The Community Chest to Honor Outstanding Community Volunteers

The Community Chest, a nonprofit organization servicing Englewood, Englewood Cliffs and Tenafly, celebrates spring at its annual spring fundraising event on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. The celebration will be held at the Knickerbocker Country Club, located at 188 Knickerbocker Road, in Tenafly, New Jersey. The event's net proceeds will go to The Community Chest to meet the pressing issues of people in need in these communities.

Coming Together

Each year, this annual event welcomes The Community Chest's friends and supporters to an evening of fun and philanthropy. With the theme, “Coming Together as a Community”, the evening is designed to fulfill the mission of the organization’s founders more than 80 years ago. Their vision was to fill a chest with individuals and businesses' generous contributions and to empty its contents by awarding grant funds to support worthy projects led by local nonprofits in Englewood, Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs. Each year, The Community Chest carries out this mission with increased generosity to help people in need in these communities.

Honorees

This year, The Community Chest has selected two individuals and an organization to receive the honor of 2016 Outstanding Community Volunteer. Joe Klyde, a former board member of The Community Chest Board of Managers, participated on a grassroots level to sustain and grow the organization and is an active member in the Rotary Club of Englewood. Devry Pazant, also a former board member of The Community Chest Board of Managers, is president of the Englewood Public School District's board of education and vice chairman on the board of trustees of the Community Baptist Church in Englewood. The Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation, represented by Mrs. Palestroni, will be honored for their community involvement for many years with The Community Chest and generosity in the area of health care.

The event promises to be fun-filled. Silent and live auctions will offer a range of products available to bid upon. The program features a performance by the Young People's Chorus @ Thurnauer.

Tickets & Sponsorships

The cost per ticket is $150 per patron and $250 for a benefactor, covering cocktails and a buffet dinner. Registration may be completed online or send a check made out to The Community Chest, located at 122 South Van Brunt Street, Englewood, New Jersey 07631.

Four sponsorship levels are available for individuals and businesses. Each offers various marketing opportunities and the recognition of this philanthropic involvement by The Community Chest's large number of supporters. For more information about becoming a sponsor, visit the organization's web site, or call the office at 201-568-7474.