All Stars Project Hosts LEARNING FROM LEADERS, 12/3

The All Stars Project, Inc. is hosting its Ninth Annual Benefit Luncheon entitled Learning from Leaders for its leadership training program, the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth, on Friday, December 3, at  12 noon at the New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas. 

Special guest speakers include Gary Gensler, Chairman, US Commodities Futures Trading Commission and Honorable Jeanne l. Phillips, Senior Vice President, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.  Honorees at the event include Mark Sudbey, Chairman and CEO, USPowerGen and the organization Young Wall Street.  Bill Weir, ABC News "Nightline" co-anchor will be the host for the event. The benefit is expected to draw 300 executives from Fortune 500 corporations and financial firms across the New York region, including Barclays Capital, Ernst & Young, Latham & Watkins, DirecTV, Metlife, CB Richard Ellis, FTI Consulting and JP Morgan.  Many companies are current supporters of the All Stars Project's Development School for Youth and have provided training and hundreds of paid summer internships to the young people.  

The All Stars Project's Development School for Youth is an innovative outside-of-school program that offers supplemental educational, social and internship experiences in a variety of business, artistic and community settings. 

The program partners with the business community.  Business leaders create experiential workshops designed to help the young people perform in various roles as cosmopolitan young business people and professionals. Its corporate partners include MetLife, Ernst & Young and Latham & Watkins. 

Over 80 companies give their support including Dun & Bradstreet, Tiffany & Co., Morgan Stanley, Prudential, PSEG, Navigant, DirecTV, CastleOak Securities and CB Richard Ellis.   The All Stars Project, (www.allstars.org), founded in 1981 and 100% privately-funded, builds partnerships with the private sector to produce outside-of-school development programs for young people in the inner city using an innovative performance-based approach. Distinguished supporters of the All Stars youth development programs include: Corporate CEOs James Turley (Ernst & Young), Sarah Mathew (D&B), Mark Sudbey (USPoweGen), Hunter Hunt (Hunt Oil);  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; and Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research.