Chrissy & Cory DeForrest

The Founder's Award
Chrissy & Cory DeForrest

Cory and Chrissy DeForrest have supported The Family Center for over 12 years. Cory joined our Board in 2011 and has served as Board Treasurer since 2013. He has skillfully overseen The Family Center’s finances in volatile times, for instance through the Covid-19 pandemic, and has deftly managed our resources during times of great growth, such as when we opened our mental and behavioral health clinics.

Cory is a financial professional at SPF Investment Management LP.  He previously worked at Credit Suisse. Chrissy is a former Ford model, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, with The Little Wildflour being her latest business venture.  Cory and Chrissy are parents to three beautiful girls: Taylor, Gemma, and Stella. They have been instrumental in the growth of our agency and recent years, the entire family has volunteered at The Family Center Toy Drive and Annual Holiday Party.

The Sustainer's Award
Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley helps people, institutions and governments raise, manage and distribute the capital they need to achieve their goals.  Morgan Stanley has collaborated with The Family Center to help achieve goals on behalf of New York City children and families since 2017.  The 2019 Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge provided The Family Center with financial analysis and partnership analysis tools critical to programming expansion.  Thanks to a partnership with Morgan Stanley, The Family Center now provides thousands of New Yorkers and their families with integrated substance use/ misuse treatment and support services, and primary medical care. Morgan Stanley has hosted PRIDE Month events and end-of-school-year picnics for Family Center clients, and firm staff have developed and facilitated financial literacy workshops for agency clients.  Morgan Stanley staff serve on The Family Center Board of Directors and Leadership Council.

Leadership Council and Zeynep

The Advocate's Award
Winged Keel Group

Winged Keel Group is an independent life insurance brokerage firm that specializes in inter-generational wealth transfer, risk protection, and wealth accumulation strategies. For more than 30 years, the firm has structured and administered customized life insurance and annuity portfolios that help families, business owners, private investors, and executives optimize their estate and income tax planning.

Winged Keel is committed to long-term partnerships with organizations that create a more equitable society and has been a passionate supporter of The Family Center for a decade.  Each year, Winged Keel participates in several initiates benefitting The Family Center, including volunteering at a Back-to-School Event for children and caregivers, a Thanksgiving food drive serving hundreds of families, and a toy drive fulfilling thousands of children’s holiday wishes over the years.

Master of Ceremony

Lauren Glassberg

Lauren is an Emmy-award-winning journalist who has been a member of the Eyewitness News Team since 2000. Before joining WABC TV, she anchored and reported at stations in Akron, Little Rock, and Minneapolis. She actually got her start in journalism as a teenager, reporting for the Main Street Wire, the newspaper on Roosevelt Island, NY. It was always her dream to cover her hometown of New York City.

She is primarily WABC TV's feature and lifestyle reporter. You can watch her restaurant features, called Neighborhood Eats, most Fridays during Eyewitness News at 5 p.m. She is also a frequent substitute anchor. Lauren is a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. She lives in Manhattan. Lauren served on The Family Center Board of Directors from 2010 through 2012. She has graciously served as Master of Ceremonies for previous agency events and we are delighted to welcome her back for our 2024 Spring Soiree!

Master of Ceremony
Dan Krauth

Dan Krauth is an award winning investigative journalist for WABC Eyewitness News.

Dan has received an Edward R. Murrow Award and multiple Emmy Awards for his reporting. His stories have included uncovering a growing threat to drinking water and exposing how much empty government buildings are costing tax payers. His series of stories into plastic surgery complications also led to changes in state law and also changed worldwide guidelines regarding how surgeries should be performed. Most recently his investigations helped improve the conditions for inmates and officers inside Rikers Island jail. In addition, he was the first in the Tri-State to expose how COVID-19 was disproportionately impacting inner city communities which caused city leaders to reallocate its resources.

Prior to joining Eyewitness News, Dan spent five years working at WTVJ in Miami as an investigative journalist. He also worked at stations in West Palm Beach, Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne. His first job in television news was a morning show producer for WREX in Rockford, IL. Dan grew up in suburban Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan.

Live Auctioneer
Kenny Polcari
CNBC Contributor & Managing Principal, ButcherJoseph Asset Management

Kenny Polcari is a Managing Principal at Butcher Joseph Asset Management - an investment advisor providing successful individuals and families with tools and strategies to help them achieve the most from their wealth.

He came to Wall Street as a summer intern on the New York Stock Exchange during the summers of '80, '81 & '82 and upon graduation moved from Boston, Mass. to New York City where he began his career on the trading floor.  He became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in August 1985 and remained a member for 38 years representing the interests of institutional asset managers that needed to access global equity markets.

His 30 years of experience has taken him from the birth of the greatest bull market, to the crash of '87, the roaring '90's, the .com implosion, decimalization, 9/11, Regulation NMS, the merger between the NYSE / ARCA, then NYSE/Euronext, then NYSE/ICE, automation, HFT, and fragmentation.

He writes a daily "Morning Thoughts" missive which looks at global markets and provides insight into the day's action. He is a board member of NOIP (National Organization of Investment Professionals) and a board member of the Headstrong Project – a Veterans philanthropic organization helping our 9/11 combat veterans suffering from PTS.