NEW YORK – Last night, more than 3,500 New Yorkers attended Robin Hood’s annual benefit at the Javits Center to power the philanthropy’s mission to fund opportunity and pathways out of poverty in New York City. The annual benefit raised $72 million, an increase of 6% over the previous year’s total. Since 1988, Robin Hood has invested nearly $3 billion to help New Yorkers permanently escape poverty and 100% of the proceeds funding local grantmaking to provide emergency food, permanent housing, high-quality education, job training and placement in high-growth sectors, access to benefits and legal services, and more serving 2 million New Yorkers living in poverty.

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