New Alternatives for Children Holds 33rd NAC Kids Can Gala Honoring David J. Sorkin

NEW YORK - Oct. 26, 2015 - PRLog -- New Alternatives for Children (NAC), New York City’s only child welfare agency exclusively devoted to serving children with severe disabilities and chronic illnesses, will hold its 33rd NAC Kids Can Gala Benefit on October 27, 2015 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers.  Over seven hundred (700) top corporate, philanthropic and community leaders are expected at the Gala honoring David J. Sorkin, Member & General Counsel of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP. Dinner Chairs for the Gala are Kenneth B. Mehlman, Member of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP., Frank Bisignano, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Data Corporation, Alan M. Klein, Partner at Simpson Thacher Bartlett LLP.  Our Special Guest and Emcee for the evening is CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo.

Participating corporate sponsors include: A&E Entertainment; CBRE Inc.; Centerview Partners; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; Deloitte; Evercore Partners; KPMG; Morgan Stanley; RBC Capital Markets; The Blackstone Group; Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.; Grey Group; PWC; Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; Time Warner Inc.; Burford Capital; CBS Corporation; Charter Communications; Ernst & Young; Goldman Sachs; Time Warner Cable Inc.; Weil Gotshal; and the Kirkland & Ellis Foundation.

In addition to our honoree and dinner chairs, other confirmed guests include:  Laura Parsons; James Buckman (Vice Chairman, York Capital Management); Roger Farah (Co-President, Tory Burch); David Fox (Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP) & his wife Caryn Schacht; Candy & Richard Goldstein; John Grudzina (EVP, Grey Group); Peter & Helen Haje; Joe Ianniello (COO, CBS CorporationRob Marcus, (Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Cable); John Martin (Chairman & CEO, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.); Tom Newman (President, Interactive One); Carl & Elizabeth Pforzheimer.

Tickets to the event begin at $750 for an individual seat and up to $100,000 for a table. Cocktails start at 6:30 pm and dinner at 7:30 pm.  The Gala raises over $2.4 million.  All proceeds go directly toward NAC’s health and social services for medically fragile children in foster care or at risk of entering foster care.

To obtain a press pass, please contact Katherine Kelly at 212-696-1550, ext. 338.

Event Details

When:          Tuesday, October 27, 2015

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Where:          Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers

Contact:         Katherine Kelly, 212-696-1550, ext. 338; cell: 813-732-1763 (day of event)

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About NAC

Annually, NAC serves 1,550 low-income medically fragile children and their families throughout the metropolitan area. We help children with severe disabilities and/or chronic illnesses achieve permanent and stable lives by enabling them to stay with their birth families through intensive family support services or help them to be adopted by loving and nurturing foster families. Previous to coming to NAC, many of these children resided in hospitals, not because of medical need, but because their parents simply could not care for them at home.  More than 50% of our children have multiple diagnoses, and approximately 40% use wheelchairs.  Diagnoses include spina bifida, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, sickle cell disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, traumatic brain injury, brittle bone disease, autism or other chronic illnesses or disabilities.  Through intensive family support, medical, mental health, educational, and recreational services, NAC helps our city’s most vulnerable children reach for and realize their dreams. Today, NAC children are not only living with nurturing families but they are attending college, working in the community, and succeeding in areas never thought possible.