Sponsorships

If you wish to pay via check, please make payable to:
Success Academy Charter Schools (Tax ID# 20-5298861)

Mail your payment to:
Success Academy Charter Schools
ATTN: Spring Benefit Office
95 Pine Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10005

To send funds via wire or stock transfer, please contact:
[email protected] or call 646.747.6200

THE
SPEED
OF
SUCCESS

this event has now passed.
thank you for your support!

THANK YOU TO OUR HONOREE

Kenneth C. Griffin
Founder & CEO of Citadel

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thank you to our generous benefit
co-chairs and dinner committee members

Benefit Co-Chairs

  • Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • Jane Moss and Ravenel Curry
  • Kara and Scott Friedman
  • The Galbraith Family
  • Julie and Joel Greenblatt
  • Suzie and Bruce Kovner
  • Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
  • Margaret and Daniel Loeb
  • Kate and Bob Niehaus
  • Paulson Family Foundation
  • Karen and John Petry
  • Robin and Rich Pzena
  • Campbell Brown and Dan Senor
  • Dhanusha Sivajee and Lorenzo Smith III

Dinner Committee

  • Michelle and Jonathan Auerbach
  • Purnima Puri and Rich Barrera
  • CastleOak Securities, L.P.
  • Lori and Mark Fife
  • Judith and William Greenblatt
  • John and Amy Griffin Foundation
  • Liza Shakhnovich and Ripan Kadakia
  • Eeling and Yen Liow
  • The Marc Haas Foundation
  • Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman
  • Jane and James Stern
  • Sun Capital Partners Foundation
  • John and Barbara Vogelstein
  • Mary G. Berner and Sally K. Whaling

On Monday, April 24, 2023, we celebrated the speed of “never been done before.”

We made a promise, and that promise is coming true — a level of scholar preparation no other public school system has ever attempted. We can’t wait to share all that we are working on — a new curriculum, new educator workforce development, a new school model, and growing the Success Academy Network.

Help us reinvent public education. Because we want our scholars to be ready to go for their own moonshots. We want them to be ready to take on the galaxies.

kenneth c. griffin

HONOREE
kenneth c. griffin
founder & ceo of citadel

Kenneth C. Griffin is the Founder and CEO of Citadel, a global alternative investment firm, and Non-Executive Chairman of Citadel Securities, one of the leading global market makers. He has contributed more than $1.5 billion philanthropically in recent years, including catalytic giving to expand access to high-quality education at every level, advance medical research, enhance public spaces and support our country’s world-renowned cultural institutions. He has also served on a number of boards that reflect his commitment to driving upward mobility through economic and educational opportunities and his passionate support for cultural institutions that enrich our lives and communities.

guest speaker

keynote speaker
the honorable Ritchie Torres
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY15)

At the age of 25, Torres became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T.Q person elected to office in the Bronx. He has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home.

benefactors

Our deepest thanks to everyone whose generosity made this special night possible.

Bigger, Bolder, Faster

Anonymous
Julie and Joel Greenblatt
Margaret and Daniel Loeb
Paulson Family Foundation
The Paul E. Singer Foundation

Scaling Excellence

Jane Moss and Ravenel Curry
Kara and Scott Friedman
The Galbraith Family
David Geffen Foundation
Suzie and Bruce Kovner
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Kate and Bob Niehaus
Karen and John Petry
Robin and Rich Pzena
Campbell Brown and Dan Senor
Dhanusha Sivajee and Lorenzo Smith III

Joy and Rigor

Anonymous

Love of Learning

Anonymous
Asness Family Foundation
Purnima Puri and Rich Barrera
Judith and William Greenblatt
John and Amy Griffin Foundation
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
John and Barbara Vogelstein

Shaping the Future

Anonymous
Shari and Jeff Aronson
Michelle and Jonathan Auerbach
Charles Strauch and Peter Bennett
CastleOak Securities, L.P.
Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation
Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
Lori and Mark Fife
French Toast
Goldman Sachs
The Marc Haas Foundation
Hudson Yards
Jefferies
Sonia and Paul Jones
Liza Shakhnovich and Ripan Kadakia
Eeling and Yen Liow
Susan and Bill Oberndorf
Helen and Charles Schwab
Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman
Katherine Farley and Jerry I. Speyer
Jane and James Stern
Sun Capital Partners Foundation
The Tang Fund
Mary G. Berner and Sally K. Whaling

Limitless Potential

Blair and Elisabeth Axel
cigna healthcare
Credit Suisse Securities
Audrey and Pete Denton Excellent Education for Everyone, Inc.
EY
Mark Zurack and Kathy Ferguson Foundation
Danielle and Gary Freilich
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
The Martin J. Gross Family Foundation, Inc.
Kafene, Inc.
Little Johnny Koerber
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Lyndsay DeVore and Suleman Lunat
A. Michael May – Silverstein Capital Partners
Newmark
Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill | DBI Projects
Cathy Quinn – Stewart Title National Commercial Services
Caroline and Tiger Williams
(As of April 24, 2023)

About Success Academy

Success Academy has created a national model of access to excellence for children across all demographics. Now the size of the state’s 5th largest school district, and among the top 10 school districts in the state in terms of student achievement, we currently enroll 20,000 children in our 49 elementary, middle, and high schools. Most of our scholars are children of color from low-income households in disadvantaged neighborhoods, admitted through a random public lottery. Collectively, Success Academy schools rank in the top 3% in math and top 5% in ELA of all New York State schools. Our district K-12 approach, designed as a holistic 13-year educational trajectory, leads to student outcomes that outpace most affluent suburban schools.

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Questions? Email us at: [email protected] or call 646.747.6200