Kevin Powell's 9th Annual Holiday Party and Clothing Drive

Holiday Event + Some Goodness for Your Soul

Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Tribeca Cinemas
Street: 54 Varick Street (1 block below Canal Street) NYC

As you may know from previous years, the purpose of the event is to generate clothing for the Safe Horizon/Streetwork Project (fyi, the contact person is Jose Gonzalez and he can be reached at 646-214-3803, or via email atjlgonzalez@safehorizon.org).

The Streetwork Project helps approximately 10,000 young people between the ages of 13 and 23 secure temporary and permanent housing each year in New York City. Many of these young people are survivors of broken families, poverty, drug addiction, various forms of sexual abuse, and other social traumas. This event has benefited the Street work Project each of its nine years (except 2005, when we donated to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts) and, as always, the program needs clothing for its young people as winter approaches.Rather than charge a fee to the party, admission for attendees is the donation of clothes (coats, hats, gloves, sweaters, scarves, boots, shoes, etc.), which our team of volunteers load into two Uhaul trucks right outside the venue.

Once inside, party goers get to mingle and network with a wide range of taste makers, trendsetters, and the like, from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, sports, politics, the artistic world, academia, and corporate America. This format has worked very well for us. In past years, for example, our honorary chairpersons for the event have included Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Wynton Marsalis, Cornel West, and Gloria Steinem, and some of our sponsors through the years have included Best Buy, Microsoft, Virgin Mobile, MTV, Vibe, and Nike.