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The New York Womens Foundation® (NYWF) Celebrating Women® Breakfast returns for its 24th year to honor NoVo Foundation President Jennifer Buffett with the Vision Award (awarded to a strategic philanthropist whose contributions are focused on women and girls) plus NPRs Latino USA Anchor & Editor Maria Hinojosa as well as Human Rights Advocate & Artist Faith Ringgold with the Celebrating Women® Award (awarded to women whose significant achievements have influenced the lives of - and provided a role model for - women and girls). The event Co-Chairs are Susan R. Cullman, Tuhina De OConnor and Regan A. Solmo.For 2011 and during the past twenty-three years, NYWF will have given $28 million in grants to over 270 nonprofit organizations, improving the lives of five million women and girls in New York City. 74% of the nonprofit organizations that NYWF has funded over the years are successfully thriving. In 2009, NYWF responded to the economic crisis by launching RISE-NYC!, a partnership initiative that increased its grant-making by more than 20%. ABOUT THE HONOREES: As President of the NoVo Foundation, Jennifer Buffett works passionately to empower girls and women worldwide as primary agents of change and end violence against them. NoVo Foundation also supports a comprehensive strategic plan to scale the adoption of evidence-based Social and Emotional Learning in U.S. school districts as the basis for healthy school cultures and learning. Jennifer co-chairs NoVo’s board with her husband Peter Buffett, and serves on the boards of the Nike Foundation, to promote ’The Girl Effect’, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and V-Day. She is a leadership council member of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Apne Aap Women Worldwide and BRAC USA. For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America’s untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. In April 2010, Hinojosa launched The Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that respects and celebrates the cultural richness of the American Experience. She is the anchor and managing editor of her own long-running weekly NPR show, Latino USA, anchor of the Emmy Award winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza, Contributing Correspondent for Need to Know on PBS, and King Features Syndicate contributor. She has written two books, including her motherhood memoir: Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son. Faith Ringgold, began her career in the early ”˜60s as a painter, art activist and feminist. Her protests, events, happenings and exhibitions of the ”˜60s and ”˜70s broke ground and opened (museum) doors for women artists and people of color. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts and her illustrated children’s books. Ringgold’s first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. Ringgold has illustrated fourteen children's books eleven of which were also written by her. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has works in the Faith Ringgold Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in Harlem.Ringgold’s public art works include, Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines, 1996 in MTA’s 125th street, For the Women’s House, 1971 Rose M Singer Center on Rikers Island; The Crown Heights Children’s History Quilt, 1994 a Percent for Art project is at P.S. 22 in Brooklyn; Eugenio MarÃa de Hostos: The Man, His Life and His Dream 1994 located at Hostos Community College; Tar Beach mosaic, 2003 Princeton Library; and fifty-two mosaic panels will be installed in Los Angeles, Ca in the Civic center subway station in the spring of 2010. ABOUT NYWF: The New York Women’s Foundation® is a cross-cultural alliance of women, serving as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation identifies innovative organizations that are effecting change in the communities they serve for women. NYWF strategically funds organizations and programs that move women, girls and families toward long-term economic security through individual transformation and systemic change, mobilizing leaders and community partners as philanthropists and change agents. NYWF funds programs that promote economic security and justice, anti-violence and safety; and health, sexual rights and reproductive justice for women and girls in New York City.For further information about the Celebrating Women® Breakfast, please visit www.NYWFBreakfast.org.For further information about The New York Womens Foundation®, please visit www.nywf.org.
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