List of key names for New York's galas keeps expanding
From Monday, November 18, 2002
A New York Times story (registration required) on how some nonprofits' fundraising is thriving thanks to new and/or younger blood.
In these difficult times, the right names for New York City's big-ticket charity benefits are, even more than ever, the ones with money behind them.
Many names are familiar, boldfaced ones like Sanford I. Weill, Blaine Trump, Felix G. and Elizabeth Rohayton and Oscar and Annette de la Renta, who continue to play important roles as organizers and donors to gala events.
But now they have more company, and for a number of reasons...
[And] Event organizers are using different strategies, too, including naming multiple chairmen and chairwomen and multiple honorees for major events. On the party front, more begets more. That is especially important now, when organizations are trying to make up for cuts in city financing and a general falloff in revenue.