Current/Sherman Group of Merrill Lynch Champions for Children GALA
October 19, 2017 @ 5:30PM — 9:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Join celebrity guest speaker Jim Courier for a cocktail reception, silent and live auctions, dinner, scholarship award presentations to MWYF students, remarks by Courier and more!
The Current / Sherman Group of Merrill Lynch Champion's For Children Gala is the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation's largest annual fundraiser. It serves to recognize its student scholarship award winners and raise awareness and needed funds for its programs by hosting two cocktail receptions, formal dinner, silent auction, live auction, and a celebrity guest speaker.
This year's Gala will take place on Thursday, October 19th at the Florida Blue Conference Center in Jacksonville, FL.The evening will include a cocktail reception, silent and live auctions, dinner, scholarship award presentations to MWYF students, remarks by Courier and more.
The Gala is the largest fundraiser of MWYF and has traditionally raised approximately $250,000.
Former World No. 1 Jim Courier will be the featured speaker! In an ATP career spanning 1988-2000 Jim Courier won four Grand Slam singles crowns, 23 ATP singles titles, reached the #1 world ranking, was a member of two winning United States Davis Cup teams and is one of 16 men in the history of tennis to reach the finals of all four major championships. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in July of 2005.