Activist Group Highlights Importance Of Early Education For Black NYC Children

NEW YORK, NY – The Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies Early Care & Education Working Group will highlight the urgent need to improve the quality of early care and education for young black males in New York City at its second annual “Young Black Leaders of Tomorrow” Luncheon on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM at Cipriani Wall Street. The event will also honor two leaders for their work to advance and promote high quality early care and education for young black children. All event proceeds will benefit the Winning Strategies Early Care & Education Fund.

WHAT: The Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies Early Care & Education Working Group

highlights the importance of providing young black males with the highest quality care and education from birth through kindergarten – at the beginning of the pipeline to higher education -- and honors two leaders.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 16, 2010: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

WHERE:

Cipriani Wall Street

55 Wall Street

New York, NY

WHO: Honorees: Marilyn F. Booker, Managing Director and Head of Diversity — North

America, Morgan Stanley, Alan M. Cohen, Global Head of Compliance, Goldman Sachs

Keynote speaker: Raymond J. McGuire, Head of Global Banking, Citi

Featured speaker; Pedro Noguera, Professor of Teaching and Learning at New York

University and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education

About Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies:

Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies was established to engage the private sector in closing the social and economic divides for young black men. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Harvard LawSchool’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice launched the initiative to address the rising rates of school drop outs, unemployment, and incarceration that have significantly reduced the number of young black men in the pipeline to higher education and professional careers. Pipeline has since identified and is marshalling support for a range of “winning strategies” that have proven effective in combating the alarming rate at which young black men are slipping through the cracks.

About the Pipeline Early Care & Education Working Group:

The Pipeline Early Care & Education Working Group aims to provide young black males with the highest quality care and education from birth through kindergarten, at the very beginning of the pipeline. The Working Group, in conjunction with

United Way

of New York City, established the Winning Strategies Early Care & Education Fund which is currently supporting a model focused on providing intensive professional development to five child care centers in East New York, Brooklyn and ultimately informing policy reforms for quality improvement efforts and improved educational outcomes.

Members of the press who wish to attend must RSVP to Andrew Yarbrough at

ayarbrough@globalstrategygroup.com or 646-652-9108. All attendees, including members of the press, must also be dressed in business attire.