{"id":9840,"date":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-managers-help-raise-17-million-at-downsized-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/hedge-fund-managers-help-raise-17-million-at-downsized-gala.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Managers Help Raise $1.7 Million at Downsized Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The annual Hedge Funds Care benefit &#8211; &#8211; backed by Kenneth Tropin and Michael Vranos &#8212; will downsize from a black-tie dinner to a cocktail party tomorrow night in New York. <\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit, which aids child-abuse prevention programs, is hoping a laidback atmosphere will encourage some donors to write bigger checks &#8212; and allow jobless hedge-fund managers to network while eating mini-hot dogs and shrimp instead of filet mignon. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A formal, sit-down dinner wouldn&rsquo;t have been the most appropriate thing to do when times are so bad,&rdquo; Kathryn Conroy, the organization&rsquo;s executive director, said in a telephone interview. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&#038;sid=a2mMMWFfHrc8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The annual Hedge Funds Care benefit &#8211; &#8211; backed by Kenneth Tropin and Michael Vranos &#8212; will downsize from a black-tie dinner to a cocktail party tomorrow night in New York. The nonprofit, which aids child-abuse prevention programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7251,7260,7255,7253,7252,1220,7261,3679,3342,2222,7259,7254,7258,7262,1406,7256,7263,7257],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-abuse-prevention-programs","tag-black-tie","tag-care-benefit","tag-child-abuse-prevention","tag-child-abuse-prevention-programs","tag-cocktail-party","tag-conroy","tag-donors","tag-executive-director","tag-hedge-fund-managers","tag-hot-dogs","tag-michael-vranos","tag-party-tomorrow","tag-shrimp","tag-telephone-interview","tag-tie-dinner","tag-tomorrow-night","tag-tropin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}