Martin And Jean Shafiroff Host Cocktails For The NY Mission Society Gala

Lighting the way for equity in urban education, Jean Shafiroff and Martin Shafiroff opened their Park Avenue home for a cocktail reception honoring the Mission Society. “This is the kick-off for our gala,” Mission Society of New York President Elsie McCabe Thompson told us. “This year we’re calling it the Founding Families Gala, a theme that underscores not only the history of Mission Society but the history that roughly parallels the history of New York. It was just two decades after NYC was the capitol of the nation that Mission Society was founded. Back then, NYC was less than 100,000 people. We’ve always tried to take care of those new residents who were less able and that’s part of our story.”