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Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Children

needlers fundraising Event
2025 Gala • May 22nd 5:30pm

 

HELPING UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN
DEALING WITH SEVERE AILMENTS

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Annual 2015 Golf Outing   •   August 31st, 2015

 

Charity Giving for Children with Neurological Surgery Needs

Join us for our 2025 Annual Gala honoring

 

Paul Pagano

Director/Team Leader CIT

Joseph Haddad

Owner Truststone Group LLC

at 

230 Fifth Rooftop

Located at 230 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 

on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025

5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.


Proceeds from the event will support sick and underprivileged children in need of critical neurosurgery operations. 

It'll be a terrific time with great food and friends to help out a very worthy cause. We look forward to seeing you!

 

About Our Honorees:


Joseph Haddad
Owner Truststone Group LLC

Joseph Haddad is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with a strong background in consumer products and business development. He graduated from Baruch College in 2018 and began his career at Fashion Options, the family business. While there, he launched a successful division specializing in underwear and loungewear, demonstrating his ability to identify market opportunities and drive growth.

 

Building on this success, Joseph expanded his focus to acquiring and investing in various consumer product businesses, leveraging his expertise in strategic growth and operational management.

 

Beyond his professional endeavors, Joseph is actively involved in philanthropy, dedicating his time and resources to organzations such as the Needlers Foundation and Sephardic Bikur Holim & Renewal.

 

Joseph has been happily married for six years and is the proud father of two wonderful boys.

      

Paul Pagano
Director/Team Leader CIT

Paul Pagano is a Team Leader/Director at CIT Commercial Services a subsidiary of First

Citizens Bank. Paul is responsible for managing his team to deliver high level client

relationships and services. Paul has over 25 years of experience in the financial services

industry. He brings knowledge, professionalism and an understanding of the financial landscape to his clients. Paul is known as a trusted, knowledgeable and innovative client liaison and a leader to his team. Paul brings an accounting background to helping clients succeed and grow.

 

Paul holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting and a Minor in computer science from Iona University. He is an active member in the Needlers Foundation and the Westchester Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Outside of work Paul enjoys time with his wife and three children. When not working, he enjoys time on the golf course.

Please Join Us!
Event Ticket: $400

12 event tickets and distinguished individual recognition at the event: $12,500

6 event tickets with rotating name and logo on screens throughout the event: $5,000

8 event tickets and individual recognition at the event: $7,500
I am unable to attend but I would like to donate to The Needlers Foundation

For more information, please contact:

 

Craig Miller, President

Joseph Ferrone, Treasurer

Jack Hendler, Chairman

needlers_gala@needlers.org

 

Checks can be mailed to:

 

Needlers Foundation

c/o Joseph Ferrone CBIZ

730 Third Avenue,11th Floor

New York, New York 10017

Tel: (917) 969-0208

 

www.Needlers.org

Steering Committee

Marc Federbush         

Anchin Block & Anchin LLP

Elena Goynatsky      

CIT

Vicki Engel         

Merchant Financial

Stephen Grable

Thompson Coburn LLP

Howard Jaslow

Platzer, Swergold, Goldberg, Katz & Jaslow LLP

Athina Koutsoumadi

Forvis Mazars

Lance Singer 

Berkshire Bank

Nicholas Kostopoulos

CBIZ

 

Howard Moore  

CIT

Robert Martucci          

Rosenthal & Rosenthal

Michael Sacco   

CBIZ

Paul Schuldiner          

Rosenthal & Rosenthal

Jeanne Siegel         

Thompson Coburn LLP

Richard I. Simon            

Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C.

Glenn Thomas   

Pathway Capital


 

If you would like to contribute to the raffle please contact: sadler@merchantfinancial.com

sponsorship contacts

Craig Miller, President

  • 917-757-1474


Joseph Ferrone, Treasurer

  • 917-969-0208


Lori Miller, EVP 

914-589-6218


Please contact us directly for sponsorship opportunities or more information.  We look forward to hearing from you and answering your questions.

 

Contact us: needlersfoundation@gmail.com

 

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Italian Night 2015 at Pasquale Rigoletto

Saturday, April 25th, 2015


Started in 2005 Italian night was developed as an intimate evening for some of our most dedicated Needlers. Always thrown at one of New York’s premier Italian restaurants it is an evening that has quickly developed into a highlight of our events calendar growing from a small intimate party into a larger fundraising event.

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Andy Warhol

The Needlers Foundation

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New York, NY 10018            needlersfoundation@gmail.com