4.15.10: The Art of Giving | New York Social Diary

The Art of Giving

Neil Bush, Ashley Bush, Maggie Jones, Silda Wall Spitzer, and Sherrie and David Westin

This past Tuesday night at Christie’s, Silda Wall Spitzer hosted the annual benefit for her charity Children For Children, “The Art of Giving.”

Silda started this organization fourteen years ago to develop as a teaching tool. She had noticed with her own young daughters – she has three – that they responded positively to responsibility develop by helping others. It is teaching good citizenship. Assisting, Volunteering, Fund-raising. Children for Children’s projects and programs are finding their way into the schools.

Ann Tisch, Kathy Lacey, Silda Wall Spitzer, Sherrie Westin, and Kim Azzarelli

They honored Katie Couric. Committee Co-Chairs were Mrs. Spitzer, Kathy Lacey and James Hoge, Lucy Jane Lang, Megan Kulgen, Rebecca and Jim Neary and Lora and Daniel Rosenberg.

Among the guests at Tuesday night’s benefit: Alec Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, Neil Bush, Katie Couric, Kristen Dalton (Miss USA), Maurice DuBois.

Silda Wall Spitzer, Harriet Resnick, Michel Dekonkoly Thege, and Geoff Judge

Kimberly Williams, Lydia Fenet, and Ashley Safronoff

Sara Garlick, Lisa Greenblatt, and Elizabeth Sahlman

Sherrie Westin, Katie Couric, Alec Baldwin, and Silda Wall Spitzer

Thomas Cruz and Simon Robinson

Lisa Paulsen

John Hayes, Harry Davidson, and Roger Faxon

Holly Brubach, Silda Wall Spitzer, and Leora Rosenberg

Amy Bellamente and Bob Bellamente

Neil Bush and Katie Couric

Ellen Burstyn and Dana Buchman

Richard Beattie, Sherry Westin, and David Westin

Miss USA Kristen Dalton

Gillian Miniter and Silda Wall Spitzer

Kathy Salidas and Paige Moody

Sebastian Tondo and Kevin Bapp

This past Tuesday night art students joined the cocktail crowd at the New York Academy of Art's annual Tribeca Ball.

Sessilee Lopez

Parker Posey

Olivia Palermo

Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany

Alexandra and Theodora Richards

Beatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner

Gina Nanni and Glen O'Brien

Glenda Bailey

Alek Wek

Amy Sacco

Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict

Peter Makebish and Dustin Yellin

Will Blunt and Autumn Layne

Heather Mnuchin

Hilary Rhoda

Lucy Sykes Rellie and Euan Rellie

Mary Alice Stevenson

Nicole Miller and Kim Taipale

Rosson Crow

Rebecca Minkoff

Will Cotton

Sheila Berger

Publicolor, the not-for-profit organization that uses the power of color, collaboration and completion to mobilize New York City’s at-risk students hosted their annual Stir, Splatter + Roll benefit on Monday, April 5th at Martin Luther King High School in New York City. The students with Publicolor’s assistance transform their struggling public schools and neglected neighborhood facilities into vibrant learning and community centers with brightly colored paint.

This event is Publicolor’s annual fundraiser at which guests paint collaborative artworks under the direction of team leaders who are some of New York’s most distinguished designers, architects and artists. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Chuck Schumer, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Mark diSuvero, Fern Mallis, Jeffrey Banks, Nicole Miller and Publicolor President and Founder, Ruth Lande Shuman, were all in attendance.


Ray Kelly, Ruth Lande Shuman, and Mayor Bloomberg.

This year’s honorary team leaders included Michael Kors and Lance LePere, Christo, Mark DiSuvero, Philip Glass, Peter Halley, Harold Koda, Gene Kohn, Jenna Lyons, Meredith Monk, Bernard Tschumi and Lella + Massimo Vignelli.

This year’s team leaders included Nicole Miller, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Aferiat and Peter Stamberg, Jeffrey Banks, Bonnie Roche Bronfman, Will Cotton, Jamie Drake, Oliver Freundlich, Tom Krizmanic, Frank Lupo, Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers, Michele Oka-Doner, Edwin Schlossberg, Leni Schwendinger, Alex and Michael Shuman, Gael Towey and Stephen Doyle and Vadis Turner.

After painting, guests enjoyed a presentation and seated dinner honoring Benjamin Moore for generously providing Publicolor with every drop of paint as well as Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for consistently sending in the most volunteers each year.

To date, Publicolor has transformed more than 110 New York City public schools and 123 community sites, including clinics, shelters, and police precincts. Each year, Publicolor’s creative continuum of programs engage directly more than 1,400 students, and impacts well over 35,000 residents of low-income neighborhoods. Transformed schools have reported increased teacher attendance, lower rates of violence and graffiti, and a greater sense of pride and ownership among students.

Ruth Lande Shuman and Kate Levin

Brad Ford

Nicole Miller

Ruth Lande Shuman and Chuck Schumer

Ruth Lande Shuman and Scott Stringer

Deven Parekh, Ray Kelly, Ruth Lande Shuman, and Mayor Bloomberg

Fern Mallis painting

Jeffrey Banks

Mark DiSuvero painting

Senator Charles Schumer and Publicolor students

Mayor Bloomberg painting with Mark DiSuvero's crutch

Jeffrey Banks and Ruth Lande Shuman

Nicole Miller painting

Matthew Hydzik and Haley Carlucci

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Publicolor students

Publicolor students painting

This past Monday, The Actors Fund at a gala held at the Marriott Marquis Ballroom bestowing its highest honor, The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, on three campaign co-chairs in recognition of their commitment and leadership: Annette Bening, Jonathan Tisch and Kevin McCollum.

The three honorees led a campaign to raise $12.5 million to increase the reach of The Actors Fund’s human services programs in this time of increased and evolving needs. “This is a collaborative effort,” according to Actors Fund President Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Together, we can ensure that those who work in performing arts and entertainment can sustain their careers – and our culture – while caring for themselves and their families. In these times, they have never needed us more.”

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kevin McCollum, Abby Schroeder , Jonathan Tisch, and Michael Kerker

Jonathan Tisch, Lizzie Tisch, Lucy Liu, Paula Gallagher, and Peter Gallagher

In addition to the honorees, the Campaign boasts the commitment of a long list of arts leaders and performers who recognize the crucial need for expanded services for their colleagues and fellow workers.

They include past Medal of Honor recipients: Alec Baldwin, Rocco Landesman, James M. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane, and Bonnie Comley, and industry professionals: Stockard Channing, Marcia Gay Harden, Angela Lansbury, Bebe Neuwirth, Mike Nichols, Lynn Redgrave, Geoffrey Rush, Liz Smith, Jerry Stiller, Scott Rudin, and many more.

Paula Roman, Robin Cofer, Stewart Lane, Jeanne Shafiroff, and Bonnie Comley

Susanna Colmenar, Paola Roman, Robin Cofer, and Ester Montoro

The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps everyone – performers and those behind the scenes – who works in performing arts and entertainment, helping close to 11,000 people directly each year, and hundreds of thousands online. Serving professionals in film, theatre, television, music, opera, radio and dance, The Fund’s programs include social services and emergency assistance, health care and insurance, housing, and employment and training services. With offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Actors Fund has – for over 125 years – been a safety net for those in need, crisis or transition.

For more information on The Actors Fund, visit www.actorsfund.org.

Ana Kulinova

Phyllis Newman

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Bebe Neuwirth

Joe Benincasa, Abbey Schroeder, Stewart Lane, and Bonnie Comley

Jane Powell and Dickie Moore

Jonathan Tisch and Lizzie Tisch

Kevin McCollum and Lynette Perry

Arielle Pepper Madover and Ian Madover

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jane Krakowski, and Cheyenne Jackson

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jonathan Tisch, Anette Bening, and Kevin McCollum

Diane Passage

Christiane Noll

Tovah Feldshuh

Eddie Redmayne and John Logan

Sherie Rene Scott and Kurt Deutsch

Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley

Annette Bening and Warren Beatty

Ben Gazzara and Elke Krivat

On a Tuesday night a couple of weeks go (March 16), nearly 400 young real estate professionals gathered at the Grand Hyatt New York to raise more than $300,000 at UJA-Federation of New York’s Real Estate and Allied Trades Division’s Young Real Estate Executives (REX) honoring David Valger, Partner at RCG Longview.

Edmond Levy, Neil Miller, Bram Weber, Benjamin M. Zises, Mark Kaplan, and Marc Fells

REX Committee

Darrell Hammond, Saturday Night Live’s longest running cast member, best known on the show for impersonating former President Bill Clinton, treated guests to a comedic stand up act.

REX Steering Committee Chair is Bram Weber and Vice Chair is Justin Green. Event chairs were Alfonso Kimche and Shimon Shkury; Journal chair was Samuel A. Blank.

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The Young Real Estate Executives (REX) Division offers a wide range of opportunities to interact with leading real estate professionals. Through involvement with REX, professionals impact the real estate social landscape, help those in need, build strong relationships with colleagues in the field, develop leadership skills, and explore issues that delve beyond the New York real estate community.

For more information, visit www.ujafedny.org.