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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER HOSTS ANNUAL
“FORGET-ME-NOT” GALA, AN EVENING TO END ALZHEIMER’S
David Hyde Pierce To Emcee Benefit
Dominic Chianese & EmblemHealth Honored
Actor
Victor Garber To Attend
WHAT: Members
of New York City’s philanthropic, business, health care and
Alzheimer’s communities will join forces at the annual “Forget-Me-Not”
Gala, An Evening to End Alzheimer’s hosted
by the Alzheimer’s
Association, New York City Chapter. The Chapter is
expected to raise $1.5 million at
this year’s event, which
will be emceed by David
Hyde Pierce, Tony Award winning
actor and
tireless advocate in the Alzheimer’s
community.
Actor Dominic
Chianese will
receive the Chapter’s Creative Leadership Award for his work
as the founder
of “Joy Through Art” foundation, an organization that brings
professional artists trained in music and theater to nursing
home residents. Chianese was previously honored in 2005 for
his riveting and realistic portrayal of dementia sufferer
Uncle Junior on the hit HBO series The
Sopranos.
EmblemHealth, a New York
City-based health insurer and wellness company, will receive
the Chapter’s Community Leadership Award for its innovation
to bring a new type of care – EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care
– to New York’s diverse communities. Located in Harlem,
Cambria Heights, Queens, and Chinatown, EmblemHealth
Neighborhood Care is an
inviting place where the community is welcomed to meet
face-to-face with EmblemHealth professionals to ask
questions, get reliable information and solve problems. Accepting
on behalf of EmblemHealth will beDan
Finke, President and Chief Operating Officer,
EmblemHealth.
The gala will be chaired by Jeff
Gitlin, U.S. Health Services Advisory Leader, PwC.
Also in attendance will be actor Victor
Garber, an ardent supporter of the Chapter who lost both
parents to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
The evening will offer a cocktail reception,
silent and live auctions, and dinner and dancing to Hank
Lane Music and Productions with Harris Lane, band leader.
The live auction will be led by Jamie
Niven, Chairman, the Americas, Sotheby’s.
WHEN:
Monday, June 2, 2014
· 6:00-
6:30 p.m. – VIP Reception (special ticket required)
· 6:30
p.m. – Cocktail reception; Silent auction begins
· 7:30
p.m. – Dinner & dancing to Hank Lane Music and Productions
with Harris Lane, band leader; Live auction
WHERE:
The Pierre: 2 East 61st Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan
TICKETS:
Numerous sponsorship opportunities are also available. To
purchase tickets, or for more information about advertising
opportunities and how to donate auction items, visit
www.alz.org/nyc
or contact Karen Holland at kholland@alznyc.org
or at 646-744-2926. Journal ad opportunities are
also available.
· Platinum
Sponsor $100,000 Title
Sponsor of Event; Inclusion on the Chapter’s Annual Donor
Recognition Wall;
Prominent Ad on BidTec handheld auction device (iPad), a
scrolling ad on top of home screen plus full screen pop-up
ad; Full-Page Color Ad in Event Journal on iPad (premier
location); Two (2) 10-person
tables in premier location
at Event; Inclusion in all Press Releases and Promotional
Materials; Name on screens around stage and signage at
Event; Verbal recognition at Event; Guests invited to attend
VIP reception; Name and Journal ad included on event
website; Name listed on printed gala invitation if received
by deadline of March 14, 2014)
· Gold
Sponsor $50,000 Full-Page
Color Ad in Event Journal on iPad (preferred location); One
(1) 10-person
table in premier location
at Event; Inclusion in all Press Releases and Promotional
Materials; Name on screens
around stage and signage at
Event; Verbal recognition at Event; Guests invited to attend
VIP reception; Name
and Journal ad included on
event website; Name listed on printed gala invitation (if
received by deadline of
March 14, 2014)
· Silver
Sponsor $30,000 Full-Page
Color Ad in Event Journal on iPad
(preferred location); One (1) 10-person
table in preferred location at event;
Name on screens around stage and
signage at Event; Guests invited to
attend VIP reception; Name and Journal ad
included on event website; Name listed on printed gala
invitation (if received by deadline March 14, 2014)
· Bronze
Sponsor $15,000 Full-Page
Color Ad in Event Journal on iPad; One (1) 10-person
table in prime
location at Event; Name on screens
around stage and signage at Event; Name listed on gala
website; Name listed on printed gala invitation (if received
by deadline of March 14, 2014)
· Crystal
Sponsor $12,500 Half-Page
Color Ad in Event Journal on iPad; One (1) 10-person
table at Event; Name on screens around
stage and signage at Event; Name listed on gala website;
Name listed on printed gala invitation (if received by
deadline of March 14, 2014)
· Individual
tickets
· $2,500 each,
which includes dinner, dancing and VIP Reception
· $1,250 each,
which includes dinner and dancing
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