{"id":116082,"date":"2023-02-15T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T02:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=116082"},"modified":"2023-02-15T21:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T02:02:36","slug":"valley-youth-house-raises-more-than-340000-and-celebrates-50th-anniversary-at-setting-the-stage-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=116082","title":{"rendered":"Valley Youth House raises more than $340,000 and celebrates  50th anniversary at Setting the Stage event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Setting the Stage 2023 &#8211; From left, Richard Wuerthele, President &amp; CEO of Crayola, Anne Baum, President of LVHN Reilly Children&#8217;s Hospital, Philip C. Jackson, Executive Vice President,\u00a0retired, Univest Bank &amp; Trust Co., Laurie Hackett, Director of Community Relations, Air Products, Tom Harrington, President &amp; Executive Director of Valley Youth House, Irvingka, Easton Area High School Youth Speaker, and Todd Shamash, President &amp; CEO of Capital Blue Cross<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BETHLEHEM, PA (2\/15\/2023)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Valley Youth House is pleased to announce that they have raised more than $340,000 and celebrated 50 years of serving youth and families at their annual\u00a0<em>Setting the Stage\u00a0<\/em>fundraising event.<\/p>\n<p>The event began with a reception and awards ceremony, recognizing Laurie Hackett, Director of Community Relations, Air Products, as their Distinguished Honoree for her enthusiastic engagement as a volunteer and board member with many Lehigh Valley-based nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Setting the Stage<\/em>\u00a0event chairs were also recognized for their leadership of this event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Baum, President, LVHN Reilly Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/li>\n<li>Philip C. Jackson, Executive Vice President,\u00a0<em>retired<\/em>, Univest Bank &amp; Trust Co.<\/li>\n<li>Richard Wuerthele, President &amp; CEO Crayola.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top Sponsors of the event were also recognized and are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diamond Sponsor:<\/li>\n<li>Air Products<\/li>\n<li>Platinum Sponsor:<\/li>\n<li>Crayola<\/li>\n<li>Gold Sponsors<\/li>\n<li>B Braun<\/li>\n<li>Equinox Property Management<\/li>\n<li>Paul &amp; Kym Farr<\/li>\n<li>Follett Products, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Lehigh Valley Health Network<\/li>\n<li>Morton Brown Family Wealth<\/li>\n<li>One Putt Ventures<\/li>\n<li>PPL<\/li>\n<li>Mark &amp; Penelope Tervalon<\/li>\n<li>Truist<\/li>\n<li>Victaulic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Easton Area High School senior Irvingka was also welcomed to the stage as the evening&#8217;s Youth Speaker, to share her inspiring story of overcoming adversity with the help of Valley Youth House&#8217;s programs and services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an incredible evening celebrating 50 years of serving youth and families in our community and raising significant funds for those most in need,&#8221; said Christina J. Schoemaker, Senior Vice President, Development, Grants &amp; Marketing at Valley Youth House. &#8220;We would like to extend a special thanks to our dedicated Honoree, Chairs and Executive Committee for their commitment to our agency and our community,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Following the reception, attendees then attended the Journey &#8220;Freedom Tour&#8221; concert with special guest Toto at the PPL Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Setting the Stage<\/em>\u00a0is Valley Youth House&#8217;s premier fundraising event which celebrates the positive impact that those involved have on the lives of vulnerable individuals in the community. All proceeds from the event will benefit the life-changing programs and services provided to youth and families served by Valley Youth House.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nSarah Pammer, M.A.<br \/>\nCommunications Specialist<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleyyouthhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.valleyyouthhouse.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting the Stage 2023 &#8211; From left, Richard Wuerthele, President &amp; CEO of Crayola, Anne Baum, President of LVHN Reilly Children&#8217;s Hospital, Philip C. Jackson, Executive Vice President,\u00a0retired, Univest Bank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=116082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valley Youth House raises more than $340,000 and celebrates  50th anniversary at Setting the Stage event<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/setting-the-stage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}