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Houston is blessed with world-class theater-arts institutions — that know how to party! TUTS honored Jim and Helen Shaffer at its Havana-inspired Guys and Dolls-themed gala, which included a seated dinner on the Hobby Center’s Sarofim stage. Broadway stars joined students from TUTS’ Humphreys School and The River for spirited performances. Meanwhile, the Alley Theatre painted the town with its “Picasso and the Avant-Garde” gala, held at the Post Oak Hotel. The evening honored Lynn Wyatt and raised $1.2 million.



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What is your mission? The Children’s Assessment Center (The CAC) provides healing services to over 6,300 child sexual abuse victims and their families each year. We offer forensic interviewing, family advocacy, mental health services, medical care, and court services at no cost. We facilitate community outreach and prevention training to raise awareness about child abuse in our community and how to keep children safe. Last year, we provided prevention training to over 35,000 community members, including 23,500 children in schools.

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Nadia Hafeez, Shireen Hadi, Sara Perry (photo by Daniel Ortiz)

A ROSTER OF women you might usually see in scrubs and white coats flipped the script and went high-fashion for the Arts of Healing Foundation’s fourth annual Fashion Show at the Post Oak Hotel, celebrating Houston’s Women in Medicine.

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Amy Pierce, Sippi Khurana, Dr Namrata Sharma Goel and Ruchi Muchejee (photo by Daniel Ortiz)

A BIG CROWD turned up at the Post Oak Hotel for the Children at Risk gala, raising some $360,000 focused on “understanding and addressing the root causes of child poverty and inequality,” per its mission statement.

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