Mayor Dixon Announces Summer Jobs Campaign Progress at YouthWorks Kickoff Event at Morgan State University
Mayor Dixon Announces Summer Jobs Campaign Progress at YouthWorks Kickoff Event at Morgan State University | |||||
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What: YouthWorks Kickoff Press Conference The YouthWorks 2008 theme, Summer Jobs are Everyone’s Business, captures the Mayor’s outreach strategy to assemble her YouthWorks Leadership Team and engage these leaders from business, education, community-based organizations, faith-based institutions, philanthropic organizations, and city agencies to rally around this important cause and aggressively support the campaign. The YouthWorks Kickoff press conference will feature Mayor Dixon thanking those who have supported the YouthWorks campaign and announcing the progress made thus far toward reaching the goal of 6,500 Baltimore City teens working this summer. Legg Mason, Comcast, and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation are among those organizations that have contributed the largest amounts. Dr. Cecil Payton, executive assistant to the president of Morgan State University, will provide welcoming remarks. Other community and business representatives will also speak briefly. Among those speakers will be Wanda Austin-Wingood, Colgate-Palmolive’s brand manager, who will present a check in the amount of $30,000 that covers sponsoring 30 YouthWorks participants this summer in Colgate-Palmolive’s EMPOWER youth entrepreneurial program – an entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and leadership initiative to be conducted by E.Y.E. for Change, paying wages for eight YouthWorks participants, and providing health and beauty products for thousands of YouthWorks participants. It costs $1250 to support a youth in a six-week work experience. There is still time to show support for YouthWorks by making tax-deductible donations to: Baltimore City Foundation/YouthWorks For more information about YouthWorks, call 410-396-6722. |