The Jewish Board’s 2017 Spring Gala Will
Honor Trustees Mark H. Rachesky, MD and Jodi J.
Schwartz, and Beacon Health Options
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
The Plaza Hotel
(770 Fifth Avenue)
NEW YORK, NY: At its annual spring
gala the Jewish
Board of Family and Children’s Services (The
Jewish Board), New
York City’s largest human services nonprofit, will honor trustees Mark
H. Rachesky, MD and Jodi J. Schwartz, and longtime
corporate partner Beacon
Health Options. The event, which will take place on Wednesday,
May 10, at The Plaza Hotel, is
expected to attract more than 400 guests. It is also
expected to raise roughly $1.5 million for the programs
of The Jewish Board, which serves
more than 43,000 New Yorkers of all faiths, ethnicities
and socioeconomic backgrounds each year
Said David
Rivel, Chief Executive Officer: “Our gratitude to
our honorees is boundless. The support and leadership of
trustees like Mark
Rachesky and Jodi Schwartz, and
the work of companies like Beacon Health Options, make
it possible for us to offer support and care to more
than 40,000 New Yorkers.”
Board president Alice
Tisch will
present the honorees with their awards.
Mark H. Rachesky, MD, will receive the Schiff
Community Impact Award. Dr. Rachesky is Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Lionsgate Entertainment, a
leading film and TV content creator; president of the
New York-based investment firm MHR Fund Management LLC;
and a board member of Loral Space & Communications,
Inc., and Telesat Canada, the fourth largest satellite
company in the world. He has been a Jewish Board trustee
for 15 years and is a dedicated member of the New York
Jewish community who also serves on the Board of
Directors of the Mount Sinai Children’s Center
Foundation and Columbia University Medical Center.
Jodi Schwartz will receive the Madeleine
Borg Lifetime Service Award. Ms. Schwartz, a partner
specializing in tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &
Katz, has been a Jewish Board trustee for 25 years. She
has served on a variety of committees and was
instrumental in the organization’s absorption of $75
million in programs from fellow social services agency
FEGS, which closed its doors in 2015. Ms.
Schwartz is also a board member of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Community
Project of Lower Manhattan, and serves on the Board of
Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
The Madeleine Borg Lifetime Service Award is
named for Madeleine Borg
(1878-1956), a lifelong
advocate for children and for greater access to mental
health services. From 1942 to 1952 Ms. Borg served as
President of what became The Jewish Board. She was an
early organizer and leader of the Jewish Federation and
the founder of America’s Big Sister movement.
The Schiff Community Impact Award is
named for philanthropist Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) and
his family in honor of their work with United Hebrew
Charities, an organization which later became part of
The Jewish Board. The award also honors the Schiffs for
their generosity in donating land in Westchester County
for a school for delinquent boys, something unheard of
at the time. Today the property is home to The Jewish
Board’s residential treatment center for young people
who are dealing with emotional and psychiatric
challenges.
Managed-care company Beacon
Health Options is
being honored for its longtime partnership with The
Jewish Board. The company facilitates The Jewish Board’s
delivery of behavioral health services to thousands of
Jewish Board clients and played a critical role in the
organization’s absorption of FEGS programs in 2015.
Jorge Petit, Beacon’s regional vice president for the
New York region, will accept the award on behalf of his
company.
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Gala Co-Chairs
The gala co-chairs are Fran and Jack
Levy, Lori and David Moore, Jill Rachesky, Steven F.
Richman, Jean and Martin Shafiroff, Jim Spink, Beacon
Health Options, Alice and Thomas Tisch, and Jean and Ray
Troubh.
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For more than 140 years, the Jewish
Board of Family and Children’s Services (The
Jewish Board) has been helping New Yorkers realize their
potential and live as independently as possible. We
promote resilience and recovery by addressing all
aspects of an individual’s life, including mental and
physical health, family, employment and education.
Across the five boroughs and in Westchester, we serve
more than 43,000 New Yorkers from all religious, ethnic
and socioeconomic backgrounds each year. For more
information, please visit www.jbfcs.org