Global Kids Event Tonight at Council on Foreign Relations.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Tonight from 6pm to 9pm, at the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. in New York, Global Kids will honor United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Mark Malloch Brown, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation Gillian Sorensen, and Former Special Counsel and Advisor to President Kennedy, Ted Sorensen, for their leadership, social responsibility, and commitment to the promotion of human rights and international cooperation. The event is being co-chaired by Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman of the Entertainment and Networks Group at Time Warner Inc. and Alexander Jutkowitz, President of Westhill Partners. The evening will feature the presentation of awards and remarks by the honorees (at 7:15 p.m.), a performance by youth in Global Kids' programs, and comments by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, Jacqueline Farmer, the Chair of the Global Kids Board of Directors; and Global Kids' Founder and Executive Director Carole Artigiani. Past honorees have included Black Entertainment Television President Debra Lee, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Judy McGrath, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke, the author Kati Marton, political commentator George Stephanopoulos, the late U.S. Senator Paul Simon, and ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings. Mr. Sorensen said of Global Kids, "I know of little that this country needs more than young people interested in world affairs; and that is the mission of Global Kids. It will be our country's good Our Country's Good is a play written in 1988 by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally. The play tells the story of convicts and Royal Marines sent to Australia in the late 1780s as part of the first penal fortune -- and the world's -- if the future leaders of the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, are 'global kids' today, with an interest in, and knowledge and understanding of, the citizens, needs, problems and wisdom of other countries. To make sure we produce those global kids, we need organizations like Global Kids. It deserves everyone's support." Global Kids, Inc. is the foremost nonprofit in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. specifically dedicated to educating students in underserved communities about public policy and international affairs. |
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