[caption id="attachment_70722" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Kellys who gathered for two good causes were (l-r): Ed Kelly, President/CEO, American Express Publishing and Kelly Gang Co-Founder and President; Declan Kelly, Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Teneo Holdings; Susan Notkin, President of the Board, The Even B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 2012 Kelly Gang beneficiary; Kyle Clifford, Food Sourcing Manager, City Harvest, 2012 Kelly Gang beneficiary; NYPD Commssioner Ray Kelly and Keith Kelly, "Media Ink" columnist, New York Post and Kelly Gang co-founder and secretary. "]
The 8th annual St. Patrick's Day Benefit hosted by The Kelly Gang, Inc. took place recently at Michael's Restaurant in Manhattan with the beneficiaries this year being City Harvest and The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
Guests included NYPD Commissioner, Ray Kelly; Keith Kelly, "Media Ink" Columnist for the New York Post; Jim Kelly, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair; Kate Kelly Smith, Senior Vice President, Publishing Director of the Hearst Design Group, and Tom Kelly, the writer/producer, CBS Blue Bloods.
City Harvest is the world's first food rescue organization dedicated to feeding New York's hungry men, women, and children. The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute provides leadership that improves laws, policies and practices in order to better the lives of everyone touched by adoption.
The corporate sponsors
of this year's Kelly Gang
benefit included: American Express Publishing, American Media Inc., Bloomberg, Condé Nast, Declan Kelly, Forbes Media, Hearst Corporation, Meredith Corporation,
News Corporation, The Newsweek Daily Beast Co., Bill O'Reilly, Anchor, Fox News Channel, Reader's Digest Association, Rodale, Inc.,
TIME Inc. and Newsmax Media.
Since its founding, The Kelly Gang, Inc. has raised nearly $500,000 for worthy causes, including the family of late editor and columnist Michael Kelly, Tuesday's Children, Catholic Relief Services in Haiti, The Doe Fund, The Hunter's Hope Foundation, The Wounded Warrior Project, New Orleans Catholic Charities Crescent House, Operation Helping Hands, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Annie Moore Memorial Project.
