The Partner 4-1-1

• Congrats to Louarn Sorkin for earning the LEAD Community Spotlight Award for co-founding Just in Time for Foster Youth! This honor recognizes leadership that improves lives through extraordinary dedication to people, organizations or causes. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 27, at the San Diego Hotel & Marina Marriott. If interested in attending and sitting at the SDSVP table, contact mandy@sdsvp.org.
  


• Throughout the years, Partner and SVPI Board President, Alan Sorkin has dedicated his time, expertise and support to Emeritus Investee, Cultivating Brilliance Institute (formerly HDF) and he even gave his birthday! Alan requested that in lieu of gifts, his friends and family give to the OPEN GATE Program. Thanks to their generous donations Cultivating Brilliance was able to purchase over 100 new books for the kids!
  


• Congrats to SVP Portland’s Executive Director, Mark Holloway, for being named as one of Portland’s “Forty Under 40″ by the Portland Business Journal. Click here to read more about Mark and how SVP is making a great impact in Portland.