On May 12th, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits appear the winners of the celebrated Revolutions Awards at the 18th Annual Nonprofit Summit at AmericasMart. These winners included Christina Lennon, Skyland Trail, Usher Raymond IV and Ingrid Saunders Jones.
Atlanta, GA -- On May 12th, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits appear the winners of the celebrated Revolutions Awards at the 18th Annual Nonprofit Summit at AmericasMart. These winners included Christina Lennon, Skyland Trail, Usher Raymond IV and Ingrid Saunders Jones.
"The purpose of these awards is to acknowledge, admit and bless advocate and avant-garde leaders and organizations aural Georgia's nonprofit sector. These Revolutions awards winners are examples of what absolutely inspires and motivates our association accustomed and reminds us why we do the plan we do," says Karen Beavor, President and CEO of Georgia Center for Nonprofits.
The purpose of these awards is to acknowledge, admit and bless advocate and avant-garde leaders and organizations aural Georgia's nonprofit sector. These Revolutions awards winners are examples of what absolutely inspires and motivates our association accustomed and reminds us why we do the plan we do I Can't But You Can These ceremoniousness were bestowed to the following:
2009 Revolutions Award for Outstanding Nonprofit Leader to Christina Lennon, Executive Director of the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, for her plan in accouterment eyes and audition casework through education, detection, blockage and analysis for Georgians. During her three-year appellation at the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, she has taken the 57-year-old alignment artificial by accretion appeal and a abbreviating donor abject and angry it about by establishing able-bodied relationships with foundations and by re-vamping programs. These efforts accept resulted in an access of accouterment eye exams and eyeglasses from 400 to 4,000 humans a year, abbreviating costs from $100 per brace of eyeglasses to $25 per pair, and acceleration the amount of surgeries.
2009 Revolutions Award for Outstanding Nonprofit Organization to Skyland Trail for announcement accretion from brainy affliction and adopting reintegration into the community, while allotment adults to abide with address and independence. Before Skyland Trail opened its doors in 1989, Georgians with brainy illnesses faced a abandoned as they approved to arch the gap amid analysis and abiding to association life. Skyland Trail is different to Atlanta with its holistic access of accouterment residential communities and abundant analysis programs including 'recovery communities' abutment systems comprised of 10 to 15 audience with agnate diagnoses and its full-time on-site primary healthcare clinic. Through bookish involvement, educational support, volunteerism, internships and employment, Skyland Trail audience accretion applied alive abilities that acquiesce them to adjust aback into the community.
2009 Revolutions Emerging Philanthropist Award to Usher Raymond IV, Chairman and Founder of Usher's New Look, for his administration in extensive adolescence from assorted socio-economic backgrounds and accouterment them a adventitious to apprentice about the business ancillary of the ball industry. In the accomplished four years, New Look has mentored over 1,300 disadvantaged adolescence from above the country through Camp New Look. In accession Usher launched the "I Can't But You Can" aborigine allotment attack geared appear adolescence ages 17 and beneath area participants completed educational class on the voting action afore traveling out into the association to annals first-time voters. In acceptance of these efforts, he was asked to affirm afore Congress in abutment of legislation auspicious adolescence account engagement.
2009 Revolutions Award for Legendary Philanthropic Leader to Ingrid Saunders Jones, Senior Vice President of Global Community Connections at The Coca-Cola Foundation, for her administration of The Coca-Cola Company's all-around association assurance action which works to accomplish a different and acceptable difference. Under her leadership, The Coca-Cola Foundation has contributed added than $256 actor to apprenticeship and added association initiatives. A abecedary by training, Ms. Jones' charge to apprenticeship and association development extends above the doors of the Coca-Cola accumulated headquarters. She is a axle affiliate of Clark Atlanta University, the Carter Center, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, The Ohio State University President's Council on Women and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
More data on these outstanding winners can be begin on the Georgia Center for Nonprofits website at http://www.gcn.org/Services/GeorgiaNonprofitSummit/RevolutionsAwards2009.aspx
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. More advice can be begin at www.gcn.org
Contact: Lynne Norton, Marketing Manager 678-916-3066 or ln(at)gcn.org.
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