Celebrating Home & Community Gala 2025
The Glasshouse
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 10:30pm – 1:30am
Join us on Thursday, October 30, 2025 to celebrate Breaking Ground's 35 years of service to New York City and to honor two distinguished individual who has devoted their careers to the creation of affordable housing and economic opportunity for people from all walks of life.
Our Honoree:s
Priscilla Almodovar
President & Chief Executive Officer, Fannie Mae
and
Kathryn S. Wylde
Chief Executive Officer, Partnership for New York City
Gala Co-Chairs:
Michael J. Franco
Michael Lascher
Kara McShane
David Picket
Honoree
Event Details
The Glasshouse
660 12th Ave
New York, NY 10019
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 10:30pm
6:30 PM Cocktails / 7:30 PM Dinner & Program
Dress: Cocktail and Business Attire
Sponsorship
Gala Sponsorships support Breaking Ground's outreach and housing programs that serve more than 13,000 vulnerable New Yorkers each year. Thank you for helping to extend our reach and ensure that Breaking Ground can have the greatest possible impact in New York City.
- Premier table of 12 guests for dinner
- Name/logo displayed on all event signage and materials as Investor Sponsor
- Donor name/logo on Breaking Ground gala web page and recap
- A social media post acknowledging your sponsorship on Breaking Ground’s social media accounts
- Prime table of 10 guests for dinner
- Name/logo displayed on all event signage and materials as Developer Sponsor
- Donor name/logo on Breaking Ground gala web page and recap
- Preferred table of 10 guests for dinner
- Name/logo displayed on all event signage and materials as Builder Sponsor
- Donor name/logo on Breaking Ground gala page and recap
- Half-table of 5 guests for dinner
- Donor name/logo on Breaking Ground gala page and recap
- $5,000: Full-page color digital ad - 8.5"w x 11"h
- $3,500: Half-page color digital ad - 8.5"w x 5.5"h
Format for ads: minimum resolution of 300 DPI – JPEG, EPS or PDF files
Deadline for all ads/greetings: October 9, 2025
Ads will be featured in a continuous loop on large HD screens throughout the event.
Or download and fill out the form below
Sponsorship Form & Benefits Listing
Our Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge this year's Celebrating Home & Community Gala sponsors. Your gifts ensure that Breaking Ground is able to help more of the most vulnerable New Yorkers come indoors and build lives of dignity and security in housing.
Kathryn S. WyldeChief Executive Officer
Kathryn Wylde is the President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit organization whose members are the city’s global business leaders and major employers. The Partnership’s mission is to mobilize private sector resources and expertise to advance New York City’s standing as a global center of economic opportunity, upward mobility, and innovation.
Kathryn is an urban policy expert and represents the business community on issues that impact the economy and public policy more generally. She has written numerous opinion and policy papers and has been widely recognized for her leadership by educational, professional, and nonprofit institutions.
She serves on many boards and advisory groups, including the Fund for Public Schools, Invest Puerto Rico, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York City Tourism + Conventions, NYC Economic Development Corporation, and the NYC Regional Economic Development Council.
Prior to taking over as Partnership CEO in 2000, Wylde was the founding CEO of both the Partnership’s investment fund and housing affiliates. From 1995-2000, Wylde worked with Henry Kravis and Jerry Speyer to establish and manage the Partnership Fund for New York City, a civic fund that is capitalized with $170 million in private contributions.
From 1982 to 1995, Wylde was responsible for developing and managing affordable housing and economic development programs that contributed to the renaissance of blighted urban neighborhoods across the five boroughs. The New York City Housing Partnership was the sponsor of the city’s New Homes and Neighborhood Builders programs, producing more than 35,000 units of new, owner-occupied housing and of the Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Program, which enabled more than fifty minority and women-owned firms to purchase and rehabilitate apartment buildings that were formerly owned by the city.
Before joining the Partnership, Wylde worked in senior positions at the former Anchor Savings Bank and at the former Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She is a native of Madison, Wisconsin.