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The NAF Ball 2021
November 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - November 20, 2021 @ 1:30 am EST
*Previously known as the PSB. The first major NAF Ball was held on January 10, 1944, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel with 1,200 guests. The Ball honored HRH Princess Juliana, who received “the Annual Award of the NAF” from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The gala dinner was called “The Netherland-America Foundation Ball”. From this celebratory centennial year forward, we are adopting the “NAF Ball” name once again.
To view photos from this year’s Ball please click here!
To view a video of highlights from the Ball please click here!
The NAF Ball (previously known as the PSB*) is an annual elegant and festive black-tie event at which diplomatic envoys and influential leaders and friends of the Dutch-American community from both sides of the pond come together in support of the NAF’s crucial and vital activities. Our popular post-Ball Nightclub will again take place at Freddy’s Heineken Bar.
The NAF Ball is the single largest source of funding for the NAF, the foremost bilateral foundation initiating and supporting high-impact exchanges between the Netherlands and the United States.
Your participation will support our commitment to two important programs of the NAF:
- Education, through the NAF-Fulbright Fellowships awarded to highly talented Dutch and American students pursuing graduate-level studies at universities in each other’s countries. The NAF currently provides 12 Open Study/Research awards, 1 specialized award in Pediatric Cancer Research, and 1 specialized award in Flood Management.
- Culture, through grants to emerging and established visual and performing artists, architects and designers, writers, historians and translators and for historic preservation, to increase the exchange of talent between the United States and the Netherlands.
THE NAF BALL CO-CHAIRS
Alexander J. Roepers
Prof. Dr. Leen Paape, Nyenrode Business University
The NAF BALL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Henk J. Guitjens, NAF Ball Chair and NAF Director – hguitjens@thenaf.org
Age B. Diedrick – NAF Ball Event Director – age.diedrick@verizon.net
Hans Duijf – NAF Ball Ambassador-at-Large – hduijf@thenaf.org
The NAF BALL CHAIRS’ CIRCLE
Priscilla and Andy Bender
Pieter Elbers, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Roel Huinink, JFKIAT
Karina and Paul Klaassen
Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin (Ret.) and Daniel Levin
Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen, Aon
Maggie Timoney, HEINEKEN USA
Claudia and Maarten van Hengel
A special courtesy room-block rate will be offered for a limited time for the nights November 17, 18 and 19, 2021 at:
Park Lane Hotel (located at 36 Central Park South, three doors down from the Plaza)
Park Lane Hotel New York | Central Park Rooms & Luxury Suites (parklanenewyork.com)
For reservations, contact Nick Velez a 212-521-6297 or nvelez@parklanenewyork.com and refer to the Netherland-America Foundation.
In accordance with mandates as stipulated by NY State, please be aware each guest must show the Plaza security proof of vaccinations and matching ID.
Without these documentations, regretfully, entry will be denied. Masks are optional.
Table Reservations may be made directly with age.diedrick@verizon.net
Governor tables for 12 guests $25,000
Benefactor tables for 10 guests $15,000
Patron tables for 10 guests $12,500
Ticket Options:
Supporter Ticket (Includes acknowledgment in program journal): $1,000
Individual Ticket: $675
Junior Tickets (Ages 29 and under): $475
For information on tables, tickets, advertising opportunities, and sponsoring fellowships or other NAF programs, please contact the event director, Ms. Age B. Diedrick – age.diedrick@verizon.net
If you would like to find out more about the generous donors who made this auction possible, then click here.
To view images of the 2019 PSB Ball by Leigh Beckett click here.
To view the video of the 2020 virtual PSB click here.
