_{Past Events}

_{The Legacy of Charles Mingus}

Watch the video of our event celebrating the music of Charles Mingus at the High School for Civil Rights (Thomas Jefferson Campus) in East New York. As you'll see, members of the Mingus legacy bands performed with children from the community.

The event was hosted by Academy Award nominee Rosie Perez and featured live music by members of the Mingus bands (including a few Grammy winners). Children performed their own interpretations of the music of legendary jazz artist and composer Charles Mingus, whose legacy, like Duke Ellington’s, is one of the largest and most comprehensive in twentieth-century American music. 

The program was created in collaboration with Let My Children Hear Music: The Charles Mingus Institute and facilitators from Teachers College at Columbia University, and based on the all-important jazz concept of improvisation. 

The performance not only provided an opportunity for children from one of the most impoverished areas of New York City to be exposed to music and self expression, but is also based on the belief that music and art can increase academic performance and assist in self-expression, problem-solving, and other cognitive skills.

View photos of the event here.

Event Sponsors

The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

David & Kristen Woll

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

The Medical Link

O’Connor Davies Munns & Dobbins, LLP

The Oberman Companies

Charles Peck & Liora Manne

Deborah Goldberg & Thomas Bernhard

_{An Evening with Donald H. Layton, CEO of Freddie Mac and Board Chair The Partnership for the Homeless}

       
              Don Layton and Arnold Cohen                          Arnold Cohen, Don Layton and Sandy Lazo  

        
         Kyle Pasewark and Scott Labby                              Jeffrey Satenstein, Lori Hricik, Don Layton 

       
              Seth Bryant, Jeremy Feigelson                                         Jon Youngwood and David Woll
                    and Joshua Bloodworth
      
         
            Gordon Eng, Don Layton                                                 Janet Gochman, David Woll, 
             and Carol Greene Vincent                                              Jennifer Prosek and Arnold Cohen

       
               Jeff Satenstein and Bill Moran                                David Weisbrod and Kris Dasgupta

               Greg Clements and Tim Bass                              David Weisbrod, Bill Moran and Don Layton     

David Weisbrod, Kris Dasgupta, Charles Connell               Don Layton and Martha Sherman
                 

Evelyn Rodstein, Don Layton, Frank Burns                      Roksana Badruddoja, Kevin Kehoe,
                                                                                                                    and Barbara Stanley

        
                Paul Brandow and Joel Glasky                             Jennifer Prosek and David Woll                       

         
         Jerry Arko, Phil Herman, Louise Bryant                  Tom Rice, Jennifer Prosek, David Woll
                        and G.B. Bryant                                                      George Wang and Stacy McGinn
 
       

Camile Calman, Jeremy Feigelson, Fabio Bertoni                             Joi Harris and Arnold Cohen

     Joshua Bloodworth and Arnold Cohen                                    Kris Dasgupta and Henry Gooss          

           Nicole Port and Jeremy Feigelson                                   Stacy McGuinn and Arnold Cohen

 
         Kris Dasgupta, Mike Seery, Jerry Arko
                  Ed Snowden and Joi Harris

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Children’s Holiday Party

Every year we hold a GIGANTIC — and gigantically fun — holiday party for children and their families who are homeless. On December 15, 2012, we threw the best holiday party so far! Learn more about the Children's Holiday Party.

Thanksgiving with George Duran

On November 16, 2012, 90 homeless men and women sat down to a traditional Thanksgiving meal created and prepared for them by master chef George Duran, host of TLC's Ultimate Cake Off and author of Take This Dish and Twist It.