FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 16, 2009
CONTACT: Ali Glisson, (850) 385-7800
30-Second Television Spot Highlights Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps
The Lawton Chiles Foundation and Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps, a project of the Foundation, today released a new public service ad to promote the Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps.
Co-chaired by former Senator Bob Graham and Senator Mel Martinez, students from across Florida will meet at a two-day conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on the weekend of August 8th-9th.
The announcement will run statewide and features Christine Ortiz, who participated in Gov. Lawton Chiles’ Students Working against Tobacco, a program aimed at tobacco cessation among youth.
Aspiring student leaders and organizers are invited to apply now for the inaugural class of the Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps, a student leadership group with the goal of educating, inspiring and providing hands on training in community leadership, empowering students to work for change.
Applications for the Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps are due on July 27. For more information and to download the application, visit lawtonchiles.org.
The time and production of the ad was donated by the Florida Cable Telecommunications Association.
Watch the ad here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyX67orMCWk
Ad Script:
Voice of Christine Ortiz:
I’m Christine Ortiz.
And, I have had always had ideas, possible answers for the world that surrounded me.
The late Governor Chiles provided a place for those ideas to materialize.
And, now it’s your turn.
Florida needs student leaders as never before.
Apply now at lawtonchiles.org for a leadership conference August 9th and 9th at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Become a leader. Apply now at lawtonchiles.org
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