Awards

Leslie Belt, Assistant Director of the LA Urban League's Avalon WorkSource Center, will be honored for outstanding community service by Foundation for Second Chances. Congrats Leslie!

Foundation for Second Chances Leadership Gala
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 6pm
The Proud Bird Restaurant & Banquet
1022 Aviation Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
After Party 9pm - 12am

Keynote Speaker: Senator Curren Price, 26th Senate District Representative
Community Service Award: Leslie Belt, Los Angeles Urban League
Leadership Award: Jeff Lindholm, K-Day 93.5 FM
Inspirational Award: Darneika Watson-Davis, Principal of 42nd Elementary Business Award: Karen Clark, US Bank

The NPT Power & Influence Top 50, Class of 2009 The 12th annual celebration of some of the sector’s top executives and thinkers.

Blair H. Taylor
President & CEO
Los Angeles Urban League
Los Angeles, Calif.
Establishing models to replicate is all Taylor does. He and his organization raised $13 million and involved businesses in a 70-block area, sort of a safe zone, around embattled Crenshaw High. You can’t learn if you’re not safe. And, with the state’s budget in shambles, he led a business delegation to China to try to jumpstart L.A.’s economy.