Annual Partnership Awards Benefit thursday, november 17, 2011 Brooklyn Legal Services BENEFIT Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP COMMITTEE johnCorporation Ad. feerick annual partnership awards benefit 6:00 pm Skadden, Arps cocktails & dinner 7:15 pm joins WELCOME FROM MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES roma torre NY1 Brooklyn A CONVOCATION father john powis Bushwick Housing Independence Project WELCOME REMARKS martin s. needelman, Project Director & Chief Counsel in honoring the memory of paul j. acinapura, General Counsel Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A GUEST SPEAKER james j. sandman, President Sargent Shriver Legal Services Corporation 7:40 pm and honoring award presentations HONOREES SARGENT ShRIVER MEMORIAL AWARD Presented by William H. Josephson, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP Dan Nissenbaum sargent shriver Posthumously honoring a legacy of public service. and Presented to Mark Shriver on behalf of the Shriver family CORPORATE HONOREE Presented by James H.R. Windels, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Brooklyn A Board Chair Harvey Lawrence dan nissenbaum Managing Director, Urban Investment Group, Goldman Sachs Bank USA DENIS BERGER MEMORIAL AWARD Presented by Alice Berger harvey lawrence President and CEO, Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center Beijing | Boston | Brussels | Chicago | Frankfurt | Hong Kong | Houston | London 8:25 pm Los Angeles | Moscow | Munich | New York | Palo Alto | Paris | São Paulo | Shanghai Singapore | Sydney | Tokyo | Toronto | Vienna | Washington, D.C. | Wilmington CLOSING REMARKS raun j. rasmussen, Executive Director Legal Services NYC ThaNK YOU REMARKS roma torre annual NY1 partnership awards benefit 1 GREETINGS Dear Friends, EVENT underwriter advocate event contributors FROM THE SpONSORS $25,000+ $3,500+ Tanisha Abernathy PROJECT We are so happy to have you with us tonight celebrating this year’s Honorees and showing your commit- Lists as of November 9, 2011 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Brownsville Multi-Service DIRECTOR Fern Berenberg ment to Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) and the work we do. We cannot thank you Family Health Center AND GENERAL enough for your continuing support over the years, assisting Brooklyn A in both providing accessible legal Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher COUNSEL Yanira Castro services to people in need as well as developing our communities in partnership with local nonprofit orga- & Flom LLP & Affiliates Bettina and Kenneth Plevan Cheryl Courtney nizations. Each year our Annual Partnership Awards Benefit is a moment in time for all of us to stop and Proskauer Rose LLP partner recognize the work we do and the supporters, like yourselves, who truly make it possible for Brooklyn A to Committee to Re-Elect Nydia $15,000+ McKenna Long & achieve what it does. So thank you for joining us this year! M. Velazquez Aldridge LLP We take the opportunity each year to recognize and honor outstanding members of legal and corporate Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Elizabeth Cribbs worlds and of our neighborhoods for their exceptional contributions to the public good. This year we dedicate friend our Annual Benefit to the late Sargent Shriver, who passed away earlier this year. We like to think that what associate Lauren Dietlin $1,250+ we do here at Brooklyn A is consistent with Sarge’s vision for the national legal services program, which has $10,000+ Eli Elias provided assistance to millions of low-income people over the past four decades. Tonight we will take some Valarie A. Hing DIME Edward Ezrick time to reflect on Sargent Shriver and what his legacy means to us and indeed, our country and our world. Michael Young and We are also pleased to be recognizing two other outstanding individuals who have made significant contri- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Debra Raskin Goldberg & Cohn LLP butions to the re-building and revitalization of local communities; Dan Nissenbaum and Harvey Lawrence. patron Harold Green Dan Nissenbaum, Managing Director of the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, is this year’s nonprofit partner $5,000+ Corporate Honoree. Dan has spent his professional career focusing on bringing to communities, through $500+ Louis M. Hancock community organizations, access to private capital necessary for their development. These financial tools have Con Edison Asian Americans for Equality enabled many community based, 'visions of a future', to become a reality. Along with his work in the Urban Joshua Hoffman Kramer, Dillof, Livingston Investment Group, Dan chairs the Boards of the Low Income Investment Fund and the National Housing Bedford Stuyvesant Family Frank Macchiarola & Moore Conference. Health Center Richard and Ronay Menschel Harvey Lawrence, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Brownsville Community Development Low Income Investment Fund Cypress Hills Local Corporation (also known as the Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center (BMS)) is this year’s Com- Morris Kirschner Perpetual M&T Charitable Foundation Development Corporation munity Honoree and recipient of the Denis Berger Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding work Charitable Trust in building BMS into a stellar example of a responsive multi-service organization. Its philosophy and under- Patterson Belknap Webb & Opportunity Finance Network ParCare Health & Medical Tyler LLP pinnings as a community based, community controlled, incredibility effective, accessible and patient oriented Urban Health Plan, Inc. Center medical institution together with its partnership with Brooklyn A through our Community and Economic Urban Investment Group, Carol Parry and John Fox Development Unit for over 25 years, line up squarely with Sargent Shriver’s vision of neighborhood based Goldman Sachs community and legal services partnerships. The Ramón-Løkås Family James H. R. Windels In our forty-three years of providing legal services to people and communities in need throughout North and East Brooklyn, we have learned that we serve our clients better if, in the provision of our services, we are The Rose, Belkin, Rosen, and Garcia Family part of the fabric of their community. Additionally, our legal services, much like treating the symptoms of a larger problem, should, whenever possible, connect with larger community wide undertakings and activities. Jeffrey M. Rubin, Esq. One of the best ways to serve an individual is, at the same time, to assist in empowering their community by H. Richard Schumacher providing resources and services to those neighborhood based organizations committed to the betterment of their communities. That element of practice and service is critical to what we do at Brooklyn A and is Frederick A. O. Schwarz, JR. reflected in the partnerships with our communities as we work together towards a better future even in these Fanklin Siegel deeply trying and challenging times. Thank you all for standing by us in all that we have striven to accomplish over the years and for your Moses Silverman continued support in building communities; ensuring opportunities; and achieving justice. L a u r a P. Vo g a l Marty Needelman & Paul Acinapura brooklyn legal services corporation a annual partnership awards benefit 2 3 BENEFITPAST 2010 2005 Maurice A. Reid Angela M. Battaglia COMMITTEEHONOREES Tommy Moore and John Callagy Brownsville Multi- Ridgewood Bushwick Judith Livingston Kelly Drye & Warren LLP Service Family Health Senior Citizens Council, Center Inc. Kramer, Dillof, Thomas Early Livingston and Moore Health Plus 2000 1995 Steve Flax Dr. Claude Offord Frederick A. O. Harold T. Tyler, Jr. M&T Bank Brownsville Multi-Service Schwarz, Jr. Patterson Belknap Webb Mildred Tudy Johnston Family Health Center 2011 honorees Cravath, Swaine & & Tyler LLP Crispus Attucks Moore LLP Community Counsel 2004 Joseph K. Francois John M. Imperiale Brownsville Multi- Evan Davis 2009 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Service Family Health Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Center John D. Feerick Hamilton LLP David D. Pagan Southside United ATTORNEY HONOREE Fordham University Maureen Bateman HDFC (Los Sures) 1993 School of Law Bank of America Sargent Shriver sargent shriver Eileen Auld Michael Rochford 1999 Special Olympics Posthumously honoring Citi St. Nicholas Neighborhood Patricia M. Hynes International Father John Powis Preservation Corp. a legacy of public service Milberg Weiss Bershad Sally Hernandez- Bushwick Housing Hynes Piñero Independence Project 2003 & Lerach, LLP New York City Housing James F. Gill Authority CORPORATE HONOREE 2008 Frances A. Resheske Bryan Cave LLP Con Edison Vito J. Lopez Bettina B. Plevan Frederick W. Hill New York State dan nissenbaum Proskauer Rose LLP Adbur Rahman J.P. Morgan Chase Farrakhan Assemblyman Vincent F. Palagiano Managing Director & Co. Oceanhill-Brownsville Philip A. Wheeler Urban Investment Group Dime Community Jeffrey E. Dunston Tenants Association United Auto Workers, Bancshares, Inc. Northeast Brooklyn Goldman Sachs Bank USA Region 9A Luis Garden Acosta Housing Development 1998 El Puente Corp. Barry H. Garfinkel 1987* Skadden, Arps, Meagher Robert MacCrate 2007 2002 DENIS BERGER MEMORIAL AWARD & Flom LLP & Associates Sullivan & Cromwell Paul J. Curran Zachary W. Carter Magda N. Yrizarry LLP harvey lawrence Kaye Scholer LLP Dorsey & Whitney LLP Bell Atlantic Charles J. Hynes Brendan J. Dugan MacDara Lynch John F. Mulhern New York State President & Chief Executive Officer Sovereign Bank Pfizer Global Medicaid Fraud Brownsville Multi-Service Family Nuestros Ninos Child Maria Contreras-Collier Manufacturing Development School Prosecutor Health Center Cypress Hills Child