Jane Fonda to Deliver Keynote Address at 2006 COAF 'Save a Generation' Awards Dinner
September 28, 2006 11:25 AM Eastern Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) is pleased to announce that Jane Fonda, Oscar®-winning actress and humanitarian, will deliver the keynote address at the annual “Save a Generation” awards dinner, to be held Friday, October 20, 2006, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. COAF will honor outstanding individual and corporate leaders, and celebrate the success of COAF’s unique formula for poverty alleviation through village revitalization, education, health care and development.
Emmy® and Tony® award winner Andrea Martin will serve as Master of Ceremonies and Ms. Fonda will appear along with honoree George Pagoumian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Napco, LLP. In addition, COAF will recognize Pierre Michel Fattouche of VivaCell and Eduardo Eurnekian of Zvartnots International Airport and Tierras de Armenia as two organizational leaders fighting poverty in Armenia through long-term economic development.
Actress and humanitarian Jane Fonda has enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress in such well known films as Klute and Coming Home. Ms. Fonda now focuses her time on activism and social change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). She chairs this statewide effort to reduce the high rates of adolescent pregnancy in Georgia through community, youth and family development, sustainable economic development and legislative advocacy.
In 1994, Ms. Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. She is also a member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Grady Health System Board of Visitors, the Screen Actors Guild Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Native American Rights Fund, and sits on the V-Counsel of V-Day: Until the Violence Stops.
In May 2005, Random House published Ms. Fonda’s memoirs, My Life So Far, which secured a first-place position on The New York Times Bestseller list. That same spring Monster-in-Law, her first film in 15 years, also reached number one at the box office, making Ms. Fonda the first person to simultaneously have a number one book and number one movie.
About COAF
Founded in 2000, the Children of Armenia Fund is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (501(c)(3)). COAF seeks to reverse the impoverished conditions affecting significant numbers of Armenia’s children by revitalizing Armenia’s villages and implementing projects that provide immediate and sustainable benefits to children and youth. For further information, please visit www.coafkids.org.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) is pleased to announce that Jane Fonda, Oscar®-winning actress and humanitarian, will deliver the keynote address at the annual “Save a Generation” awards dinner, to be held Friday, October 20, 2006, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. COAF will honor outstanding individual and corporate leaders, and celebrate the success of COAF’s unique formula for poverty alleviation through village revitalization, education, health care and development.
Emmy® and Tony® award winner Andrea Martin will serve as Master of Ceremonies and Ms. Fonda will appear along with honoree George Pagoumian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Napco, LLP. In addition, COAF will recognize Pierre Michel Fattouche of VivaCell and Eduardo Eurnekian of Zvartnots International Airport and Tierras de Armenia as two organizational leaders fighting poverty in Armenia through long-term economic development.
Actress and humanitarian Jane Fonda has enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress in such well known films as Klute and Coming Home. Ms. Fonda now focuses her time on activism and social change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). She chairs this statewide effort to reduce the high rates of adolescent pregnancy in Georgia through community, youth and family development, sustainable economic development and legislative advocacy.
In 1994, Ms. Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. She is also a member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Grady Health System Board of Visitors, the Screen Actors Guild Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Native American Rights Fund, and sits on the V-Counsel of V-Day: Until the Violence Stops.
In May 2005, Random House published Ms. Fonda’s memoirs, My Life So Far, which secured a first-place position on The New York Times Bestseller list. That same spring Monster-in-Law, her first film in 15 years, also reached number one at the box office, making Ms. Fonda the first person to simultaneously have a number one book and number one movie.
About COAF
Founded in 2000, the Children of Armenia Fund is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (501(c)(3)). COAF seeks to reverse the impoverished conditions affecting significant numbers of Armenia’s children by revitalizing Armenia’s villages and implementing projects that provide immediate and sustainable benefits to children and youth. For further information, please visit www.coafkids.org.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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