This year's honorees were Jean Thomson (Founders' Award), Helen B. Kim of Thompson Coburn & Carolyn Leighton Founder of WITI (Carrie Chapman Catt Award), and Ralphs Grocery Company (Corporate Leadership Award). All of our attendees came to support, participate, and overall celebrate engagement of civic action.
This year's event we tried something new - a Giving Tree as our centerpieces... Well, we didn't do trees and with a budget we did small orchid plants and tied "money notes" to them. When we did the Live Ask we asked people to pull the money notes and raise them up and we would come around to charge them out! Believe it or not, people loved the idea and we raised a bunch of funds for the organization. Then, the person who gave the most at the table got to take home their orchid.
Oh, did we mention we were at the Taglyan - I have to say what an amazing place, great staff, wonderful food and love the internal decor! This was a terrific place! Highly recommend!
Some of our honorees with Wendy Burch of KTLA who served as our Program Host. She has been helping the organization now for three years and every year - we just love her more and more!
What a wonderful evening! Special thanks to our team for their hard work. Looking forward to next year's!
