Be SOCIAL For JUSTICE – Honoring the Icons & Innovators Advancing Social Change

OCTOBER 4, 2018 • UNION SQUARE BALLROOM

10.04.2018 • UNION SQUARE BALLROOM

A benefit event for BronxConnect, an organization focused on keeping our youth free from a life behind bars

EVENT

The Family of Nelson Mandela, BronxConnect, and the Christian Cultural Center are excited to announce the first annual Be SOCIAL For JUSTICE Gala: Honoring Icons & Innovators Advancing Social Change. This year’s event also honors the work of Nelson Mandela, in what would have been his 100th year.

The Social Justice Awards are presented in recognition of outstanding ability in the use of activism, advocacy, creative arts, design, education, social engagement and media, to advance truth and social change. We are recognizing members of the national and international community for their significant contributions toward peace, civil rights, equality, poverty alleviation, prison reform and social justice.

Event Details:

BRONXCONNECT

Since 1999, BronxConnect has been keeping youth out of jail for life. We seek to cure the epidemic of youth incarceration by empowering communities of color to build from within.

The proceeds from this event will support:

CO-HOSTS

Ndaba Mandela
Africa Rising

Following in the footsteps of his beloved and iconic grandfather, Ndaba Mandela has taken the torch – and ran with it. Today, Nelson Mandela’s legacy continues as Ndaba keeps its beacon of hope bright, fueling its fiery message that one person can make a difference. Thankfully for all, the legacy lives, as Ndaba was recently named one of the “28 Men of Change” by BET. Today, Ndaba is showing the world, through his actions and orations, that Nelson Mandela’s voice and message of freedom still carries and rings true.

Rev. Wendy Calderón-Payne
BronxConnect

Rev. Wendy Calderón Payne, the daughter of two Colombian immigrants, began her work with New York City youth in 1989; upon her graduation from Brown University. In 1999, at the height of a youth incarceration epidemic, the question was asked if South Bronx churches could form a comprehensive network to support these youth as they changed their lives. Rev. Wendy has developed BronxConnect as the pioneer community and faith based alternative justice program in New York City.

Rev. A.R. Bernard
Christian Cultual Center

Rev. A.R. Bernard is a visionary whose teachings have stood at the intersection of faith and culture making Christ accessible for people from all walks of life. Through his ministry, his church, the Christian Cultural Center (CCC), has become New York’s largest house of worship. With more than 45,000 active, engaged members, CCC has emerged as one of America’s fastest growing churches nurturing and serving its diverse members.

CO-CHAIRS

Christina Arquette
Filmmaker & Activist

Brook Peters
Filmmaker & Activist

Lola Patrick-Odeen
Activist & Entrepreneur

“You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try and use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be.”

NELSON MANDELA

HONOREES

Soledad O’Brien
Journalist

Sunny Hostin
Lawyer & Journalist

David Arquette
Actor & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Christina Arquette
Filmmaker & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Phaedra Ellis-Malkins
Social Justice Advocate

Danny Trejo
Actor & Activist

Jesse Williams
Actor & Activist

Susan Sarandon
Actor & Activist

Adrian Grenier
Actor & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Gina Belafonte
Filmmaker & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Steve DeVore
Filmmaker & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Chirlane McCray
First Lady of NYC

Elias Alcantara
Founder & CEO, Bronx Element Strategies (BESt)

Ken Thompson
Brooklyn District Attorney
(Honored Posthumously)

Cheryl Wills
News Anchor, NY1

Keisha Senter
Founder & CIO, The Solution

Matthew Cooke
Filmmaker & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Bryn Mooser
Filmmaker & Activist, Producer of “Survivors Guide to Prison”

Eric Gonzalez
Brooklyn District Attorney

Diane Wallace Booker
Executive Director, U.S. Dream Academy

Leyla Martinez
Soros Justice Fellow

Lola Patrick-Odeen
Activist & Entrepreneur

Michael Santos
Co-Founder, Prison Professors

Monique Aiken
Activist

Megaphone Strategies
Social Justice PR Agency

Burrell Communications
Multi-Cultural Marketing Agency

Hip-Hop Caucus
Social Justice Organization

Delta Sigma Theta
A Service Sorority

La Unidad Latina
A Service Fraternity

NYU BALSA
Black Allied Law Students Assoc.

Special Service Honor to Morgan Stanley’s Pro Bono Strategy Challenge Team
Lore Serra, Jennifer Strafford, Courtney Bale, Chan Nam, and Alex Visokey

SPONSORSHIP

GOLD SPONSORSHIP

$ 25,000

20 VIP Entrance Passes
Premium photo opt on the red carpet
Marquee display of company logo or name during event
Special acknowledgement of contribution with CEO or designate on stage at the event
Premium placement of company logo or name on step-and-repeat
Name recognition in press releases
Inclusion of company logo or name as a Gold Sponsor in event e-blasts
Integrated social media engagement across multiple platforms
Premium placement of company logo/name and link on Be Social for Justice webpage
Premier placement of full-page color Journal ad

SILVER SPONSORSHIP

$ 15,000

10 VIP Entrance Passes
Premium photo opt on the red carpet
Marquee display of company logo or name during event
Priority placement of company logo or name on step-and-repeat
Name recognition in press releases
Inclusion of company logo or name as a Silver Sponsor in event e-blasts
Integrated social media engagement across multiple platforms
Priority placement of full-page color Journal ad

BRONZE SPONSORSHIP

$ 10,000

5 VIP Entrance Passes
Priority photo opt on the red carpet
Display of company logo or name during event
Placement of company logo or name in digital journal
Inclusion of company logo or name as a Bronze Sponsor in event e-blasts
Placement of half-page color Journal ad