Fifith Annual Kick-Off and Celebration
October 21, 2009
The Kick-Off and Celebration included many honored guests: Guest Speakers
Brad Emmerson (AT&T-sponsored USA Team Paralympian),
Erika Bogan (Ms. Wheelchair America) and
Robert David Hall (a.k.a. Dr. Robbins on CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation); our partners, Internal Revenue Service, Bank of America, AT&T, Darden Restaurants Foundation, Acorda Therapeutics Inc., Walmart, 54Freedom, Visa Inc., and Sealund & Associates Corporation; and our first ever Building Economic Strength Together (BEST) Fellow,
Joshua Beal. The goal of the BEST Fellowship will be to create innovative economic empowerment strategies to be tested and piloted with government and private sector support.
REI Tour City Awards: Rochester, NY, Las Vegas, NV, Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA
REI Tour Deaf Tax Awards: The Independent Living Center, Harlem, NY and Lexington Vocational Services Center, New York, NY
Federal Employee Award: Lee Bowman, FDIC
Outstanding Leadership Award: Brian Moynihan, President, Consumer Banking Division, Bank of America
REI Tour Outstanding Achievement Award: Maria V. Reina, Executive Director, Global Partnership for Disability and Development Secretariat, Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.
Fourth Annual Kick-Off and Celebration
October 29, 2008
Individual Best Practice Awards Recipients:
Miryam Lulion, Asset Programs Coordinator, Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency, Detroit, Michigan and Marshall Hunt, Director, Tax Assistance Program Volunteer Accounting Service Team of Michigan, Accounting Aid Society, Detroit, Michigan accepting for Mayor Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr.
Diana Breen, Senior Project Manager, Children
Mary Dupont, Executive Director, Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware (EITC Delaware) accepting for Mayor James M. Baker, Wilmington, DE and Jack Markell, Delaware State Treasurer
Kevin Starks, Chairman, San Diego Commission on Employment of People with Disabilities, San Diego, CA accepting for Mayor Jerry Sanders.
Richard Keeling Leadership Award: Steven Mendelsohn
Outstanding Accomplishment Award for Improving the Economic Lives of Americans with Disabilities: Joshua Beck
Ron Smith Award: Ron Smith
Third Annual National Press Club Kick-Off and Celebration
October 24, 2007
Honorees:
Salima Siler Marriott, D.S.W, Deputy Mayor for Community and Human Development of Baltimore
Michael Goeken, Family Economic Success, City of San Antonio, TX accepting award for Mayor Phil Hardberger
Tobey Davies, Southern New Hampshire University, School of Community Economic Development and Disability accepting award for Mayor Frank Guinta
Faith DuBois, United Way of the Bay Area
Kaye Schmitz, Real$ense Prosperity accepting award for Mayor John Peyton
Melinda Burns, Wildwood Programs, Inc., CA$H Coalition of the Greater Capital Region accepting award for Governor Eliot Spitzer
Richard Keeling Leadership Award: Richard Keeling
Outstanding Accomplishment Award for Improving the Economic Lives of Americans with Disabilities: Judy Stengel
Second Annual National Press Club Kick-Off and Celebration
October 24, 2006
Honorees:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
Wichita Mayor Carlos Mayans
West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel