Prior Luncheon Recap and Photos

Event Photos

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Photos © Sean Friedman, Ken Levinson, and Mark Jason Photography.

Event Overview

Over 520 people attended the Komen Greater NYC Annual Awards Luncheon on Thursday, May 19th in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New York. The event, which is the Affiliate’s second-largest fundraiser, netted nearly $400,000, which will go for grants in 2012.

The event celebrated our 2011 grantees. This year, we awarded a record-breaking $4.8 million in funding, including $3.3 million in grants to 36 community-based health program and three hospitals from our service area — New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland Counties. Representatives from all of the grantees were on hand. Komen Greater NYC also provided $1.5 million in funding for national peer-reviewed research to find the cures.

The event also honored organizations and individuals that are making a difference in the fight against breast cancer.

This year’s honorees were:

Pat Battle (Survivor Award) — Anchor/Reporter, NBC4 New York
Accenture (Corporate Award) — accepted by Laila Worrell, Partner
Dwight De Risi, MD (Compassionate Care Award)
Independence Care System (Grantee of the Year)
Sandra L. Kozlowski, Chair, Komen Greater NYC Young Professionals Committee (Next Generation Award)
Linda Vahdat, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College (Advances in Triple Negative and Metastatic Breast Cancer Award)

Special guests included Paula Zahn, journalist, executive producer and host of On the Case with Paula Zahn and Erika Tarantal, Anchor/Reporter, WNBC4 New York.

The luncheon was hosted by CBS 2 anchor and Board member Maurice DuBois.

Before the afternoon was over, the room was bathed in the glow of pink light cubes — a new feature, which allowed attendees to make a donation and be eligible to win one of four fabulous prizes.

The event would not have been possible without the work of Luncheon co-chairs Ayala Deutsch and Nikki Tippins, their committee chairs, benefit committee members, and the Komen Greater NYC staff.