PICTURES! Last week's CorpsAfrica Reception

CorpsAfrica's Tribute to

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke

PICTURES!!

Thank you for joining us in New York City last Wednesday for our cocktail reception paying tribute to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. It was a huge success for us - thanks to you!! - and we are well on our way to hiring our first Country Director (in Holbrooke's name) and getting started in Morocco. This is an exciting time and we look forward to keeping you updated on our progress.

We've created a slideshow of the pictures - you can see it here. (To see names, click the "Show Info" tab on the top right.)

Special thanks to Meghan Hagedorn for taking them, Jim and Karli Hagedorn for hosting us in their beautiful home, our generous Tribute Committee sponsors (listed below) including Coca-Cola and HBO, and Ambassador Frank Wisner for speaking so beautifully about Richard Holbrooke and CorpsAfrica.

You can still join the "Holbrooke Campaign Tribute Committee" with a sponsorship contribution of $1,000 for individuals and $10,000 for corporations. All gifts - no matter how small - contribute to this important effort. Thank you!

Please let Liz Fanning know if you'd like copies of any of the pictures or more information on CorpsAfrica. You can reach Liz by phone at (646) 942-0797 or by email at lfanning@corpsafrica.org.

CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS:

Kati Marton

Ambassador Frank Wisner

HONORARY CO-CHAIRS:

Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg
David Holbrooke
Ambassador Cameron Hume

Governor Bill Richardson

Ambassador Frederick Vreeland

TRIBUTE COMMITTEE

(in formation)

Thomas Birch

The Coca-Cola Company
Marcia Forman

HBO

Omar Laafoura
Peace Corps Morocco, 1970 -72

Senator Sam Nunn
Reda Oulamine

Anne Reiniger

BJ Roemer
John J. Salinger

Kirk Talbott

John C. Whitehead

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Special Thanks:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John J. Salinger, Chair

Kathryn McLetchie, Vice Chair

Deborah A. Lee, Secretary

Younes Abouyoub

Harris Bostic II

Marc Douglas

Alia Kate

Wendy Knight

James Miller

David W. Sanford

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Akwasi Aidoo

Thom Anderson

Ambassador Karl Hofmann

Elizabeth Lusskin, Esq.

Kevin F. F. Quigley, PhD

Juliet S. Sorensen

Ambassador Joseph Wilson

Senator Harris L. Wofford

FOUNDER

Liz Fanning

Inspired by the Peace Corps experience, CorpsAfrica was founded in 2011 to provide young adults in Africa the opportunity to serve as volunteers in their own countries to help drive solutions to poverty at the community level. CorpsAfrica is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization -- all donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.