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Press Release
MAYOR JAMES K. HAHN and CITY COUNCILWOMAN WENDY GREUEL TO PRESENT NAWBO-LA
BUSINESS AWARDS
Hahn and Greuel to Appear March 18 Before 1,200 Women Business
Owners
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(LOS ANGELES) Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn
and District 2 City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel will present awards to top women
in business Friday, March 18, at a gathering of more than 1,200 business owners,
public officials and corporate representatives at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The event is the 19th Annual Leadership and Legacy
Awards Luncheon, jointly presented by the National Association of Women Business
Owners, Los Angeles Chapter (NAWBO-LA) and the Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA.
“We are pleased that Mayor Hahn will be
one of our award presenters because it signals recognition by the mayor of the
contributions of women in business and the changes they are creating in both
business and philanthropy,” said Helen Han, Executive Director of NAWBO-LA.
“Plus, Councilwoman Greuel has long been an advocate for small- and women-owned
businesses with a longstanding history of working with NAWBO-LA, so we are doubly
pleased that she will join us.”
Overall, nine women are being honored for their
philanthropic and business success, with four of them inducted by Greuel and
the mayor into the NAWBO-LA Hall of Fame, which honors lifetime achievement.
Hahn and Greuel will present four Hall of Fame
awards. The recipients include Loreen Arbus, who heads her own television production
company and was the first woman to have ever headed two cable television networks,
and Dr. Jane Pisano, President and Director, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County, whose long history of public activism includes serving as president
of the Los Angeles 2000 Committee.
Two other Hall of Fame winner have succeeded
in non-traditional occupations. They are Gabrielle Bullock, an African American
woman architect currently overseeing building of the $400 million UCLA Westwood
Replacement Hospital, and Andrea Schaffer, General Manager, Strategic Financial
Group, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, one of only four Northwestern
Mutual women general managers nationwide.
The Leadership and Legacy Awards Luncheon is
NAWBO-LA’s signature annual event and fundraiser. This year’s Mistress
of Ceremony is Sylvia Lopez, KCAL 9 News at Nine co-anchor and seven-time Emmy
award winner.
Others receiving awards:
- Diane Dixon, Legacy Award/Philanthropist of
the Year – Senior Vice President with the Avery Dennison Corporation,
chair of Women Leaders United for Giving, United Way of Greater Los Angeles.
- Mary Anderson, Leadership Award/Women Business
Owner of the Year – President, Associated Health Professionals, Inc.
- Patricia Means, Advocate of the Year Award – Founder and president of Turning Point Communications, publisher of
Turning Point, a national magazine focusing on African American entrepreneurs.
- Cynthia Corella and Chérie Shelton,
Rising Stars of the Year Award – Co- owners of La Bella, an upscale
clothing boutique in Long Beach.
Luncheon Details
Individual tickets, $150. Time and location, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday March
18, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd., in Beverly Hills. To register
or obtain more information, please go to www.nawbola.org
or call 310-772-8246.
About NAWBO-LA and the
Enterprise Institute
The National Association of Women Business Owners is a nationwide organization
of women business owners with more than 80 chapters. NAWBO-LA (www.nawbola.org),
founded in 1979, represents the interests of more than 335,000 women-owned businesses
in the Los-Angeles-Long Beach area accounting for 43% of all privately held
firms in the region, employing over 700,000 people and generating more than
$113 billion in annual revenues. The NAWBO-LA Enterprise Institute is a 501(c)3
charitable foundation dedicated to accelerating initiatives and research that
promote the entrepreneurship of women worldwide by building strategic alliances
and partnerships.
For more information on NAWBO-LA,
please contact 1-800-266-8762, info@nawbola.org
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