InterFaith Leadership Award Dinner
May 1, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
2018 InterFaith Leadership Award Dinner (ILAD)
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
SRC Arena & Events Center, Onondaga Community College
Reception: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 6:30 p.m.
“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century ─ solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.” ─ Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate
HONORING
Keith Alford, PhD
Chair, School of Social Work, Syracuse University
Dennis Baldwin, Esq.
Of Counsel, Mackenzie Hughes
The Rev. Frederick Daley
Pastor, All Saints Church
Rabbi Daniel Fellman
Rabbi, Temple Concord
Melanie Littlejohn
Vice President, Customer & Community, New York State, National Grid
Peggy Ogden
Former President/CEO, Central New York Community Foundation
The Rev. Peter Shidemantle
Pastor, Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
Yusuf Soule, PhD
Coordinator, OnCampus Program, Syracuse City School District and SU School of Education
HONORARY CO-CHAIRS
Eric and Judy Mower
CREATING A CIVIL COMMUNITY
“Civil society” has become a central theme in contemporary thought and is increasingly used to suggest how public life should function. The literature suggests that three principles — participatory engagement, constitutional authority and moral responsibility — are found in all civil societies. Characteristics of a civil society include:
Equity: Members are given equitable access to and use of resources for constructing a satisfying life, including expanding and strengthening economic conditions for community members, especially the poor.
Reciprocity: Members pursue social transformation through reciprocal, mutually dependent collaboration with others, and negotiate and resolve conflict through peaceful, nonviolent means.
Distilling the broad theme of civil society to a local, community level, this year’s ILAD will honor those whose personal and professional lives have been dedicated to making ours a more civil community through their dedication to equity and a life of reciprocity.
Please join us in celebrating our honorees.
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