“Once in a Lifetime Gala and Auction” featuring TobyMac. This year’s celebration has a superhero theme. All proceeds benefit cancer research to find the “homerun” cure for all cancers through The Cure Starts Now Foundation. Seated gourmet dinner, full open bar all evening, after party until midnight (includes entertainment), post-event food, and a giveaway. Bidding is mobile so bring a fully-charged phone. TobyMac will perform “Speak Life” at the gala. Tickets start at $150, attire is semi-formal to formal (superhero costumes welcome).

Now an international organization raising funds to cure DIPG and other cancers, The Cure Starts Now was started by a local Catholic family whose daughter, Elena Desserich, passed away at age five. The foundation does not fund embryonic stem cell research.