Comfort Cases 12th Annual Fundraising Gala

Comfort Cases 2025 Fostering Futures Glitz & Glamour Gala | Dark Blue Background with gold lettering

Comfort Cases 12th Annual Fundraising Gala

Saturday, October 11, 2025

6 PM to 11 PM

Woodmont Country Club

Rockville, Maryland

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Founder Rob Scheer at the Comfort Cases Gala

Providing Hope And Inspiration

Our Annual Fundraising Gala is a celebration of the incredible work we have done as a community to bring dignity and hope to youth in foster care, and to raise funds to ensure this important work continues. Since 2013, we have distributed over 250,000 Comfort Cases and Comfort XL duffel bags to children in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

With 700 children entering foster care every day, and over 430,000 currently in care, we must keep going. Thank you for joining our mission to eliminate trash bags from the system. You are truly making a difference by letting these children know that they matter.

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A Message From Our Founders

The Comfort Cases’ Annual Fundraising Gala is a glamorous fundraiser on the gorgeous grounds of Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Maryland. The event includes awards, auctions, dinner, entertainment, music, dancing, and many more surprises.

Save the date for Saturday, October 11, 2025!

Stay tuned for exciting upcoming announcements tied to the 12th Annual Fundraising Gala!

Rob & Reece Scheer
Founders

The 2025 Fostering Futures Hope Scholarships

In 2015, Comfort Cases began awarding scholarships to support youth in foster care attending college or trade school. Each scholarship will provide tuition assistance to graduating high school seniors enrolled in an accredited undergraduate program or trade school program in the Fall of 2025.

According to the most recent research, less than 3% of youth in foster care graduate from college. The Comfort Cases community is committed to changing that number. Education opens doors to better opportunities, and every child deserves the chance for a bright future.

We will be presenting 7 Hope Scholarships at this year’s Glitz & Glamour Gala!

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2025 Distinguished Guests, Honorees, & Entertainment

2025 Gala Emcee, Jen Lilley

Jen Lilley is an award winning actress, producer, singer philanthropist, and now author, recognized for her roles in both television and film. She first gained prominence through her work on soap operas such as Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. Lilley has also become a beloved leading lady in Great American Family films, making her a household name.

In addition to acting, Lilley launched her music career with the release of her debut Christmas album Tinsel Time, which topped Amazon’s jazz charts, surpassing legends like Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr., and Ella Fitzgerald. In 2020, she released Hindsight, her debut original album, a 60s-style collection featuring new songs with a retro sound and Lilley’s sultry vocals. She used the profits from Hindsight to help open the Tulsa Girls Home, providing care for teen girls in foster care.

Lilley is a passionate advocate for foster care and adoption, drawing from her own experience as a foster parent to multiple children, some of whom she later adopted. She actively raises awareness about the needs of foster children and encourages others to get involved.

As an entrepreneur, Lilley co-founded Christmas is Not Cancelled, which helped provide Christmas presents and school supplies for over 95,000 children and families during its 4-year run. She recently founded Raise the Reel, a groundbreaking platform that helps filmmakers finance and market their films while connecting with fans. Adding author to her resume, Lilley has two books slated for release in 2025.

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2025 Keynote Speaker, Andrew Bridge

Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, he attended Wesleyan University, graduated from Harvard Law School, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. He began his legal career representing children against the State of Alabama, where his work resulted in the closure of one of the country’s most notorious psychiatric institutions, the Eufaula Adolescent Center. Returning to Los Angeles, he became CEO of The Alliance for Children’s Rights, representing children in the foster care system where he grew up. Andrew is the co-founder of National Adoption Day and New Village Girls Academy for pregnant and parenting teens.

His memoir, Hope’s Boy, was a New York Times Bestseller and honored as a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post. His latest book, The Child Catcher, released in September, is also a National Bestseller, earning accolades such as the Kirkus Starred Literary Review and a Best Book of 2024, the PenCraft Book 1st Place Award for Nonfiction Literary Excellence, the Digital Book Today 1st Place Award for Inspirational Nonfiction, a nomination for the American Library Association’s Alex Prize, and the American Writing Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Publisher’s Weekly BookLife praised the book, writing, “Bridge’s most inspiring task is his determination to empower readers with the knowledge to challenge systems that fail vulnerable children.”

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2025 Musical Guests, The “Original” Moonlighters

Since 1990, The Moonlighters have been performing throughout the United States as one of the country’s best-loved and most authentic Motown and variety dance bands.

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