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 a distinguished individual who has devoted her career to the creation of affordable housing and economic opportunity for people from all walks of life.
Our Honoree:
Priscilla Almodovar
President & Chief Executive Officer, Fannie Mae
Gala Co-Chairs:
Michael J. Franco
President and CFO, Vornado Realty Trust
Michael Lascher
Senior Managing Director, Real Estate – New York, Blackstone
Kara McShane
Managing Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate, Wells Fargo
David Picket
CEO, Gotham Organization, Inc.
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.
Priscilla AlmodovarPresident and Chief Executive Officer
Priscilla Almodovar is President and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae and serves on the company’s board of directors. She has more than 30 years of leadership in finance, real estate, and banking.
With deep expertise in America’s housing finance system, Priscilla leads a company that plays an essential role in the U.S. economy, manages more than $4 trillion in assets, and is a reliable source of affordable mortgage financing for homeowners, homebuyers, and renters across the country.
Before joining Fannie Mae, Priscilla led a national organization focused on investing and increasing the supply of affordable housing, and prior to that was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, where she led two of the firm’s national real estate businesses.
Earlier in her career, she led the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Priscilla started her career specializing in international project finance.
Priscilla has received many recognitions, including being listed as one of Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women, Dow Jones’ MarketWatch 50, CNBC’s Changemakers, and Hispanic Executives’ Leading Latinas.
Priscilla serves on the board of Realty Income (NYSE: O), a real estate investment trust. She also serves on the board of New York Road Runners.