Usher Raymond IV And Ingrid Saunders Jones To Receive Revolutions Awards For Commitment To Philanthropy

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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Georgia Leaders Honored As Revolutions Award Recipients at 2009 Nonprofit Summit

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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