Playworks will rock (and paper and scissors) at our annual Get in the Game Gala on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, featuring recess games, cocktails, and live auction.
This year we will shine the spotlight on our student and principal honorees for their inspiring leadership every day within their schools and communities!
Honoring
Most Valuable Principal
Dina Ercolano
P.S. 158 The Bayard Taylor School
Presenting
Junior Coach Leadership Awards
Location
Nickelodeon
1515 Broadway (entrance at corner of 44th Street)
New York, New York 10036
6:00 p.m. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and recess games
7:00 p.m. Programs, awards, and a live auction featuring
Playworks founder and CEO, Jill Vialet, and auctioneer, CK Swett
8:00 p.m. Afterglow, drinks, food, and recess games
9:00 p.m. Guests depart
Festive cocktail attire
Our Sponsors
Roshambo Rockstars
Foursquare Phenom
Double Dutch Dynamo
HOST COMMITTEE
Herschel Goldfield
David Aaron and Lloyd Abramowitz
Gary Casagrande, Confluence
About Get in the Game
Playworks Get in the Game is our fun and impactful series of signature fundraising events that transports guests from the ballroom to the playground, and has cumulatively raised more than $5.2 million for our critical programs.
Funds raised at the event will support the expanding efforts of Playworks to leverage play to improve the social and emotional health of every girl and boy in New York and beyond, by increasing opportunities for physical activity in schools. Locally, our programs serve over 125,000 kids at 250 schools across the region.
About Playworks
Playworks is the leading national nonprofit leveraging the power of play to transform children’s social, emotional and physical health. In the 2018-19 school year, Playworks will reach 1,000,000 students at 2,200 schools in 23 U.S. cities directly and through professional training services. We are changing the educational experience and school culture by leveraging the power of safe, fun, and healthy play at school every day. We create a place for every kid on the playground to feel included, be active, and build valuable social and emotional skills. Our vision is for 3.5 million kids in 7,000 elementary schools nationwide to experience safe and healthy play every day by 2020.
Past Honorees
Rob DeMartini, New Balance President/CEO
Christine Driessen, ESPN CFO
Einhorn Family Charitable Trust
Mark Hawkins, Salesforce CFO
Trip Hawkins Electronic Arts CEO/Founder
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Emerita
Johnson Foundation President Emerita
Larry Miller, Portland Trailblazers President
Stuart Snyder, Cartoon Network President/COO
Past Sponsors
Deloitte
Eminence Capital founder Ricky Sandler
Ricky Sandler
Goldman Sachs
Greenlight Capital Inc.
Mattel
Moody’s
National Basketball Players Association Foundation
National Football League
New Balance
Nickelodeon
Normandy Real Estate Partners
Omega Advisors Inc. Chairman and CEO Leon Cooperman
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Salesforce
Third Point founder and CEO Dan Loeb
Tudor Investment Corporation founder Paul Tudor Jones
Universal Music
UPS
Walt Disney Company
Check out some pictures from last year’s gala.
(Photos courtesy of AM Media Group)