Monday, December 21, 2009

October 21 Event Celebrates Youth and Honors Those Making a Difference

The John Rex Endowment will authority its fifth anniversary Hands of Health Award Breakfast on October 21. Celebrating investments in youth, the accident will account individuals for implementing avant-garde health-related initiatives that account Wake County’s underserved accouchement and youth.

Young humans accommodating in bounded programs adjourned by the John Rex Endowment will present their belief and altercate what the programs beggarly to them. Highlighted programs include: Girls on the Run, Planned Parenthood’s Teens Taking Action, YWCA’s All the Right Moves and the 4-H Development Program’s community-based Mapping Assets Project.

“This accident is an befalling to accompany calm humans who accept a alternate absorption in the bloom and abundance of accouchement and adolescence in our community,” says Kevin Cain, admiral and CEO of the John Rex Endowment. “We’re analytic advanced to audition from our adolescent participants and acquirements how their lives are accepting impacted by these programs.”

In addition, the Hands of Health Award will be presented to a baton who is convalescent the bloom of bounded accouchement and youth. The champ will be accustomed with a distinctively commissioned brownish sculpture, and the John Rex Endowment will accord $10,000 to the winner’s alms of choice.

Past winners of the accolade cover Peter Morris, MD, Don Rosenblitt, MD, Mark Piehl, MD, Yo Sobha, Kathy Higgins and Liliana Berman. On their behalf, the Endowment has fabricated donations to the North Carolina Pediatric Society Foundation, the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, the Durham Rescue Mission/Good Samaritan Inn, Camp Challenge Diabetes Camp at Camp Oak Hill, Camp Grace at A.E. Finley YMCA, Be Active North Carolina and the Making Magic Alliance.

The invitation-only accident will be captivated at the Marbles Kids Museum in city Raleigh. For added advice on the Hands of Health award, visit: www.rexendowment.org/about/hoh.html.

About The John Rex Endowment
The John Rex Endowment invests in the development and abutment of activities, programs and organizations that advance the bloom of underserved humans in Wake and surrounding counties. Currently, the Endowment supports arresting and assessable improvements in the bloom of accouchement and adolescence by convalescent acceptance to bloom services, by announcement advantageous behaviors and by accouterment opportunities for advance and development. For added information, visit: www.rexendowment.org.

Media Contact:
Cindy Stranad
919.232.5008
cindy@articulon.com

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