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THIS PRIZE BOOK BELONGS TO: __________________________________ The Federal Communications Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Committee and The FCBA Foundation welcome you to the 26TH ANNUAL CHARITY AUCTION to benefit THE FISHING SCHOOL AND THE FCBA FOUNDATION Thursday, November 5, 2015 – 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. The Sphinx Ballroom at the Almas Temple 1315 K Street, NW Washington, DC with CELEBRITY EMCEES Anna Gomez and Christopher Wright and AWARD-WINNING AUCTIONEER B.J. Jennings of 1st Class Benefits SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS AT&T Services, Inc. Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Cooley LLP Covington & Burling LLP CTIA – The Wireless Association Davis Wright Tremaine LLP DISH Network Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP Hogan Lovells US LLP National Association of Broadcasters T-Mobile US, Inc. Wiley Rein LLP Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1 CHARITY AUCTION COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Rachael Bender (Chair) Van Bloys - Silent Auction Dan Henry - Work Station Libbie Canter - Prize Storage Brian Indovina - Silent Auction Jeremy Berkowitz Patricia Cave - Live Auction Sarah Jameson - Prize Claim Neil Chilson Zac Champ - Silent Auction Lauren King - Prize Storage Liz Chernow - Publicity Heidi Lankau - Publicity Christine Crowe Noah Cherry - Live Auction Sarah Leggin - Raffle Kristine Fargotstein Molly O’Conor - Law School Volunteers Jon Markman - Prize Solicitation Adam Copeland - Work Station Lauren McCarty - Volunteers Ian Forbes Elizabeth Cuttner - Publicity Bakari Middleton - Work Station Hadass Kogan Emilie DeLozier - Raffle Alison Nemeth - Live Auction Angela DeMahey - Law School Thom Parisi - Volunteers and Prize Alex Reynolds Volunteers Displays Kevin Ryan Jameson Dempsey - Prize Solicitation Stephanie Power - Silent Auction Delara Derakhshani - Prize Book Ray Rothermal - Cashiers Davina Sashkin Jessica Elder - Prize Solicitation Dwayne Sam - Raffle Sean Spivey Brooke Ericson - Volunteers Rachel Sanford - Volunteers Kayla Gardner - Law School Volunteers Mike Saperstein - Prize Book Josh Turner Stephanie Gardner - Live Auction Becky Schwartz - Prize Solicitation Caroline Van Wie Anna Gentry - Law School Volunteers Karen Sprung - Prize Solicitation Ani Gevorkian - Prize Solicitation Elvis Stumbergs - Prize Book Ali Zayas Erin Griffith - Prize Claim Rachel Wolkowitz - Prize Solicitation Chris Guttman-McCabe - Cashiers 2 3 Express Checkout with Auctionpay allows you to skip the cashier’s line when you are ready to leave. Instead, you can go to the prize claim area, verify your HOW IT WORKS auction purchases, and pick up the auction items that you won! Once you have claimed your prize, please make sure that you have received each item included GENERAL INFORMATION in the prize package. At tonight’s event, you are invited to participate in a Live Auction and a series of Silent Auctions and Raffles. By attending the auction, you waive any claims for If you are the winning bidder on a live or silent auction item and you have not pre- liability against the Federal Communications Bar Association, the FCBA registered your credit card using Auctionpay, you will need to go to the cashier, Foundation, the Charity Auction Committee and Subcommittees, the auction provide your bidder number, and submit your payment. Payment may be made by beneficiaries, or the donor of any prize, property, or service. Everything is sold “as is.” cash, check, or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, or American Express). Checks Please be aware that prizes may be subject to restrictions or limitations such as should be made payable to the “FCBA Foundation.” After payment has been an expiration date, blackout periods, or limits on the number of participants. received at the cashier, you may retrieve your prizes from the prize claim area. Again, once you have claimed your prize, please make sure that you have received UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL PRIZES ARE NULL AND VOID AS OF each item included in the prize package. NOVEMBER 5, 2016. Please read all of the specifications and limitations carefully. If you have any questions, please call the FCBA at (202) 293-4000. Winners of all live auction prizes will be announced during the live auction. To determine whether you have won a silent auction prize, you may visit the silent TAX INFORMATION auction table after it closes to see if you were the winning bidder. The winning Your charitable deduction for the purchase of items at the 26th Annual Charity bidder number will be circled on the bid sheet associated with each prize after Auction is limited to the amount, if any, by which your payment exceeds the donor’s bidding has ended. value of that item. You will be provided with a good faith estimate of the value of ONLINE AUCTION the goods and/or services you have purchased when you pick up your prize. This notice also serves as the required written disclosure statement to each donor who The FCBA Charity Auction Committee will run the Online Auction from October 29 makes a “quid pro quo” contribution in excess of $75.00. A “quid pro quo” through November 12, 2015 . On the Online Auction site, you can bid on any of contribution is a payment made partly as a contribution and partly for goods and the auction items listed in the Online Auction section of this Prize Book (see page services provided to the donor by the charity. For more information, please call the 59). FCBA at (202) 293-4000. The Online Auction is a vehicle to enhance the participation of FCBA members in PRIZE CLAIM AND PAYMENT PROCEDURES the Charity Auction, in particular members of FCBA Chapters outside of Express Checkout with Auctionpay Washington, DC. Likewise, supporters of The Fishing School and the FCBA Foundation who regrettably were not able to attend tonight’s event will As part of our efforts to enhance the 26th Annual Charity Auction, we will be using nonetheless be afforded the opportunity to bid on great prizes and/or submit Auctionpay terminals to make the bidding and checkout process faster and easier. donations directly through the “Donate Cash” feature on the site. The Auctionpay system allows you, at check-in, to securely pre-register a credit card that is linked to your registered bidder number. During the auction, use your bidder To participate in the online auction, visit number for all silent and live auction bidding. Because your credit card is linked to https: //www.biddingforgood.com/fcbafoundationcharityauction. your bidder number, your credit card will be charged for your winning bids after the event is over (you will not be charged if you do not make any auction-related purchases). 4 5 TONIGHT’S BENEFICIARIES CHARITY AUCTION HISTORY PROCEEDS FROM THIS YEAR’S CHARITY his year, the FCBA Charity Auction celebrates its 26th year! We are glad that AUCTION WILL BENEFIT THE FISHING you joined us for this worthwhile event to raise money for The Fishing School SCHOOL AND THE FCBA FOUNDATION. and the FCBA Foundation. The first auction, which was then called the “Charity Holiday Happy Hour,” was held in 1990 at Rhapsody on 20th Street ounded in 1990 by retired Metropolitan police officer Tom Lewis, The Fishing T in Dupont Circle. The auction raised approximately $5,000 through a live auction, School (TFS) prepares public school elementary and middle school students for raffle, and the sale of drinks. Over the past 26 years, the FCBA Charity Auction has success in high school and life by improving their academic performance and raised more than $1.5 million for the DC-based organizations listed below. Flife skills; and engaging them and their parents in intensive, multi-year, and research-based out of school time and parent engagement programs and activities. 1990 Project Northstar Named after the adage, “If you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. Teach 1991 Hospital for Sick Children him how to fish, and he will feed himself for a lifetime,” TFS believes that children 1992 The Home of Ruth’s Kidspace Daycare Center succeed in school when they are provided support in math and reading, develop 1993 Mazique Parent Child Center sound life skills, and when their parents are engaged. TFS supports over 400 1994 Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care, Inc. students from DC’s most underserved communities in Wards 6, 7, and 8, and 1995 For Love of Children engages them in a multi-year program model designed to give them the academic 1996 Horton’s Kids and Funds for the Community’s Future and social tools to succeed in their academic and workplace careers. 1997 DC Children’s Advocacy Center 1998 See Forever/The Maya Angelou Public Charter School The FCBA Foundation will use proceeds from the Charity Auction to support its 1999 Sarah House annual college scholarship program. More information about the work of the FCBA 2000 Children’s Law Center Foundation is on page 10. 2001 STEP/I Have a Dream 2002 Beacon House/College Bound There are several representatives from The Fishing School and the FCBA 2003 The Spanish Development Education Center Foundation here tonight. Please feel free to speak with them about the 2004 The Charitable Coalition for Children with Cancer organizations and their missions. 2005 KEEN – Kids Enjoy Exercise Now 2006 Fair Chance 2007 Kid-Power, DC WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING 2008 Horton’s Kids and the FCBA Foundation FOR THEIR DONATIONS, WHICH WILL GO 2009 Bright Beginnings and the FCBA Foundation DIRECTLY TO THE BENEFICIARIES. 2010 Project Wait No Longer and the FCBA Foundation 2011 Sitar Arts Center and the FCBA Foundation James Bayes Freedom Kathy Kirby 2012 THC – Housing Families, Transforming Lives Technologies, Inc. 2013 Horizons of Greater Washington Cinnamon Mueller Thomas J. Navin 2014 BUILD Metro DC Anna Gomez Davis Wright Bennett Ross Tremaine LLP Jennifer Hindin Cheryl Tritt Edgar Class Colleen King 6 7 THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS THE FCBA’S BAR ASSOCIATION YOUNG LAWYERS COMMITTEE he FCBA is a volunteer organization of attorneys, engineers, consultants, he FCBA’s Young Lawyers Committee (YLC) offers opportunities for economists, government officials, and law students involved in the study, networking, social interaction, and professional development to those who are development, interpretation, and practice of communications and information new to the bar.