Dream Big
A Celebration of Opportunity
Thank you to all of our donors, business partners, students and friends who helped us celebrate our 11th Annual Dream Big—A Celebration of Opportunity. With your support, we raised more than $1.8 million, a record-breaking amount for Futures and Options!
Our 2021 Dream Big Award honored Rodney O. Martin, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Voya, and Kristopher M. Hansen, Partner and Chair of the Financial Restructuring Group at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, recognizing their tremendous contributions to community service, youth mentoring, and development of youth career opportunities and pipelines.
We also celebrated our high school seniors with our Dream Big Scholarships. German Ortega (right), our Barbara L. Christen Scholar, Rahi Mitra (center), our Patricia S. Machir Scholar, and our Dream Big Scholarship Finalists Aleandra Enoe and Arefa Rahman (left), rewarding our students' efforts and supporting their education and career aspirations.
Because of your tremendous support, we can continue to offer and expand our transformative career exploration and readiness programming, mentorship opportunities, and paid internships to New York City's talented youth.
THANK YOU TO OUR DREAM BIG SPONSORS
Futures and Options is deeply grateful to our 2021 Dream Big corporate and individual sponsors for their generous support of our career development program for New York City's underserved youth.
Visionary $50,000+
Stephanie & Steve Hessler
Champion $25,000+
Jennifer & Jason New
Lori & Paul Zemsky
Optimist $15,000+
Cathy & Tom Bendert
Debra Fierro & Dave Trucano
Dave Miller
The Stroock Partnership
Believer $10,000+
Anonymous
Allan Brilliant
Bulldog Ventures, Ltd.
Jennifer & Thane Carlston
Melissa Francis & Wray Thorn
Alyssa & Steven Gendal
The Herbert and Sarah M. Gibor Charitable Foundation
Lynne & Stephen Goldstein
Jennifer & David Johnston
Claire Laudone & W. Greg Thonsen
Veera & Chitrang Purani
Kate Nadolny Settle & Matt Settle
Roopesh Shah
Frederica & Efrem Sigel
Dreamer $5,000+
Lisa Grushkin
Colleen Hsia
Michelle Hylton & Hugh Nelson
Rich Katz
Beth Friedman Lurie & Mark Lurie
Patty Machir
Priscilla & Dan Pombo
Sarah & Robert Ramirez
Ryan Schneider
Alison & Benjamin Schrag
Gabriel Schwartz
Bettina Teodoro & Will Iwaschuk
Erin & Paul Teske
Michael Walsh
Nanar & Tony Yoseloff