EVENT DETAILS

ANNUAL SPRING LUNCHEON

Each year, the New Canaan Community Foundation’s luncheon brings our residents together to raise critical funds in support of our mission and to engage in meaningful dialogue about the challenges facing our neighbors. It is an opportunity to gather with friends and fellow supporters around a shared commitment to impact.

This year’s luncheon will take place on Thursday, May 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Country Club of New Canaan.

We are honored to welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Andrea Elliott, joined onstage by Dasani Coates, whose life story is at the center of Elliott’s acclaimed book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City. Together, they will lead a thoughtful conversation about poverty, resilience, and what it means to be better advocates and neighbors, both locally and beyond.

FEATURING

Dasani Coates’s story has appeared on the front pages of The New York Times. Alongside her siblings, she has navigated childhood amid inequality, hunger, violence, addiction, and homelessness. Her experience reflects a broader reality: nearly 1.38 million school-aged children in the United States experience homelessness, including approximately one in twelve children in nearby New York City.

NCCF's luncheon offers an opportunity to come together as a community to explore urgent issues, and a meaningful way to support the Foundation’s work to strengthen lives and opportunities close to home.