National Philanthropy Day (NPD), sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is a special day set aside to recognize the great contributions of those people active in the philanthropic community who are dedicated to the enrichment of our world.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
11:30am - Reception
Noon - Lunch
The Rainbow Room, New York
30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor
Please call 212-582-8565 for information about registration for this program.
A conversation with John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation
and prominent philanthropist and Lesley Stahl, 60 MINUTES, CBS News Correspondent
John C. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1947 after serving in the U.S. Navy. He began his professional career at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was named Partner in 1956 and Co-Chairman and Senior Partner in 1976. Mr. Whitehead served as Deputy Secretary of State from April 1985 to January 1989 and was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Reagan. He is presently Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and is also Co-Chairman of the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts and a Director of both the East-West Institute and the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships.
NPD provides an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of giving and all that it has made possible. NPD celebrates the endless daily contributions that individuals and organizations across the country make to countless causes and missions. donors, volunteers and leaders of national, local and community based nonprofits are recognized for their special gifts.
Lesley Stahl has been a 60 MINUTES correspondent since March 1991. The 2007-08 season marks her 17th on the broadcast.
In September of 2005, Stahl landed the first interview with American hostage Roy Hallums who was held captive by Iraqis for 10 months. Her other exclusive 60 MINUTES interviews with former Bush administration officials Paul O’Neill and Richard Clarke ranked among the biggest news stories of 2004. She was the first to report that Al Gore would not run for president, in a 60 MINUTES interview broadcast in 2002.
Prior to joining 60 MINUTES, Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent during the Carter, Reagan and George H. W. Bush Presidencies. Her reports appeared on the CBS EVENING NEWS, first with Walter Cronkite, then with Dan Rather, and on other CBS News broadcasts.
During much of that time, she also served as moderator of FACE THE NATION, CBS News' Sunday public-affairs broadcast (September 1983–May 1991). For FACE THE NATION, she interviewed such newsmakers as Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, Yasir Arafat and virtually every top U.S. official.
From October 1990 to March 1991, Stahl supplemented her work at the White House and on FACE THE NATION by joining Charles Kuralt as co-anchor of "America Tonight," a daily CBS News late-night broadcast of interviews and essays.
Her experiences covering Washington for more than 20 years became the subject of her book Reporting Live (Simon & Schuster, 1999). The stories she has covered while at CBS News range from Watergate in 1972 through the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan to the 1991 Gulf War.
Stahl anchored several CBS News documentaries, including "The Politics of Cancer" and "In the Red Blues," about the budget deficit, both for "CBS Reports."
She has a collection of Emmy Awards for her interviews on FACE THE NATION and her 60 MINUTES reporting, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy given in September 2003. "Punishing Saddam" won Stahl an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award. Her profile of search engine giant Google earned her a 2005 Business and Financial Emmy award.
Stahl was born Dec. 16, 1941, in Swampscott, Mass., and was graduated cum laude in 1963 from Wheaton College, where she served on the board of trustees. She currently serves on the board of the New York City Ballet. She and her husband, author Aaron Latham, live in New York. They have a daughter, Taylor.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Last year, organizations honoring their volunteers and philanthropists included:
American Foundation for the Blind • American Heart Association • American Red Cross in Greater New York • Caron New York • Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, Greater New York Chapter • Food Bank For New York City • Fountain House • Girl Scouts of the USA • Inner-City Scholarship Fund • Lighthouse International • The Mount Sinai Medical Center • National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications • The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship • National Hemophilia Foundation • Primary Care Development Corp. • Projects Plus, Inc. • SEO, Inc. • Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children • The Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center • United Cerebral Palsy of NYC • United Way of New York City
Click here for the National Philanthropy Day 2007 brochure. For information about registration, please call 212-582-8565.
