National All Stars Project Gala Raises $2M For Afterschool Youth Development Program

All Stars Project President & CEO Gabrielle L. Kurlander; Newark Mayor Cory Booker; D&B Chairman and CEO Sara Mathew and Ernst & Young Vice Chair Kate Barton joined 500 business leaders, donors and young people at the All Stars Project National Gala Benefit at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center this evening.

Senior executives from CBRE, Tiffany & Co., MetLife, JPMorgan, Viacom, Dechert, Kroll
and Equity Residential were among the business leaders who contributed a total of $2 million
for afterschool development for inner-city youth in New York and Newark.

The gala highlighted the March 16 grand opening of the 9,000 square-foot All Stars Project of
NJ Scott Flamm Center for Afterschool Development at 33 Washington Street in Newark's
arts district. All Stars will expand in 2013 to include thousands more youth and families in free
afterschool programs and diverse cultural activities.

"Over the last decade, the All Stars has been an important education and youth development
innovator in Newark," said Newark Mayor Cory Booker. "The beautiful new performance
center, anchored in the downtown arts district, will be a magnet for young people and their
families looking to grow."

Honorees recognized in a lively multi-media program that included dance and singing
performances included Gloria Strickland, founding director, All Stars Project of NJ; Sara
Mathew, Chairman and CEO, D&B; Kate Barton, Americas Vice Chair, Tax Services, Ernst
& Young; Deborah Green, Senior Researcher, Elliott Management Corp. and Stephanie Hunt,
Co-Founder of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity in Dallas.

"I am excited to be partnering with each of these exemplary women leaders to expand the reach of the All Stars Project across the country," said Ms. Kurlander.

All Stars co-founder Dr. Lenora B. Fulani and New York Together founder Howard Teich presented the fifth annual Bridge Building Award for Leadership in Community Relations to distinguished religious and spiritual leaders: Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of

Islamic Brotherhood; Reverand AR Bernard, Christian Cultural Center; Reverend Dr. David Jefferson, Sr., Metropolitan Baptist Church, Newark; Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary; and Rabbi Robert N. Levine, D.D., Congregation Rodeph Shalom. At the end of the evening Ms. Kurlander and Dallas philanthropists Hunter and Stephanie Hunt (herself an honoree) took to the stage to announce the All Stars' expansion to its fifth city, Dallas, Texas.

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