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Humanity In Action
requests the pleasure of your company for
cocktails and dinner honoring
Mr. James Bennet, Mr. Adam Hochschild, and
Mr. John Rossant
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Cocktails 6:30 p.m., Dinner 7:30 p.m.
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 5th Avenue, New York, NY
R.S.V.P.
212.828.6874 Ext. 2
Benefit Committee
Ambassador François Delattre, Ambassador
Renée Jones-Bos, Ambassador Robert Kupiecki, Ambassador
Peter Taksoe-Jensen, Elizabeth and Eric Berman, Susan
Berresford, Eric and Barbara Dobkin, Michael Eckhart, Mark
Goldberg, Claude Grunitzky, Maren Imhoff, Daniel Johnnes,
Martin and Wendy Kaplan, Karen Lavine and Donald Kilpatrick,
Jonathan Marder, Michael Soussan, Ezra Suleiman
About Humanity in Action
Humanity in Action
(HIA) is an international organization dedicated to the
education, inspiration and development of students and young
professionals committed to protecting minorities and
promoting human rights. Over 1,100 HIA fellows, emerging
leaders in their 20s and 30s, are contributing in innovative
ways to advance essential democratic freedoms around the
world.
Humanity in
Action, Inc. is a Sec. 501(c)(3) organization. A copy of our
latest financial report may be obtained, upon request, from
either Humanity in Action, Inc., 144 East 39th Street, New
York, NY 10016, or the State of New York, Office of the
Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York,
NY 10271.
www.humanityinaction.org
Ticket/Table information includes:
Corporate Donor Opportunities:
qPlatinum:
$20,000 One table of 10 in a premium location, listing in
program and on website, seating with an honored guest
qGold:
$15,000 One table of 10, listing in program and on website,
seating with special author or journalist
Individual Donor Opportunities:
qPlatinum:
$10,000 One table of 10, listing in program, seating with
special author or journalist
qGold:
$1,000 One seat, listing in program if desired
qSilver:
$600 One seat
R.S.V.P. 212.828.6874 Ext. 2,
p.rykowski@humanityinaction.org
HIA is a 501 (c)(3) organization. All
contributions are tax deductible.
About the Honorees
Mr. James Bennet
James Bennet is the fourteenth editor of
The Atlantic, the general interest magazine created in
1857 to advance what its founders called the American Idea.
During Bennet’s tenure, The Atlantic has experienced
a dazzling resurgence, increasing its editorial reach and
impact while achieving profitability for the first time in
recent memory. In 2009, the industry magazine Advertising
Age singled out Bennet as Editor of the Year. Before
joining the Atlantic staff, Bennet held numerous
reporting positions at The New York Times, including
Jerusalem bureau chief, White House correspondent, and staff
writer for the Sunday Magazine. Bennet began his journalism
career at The Washington Monthly.
Mr. Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild has written for The New
Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New
York Review of Books, and many other magazines, and is
the author of seven books. King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story
of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa was a
finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award;
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
Empire’s Slaves, was a finalist for the 2005 National
Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
His latest book is To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty
and Rebellion, 1914-1918.
Mr. John Rossant
John Rossant is Executive Chairman of
Geneva-based PublicisLive, the global events management
company responsible for the production of some of the
world’s most prestigious international conferences such as
the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland. John Rossant has also been instrumental in
launching the Monaco Media Forum, the major European
conference on new and emerging media, and the Abu Dhabi
Media Summit, a leading global platform for the discussion
of emerging media in emerging markets. More recently, John
Rossant and PublicisLive organized the e-G8 Forum on the
Internet at the request of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
John Rossant is also the founder and chairman of the New
Cities Foundation, an initiative focusing on improving the
quality and life and work in the 21st century city.
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