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Saturday, September 28, 6:00 p.m. Honoring Linda and David Gentile of Blue Cross and Blue Shield with the Karen and Hank Herrmann Humanitarian Award Presenting Sponsor Centrinex Steering Committee Chairs Toni and Phil Sanders, Missy and Bob Kroeker Honorary Founding Sponsor Janet and Ron Reimer What is a Rent Party? Community LINC and our honorary sponsors Karen and Hank Herrmann with Waddell and Reed invite you to provide a Silver Lining at Rent parties originated in 1920’s Harlem in the heart of New York City. Tenants hired a musician or band to play for the neighborhood or building and then passed the hat to raise money for their rent. Community LINC’s signature fundraising event takes inspiration from these rent parties in gathering our community to spread hope and opportunity to those in the midst of difficulty. We congregate at The Rent Party to celebrate life in the heart of our city and “pay the rent” for the families we serve as they transition from homelessness into self-sufficiency. Thank you for being a Silver Lining and helping us end homelessness and transform lives! HONORING EVENING PROGRAM Linda and David Gentile of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Welcome: Nikki Newton, Board Chair Kansas City MISSION Our Heroes: Presentation of the PRESENTING SPONSOR 2013 Karen and Hank Herrmann Community LINC’s mission is to end homelessness, impact Centrinex Humanitarian Award poverty and remove barriers to self-sufficiency for the families HONORARY FOUNDING Silver Platter: Dinner is Served we serve. SPONSORS Janet and Ron Reimer Silks of Silver: Voler Thieves of Flight STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS Silver Ticket and Live Auction: Toni and Phil Sanders Tanna Guthrie, Auctioneer Missy and Bob Kroeker Honoring our Founding Sponsor, Ron Reimer: Hank Herrmann Presenting Sponsor: Bart Miller, Centrinex The Community LINC Success Story: ‘Temporary Home’ Scott Jolley Production Services Be a Silver Lining: Fund-a-Family A very special thank-you to these incredibly generous supporters: Nick Kroeker – Graphic Design Thank You Jolley Productions – Video Production Silver Swingin’ to the sounds of KC Groove Therapy 2 3 Welcome From Our Leadership Welcome From This Evening’s Chairs We are delighted to welcome you to Community LINC’s 5th Annual Rent Party. A MESSAGE FROM THE RENT PARTY This is our Silver Lining Celebration as we begin our 25th year of Ending STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Homelessness and Transforming Lives. Your support allows us to provide a safe, stable place for families to stay while they work to change their lives and break the cycle of homelessness. We appreciate all you do in helping to provide a Silver Lining for the homeless Welcome to The Rent Party 2013! auction committee – tonight’s auction families in our community. Hundreds of hours and scores of is the best ever. And to the Community volunteers have worked the last six LINC Board of Directors, staff, we We extend a special thanks to Karen and Hank Herrmann for their ongoing months to plan tonight’s Silver Lining simply couldn’t have achieved our commitment to Community LINC. To our presenting sponsor, Centrinex, and our celebration. It has been our privilege to goals without you! founding sponsors, Janet and Ron Reimer – we appreciate your dedication to our lead through this process and we mission, which allows us to make a real difference in this community. Extra appreciate the new friendships made A very special thank-you to you for special thanks to Toni and Phil Sanders and Missy and Bob Kroeker, our Steering along the way. attending You are providing a Committee Chairs. Your leadership has allowed us to meet the lofty financial Silver Lining to homeless families in goals for The Rent Party 2013. Each member of the Steering Kansas City. Committee dedicates time and Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity. On behalf of the resources to this vital cause because families we serve at Community LINC, we would like to again express their we believe our effort can be a Silver deepest appreciation for your support to the Rent Party. We are appreciative Lining in the lives of homeless families you’ve chosen to invest in your community. and children in our community. For Nikki Newton Laura Gray more than 25 years, Community LINC Board Chair Executive Director has been impacting poverty and ending homelessness in Kansas City. Tonight’s 2013 Rent Party will impact lives and create a brighter future for COMMUNITY LINC BOARD OF DIRECTORS families, ending poverty and Bob and Missy Kroeker homelessness. As we begin Phil and Toni Sanders Kent Cable Carol Gilstrap, Treasurer Greg Payne Community LINC’s 25th year of The Rent Party 2013 Co-Chairs Sogeti USA LLC U.S. Bank Grant Thornton serving families, our goal this year is to raise over $500,000, and you are Raymond Cattaneo, Brad Korris Greg Porter, Vice Chair helping us do this! M.D. B. Korris Painting Catalyst Consulting Priority Care Pediatrics, Group A hearty thank you to the Herrmann’s LLC Jeremy Lillig for their exceptional leadership giving Bright Futures Fund Rita Tiehen in our community. Congratulations to Blaine Degnan The Tiehen Group, LLC Linda and David Gentile, recipients of City Wide Maintenance Angie Makkyla, the 2013 Karen and Hank Herrmann Company Immediate Past Chair Susan Thomas Humanitarian Award. You embody Assurant U.S. Bank humanitarianism whole heartedly and William (Bill) Dippel you’re an inspiration to us all. To Bart Citizens Bank and Trust Nikki Newton, Board Calvin Ward Miller – your generosity is Chair Time Warner Cable unparalleled and we thank you. To Tina Ussery-Franklin Waddell & Reed Susan Walker and our wonderful American Century 4 5 2013 Karen and Hank Herrmann 2013 Recipients Linda and David Gentile Humanitarian Award The Karen and The 2013 Karen and Hank Herrmann Hank Herrmann Humanitarian Award is presented to Humanitarian Linda and David Gentile. Award, recognizing the Herrmann’s As the President and Chief Executive unparalleled legacy of Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield selfless and generous of Kansas City (Blue KC) since support for families December 1, 2010, David has elevated impacted by poverty Blue KC’s role as the area’s leading and homelessness, is presented this health insurer to provide affordable evening with love and appreciation to access to healthcare and to improve Linda and David Gentile who have the health and wellness of its demonstrated extraordinary members. David has been the compassion for homeless families company’s key executive responsible working towards self-sufficiency. for coordinating Blue KC’s strategic planning activities to date including transforming the company into the About Karen and Hank Herrmann area’s leading wellness enterprise. Under his leadership, Blue KC has Karen and Hank Herrmann came to embarked on multiple community Kansas City in 1971 from New York, sponsored wellness initiatives while where Hank started his career as an continuing to offer state of the art health insurance products in the market. Under investment analyst on Wall Street. He his helm, Blue KC has received the J.D. Power and Associates “Highest Member moved here to join Waddell & Reed Under Hank’s leadership, Waddell & Satisfaction” distinction in both 2012 and 2013, Ingram’s 2012 “Best Companies where he became CEO in 2005 and Reed and Ivy Funds have consistently to Work For” designation and has been awarded the ArtsKC Award on four Chairmen in 2010, and is currently one provided a Silver Lining to community, occasions. of the firm’s longest tenured leaders. cultural and charitable causes in the Hank sets a standard centered on Kansas City area and nationwide. His Together, David and Linda continue to work tirelessly to provide Silver Linings giving back because he believes that strong encouragement to serve on for the Kansas City community. David and Linda serve numerous civic investing in the communities that a boards and to contribute to local organizations, including the Mid-America Coalition on Health Care; Ronald company serves is not only good organizations has caused a greater McDonald House; Junior Achievement of Middle America; Third and Long business, but is the way to provide a philanthropic effort resulting in a Foundation; Horizon Academy; Union Station; Kansas City Area Development ray of hope and encouragement brighter future for many in and Corporation; Kansas City Chamber of Commerce; Kansas City Civic Council; the amidst the cloud of difficulty that often around Kansas City. The Herrmanns USOC governing entity of USA Volleyball; Kansas City Young Matrons and surrounds us. He and Karen volunteer set high expectations for themselves, Friendship Inn. their personal time and resources, their family and friends, and their which fosters an environment among associates at Waddell & Reed. They Tonight it is our privilege and honor to celebrate David and Linda for the their friends, family, peers, view giving back as a privilege and tremendous work they put forth to make Kansas City a better place. They truly and associates where volunteerism find reward in their ability to be a embody what it means to foster an environment in which volunteerism and and philanthropy have become Silver Lining in the lives of so many. philanthropy have become second nature. Congratulations and a heartfelt second nature. thank-you to David and Linda Gentile! 6 7 The Community LINC Community LINC – A Model That Why “A Hand Up” Is a Greater Gift Story Works Than a “Hand Out”: • A five year study shows that 80% of Parents find jobs and become Mission: the families who left for permanent taxpayers Community housing between 2007 and 2011 did • Taxable income increases – by $4M LINC’s mission not become homeless again. dollars for all families who have is to end exited since 2007.