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Black Tie International:
Actress Stephanie March
Joins World of Children as Celebrity Ambassador |
ACTRESS
STEPHANIE MARCH
JOINS
WORLD OF CHILDREN AS CELEBRITY AMBASSADOR
“Law & Order SVU”
Star Joins
Nonprofit Board
to Advance its
Efforts
to Build Global Network of Changemakers for Children
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NEW YORK, NY – January 27, 2010 – World
of Children (www.worldofchildren.org),
the only global recognition
and funding nonprofit that recognizes
individuals who are changing the lives of
children around the world, today announced that
popular television, film and Broadway actress
Stephanie March has joined the organization as
its Celebrity Ambassador.
“I am thrilled to support World of Children and
its superlative efforts to fund changemakers
around the world. It's a great privilege to be
associated with an organization that recognizes
and funds those individuals really working in
the trenches, and I look forward to being part
of advancing positive change for children
everywhere,” said March.
Known for her sharply intelligent and
sympathetic portrayals of a variety of
characters in television, film and theater,
March’s television credits include “Law & Order:
SVU”, “Conviction”, “30 Rock”, “Grey’s Anatomy”,
and “Rescue Me.” Her film credits include “The
Invention of Lying”, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, “Head
of State“, “Flannel Pajamas”, “East Broadway”
and “The Treatment.” March
recently appeared on
Broadway in the multiple Tony nominated revival
of Eric Bogosian’s “Talk Radio” and in the
critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival of
Howard Korder’s “Boys’ Life”.
March is an activist for causes benefiting women
and education. In addition to World of Children,
she serves on the advisory board of OneKid
OneWorld, an organization that rebuilds schools
for children in Kenya and Central America, and
has been on the board of directors of Safe
Horizon for six years—an organization that
promotes justice and provides support for
victims of violent crime. March has also tutored
children at the Harlem Village Academies in New
York and is deeply committed to bringing quality
education to children in local and global
communities.
“Stephanie March brings incredible dedication
and integrity to both her professional and
charitable work and we look forward to working
with her to elevate the changemakers World of
Children supports,” said Harry Leibowitz, World
of Children’s founder and chairman.
For more than a decade, World of Children has
identified and vetted some of the most promising
changemakers for children worldwide and provided
funding for their efforts to improve children’s
lives. The organization’s exhaustive research
and vetting of individuals spearheading health
and humanitarian initiatives across the global
spectrum has been hailed by leading
philanthropic organizations.
World of Children has been featured in Kenneth
Cole’s AWEARNESS: Inspiring Stories About How
to Make a Difference (http://www.kennethcole.com/awearness/)
and previous World of Children honorees have
been featured by New York Times columnist
Nicholas Kristof (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16kristof.html),
Fast Company Magazine, The
Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Bonnie Hunt Show, USA
Today, People Magazine and a wide range of
national and international media. The World of
Children Awards have often served as a
pivotal launching point for its recipients.
World of Children is led by co-founders Harry
Leibowitz and Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz, retired
senior executives from Procter & Gamble and
Victoria’s Secret, whose
dream is to bestow a Nobel Prize®-like award to
honor social changemakers who improve children’s
lives. Since 1998, World of Children has
awarded more than $2 million in cash grants to
84 changemakers working in more than 50
countries.
ABOUT WORLD OF CHILDREN
World of Children (www.worldofchildren.org) is
the only global recognition and funding program
for people specifically and exclusively serving
the needs of children. Now a 12-year-old
philanthropy dedicated to identifying and
leveraging the efforts of those working on the
ground to improve children’s lives, World of
Children has recognized some of the most
promising changemakers for children worldwide
and provided funding and visibility for their
efforts.
Hailed recently by the media as the “Nobel
Prize© for Children,” the World
of Children Awards program searches the
globe for everyday changemakers and provides
funding and recognition to support their
life-changing work for children. As such, World
of Children acts like a social venture
capitalist – employing a world-class research,
review, vetting and selection process led by a
committee of independent experts and
professionals to find those individuals who are
pioneering life-changing programs to benefit
children. Then World of Children invests,
through cash grants, in those enterprising
individuals with a demonstrated track record of
success, honors them at an annual awards
ceremony in New York City and helps them
leverage their World of Children awards to raise
additional funds and generate visibility and
strategic partnerships for their programs.
Leading philanthropies praise this
organization’s extensive worldwide research and
vetting of extraordinary individuals who are
spearheading health and humanitarian programs.
World of Children has awarded more than $2
million in cash grants to 84 changemakers for
children working in over 50 countries.
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