Global Rescue Dinner

Event details

Join us at the 2025 Global Rescue Dinner.

We are living through a tumultuous time. This is especially true in conflict zones, where humanitarian need is rising while resources are shrinking.

The IRC’s commitment to impactful, innovative and scalable programs has never been more needed. At this pivotal time, we need you to join us in meeting the moment. We hope to see you in New York on November 6.

Table levels

$1,000,000 Honorary Chair

Includes up to two premier tables with seating for 20 guests; special Honorary Chair acknowledgment at the reception and dinner; prominent acknowledgment in all event materials and on the IRC event website; IRC program staff available to join your table; invitations to private briefings on IRC programming.

$500,000 Rescue Ambassador

Includes a premier table with seating for 10 guests; special acknowledgment at the reception and dinner; prominent acknowledgment in all event materials and on the IRC event website; IRC program staff available to join your table; invitations to private briefings on IRC programming.

$250,000 Rescue Leader

Includes a prime table with seating for 10 guests; acknowledgment at the dinner, in all event materials, and on the IRC event website; IRC program staff available to join your table; invitations to private briefings on IRC programming.

$100,000 Rescue Patron

Includes preferred table with seating for 10 guests; acknowledgment in all event materials and on the IRC event website; invitations to private briefings on IRC programming.

$50,000 Rescue Sponsor

Includes table with seating for 10 guests; acknowledgment in all event materials and on the IRC event website.

Honoree

Each year the Freedom Award and John C. Whitehead Humanitarian Award are given to extraordinary individuals who make significant contributions to saving and improving lives around the world. This year’s Freedom Award honoree is Lynsey Addario and the John C. Whitehead Humanitarian Award is posthumously bestowed to Susan Wojcicki.

Susan Wojcicki
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Susan Wojcicki
She began her career at Intel and became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she and her husband Dennis rented their garage to Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. As Google’s 16th employee and first marketing manager, Susan helped create the company’s logo, developed AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Books, Google Images, and led the acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick.
In 2013, AdWeek called Susan “the most important person in advertising.” In 2015, TIME named her one of the 100 most influential people, and in 2017 the same publication named her “the most powerful woman on the internet.”
Susan graduated with honors from Harvard University, held a master's in economics from UC Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. She served on the boards of directors for Salesforce, Waymo, and Planet Labs, as well as the boards of Room to Read and Environmental Defense Fund.
Lynsey Addario
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Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist, who has been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa on assignment for The New York Times and National Geographic for more than two decades. Since September 11, 2001, Addario has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Syria, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
In 2015, American Photo Magazine named Lynsey as one of five most influential photographers of the past 25 years, saying she changed the way we saw the world's conflicts.
Addario is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur fellowship, two Pulitzer Prizes for overseas reporting (she was part of the New York Times team who won for the Ukraine War 2023, and the NYT team for Afghanistan Pakistan coverage in 2009) and a Pulitzer finalist for Feature photography 2025 for her story on a young Ukrainian girl with cancer, a finalist in Breaking News Photography out of Ukraine 2023; she recently won a Polk award for her Ukraine coverage in 2022, an Overseas Press Club President’s Award and Olivier Rebbot Award, and two Emmy nominations. She holds five Honorary Doctorate Degrees for her professional accomplishments from Barnard University, The School of Visual Arts, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bates College in Maine, and University of York in England.
In 2015, Addario wrote a New York Times best-selling memoir, "It's What I Do," which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. In 2018, she released her first solo collection of photography, “Of Love and War,” published by Penguin Press. A feature documentary on Addario’s life directed by Oscar-winning directors of the film “Free Solo”, Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi, will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival 2025.