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Sarell
Ahart,
Patrick
Weller,
Gabrielle L.
Kurlander,
President
and CEO,
ASP; Chief
Philip
Banks,
Community
Affairs,
NYPD; Lenora
Fulani,
Ph.D.,
Co-founder,
ASP,
and
Director,
Operation
Conversation
Cops and
Kids;
Cheyenne
Davis, and
Melquan Gass
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All Stars
Project
Hosts Tenth
Annual
Benefit
Luncheon
Raising
$450,000 for
Innovative
Afterschool
Programs
Salutes
"Operation
Conversation",
Joint Effort
With NYPD
to Foster
Positive
Relationships
Between Cops
and Kids
The All
Stars
Project,
Inc. (ASP)
hosted its
Tenth Annual
Benefit
Luncheon to
support its
afterschool
leadership
training
program, the
Joseph A.
Forgione
Development
School for
Youth, on
Friday,
December 2,
at the New
York
Hilton.
At the
event, the
All Stars
Project
saluted its
partnership
with the New
York City
Police
Department
(NYPD) in
Operation
Conversation:
Cops and
Kids,
which uses
performance
and
improvisation
to foster
positive
relationships
between
police
officers and
inner-city
youth.
Operation
Conversation:
Cops and
Kids was
created by
All Stars
co-founders
Lenora
Fulani,
Ph.D. and
the late
Fred Newman
Ph.D. in
response to
the death of
Sean Bell in
2006.
After the
success of
50 pilot
workshop
sessions
involving
over 500
police
officers and
750 young
people,
Operation
Conversation:
Cops and
Kids is now
a program
that has
been used
throughout
NYC. Chief
Philip Banks
of the
NYPD’s
Community
Affairs
Department
was a
special
guest
speaker at
the All
Stars
benefit
luncheon and
stated,
“The
training
that
Operation
Conversation:
Cops and
Kids is
providing to
police
officers is
invaluable...
it’s
simple, it
works, and
it’s
effective.
The luncheon
honored FTI
Consulting
and Edward
Reilly,
Global CEO –
Strategic
Communications
and raised
$450,000 for
the
Development
School for
Youth. It
was attended
by 250
executives
from Fortune
500
corporations
and
financial
firms across
the New York
region,
including
Barclays
Capital,
Ernst &
Young,
Latham &
Watkins,
DirecTV,
MetLife,
CBRE, and
JPMorgan.
Over 80
companies
support the
All Stars
Project’s
Development
School for
Youth and
have
provided
hundreds of
paid summer
internships
to the young
people. Bill
Weir, ABC
News
“Nightline”
co-anchor
hosted the
event.
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