Thank You For Making Our 107th Annual Birthday Luncheon A Success!
Were you there? Then check out our pictures!
And if you missed it? Oh, what you missed! The event was packed with old friends and new, joy and laughter and wall-to-wall determination to make a difference.
Rabbi David Stern kicked off the event with his invocation in which he both questioned and answered why we celebrate before our work is done.
CEO Ken Lambrecht accepted the Pioneering Partner Award on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas and reflected on the long partnership between his 85-year-old organization and our even older one and mused that perhaps NCJW actually stood for National Council of We-aren’t-going-anywhere.
Our keynote speaker Rachel Louise Snyder – author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us – began by explaining how the experience of family abuse is a driver for so many societal ills ranging from the makeup of prison populations to the motivation for mass murders. And she then moved many in the audience to near tears by sharing one Montana woman’s struggle to save herself and her children from an abusive relationship and how the educational, medical, police and justice systems all failed to protect them.
CHAIRS AND HOSTING COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Helen Frank
HONORARY CHAIRS: Sally and Tom Dunning, Terry Greenberg, Dr. Hind Jarrah, Rabbi Nancy Kasten, Becky and Larry Sykes.
HOST COMMITTEE: Stacy Barnett, Lynn Behrendt, Flauren Bender, Jocelyn Benson, Elaine Bernstein, Phyllis Bernstein, Julie Bleicher, Karen Blumenthal, Brenda Brand, Sheila Brand, Joni Cohan, Caren Edelstein, Patsy Fagadau, Kathy Freeman, Suzi Greenman, Susie Gurinsky, Renee Karp, Linnie Katz, Susan Kottwitz, Donna Kun, Liza Lee, Terry Levinger, Joanne Levy, Julie Lowenberg, Staci Mankoff, Shannon Morse, Jim Pasant, Jody Platt, Alyson Ray, Joyce Rosenfield, Amy Schachter, Kim Schonwald, Elaine Stillman, Rhona Streit, Beth Brand Stromberg, Jackie Waldman, Marnie Wildenthal, Erin Zopolsky, Robin Zweig.
Thank you and thank you again to all of our sponsors, all of our supporters and attendees and all of our exhausted volunteers who made the magic happen.
$50,000+Life Changer
Kalman & Ida Wolens Foundation
$25,000+Visionary
Nancy A. Nasher & David J. Haemisegger
$15,000+Innovator
Newberger & Weinstein Families
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$10,000+Make a Difference
Phyllis Bernstein, Cecilia & Garrett Boone, Joy & Ronald, Mankoff/Staci & Jeff Mankoff, Sandy Nachman
$5,000+Champion
Sara & Gary Ahr/Carolyn & Ken Barth, Elaine Bernstein & Friends, Sally & Tom Dunning, Paddy & Barry Epstein, Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation/ Beverly & Joe Goldman, Marti Meyerson & Jamie Hooper, Linnie & Mike Katz, Leah & Jim Pasant, The Harold Simmons Foundation, Texas Women’s Foundation/Carter Financial
$2,500+Advocate
Samantha Asch, Karen Blumenthal & Ann Gallant, Ann & Alan Bogdanow, Brenda F. and J. Stuart Brand Family Foundation & Lottye Lyle, Becky Bruder, CD Wealth Management, Joni & Bob Cohan, Liz & Rusty Cooper/Robin & Louis Zweig, Beth & Greg Delagi, Evelyn Fagadau, Flauren Bender & Alissa Zachary Nancy & Ron Fellman Helen & Jerry Frank, Frost Bank, Terry Greenberg, Debbie & Ron Greene, Joan Sandfield Jackson, Fannie & Stephen Kahn Charitable Foundation, Rabbis Nancy Kasten & David Stern, Liza Lee, Locke Lord LLP
Thomas E. Merkel Martha Morguloff & Danna Morguloff Hayden, Parkland Foundation, Jody & Mel Platt, Cheryl Pollman, Ruthie Shor & Wendy Stanley, Nicole G. Small, Karla Steinberg, Rhona Streit, Becky & Larry Sykes, Jessica & Howard Taper, Maddy Unterberg & Janice Sweet Weinberg, Jackie & Steve Waldman
$1,850+Sustainer
Jocelyn Benson, Ann Berger, Marlene Cohen & Kathy Freeman, Laura Diamond, Caren Edelstein, Patsy Fagadau, Jackie Fleschman, Suzi & Jack Greenman, Hind Jarrah, PhD, Ynette Hogue & Celia Schoenbrun, Kahn Mechanical Contractors, Renee & David Karp/TLC Tutors, Betsy & Mark Kleinman, Donna Kun & Joanne Levy, Barbara Lee & Robin Sachs, Terry Levinger, Julie & Mike Lowenberg, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Tricia Michaelson, Sarah Papert, Joyce & Joe Rosenfield, Kim & Avie Schonwald, Phyllis & Ron Steinhart, Peggy Zilbermann.
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