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THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER
FOR THE AGING’S
44th ANNIVERSARY
GALA Overcoming
Food Insecurity
On November
16, 2015, The Carter Burden Center for the Aging hosted its
44th Anniversary
Gala, Overcoming
Food Insecurity. Jeffrey
A. Bersh, Co-Founder
and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Venor Capital Management,
received the 2015 Business Leadership Award, and
Filmmaker Lori
Silverbush and Tom
Colicchio, Chef
and Food Policy Advocate, received the 2015 Humanitarian
Award. The Gala Co-Chairs were Jon
Harris and Ted
Seides, and
the Vice Chairs were Susan
Burden and William
Goldman, Mr. and Mrs.
A.J.C. Smith, and Stacey
Gillis Weber and Jeffrey
A. Weber. The
event, which was held at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in
Manhattan, welcomed 300 guests and raised over $765,608 for
the nonprofit organization.
Jeffrey A.
Bersh is
a Co-Chief Investment Officer of Venor Capital Management,
sharing the responsibility of managing the Firm’s investment
program and risk management. He has over 20 years of
experience in principal investing and managing fixed income
trading businesses in both high yield and distressed
strategies.
Lori
Silverbush is
an independent director and screenwriter who uses fiction
and non-fiction film to ignite dialogue about critical
issues of our day. Silverbush’s film, A
Place at the Table,
which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, examines
the shocking paradox of hunger in the wealthiest nation on
earth. Since its release, A
Place at the Table has become the launchpad for a
national movement and media campaign called “Great Nations
Eat,” centered on ending hunger and reforming food policy in
the United States.
Tom
Colicchio was
awarded his first three stars from The New York Times as
executive chef of Mondrian. Since then he has seen similar
acclaim for Gramercy Tavern (with Danny Meyer), his
signature venture Craft (2002), and Colicchio & Sons (2010),
all in New York. Following Craft and its casual sibling,
Craftbar (2003), Colicchio opened Craftsteak at the MGM
Grand in Las Vegas (2002), Craft in Los Angeles (2007),
Colicchio & Sons and Riverpark in New York (2010) and
Heritage Steak at The Mirage in Las Vegas (2013). Since
2006, he has been the head judge in Bravo’s reality cooking
series, the Emmy-winning “Top Chef.” He is also hosting
Bravo’s “Best New Restaurant.” In an effort to broaden his
long-standing social and political activism, Tom co-founded
Food Policy Action in 2012 in collaboration with national
food policy leaders, in order to hold legislators
accountable on votes that have an effect on food and
farming.
Overcoming
Food Insecurity
The Carter
Burden Center for the Aging has seen firsthand the increased
number of seniors dealing with food insecurity. More and
more, seniors do not have enough money to buy groceries
after rent is paid and medications are purchased. Every
day, seniors at the Carter Burden Luncheon Club & Senior
Program on the Upper East Side, the Carter Burden/Leonard
Covello Senior Program and its satellite, Lehman Village
Senior Center, both in East Harlem, gather for hot meals and
socialization. Last year, Carter Burden Center staff and
volunteers served 264,446 restaurant quality meals,
including daily breakfast and lunch, as well as weekend
brunch and home delivered meals to seniors who are
homebound.
The Carter Burden Center for the Aging, Inc. is a non-profit
agency established in 1971 by the late Carter Burden when he
was a New York City Councilman. The mission is to promote
the well-being of seniors, 60 and older, through a continuum
of services, advocacy and volunteer programs oriented to
individual, family and community needs. The Carter Burden
Center is dedicated to supporting the efforts of older
people to live safely and with dignity. For more
information, please visit www.carterburdencenter.org
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