Announcing Our First Benefit + The NY Resilience Award

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Event: NY Resilience Award: Healing Through Art
Date & Time: Thursday, December 18, 2025
Location: Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY
Includes: Access to the exhibition and auction, remarks from distinguished surprise guests, and receive a link to try one guided session. Experience the approach you’re funding — safely, privately, and on your schedule.

Art, community, progress.

On December 18 at Agora Gallery (NYC), the MyWhatIf Foundation will host the inaugural NY Resilience Award: Healing PTSD Through Art. This benefit is both a celebration of the healing powers of art and a critical fuel for clinical pilots with major PTSD hospitals and organizations, planned to start in January 2026.

Together, we aim to provide care for 2,500 veterans, civilians and caregivers, and to expand access to our trauma recovery platform through partnerships with PTSD clinics, government agencies, and mental health NGOs. Every ~$100 supports one person’s full healing journey. You can request a demo here.

This is more than an evening of art and philanthropy. It is a chance to stand with trauma survivors and to help deliver a new path of healing. Your participation will directly fund patients access to MyWhatIf’s platform: a safe, story-driven, AI-supported self-help tool that helps people rebuild hope, agency, and resilience after trauma.

Tickets and submissions are open now, and every ticket buyer will receive a link to try one of our sessions first hand. Please share with your friends!

Momentum you are powering

We are building an ethical, scalable, outcome-focused path to trauma recovery. In our first cohort, 82% reported noticeable symptom reduction, 80%+ reported higher hope and agency, 87% would recommend the program, and we recorded zero dropouts due to distress. Built by survivors with PTSD, guided by leading clinicians, and available anytime. HIPAA and GDPR compliant — research uses anonymized data only.

Open Call to Artists:
The NY Resilience Award: Healing Through Art

We invite artists whose work explores resilience, healing, and possibility to submit to The NY Resilience Award. Finalists will be showcased at our benefit and in an online exhibition.

The Judges

• Lisa Berman, museum curator and Director of WAM-The Wearable Art Museum

• Vita Eruhimovitz, Los Angeles based artist, curator, and art writer

What to know

• All mediums welcome, emerging and established artists encouraged

• Themes of hope, recovery, and agency are especially relevant

• Finalists will be featured in both our online and gallery (NYC) auctions

Submit your work →

Supporters and Collectors: Buy Tickets and Join Us

Be part of a night that turns art into access. Your ticket helps deliver our six week, self guided program to people living with trauma. You will experience original works from award finalists, connect with our community, hear brief remarks from distinguished surprise guests, and receive a unique link to try a MyWhatIf session yourself.

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Cannot attend in person? Make a gift instead →

Sponsors: Make a Big Impact and Address Our Guests

Sponsorship moves this mission forward, from clinical pilots to national access. Benefits include brand recognition across event assets, concierge introductions, and an opportunity to speak to our distinguished guests at the benefit.

Well suited for

• Organizations committed to mental health, veterans, arts, and science

• Impact driven brands seeking measurable outcomes and meaningful engagement

• Philanthropic leaders who want to help scale ethical, private, always on care

Look at the sponsorship tiers →

Request the sponsor kit and schedule a brief call →

Where your support goes

This first benefit funds clinical pilots with leading PTSD hospitals and organizations, delivers care to 2,500 people, and expands access for veterans, families, and caregivers. Every contribution delivers more care, accelerates Hebrew, Arabic, and Ukrainian rollout, and helps us reach people when they need it most.

With gratitude to our sponsors and partners`

With gratitude to our partners who make this possible: The STAR Network, LABA, Agora Gallery, and NY Art Competitions for The NY Resilience Award — thank you for turning art into access.

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