Black Tie Co-Chairs Dustin Vyers and Regina Lyn Pierce announced a record-breaking total of $1.73 million Black Tie ended a record-breaking year with its Wrap Party on Dec.
14 at Gilley’s Southside Music Hall, during which Co-chairs Regina Lyn Pierce and Dustin Vyers announced that the organization had raised an unprecedented total of $1.73 million for its 19 beneficiaries in 2023 and that, for the first time in its history, Black Tie would be dividing more than $1 million to local beneficiaries.
Local beneficiaries this year and the amount they received from Black Tie were: AIDS Services of Dallas ($55,292.27); Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star ($66,730.52) Black Trans Advocacy Coalition ($62,536.02); Cathedral of Hope UCC ($52,386.02); Coalition for Aging LGBT ($54,102.52) Dallas Hope Charities ($52,337.77); Equality Texas Foundation ,($55,5176.27) Help Center for LGBT Health & Wellness ($73,443.52) Legacy Cares ($51,732.02) Northaven United Methodist Church ($85,020.27); Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas ($80,883.27); Pride Frisco ($28,258.64); Resource Center ($67,214.77); Synergy Wesley Foundation ($51,923.27); Texas Health Action ($25,280.51); The Women’s Chorus of Dallas ($54,483.02); Turtle Creek Chorale ($61,886.02), and Uptown Players, Inc. ($64,722.27).
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Black Tie’s national beneficiary each year, received $686,250 this year. The Black Tie co-chairs and board members kicked off this year’s events with the new Dessert B4 Dinner reception May 4 in The Rose Room, inside S4.