The W20 Foundation’s Team Up 4 Community presents The 2nd Annual L.I. Sports Impact Awards Banquet Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 Presented by the NHL Foundation Featuring special guest Master of Ceremonies NHL Hall of Fame broadcaster Jiggs McDonald HONORING:

Clark Gillies Four Time Champion 2002 Founder of the Clark Gillies Foundation

Co-Hosted by: SONTAG & HYMAN, P.C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW

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Founded on Long Island in 2007 by former NY Islander Steve Webb, the W20 Foundation is committed to creating an environment where our youth athletes and others want to partake in community service and surround themselves with other like-minded, positive people who care about social responsibility.

In 2011, the Foundation launched Project Team Up 4 Community (TU4C). TU4C engages and empowers youth athletes and others to initiate community service projects through its online challenges. The platform also provides them with an interactive set of resources to advocate and promote their social responsibility amongst their peers, family, schools, organizations and communities. TU4C serves as a central hub and a launching pad to help develop new programs to meet athletes, organizations, and community needs.

Since the launch of Project Team Up 4 Community, the Foundation has recorded an estimated economic impact of over $2 Million Dollars on Long Island alone! 67,000 plus Long Island Youth Athletes have participated in over 1,465 Community Service Projects and have performed 252,948 plus Hours of Community Service Work.

The Team Up 4 Community’s Online Challenges are making community service contagious!

Our this year is to raise money to advance the Team Up 4 Community online interactive platform throughout Long Island and across North America. Thanks to our youth athletes service more of our fellow Long Islanders in need have warm coats to wear, toys for their children at the holidays, food to place on the table and not too mention the incredible contributions they have made towards important medical issues. Together we can inspire more of our youth to partake in social responsibility and influence millions of dollars of community service through athletics. With Team Up 4 Community, all athletes are invited to engage in community service and create a ripple effect of social responsibility by participating in the challenges and using this instrumental platform.

Your support from this Banquet lends a strong hand in aiding the Foundation to further the growth of these youth athletes’ community service projects and education; expanding the number of individuals and lives they can impact, as well as their own. More importantly, community service instills in them a personal responsibility to contribute to their own development and the community that supports them!

We thank all our participants and loyal supporters who make the gift of COMMUNITY IMPACT possible with Team Up 4 Community. F T S H H F 2002 | GOOD DEEDS | clark

gilliesFROM HOCKEY HERO TO CHARITY CHAMP by Karen Romanelli

CLARK GILLIES WAS ONLY 5 YEARS OLD WHEN HE GOT HIS FIRST TASTE OF THE ICE. HIS FIRST PAIR OF ICE SKATES WERE HAND-ME-DOWNS FROM HIS OLDER BROTHER. BUT FROM THE MOMENT GILLIES LACED THEM UP, THEY WERE ALL HIS. THOSE OLD SKATES DID MORE THAN HELP HIM NAVIGATE THE SNOWY STREETS OF MOOSE JAW, CANADA. THEY’D WIND UP STEERING HIM TOWARDS A JOURNEY THAT WOULD SHAPE HIS LIFE.

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. COPYRIGHT 2017© NEWSDAY MEDIA GROUP. GROWING UP IN“ A LITTLE TOWN IN NORTHERN YOU GET THE OPPORTUNITY, AT LEAST IN MY CASE, TO PLAY A LOT OF HOCKEY BECAUSE IT’S PRETTY MUCH WINTER FROM OCTOBER UNTIL MAY,” RECALLS GILLIES, WHO TURNED 62 THIS YEAR.

The brutal Canadian winters and his passion for skating propelled Gillies towards the hockey rink. His natural talent caught the eye of a scout for the who drafted him in 1974. There he developed a reputation as the team’s “tough guy,” but Gillies was much more. With a career spanning 14 years, this legendary left wing eventually became an all-star, Hall of Famer and four-time Stanley Cup winner.

SCORING OFF THE ICE FOR KIDS Hockey, however, isn’t Gillies only passion. The Canadian transplant, who has lived on the North Shore of Long Island since 1978 with his wife Pam of 41 years, cares about helping children, prompting the creation of the Clark Gillies Foundation. The nonprofit is aimed at helping children with developmental, physical and even financial challenges improve their quality of life and provide relief during times of crisis.

“Three of my close friends and mentors sat me down and said ‘you do so many things for other people and other organizations, we think it would be great if you formed your own foundation,’” says Gillies about the inception of his charity.

Since its grassroots start in 1998, the foundation’s contributions have ranged from supplying iPads to a special needs after school tutoring program in Huntington, to an expansion project at Huntington Hospital, with a $1 million foundation contribution that helped create the Clark Gillies Pediatric Unit. The foundation has since partnered again with Huntington Hospital for a $2 million expansion of the Clark Gillies Emergency Care Unit that will jump in size to a new 15-bed center. It is slated to open in January 2017 and will be staffed and equipped to treat the urgent care of children.

With an annual budget of $400,000 their four main benefactors include Huntington Hospital, The Morgan Center in Hicksville (a preschool for children diagnosed Above: Gillies at the annual CGF with cancer), several autism nonprofits, such as Bowling for Kids event in January 2016. Photo credit: Kim Muto. Spectrum Design Foundation, »

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. COPYRIGHT 2017© NEWSDAY MEDIA GROUP. Clark Gillies at the 2014 Annual CGF Golf outing. Photo credit: Judy Walker.

IT IS TRULY AN AMAZING FOUNDATION. CLARK GILLIES IS ONE OF THE NICEST, GIVING AND MOST GENUINE PEOPLE“ I HAVE EVER MET. HE TRULY LOVES CHILDREN AND WANTS TO HELP IN ANY WAY HE CAN. — DIANNE CARROLL, Executive Director, Clark Gillies Foundation

Nassau Suffolk Autism Society of America an idea.” The Morgan Center opened its doors and The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where 13 years ago after the Zuch’s daughter Morgan a current research project is being funded to was diagnosed with leukemia. Happily, she find a cure for rhabdomyosarcoma—a rare and begins her freshman year at Marist College this often fatal pediatric cancer. month. The Center has received well over a quarter of a million dollars in funds from The Dianne Carroll, executive director of the Clark Clark Gillies Foundation and is currently in the Gillies Foundation, feels fortunate to have process of opening a second center this year in known and worked with Gillies for the past six Suffolk County. years. “It is truly an amazing foundation. Clark Gillies is one of the nicest, giving and most Gillies reflects on his foundation’s past genuine people I have ever met.” She adds, fundraising successes, and humbly passes “He truly loves children and wants to help in the credit along to others including his nine any way he can.” For instance, last summer, a board members. “We’ve been blessed to have three-day golf outing brought in $300,000— a lot friends who care what we are doing and that was without Gillies having to shave his and it makes my job so much easier, I can’t mustache and head as he has graciously done thank those people enough for what they do in the past, netting the foundation $60,000. for me.”

Rod and Nancy Zuch are founders of the For more information about the Clark Gillies Morgan Center. Rod Zuch says, “If it wasn’t Foundation, go to clarkgillies.org. LL for him [Gillies] and his Foundation, my wife’s Karen Romanelli is a freelance writer living in Stony Brook and idea of creating this center would still just be a development manager at The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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Clark Gillies Marty Reasoner Pat LaFontaine Eric Boulton Bobby Nystrom Ted Nolan Miroslav Satan Steve Webb Radek Martinek Eric Cairns Benoit Hogue Mike Komisarek Matt Martin Arron Asham Mike Hordy We want to extend a heart-felt thank you to this years co-host sponsor

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