NAI Gala Invitation

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
HONORING USC NAI CLASS OF 2015
CELEBRATING
MORE THAN 20 YEARS
OF COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS
HONORING
JOAN A. PAYDEN
USC Trustee
MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES
ALYSHA DEL VALLE
Morning Traffic Reporter, ABC 7
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015
RECEPTION AND SILENT AUCTION 5:30 PM
DINNER 6:15 PM
TOWN AND GOWN
UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS
For hosted parking, enter Structure X
at Figueroa Street and McCarthy Way
Please respond by Thursday, April 23rd
Online at usc.edu/esvp (code: NAI2015) or by phone at 213.743.1591
For more information, visit the USC Communities website at: communities.usc.edu
We hope you will support our 2015 NAI Gala and we want to thank
the following who have supported NAI over the past year:
The Ahmanson Foundation
Steve and Luana Alesio
Angell Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
Koh Foundation
Joan Payden
Bank of America
Dr. Greta Pruitt
Edison International
Rockefeller Foundation
Dan Ferdows
Schoen Foundation
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Weingart Foundation
Carl and Roberta Deutsch Foundation
Eisner Foundation
Judy Flesh Rosenberg, Pharm.D, MSEd
Good Neighbors Grant
Mark and Marilou Hamill
Dr. Stacy Pulice
Sherry Saleh
Toyota
Wells Fargo Foundation
Xerox
HONORING USC NAI CLASS OF 2015
GALA & AWARDS
CEREMONY
ANNUAL
The USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative
ABOUT THE USC NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMIC INITIATIVE
NAI is a seven-year pre-college, comprehensive, rigorous educational program
operated by USC Civic Engagement. NAI prepares low-income, first generation,
under-represented, minority students living in the neighborhoods surrounding
USC for access and success at a college or university. Those who complete the
program, meet USC’s competitive admission requirements, and choose to attend
USC, are awarded a full financial package minus loans. Many NAI students are the
first in their family to graduate from high school and in most cases they are the
first in their family to attend college. NAI boasts a 100% high school graduation
rate and a 98% college attendance rate. NAI Scholars are accepted to and attend
top prestigious universities and colleges across the country including USC,
Harvard, Stanford and UCLA. The NAI program garnered national media
attention and serves as a model program for college access and success.
2015 NAI GALA HOST COMMITTEE MEMBERS
USC CIVIC ENGAGEMENT BOARD OF COUNCILORS
USC UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
Gary E. Erickson
President and CEO,
The Erickson Group
Judy Flesh Rosenberg
Consultant,
Community Activist
Kim Thomas-Barrios
Executive Director,
Educational Partnerships
Kathy Mota
Social Innovation,
Toyota
Jan McElwee Osborn
Principal,
The McElwee Group
Linda Zukowski
Senior Executive Director,
Development
Marilou Hamill
Chief Financial Officer,
Amazing Invisible Inc.
MY Management
Alysha Del Valle
Morning Traffic Reporter,
ABC 7
Ivonne Rodriguez
Consultant, USC Neighborhood
Academic Initiative
Jasmine Torres
Development Associate