CP Community Day 2025

Over 400 members of the CP community joined us for a day of fun, food and friendship at our second CP Community Day on Saturday, June 7th. Despite a rain forecast, the turnout was even greater than our inaugural event last year. With many old friends and new faces, we were overwhelmed by the support of the community. We want to say a special thank you to our presenting sponsor, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for making this event possible.

Our day was filled with activities selected especially for the CP community, including health screenings, employment resources, school options, therapy animals and many more. We also enjoyed food from our gourmet food trucks as well as plenty of prizes and giveaways from our generous sponsors. 

The seated yoga and wheelchair basketball clinic were highlights, and the special singalong with the neurodiverse singing ensembler Cambridge Common Voices kept the crowd cheering. The rain paid us a visit in the final 20 minutes of the event, but that did not dampen our moods. We still managed to announce our raffle with much laughter from our winners and guests alike.

Read a special thank you message from Debby and Peter Weinberg.

Thank you to our event activity partners

• Lunch on the Plaza

  • Tony Dragon’s Grille

  • Mister Softee
  • Columbia University Faculty Club
• Raffle
  • New York Giants
  • Hill House Home
• Giveaways
  • Colgate-Palmolive, Bright Smiles Bright Futures
  • Primark
• Meet & Greet
  • Therapy dog Dakota and owner Jody Grunfeld
  • WFCPC Patient Family Advisory Council PFAC
• Health
  • Columbia Programs in Physical Therapy
  • Columbia Programs in Occupational Therapy 
  • ColumbaDoctors Dentistry
• Wellness & Adaptive Sports
  • Certified yoga instructor Michelle Auerbach
  • Tri-Boro Legends
  • CP Soccer
  • Achilles International
• Equipment
  • ADAPT TechWorks
  • East Coast Orthotics and Prosthetics.
  • TOM Global
  • Tweel's Wheels
• Informational Tabling
  • Movement Recovery Lab
  • Columbia Teachers College Center for Cerebral Palsy Research
  • ROAR Lab
  • Bain Brain Lab
  • Jobpath, Columbia's Disability ERG, and Project PossABILITY
  • iHope
  • CPARF
• Creative
  • Face painting by Julie Morales from Columbia Orthopedics
• Live Performance
  • Neurodiverse vocal ensemble, Cambridge Common Voices

 Thank you to our event sponsors

Thank you to our volunteers

A huge shout out to our nearly 100 volunteers who helped put this event together. They came from many Columbia departments including Columbia Departments of Neurology, Orthopedics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, College of Dental Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, Programs in Physical Therapy, Programs in Occupational Therapy. Thank you also to volunteers from Brooklyn Technical High School and Benjamin N. Cardozo High School who are part of the Columbia Department of Neurology's ACComPLISHED program, and all the staff family and friends who gave us their time and energy.