Ivymount Gala Benefit Dinner and Auction
November 22, 2008
Chairmen: Valerie Turner Polishook and Mildred Bonilla Lucia

We are pleased to announce that the 2008 Gala will be held at the elegant, “Four Star” Mandarin Oriental in Washington, DC. This hotel has won numerous awards including being named Number One in the Top 100 Hotels by Institutional Investors Magazine (2007) and by Travel and Leisure, “Best Hotel in Washington, D.C.” (2005).

Stay tuned for more information, live auction highlights, and pre-event online auction.

“For many of us, Ivymount is the first place where our children’s individual challenges have been understood, where their unique gifts are not only appreciated, but celebrated. Most reassuring for us as parents, Ivymount gives us the opportunity to see our children start to make sense of the world and start to discover the unique role that only they can play.

- Valerie Turner Polishook

“Ivymount is about possibilities. It stands for all that can be for your child. It’s about your child developing the gifts he was given to achieve his rightful place in society.”

- Mildred Bonilla-Lucia