By Isseu Diouf Campbell
Under the theme “Strengthening Families,” the Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC) hosted its annual “Harlem Renaissance Day of Commitment Leadership Breakfast” on May 23, 2012 in City College of New York’s Great Hall in Harlem.
The organization – chaired by Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III and run by President/CEO Sheena Wright – paid tribute to three industry leaders for their lifelong service to the community. The honorees were Muhtar Kent, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company; C. Virginia Fields, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and Joel Klein, executive vice-president of News Corporation.
Mayor Bloomberg and Congressman Charles Rangel were among the VIPs who attended the event.
Since it began in 1986, when Rev. Butts rallied congregants of the Abyssinian Baptist Church to help rebuild Central Harlem, the ADC has built rehabilitated and restored more than 1,000 affordable housing units. The organization has also built more than 553,000 sq. ft. of commercial and retail space, community facilities for afterschool programs and youth services, award-winning educational institutions, loaned small businesses and start-ups more than $308,000 and created more than 600 jobs for local community members.
For more information about ADC, visit adcorp.org.
Photos of the event
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