What is Deliver the Dream (DTD)?
Pat Moran, chairman of JM Family Enterprises Inc., founded DTD in 2002 as a nonprofit respite and retreat program to serve families facing serious illness or crisis. It offers retreat weekends, which combine recreational activitieswith therapeutic workshops, peer-to-peer discussion groups, and more, all at no cost to participants. What are the foundation’s biggest events? It has three major annual events: the Denim & Diamonds gala for more than 700 guests in Boca Raton; the Jeans & Dreams gala for more than 400 guests in Jacksonville; and the JM Lexus Charity Golf Event for more than 200 golfers and guests in Boca Raton. Flannery also organizes C.E.O. breakfasts and luncheons, recruitment meetings, and the retreat programs for DTD’s beneficiaries. How long have you worked at the foundation? “I came on board this January, right before the Denim & Diamonds gala, which was being held a month later. At the same time, the foundation was planning Jeans & Dreams-for the first time ever. It wa
