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New
York, NY
— On May 19th,
2010,
the 15th
Anniversary
of
Gilda's Club
New York
City, over
240 notables
gathered at
The
Plaza Hotel
for
Gilda's
Club’s 3rd
Annual
Benefit
Luncheon
Celebrating
Women
Working &
Living with Cancer. This successful event raised 32% more this year,
its third
year, which
will help
Gilda's Club
NYC keep
Gilda's
legacy alive
by
continuing
its mission
to provide
social and
emotional
support for
people with
cancer,
their
families and
friends in
the New York
City area.
Gilda's Club
NYC
presented
awards to
two
outstanding
individuals
who embody
the Gilda's
Club
spirit.
Johnson &
Johnson’s
Sheri S.
McCoy,
Worldwide
Chairman,
Pharmaceuticals
Group,
and
writer and
performer
of
I Got Sick Then I Got Better Jenny Allen received the
“It’s
Always
Something
Award”,
named after
Gilda
Radner’s
autobiography.
WABC-TV’s
anchor Sade
Baderinwa
served as
host.
Named for
comedian
Gilda Radner,
Gilda’s Club
New York
City opened
its
clubhouse the West Village of Manhattan in the summer of 1995.
Founded by
Gene Wilder,
Mandy
Patinkin,
Joel Siegel,
Joanna Bull,
and other
friends of
Gilda Radner,
Gilda's Club
NYC is a
place where
people
touched by
any
type of
cancer can
come
together to
build
emotional
and social
support as
an essential
complement
to medical
treatment.
GCNYC has
since grown
to a
community of
over 6,000
members, and
spawned a
national
movement
with over 20
affiliate
clubhouses
currently
open in the
United
States and
Canada.
For more
information
on Gilda’s
Club New
York City,
please go to
www.gildasclubnyc.org.
Gilda's Club
NYC Mission:
Gilda’s Club
New York
City
provides
meeting
places where
men, women,
teens and
children
living with
cancer – and
their family
and friends
– can
join
together to
build social
and
emotional
support as
an essential
supplement
to medical care. Gilda's Club NYC provides support and networking groups,
workshops,
lectures,
and social
events in a
beautiful,
homelike
setting.
All of our
programs are
offered free
of charge.
For more
information,
please visit
us at
www.gildasclubnyc.org
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