Professor Smith takes a moment with YLF kids and board member Robert Novak on his memorable evening

The Youth Leadership Foundation would like to thank everyone who supported our first ever Spirit of Service Awards Dinner. We would also like to congratulate Professor Ed Smith on being the recipient of this year’s award and for his years of dedicated service to YLF.  The Dinner helped to raise over $60,000 to support our programs for inner city youth. We are particularly grateful to the following sponsors for their commitment to the success of this event:

$5,000 Title Sponsors
BCS Title, LLC, Bearing Point, Cherrywood Development, LLC, Holland & Knight, Robert D. Novak

$3,000 Graduate Sponsors
Stein, Mitchell, & Mezines, LLP, Greg & Charmaine Mueller

$2,000 High School Sponsors
Bank of America, Frank & Maura Kelly, Southern Management Corporation, US Inspect

$1,000 Mentor Sponsors
DC One Associates, LP, Koehr Family, Ed & Cathy Gillespie, Paradigm Title & Escrow, LLC, Private Sector Initiatives Foundation, PWA Construction Cost Consultants, Stephen and Kate Rice Rippe

If you missed out on this great event and would like to learn more about YLF please contact Michael Barvick at 202.464.0668 to discover how you can help form future leaders!


Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer Keeps Things Moving as the Event Emcee

YLF Board member Michael Finnegan of Bank of America with PALS student Jasmine Burton and her mother.

Student Omari Colson displayed the tough TAP curriculum by reciting the "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Professor Edward C. Smith with His Eminence Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and YLF President Keith Fimian

Students wowed the guests with a dance performance they had learned at PALS

YLF Board members Hon. Eugene Hamilton and Chief Terrance Gainer with TAP student Quintin Thomas.

YLF Board member Robert Novak with TAP student Emanuel Kolawole and his father.