600 Guests Raise  $700,000 As
National  Civic & Business Leaders Were Honored At
The One Hundred Black Men, Inc. 31st Annual
 Benefit Gala

            Myron Williams, Vice President, Business Development, UPS, and a member of the One Hundred Black Men, was saluted as Mentor of the Year.

            Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of My9 News for WWOR-TV's 11:00 p.m. newscast Brenda Blackmon and Fox 5's meteorologist Mike Woods served as co-emcees of the Black Tie fundraiser that featured a sponsor’s reception in the Mercury Ballroom.

            “As we come together to celebrate the One Hundred Black Men, Inc.’s 31st annual benefit, our honorees could not be more exemplary of our theme: Investing in Ourselves ,Making our Own Tomorrow,” said Mr. Banks.

            “We have forged successful partnerships with each of our honorees and the organizations and corporations that they represent.  We are delighted to be in the beginning stages of an alliance with Mentoring USA that will train Black male mentors for deployment at public schools throughout New York City and eventually throughout the country.  Delta Air Lines has proven itself to be a champion for education and a prime supporter of The Eagle Academy for Young Men and UPS is not only a long-time supporter of One Hundred Black Men, but is the leading corporate mentor for students at the Eagle Academy for Young Men, fielding the largest number of employee volunteers of all our partners,” Mr. Banks noted.

ABOUT THE 2011 HONOREES

Matilda Raffa Cuomo, as First Lady of New York State from 1983 to 1995, diligently worked as a volunteer with state and elected officials as well as community leaders to establish programs to prevent child abuse, strengthen families, promote adoption for foster care children, and prevent school drop-out. As Founder of Mentoring USA and as a distinguished advocate on behalf of women, children and families, Mrs. Cuomo has been described as the most active First Lady in New York State’s history.

Scarlet Pressley-Brown, Director of External Affairs & Community Relations at Delta Air Lines and Vice President of the Delta Air Lines Foundation, joined Delta in June 2000.  Since then, she has managed Delta’s presence in the community, establishing the company as a leading corporate citizen.  Prior to Delta, Ms. Pressley-Brown spent six years with the East Lake Community Foundation as director of Community Affairs successfully restoring and revitalizing the historic East Lake Golf Course community.  The restoration included the establishment and opening of Drew Charter School, Atlanta’s first Charter School.

Cleveland, Ohio native Glenn Rice, President, East Region, UPS, began his UPS career in 1977 as a package driver in Northern Ohio. In his thirty-three years of service, Glenn has completed a wide variety of assignments of increased responsibilities in UPS’s operations, as Vice President and Chief Operating officer in UPS’s Ohio, Nevada, Alabama and Kansas districts.  In 2000, Glenn was promoted to President of UPS Canada where he was in charge of UPS operations for all of Canada. Reassigned back to the United States in 2006, Glenn was promoted to President of UPS’s Northeast Region.  Today, his responsibilities include all aspects of day-to-day operations including Business Development, Health & Safety, Service Excellence, Engineering, and Security. He also provides the strategic direction for roughly 100,000 UPS employees in 17 states.

        The Gala Committee was chaired by Hilton Smith and David Brand is co-chair. Gala Committee members were: Philip Banks, Jr., Will Brown, Mark Getachew, Jawanza Keita, Edward Odom, Mark Smith, Myron Williams, and Greg Worrell.

One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York City wishes to thank its partners for their support of the 31^st Annual Benefit:

Diamond:       News Corporation, Walmart

Platinum:       Empire BlueCross BlueShield

Gold:             Pepsico, UPS

Silver:             Anheuser-Busch InBev, Bloomberg, Turner Construction

Bronze:           The City University of New York, Consolidated Edison, Inc., Entergy Corporation, New York Life Insurance Company, Scholastic Corporation,

Patron:            Barclays Capital, Coca-Cola Company, Continuum Health Partners, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Democrats for Education Reform Foundation, ExxonMobil, Macy's East, Morgan Stanley, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NBC Universal Cable, Rubenstein Associates, Inc., Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., LLC, State Farm, United Federation of Teachers

Contributors:             Gift bags courtesy of WNYW/ Fox 5 TV

ABOUT ONE HUNDRED BLACK MEN

One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York City was founded in 1963 when a group of successful African-American men came together to pool their resources to positively impact the Black community. 

One Hundred Black Men, Inc.’s service projects focus on mentoring, education, health and wellness, and economic development.  The organization has a long and successful history working with its corporate and community partners to make significant differences in the lives of the communities it serves.  A celebrated example is the establishment of The Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx, with a focus on academic excellence, leadership and character development and more recently, Eagle Academies have opened in Brooklyn and Queens.  Proceeds from the Annual Benefit Galas raise funds to support the programs of the One Hundred Black Men, Inc. New York City.