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MEMBERS ON THE MOVE

Delivery nurse Tamilikia Foster organized COMPANY NEWS Government in China, a government partner
with Operation Gratitude to give back to staff with LEAP in building the sister city relationship,
in the hospital as part of National Nurses Week. Wharton Center’s 2020-21 season includes shipped 20,000 medical-grade protective face
Operation Gratitude is sending over $22,000 of FIVE Broadway hits: Mean Girls; Jesus Christ masks to LEAP for distribution to support health
donations that Foster and other nurses in Labor Superstar; Pretty Woman; The Musical CATS and care workers and others operating in high-risk
and Delivery will assemble into kits that will be Disney’s Frozen. Wharton’s extraordinary lineup COVID-19 environments across the Lansing
distributed to nurses and support staff within the of performance includes world-renowned artists, area and within the state of Michigan. When He
hospital. including Canadian Brass; Celtic Woman; Ronald Xian, a local associate attorney at Butzel Long,
K. Brown; An Evening with Itzhak Perlman; learned of Inner Mongolia’s desire to support the
Cinnaire has Teddy Abrams; Morgan James; Pittsburgh Ballet PPE crisis unfolding in Lansing and Michigan,
announced Theatre and Renée Elise. For a complete look he turned to LEAP as the organization best
the promotion at all 2020-21 season events, log onto www. positioned to facilitate the donation. LEAP
of Ryan whartoncenter.com or request a brochure by coordinated and facilitated the 20,000 masks
R o b i n s o n calling 1-800-WHARTON. An interactive gift and covered the roughly $350 in import fees
to executive brochure is online at whartoncenter.com. associated with accepting the donation when it
vice president, arrived in the U.S. Another critical partner in
oper atio ns, Health care workers in the Lansing region and receiving and distributing the mask donation
Robinson Witt
and corporate other areas in the state of Michigan with the was LEAP member Dean Transportation.
risk management. Affordable housing industry greatest need will have better protection against
veteran Mike Witt has joined Cinnaire as vice the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) thanks to Lansing Community College has distributed
president, asset management. In these leadership a critical sister city relationship fostered by the more than $1 million of CARES Act funding
positions, Ryan and Mike will each play a key Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) to its students. The college received $2.9 million
role in supporting Cinnaire’s strategic plan in collaboration with a local attorney, Lansing from the federal government’s Coronavirus Aid,
while building on the organization’s strong Mayor Andy Schor and Hohhot Municipal Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to
history in the affordable housing and community Government in Inner Mongolia, China. With a provide emergency grants to students affected
development industry. gesture of kindness and solidarity from across the by the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Secretary of
globe, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Education Betsy DeVos announced in early April

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