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Post Annual Benefit

UNH would like to thank all the wonderful supporters who made the 2011 UNH Benefit on October 26th a great success, raising over $600,000 to help UNH support settlement houses and New Yorkers in need throughout our great city. Special thanks to this year's New Yorkers Who Make a Difference: Alain Kodsi and Rachel Foster and The Clark Foundation, our emcee Michelle Yu (SNY), and our Golden Benefactors including Paul Balser and Paula Del Nunzio, EmblemHealth, Judy and Lew Kramer, Ruth and Sid Lapidus, and Lois and Arthur Stainman and all those who supported and attended our special event. We welcomed 400 people to Tribeca Three Sixty on a beautiful NYC night.






View the 2011 Benefit Journal
                                                          

A highlight of the event were the words of Quanisha Davis, a 2011 winner of UNH’s Allan Morrow College Scholarship, currently a first-year student at Pace University. Her poem – excerpted below – describes her experience of finding her way in the world, with help from UNH member Hudson Guild:

Don't let this Hip Hop, music loving fiend, poetry writing girl fool you.
I am a human too.
I’m trying to find my way and discover who I am. I ain't perfect.
My conceitedness is just the cover up to my insecurities
But I don't make up myself into something I'm not.
Instead, I'm forever climbing my way to the top.


Photos from the 2011 Annual Benefit

Alain Kodsi and Leon ShapiroAlain Kodsi and Roger CoryneAlain Kodsi, Emily Menlo Marks, Rachel Foster, Chacka DwahjAlain Kodsi, Guest, Daniel Kodsi, and Tom Van de Bout
Alain Kodsi, Lissa Bourjolly, Dia OniwazaAmy Mereson and Monique FloresArlene Wilcox, Ramiro Cunningham, Phaedra Garibaldi, Chris Caruso, Randy Maultsby, Patrick Vatel, Adim OffurumArthur Greenspan, Martin Grant, Alain Kodsi, Emad Khalil
Ashley Carlton, Ted Harrington, Amy Gross, Dena Sturm, Eric AndrusBoard Member Nelson Hioe, Peter Linder, Steve Schenkein, Jeremy Griffin, Luke Carlson, MichaelCity Council Member Gale BrewerClark Foundation honorees Doug Bauer, Yancy Garrido, and Bharathi Sethumadhavan
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