Lower Eastside Girls Club — Spring Fling Gala 2023 Sponsorship Deck

The Lower Eastside Girls Club Annual

Wednesday May 17, 2023 Angel

Orensanz Foundation

About Our Spring Fling Gala

The Lower Eastside Girls Club's annual Spring Fling Gala is New York City’s most exciting fundraising events of the year. The evening includes a cocktail hour and seated dinner, and is attended by a a cross-section of leaders in New York City’s Fashion, Art, Film, Business, and Philanthropy worlds.

We can not do it without your support! Join us in celebrating and sharing our vision of Joy, Power, and Possibility.

Since 1996, the Girls Club has radically imagined youth and community development. We are a model for thought-leaders from across the globe who visit, learn from, and replicate our unique program design and approach to community engagement.

By supporting our Spring Fling Gala you are championing youth, their families, and their communities. As Girls Club expands our mission and service population, your contribution has a greater impact than ever.

Event Program

6–7pm Cocktails

7—9pm Dinner, Performance, & Honoree Awards 9–10pm Dance Party

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Through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams. ”

— Michelle Obama, Former First Lady

About the Lower Eastside Girls Club Our Community

The Lower Eastside Girls Club supports young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout New York City in leveraging their inner power to shape a better future for themselves, their community, and their world. Through free, year-round, innovative programming we connect young people with their passions, celebrate their curiosity, and channel their creative energy. Together, we are building a just and equitable future filled with “Joy. Power. Possibility.”

Environmental Studies Lab; Alphabet City Art School for Visual Arts and Crafts; Center for Media and Social Justice for digital media, film and photography; Sound Studio for music production and our radio station/podcast, WGRL (Where Girl Radio Lives); Design Studio for Fashion Arts; a Rooftop Farm; Culinary Education Center; and 64-seat Planetarium.

Our home of over 27 years is the vibrant Lower East Side, one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in New York City. Each year the Girls Club reaches over 1,000 young people (aged 10–23) each year who reflect the diverse demographics of New York City.

Our membership is 46% Black, 27% Latinx, 13% Multi-Racial, 6% Asian, 6% White, 1%

Middle Eastern/North African and 1% Pacific Islander. Many of our members come from immigrant backgrounds, and our members speak over 15 languages and dialects. Our Center for Wellbeing and Happiness serves over 642 members across all genders and generations: 43% Latinx, 23% Black, 11% Asian, 11% White, 12% as Other or Unknown.

Youth ages 10–23 participate in free year-round programming in STEM, the Arts, Design, Digital Media, Performing Arts, Wellness, Civic Engagement, and Leadership. Our 35,000 ft2 facility includes: a Maker Shop for Coding and Robotics;

2022 marked a milestone with the opening of our 5,000 ft2. Center for Wellbeing & Happiness. With this initiative, we expanded our service population to all genders and generations with the belief that the health and wellbeing of the young people we serve is intimately connected to the wellbeing of their families and their community.

Honorees

Chief Communications Officer of Ariel Investments

Arielle Patrick is Chief Communications Officer of Ariel Investments, a $16.2 billion global asset management firm. Ms. Patrick reports to Co-CEO Mellody Hobson and sits on Ariel's firmwide Operating Committee. She leads an integrated team that drives public affairs and communications for the firm and its private equity arm, Ariel Alternatives. This includes: media relations, government affairs, philanthropy, marketing, internal communications, corporate and executive leadership communications, branding and creative. Ms. Patrick led Ariel's rebranding strategy and restructured the firm's previous five marketing functions into one centralized practice.

Author, Journalist & Advocate

Paola Ramos is an author, Emmy-Award winning journalist and Latinx advocate. Ramos is a host and correspondent for VICE News, as well as a contributor for MSNBC and Telemundo News. In 2022, she was an Emmy nominee for “Best Emerging Journalist.” Ramos was the former Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign, a political appointee during the Obama

Administration and also served in President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. She is the author of “Finding Latin-X: In Search of the Voices redefining Latino Identity,” published by Penguin Random House. Ramos received her MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School and her B.A. from Barnard College, where she is now part of the Board of Trustees.

She has spent her entire career as a chief advisor to Fortune 500 public and private company CEOs and boards on investor relations, reputation management and risk assessment, crisis management and scenario planning, and all-stakeholder communications strategies for financially material matters (e.g., transactions, earnings, litigation, governance).

Prior to Ariel, Ms. Patrick worked at Edelman, the world's largest communications consulting firm. There, she served as Executive Vice President & Transaction Director, leading the mergers & acquisitions and bankruptcy/ restructuring team in the Financial Communications & Capital Markets practice. She oversaw new business

and P&L for the M&A / restructuring group, and individually secured client deals totaling over $50 billion in enterprise value. She formerly held a variety of positions at global PR firm Weber Shandwick, a subsidiary of IPG, within its Financial Communications, Crisis Communications & Issues Management, and Corporate Reputation Management practices.

In her spare time, she sits on the Board of Directors (Finance & Audit Committee and Investment Subcommittee) for Yellowstone National Park's foundation; the Board of Trustees (Nominating Committee) of the Institute for Public Relations; the Board of Directors (Chair, Development Committee) of The Harbor Sciences & Arts Charter School, and the Board of Directors of Chelsea Factory, an organization founded by First Republic Bank. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); the Investment Company Institute (ICI) Public Communications Committee; and the Arthur W. Page Society (Page).

Ms. Patrick graduated from Princeton University, where she earned an AB in Classics with a concentration on Ancient Greek and Latin language, literature and history. She is a native of Manhattan, NY, where she attended The Chapin School and currently lives with her husband and their daughter.

Host Committee

Host Committee Co-Chair

Founder of Fifteen Percent Pledge

Creative Director & Founder of Brother Vellies

Host Committee Co-Chair

Activist and Model

more to be announced...

“ The Lower Eastside Girls Club has existed to declare to those who find their way here: you belong. You are enough and you can never be too much of the best of you.

I congratulate the leaders who knew this truth every single day, the donors who invest in the urgency of being a place of belonging, and those who have taken its lesson into this world.”

— Stacey Abrams, 2021 Gala Honoree

Past Girls Club Honorees  + Guests

 Colin Kaepernick  Yara Shahidi  Rosario Dawson Drake  Cleo Wade  Stacey Abrams  Nessa Hilary Clinton

 Elaine Welteroth Freida Pinto Katy Perry Tyra Banks Debi Mazar &  Patricia Field Karlie Kloss Chrissy Teigen Kimberly Drew

Gayle King  Aurora James Natasha Lyonne Ashley Graham Simone Biles Matthew Cherry America Ferrera Blair Imani

CaSandra Diggs  Latham Thomas  Jessica Cruel Reese Witherspoon Alicia Keys Cynthia Nixon Michaela Angela Davis Carmen Rita Wong

Sponsorship Levels

Presenting Joy Sponsor:

Girls Club Programming

$100,000

Support one year of free innovative programming for 100 members. Girls Club connects young people with their passions, celebrates their curiosity, and channels their creative energy. Members explore our Art and Design studios, Digital Media Lab, Sound Studio, STEM Environmental Science Lab, Maker Shop, Planetarium, Culinary Education Center, Movement Space, Rooftop Farm, and more.

Power Sponsor: $50,000

Center for Wellbeing & Happiness: Where self-care becomes community care

Support one year of free programming for 100 community members of all genders and generations. The Center for Wellbeing & Happiness offers a holistic, communal approach to wellness with a diverse array of programming that includes Wellness Coaching, Zumba, Tai Chi, Yoga, Podcasting, English Conversation Classes, Culinary and Nutrition classes, Food Farmacy, Parenting Support Groups, and Workforce Development certifications in Green Building Automation and Doula Care.

Possibility Sponsor: $25,000

STEM + College and Career Pathways

Girls Club addresses the gender gap in STEM through hands-on, experiential programming. Our members discover the fascinating universe of science and technology and confidently realize that they too can thrive in these male-dominated fields. They receive college and career guidance, access paid internship opportunities and are connected to a network of professionals and mentors who can advance their goals.

“This space of innovation, wellbeing, happiness, and joy will be a national model for the rest of the country.”

— Carlina Rivera, New York City Council Member, District 2

On the Center for Wellbeing & Happiness