The Homeless Advocacy Project held its Annual Benefit on April 24, 2008. All proceeds of the silent auction and cocktail party, presented by Morgan Lewis, PECO Energy Company, Dechert LLP, and Saul Ewing LLP, benefited HAP. This year's benefit raised over $175,000 for HAP. HAP would like to thank the following sponsors of the event:

2008 PRESENTERS: MORGAN LEWIS, DECHERT LLP, SAUL EWING LLP, and PECO ENERGY 

CHAMPION: REED SMITH LLP

AMBASSADOR: Blank Rome LLP, Ethan Fogel, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, Robert Keith, Pepper Hamilton LLP

DIPLOMAT: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Duane Morris LLP, Jack Foltz, Esq.

PARTNER: Norman S. Cohen, Gibbons P.C., White and Williams LLP

BENEFACTOR: Aqua Pennsylvania, Arronson Foundation, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, Cozen O'Connor Foundation, Dilworth Paxson LLP, DLA Piper LLP, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Gregory Kleiber, Esq., Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers LLP, Lori Lasher, Esq., Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads LLP, Obermayer Rebman Maxwell & Hippel LLP, Reilly, Janiczek & McDevitt P.C., Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky P.C., Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis LLP

PATRON: Arkema, Avery Foundation, Curtin & Heefner LLP, Charles and Courtney Ercole, Christopher Fallon, Jr., Esq., Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock, Ellen and James Greenlee, Thomas Holland, Esq., Independence Blue Cross, Kent & McBride P.C., Kline & Specter P.C., Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, The Martin Foundation, McEldrew & Fullam P.C., Mitts, Milavec, LLC, Philadelphia Bar Association, Post & Schell P.C., Raynes McCarty, Madeline Sherry, Esq., Julius Steiner, Esq., Stevens & Lee PC, Thomas and Julie Wamser, White and Williams LLP, Wolf Block LLP, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

FRIEND: Beneficial Savings Bank, Caesar, Revise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, LTD, Center for Forensic Economic Studies, Ashely Chan, Esq., The Chartwell Law Offices, Lenard Cohen, Esq., Cohen Segalis Pallas Greenhall & Furman P.C., Conrad, O'Brien, Gellman & Rohn P.C., Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot LLC, Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck P.C., Galfand Berger LLP, Gay, Chacker & Mittin, Judi Greif, James DeCrescenzo Reporting, LLC, Jerome Kaplan and Howard Soloman, Michael LiPuma, Esq., Lundy Law, Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien & Courtney P.C., Martin, Banks, Pond Lehocky & Wilson, McCarter & English LLP, Medical Rehabilitation Centers of Pennsylvnia, Jeffrey and Joy Palazzese, Parente Randolph LLP, Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Nancy Rogers , Rohm and Haas, Marnie Simon and Jeff Porter, Spector Gadon & Rosen P.C., Blaine Stanley, Esq., Talone & Associates, The Thistle Law Firm

Other Supporters: Abelson Legal Search, David Anstice, Elisa Barbis, Esq., Ruth Brader, Sheri Brutsch, Robert H.G. Chan, Joseph Dworetzky, Eric Fikry, Kaplan Leaman and Wolfe, Levine Fidellow Consulting, Inc., Littler Mendelson, Alan Margolis, Mark McCabe, McLaughlin & Associates, Reaves Lukens, Stephanie Resnick, Rita Ricelli, Schwabenland and Ryan P.C., Denis Suplee, Scott & Cynthia Towers, Laura Weinbaum, Merle Zucker

In-Kind Contributors: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, Cozen O'Connor, Dechert LLP, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Lexis Nexis, PECO Energy, Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Foundation, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Reed Smith, The Reliable Companies, Relizon

Photos from the 2008 April Benefit
April Benefit 2008   April Benefit 2008
Pictured from left to right: HAP’s Executive Director Marsha Cohen, Mayor Michael Nutter and HAP Benefit Co-Chair Madeline Sherry.   Pictured from left to right: Mayor Michael Nutter, HAP’s Executive Director Marsha Cohen, and HAP Board President Ethan Fogel.


 



Homeless Advocacy Project
42 S. 15th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (215) 523-9595 or (800) 837-2672  
Fax: (215) 981-3866
Email: marsha@philalegal.org

April Benefit 2007
2007 Benefit - from left to right, bottom row: HAP's Executive Director Marsha Cohen; HAP Benefit Co-chair Madeline Sherry of Gibbons P.C.; HAP Development Director Andrea Bloch; HAP Benefit Co-chair Blaine Stanley of ACE-INA. Back row: PECO's Corporate Contributions Manager Wade Colclough; HAP Board Member Ken Kulak of Morgan Lewis; HAP Board President Jeffrey Palazzese of the Reliable Companies; and Managing Partner of the Morgan Lewis Philadelphia office Gordon Cooney, Jr.