Healthy Babies, Healthy Futures Los Angeles

Friday, June 24, 2011
Time: 5:00 PM
Registration Time: 5:00 PM
Beverly Wilshire

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

The 13th Annual Healthy Babies, Healthy Futures Awards Dinner, A Salute to African-American Families honors prominent individuals who have significantly impacted the African-American community.

Almost 55,000 babies are born prematurely every year in California and nearly half a million across the United States. In California, African-American infants are almost twice as likely as Caucasian infants to be born prematurely; and in the African-American community, 18.3 percent of all births are preterm, the highest among all ethnicities. In many cases, the mothers do everything right, but their babies are still born too early.

Presented by: Farmers

Committee Chair: Faye McClure, VP-Strategic Marketing, Farmers Insurance  

When: Friday June 24, 2011 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Silent Auction & Cocktail Reception
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Dinner, Evening Program, Live Auction

Where: The Beverly Wilshire 9500 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

 Honorees: Carol J. Bennett, MD – Chief of Urology VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Clinical Professor of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA   

Harry B. Hutchison – Vice President, Customer Service Operations Southern California Edison's Customer Services Business Unit

Mattie McFadden-Lawson – Philanthropist National Co-Chair, Women's Leadership Forum, Democratic National Committee Yolanda Parker – Founder & President, KMS Software Company 

For more information contact Asher Garfinkel at March of Dimes at (818) 539-2192