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2015
ROSLYN S. JAFFE AWARD RECIPIENTS HONORED AT
LUNCHEON
AT CIPRIANI 42ND STREET
$150,000 In Grants awarded to
Everyday Heroes Who Help Empower Women and Children
On October
27, 2015, the Roslyn
S. Jaffe Awards, a not-for-profit program, honored
the Winners of $150,000 in grants recognizing individuals
who help empower women and children, at a luncheon held at
Cipriani 42nd Street. Recipients
of the 2015 Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards are Jessica
Sager & Janna Wagner, All Our Kin, Connecticut (Grand Prize
$100,000); Simone Bernstein, VolunTEEN Nation, St. Louis, MO
(Runner Up $25,000); Kelly Fair, Polished Pebbles Girls
Mentoring Program, Chicago, IL (Runner Up $25,000).
With over
650 guests, the event was emceed by Award
winning journalist Soledad O’Brien. Special
guests included Isabel
Toledo, Carmen
Marc Valvo, Heidi Weisel, Satu
Greenberg, Celeste
Greenberg, Roslyn
S. Jaffe, Director
Emeritus, Ascena Retail
Group, Inc., David
Jaffe,
CEO, Ascena Retail Group,
Inc., Elise
Jaffe, Senior VP Real Estate, dressbarn, & Executive
Sponsor, Ascena Cares.
This 2nd annual
awards program honors the lifelong contributions of Roslyn
S. Jaffe, who co-founded the first dressbarn store in
Connecticut in 1962, by giving grants to everyday heroes who
are making the world a better place for women and children
especially in the areas of health, education, social reform
and self-esteem.
Mrs. Jaffe
helped transform that one dressbarn store into what is now -
the Ascena Retail Group, Inc. – the third largest US-based
specialty retailer, and the largest focused exclusively on
serving the female consumer. With its recent acquisition of
ANN INC., Ascena Retail Group now has $7.4 billion in
annual sales across its family of leading brands, including
dressbarn, maurices, Justice, Lane Bryant, Catherines, Ann
Taylor, LOFT, and Lou & Grey.
For additional information
about the Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards, please visit
www.JaffeAwards.com.
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