Events from 2005
Events from 2004
Events from 2003
EVENTS FROM 2005
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2005 Annual Benefit Dinner
On Monday, May 23, 2005 at the Yale Club, WPA honored those who give their time, vitality and commitment to the needs and concerns of the women we serve at our annual Benefit Dinner.
This year, we presented the Isaac T. Hopper Award to Gena Lovett in recognition of her years of dedicated work as a member of the WPA Board. We were also pleased to present The Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award to Cathleen Raffaeli, a veteran executive with more than 23 years' experience in several leading financial and high tech services companies.
View WPA’s 2005 Annual Benefit Photos
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Judith Greene of
Justice Strategies Speaks at WPA Annual
Board Meeting
Nationally renowned policy analyst Judith
Greene, an expert on prison expansion
and sentencing reform, spoke at the WPA
Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors
on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005.
One hundred fifty people were in attendance
at the meeting, which was held in the
courtroom of Brooklyn Borough Hall. Awards
were presented to outstanding staff and
volunteers in recognition of their contributions
to WPA.
A former client of WPA – and a
current resident of our permanent
housing in East New York, Brooklyn – spoke
about the role that WPA played in her
journey from addiction to independence.
EVENTS FROM 2004
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Eve Ensler and Rose Kean Lansbury
Honored by WPA
At WPA’s Annual Benefit Dinner
on Tuesday, May 18, 2004, friends, supporters,
and staff gathered at the Union Club
in New York to pay tribute to the organization
and its work.
WPA honored Eve Ensler, the Obie-Award
winning playwright of The Vagina
Monologues, founder of V-Day (a
global movement to stop violence against
women and girls), and executive producer
of the PBS documentary What I Want
My Words To Do To You. Ms. Ensler’s documentary focuses on a writing group she led at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Ms. Ensler received the Sarah Powell
Huntington Leadership Award for her vision,
compassion, and deep commitment to public
welfare and social justice.
Rose Kean Lansbury, a long-time WPA
board member and committed philanthropist,
was honored with the Isaac T. Hopper
Award for her long-standing support of
WPA’s mission.
Two women who have received services
at WPA – one of whom, while incarcerated,
had taken part in Ms. Ensler’s
writing workshop – spoke about
their own personal journeys from prison
to leading productive, positive lives
in the community.
WPA thanks all who attended and made
the evening a success. Your support is
invaluable.
EVENTS FROM 2003
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WPA Releases Report in Honor of
the Tenth Anniversary of Sarah Powell
Huntington House
On October 23, 2003 WPA celebrated the
tenth anniversary of the Sarah Powell
Huntington House with a report chronicling
its history of success. NYC Commissioner
of the Department of Homeless Services,
Linda Gibbs, spoke at the anniversary
event. WPA opened Huntington House, a
28-unit apartment building on the Lower
East Side, in 1993. Huntington House
provides a transitional residence with
supportive services for 37 homeless,
criminal justice-involved women who seek
reunification with their children. Since
its opening, Huntington House has been
home to over 300 women working to reconnect
to their families and communities.
For more information about Huntington
House and other family reunification
services offered by WPA, click
here.
