The 41st Annual Frank Porter Graham Awards Ceremony

The ACLU of North Carolina is pleased to announce the honorees who have been chosen to receive awards at our 41st Annual Frank Porter Graham Awards Ceremony.  The 2010 honorees are:

Frank Porter Graham Award — Jimmy Creech

Paul Green Award — Jeremy Collins and Charmaine Fuller Cooper

ACLU-NC Award — Juvencio Rocha Peralta

The 41st Annual Frank Porter Graham Awards Ceremony will take place on Saturday, February 13th, at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. There will be a jazz reception at 5:30 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, and the awards ceremony will begin at around 6:45 p.m.  We will be giving out three awards that evening, and then our keynote speaker will be Gene Nichol, Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina.  The event should conclude between 8:30 and 9:00.

Tickets are $100 each, and table sponsors put together tables of ten for $1,000.  Proceeds benefit the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so most of the ticket price will be tax-deductible!  Please consider sponsoring a table or rounding up a group of friends to buy individual tickets. 

To reserve seats, contact Executive Director Jennifer Rudinger or Development Associate Perryn Reyelts at 919-834-3466.

Seats must be reserved in advance, and all reservations must be prepaid.  Please RSVP by February 5th.

Opportunities are also available to purchase an ad in the program (prices range from $30 for a 1/4-page ad to $100 for a full page), and we are accepting donations to help cover the costs of the event and to support students and people with limited incomes who wish to attend but cannot afford the $100 admission price.  Event information will be posted on our website soon, at  http://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/?q=events

Special thanks to our devoted friends at Replacements, Ltd. in McLeansville, NC, for once again sponsoring the Frank Porter Graham Awards Ceremony.  For more information about Replacements, Ltd., log onto their website at http://www.replacements.com/

We hope to see you all there to help us celebrate the work of these amazing individuals and to rededicate ourselves to the fight to restore and preserve America’s cherished civil liberties.  This will be a wonderful evening!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director
ACLU of North Carolina
P. O. Box 28004
Raleigh, NC  27611-8004
Phone: (919) 834-3466
Fax: (866) 511-1344

Email: aclunced@nc.rr.com

Website: www.acluofnorthcarolina.org

Note: Congratulations Charmaine and Jeremy. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher