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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Can these threads be merged? I don't even know which thread I am replying to anymore!
Anyway, just wanted to follow up on what I said about the checks Sprite gave to the NPHC orgs:
From a Press Release:
Nearly 400 members of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated stood to their feet as Maurice Cooper, Sprite's North America business manager for The Coca-Cola Company, presented the organization with a check for $83,333.33. The presentation was made during the closing session of the 2009 Zeta Organizational Leadership Conference held in Washington, DC at the J.W. Marriott Hotel.
The check, presented to International President and entertainer/entrepreneur Sheryl P. Underwood, officially marks the leadership role of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority as one of the partnering organizations of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) supporting the 2009 Sprite Step Off, a national step competition, with $1.5 million in prizes. According to Underwood, "Zeta Phi Beta is overjoyed to join the other eight (8) Greek organizations, in partnership with Sprite. Sprite started its countdown to the Fall Step Off, and so have we!" said Underwood. She adds, "Zeta Phi Beta and the Council of Presidents of the NPHC see this as an opportunity for our youth to have fun and get exercise, but we also see the life-shaping experience in the Service and Charitable Platform."
(This was issued BEFORE the very first qualifying round happened.) |
Thanks, man! This is really news to me, and now I don't feel so
about the outcome. I still believe that the AKA team put on the better performance overall, so I was upset with many others that they didn't win, ...but they won $50K in scholarships, and I would assume (is it safe to assume
) that all of the D9 received some partnership monies. So we're all winners.
I guess.
I'd be really curious to see how that partnership money is spent by in our orgs.