Houston’s Coolest Young Professionals Gather Forces For The Children’s Fund — $17 Million Raised and Counting
50 Years of Helping the City's Most Vulnerable
BY Shelby Hodge //The Children's Fund 50th anniversary gala chairs Cody & Stephanie Carper and Amanda & Topher Ollison (Photo by Wilson Parish)
What: The Children’s Fund “La Dolce Vita” gala presented by Cadence Bank
Where: The Post Oak Hotel
PC Moment: This 50th anniversary of the founding of the nonprofit was a record breaker with more than 800 chic young professionals stepping out in their Italian-inspired best for an evening of dancing and gambling to raise funds for emerging charities in the greater Houston area. By night’s end, that total had surpassed $1.2 million.
Checks from these proceeds will be presented to the 2021-2022 charity class in ceremonies in May.
The full amount raised during that half century runs to more than $17 million with proceeds directed to Houston area children’s charities. The Fund’s volunteer leadership vets with rigorous reviews and screening hundreds of grant applications that come through each year.
An example of the nonprofits that have received grants are Clothed by Faith, Fostering Family, Harbor Christian Academy, Harrison’s Heroes and San Francisco Nativity.
Holiday Gift Guide
Applause, applause for the record-breaking success to gala chairs Stephanie and Cody Carper and Amanda and Topher Ollison, and auction chairs Blair and Jack Foster and Karla and Nicholas Wiedemann, and corporate chairsMichelle and Paul Williams andBrooke and Colton Braud.
PC Seen: Children’s Fund presidents Sarah and Carey Ford, presidents-elect Carrie and John Hays Compton, plus Allison and Chris Wallace, Margaret and Matthew Born, Georgia and Michael Piazza, and Blair and Jack Foster.
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