Page 8 - Boca Exposure - December '23

Page 8, Boca Exposure
Men Giving Back Awards $530,000 To 24 Local Nonprofits

During Third Annual Golden Grants Awards Event

Nearly 250 members, nonprofit nominees, and invited During the event, finalists were
guests of Men Giving Back (MGB) South Palm Beach chosen randomly by the selection
County gathered at the Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club on of 12 Golden Balls from a draw
Nov. 15 for the Third Annual Golden Grants event. Attendees cage. Then, the four major grant
enjoyed lively music, a raffle with jewelry generously award winners were determined
donated by Diamonds Direct, top-shelf cocktails, and dinner by spins of the wheel of giving,
as they honored representatives of the 24 charities selected with each receiving $100,000. The
as semifinalists for this year’s major grants. remaining finalists and semifinalists
More than 85 local charities submitted nominations for the also received funds, with a total of
Golden Grants awards, and, after intense application reviews, $530,000 granted during the event,
24 received the much-anticipated Golden Ball announcement exceeding that of 2021 and 2022
notifying them of their selection as a semifinalist. combined, the first two years of Men
Giving Back’s grant program. Golden Grants top award winners: Boca Helping Hands, Hanley Foundation,
Winners of the 2023 Golden American Association of Caregiving Youth, Love Serving Autism
Grants ($100,000 each) were:
American Association of Caregiving
Youth; Boca Helping Hands; the
Hanley Foundation; and Love
Serving Autism.
“It’s hard to describe the joy we all
feel as a group to have an opportunity
to help so many impactful charities,”
said Dr. Nathan Nachles, one of the
founding members of Men Giving
Back. “Listening to their inspirational
stories of the work they do in our
Ellen Okrent of Fuller Center with Dr. Nathan Nachles and community every single day, and
Bill Donnell knowing how critical these funds are
to support their mission … it’s truly
our honor to help each and every one Men Giving Back Board Of Directors 2023
of them.”
Finalists of the 2023 Golden Grants ($12,500 each) were: PROPEL, Special Spaces, Sweet Dream Makers, and Take
Best Foot Forward, Boca Raton Rotary Fund, Caridad Center, Stock in Children PBC.
Feeding Palm Beach County, Fuller Center, HomeSafe, Sponsors of the event included Amzak Capital
Kindness Matters 365, and Roots and Wings. Management, The Brad Ginsberg Family Foundation, The
Semifinalists of the 2023 Golden Grants ($2,500 each) Learning Experience, Casa de Montecristo, EPIC Insurance
were: The Achievement Centers for Children and Families, Brokers, NCCI, The Nose & Sinus Institute of Boca Raton,
Boca West Children’s Foundation, Families First, the George and Jon Sahn Limousine Services.
Snow Scholarship Fund, Homeless Coalition of PBC, In the
Pines, the Milagro Center, Nat King Cole Generation Hope, Men Giving Back on page 9

Paco Velez from Feeding Palm Beach County with Dr.
Nathan Nachles and Bill Donnell

Dr. Nathan Nachles with Vanessa Havenet from Boca Raton
Rotary Fund

Robert Snyder with Laura Kallus, Caridad Center

Matthew Ladika from Home Safe; Dr. Nathan Nachles; Laura
Barker, HomeSafe; Bill Donnell