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The New York Center for Children
The Magic of Hope
Spring Celebration Benefit 2019
Honored
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.
The New York Center for Children (NYCC)
hosted its 24thAnnual Spring Celebration Benefit
at The Peninsula New York in New York City. NYCC celebrated
24 years of
helping the most vulnerable children achieve their full
potential. The annual benefit helps raise funds for the Center’s
work in healing, prevention and education. This year’s event
featured a “The Magic of Hope” theme, which reflects the
organization’s aim to bring about hope to victims of child abuse
and help these children achieve their dreams. Allof the
evening’s proceeds will benefit the center. The event raised
$200,000 toward the organization’s mission to support
victims of child abuse and their families.
NYCC honored Manhattan District Attorney,
Cyrus Vance, Jr. with
the Champions for Children - Innovation Award. The
benefit also featured live music by the Dennis Alan Jazz Trio,
and a silent auction which included exciting travel offers, fine
dining, tickets to cultural performances, fashion accessories
and more. Jeremiah Evarts, Director of the Di Donna
Galleries, was the Master of Ceremonies and Auctioneer for the
event.
Other notable attendees included:
John Allen, John Diebold, Martin S. Foont, Betsy
Hoover, Adam Kudelka, Isabel Marcal, Christine Rales, Christine
Crowther, Swati Sawjiany, Linda Schoenthaler, John Troisi, Jean
Shafiroff,
Leesa Rowland
and
Michele Herbert.
This year’s benefit committee included: Glenn
Askin (Event Chair), Linda Schoenthaler, Betsy Hoover, Isabel
Marçal, Meghan Pardi, Christine Rales, Barbara Rosen and Lauren
Vernon.
Founded in 1995, NYCC is the only independent
center in New York City to provide free, comprehensive
evaluation and therapy services to children who have experienced
physical and sexual abuse and their families, for as long as
their healing requires. NYCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that
relies on donations to ensure it is able to provide these
services.
To date, the center has helped more than 15,000
families receive care. The NYCC also provides groundbreaking
training programs on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of
child abuse, attended by medical students, doctors, nurses and
first responders worldwide. More than 20,000 professionals have
been trained through NYCC’s educational programs.
About Cyrus Vance, Jr.
Cyrus Vance, Jr. has been Manhattan District
Attorney since 2010. D.A. Vance’s achievements include takedowns
of major gun traffickers and international cybercrime
operations, as well as the first-ever convictions on New York
State terror charges. He has reduced unnecessary incarceration
and ended the prosecution of thousands of low-level, nonviolent
offenses annually, most recently ending the criminal prosecution
of marijuana possession and smoking, as well as subway
turnstile-jumping.
D.A. Vance established the Criminal Justice
Investment Initiative to invest ill-gotten gains seized in
prosecutions against major banks in large-scale efforts to
strengthen communities, prevent crime and accelerate justice
reform. Among other investments, he has allocated millions of
dollars to help end the national backlog of untested rape kits;
created Youth Opportunity Hubs offering services and safe spaces
in underserved Manhattan neighborhoods; reduced the number of
individuals with mental and behavioral health issues in the
criminal justice system; and enhanced security in New York City
Public Housing Authority developments.
D.A. Vance is the co-founder and co-chair of
Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, and co-founder of the Global
Cyber Alliance. He is a graduate of Yale University and
Georgetown University Law Center. |