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Paul Farmer & Partners In Health

12^th Annual Award Dinner

March 3, 2009

Hilton Charlotte Center City, 222 East Third Street, 6:30 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Medical anthropologist and physician Dr. Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Author or co-author of over 100 scholarly publications, his research and writing stem in large part from work in Haiti, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda and from clinical and teaching activities. Along with his colleagues at the Brigham and at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis) in resource-poor settings. Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. (in Anthropology) in 1990 from Harvard University. He is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World.  

2009 AWARD AGAINST INDIFFERENCE HONOREE

The first integrated law firm in North Carolina history, Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumter, P.A. did more in its first decade to influence federal civil rights law than any other private law practice in the United States. From the landmark Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education suit, which paved the way for a desegregated school system, to cases defending fair congressional redistricting, Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumter, P.A. has stood at the forefront of the fight for legal equality in America. Additionally, many Ferguson Stein attorneys have gone on to fill top political, academic and judicial positions across the country, furthering the firm’s mission nationwide.  

THE ECHO FOUNDATION

Inspired by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel’s 1997 visit to Charlotte, The Echo Foundation is a non-profit education foundation that seeks to promote tolerance, human dignity and ethical decision-making through education and to provide opportunities for action against indifference. Our mission is “…to sponsor and facilitate those voices that speak of human dignity, justice and moral courage in a way that leads to positive action for humankind.”

TICKET INFORMATION                                                                                                Black Tie Optional

Premier Table Sponsorship                                                 $3,500

·         Table for 10 at the Award Dinner

·         Invitation for 10 to the Patrons’ Reception

·         Naming in all Printed Materials

Patron Table Sponsorship                                                   $2,500

·         Table for 10 at the Award Dinner

·         Invitation for 2 to the Patrons’ Reception

·         Naming in all Printed Materials

Individual Tickets                                                                $275

For additional information and further opportunities, contact The Echo Foundation at 704-347-3844.