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NO KID HUNGRY CELEBRATES
40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH BENEFIT FEATURING
DOZENS OF CULINARY STARS
The benefit dinner raised
nearly $1.1m for Share Our Strength’s
No Kid Hungry Campaign
New York City – More
than 340 guests
attended and raised nearly $1.1m at the No
Kid Hungry Benefit Dinner on
Tuesday, May 22, at The Glasshouse in
Manhattan. The event celebrated No Kid
Hungry’s 40th anniversary
with an intimate multi-course menu and
beverage pairing curated by renowned
culinary talent from across the nation.
The evening also featured a unique live
auction to raise funds for the
No Kid Hungry campaign, which works to
end child hunger and ensure every single
child in America has the food they need
to grow up healthy and strong.
Benefit co-chairs were Nancy
and Fred Poses, Noah Glass, Danny
Meyer, Rachael Ray, Maggie Grise and Adam
Silver.
Honorees include No Kid
Hungry Visionary Leaders Carrie and
Leigh Abramson and Renee and John
Grisham, No Kid Hungry Corporate
Leader Citi, and No Kid Hungry
Community Partner Hunger Solutions
New York.
Citi is also the
presenting sponsor of the No Kid Hungry
national
dinner series.
Chef Co-Chairs were
Amanda Cohen and Hillary Sterling. Other
participating Dinner chefs included Nasim
Alikhani, Kim Alter, Mary Attea, Samuel
Clonts, Jason Hammel, Robert Hartman,
Russell Jackson, Telly Justice, Neel
Kajale, Alex Raij & Eder Montero, Eric
See, Eli Sussman, Jon Sybert, and Cesar
Zapata. These sixteen chefs each
created a full three-course menu for two
to three tables at the dinner; Claudia
Fleming provided dessert for all guests,
and Grayson Schmitz lead the kitchen for
the cocktail reception.
The Wine Chair was Thomas
Pastuszak. Featured sommeliers were Jienna
Basaldu, Danielle Bergeron, Suzanne
DeStio, Catherine Fanelli, Kristen
Goceljak, Lauren Hoey, Cortney McKenzie,
Miles Meltz, Ivonne Moy, Ren Neuman,
Luis Rivera, Jeff Taylor, Hugo Wai, and Robin
Wright.
40th Anniversary
Host Committee includes Kathy
Behrens,
Neil Braun and Anne Flick, Howard Ellin,
Brandon Gardner, Philip and Vanina
Grovit, Tara Nicholson Olson, Sally
Genster Robling, Abraham and Talia
Shulman, Tony Spring, Chip Wade, Katie
Workman and Gary Freilich.
“What an incredible
evening of celebration for the
game-changing work of Share Our Strength
over the last four decades and our No
Kid Hungry campaign,” said Billy Shore,
Share Our Strength Founder and Executive
Chair. “We are honored that so many of
the country’s most renowned culinary
talents shared their gifts with us in
the name of ending child hunger. All of
us at Share Our Strength and the No Kid
Hungry campaign, and more importantly
the children and families we serve, are
grateful for the generosity of all who
have and continue to support us.”
About No Kid Hungry
No child should go hungry
in America. But millions of kids could
face hunger this year. No Kid Hungry is
working to end childhood hunger by
helping launch and improve programs that
give all kids the healthy food they need
to thrive. This is a problem we know how
to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign of
Share Our Strength, an organization
committed to ending hunger and poverty.
Join us at NoKidHungry.org.
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