The food was delicious and the 65 guests were charming, but it was the "favor" selected by 2025 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Mary Martha Pickens that had everyone talking at CCB's Former Chairmen's Dinner on Monday, May 5, at SMU's Meadows Museum. Well-known for her love of travel, Mary Martha chose to give each guest a gold-plated compass with the look and heft of an … [Read more...] about The ‘Ma’ams’ Plus Some Magnificent Art Prettied Up The Crystal Charity Ball’s 2025 Former Chairmen’s Dinner
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JUST IN: Elaine Agather To Be Only The Fourth Woman To Emcee Crystal Charity Fashion Show
What hasn't Elaine Agather done? She's risen to the heights in the world of banking during decades of change. She has had a longtime marriage to Neils Agather (40 years, to be exact). She's been a mother and grandmother. And she has reached the zenith of fashionable fundraising in stiletto heels and boots on both sides of I-30. Besides the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, there's … [Read more...] about JUST IN: Elaine Agather To Be Only The Fourth Woman To Emcee Crystal Charity Fashion Show
Grovel Alert: 2025 Crystal Charity Ball’s 10 Best Dressed Women Fashion Show
If you decided just to settle back for a summer sojourn and put your fundraising off until Labor Day, you might want to make an exception and get that credit card warmed up ASAP. According to 2025 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Mary Martha Pickens and 2025 CCB Fashion Show Chair Amy Hegi, tickets for the fashion show are getting as scarce as a bottle of 2004 Domaine de la … [Read more...] about Grovel Alert: 2025 Crystal Charity Ball’s 10 Best Dressed Women Fashion Show
MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2025 Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show And Luncheon Announcement
Instead of holding a nighttime event to announce the women who would be honored at the annual Crystal Charity Ball Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show, it was decided to have it late morning on Wednesday, April 9, at NorthPark Center’s Neiman Marcus. It was an unusually special occasion, since Neiman Marcus had become a part of Saks Global this past December. On hand for the day’s … [Read more...] about MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2025 Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show And Luncheon Announcement
JUST IN: 2025 Crystal Charity Ball’s Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show Reservation Forms Are Online
Since the announcement of the 2025 Crystal Charity Ball’s Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show and Luncheon, folks have been standing by their mailboxes waiting for their contracts to sign up for their places at the fundraiser at Neiman Marcus Downtown on Thursday, September 11. So the printed contracts were sent Monday in the mail to luncheon patrons. To ease the mailperson’s … [Read more...] about JUST IN: 2025 Crystal Charity Ball’s Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show Reservation Forms Are Online
JUST IN: 2025 Ten Best Dressed, Hall Of Famer And Plans Announced At NM NorthPark
2025 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Mary Martha Pickens and Ten Best Dressed Luncheon Chair Amy Hegi have just revealed this year's class of 2025 Ten Best Dressed, Hall of Famer and Honorary Chair, with some heavy-hitter luxury fashion folks on hand. For the event taking place this morning at Neiman Marcus NorthPark on the third level, a crowd of fashion-lovers gathered to hear … [Read more...] about JUST IN: 2025 Ten Best Dressed, Hall Of Famer And Plans Announced At NM NorthPark
2022 Crystal Charity Ball Committee Handed Out $9M+ To Dallas County Children’s Non-Profits
2022 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Susan Farris had a very special reason for the 2022 beneficiaries check presentation to take place at Arlington Hall on Tuesday, April 5. It was the spot where she had held a formal tea on Thursday, March 3, honoring the former CCB chairs and kicking off the organization's 70th anniversary year. Now, after months of fundraising, she wanted to … [Read more...] about 2022 Crystal Charity Ball Committee Handed Out $9M+ To Dallas County Children’s Non-Profits
2022 Crystal Charity Ball Wrap Up Lunch Was Charming Despite A Sassetta Slo-Mo Meal
The 2022 Crystal Charity Ball committee members may have felt like it was on Ground Hog Day for its 2022 Wrap Up Luncheon on Wednesday, November 16. With top hospitable greetings from the curb by valet parkers at Headington Companies’ Joule Hotel’s Sassetta restaurant, it had all the signs of a return to pre-pandemic days of seamless eventing. But it didn’t exactly go that way. … [Read more...] about 2022 Crystal Charity Ball Wrap Up Lunch Was Charming Despite A Sassetta Slo-Mo Meal
Crystal Charity Ball Midpoint Luncheon “Jarred” The Top Producers With An Italian Flair
After taking a couple of years to hold their annual Midpoint Luncheon outdoors due to the pandemic, 2022 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Susan Farris and her lead committee team (Underwriting Chair Kristina Whitcomb, Children's Book Chair Lindsay Ballotta, Foundations Chair Elizabeth Gambrell, Silent Auction Chair Mary Martha Pickens and Special Gifts Chair Wendy Messmann) returned … [Read more...] about Crystal Charity Ball Midpoint Luncheon “Jarred” The Top Producers With An Italian Flair
MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2021 Crystal Charity Ball Check Presentation
Despite all the challenges presented by COVID last year, 2021 Crystal Charity Ball Chair Leslie Diers, 2021 CCB Underwriting Chair Cheryl Joyner and the rest of the CCB committee managed to not just raise the needed $$5,391,091 for the eight 2021 beneficiaries (Baylor Scott And White Dallas Foundation, Cafe Momentum, Dallas CASA, Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, Dallas … [Read more...] about MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2021 Crystal Charity Ball Check Presentation
2021 Crystal Charity Ball Brought “Peace, Love, London” Across The Pond For Dallas Children Charities
When the 2020 Crystal Charity Ball’s “Majestic Britannia” had to be canceled due to COVID three months out, 2021 CCB Chair Leslie Diers did the pandemic pivot. With her love of music, and realizing that event producer Tom Addis had already started focusing on across the pond, she decided to keep the British feel but with a bit of Carnaby Street added in. The result was “Peace, … [Read more...] about 2021 Crystal Charity Ball Brought “Peace, Love, London” Across The Pond For Dallas Children Charities