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Giving Tuesday

Tuesday | December 3, 2024

Thank you for joining us to celebrate Giving Tuesday at the UNICEF Gala 2024. With your generosity and the generosity of donors across the country, we raised over $6.8M to help protect children’s rights and expand their opportunities to meet their full potential.

Four children sit smiling and laughing huddled together shoulder-to-shoulder on a brick building's stoop

The Event

The UNICEF Gala showcases the impact of UNICEF’s work to ensure every child is healthy, educated, respected, and protected. Join fellow philanthropists and UNICEF Ambassadors for a not-to-be-missed evening

Special Performance By

The Beach Boys Endless Summer logo

The Beach Boys on stage in front of a huge crowd, facing backstage where the photo is taken from

Portrait of Laurie Hernandez, with curly dark hair, smiling

Event Host Laurie Hernandez Olympic Gold Medalist, Student, UNICEF USA Ambassador, Actress and Activist

Portrait of Sophia Dasser, smiling in a headscarf standing in front of greenery outside

Special Guest Remarks Sophia Dasser UNICEF USA National Youth Council Member

Portrait photo of Fernando Varela in a blue suit

Opening Performance By Fernando Varela

AMRIT sitting on stairs, resting her chin in her hands, eblows resting on her knees, and smiling.

DJ Set By AMRIT

6:00pm

Cocktail Hour

7:00pm

Dinner and Program

Cipriani Wall Street

55 Wall St, New York, NY 10005

After Party to follow
Black Tie Attire

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Sara Bareilles performs on the piano on stage
Octavia Spencer poses on the blue carpet
Aria Mia Loberti in a white dress standing at the podium
Stars of Broadway come together to open the UNICEF 2023 Gala.
Maggie Rogers sings into a microphone next to Sara Bareilles singing at the piano
Mia Moretti and Margot perform on stage together
Nico and Vinz stand on stage, holding microphones with arms raised as they perform.
Nicole Kidman in a deep v neck dress standing in front of a UNICEF branded backdrop
Harry Connick Jr. in a tuxedo, in front of a UNICEF USA branded backdrop
Salma Hayek gives a speech at a podium
Orlando Bloom posing on the blue carpet
Pink sings while seated on a stage

Event Leadership

Co-Chairs

Minesh Bhatt

Carol J. Hamilton

NextGen Chair

Lorena E. Gonzalez

Supporters

as of November 26, 2024

Presenting Sponsor

The 72 Fund logo

Reception Sponsor

Fundacion Del Dr. Simi, A.C. logo

Entertainment Sponsor

Jim Craigie & Sally Brophy

Humanitarian

Bernard Taylor, Sr.

Christine M.J. Oliver

The Edwards Family

Champions

Erica & Nazmi Berthou

Carol J. Hamilton

Quantum Capital Group

Marjolein & Ewout Steenbergen

Advocates

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Minesh Bhatt

Rob & Amy Brown

Clarios Foundation

Patricia A. Kaneb

Jamie & VanTrang Manges

Merck & Co., Inc.

Prudential Financial

Vandana Radhakrishnan & Sangeet Pillai

Rolex Watch U.S.A., Inc.

Michael & Nina Stanton

Latha Sundaram & Kim Anehall

C. James Taylor

Voya Financial

Carolyn & Dick Wechsler

Adolescent girls attend Karate classes organized as part of the program in Madanpur Jamua block of Giridih.
A girl attending class in an Islamic school in Biankouma, a village in the West of Côte d'Ivoire.
10-year-old Bushara sits at the teacher’s table in a learning centre on 10 November 2021
Marla Assane 14 YEARS OLD, Student of Rapale School standing in front of a mural NAMPULA PROVINCE, MOZAMBIQUE, NOVEMBER 2021.
Bharti Raju, 5, poses for photograph outside her house at Shirasgaon Mandap village in Jalna, Maharashtra on Sunday, 19, Oct. 2020.
Children wearing UNICEF backpacks arrive at the Fatao primary school in the village of Fatao, Mali on Tuesday August 31th
On 9 December 2016, children at Jibreen shelter attend basic preparation classes in 20 classrooms rehabilitated by UNICEF and other education sector partners. The makeshift school now welcomes 900 displaced children, bringing some critical structure, fun and routine back to their lives.
On 25 March, Amos Asaai, a volunteer teacher, stands with his students at the entrance to a UNICEF-provided tent classroom in the Gire 2 camp for internally displaced people, near Yola, the capital of Adamawa, a state in the country’s north-east.
Two children playing outside at Lauk Lung village, 10 Miles away from Hakha where children get polio vaccination from the midwives. Chief of Office and Daniele (the photographer) shared health awareness and the impact of hard labour to the mother and others gathered in the village.
A school teacher, students of White River School in Honiara and a staff member of Red Cross holding a box with soap and other hygiene items provided to the school by UNICEF. This took place during a workshop organised by UNICEF with their partners from the Red Cross
Students of Sali Primary School in Sali village, Guadalcanal Island, gather to greet UNICEF Pacific Representative Dr. Karen Allen and UNICEF Solomon Islands team, who came to their school to inaugurate new washing facilities, including school toilets. The funds for building the facilities were provided by Live&Learn Solomon Islands in partnership with UNICEF.
Happiness Mbewe (18 yrs) and her baby Davis Christopher (1 yr 2 months) Fuka Fuka, Blantyre Malawi Happiness benefits from the services with Mothers2Mothers (with support from UNICEF) offer at the nearest health facility Malawi 20 April 2017
On 9 October 2018 in Indonesia, Ence, 6, is receiving psychosocial services, after the recent tsunami which destroyed her home. Social workers, who received training from UNICEF and the government on mentoring children in disaster and emergency situations, hope the siblings will return to their homes and schools
Students at the playground of Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan 3.7 million children are out of school, girls comprise 60 percent of out-of-school children and only 54 percent of enrolled children complete primary school.
ANM and Mitanin carry vaccine carriers through difficult terrain for VHSND session. Village Ghotpal, Dantewada, Chattisgarh
Siphiwe Khumalo, 37, and her newborn baby, Lundiwe.
On 30 September,volunteer Kinan Kadouni, 26, and the boy he is carrying, both refugees from the Syrian Arab Republic, laugh amid other newly arrived refugees, and the volunteers helping, following their arrival on the shores near the village of Skala Eressos, on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region.

Why UNICEF?

Over eight decades, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has built an unprecedented global support system for the world’s children. UNICEF relentlessly works day in and day out to deliver the essentials that give every child an equitable chance in life: health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. UNICEF USA advances the global mission of UNICEF by rallying the American public to support the world’s most vulnerable children. Together, we have meaningfully improved more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization. For more information, visit unicefusa.org.

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By attending The UNICEF Gala 2024, I have read and fully understand UNICEF USA's Child Safeguarding and Participation Policy, Diversity, Racial Equity & Belonging Commitment and Photo Release Policy and intend to be bound by its terms.