[Fredslist] Annual Giving Campaign. It's history. It's outcomes. It's potential

[witsowitz]

Dear Gotham

 

The giving campaign was an idea that originated 14 years ago when 3 people,
that included myself. attempted to select a charity for our Gotham
healthcare group to represent. We found that to be difficult realizing that
there were so many worthy charities. I then came up with the idea of giving
to all of them a few at a time. Using the concept of a lottery, we then
collectively figured out the rest.

 

It was brought to tribal council who ,after a few deliberations, agreed to
try it. Debbie Lindner, our previous Executive Director, coined it the
Summer of Gotham Giving which since morphed into the annual campaign. (Those
are the correct facts for historical record.)

 

The first year we raised $2500 and the Welles Remy Crowther charity, think
Red Bandana, received the award. Since that time 30 -35 different charities
have received $2500 -$5000 rewards because of all of us at Gotham.

 

Fred has led the success of this initiative through most of it. Marc
Halpert, Raj Goel and Corey Bearak have all been beacons to ensure it
continues by the consistent generosity of what they do along with other
Gothamites who took monthly turns matching donations.  But in the end it has
been all of us over many years that contribute to what has made this a
unique, very simple, very successful and very meaningful way of contributing
to the greater good. For that I am incredibly grateful that this grew into
what I had hoped it could be- a legacy that lives beyond just this
generation. Something that Welles Remy Crowther did by saving the lives of
some people who now go on to support or create new generations to this world
because of his bravery. Each of us has the potential to accomplish the goal
in smallest of acts too.  It is not by accident that the universe picked his
charity as the first recipient of our efforts. 

 

I also became a recipient 11 years later in the name of my twin brother who
I lost that year to the devastation that Diabetes did to 3 generations of my
family. It was never something I entertained when the idea was originated. I
felt it belonged to others. The joy of seeing how so many people, including
my family, have benefitted by 3 people who brainstormed it to become a few
hundred-thousand dollars 14 years later is something we can all be proud of.


 

Please continue the legacy. It is unique. It is impressive. It is valuable.
And it's in our power to make huge impacts by the very simple and convenient
acts of giving.

 

>From the bottom of my heart.. Thank you to all of you. 

 

 

Warmest Regards

Ester Horowitz, CHC, MBA

516.318.8655

https://www.linkedin.com/in/esterhorowitz

 

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men

who find it easier to live in the world they've been given

than to explore the power they have to change it.

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential

Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

-Muhammad Ali-

 

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