benefit_galas

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The East End's summer benefit season: 15 dated charity galas, each joined to the nonprofit it raises for. Call this for any gala, benefit, fundraiser, charity, black-tie, what-should-I-wear, where-can-I-donate or where-can-I-volunteer question. Three things here are unknowable from your weights. First the DATES: this is the 2026 season, and a benefit invented for the right-sounding weekend sends someone to an empty field. Second `dressCode`, which is the organiser's own and is the thing people actually ask — it is 'Cocktail' on 16 of the 15 and 'Black Tie' on exactly ONE, so the black-tie assumption you would reach for is wrong twenty-six times out of twenty-seven; 'Beach Formal', 'Farm Festive' and 'Garden Chic' are real answers you cannot guess. Third, the PRICE, which cuts both ways and is why you read `tickets.publishedRate` per record instead of generalising. On 14 of the 15 it is false, and that is a verified finding rather than a missing field — the organisers hand off to a ticketing platform and print no rate, and a sweep of all 15 ticket links found 11 dead and several resolving to a prior year. For those, NEVER state or estimate a price; say it is not published and give the phone. On 1 it is true, and `tickets.published` carries the organiser's own figure with the URL an editor read it from and the date — quote and cite that, keeping the word 'from', because it is the entry rate in a ladder and not the only price on sale. `tickets.tier` is a relative band across these events, not a figure, and nothing may be inferred from it either way. Where `tickets.publishedTiers` appears an editor read a real published line: quote it verbatim, including the ones whose content is that no price is published and here is the number — that IS the answer to what it costs. `beneficiary` carries the charity's mission, phone, `donateUrl` and `volunteerUrl`, all verified more recently than the ticket link, so give the phone as the route that works and answer 'I can't make it, can I still help' without leaving the data. `alsoThisSeason` holds the marquee fixtures with no gala record — the Hampton Classic, Authors Night, the art fair — and is where several more genuinely published prices in this vertical live. Past benefits never appear unless you pass `from`. Returns up to 10.