Sponsorships

If you wish to pay via check, please make payable to:
Success Academy Charter Schools (Tax ID# 20-5298861)

Mail your payment to:
Success Academy Charter Schools
ATTN: Spring Benefit Office
95 Pine Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10005

To send funds via wire or stock transfer, please contact:
[email protected] or call 646.747.6200

THE
SPEED
OF
SUCCESS

LET’S CELEBRATE THE SPEED
OF “NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE”

Monday, April 24, 2023
Cipriani 42nd Street, NYC

HONORING

Kenneth C. Griffin
Founder & CEO of Citadel

Sponsorships & Tickets
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thank you to our generous benefit
co-chairs and dinner committee

Benefit Co-Chairs

  • Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • Jane Moss and Ravenel Curry
  • Kara and Scott Friedman
  • The Galbraith Family
  • Julie and Joel Greenblatt
  • Suzie and Bruce Kovner
  • Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
  • Margaret and Daniel Loeb
  • Kate and Bob Niehaus
  • Paulson Family Foundation
  • Karen and John Petry
  • Robin and Rich Pzena
  • Campbell Brown and Dan Senor
  • Dhanusha Sivajee and Lorenzo Smith III

Dinner Committee

  • Michelle and Jonathan Auerbach
  • Purnima Puri and Rich Barrera
  • CastleOak Securities, L.P.
  • Lori and Mark Fife
  • John and Amy Griffin Foundation
  • Liza Shakhnovich and Ripan Kadakia
  • Eeling and Yen Liow
  • The Marc Haas Foundation
  • Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman
  • John and Barbara Vogelstein
  • Mary G. Berner and Sally K. Whaling

The Speed of Success

Success Academy’s moonshot is underway!

Join us on Monday, April 24, 2023, to celebrate the speed of “never been done before.”

We made a promise, and that promise is coming true — a level of scholar preparation no other public school system has ever attempted. We can’t wait to share all that we are working on — a new curriculum, new educator workforce development, a new school model, and growing the Success Academy Network.

Help us reinvent public education. Because we want our scholars to be ready to go for their own moonshots. We want them to be ready to take on the galaxies.

kenneth c. griffin

HONOREE

kenneth c. griffin
founder & ceo of citadel

Kenneth C. Griffin is the Founder and CEO of Citadel, a global alternative investment firm, and Non-Executive Chairman of Citadel Securities, one of the leading global market makers. He has contributed more than $1.5 billion philanthropically in recent years, including catalytic giving to expand access to high-quality education at every level, advance medical research, enhance public spaces and support our country’s world-renowned cultural institutions. He has also served on a number of boards that reflect his commitment to driving upward mobility through economic and educational opportunities and his passionate support for cultural institutions that enrich our lives and communities.

guest speaker

keynote speaker

the honorable Ritchie Torres

Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY15)

At the age of 25, Torres became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T.Q person elected to office in the Bronx. He has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home.

Support Success Academy

Thank you for your generous support. Your contribution, minus $285 per ticket, is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

If you wish to give by check, wire, or stock transfer, please click here.


Sponsorship opportunities

$250,000

Bigger, bolder, faster

Includes VIP+ seating for 10 at the dinner; Bigger, Bolder, Faster listing in the evening’s program and on the donor screens; Premium placement of logo or listing on event website and materials

$100,000

Scaling excellence

Includes VIP seating for 10 at the dinner; Scaling Excellence listing in the evening’s program and on the donor screens; Premium placement of logo or listing on event website and materials

$75,000

Joy and rigor

Includes superb seating for 10 at the dinner; Joy and Rigor listing in the evening’s program and on the donor screens; Prominent placement of logo or listing on event website and materials

$50,000

Love of learning

Includes excellent seating for 10 at the dinner; Love of Learning listing in the evening’s program and on the donor screens; Preferred placement of logo or listing on event website and materials

$25,000

Shaping the future

Includes prime seating for 10 at the dinner; Shaping the Future listing in the evening’s program; Prime placement of listing on event website and materials

$15,000

Limitless Potential

Includes seating for 10 at the dinner; Limitless Potential listing in the evening’s program; Listing on event website and materials

$1,500

Standing with kids and families

Includes individual seating and listing in the evening’s program; Listing on event materials

Double your impact

benefactors

Our deepest thanks to everyone whose generosity made this special night possible.

Bigger, Bolder, Faster

Julie and Joel Greenblatt
Margaret and Daniel Loeb
Paulson Family Foundation

Scaling Excellence

Kara and Scott Friedman
The Galbraith Family
Suzie and Bruce Kovner
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Jane Moss and Ravenel Curry
Kate and Bob Niehaus
Karen and John Petry
Robin and Rich Pzena
Dhanusha Sivajee and Lorenzo Smith III
Campbell Brown and Dan Senor

Joy and Rigor

Anonymous

Love of Learning

Purnima Puri and Rich Barrera
John and Amy Griffin Foundation
John and Barbara Vogelstein

Shaping the Future

Michelle and Jonathan Auerbach
CastleOak Securities, L.P.
Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
Lori and Mark Fife
French Toast
Sonia and Paul Jones
Liza Shakhnovich and Ripan Kadakia
Eeling and Yen Liow
The Marc Haas Foundation
Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman
Mary G. Berner and Sally K. Whaling

Limitless Potential

Blair and Elisabeth Axel
Danielle and Gary Freilich
The Martin J. Gross Family Foundation, Inc.
Kafene, Inc.
Little Johnny Koerber
Caroline and Tiger Williams
(As of March 2, 2023)

About Success Academy

Success Academy has created a national model of access to excellence for children across all demographics. Now the size of the state’s 5th largest school district, and among the top 10 school districts in the state in terms of student achievement, we currently enroll 20,000 children in our 49 elementary, middle, and high schools. Most of our scholars are children of color from low-income households in disadvantaged neighborhoods, admitted through a random public lottery. Collectively, Success Academy schools rank in the top 3% in math and top 5% in ELA of all New York State schools. Our district K-12 approach, designed as a holistic 13-year educational trajectory, leads to student outcomes that outpace most affluent suburban schools.

Past Events

Celebrating our next big leap

On Monday, April 25, 2022, we gathered to celebrate our scholars, families, teachers, and champions who are redefining success daily. We announced our most ambitious plan to date – re-imagining K-12 education and building a landmark campus in the South Bronx – and one of the most significant gifts in the history of public education from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Thank you to those who joined and all those who are supporting this historic evening on behalf of children. Together, we are showing the world what success can mean.

Contact Us

Questions? Email us at: [email protected] or call 646.747.6200