Events

Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF)
For the past 4 years, PDA has designed and coordinated the AJCF annual dinner. PDA developed this organization's strategic plan, then designed and coordinated its first annual dinner, honoring Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. The event, featuring the Honorable Stuart Eizenstat, exceeded projected goals for both monies raised and number of guests, and established AJCF as an important component in the New York philanthropic community.

Columbia University Kraft Student Center
PDA oversees the fundraising and planning efforts for Kraft's dinners. Working with the professional staff and lay leadership, PDA has been hired to oversee all planning for 4 major annual dinners, including site selection, solicitations, and dinner management. The events have honored, among others Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Herman Wauk, Robert Kraft.

Koby Mandell Foundation
The Koby Mandell Foundation works with bereaved families who have lost a parent, child, or sibling to terror, operating a network of therapeutic camps and adult support groups across the state of Israel.  PDA has been retained to coordinate the organization's 2006 gala dinner.

Meir Panim Relief Centers in Israel
PDA helped raise close to $4 million for Meir Panim by coordinating "Children Singing for Children," a star-studded concert  -- held at Avery Fisher Hall of New York City's famed Lincoln Center -- that featured children's choirs from across the New York region, as well as prominent performers.  Meir Panim, which operates a network of 15 relief centers providing vital services to more than 278,000 individuals across Israel every day, has retained PDA to provide a full array of services, ranging from strategic planning to donor cultivation.

MESHI
The leading early childhood development center in the greater Jerusalem area, MESHI seeks to provide comprehensive early intervention for children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and other severe disabilities. PDA has proudly worked to enhance MESHI's presence in North America, in 2004 PDA helped MESHI hold its very successful inaugural dinner.