Our evening will be in honor of the memory of Eunice Shriver for her leadership and creation of the Special Olympics. We are inviting the following remarkable individuals to receive Living Legacy Awards: Debbie Reynolds, Jackée Harry, Natalie Cole,Diahann Carroll, Kathryn Gang and Angela Lansbury.* We will have a tribute to the magnificent Lena Horne. We are recognizing the renowned Scripps McDonald Center for Outstanding Community Service. Outstanding Organization awards will be presented to the Women’s Resource Center and Other Worlds are Possible for their service to women internationally. *Invitations do not guarantee honoree appearance, historically most have been present however.
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Women’s International Center[WIC] was founded in 1982 as a non-profit education and service foundation [501c3] withthe mission to ‘acknowledge, honor, encourage, and educate women’. Since its inception, WIC has fulfilled its purpose in many ways. For twenty-eight years we have brought people together to celebrate the accomplishments and positive and lasting contributions of women -- in so doing, many now know, understand, appreciate, and hopefully incorporate the gifts women have given to improve the world. Likewise, we have gathered some of civilization’s great and generous women and men whose deeds have genuinely benefited humanity. The list is a veritable a ‘Who’s Who' of global innovators and humanitarian benefactors. WIC is deeply involved with the women in Africa, South America and elsewhere through our foreign assistance programs by providing educational and safety information and economic resources to refugees and displaced women. We work directly with national and local refugee organizations. We have been fortunate to assist scores of women adapt and adjust to living in the United States, to receive economic, medical, and personal safety help. WIC also has assisted many women in need to receive academic acceptance and gainful employment. We have provided many charitable gifts to non-profit organizations offering assistance and/or safe houses for battered or homeless women and have proudly presented many thousands of dollars in Sisterships (scholarships) to scores of girls and women since 1983.
As founder and honorary chairperson of Special Olympics and executive vice president of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a leader in the worldwide struggle to improve and enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities for more than three decades.
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Read more
Honoring Jackée Harry -
Women's International Center Global Ambassador
Emmy Award-winning actress, Jackée Harry
is known for her iconic role as vivacious "Sandra Clark"
on the NBC hit sitcom "227," as well as Oprah Winfrey's critically acclaimed "The Women of Brewster Place," "Sister, Sister" (which earned her multiple NAACP Image Awards), and "Everybody Hates Chris." She hopes to use her universal platform to uplift others in need and is working with The Women's International Center as our "Global Ambassador to Women." She inaugurated her "Jackée Frappé" signature shake on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at Millions of Milkshakes in support of The Women's International Center - West Hollywood, 8910 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069-4902. Read more
YouTube Video JACKEE HARRY For WIC at MILLIONS OF MILKSHAKES
Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., has announced that Ms. Jackee Harry, acclaimed actress and Emmy Award winner, will be presented with NCBW's "Woman of Substance" award on September 19, 2010 at its annual awards luncheon in Washington, DC. For more information on the event, go to www.nationalcongressbw.org or call 202/678-6788.
