March of Dimes NY/NJ Market, set a fundraising record at its 2025 Westchester/Fairfield Real Estate Awards Breakfast held at the Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase. This was the 38th year for the breakfast. It drew nearly 500 attendees and raised over $1.3 million, a new record, to support March of Dimes research, programs, and advocacy that improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
The event brought together leaders from the real estate and construction industries to celebrate those making an impact on their communities while supporting the mission of March of Dimes.
From left: Joseph Simone, Simone Development Companies; Annette Trotta-Flynn, March of Dimes; Susan Fox; Patricia Valenti; Mark Stagg; Tara Rosenblum.
Honored at the event were Susan Fox, president and CEO of White Plains Hospital and regional senior vice president for the Hudson Valley of Montefiore Einstein and real estate developer Mark Stagg, founder and president of the Stagg Group.
Fox received the Martin S. Berger Lifetime Achievement Award, and Stagg received the March of Dimes Real Estate Award. The award to Fox was presented to her by Joseph Simone, President of Simone Development Companies who is a past recipient of the award. The award to Stagg was presented by Adolfo Carrion Jr., deputy mayor of New York City for housing and economic development and workforce.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the March of Dimes,” Fox said. “For more than 25 years, the March of Dimes and White Plains Hospital have partnered to advance maternal and infant health, and we are so grateful for their research and support which continues to help make the lifesaving work in our NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) possible.”
Mark Stagg through the Stagg Group has built more than 5,000 market rate and affordable housing units, with more than 3,000 additional units in the pipeline. His projects, including The Riverdale Tower and Whitlock Point in the Bronx and West View Apartments in New Rochelle.
“On behalf of Stagg Group and my family, we are humbled to be recognized for our work in the real estate community and for our support of the March of Dimes,” said Stagg. “We also want to congratulate Susan Fox and thank all of the sponsors for their support of the important work that the March of Dimes does to improve health conditions for all mothers and infant children.”
The Westchester/Fairfield Real Estate Awards Breakfast on Nov. 13 was emceed by Tara Rosenblum of News 12 and co-chaired by Patricia Valenti, executive managing director for Newmark, and Don Bucci, managing director for JLL.
This year’s event sponsors included the Kylie and Louis R. Cappelli Foundation, Stagg Group and White Plains Hospital, along with many other corporate and community supporters.
