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The Board of Directors brought back our annual dinner to celebrate you, our donors, and to celebrate life. We thanked everyone who has stood behind the center, especially our Knights of Columbus for their tireless support for life.
Guests saw what your support has made possible, and where the center is headed next. Photographs from the afternoon are further down this page.
On the Program
The 2026 banquet welcomed author and speaker Toni McFadden, and gave the Saint Gianna Life Award to the Knights of Columbus across Connecticut.
Guest Speaker
Author, Redeemed: My Journey after Abortion
Toni is a pro-life advocate and international speaker who tells her own story of abortion and regret with transparency, and leaves her listeners with hope.
She was a featured speaker at the first annual Pennsylvania March for Life in Harrisburg and at the 2022 National March for Life in Washington, D.C. She has co-written op-eds for Students for Life of America, Live Action and Newsweek, has been featured in the Washington Post, and has appeared on Victory News Channel, the 700 Club and Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk.
Saint Gianna Life Award
Every council in Connecticut
We are honoring the pro-life work of all our brother Knights. For many years the courage and love of the Knights has been remarkable in the face of opposition. They honor the sanctity of life through countless sacrifices of time, talent and treasure for vulnerable pregnant women, at-risk families and the unborn.
Whether it is the Aid and Support After Pregnancy program, the Ultrasound Initiative, the annual March for Life or baby bottle fundraising, the Knights always give witness to the Gospel of Life.
Accepting the awardKevin Glazier, Connecticut State Deputy
Sponsorship
Businesses, community groups, and families sponsor the dinner every year. A sponsorship puts your name in front of several hundred guests and puts supplies directly into the hands of new parents.
Sponsorship levels for the next dinner are set each year ahead of the date. Tell us you're interested and we'll send the packet as soon as it's ready.
Sponsors
Sponsors of the annual dinner. There is room here for yours.
Stay in the Loop
Invitations, ticket links, and sponsorship details go out by email and phone first. Send us a note and we'll add you to the list.
Saint Gianna Life Award
Since our founding in 2011, the center has looked for witnesses who offer hope to mothers, fathers, and children, born or unborn, who know deeply that all of human life is sacred.
“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.” St. Peter expressed this well when he held up the example of a reverent and chaste life that wins over even without a word those who refuse to obey the word.
It is therefore primarily by her conduct and by her life that the Church will evangelize the world, in other words, by her living witness of fidelity to the Lord Jesus, the witness of poverty and detachment, of freedom in the face of the powers of this world, in short, the witness of sanctity.
At the annual banquet the people honored and those chosen to speak are some of the witnesses we have met.
2020
Communications Director at the Family Institute of Connecticut. Ms. Bennett worked at ABC Women's Center, where she oversaw the educational programs and managed the volunteer team.
Presented on September 26, 2020 by Carolyn Falcigno, Executive Director, and Phil Liquori, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
2019
A resident of North Branford and a member of St. Ambrose Parish. Since 2006 Mr. Candelora has been a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. He supports pro-family legislation that protects Connecticut's pregnancy resource centers.
2019
Co-founders, benefactors and dedicated volunteers for life. Mike currently serves on the Board of Directors of the center.
2018
A pro-life service organization devoted to promoting a culture of life among Yale students through gestures of volunteering and support.
2017
A priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, and founder and executive director of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants, which paved the way to prayerful, non-confrontational witness to the sacredness of human life.
2016
A priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Among many positions in the Archdiocese he is the past Archdiocesan Director of Pro Life Activities, and his work inspired the founding of the center in New Haven.
2021
The current Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford. He is a strong supporter of pro-life work and witness, and known to fight for what is right and just.
Postponed from 2020 because of Covid.
2019
Executive Director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society.
2018
Founder of Expectant Mother Care FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, New York City's first crisis pregnancy center, supporting pregnant women and girls in need with real alternatives to abortion.
2016
The niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Ms. King is an activist, author, pastor, leader, speaker and former state representative for the 28th District in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Biographies are as they stood at the time of each award. Know someone whose work deserves recognition? Nominations are welcome any time. Send us a name.
From the Dinner
A full room, a Life Award for the Knights of Columbus, and an afternoon of thanking the people who keep the center's doors open.
Between Dinners
You do not have to wait for an invitation. Giving directly does exactly the same good, and every dollar stays in New Haven.