child to the district. These kids may also be asked (but not required) to translate at special events, if necessary.
Most active contributors, over the course of the last year…
Albania (30+ kids)
Brazil (1 student)
China (30+ kids)
England (performances, in which 100+ kids have been represented)
Egypt (2 kids – NCAIS might join us)
India (60+ kids)
Iraq (6 kids)
Italy (a school contributed a heart mural… # of kids unknown…. We have a new trustee, as of last weekend, who has already contacted two schools, there)
Jordan (20+ kids)
Peru (a student in the US is trying to involve her former Peruvian elementary school)
Spain (2 kids)
United States (around 800 kids participated over the last year)