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Outstanding philanthropists to be honored
Philanthropy Day award recipients are Michelle Hardesty (left), Donna Stidham, Ben Perrault and Claudia Meiling. Mary Quinn Cooper is not pictured. STEPHEN PINGRY / Tulsa World
By DANNA SUE WALKER World Staff Writer
Published: 11/5/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 11/5/2009 4:16 AM
A family foundation and three outstanding Tulsans will be honored when the Eastern Oklahoma Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals holds "The Power of Giving" National Philanthropy Day awards luncheon and conference, Tuesday at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown.
The 2009 award recipients are
Outstanding Philanthropist, the Hardesty Family Foundation; Outstanding Volunteer, attorney Mary Quinn Cooper; Outstanding Fundraising Executive, Donna Stidham, chief development officer, Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma; and Youth in Philanthropy, Ben Perrault, Washington High School senior.
Keynote and conference speaker is Philadelphia attorney and fundraising professional Laura Fredricks, author of many books including "The Ask: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose."
Roger and Donna Hardesty founded the Hardesty Family Foundation in 2006. Roger is CEO and president of the Hardesty Cos. and United States Aviation, a transatlantic charter company.
Their daughter Michelle Hardesty guides the foundation, which promotes education, human welfare and the environment.
Mary Quinn Cooper is a founding member of Eldridge Cooper Steichen & Leach law firm and a national trial counsel for major corporations in products liability claims and class actions. She is a board member of Bishop Kelley High School and the YWCA and is a trustee for the St. Francis of Assisi Tuition Assistance Board.
Donna Stidham has raised more than $6.6 million for area nonprofits over a 20-year career.
Now with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma, she was previously associated with Hospice of Green Country, Gatesway Foundation, Mental Health Association of Tulsa and Tulsa Area Red Cross. Thanks to her leadership, the Eastern Oklahoma Chapter of AFP won the award for the highest three-year growth for a chapter of its size group.
As a volunteer, Ben Perrault, Booker T. Washington High School senior, shares his love of music with elementary and middle school students. An accomplished drummer, he has organized drumming workshops and involved his high school peers in after-school tutoring programs.
He holds a 4.36 weighted grade point average and is a candidate for an International Baccalaureate program degree. He is also working to earn an Eagle rank in scouting and built shade structures at the near-downtown dog bark park.
Event sponsors are the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Stroman & Associates, ONEOK, Jill and Robert Thomas, Barnett Family Foundation, Bryan Close, Oxley Foundation, and Peter and Nancy Meinig.
Rickye Dixon and Carrie Henderson are event co-chairwomen. Committee members include Pat Atkinson, Larry Bartley, Brandi Davidson, Kate Davis, Tonnie Dosser, Jane Sunbar, Susan Garcia, Janet Gaskins, Marcia Graham, Kerry Hornibrook, Stephen Mason, Susan McCalman, Ally McGinnis, Brenda Michael-Haggard, Claudia Meiling, Nancy Moore, Nancy Phelps, Ruth Richards, Kathy Seibold, Sherry Setters, Kent Stroman and Abigayle Tobia.
For more information, go to
tulsaworld.com/afpeastok
or contact Rickye Dixon, rdixon@LIFEseniorservices.org, 664.9000.
By DANNA SUE WALKER World Staff Writer
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