Andrew Young Invite 2015 by Donald

ANDREW J. YOUNG FOUNDATION Presents

CONNECTING GENERATIONS

2015 HONOREES CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AWARD

AVA DUVERNAY

Director, Screenwriter, and Filmmaker

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES AWARD

LUCIEN EBATA Attorney, Entrepreneur, Humanitarian, and Founder, Forbes Afrique

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD

STRIVE MASIYIWA

Businessman, Philanthropist, Founder and CEO, Econet Wireless Group

PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADVOCACY AWARD

ALANA SHEPHERD Co-Founder, Shepherd Center

CHAIRMAN’S AWARD

WARNER WILLIAMS Vice President of Production (ret.), The Chevron Corporation

EVENT CHAIRS CAROLYN YOUNG

• JUANITA

BARANCO • WILLIAM "BILL" TORRES • JACK SAWYER

HONORARY CO-CHAIRS BILLYE AND HANK AARON • THE HONORABLE ROY BARNES AND MRS. MARIE BARNES ROSALIND AND JOHN BREWER • THE HONORABLE JOHN LEWIS • EDUARDO MARTINEZ NIKKI ARORA • LAURA AND RUTHERFORD SEYDEL • SAJAN PILLAI

request the pleasure of your company at the

ANDREW J. YOUNG INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS celebrating

Ambassador Andrew Young’s 83rd Birthday

Sunday, May 17, 2015 The Atlanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303

5:00 PM – Red Carpet • Sponsor Reception 6:15 PM – Dinner & Awards Ceremony Attire: International Dress or After Five RSVP Card Enclosed Individual Tickets $250

PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ANDREW AND WALTER YOUNG FAMILY YMCA: GET READY TO ACHIEVE DREAMS (GRAD) The YMCA is the centerpiece of the Southwest Atlanta community. It serves an estimated ten thousand people ranging from preschoolers to senior citizens. The YMCA provides services that meet the needs of this underserved community that include: daycare, after school, training, and athletic programs. Over the last four years, the Foundation has supported the GRAD program, which prepares students for the college experience. Advisors and mentors help them navigate the college admissions processes. The program also identifies and provides tuition and personal financial resources making what many of these young people thought was an impossible dream possible. To date, the GRAD program has provided college opportunities to 42 young people between the ages of 18-23. Last year, the program celebrated their first 12 college graduates from George Washington, Howard, Alabama State, Savannah State universities and Rust College. Thirty students are currently pursuing their college degrees.

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEIN PROGRAM (VMP) The Foundation initiates and facilitates public-private partnerships on health, nutrition, education, and economic growth issues around the world. Last year, The Foundation facilitated the necessary processes and agreements with Haitian and African governments, The World Food Programme, USAID and other international relief agencies to distribute VMP+3 gel sticks, a fruit-based nutritional product that provides the daily allowance of vitamins, minerals, protein and micronutrients critical to the development of children between the ages of 2 and 12 years old. As a result, hundreds of thousands of children in famine-challenged and war-torn communities will receive the nutrition they need to grow up.

CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION LEAD YOUNG Last year, The Foundation developed a national initiative on civic participation and engagement called Lead Young in response to young people seeking ways to respond effectively to persistent injustice. Lead Young will focus on civic participation as a means of addressing our most pressing domestic and international problems, and as the route to social justice. It will bring experienced social change advocates, business and civic leaders together with young people who have a creative vision and the energy to pursue it. The Foundation will identify young people who have already demonstrated their willingness to act and lead, and provide them with knowledge, instruction, mentorship and personal support that previous generations of leaders have to offer. Our hope is that the initiative will communicate the responsibility of each generation to build on the foundations of freedom that were won in the past; to uphold and secure them presently; and to ensure, as global citizens, the future of the American promise. Lead Young will be launched in the fall of 2015 during a year which will also brings us the 50 th anniversaries of many civil rights milestones, including Bloody Sunday and the passage and signing into law of the Voting Rights Act.

PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADVOCACY THE LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR

The Foundation’s Leadership Incubator is designed to launch creative, solutions-based programs to address pressing social needs that impact the quality of life in communities throughout the United States and abroad. Social entrepreneurs and organizations are invited to submit proposals for projects that would benefit from sustained support, instruction and training in program development, communications and media relations, public speaking, grant writing and resource development, data collection and analysis, tracking and program evaluation, human resource management, and program replication process. The Leadership Incubator is designed to “grow” programs for three to five years, after which they will have the ability to operate independently and be replicated regionally, nationally, or internationally. The proceeds from this event will support the expansion of the Foundation’s current programs and seed future initiatives. The Andrew J. Young Foundation, Inc. is a public charity. All contributions are tax-deductible.

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