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By Lookout Staff
June 7 -- A sellout crowd helped St. Joseph Center
raise more than $500,000 at the social service agency’s
22nd annual Dinner Dance event in downtown LA this weekend.
Money raised at the event Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion will fund vital services for low-income and homeless
families and individuals in Venice and Santa Monica.
Television star and longtime St. Joseph Center supporter
Wendie Malick hosted the event, which brought 500 local business
owners, professionals, and community leaders, including Los
Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton, to the Music
Center.
The event featured live and silent auctions, live music that
included the debut of two new songs by jazz recording artist
Lisa Hilton, wife of honoree Steven M. Hilton, president of
the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and St. Joseph Center board
member, who received the Hope Through Empowerment award.
Other honorees included UCLA’s Anderson School of Management,
recipient of the Community Service Award for the work of its
faculty and staff as volunteers and on St. Joseph Center’s
Planting Hope, Growing Lives capital campaign, and Raymond
Middleton, who received the agency’s Special Recognition
Award.
“By working with St. Joseph Center’s Homeless
Service Center, Mr. Middleton has gone from living in his
car to renting his own apartment and providing a home for
his mother and seven-year old son,” agency officials
said.
St. Joseph Center’s Dinner Dance is a critical source
of support for the Center’s ten programs, which provide
services such as job training, affordable childcare, supplemental
groceries and hot meals for 6,500 working poor and homeless
families and individuals to achieve greater health, stability
and self-sufficiency.
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