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To underwrite the cost of Volunteers of America’s international human service programs, created and marketed the Torch of Liberty Award, reserved exclusively for heads of state. Funding from corporate sponsors of the award is used to provide supplemental university scholarships for a nation’s economically poor, but promising young women. Past recipients include: Her Excellency The Late Benazir Bhutto; Their Majesties, The Late King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan; Nursultan Nazarbeyev, President of Kazakhstan; Sulyman Demirel, President of Turkey and Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. As consultant to the US-China Foundation for International Exchanges, created and marketed the Marco Polo Award to underwrite the cost of sending volunteer agricultural, medical and educational experts to China for humanitarian missions in areas designated for poverty alleviation. Presented in Beijing, the award brings China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts affairs together with leading US CEO’s. Created and marketed a series of “Salutes to Working Kids” where luminaries from Los Angeles’ entertainment community honor working young people. Proceeds from the salutes provided supplemental university scholarships for “Working Kids.”Author of In the Wake of Death, a nonfiction Moyer Bell title. Recipient of China’s Friendship Award and the Mark of Excellence Award bestowed by Volunteers of America.