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Wow! Our 7th Annual Awareness Breakfast was the
best yet. We can't thank you enough for your support of E CITY and
our students. Our featured graduates at the breakfast are
proof that E CITY is improving the lives of teens in Cleveland, and
hundreds of inner-city teens each year are becoming responsible for
their economic futures - it's working!
On May 5th a crowd of almost 600 supporters filled the
ballroom at Landerhaven. We want to thank all who support E
CITY and we are thrilled to have exceeded our goal to raise
$135,000. We are also happy that the news of E CITY is spreading.
Thank you to everyone who invited a friend to attend the breakfast.
We had 109 first time pledges to E CITY this year.
E CITY wants to thank the Corporate Sponsors who help make this
breakfast such a success.
Community Builders: ($10,000)
Benesch Attornerys at Law
Business Builders Sponsors ($5,000)
Citizens Bank
Dealer Tire
Forest City Enterprises
Selker Leadership
Product Launch Ventures
thunder::tech
Friends of E CITY ($2,000)
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Boler School of Business
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company Investment Bankers
Champion
The Entrepreneurs Edge
Ernst & Young
Euclid Chemical Company
Family Business Presidents' Council III
Fifth Third Bank
Fulcrum Consulting Works Inc
Gebauer Company
Ingersoll Family Foundation
JTM Products
LNEGroup
Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis
Oswald Companies
Paragon Advisors
Shearer's
Swagelock
Patrons (Up to $2,000)
4walls
Accountable Accounting
American Copy Equipment
Applied Industrial Technologies
aza events, LLC
Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP
Center for Health Affairs
Collier's Ostendorf-Morris
Continental Airlines
Cuyahoga Community College
Davey Tree
McManus, Dosen & Co., CPA
National City Bank
Tremco, Inc.
E CITY thanks Min. Temeka Payton, Director of Student Recruitment
at E Prep, and the Rev. Louise Westfall, pastor of Fairmount Church
for giving prayers of thanks and the benediction at the Breakfast.
Once again the main program was lead by the E CITY alumnae,
starting promptly at 7:30 am and ending a little early at 8:57.
- Blaine Mickens and Derric Studamire were the Breakfast
Emcess
- Giberto Cortes talked about his Business Plan
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Raquel Fuentes talked about the opportunity E CITY provided her
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Fantashia Stevens, 2008 National Winner of the NFTE Young
Entrepreneur of the Year award, talked about her experiences as a
young entrepreneur
E CITY is thankful for the volunteers who made the breakfast
registration process a success, and for the E Prep students who
served as greeters. Thanks too, to Head of School Marshall Emerson, who gave us an
update on E Prep’s success.
John Zitzner, founder of E CITY, gave a compelling speech about
the ways that E CITY is working in the lives of
Cleveland teen. He also announced
that it is time to find a full-time President to lead E CITY through
its next phase of growth, while he devotes all of his time to
Friends of E Prep Schools.
The E CITY alumnae who were selling their products at the breakfast,
also found the crowds to be very supportive. A few of them sold out!
SAVE THE DATE
E CITY's Eighth Annual Awareness Breakfast will be on Monday, May
4, 2009, at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven. |
