2010 Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Opening Gala   2010 The J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding honoring Bill and Melinda Gates   2010 The World Environment Center’s 26th Annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development     2009 George C. Marshall Foundation Award honoring Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates   2009 The Indiana State Society of Washington, DC Inaugural Ball   2008 Children’s Defense Fund’s 35th Anniversary Gala and Show     2006 The J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding honoring President William J. Clinton   2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Opening of Janelia Farm Research Campus   2003 An Evening with the Dalai Lama     2002 Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards dinner honoring David Rockefeller, Natalie Portman, Cindy Sherman and Pinchas Zukerman   2002 Paramount Pictures’ World Premiere of THE SUM OF ALL FEARS   2002 George C. Marshall Foundation Award dinner honoring President George H.W. Bush     1997 Gala Dinner Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan   1996 UNICEF 50th Anniversary Salute and Show   1989 UNICEF Ball honoring Audrey Hepburn chaired by Abe Pollin; tribute by Jack Valenti