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Black Tie International:
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York |
Citizens’
Committee for
Children of New
York:
CCC
Celebrates at
the Museum of
Modern Art
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Fred & Diana
Elghanayan and Thomas Elghanayan |
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CCC Honorees Ricki
Tigert Helfer and Michael S. Helfer |
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Alexandra Herzan,
Chris Stern Hyman and Agnes Gund |
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Marcy Sandler,
CCCBOard Chair,
Jennifer March-Joly, CCC Executive Director and
Chris Stern Hyman, CCC Board President |
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Citizens’ Committee
for Children of New York (CCC) hosted CCC
Celebrates at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday,
April 5, 2011 from 6-9 pm. The elegant evening
benefited CCC, New York City’s premier multi-issue,
non-profit and non-partisan child advocacy organization,
founded 67 years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt. Since that time,
CCC has convened, informed and mobilized New Yorkers to make
our city a better place for children. Through fact based
research and citizen activism, CCC’s mission is to support
policy and legislation in order to ensure every child’s
birthright- that each child in New York City is healthy,
housed, educated and safe.
Festivities began at
6 pm with a VIP reception and private viewing of the
2011 Museum of Modern Art exhibition German
Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse. From 7-9 pm,
guests gathered in The Marron Atrium for a cocktail
reception, viewing of the contemporary galleries and a
silent auction featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg,
Robert Motherwell and Ed Ruscha. James Rosenquist was
this year’s Honorary Artist. Honorary Art Chairs were Agnes
Gund, Alexandra Herzan and Joanne Stern.
CCC
honored Ricki Tigert Helfer
and Michael S. Helfer at this year’s gala. Ms.
Helfer, a member of CCC’s Board of Directors since 2005, has
been instrumental in establishing a sustainable corporate
funding strategy at CCC and co-chaired, with her husband,
CCC’s Works on Paper Art Benefit from 2006-2009, helping to
raise over $2.5 million.
Ms. Helfer is an
independent consultant in financial institution regulation
with Financial Regulation and Reform International. She
serves as a member of the Social Performance Advisory
Committee of the U. S. Grameen Foundation. She is a former
Chairman and CEO of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) and was the first woman to head a federal
bank regulatory agency. Mr. Helfer,
General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary of Citigroup, has been a national leader in
legal services for poor families and children for many
years. He was a founding director of the Lawyers for
Children America, President of the Legal Aid Society of
Washington, DC as well as a long time board member, and now
member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Aid Society of
NYC.
CCC saluted
Lead Sponsors TF Cornerstone, a preeminent real estate
firm with extensive residential, commercial and retail
property holdings from New York to Washington, DC, for their
vital support of CCC’s work to achieve important outcomes
for children and their families.
Honorary Chairs were
TF Cornerstone Co-Founders Frederick Elghanayan and K.
Thomas Elghanayan.
Frederick Elghanayan,
President and co-founder of TF Cornerstone, leads the
construction division of the company and is responsible for
overseeing the construction and renovation of the more than
8 million sq. ft. of commercial and residential properties
in TFC's portfolio. An industry veteran for over 40 years,
Fred dedicates himself to ensuring that every TF Cornerstone
project exceeds the industry standard for design,
construction, environmental consideration, quality and
innovation.
As Chairman and
co-founder of TF Cornerstone, Tom Elghanayan
is actively involved in supervising acquisitions, planning,
sales, residential marketing and management. During his
40-year career in the real estate industry, Tom has earned a
reputation as a forward-thinker who has set the standard for
building style and quality, while paving the way into New
York's burgeoning neighborhoods.
Leaders from the
prestigious law and real estate firms who were major
supporters of this event are: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP;
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind; Rose Associates; Wharton & Garrison
LLP; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Linklaters LLP; Clifford
Chance LLP; Shearman & Sterling LLP; Sullivan & Cromwell LLP;
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; WilmerHale; and Stroock &
Stroock & Lavan LLP. Donors also included key members of
the financial world from BNY Mellon Wealth Management; JP
Morgan Private Bank; The Whitmore Group, T & H Brokers,
Citigroup, Promontory Financial Group, Imowitz Koenig; and
The Compass Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
For more information
please contact Danielle Marchione at:
(212) 673-1800 ext. 18 or
dmarchione@cccnewyork.org
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