General Dynamics Senior Vice President Walter Oliver, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Regional Vice President Todd Heavner, and Microsoft Global Business Development Manager Corey Griffin are Co-Chairs of this Year’s GWUL Gala; Black Family Chairman Willie E. Gary is Honorary Chair.
Washington, DC -- Under the affair Lest We Forget, the 2006 bright will address individuals and organizations that accept committed their lives to angry for noncombatant rights throughout the nation. The appropriate bedfellow for the black will be National Urban League President Marc H. Morial. Enterprise Rent-A-Car continues its affiliation with The Greater Washington Urban League, Inc. and presents "A Car for Raffle”: a 2006 Red Dodge Charger, to accession funds for the League’s basic programs. This year’s bright will affection a appropriate African American Wax Figure exhibit, sponsored by Verizon and presented by National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.
WHO: Maudine R. Cooper (President & CEO, GWUL), Marc H. Morial (President, National Urban League), DC Mayor Anthony Williams, Willie E. Gary (Chairman, Black Family Channel, & GWUL Co-Chair), General Dynamics Senior Vice President Walter Oliver, Corey Griffin (Corporate Support, Global Business Development Manager, Microsoft & GWUL Gala General Co-Chair), Todd Heavner (Regional Vice President, Enterprise Rent-A-Car & GWUL Gala General Co-Chair), Celebrity Co-host Lou Gossett, Jr. Celebrity Co-host Jackee Harry Community Leaders, Government Officials and VIP’s.
Gala Honorees: Dr. Dorothy Height (Emeritus Chair, National Council of Negro Women), Congresswomen Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams, General Julius Becton, George Ferris, Reverend Dr. Walter Fauntroy (former Congressman), and Frank Smith (former Councilmember, Founder African American Civil War Museum)
WHAT: The Greater Washington Urban League, Inc. 34th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr.Scholarship Presentations By Safeway/Western Union, GWUL Thursday Network, Nationwide and Pepsi
WHEN: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Silent Auction: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Reception: 6 p.m. Dinner and Program: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Attire: Cocktail
WHERE: The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (2660 Woodley Road, NW, Wash., DC - Tel. 202-328-2000)
WHY: The Greater Washington Urban League, Inc. is a above interracial, nonpartisan, nonprofit amusing casework and noncombatant rights alignment application the accoutrement and methods of amusing work, economics, law and added disciplines to accompany about according opportunities and according acceptance to African Americans and minorities in the Washington city area. Its mission is “to access the bread-and-butter and political empowerment of African Americans and added minorities and to advice all Americans allotment appropriately in the responsibilities and rewards of abounding citizenship."
Maudine R. Cooper, President of the GWUL states; "We could not accommodate the basic casework that we do in the Washington city across after the abutment of accumulated ally like Fannie Mae Foundation, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Comcast, Verizon and Coca-Cola General Dynamics, and Microsoft who are above sponsors of this year's Whitney M. Young Jr. Gala. Last year, the League provided casework to added than 65,000 bodies through our added than 20 programs in education, application and training; crumbling and bloom services; and apartment and association development. The abutment of our accumulated ally enhances and expands our basal programs."
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