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The dinner scene at 583 Park Avenue for generationOn’s Annual Benefit. |
| Last Thursday night (May 31st) at Gotham Hall, The Paley Center for Media honored Tom Freston at its annual benefit dinner. The evening included live musical performances from Lady Rizo and The Fela! Band. There were special video tributes from Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono among others; and in-person salutes by Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter, the Paley Center’s Pat Mitchell, Hearst Corp.’s Frank A. Bennack, Jr., and Vice Media’s Shane Smith. |
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| Pat Mitchell, Tom Freston, and Frank Bennack |
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| Gil, Bill, and Tom Freston, and Jane Buffett |
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| Eleo Hensleigh and Michael Corbett |
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| Jim Wiatt and Sarah Oliphant |
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| Susan Lyne |
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| Saad Mohseni, Cary Lowell, and Terry McDonell |
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| Lisa Wolff, Joe Ravitch, and Tamyka Smith |
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| John Sykes, Fab 5 Freddy Braithwaite, Judy McGrath, and Michael Corbett |
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| Brendan Scanlon, Alanna Rohan, and Jack Rowen |
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| Shayne Doty and Vishakha Desai |
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| Dexter Filkins, Carey Lowell, and Saad Mohseni |
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| Anne Lucey and Preston Farr |
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| Lady Rizo and Seth Herzog |
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| Tom Rogers, Gerry Byrne, Henry Schleiff, and Bobby Friedman |
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| Stacy McDonell |
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| Vanessa Luchen |
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| Lloyd Grove |
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| Richard Pacheco, Dave Beck, and Jay Grant |
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| Neil and Virginia Weiss |
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| Dan and Elissa Friedman |
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| Amanda "Binky" Urban and Ken Auletta |
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| Jonathan Teo, Liz Cebron, Chris Paik, and Josh Kushner |
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| Dave Morgan, John Walters, and Joel Topick |
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| Kathy Sloane and Ed Esposito |
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| Lema Syed, Andrew Kessler, and Fotini Christia |
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| Gil Freston, Kelley Roper, and Bill Freston |
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| Lady Rizo and Parker Posey |
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| Kit Laybourne, Geraldine Laybourne, and Herb Scannell |
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| Matt Blank, Parker Posey, and Rob Roth |
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| Susan Blond, Todd Lindenberg, and Bernadette Downing |
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| Ed Bleier, Ken Auletta, and John Huey |
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| Gerrie McManus, Gerard O'Connor |
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| Susan Blond, Tom Freston, Bill Freston, Leslie Leventman, and Diane Cassara |
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| Jonathan Brandstein, Laura Kate Brandstein, and Tom Freston |
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| Randy and Helena Hoffman |
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| Tom Freston and Karen Neuman |
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| Kristina Sorge |
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| Alicin Williamson and Larry Divney |
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| Jerry and Debra Shriver |
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| Ali Zalenko and Daniel Kile |
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| Matt Nye and Jann Wenner |
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| Kevin Ramsawack and Karen Neuman |
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| Lisa Wolf and Joe Ravitch |
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| Ken Auletta and Terry McDonell |
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| Cynthia MacDonald, and Bob and Eva Shaye |
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| Eric Sacks and Jess Drabkin |
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| Scott and Missy Schiller |
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| Andrew Fox, Caroline Hirsch, and Gerry Byrne |
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| Jane Buffett, Bill Freston, Graydon Carter, and Jann Wenner |
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| Erin Gromen, Joel Topcik, and Jennifer Juzaitis |
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| Doug Warner, Noah Magee, and Ron Simon |
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| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, and Janine Richardson |
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| Sam Pasternack and Corinne LaPook |
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| Judy McGrath and Eleo Hensleigh |
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| Rob Arango |
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| Carrie Oman |
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| Bomi Odufunade and Edward Nahem |
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| Jane Buffett and Anna Carter |
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| Mitch Scherzer, Andrea Mann, and Landon Burdess |
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| Diane Brady, Tad Martin, and Heidi Messer |
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| Amy Molen and Andrew Freston |
Farther uptown at 583 Park Avenue, same night, FEED Projects founder Lauren Bush Lauren and NPR CEO Gary Knell were honored for their roles in empowering children at generationOn’s Annual Benefit.
The soiree was hosted and co-chaired by longtime generationOn advocate Silda Wall Spitzer along with Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner and his wife Barbara, Kevin Arquit and Kathy Lacey, The Daily Show’s John Oliver, Avatar tough guy actor Stephen Lang, Eliot Spitzer, Sharon Bush, David Lauren, Jet Blue CEO Dave Barger and NYC Marathon winner Paul Tergat.
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Lauren Bush Lauren and Gary Knell |
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Maggie Jones, Silda Wall Spitzer, and Andrea Dubois |
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Others on the generationOn Board include James Collins, Steve Cranford, Karen Davis, Mike Goorhouse, Elizabeth Hurvitz, Geoffrey Judge, Daniel Rosenberg, John Santoleri, Alandra L. Washington and Judee Ann Williams. The evening raised more than $700,000 for generationOn’s service clubs, schools, youth organizations, campaigns and youth leadership initiatives.
The more than 300 guests attended. There was a heartfelt video of Neil Bush, father of Lauren Bush Lauren, honoring his daughter for her work founding The FEED Projects. The Hasbro Community Action Hero Awards were presented to six accomplished and deserving youngsters. These were followed by the presentation of the Inaugural Silda Wall Spitzer Children for Children Award to two college-aged achievers. The evening then took a humorous twist when the The Champion of Service and Education Award was presented to the former longtime head of Sesame Workshop Gary Knell. Knell tried to make his way to the podium when he was suddenly cut off by his own Muppet twin, who adamantly tried to prove his identity to the award’s presenter, NPR newswoman Jacki Lyden. |
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Sarabeth Spitzer, Silda Wall Spitzer, Jenna Spitzer, and Alyssa Spitzer |
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Lauren Bush Lauren and Paul Tergat |
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Kate Norley, John Oliver, and Concetta Bencivenga |
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Stephen Lang, Kevin Arquit, and Lucy Jane Lang |
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Lauren Bush Lauren, David Lauren, and Silda Wall Spitzer |
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Kienan Lacey, Kati Marton, and Kathy Lacey |
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Lauren Bush Lauren, David Lauren, and Sharon Bush |
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John Hays, Nuni Montaigne, Sonia Sackner-Bernstein |
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Dana Buchman |
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Kevin Arquit |
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Stephen Lang |
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William Lourcey and Lauren Bush Lauren |
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| Also last Thursday night at Sway Lounge on 305 Spring Street, Lindsey Spielfolgel, Liz Shafiroff and Dimitra Bennett hosted Social Tees Animal Rescue’s Annual Event “Party For the Pups.” The organization rescues dogs and cats that are about to be euthanized, and they are very devoted to their cause. They actually take the animals into their apartments and then find homes for them. Right now Liz Shafiroff, for example, has had a pitbull named Lucille in her apartment for several weeks. Lucille is looking for a home. Liz would keep her but she already has too many other pets. |
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Jean Shafiroff, Lindsey Spielfogel, Elizabeth Shafiroff, and Betsy Spielfogel |
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Katlean de Monchy, Robin Cofer, Jacques Azoulay, and Countess LuAnn de Lesseps |
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Cari Matz and Robin Cofer |
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Ramona Singer |
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Dawne Marie Grannum and John Weiss |
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Carrie Firestone and Rachael Grace |
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Alexandra, Tardio-Joseph,and Lindsey Spielfogel |
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Leesa Rowland, Robin Cofer, and Cassandra Seidenfeld |
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Nancy Silberkleit and Dr. Robert Grant |
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Rose Dios and Liz Derringer |
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Dominick D'Alleva and Robin Cofer |
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Sharon Bush and Unik Ernest |
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On May 8, 2012, North Star Fund brightened a moody spring Tuesday, by bringing together more than 500 people to Metropolitan Pavilion for the social justice foundation's annual Community Gala.
The event raised $550,000 to support North Star's grantmaking program which, each year, supports 100 grassroots activist organizations working in all five boroughs of New York City. |
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Andres Perez, Kendall Jackman, Ryan Gibbs, and Lynn Lewis from Picture the Homeless |
North Star's Executive Director, Hugh Hogan, started off the night by paying tribute to Toby D'Oench, the foundation's co-founder who passed away earlier this year. The evening was dedicated to Mr. D'Oench, who was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and a great-great-grandson of William Russell Grace, the founder of W.R. Grace & Co. and a mayor of New York City in the 19th century. In his reflections, Mr. Hogan said, "Toby's vision and commitment to North Star and the social justice movement more broadly, over many years, gave support to countless activists from Soweto to the South Bronx."
Accepting the North Star Award, given for individual commitment to social justice, were three honorees: Marjorie Fine, Director of the Linchpin Campaign; Benjamin Warnke, Founder and Principal of Alembic Community Development; and Kai Wright, Editorial Director of Colorlines.com.
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Benjamin Warnke, Hugh Hogan, Kai Wright, and Marjorie Fine |
Two grassroots groups, MinKwon Center for Community Action and Picture the Homeless, moved the crowd of seasoned philanthropists, fellow activists, labor leaders, journalists, and community development gurus when they each accepted the North Star Frederick Douglass Award for their work to create equality, economic justice and peace.
Award presenters included Gara LaMarche, Barbara Winslow, Elise Boddie, Mark Reed, Rinku Sen, Linda Oalican, and Kyung Yoon. |
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Rinku Sen, Luis Torres, Hugh Hogan, and Katrina vanden Heuvel |
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Timothy Shriver, Linda Potter, Benjamin Warnke, and Stephen Warnke |
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Vincent McGee, Abigail Disney, and Brian Howes |
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Anthony Simmons, Oona Chatterjee, Kevin Ryan, and Lori Bezahler |
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Jodi Lu Johnson, Dale Balasando, Karolina Zarychta, Cameron Honsa, and Asa Johnson |
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Lisa Schnall, Barbara Winslow, and Maggie Renzi |
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Chris McInerney and Marjorie Fine |
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June Makela, Michael Ratner, Anne Hess, and Marc Weiss |
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Cynthia Guyer and Marjorie Fine |
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