Dec. 7, 2012 "Gratitude, Goodwill & Compassion", the 6th Annual GFI Youth Leadership Award and Community Volunteer Appreciation with Philippine Honorary Consul Donato

Galing Foundation, Inc. invites you to an evening of Gratitude, Goodwill & Compassion,

The 6th Annual GFI Youth Leadership Award 2012 Community Volunteer Appreciation Year End Benefit Dinner withPhilippine Honorary Consul General Raoul  “Ray” Donato, James McSweeney, Regional Liason National Archives at Atlanta and the Federation of Filipino American Organizations in Georgia on Friday, December 7 (6pm) at Canton House Restaurant.  

For more information, please contact Ana Blackburn (404) 925-2639 or Ces Alberto (404) 290-5416 or email: galingfoundation@yahoo.com.

All proceeds will benefit the Youth Leadership Award Program 2013.  The YLA was created and organized to promote the importance of voluntarism, meaningful engagement and commitment among the youth in charitable organizations that benefits the community and beyond for a common good.   

 About the Guest Speaker

Jim McSweeney has worked for the National Archives and Records Administration for 25 plus year.   He currently serves as a Special Assistant to Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services.  From November 1998 to September 2012, he served as the Regional Administrator for the National Archives and Records Administration, Southeast Region.  During his career with NARA, Mr. McSweeney has worked in NARA's San Francisco, Laguna Niguel, and Atlanta facilities in capacities ranging from Appraisal and Disposition Branch Chief to Records Center Director to Records Management Director to Assistant Regional Administrator.  Mr. McSweeney was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and received a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from San Francisco State University and a masters of arts degree in American History from San Jose State University.  He is a member of the California Historical Society, the Atlanta Federal Executive Board, and the Society of Georgia Archivists.  Under his direction, the Southeast Region occupied two new facilities in 2004 and 2005: an 115,000 square foot archival facility (with exhibition and public program space) in Morrow, Georgia, as well as a 350,000 square foot Federal Records Center in Ellenwood, Georgia.  Mr. McSweeney has inaugurated innovative public programs with the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Clayton State University, the Truman and Roosevelt Presidential Libraries, Georgia Public Broadcasting, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, the Atlanta Public School System, the Smithsonian Institute, the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society, the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, and other cultural and higher education institutions throughout the region.  Under Mr. McSweeney’s leadership, the National Archives at Atlanta facility in Morrow, GA, became a center for community engagement, serving as a polling place, a host site for Naturalization Ceremonies, a meeting place for civic and fraternal organizations, and a national destination for family history research.  In the past five years, Mr. McSweeney and his staff have hosted national symposia on the Civil Rights Movement, the African American Experience, the Civil War, and the legacy of the Asian Pacific American community in the southeast.  Mr. McSweeney is a professed baseball junkie, ardent jazz enthusiast, dog lover, and proud father of a future archivist, actress, ballerina, or veterinarian.

Schedule of Program 

 

“Gratitude, Goodwill & Compassion”

The 6^th Galing Foundation, Inc. Youth Leadership Award & Volunteer Appreciation Dinner

with

Philippine Honorary Consul General Raoul “Ray” Donato

Friday, December 7, 2012

6-9pm

Canton House, Chamblee, GA

6:00        Registration & Networking                Ces Alberto

6:30        Welcome & Recognition of VIPs        Arjho Turner .

                Invocation                                         

                Opening Remarks                             Toni Daya-Luetgers

7:00        Dinner & Performances                     

8:00       "The National Archives at Atlanta & The Filipino American History in the South Symposium & Exhibition Project" by Jim McSweeney

               

               "The Philippine Government, Consular Matters & Volunteer Appreciation" by

                 Hon. Raoul "Ray" Donato

    GFI Accomplishment Report & Volunteer Appreciation  by Jane Rolen

                

                Youth Leadership Ceremony by Ana Blackburn 

                 Presentation of the 2012 Selection Committee & Nominees 

                 The Award Ceremony 

                

                 Special Literary Award Presentation by Marilyn Doromal & FFAOG (Federation of 

                 Filipino American Organizations in Georgia)

                

            

9:00         Closing Remarks by Jane Rolen