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03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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Met Temple of Dendur Setting for Children of Armenia Fund's Gala
12/16/2010 - By New York City, New York

Met Temple of Dendur Setting for Children of Armenia Fund's Gala

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, factories in Armenia screeched to a halt – leaving thousands in the newly independent republic’s villages unemployed and poverty-stricken.

Now thanks to the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF), an organization established in New York a decade ago, these villages are experiencing a long-awaited revival. Through a program of sustainable development, focusing on education, health care and economic growth—all for the country’s most vulnerable population of children—COAF has benefited over 20,000 individuals. Its efforts are now recognized by the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme.

The organization held its seventh annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday evening, December 16. More than 300 guests gathered in the imperial Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing to show support for COAF’s mission. Every penny raised directly benefits the non-profit’s projects in Armenia.

COAF founder Garo Armen, a leader in the biotech industry, hosted the evening. Among the luminaries attending this noteworthy event were Carnegie Foundation president Vartan Gregorian, artist and designer Michael Aram, Emmy and Tony award-winning actress Andrea Martin, former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans and his wife, Donna Evans, and the Met’s curator for Byzantine Art Helen Evans. Sotheby’s executive vice president C. Hugh Hildesley led the evening’s live auction.

COAF’s “Benefactor” and “Humanitarian” awards went to philanthropist Gerard L. Cafesjian and the late Paul L. Newman, whose foundation has supported technology programs in Armenia.

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