The 2025 SeriousFun Youngsters’s Community fundraising gala, A Evening of SeriousFun, will happen on April 7 on the Lincoln Middle in New York Metropolis. Held in honor of founder Paul Newman’s one centesimal birthday, the centerpiece of the 2025 gala might be a 90-minute stay present that includes SeriousFun campers and visitor performers.
Featured expertise at this 12 months’s gala contains Adam Driver, Ali Stroker, Darren Criss, Gregory Porter, Kevin Kline, Matthew Broderick, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Paul Rudd, Peter Gallagher and Tom Hanks.
Ticket gross sales for the occasion will additional SeriousFun’s mission to “present children residing with critical diseases an opportunity to reclaim their childhood, expertise the pure pleasure of camp for gratis, discover connection, and as Paul cherished to say, ‘relax and lift a bit hell.’”
“We stay up for persevering with Paul’s daring imaginative and prescient to function many youngsters and households in want as doable this coming 12 months,” mentioned SeriousFun Youngsters’s Community CEO Blake Maher. “With the essential assist of our beneficiant supporters and volunteers, SeriousFun has delivered greater than two million camp experiences to youngsters and households the world over, empowering them to bypass the boundaries of their situations to construct neighborhood and resilience.”
SeriousFun member camps are impartial, not-for-profit organizations that rely on personal funding to serve youngsters freed from cost. SeriousFun applications and services emphasize inclusivity and accessibility, with medical experience enabling camps to help youngsters with situations together with most cancers, HIV, blood problems, coronary heart ailments, neurologic situations, and genetic and metabolic problems.
“It’s actually an honor to assist create a worldwide neighborhood the place children can simply be children and proceed Dad’s legacy of our SeriousFun camps,” mentioned SeriousFun ambassador Clea Newman. “My dad was a trailblazer on all fronts, however there was nothing extra vital to him than giving again and lending his voice and time to help youngsters and their households.”
“It’s superb to witness the enjoyment SeriousFun camps assist unlock for our campers,” SeriousFun board chair John Frascotti added. “A Evening of SeriousFun will showcase simply how transformative this pleasure could be, not simply within the lives of youngsters and their households, however within the lives of everybody who will get concerned with this mission.”
2025 Gala sponsors embrace Newman’s Personal Basis, Synchrony, ASML, Abercrombie & Fitch and Gemline.
