(Community Matters) It’s been a great one. So many friends honored my birthday wishes and signed in at http://bit.ly/ADLaus for which the Austin Post donated $5.00 for every signature – if you haven’t signed, please do.
After a very sweet birthday breakfast with Steven, spent the morning with Dr. Raphael Travis and Leigh Christie learning a bit more about the principles of Positive Youth Development and LemonadeDay Austin (this year 10,000 lemonade stands, new entrepreneurs on May 2) A wonderful birthday celebration with our EF staff and Thinkwell friends, enjoying another extraordinary cake made by Amanda Chiampi aka http://bit.ly/ButtersweatCakes . Lunch at an ARRO meeting joined by Pat Hayes, talking about social equity and how AARO might leverage its skills and contacts on behalf of the best practicioners. Immediately onto a conference call with folks from Partners in Health discussing the situation in Haiti. Now moving on from rescue to reconstruction, settlement and sustaining. Over a million displaced from their homes. The country’s entire class of 2010 nurses were killed when the medical school where they were learning collapsed.
We announced recipients of this year’s Entrepreneur Foundation’s awards: Community Leaders: Donna & Philip Berber, founders of the A Glimmer of Hope (and Barron’s 6th most impactful philanthropic organization in the world); Best Companies: Convio (over 100 employees), Troux Technologies (50 – 100) and a tie: Phurnace Software & Innography (<50) – presentations at our annual Texas Independence Day Celebration (March 2, Four Seasons).
Afternoon chat and wine with a favorite Goldman Sachs banker, Walker Moody. Conference call with award-winning film producer Turk Pipkin to determine if there is an intersection between his Haiti efforts and HelpHaiti. Dinner with Steven and Michael Mitchell – many thanks to Stella Lucio at Julio’s who insisted on treating. Thinking about all our dear friends dining with President Barack Obama tonight at the National Museum for Women in the Arts (including Kirk & Haylie Rudy, Diane Land & Steve Adler, Carli & Tony Martinez, Richard Garriott, Andy Tobias & Charles Nolan, Jane & Bill Stetson). long day, now tired, time to go to bed . . .quite early
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