The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health 2016 Sports Ball. This will be the 22nd Annual Black Tie & Sneakers Gala. The funds raised at Sports Ball support the Institute’s innovative community health education programs and research initiatives.
VIPS Confirmed to Attend:
Robin Roberts – Four time Emmy winning Co-Anchor, Good Morning America, and Author, Sports Ball Leadership Award honoree.
Howard Cross – Sports Analyst for NBC Sports, Senior Vice President of Cresa New York and NFL Super Bowl Champion.
Tamsen Fadal – Eight-time Emmy® winning journalist, author, co-anchor of PIX 11 News at 5:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m
Mike Woods – Meteorologist, Fox 5’s Good Day New York, and People Magazine’s “Sexiest Anchor Alive”
Steve Lacy – Anchor, Fox 5 News at 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
Teresa Priolo, Reporter, Fox 5 News & Good Day New York.
Ines Rosales, Reporter, Fox 5 Good Day New York.
Loreen Arbus – Disability Rights Activist, Altruist, Producer and Author.
Cheryl Wills – Award-winning NY1 News Anchor and best-selling author. Returning co-host of the gala.
David Ushery – Award-winning NBC 4 New York Anchor, creator of The Debrief with David Ushery, and co-host of Moms and the City and a Dad named David. Co-host of the SportsBall.
Walter T. Mosley – New York State Assemblyman.
Dr. James E. Cottrell – Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Member of the Board of Regents at New York State Education Department.
Richard Levychin – CPA, CGMA, Managing Partner, KBL LLP.
Patrick J. McGovern – Senior Director, Government Affairs, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Dr. Marilyn A. Fraser – CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.
Brett Wright – CEO of Uptown/Hype Hair/UCA, and Board Chair of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.
Ruth C. Browne – President and CEO, Ronald McDonald House® New York. Past CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.
About the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
In 1992, Arthur Ashe established the Institute in partnership with SUNY Downstate intentionally, moved by the institution’s long history of serving immigrants and low-income Brooklyn residents as well as staff and faculty’s research. The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, located in multi-ethnic Brooklyn, collaborates with community members to design, incubate and replicate neighborhood-based interventions that address health conditions that disproportionately affect minorities. Recognizing the complexity of the economic and social determinants of health, we partner with a wide variety of grassroots and institutional organizations to provide after-school science enrichment, outreach initiatives in trusted venues, and research and advocacy. Community Health Empowerment guides and unifies all our work.
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THE HELLENIC INITIATIVE’S 4TH ANNUAL GALA RAISES MORETHAN $2 MILLION Event Honors Greek NGOs METAdrasi & Together for Children; Special Grant Announced for Greek Athletes’ Preparation for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The Hellenic Initiative’s (THI) Fourth Annual Gala took place on September 30 in New York City, and raised a total of more than $2 million, which will be directed in programs that are expected to create a positive, long–‐lasting, impact in Greek society.
With more than 700 guests, THI’s banquet was attended, by prominent members of the Greek Diaspora community and major Philhellenes from around the world.
Keynoting the gala was Admiral Jim Stavridis , USN (Ret), Dean The Fletcher school of Law and Diplomacy ,Tufts University.
With the banquet’s main theme focusing ,as every year on the empowerment of Greece’s future ,THI honored two very active and impactful Greek NGO’s ; (1) METAdrasi – which offers interpretation services to immigrants and protection to unaccompanied children ,and (2) Together for Children – which is a union of Nonprofit children welfare NGO’s.
A Special recognition award was conferred on ReGeneration ,an innovative paid internship program for the Greek graduates , sponsored jointly by The Coco –Cola Company and THI. The program focuses on building “employability” and battling Greece’s “brain drain”.
A special tribute was made to four Olympic Greek athletes: Lefteris Petrounias ,Katerina Stefanidi, and Spyros Gianniotis and Greek American Helen Maroulis – all of whom competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games .THI also will be supporting Greek athletes who plan on participate in 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Thi’s annual gala Fundraiser fully aligns with the organization’s main mission ,which is to support Greek society during the current financial crisis , through focusing on crisis relief , entrepreneurship and economic development.
Over the past four years, THI’s crisis relief programs have benefited ,among others : thousands of people with more than two million meals ,more thank 10,000 thousand children with vaccinations, more than 13,000 with primary and secondary dental treatments .
In addition $ 4,250,000 was distributed to 14 Greek startups through The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award; 233 paid Internships have been secured through the ReGeneration program ; more than 400 business ideas have been mentored through the VentureGarden program; and young and talented Greek’s were given the chance to participate in the internship programs in the leading U.S and Australian companies .
World Liberty TV,Team was on hand at the THI’s 4th Annual Gala ,see some of the Donor’s Honoree’s are behind this great program ,right here in our World Liberty TV, Cultural channel.
Today, Women’s eNews is releasing the full list of these 21 powerhouses, with brief descriptions of their work, who will be honored May 2 at our New York City gala. In the past, the announcement was made on New Year’s Day. We held off this year to baptize the new website with a celebration of the 20 women and one man who have made it their mission to change the rules that constrict the lives of women and girls, here in the United States and across the globe.
Today is also the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, and thus appropriate for Women’s eNews to mark the day the rules for abortion in the United States were rewritten to end enforced motherhood. The ruling also unleashed a burgeoning movement for women’s rights that is now a global groundswell not only for access to full-spectrum reproductive health care but also equality and equity in law, the economy and education, regardless of race, ethnicity, citizenship status and gender identity.
Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders capture the energy of that liberation and carry it forward to reduce the impact of gender bias and create new rituals and opportunities for women and girls.
Beginning Monday, and for the following two days, Women’s eNews will post staff-written profiles of determined innovators in seven different arenas. Racial divides, health care, safety, media, economics, education and marginalization. We hope they will inspire you, inform you and challenge you to do even more to support equality and equity for women and girls. They did all of this for the Women’s eNews team.
Monday: Meet the Trio Dismantling Racial Divides
Dr. Gail Christopher : is the recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism. Dr. Christopher is vice president for policy and senior advisor at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is receiving this award–the first non-journalist to be so honored–for her support of media, including Women’s eNews, that documents the powerful role racism plays in the U.S.’s high rate of avoidable maternal and infant deaths.
“You can’t have impactful policy change if you don’t change the consciousness of the people,” she said.
Kathryn Finney, founder of digitalundivided, is a social entrepreneur who finds, trains and supports small urban tech companies and runs a rigorous accelerator program for black female founders of tech-enabled companies.
“By being myself and embracing who I am, I’ve given that to others in an industry where being someone like me – a bold smart black woman – isn’t exactly cherished.”
Cynthia Yung is executive director of The Boone Family Foundation in Dallas. The work of the former corporate executive includes financial support of domestic violence shelters for women who don’t speak English.
“I think there is a lifetime of asking myself: ‘What more can I do to bring more equity into our world?'” she said.
Monday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Test Our Health Care
Schell Carpenter is the incoming president of the board of the
Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, a nonprofit based in Austin, Texas, that provides financial assistance to Texas women seeking an abortion. She joined the board in 2014 in response to Lilith’s encouragement for LGBTQ women to apply.
She credits her gender identity for helping her gain a better appreciation of differing people’s experiences.
“I feel like being a trans is a gift,” she said.
Dianne Dunkelman is a health care advocate who launched Speaking of Women’s Health, a one-day women’s health event in her hometown of Cincinnati in 1996. The nonprofit organization has since expanded into a national foundation with more than 50 conferences and events in more than 40 cities across the United States. In the early 2000s, she developed Universal Sisters and Hablando de la Salud de la Mujer as initiatives focused on the health concerns of African American and Latina women.
“I had no idea how important it was for women to be smart, be strong and be in charge,” Dunkelman said.
Dr. Marianne Legato is an internist who founded the Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University, a groundbreaking alliance between academic medicine and the corporate sector. The partnership launched an educational campaign to define the differences between the normal function of men and women and in their gender-specific experiences of the same diseases. Dr. Legato is also the founder of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine to support research in the field.
She began this portion of her career 25 years ago after researching and writing a groundbreaking book on women and heart disease.
“I had no idea that women’s hearts were so different, in terms of function and coronary disease,” Dr. Legato said, echoing Dunkleman’s surprise at the status of women’s health. “At the time, the medical research and treatment communities thought that men and women were identical, biologically speaking, except for their reproductive systems.”
Monday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Fight for Our Safety
Ada Alvarez Conde is the founder of Fundacion Alto al Silencio (Stop the Silence), based in her native Puerto Rico, with the mission of educating the public about dating violence. She is also a candidate for a seat in the Puerto Rico Senate. She said she wants to write bills that promote a culture of peace, support the prevention of violence and protect human rights.
“Speaking out for those without a voice is one of my biggest passions,” Alvarez said.
Casey Gwinn is president of the Alliance for HOPE International, an umbrella nonprofit of 120 family justice centers in the United States and around the world. The nonprofit is dedicated to preventing child abuse and domestic violence. It also offers services designed to help adults and children recover from trauma.
“In America,” Gwinn said, “we raise our criminals at home. The majority of all those we lock up in this country, for all crimes, grew up in homes with child abuse, domestic violence and some mix of drug and/or alcohol abuse. We can love them and help them find a pathway to hope when they are 8, 10 or 12 years old, or we can wait and lock them up at 17, 19 or 21. It is our choice.”
Dorchen Leidholdt is director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at
Sanctuary for Families in New York. She also teaches at Columbia Law School. Leidholdt successfully advocated for laws criminalizing stalking, strangulation, human trafficking and requiring courts to consider domestic violence in custody cases.
“I never dreamed as a young activist that we would bring about so much positive change,” Leidholdt said.
Tuesday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Get the Word Out
Mallika Dutt is founder of Breakthrough, a nonprofit organization that works in India and the United States to prevent violence against women and girls by using media, including street theater and music videos, to shift attitudes and engage men and boys.
“I really believe that we’re at a moment in history where we could see the tipping point,” she said. “The movement to stop it is getting stronger. It feels within reach.”
Kimberly Kelleher is president of New York Women in Communications, Inc., which promotes leadership and professional development for women in the field during every stage of their careers. She also serves as publisher and chief revenue officer of WIRED and Ars Technica.
NYWICI, with more than 2,000 members, is the largest professional organization for women in the field that causes much of the buzz in Manhattan and beyond.
“What we promote is the small business,” Kelleher said. “We have a lot of women who have broken out on their own.”
Kelleher’s organization has a scholarship fund as well, and two of its previous beneficiaries, Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt, are also 21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2016.
“They are the future,” Kelleher said.
Rachel Moran is the founder and executive director of SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment), an organization committed to educating the public, raising awareness and influencing political change surrounding issues related to prostitution.
“This is a fight that will span several lifetimes,” Moran said, “but that’s not any excuse for us not to weigh in.”
Tuesday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Enrich Women’s Economics
Dr. Thelma Awori is the founding chair and president emeritus of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund. Awori first played a significant role in organizing the market women of Liberia and now the market women from five West African countries.
“Market women are a category whose power needs to be made more visible,” Dr. Awori explained. “Our leaders need to recognize them as a powerful economic force.”
Sema Başol is the co-founder of the Turkish Women’s Initiative, based in California, and Change Leaders Association, its sister organization in Turkey. The organization’s signature Sparks program is an eight-month learning and leadership experience for young Turkish women who are the first in their families to go to college.
“It’s amazing how much they learn about themselves,” Başol said, “and what it means being a woman in a country like Turkey.”
Jill S. Tietjen is the CEO of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the woman who engineered a personal strategy to encourage women and technology: nominate them for awards! Tietjen said she gains enormous satisfaction from seeing to it that other women receive awards.
“I want other people to say, ‘OK, this is something we can do. It’s something we should do. It’s something that needs to be done, and we can do it, too,'” she said.
Wednesday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Prepare Teens for Next Level
Jennilyn Doherty is co-founder, along with her husband Jason, of Daraja Academy in Nanyuki, Kenya. Begun in 2009, the academy is a secondary boarding school for 110 girls living in material poverty. She now envisions opening schools elsewhere in Africa – possibly in Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.
“If we had all the money in the world, we could do it tomorrow,” she said. “But for now, it’s all about slow, sustainable growth.”
Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt are co-founders of She’s the First, a nonprofit dedicated to giving scholarships to female elementary and secondary school students in low-income countries aiming to be the first in her family to graduate from high school.
The two met as recipients of the New York Women in Communications, Inc. Foundation scholarships. She’s the First connects its scholars with each other, hosting Facebook chats on current events and girls’ education.
“She’s the First is taking what was once viewed as a charitable cause or model,” Tibbetts said, “and really making it a collaborative one.”
Wednesday: Meet Three Powerhouses Who Rise Up for the Marginalized
Jennicet Gutiérrez is the founder and national coordinator of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, an organization that educates the public and advocates for trans immigrants. She entered the United States without a visa at age 15 and graduated from University of California at Davis. She received her visa last year. As part of her work, she meets one-on-one with detained trans immigrants who endure sexual and emotional violence in the detention centers.
“I can’t tolerate this type of abuse,” she said. “We shouldn’t allow our sisters to go through this pain.”
Stephanie Ortoleva, with degenerative low vision, is the founder and president of Women Enabled International, based in Washington, D.C. She and her staff work to advocate for the human rights of women and girls, especially those with disabilities.
Ortoleva is credited with bringing attention and resources to women’s and disability rights, but she emphatically reminds others she is not alone. “There are many wonderful women who are activists with disabilities, and I wish all of my sisters would get powerful attention,” she said.
Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, a licensed clinical psychologist, was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at age 2. The disorder has limited her mobility for 34 years but not her spunk. The former Ms. Wheelchair New York, Danielle Sheypuk is becoming the face and a voice for disabled women in news media by “walking” fashion show runways. She also spearheads Girls Forward, a Teen Voices at Women’s eNews collaborative to promote storytelling among disabled youth.
“The more I appear in media as glamorous, educated and sexy,” she said, “that’s a role model for women and girls to look up to. That’s the role model I wish I had.”
Executive Officer, Founder
Rita Henley Jensen is founder of Women’s eNews. A former senior writer for the National Law Journal and columnist for The New York Times Syndicate, Rita Henley Jensen has more than 30 years of experience in journalism and an armload of awards, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Hunter College Presidential Grant for Innovative Uses of Technology in Teaching, the Alicia Patterson fellowship, and the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize. Jensen is also a survivor of domestic violence and a former welfare mother who earned degrees from Ohio State University and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She is the grandmother of four, two granddaughters and two grandsons.
Colin Luther Powel is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War. Born in Harlem as the son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first of two consecutive black office-holders to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
13 Rules of Leadership
These are Colin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership
It ain’t as bad as you think.
Get mad, then get over it.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
It can be done.
Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
You can’t make someone else’s choices.
Check small things.
Share credit.
Remain calm. Be kind.
Have a vision.
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Tony DeMarco is an American former boxer and World Welterweight Champion. Born to Sicilian immigrants, Vincent and Giacomina, DeMarco grew up in the North End neighborhood of Boston.
Due to the minimum age of eighteen, in order to box professionally, Liotta used the birth certificate of Tony DeMarco so that he could compete. DeMarco had his first professional fight when he was sixteen years old. On October 21, 1948, he knocked out Mestor Jones in one round.
DeMarco fought the top fighters in his division during the 1950s and defeated top contenders and champions like Paddy DeMarco, Teddy “Red Top” Davis, Chico Vejar and Don Jordan. The highlight of his career came on April 1, 1955, when he scored a technical knock out (TKO) over Johnny Saxton in the 14th round of their title bout to capture the world’s welterweight title.
Despite winning many bouts to become champion, he is best remembered for his two championship matches with hall of famer Carmen Basilio in 1955. Both fights were toe to toe slugfests with several ebbs and flows that kept the fans at the edges of their seats. Both fights ended in the 12th round with DeMarco suffering a TKO. In their first bout, DeMarco was the defending champion. He risked his title by taking on Basilio, who was the top ranked contender.
Although Basilio prevailed, the fight was so exciting that the pair were rematched. The second fight was almost a carbon copy of the first with Basilio wearing down DeMarco, but not before a wicked DeMarco left hook had Basilio out on his feet. DeMarco was unable to capitalize on this advantage and lost the match on a 12 round TKO.
DeMarco’s legacy is an undying part of Boston’s history. Training under Boston greats such as Frankie Waters, DeMarco was able to sell out the Boston Garden, breaking attendance records. Mayor Thomas Menino even honored DeMarco with a street, named after him, in Boston’s famous North End. The street, which is perpendicular to Atlantic Ave, is named “Tony DeMarco Way”.
DeMarco has received many honors, including an induction in the Official National Italian American Hall of Fame in Chicago. Looking back on his career, DeMarco remarked “Mainly I consider myself a slugger.” DeMarco once fought on the undercard to Rocky Marciano. In his last bout, DeMarco won a ten round decision over Stefan Redl in Boston on February 6, 1962.
A statue of Tony unveiled on October 20th at the corners of Hanover and Cross Streets in Boston’s historic North End was designed by famed sculptor Harry Weber, and a full length documentary by filmmaker Marino Amoruso based on Tony’s autobiography Nardo: Memoirs of a Boxing Champion is out and for sale.
