PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/116511.xml PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Big Sunday Founder and Director Named Nonprofit Leader of the Year, Awarded Inaugural Governor and First Lady's Medal For Service http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2577124.htm Big Sunday's Founder and Executive Director, David Levinson, was named Nonprofit Leader of the Year as part of the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Levinson received the inaugural Governor and First Lady's Medal for Service, a prestigious award that honors California's top nonprofit leader whose "innovation in the field of volunteerism has had a tangible effect in their community, region, or in the state of California."Big Sunday, www.bigsunday.org, the largest region-wide community service weekend in America, with over 50,000 participating volunteers was started more than a decade ago by Levinson, a Los Angeles-based full-time writer with just 300 volunteers. David and his team now lead the largest community service and community building event in the United States. This year on Big Sunday weekend there were over 50,000 volunteers working at more than 500 Big Sunday projects, at over 300 locations helping 250+ organizations all across Southern California (PRWeb Jun 26, 2009)

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]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2577124.htm Big Sunday, Largest Region-Wide Community Service Volunteer Event in America Attracts Tens of Thousands This Weekend, May 2nd & May 3rd, 2009 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2381254.htm Big Sunday, http://bigsunday.org, is the largest region-wide community service and community building weekend event in the United States. Founded in Los Angeles 11 years ago by David Levinson, a Hollywood-based full-time writer, with just 300 volunteers, Big Sunday now stretches from Santa Barbara to San Diego counties, to the Inland Empire, and will engage over 50,000 volunteers this weekend. Big Sunday's motto is: Everyone Helps, and Everyone Wins. Big Sunday is driven by the belief that anyone, regardless of how rich or poor, how old or young, your race, religion, gender or ethnicity, can help someone else. Big Sunday cuts across all social barriers, bringing together thousands of people of all ages, races, religions, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds from all over Southern California. Big Sunday is entirely non-denominational, apolitical and free - volunteers are asked to donate just their time and talent. www.BigSunday.org. (PRWeb May 2, 2009)

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]]> Sat, 02 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2381254.htm International Freedom Fighter, Advocate for the Rights of Muslim Women In Rare Public Appearance in Los Angeles -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1502864.htm On Wednesday evening, October 22, 2008, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was born in Somalia and who TIME magazine included in its list of "100 of the World's Most Influential People" will make a rare public appearance in Los Angeles. Ms. Hirsi Ali will speak before several hundred members of the community at the Japan America Theatre at 244 South San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo where she will receive the inaugural Ziegler Prize for Courage of Conviction, conferred by vanguard civil rights and social criticism organization Community Advocates, Inc. (CAI). www.cai-la.org. Ms. Hirsi Ali will receive the Ziegler Prize for acting in a principled manner, in spite of great personal and professional risk. (PRWeb Oct 22, 2008)

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]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1502864.htm Candid, Provocative, Timely Exchange on Role of Race in 2008 Presidential Election With Nationally Renowned Thinkers To Be Held in Los Angeles on Thursday Evening, June 26, 2008 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1049664.htm The Role of Race in the 2008 Election -- A Ground-Breaking Exchange With:SHELBY STEELEAward winning author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win, renowned scholar, columnist and documentary film maker TERENCE SAMUELDeputy Editor, theRoot.com, former Capitol Hill correspondent for US News and World Report, contributing editor, The American ProspectRICHARD THOMPSON FORDProfessor, Stanford Law School, author of "The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse," prolific author on issues of race and multiculturalismLARRY MANTLE, MODERATORAward winning host of 89.3 KPCC-FM's AirTalkA broadcast panel discussion and audience Q & A with three outstanding and controversial thinkers to better understand the role of race in the presidential campaign. Entire discussion will be broadcast on 89.3 KPCC-FM's AirTalk with Larry Mantle, and available on the web at www.kpcc.org. Another Critical Issues Seminar co-sponsored by: Community Advocates, Inc./www.cai-la.org89.3 KPCC-FM's AirTalkThe Center for the Preservation of Democracy (PRWeb Jun 25, 2008)

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]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1049664.htm Racial Learning Gap -- The Civil Rights Issue of the 21st Century: Vanguard Civil Rights Group, Community Advocates, Candidly Probes Issue with National Experts http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb446435.htm Community Advocates, Inc. (CAI) is a vanguard civil rights and social criticism organization based in Los Angeles, Ca, headed by civil rights leaders David Lehrer and Joe Hicks, and chaired by former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan. Since its inception, CAI has argued that education, in particular the minority education achievement gap, is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century. With that in mind, CAI’s Critical Issues Seminars were created because Lehrer and Hicks contend that, for too long, the discussions and debates surrounding key issues confronting this country have been predictable, orthodox and punctuated by political correctness. The first of these seminars, scheduled for Thursday, October 5th in Los Angeles, which takes a provocative look at the racial learning gap, includes three of the USA's leading education experts: Professor Abigail Thernstrom, Professor Richard Rothstein and Shawn Arevalo McCullough. (PRWeb Oct 4, 2006)

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]]> Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb446435.htm Six-Year Old Art Prodigy -- New Jackson Pollock -- Whose Art Sells for $20,000, to Open Only West Coast Show at A StuART Gallery in Encino, CA on June 24 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/06/prweb402577.htm Marla Olmstead, a six-year-old girl who has won praise in New York and around the world for her colorful abstract paintings, that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky, and fetching more than $20,000 in some cases, will open her first one-girl art show in the Western United States in person this week-end in Encino, CA. The exclusive show includes 23 original works that Marla painted between the ages of four and six and opens on Saturday evening, June 24th at A StuART Gallery, 17946 Ventura Boulevard, Encino (in the Los Angeles area), and runs through August 20, 2006. Marla and her family will be in town for the opening reception, which is on June 24th from 7PM - 11PM. Marla's work can only be publicly viewed in two locations in the USA -- Binghamton, NY, and at A StuART Gallery in Encino, CA. (PRWeb Jun 22, 2006)

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]]> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/06/prweb402577.htm L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Big Sunday Join Forces for Largest Citywide Day of Service in the Nation, Up to 25,000 Volunteers Expected on Sunday, May 7 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/05/prweb381766.htm Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and writer David Levinson, Founder and Chair of Big Sunday, will join up to 25,000 Angelenos for an unprecedented citywide day of service, the largest in the USA, on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at sites throughout the City of Los Angeles and Southern California. (PRWeb May 5, 2006)

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]]> Fri, 05 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/05/prweb381766.htm Craziness and Excesses of Contemporary College Application Process Debated for the First Time Via Lens of Public Theater in Timely and Provocative New Play http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb309126.htm With the college application season underway, "Early Decision," David Levinson's timely, relevant and provocative new play charts fresh territory by exploring some of the “craziness” surrounding this process that has become par for the course in families all over the USA. Playing to full houses and recently extended, "Early Decision" is hitting a social nerve, successfully raising important and probing questions about our education system and why and how we pursue life's decisions. (PRWeb Nov 10, 2005)

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