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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 28TH ANNUAL CHARITY AUCTION to benefit SUPPORTING AND MENTORING YOUTH ADVOCATES AND LEADERS (SMYAL) AND THE FCBA FOUNDATION Thursday, November 2, 2017 – 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. The Sphinx Ballroom at the Almas Temple 1315 K Street, NW, Washington, DC with CELEBRITY EMCEES Julie Kearney and Ryan Wallach and LIVE AUCTIONEER B.J. Jennings of 1st Class Benefits SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS AT&T Services, Inc. Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ Cooley LLP Covington & Burling LLP CTIA Davis Wright Tremaine LLP DISH Network Google Inc. Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP Hogan Lovells US LLP Keller and Heckman LLP T-Mobile US, Inc. Verizon Wiley Rein LLP Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1 CHARITY AUCTION COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Van Bloys Law Student Recruiters Prize Storage/Prize Claim Kamila Benzina Andrés Bascume Christine Crowe Daniel Habif Bill Durdach Jane Lee Madi Lottenbach Elizabeth Cuttner Lucy Newton Alex McLeod Julia Palermo Emilie de Lozier Paul St. Clair Raffle Laura Berman Jessica Elder Live Auction Kara Graves Brian Indovina Noah Cherry Melissa Turcios Sarah Leggin Hadass Kogan Silent Auction Publicity Zac Champ Anisa Latif Elizabeth Chernow Crystal Evans Erin Griffith Anna Gentry Lauren McCarty Chris Laughlin Jonathan Marks Rachel Nemeth Karen Sprung Volunteers Thom Parisi Prize Book Kara Azocar Jonathan Campbell Brooke Ericson Alex Reynolds Delara Derakhshani B’anca Glenn Mike Saperstein Davina Sashkin Work Station Becky Schwartz Prize Displays Edward Carlson Gail Krutov Bakari Middleton C. Sean Spivey (Chair) Josh Turner 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 GENERAL INFORMATION included in the prize package. At tonight’s event, you are invited to participate in a Live Auction and a series If you are the winning bidder on a live or silent auction item and you have of Silent Auctions and Raffles. By attending the auction, you waive any claims not pre-registered your credit card using Auctionpay, you will need to go to for liability against the Federal Communications Bar Association, the FCBA the cashier, provide your bidder number, and submit your payment. Payment Foundation, the Charity Auction Committee and Subcommittees, the auction may be made by cash, check, or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, or American beneficiaries, or the donor of any prize, property, or service. Everything is Express). Checks should be made payable to the “FCBA Foundation.” After sold “as is.” Please be aware that prizes may be subject to restrictions or payment has been received at the cashier, you may retrieve your prizes from the limitations such as an expiration date, blackout periods, or limits on the prize claim area. Again, once you have claimed your prize, please make sure number of participants. Be aware that photographers and film crew may be that you have received each item included in the prize package. present and your acceptance to attend this event gives them permission to photograph and film you during the evening. 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 UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL PRIZES ARE NULL AND VOID AS OF auction table after it closes to see if you were the winning bidder. The winning NOVEMBER 2, 2018. Please read all of the specifications and limitations bidder number will be circled on the bid sheet associated with each prize after carefully. If you have any questions, please call the FCBA at (202) 293-4000. bidding has ended. TAX INFORMATION ONLINE AUCTION Your charitable deduction for the purchase of items at the 28th Annual Charity The FCBA Charity Auction Committee will run the Online Auction from October Auction is limited to the amount, if any, by which your payment exceeds the 26 through November 9, 2017. On the Online Auction site, you can bid on any donor’s value of that item. You will be provided with a good faith estimate of of the auction items listed in the Online Auction section of this Prize Book (see the value of the goods and/or services you have purchased when you pick up page 59). your prize. This notice also serves as the required written disclosure statement to each donor who makes a “quid pro quo” contribution in excess of $75.00. The Online Auction is a way to increase participation in the Charity Auction, in A “quid pro quo” contribution is a payment made partly as a contribution and particular by members of FCBA Chapters outside of Washington, DC. Likewise, partly for goods and services provided to the donor by the charity. For more supporters of SMYAL and the FCBA Foundation who regrettably were not able information, please call the FCBA at (202) 293-4000. to attend tonight’s event will nonetheless be afforded the opportunity to bid PRIZE CLAIM AND PAYMENT PROCEDURES on great prizes and/or submit donations directly through the “Donate Cash” feature on the site. Express Checkout with Auctionpay To participate in the online auction, visit https://www.biddingforgood. As part of our continued efforts to streamline the 28th Annual Charity Auction, com/fcbafoundationcharityauction. we will once again be using Auctionpay terminals to make the bidding and checkout process faster and easier. 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 number for all silent and live auction bidding. Because your credit card is linked to 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 28th year! We are AUCTION WILL BENEFIT TWO GREAT, LOCAL glad that you joined us for this worthwhile event to raise money for CHARITIES: SUPPORTING AND MENTORING SMYAL and the FCBA Foundation. The first auction, which was then YOUTH ADVOCATES AND LEADERS (SMYAL) AND THE FCBA FOUNDATION. T called the “Charity Holiday Happy Hour,” was held in 1990 at Rhapsody on 20th Street in Dupont Circle. The auction raised approximately $5,000 through a live auction, raffle, and the sale of drinks. Over the past 28 years, n 1984, local youth service professionals and community activists the FCBA Charity Auction has raised more than $1.6 million for the DC-based organized a conference after learning that “cross-dressing” youth from organizations listed below. local schools were being institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital. I From this, SMYAL was founded to meet the needs of LGBT youth in the 1990 Project Northstar Washington, DC area. Today, SMYAL supports and empowers youth by creating 1991 Hospital for Sick Children opportunities to build self-confidence, develop critical life skills, and engage 1992 The Home of Ruth’s Kidspace Daycare Center their peers and community. This year, SMYAL launched a unique program 1993 Mazique Parent Child Center that helps homeless LGBTQ youth make the leap from homelessness to self- 1994 Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care, Inc. sufficiency, given that 43 percent of all homeless youth in DC identify as LGBT. 1995 For Love of Children 1996 Horton’s Kids and Funds for the Community’s Future The FCBA Foundation will use proceeds from the Charity Auction to support its 1997 DC Children’s Advocacy Center annual college scholarship program. More information about the work of the 1998 See Forever/The Maya Angelou Public Charter School FCBA Foundation is on page 10. 1999 Sarah House 2000 Children’s Law Center There are several representatives from SMYAL and the FCBA Foundation here 2001 STEP/I Have a Dream tonight. Please feel free to speak with them about the organizations and their 2002 Beacon House/College Bound missions. 2003 The Spanish Development Education Center 2004 The Charitable Coalition for Children with Cancer 2005 KEEN – Kids Enjoy Exercise Now WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING 2006 Fair Chance FOR THEIR DONATIONS, WHICH WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE BENEFICIARIES. 2007 Kid-Power, DC 2008 Horton’s Kids and the FCBA Foundation Rick Engelman 2009 Bright Beginnings and the FCBA Foundation 2010 Project Wait No Longer and the FCBA Foundation Anna M. Gomez 2011 Sitar Arts Center and the FCBA Foundation 2012 THC – Housing Families, Transforming Lives and the FCBA Foundation Mediacom Communications Corporation 2013 Horizons of Greater Washington and the FCBA Foundation 2014 BUILD Metro DC and the FCBA Foundation Bennett L. Ross 2015 The Fishing School and the FCBA Foundation Lindsey and Keith Tonsager 2016 Miriam’s Kitchen and the FCBA Foundation 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 networking, social interaction, and professional development to those study, development, interpretation, and practice of communications and who are new to the bar. YLC membership is open to all lawyers who are information technology law and policy. From broadband deployment T either less than 36 years of age or who have been admitted to the practice T of law within the preceding seven years.