The Theresa Awards
The Theresa Awards is an annual event to recognize the outstanding efforts of those individuals who go above and beyond in helping and advocating for those with special needs. The Awards are presented at the Annual Theresa Awards Dinner held on the Friday evening closest to Theresa’s birthday. This is the Foundation’s main fundraiser of the year which enables the Foundation to fund programs locally and nationally in music, dance, art, and recreation. Funds raised also support Theresa’s Fun Place, a fully-accessible playground with completely adaptive equipment at the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau campus in Roosevelt, NY.
Congratulations to Michael & Myra Gilfix
Recipients of the 2020 Theresa Award
Thank you to all who participated in the 25th Annual Dinner Dance.
It could not have been as successful without you.
We Acknowledge Our Past Theresa Award Recipients
| 2020 | Michael and
Myra Gilfix |
| 2019 | Tim Nay |
| 2018 | Lora Webster |
| Alfred “Chip” Chiplin (Posthumously) | |
| 2017 | Judy Murdaugh-Jackson |
| H. Amos Goodall, Esq. | |
| Kelly Piacenti | |
| 2016 | Robert McGuire |
| Elizabethanne Miller Angevine, Esq. |
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| Corey B. Bearak, Esq. | |
| 2015 | Fred C. Klein, Esq. |
| Mary Alice Jackson, Esq. | |
| 2014 | John LaSpina |
| Michael Amoruso, Esq. | |
| 2013 | Leo Govoni |
| John J. Ford, Esq. | |
| 2012 | Surf For All (Cliff and Will Skudin & Jim Mulvaney) |
| Joan Lensky Robert, Esq. | |
| 2011 | Bob Policastro |
| Renée Colwill Lovelace, Esq. |
| 2010 | NYS Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg |
| Stephen W. Dale, Esq. | |
| 2009 | Sandy De Ninno-Braun |
| Matthew Makar | |
| Richard A. Courtney, Esq. | |
| 2008 | Sidiki Conde |
| Professor Rebecca Morgan, Esq. | |
| 2007 | Joseph M. Valenzano, Jr. |
| Emily S. Starr, Esq. | |
| 2006 | Scott Pollock |
| Charles P. Sabatino, Esq. | |
| 2005 | Brother Rick Curry, S.J. |
| Stephen J. Silverberg, Esq. | |
| 2004 | Father Jim Maltese |
| Judith A. Stein, Esq. | |
| 2003 | Lisa A. Gatti |
| Mary T. Schmitt Smith, Esq. |
| 2002 | Anthony Caporrino |
| Kate A. Mewhinney, Esq. | |
| 2001 | Laury Adsit-Gelardi |
| Rene H. Reixach, Esq. | |
| 2000 | Hedy & Eric Page |
| Charles R. Robert, Esq. | |
| 1999 | Barbara & Marvin Rachlin |
| Allan D. Bogutz, Esq. | |
| 1998 | Jack J. Britvan |
| Donna R. Bashaw, Esq. | |
| 1997 | Kurt J. Murgo |
| Scott R.Severns, Esq. | |
| 1996 | Richard Northorn/AIHS Tracy Phillips |
| A. Frank Johns, Esq. | |
| 1995 | Colleen M. Moseman |
| Ira S. Wiesner, Esq. |