The Cooper Foundation set a new fundraising record. The nonprofit raised nearly $4 million for its 13th Annual Red Hot Gala, being held Friday night, according to an announcement from George E. Norcross III, chairman of the board of trustees of Cooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, and Philip A. Norcross, chairman of the Cooper Foundation board.
More than 975 guests are expected to attend this year’s event, which is dedicated to Bernard and Shirlee Brown, on behalf of their children and presenting sponsors Sidney and Sandy Brown, Jeff and Tracy Brown, Anne E. Koons and the family businesses, NFI and Vineland Construction Co.