Dear Friends and Supporters of CaringKind, My mother, Karen, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2007 at the young age of 59 years old. She chose to confront her illness head on and committed herself to advocacy and action, and she summoned her deep inner drive and bravery to keep being active and joyful as long as she could. She inspired all those who knew her, and after a 12-year battle with Alzheimer’s, she passed in 2019. During our family’s journey with her diagnosis, I [...]

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Donate Tickets Sponsorship Auction Donate Tickets Sponsorship Auction * Purchase Tickets, Sponsorships, Journal Ads Monday, June 3, 6:30pm Cipriani 42nd Street 110 E 42nd St New York, NY 10017 6:30pm - Cocktail Reception 7:30pm - Dinner, Awards, Music, and Live Auction 9:30pm - Dance the Night Away For more information, please contact Samantha Vaccaro at 64 [...]

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Give a Gift! Dear Friend of CaringKind, When you write things on paper and say things out loud, it makes them real. Maybe that’s why I’ve never really shared these things publicly before. Elaine Elinor Gellis, my darling mother, was born in November 1950 in the Bronx, NY. A Mathematical genius, my mother was an actuary who worked for the New York Life Insurance Company. My mother was a rock star. She worked tirelessly while my dad was in law school, earning enough money to buy their home in [...]

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Donate Purchase Tickets Joanna Peña-Bickley, a design engineer, is known as the mother of Cognitive Experience Design and a pioneer in A.I. aided, generative design. She is propelled by multidisciplinary acumen in research, design, technology and media. Her dedication to lifelong learning and insatiable curiosity moves the C-Suite leaders beyond obvious business ideas towards enduring, market making experiences, platforms and devices for the connected era. Joanna’s award-winning hand has g [...]

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Donate Purchase Tickets Dear Friends, I’m so honored and humbled to have been selected as the Culture Honoree at the upcoming 2024 CaringKind Forget-Me-Not Gala on Monday, June 3rd at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City alongside Anne White, President of Lilly Neuroscience, and Joanna Peña-Bickley, CEO of Vibes Ai, Former Head of R&D, Alexa Devices at Amazon. Past cultural honorees have included Peter Gabriel, Julianne Moore, and David Hyde Pierce. As some of you may know, both my belo [...]

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