Institutional broker BTIG has announced a preliminary list of celebrities slated to attend its annual Commissions for Charities Day.
This year’s event is slated for May 14.
The last Commissions for Charity Day, its 10th anniversary, was held Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. That event raised $4.5 million for various charities. This year the broker hopes to raise more money and awareness.
While the celebrity guest list has yet to be finalized, the following celebrities are confirmed to attend this year’s event: New York Yankees – Joe Girardi, Mark Texiera, Alex Rodriguez, Joe Torres, Reggie Jackson; New York Giants – Tom Coughlin, Victor Cruz, Justin Tuck, Eli Manning; New York Jets – owner Woody Johnson, Rex Ryan, Mark Sanchez; Nick Manchego; model Petra Nemacov; ex-NHL hockey player Jeremy Roenick; former Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim; NASCAR’s Kurt Busch; actor Steve Schirripa; 2013 Miss America Mallory Hagan; 2012 Miss America Kaitlin Monte and sport journalist Hannah Storm.
Steve Starker, BTIG’s co-founder and a managing partner told Traders Magazine that each celebrity guest will make a 20 to 30 minute appearance between 11am and 1pm on the 14th. While on BTIG’s trading floor, celebs will meet employees who are working with clients to execute trades and raise funds, speak to clients briefly on the phone, have pictures taken with children from some of the recipient charity groups and sign some autographs.
“The Charity Day donations we make are the result of a collaborative effort without parallel on Wall Street,” Starker said. “Clients and celebrities come together with the BTIG team to raise money for causes serving children worldwide. BTIG is very grateful to be able to provide this unique opportunity to support children in need.”
Here’s how Commissions for Charity Day works. Commissions from equity, equity derivative and fixed income trades that are executed at BTIG’s New York, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco offices will be donated. Celebrities and other star attendees work alongside BTIG traders answering clients’ calls in order to raise money for a variety of children’s charities.
Here are some of the charities that will receive a portion of the day’s revenues:
Alliance for Lupus Research – http://www.lupusresearch.org
The Guardsmen – http://www.guardsmen.org
Capital for Kids – http://www.capitalforkids.org
March of Dimes – http://www.marchforbabies.org
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research – https://www.michaeljfox.org
Project Sunshine – http://www.projectsunshine.org
Solving Kids Cancer – http://www.solvingkidscancer.org
Last year monies were divvied up between 170 charities, most of which were children’s charities. The 2011 event raised money for 180 Turning Lives Around, Alzheimer’ Society, A Little Hope, Beat the Streets, Fallen Officers, Genocide Intervention Fund , Mothers Against Drunk Driving , March of Dimes, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and the Starlight Children’s Foundation, to name a few.
As is the broker’s longstanding practice, employees and clients not only contribute their time and finances to the event, but they also nominate charities and non-profits for donation consideration. BTIG encourages clients to select child focused organizations.
Over the last eleven years, BTIG’s Charity Day has donated more than $21 million from equity, fixed income and derivative trading commission profits to 350 nonprofit organizations.
BTIG has offices in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Greenwich, Conn., Red Bank, N.J. and Orinda, Calif. The firm also has four overseas affiliates in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
