Many organizations use an incredible amount of creativity and thought to touch the lives of those in need. The Medical Missions for Children, founded with the help of Connie Milstein and many others, is one such organization. Their Giggles theater performs in a hospital in New Jersey three times a week to bring laughter and entertainment to sick children. Learn more about their amazing mission here.

View the many videos about the Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center, which Connie Milstein helped to create.  OrLive.com is an incredible resource, offering videos about the cutting-edge technology at the Heart Center, the doctors who work there and the care that patients receive.

Connie Milstein, this year’s Heart’s Delight Chair, and her husband, Jehan-Christophe de La Haye Saint Hilaire, enjoyed a table that was filled with interesting guests at the Vintner’s Dinner.  Such guests included President Obama’s HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Ambassador Capricia Marshall.  In addition, Ambassador of Monaco Gilles Norghes and his wife Ellen were seated there, as were the new deficit czar Bruce Reed and his wife, Bonnie LePard.

The Vintner’s Dinner, included approximately 400 guests.  Guests enjoyed a six-course meal and distinguished wines from Chateau Margaux.

The evening was emceed by CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante.  In attendance were Betsey Apple, Dee Dee Myers and Todd Purdum, John Coale, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker, and ABC News’ reporter Jonathan Karl, among many others.

Each year, the American Heart Association’s Heart’s Delight Auction is held in Washington D.C.  This year, the event took place from May 6-8 and Connie Milstein was the Event Chair.  The Vintners Dinner, which is part of the Heart’s Delight program, included a lavish six course meal that was accompanied by eight wines from Bordeaux.  This picture captured some of the excitement of the event.

Pictured here are Tammy Haddad, Coale Cooley’s John Coale, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Constance Milstein Countess de La Haye St. Hilaire.