Anthony David is added to the Big Give Birthday Bash!

Enter to win a free weekend rental from Park Place Mercedes Benz with raffle ticket purchase.

Featuring musical guest
Anthony David

President Obama's fave Neo-Soul artist
(10/27/10 Rickey Smiley Morning Show)
hosted by
Sister Sondra

Benefiting the Texas Organizing Project and the

Urban League of Greater Dallas Young Professionals

Sponsors Park Place Mercedes Benz, Love Child Productions, Real Photography by Nakoya, 3 Sisters Books, LLC, Apexius Eternus, Break of Day Design, and Vaughn Jackson Web Design

Texas Organizing Project

The Texas Organizing Project is a new, non-profit, Texas-based organization promoting social and economic equality for low to moderate income Texans through community and civic engagement.  Funds received for the Texas Organizing Project will be used to place well-trained, professional community organizers on the ground in targeted neighborhoods of Harris, Dallas and Hidalgo counties and recruit, train and mobilize hundreds of grassroots-neighborhood leaders and boost turnout of 60,000 minority voters.

Urban League of Greater Dallas Young Professionals

The Urban League of Greater Dallas Young Professionals supports the mission of the Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Central Texas, providing a volunteer cadre of young professionals for youth education programs, aids awareness campaigns, senior citizens and veterans support programs and employment training.  Boasting almost 200 young professional members age 21 - 40, they also attend non-profit leadership, community organizing workshops and are educated on issues that impact urban communities.  Funds raised for this organization will provide opportunities for a larger number of trained young professionals to volunteer and work in the Greater Dallas community.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I can be overly thankful without having to explain it.  This year, I am hugely thankful for the following:

• Thankful for God's blessings that often show up in the middle of the storm!
• Thankful for my parents, who are the backbone behind everything that I do.
• Thankful for my daughter, who inspires me with her brilliance to be better and make the world better.
• Thankful for all of my mentors and supporters, that I can call when I don't know which way to turn.
• Thankful for my friends, who listen to me even when they are busy with their families and lives.
• Thankful for my NULYP, Southern Region YP and ULGDYP family who challenge and affirm me.
• Thankful for my new Leadership Dallas Class and their can-do attitude.
• Thankful for what others meant for evil!

I am thankful everyday...but a couple of things happened this week.  Thank you to the YP who I am supposed to be mentoring who saved me from myself on Tuesday.  Thank you to the gentleman that stopped me shared kind words on yesterday as I left the office.  You know those out of the blue comments that you weren't expecting.

Thank you all for the unique contribution you've made to my life.  It's Thanksgiving!  Go out and be thankful and then go to the mall. :)

Brandi's Big Give Birthday Bash

Hello friends!

It's almost my birthday and I wanted to share that my big party with two great organizations!  So, instead of buying me gifts please buy a $10 ticket that will benefit the Urban League of Greater Dallas Young Professionals and the Texas Organizing Project.  You can even be a VIP for only $35 and receive priority seating and two extra raffle tickets.

After December 1st, ticket prices will go up so purchase them now.

For those of you who will be traveling to Dallas, I will post hotel information shortly.

Thank you to the following sponsors for being the first to take the plunge.  Our sponsors will offer special deals for the holidays for those who support this event.  So Give BIG and Get BIG just in time for this holiday season!

- Brandi

Sponsors
Real Photography by Nakoya
Tiffany Warren, Author and Playwright
Break of Day Design
Latisha Creagh, Great Friend
Vaughn Jackson Design

Today is the Day to Vote!

Find your polling place and vote!  Rain, sleet or shine, it's your responsibility.

Visit www.vote411.org to complete your ballot and email it to yourself to have handy at the polls.  It provides profiles of the candidates and explanations oft he issues.

Here is some voter inspiration...

“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” - Lyndon B. Johnson

“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.” - William E. Simon

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin Roosevelt

Happy Voting!