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The Club's board of directors and I would appreciate your consideration of
the following opportunity to give back to our community. The board is particularly excited to bring this to your attention as one of recent graduates, a Houstonian, and now a club member, Dona Kim, is spearheading this initiative. Sincerely, James F. Hughes III, '79 President" By copy of this note to Doug Cannon, hereby request that he pass it on to the Harvard Business School Club President and ask that they distribute it to their membership too. Regards Jim Jim Hughes Conoco Inc. Risk Mgt./Insurance 281.293.6618, ph. 281.293.2819, fax james.f.hughes@conoco.com -----Original Message----- From: Dona Kim [mailto:dunkindona@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:52 PM To: James.F.Hughes@conoco.com Subject: Here it is. Thank you! Dear Harvard Alumni: I am a recent Harvard College graduate (June 2001) and have moved back to Houston to develop an HIV/AIDS youth education project. I was temporarily collaborating with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at the Baylor College of Medicine and am now seeking to partner with AIDS Foundation Houston. I aim to launch Grades4AIDS in H.I.S.D. during the 2002-2003 academic year as either an AFH project or an independent NPO. This organization seeks to simultaneously promote academic achievement, community service, peer-to-peer HIV/AIDS youth education, and youth leadership while also fundraising for pediatric AIDS research and support. The following is the basic premise of our project: A corporate sponsor will agree to donate $0.50 (this amount will be corrected annually with increased participation) per B+ or above (or equivalent measure, i.e. 88-90) that every participating student receives during every grading period. Peer tutoring and interscholastic incentive programs will encourage students to achieve. Participating students will engage in an active dialogue about HIV/AIDS and have myriad opportunities to get involved in and lead peer education initiatives and volunteer in the Houston HIV/AIDS community. What I am seeking from the Harvard alumni in Houston is support in the form of contributions of time and/or money. We are currently putting together an Advisory Board and Board of Trustees and working hard to fund our project and operational costs through May 2003. Please visit our website at www.grades4aids.org for more information and feel free to contact me at dmkim@post.harvard.edu. I can also be reached by telephone at (713) 932-8822. Thank you very much for your time. Sincerely, Dona Kim
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