Posted: 08/16/2011
(Back, from left) Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles' (BBBSLA) Asante Jones; Tiffany Siart, president and CEO, BBBSLA; Trena Pitchford, director, corporate partnerships, BBBSLA; Selam Meharena, CFO and VP, administration, Project Grad Los Angeles (PGLA); Ford Roosevelt, president and CEO, PGLA; Walter Garcia, scholar, Project Grad Los Angeles, PGLA; Sherion Johnson, acting director, Urban Media Foundation; Megan Souders; program manager, City Year Los Angeles (CYLA); Stephen Salinas, program director, CYLA; Peggy Funkhouser, president and CEO, Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP); (front, from left) Matt Wagner, board of directors for Communities in Schools, Los Angeles West (CISLA West); Deborah Marcus, director of development, (CISLA West; and LAEP's Roselyn Cruz and Marilyn Alavarez hold checks from the NBCU Foundation in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. Credit: Jennifer Fitzgerald, NBC