The Georgia Center for Nonprofits is appreciative to advertise that Ingrid Saunders Jones and Usher Raymond IV will be recipients of the anniversary Revolutions Philanthropic Awards. Taking abode on May 12, 2009 at AmericasMart in Atlanta, Ga., the Revolutions awards celebration will admit both humanitarians for their active efforts to advance communities above the globe.
Atlanta, GA -- The Georgia Center for Nonprofits is appreciative to advertise that Ingrid Saunders Jones and Usher Raymond IV will be recipients of the anniversary Revolutions Philanthropic Awards. Taking abode on May 12, 2009 during the 18th Annual Nonrprofit Summit at AmericasMart in Atlanta, Ga., the Revolutions awards celebration will admit both humanitarians for their active efforts to advance communities above the globe.
Ingrid Saunders Jones, administrator of The Coca-Cola Foundation and chief carnality admiral of all-around association access at The Coca-Cola Company, will accept the 2009 Legendary Philanthropic Leader Award for her bequest as a association advocate for over three decades. Under her leadership, the Foundation has contributed added than $256 actor appear initiatives announcement education, conservation, diet and recycling. "A abecedary at heart," Ms. Jones has led the Foundation to accommodate added than 2,500 scholarships to top academy acceptance above the country. Recognized by Essence annual in 2007 as one of 11 civic "Women of Influence" and by the National Urban League with a "Women of Power" award, she continues to accumulate accolades for her boundless impact.
I Can't But You Can It is a advantage and account to admit both Ingrid Saunders Jones and Usher for their advocate administration in philanthropy Usher Raymond IV, administrator and architect of Usher's New Look, will accept the 2009 Emerging Philanthropist Award for his charge to mentoring disadvantaged youth. His flagship activity is Camp New Look, which has mentored over 1,300 accomplished adolescence from assorted socioeconomic backgrounds. Through his efforts with the "Our Block" program, he helped over 750 families in New Orleans re-establish apartment and provided over 1,200 families with aliment and clothing. Most recently, he implemented the "I Can't But You Can" attack to activate aborigine allotment and adolescence engagement. As a appropriate account for his achievements beneath this program, he and associates of the alignment were arrive to appear the 2009 presidential inauguration.
Previous winners of the Revolutions Awards for Emerging Philanthropists are: Sara Blakely, architect and CEO of The Sara Blakely Foundation Inc., and Keith Brookings, architect of The Keith Brookings Children's Foundation.
Previous winners of the Revolutions Awards for Legendary Philanthropic Leaders are: Roberta (Bobbi) Cleveland, admiral of the Tull Foundation, and Evern Cooper Epps, admiral of the UPS Foundation.
"It is a advantage and account to admit both Ingrid Saunders Jones and Usher for their advocate administration in philanthropy," declared Karen Beavor, President and CEO of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits.
A absolute of four Revolutions awards will be accustomed on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at the 18th Annual Nonprofit Summit. The Summit is the better acquisition of nonprofit professionals in the Southeast, bringing calm hundreds of leaders from the corporate, government and nonprofit arenas to barter account and solutions surrounding the top issues impacting our communities.
About the Georgia Center for Nonprofits
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits works to serve, strengthen and abutment nonprofit organizations, by accouterment them with the assets and accoutrement they charge to be a lot of effective; announcement partnerships amid nonprofits and foundations, businesses and government to accommodated analytical needs; and allowance accompaniment and bounded policy-makers and the accessible accept and abutment the plan of nonprofits.
For added advice on the Nonprofit Summit amuse appointment www.gcn.org or acquaintance Nancy Longacre at 678-916-30303 or at nlongacre (at) gcn (dot) org.
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