Corporate Giving Partner of the Year

TD Bank

Corporate Volunteer Partner of the Year

Enterprise Holdings

Program Partner of the Year

Blue Wave Aquatics

Agency Partner of the Year

Food Bank of SJ

Keynote Speaker: Marianne Aleardi

President/Publisher, SJ Mag Media

Marianne Aleardi has made women’s empowerment a focus of her career, writing the goal into her company’s mission statement and creating programs and content to further that mission. She is president/publisher of SJ Mag Media, a multi-media company that publishes a monthly print magazine with over 220,000 readers, hosts special events that sell out year after year, and produces the Facebook series ‘The Goal is to Become a Gardener” (averages 58,000 views per episode) and the podcast “Millennials Looking for Mentors” (averaged 25,000 views per episode in first season). Ms. Aleardi has created and hosted 18 Women’s Empowerment Panels and conducted one-on-one interviews with N.J. First Lady Tammy Murphy and former N.J. Health Commissioner Judith Persichelli as part of that series. She has also conducted in-person interviews in front of sold-out audiences with CNN Anchor Jake Tapper, Eagles Coaches Nick Sirianni and Doug Pederson, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Carli Lloyd and the late Carrie Fisher. She serves on several boards and has received numerous awards for her leadership and talent, and has used those abilities to become a great advocate for empowering women.