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Accolade
Bank of Georgetown
Carr Properties
The Clark Charitable Foundation
Citybridge Foundation
Quadrangle
Sanford & Doris Slavin Foundation
TPG
The Washington Post Company
 CDI's Second Annual Spring Benefit

Date:
May 2, 2012

Time:
6:00-7:00 p.m. Cocktail hour
7:00 p.m. Seated dinner

Featured Speaker: Donald E. Graham

Location: Willard Hotel, Washington, DC

TICKETS:
$250

Purchase individual tickets ONLINE

Program includes:

Remarks by CDI Scholars Cristina Devia (Tufts University '12) and Binh Pham (Lafayette College '13). Featured Speaker Donald E. Graham, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Washington Post Company.

A very special auction with auctioneer Stephen A.Weiswasser

Auction items include:

  • A home-cooked Indian meal for 10 at the home of CDI Founder and President Nina Marks.
  • A political roundtable with Howard Fineman, Editorial Director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. This item includes a dinner for 12 donated by Susan Gage Caterers.
  • An exclusive meeting with Baltimore Orioles legend and baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. Mr. Ripken will hand- deliver a personal letter about a game-changing moment in his life to the winning bidder's child or grandchild.
Benefit Patrons

President     Provost     Dean
Clark Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth & Michael Galvin
 Accolade Partners
Sarah and Winthrop Brown
CityBridge Foundation
Nancy and Robert Carr
Mary and Armeane Choksi
Mary Graham
Carol and Eugene Ludwig
Nina and Jonathan Marks
Quadrangle Development Corp.
Tori Winkler Thomas
TPG
The Washington Post Company
Toni and Lee Verstandig
Andrea and Stephen Weiswasser
 Bank of Georgetown
Carr Properties
Carla Elliott-Neely, Ph.D.
Wendy and Fred Goldberg
Mary and Robert Haft
Melanie and Lawrence Nussdorf
Qatar Foundation International
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr.
Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation

For information on purchasing a table and becoming a patron, contact Kyle Semmel at 301.841.2597 or ksemmel@collegiatedirections.org.

 Donald E. Graham

Donald E. Graham is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Washington Post Company. A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham is also chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of DC public high school students going to college and tripled the number graduating from college. He co-founded the program along with major local businesses and foundations. Since its inception, DC-CAP has assisted over 13,000 DC students enroll in college and has provided scholarships totaling more than $18 million.




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