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 December
2002
Now, More
Than Ever, NYABJ Needs Your Support
Dear members and friends:
As you are all well aware, individual and
corporate giving have slowed dramatically
since the philanthropic boom of the 1990s.
NYABJ is one of many worthy not-for-profit
organizations feeling the pinch of those
cutbacks. NYABJ's 15th Annual Scholarship
and Awards Dinner is fast approaching and,
in this writhing economy, donations have
fallen significantly short of what they
usually are at this juncture.
The past two years have been difficult for
NYABJ.
In 2001, the terrible events
of September 11th forced us to cancel the
annual dinner, which is the chapter's major
yearly fundraiser. As a consequence, we
have been providing our membership with
almost two years of programming and giving
out student scholarships with what essentially
were funds designed to last for 12 months.
Despite those hardships, we believe we have
offered you ambitious programs and strengthened
the community of media professionals here
in the metropolitan area. We want to continue
to fulfill those goals.
At this time, we are asking you to dig a
little deeper. Now, more than ever, we need
you, our members and partners, to show your
support of this organization.
You can best help by buying a ticket and
joining us at the scholarship and awards
dinner on Wednesday, December 11, 6 p.m.,
at Columbia University's Alfred Lerner Hall.
You can also urge your company or organization
to support the dinner. It promises to be
an exciting evening of honoring journalistic
excellence and the scholarship of student
journalists, and reflecting on the achievements
of black media professionals.
We hope you will to attend but, if you cannot,
we strongly urge you to consider a personal
donation made payable to NYABJ or the NYABJ
Scholarship Fund. You can send donations
to NYABJ, P.O. Box 2446, Rockefeller Center,
N.Y., N.Y. 10185. Your dollars will be put
to good use as we continue to carry out
the mission of our 27-year-old organization.
Visit our Awards
Dinner page on the chapter Web site
for more details about the dinner or contact
Noelle Elaine Media, our event planner,
about tickets at (646) 424-9750.
Warmest Regards,
Errol Cockfield
Other installments of
the President's Corner:
March
2003
August
2002
Errol Cockfield is a
political reporter for Newsday. He has also
written for the Los Angeles Times and the
Hartford Courant. A former coordinator of
NYABJ's' High School Journalism Workshop
and a past vice president-print with the
chapter, Cockfield regularly contributes
freelance pieces to magazines, including
The Source and Vibe. He is a poet and spoken
word performer who has won slam competitions
in New York City. Cockfield, a 1994 graduate
of the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, lives in Queens.
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