2008 Bringing People Home Celebration Program Book

“Giving back to your community is the small price you pay for wanting a better quality of life for everyone.”

L.A. Venneri, Inc. Creative Event Management & Development Marketing | Public Relations 614-294-2322 | LAVenneri@aol.com

Bringing People Home Awardee

Eric Carmichael Eric Carmichael has worked in the investment banking and securities industry since 1985. During this time, his clients included corporations, government entities and individual investors throughout the United States, Caribbean, Africa and Western Europe.

Serving his corporate clients, Mr. Carmichael accessed the capital marketplace and raised both private and public equity, sold debt, restructured financial agreements, and provided financial education. When working with government entities, he served as an underwriter, provided investment banking services and was a financial advisor. To date, he has raised nearly $20 billion in capital funds that have been utilized to finance numerous infrastructure projects, including airports, highways, water / wastewater projects, stadiums and convention facilities.

In addition to his activities in the securities industry, Mr. Carmichael founded and co-founded several firms involved in training, marketing, investments and real estate development. Two of these companies, Gideon Development Partners, LLC (GDP) and New Millennium, Inc. (NMI) have been active participants in rebuilding Central Ohio’s urban communities. GDP is heavily invested in the King Lincoln District located on the Near East Side of Columbus. NMI has acquired dozens of homes within Columbus’ central city and made improvements, upgrades and renovations with an eye toward making these homes available to first time homebuyers. These projects have created jobs and opportunities for craftsmen, contractors and construction workers who have been overlooked by many traditional developers and builders.

A native of Columbus, Ohio and a product of Columbus Public Schools, Mr. Carmichael received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as Treasurer and Trustee for the Greater Columbus Arts Council. He is a former Director of Community Shelter Board, Columbus Urban Growth Corporation and Neighborhood House, and a former Trustee of Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Mr. Carmichael served on Columbus Housing Partnership’s Board of Directors from 1994 to 2006. He served as Chairman of the Board twice during his tenure. He continues to play a leadership role in the King Lincoln District and helps provide office space for Homeport, Columbus Housing Partnership’s home sales division. Throughout the years, Mr. Carmichael’s passion for our community has extended to CHP residents through his generous donations of food, clothing and toys to many of our families during the holiday season.

David Gergen Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents – for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. In 1993, he put his country before politics when he agreed to first serve as counselor to President Clinton on both foreign policy and domestic affairs, then as special international adviser to the president and to Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

David Gergen currently serves as editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and as a Senior Political Analyst for CNN. He served as moderator of World @ Large, a 13-part PBS discussion series for two seasons. He is also a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School and is director of its Center for Public Leadership. In the fall of 2000, he published the best-selling book Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.

In the past, he has served in the White House as an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Most recently, he served for 18 months in the Clinton administration, first as counselor to the President and then as special adviser to the President and the Secretary of State. He returned to private life in January 1995.

During 1984 - 1993, Mr. Gergen worked mostly as a journalist. For two-and-a-half years, he was editor of U.S. News. Working with the owner and editor-in-chief Mortimer Zuckerman and a revived staff, he helped to guide the magazine to record gains in circulation and advertising.

During that period, he also teamed up with Mark Shields for political commentary every Friday night for five years on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. The two were a popular political team and won numerous accolades for their political coverage.

A native of Durham, North Carolina, he is an honors graduate of Yale University (AB, 1963) and Harvard Law School (JD, 1967). He is a member of the District of Columbia bar. In addition, he served for three-and-a-half years in the United States Navy, where he was posted for about two years to a ship home-ported in Japan.

Gergen is active on many non-profit boards, including Duke University and Teach for America. He frequently lectures here in the United States and overseas and holds 17 honorary degrees.

He has been married since 1967, to Anne Gergen of England. She is a family therapist. They have two children, Christopher and Katherine, and four grandchildren. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2 0 0 8

B R I N G I N G

P E O P L E

H O M E

C E L E B R AT I O N

Tonight’s Presentation Welcome Angela Pace WBNS 10TV

A Review of CHP’s 2007/2008 Accomplishments Amy D. Klaben CHP President/CEO

2008 Bringing People Home Award Honoree Eric Carmichael

Special Remarks Leslie H. Wexner Chairman and CEO, Limited Brands

Keynote Presentation David Gergen

Q & A with David Gergen Moderated by Angela Pace, WBNS 10TV and Mike Thompson, News Director, WOSU Public Media

The 2008 Bringing People Home Celebration was produced by L.A. Venneri, Inc.

Sponsors Title Sponsor

Presenting Sponsors Enterprise | Nationwide | NeighborWorks America | U.S. Bank

Legacy Partners Alliance Data | J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. | M/I Homes Foundation The Donald Kelley Family | The Robert Weiler Family

Corporate Leaders Columbia Gas of Ohio | Columbus Board of Realtors | Huntington Bank Limited Brands Foundation | Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing Rockford Homes | The Wallick Companies

Corporate Underwriters Fifth Third Bank | KeyBank | L.A. Venneri, Inc.

Corporate Pacesetters National City | Oswald Companies | Wells Fargo

Corporate Sponsors Battelle | Beacon Property Management | Crane Group Third Federal | TownHomes Management, Inc.

Contributors Jill Beckett-Hill | Shawna Bosse | Barbara K. Brandt, Inc. | Carlisle, Patchen and Murphy LLP EMH&T | Gene Jensen | Michael and Kimberly Martin | The Robert Weiler Family

Media Sponsors