This man here is getting U.S. help to train teachers and principals to help rebuild the country's school system. I met a 15-year-old boy who was once reading well below grade level, and he didn't like going to school; that's what he said to the crowd. Both Presidents sitting there, he said, "I just didn't like going to school." And he was falling behind. And yet there's a USAID program to help students like him catch up, and now he wants to go to college.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Nichet Smith of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, +1-202- 736-2239
Sullivan realized very early in his ministry that the people needed more that just a 'Sunday morning service,' they needed 'Monday morning employment.' He started a non-violent movement of selective patronage that boycotted companies that resisted employing Black men and women. It was used as a catalyst to foment resistance throughout urban areas nationwide. After the march on Washington in 1963 and the subsequent passage of a slew of civil rights bills, opportunities were plentiful but training was in low supply, so he set out to bridge opportunities with skills. He founded the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) in an abandoned jailhouse in North Philadelphia and began to build a workforce like none other. Sullivan also organized six successful summits of African and African-...
To: TRAVEL EDITORS Contact: Wendie Owen, +1-212-751-3906, wowen@noelle-elaine.com, or Kelly Beaty, +1-646-424-9750, kbeaty@noelle-elaine.com, both for the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation
To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Nichet Smith, nsmith@thesullivanfoundation.org, or Michelle Pascal (in U.S.), +1-917-715-3659, map@noelle-elaine.com, or Kelly Beaty (in U.S.), +1-646-344-2632, kbeaty@noelle- elaine.com, all of Leon H. Sullivan Foundation
WASHINGTON, June 29 /U.S. Newswire -- The plight of Africa is in the spotlight thanks to recent interest by celebrities ranging from Angelina to Oprah to Bono. However, before the cameras and before the attention, The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation was on the continent working diligently and effectively to enhance the political, economic AND social development of Africa. The legacy continues as Summit plans are finalized for the 7th biennial Leon H. Sullivan Summit ("The Summit") in Abuja, Nigeria July 17-20. In 1991, Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, a U.S. civil rights activist and international humanitarian, who was the first African- American to sit on the board of General Motors, created the African-African American Summit (now the Leon H. Sullivan Summit). Since its inception, the Summit has br...
WASHINGTON, April 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ambassador Andrew Young, Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and Chevron Vice Chairman Peter Robertson, along with Heads of State from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin American and Europe are confirmed to gather in Abjua, Nigeria July 17 - 20 for the Seventh Leon H. Sullivan Summit. Thousands of attendees from Africa and the United States are expected to attend. This year's conference, themed "Africa: A Continent of Opportunities - Building Partnerships for Success," will include a series of forums designed to create new public and private partnerships that will accelerate ongoing economic and social development efforts of the continent. The Summit is not just another conference, it's a movement of growing potential to bring new resources to...
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