Cocktails for a Cause

Cocktails for a Cause
Saturday, May 6, 1-4pm
Golden Cicada, 195 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ

Featuring Guest Bartender Kimberly Johnson!

Ticket includes: Open Bar (excluding top shelf liquors), food, music by DJ Leeroy Green, raffles, and more!

Raffle prizes include a spa day for 2, a Kate Spade bag, photography session, restaurant gift cards, and more!

Benefitting Lucille & Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp, a free camp for children with cancer and their siblings! Over 25% of campers come from Jersey City & surrounding areas.

Please note that the party will take place outdoors in the Baja Beer Garden but will move indoors in inclement weather. Dress code is casual.

Purchase a Grand Prize Raffle Ticket for $50. The winner gets $1000! Winner need not be present at the event.

To pay by credit card, you must purchase tickets by 5/3. Tickets at the door are cash only and available on a first come, first serve basis.

Cheers to our event co-chairs Allison Cohen, Kimberly Johnson & Mark Stein!

Special thanks to the Meetup Crew for their support!

About Sunrise Day Camp

Watch a video about camp here!

Sunrise Day Camp is the world’s first full-summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings, provided completely free of charge. The Lucille & Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp is the only day camp of its kind in New York City. The camp serves children from New Jersey, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

The camp, which is located in Staten Island on the grounds of Staten Island Academy, serves over 140 children every year. Activities include sports, music, arts & crafts, swimming, and other games.

Unfortunately, throughout the pandemic, we have all experienced firsthand what it feels like for a family of a child with cancer. The fear and uncertainty that we have been feeling is what our campers and their families have felt every day since their diagnoses. That’s why we’re thrilled to be able to host a safe, in-person experience for these children to allow them to socialize and enjoy themselves. Sunrise Day Camp brings back the joys of childhood to children struggling with cancer, transforming months of loneliness and isolation into summers filled with friendship, laughter, and happiness.

Recognizing the extraordinary financial demands that a child’s chronic illness can have on a family, Sunrise Day Camp and its year-round and in-hospital programs, Sunrise Sundays and Sunrise on Wheels, are provided completely free of charge to campers’ families. It costs approximately $6,000 to send a child to camp for the entire summer, which is why your generous support is so important to us!

The camp is administered by the Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island and is a proud member of the Sunrise Association, whose mission is to bring back the joys of childhood to children with cancer and their siblings worldwide.