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Citizens’ Committee for Children
of New York (CCC) hosted CCC Celebrates at the
Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from
6-9 pm. The elegant evening benefitted CCC, New
York City’s premier multi-issue, non-profit and non-partisan
child advocacy organization, founded 68 years ago by Eleanor
Roosevelt. Since that time, CCC has convened, informed and
mobilized New Yorkers to make our city a better place for
children. Through fact based research and citizen activism,
CCC’s mission is to support policy, legislation, and public
investments that ensure every child’s birthright to be
healthy, housed, educated and safe.
Festivities began at 6 pm with a VIP reception
and private viewing of the 2012 Museum of Modern Art
exhibition Cindy Sherman. From 7- 9 pm, 800
guests gathered for a cocktail reception, viewing of
Contemporary Galleries 1980 - Now and a silent
auction featuring works by Hans Hofmann, Man Ray, and
Jennifer Bartlett, this year’s Honorary Artist.
Joining
Honorary Art Chair Agnes Gund were Special Honorees
Clare and Vartan Gregorian,
and Jessica and Todd Aaron, Susan and Matt Blank, Sharon &
Jon Corzine, Joan Davidson and Neil Barsky, Diana and Fred
Elghanayan, Madeline and Tom Elghanayan, Nancy & Henry
Elghanayan, Ricki Tigert Helfer and Michael S. Helfer, Chris
and Morton Hyman, Katherine and Richard Kahan, Carol Lawson
and Daniel Arick, Lee and Fritz Link, Maryann and Robert
Marston, James Metzger, Cheryl and Michael Minikes,
Rae-Alexander-Minter, Morris Offit, Masha Pelosky, Ronald
Richter, Jane and Morley Safer, Linda and Richard Schaps,
Beth and Bob Sheehan, Stuart Shorenstein and Janice Weinman,
Stephen Stamas, Joan Steinberg, Lynn Tudor, Ann Unterberg,
Christine Wasserstein, Susan Wasserstein and George Sard.
CCC honored Clare and Vartan
Gregorian
at this year’s gala. The
Gregorians have been heavily involved, personally and
professionally, in the philanthropic and academic worlds
throughout their lives. Vartan Gregorian has served
in many influential roles during his distinguished career as
an educator, author and institutional leader. Now, as the
twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York,
founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, Vartan Gregorian has
ushered one of America’s most influential grant making
foundations to its 100th year of fulfilling its mission
“of promoting
the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and
understanding.” He has directed the organization's efforts
to develop new ideas to further peace and international
security, support higher education and libraries in Africa,
strengthen American democracy and pioneer U.S. educational
reforms, focusing on redesigning urban high schools and
improving teacher education. Prior to his current position,
which he assumed in June 1997, he served for nine years as
the sixteenth president of Brown University. Before going to
Brown, Gregorian served as the president of The New York
Public Library, a globally renowned institution with a
network of four research libraries and eighty-three
circulating libraries.
Clare Russell Gregorian ,
a graduate of Stanford University, where the Gregorians met,
has been active in adult literacy, health, and public
library improvement efforts in a number of different cities.
She
first served on a Planned
Parenthood Board in Austin, Texas, in the early 70’s. In
the 90’s she was chair of development and vice president of
the Board of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, and
received the organization’s Gilman Angier award. She
inaugurated the successful effort that established the first
Rhode Island Public Radio station, and was also
vice-president of the Board of the Providence Public
Library. She is a past President of Literacy Partners, Inc.
of New York City, and has served on the Board of Planned
Parenthood of New York City and the New York Public
Library’s Branch Library Council. She presently serves as a
member of the Boards of the Guttmacher Institute, the New
42nd Street, the Children of Armenia Fund, and the Visiting
Nurse Service of New York.
Leaders and influencers of the
following real estate, legal and financial firms, who are
major supporters of this event, also attended:
Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison, Citi, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Promontory
Financial Group, Rose Associates, Skadden, Arps, M&T Bank,
J.P. Morgan, Shearman & Sterling, Sullivan & Cromwell,
WilmerHale, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bernstein Global
Wealth Management, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Hughes Hubbard &
Reed and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
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