REPUBLIC and The Cooke Center Acadamey hosted a fundraising event at PUBLIC HOUSE at 140 East 41st Street in Manhattan. Every Thursday evening PUBLIC HOUSE hosts its Charity House contest which rewards the charity cause that can turn out the largest number of people with a grand prize of $3000 to be shared between the cause and the charity organization or team throwing the event. REPUBLIC won the night's contest (beating out 2 other charities, including one supporting medical marijuana!) and raised money towards the Transition to Life program at the Cooke Center Academy, a private high school for children with developmental disorders such as Autism. The Transition to life program receives no state or federal money to operate. It is an essential program for children with special needs to learn how to operate independent lives outside their classrooms once they graduate. The money we raised from your generous attendance went go directly to that program and the production of the several other fundraising projects we have planned for the Cooke Center.
