Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center
Denver, CO
| Co-Chairs | Sponsors | Emcee and Celebrity Guests | Guest Models | Event Committee | Press |
Special Guests & Honorees:
Music Icon Quincy Jones
Timothy Shriver – 2010 Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award Honoree
Karen Gaffney – 2010 Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award Honoree
Katherine Vollbracht Winfield – Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show 2010 Ambassador
A MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
Welcome to Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s 2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show, a fundraiser for the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Since our last fashion show, the Global Down Syndrome Foundation has supported critical and groundbreaking research, launched three service programs, two conferences, and in December of this year we will cohost the first Down syndrome registry and bio-bank summit with the National Institutes of Health. Anna & John J. Sie, Leslie & Bill Vollbracht, Alison & Kirby Winfield, Jr., and Dana Vollbracht, have led our 15 fabulous Co-Chairs this year to help us raise enough funds to make a huge difference for people with Down syndrome.
L to R: Jamie Foxx, Jeff Probst, DeOndra Dixon, Lisa Ann Russel, Piper Billups and Chauncy Billups at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation's 2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show.
Tonight, we are celebrating 26 brilliant and beautiful Guest Models who happen to have a developmental disability. Two of these models are also recipients of the Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award— 2009 award recipient, the irrepressible Ms. DeOndra Dixon, and 2010 award recipient, the inspirational Ms. Karen Gaffney. We are celebrating Timothy P. Shriver, recipient of this year’s Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award and we are honored and thrilled that music icon Quincy Jones is here in person to present this award. We are celebrating our caring, generous and talented celebrities, some of whom will be escorting our Guest Models down the runway — Tom Arnold, Chauncey Billups, Kim Christiansen, David Duval, Eric Hutchinson, Jamie Foxx, Stepfanie Kramer, John Lynch, Ed McCaffrey, Jeff Probst, 2010 Miss Colorado Melaina Shipwash, and Billy Van Heusen.
We are also celebrating the message we are communicating to the world — It’s Time. People with Down syndrome deserve fundamental human rights and you can help. The most heartfelt thank you to our 2010 Ambassador, Katherine Vollbracht Winfield, to our Co-Chairs, Honorary Chairs, Honorary Committee, Sponsors, In-Kind Sponsors, Donors, Attendees, Event Committee, Volunteers, and the amazing staff at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. It truly takes a village, and ours continues to grow by leaps and bounds. We hope that each and every one of you tonight takes something inspirational away from this event and that you will see people with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities in a brilliant light.
With much gratitude and affection,
Michelle Sie Whitten
Executive Director, Global Down Syndrome Foundation
- Jamie Foxx Raises Money for Global Down Syndrome Foundation (PDF) – OK! Magazine, 11/1/2010
- Down Syndrome Benefit Brings in $1 Million for Foundation(PDF) – The Denver Business Journal, 10/22/2010
- Jamie Foxx Supports Sister and Global Down Syndrome Foundation (PDF) – Centric TV, 10/12/2010
- Jamie Foxx on Caring for Sister with Down Syndrome – Essence Magazine, 10/9/2010
- Jamie Foxx Celebrates Sister With Down Syndrome – BlackAmericaWeb, 10/8/2010
- Jamie Foxx, Quincy Jones and Friends Attend Global Down Syndrome Foundation Fundraiser (PDF) – The Hollywood Reporter, 10/8/2010
- Global Down Syndrome Jet Set Fashion Show set to net more than $1.2M (PDF) – The Cherry Hills Villager, 10/7/2010
- A Family Affair For Jamie Foxx – Fit Perez, 10/7/2010
- Jamie Foxx on Caring for Sister with Down Syndrome: ‘I Don’t Call it a Condition, I Call it Living’ – ET HD, 10/7/2010
- Benefit for Global Down Syndrome Foundation Raises More Than $1 Million – Children’s Hospital of Colorado, 10/6/2010
- Jamie Foxx Talks Caring for Down Syndrome Sister – Celebrity-Gossip.net, 10/6/2010
- Jamie Foxx Talks About His Sister with Down Syndrome – Metro Lyrics, 10/6/2010
- Jamie Foxx on Caring for Sister with Down Syndrome: ‘I Don’t Call it a Condition, I Call it Living’ – JamieFoxx.com, 10/6/2010
- Jamie Foxx on Caring for Sister with Down Syndrome – Developmental Disabilities in the News, 10/6/2010
- Benefit for Global Down Syndrome Foundation Raises More Than $1 Million – CU Newsroom, 10/5/2010
- Beautiful, inside and out – The Denver Post, 10/5/2010
- Star-studded Denver event raises $1.45 million for Global Down Syndrome Foundation – The Denver Post, 10/5/2010
- Benefit for Global Down Syndrome Foundation Raises More Than $1 Million – PR Web, 10/5/2010
- Global Down Syndrome Pre-Event With Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles – 944, 10/3/2010
- Jamie Foxx, Quincy Jones lead star-studded Jet Set Fashion Show – Denver Metromix, 10/2/2010
- Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show Photos – Blacktie Colorado, 10/2/2010
- Antoine du Chez Artists step for The Global Down Syndrome Foundation – Antoine du Chez, 10/2/2010
- Style File: Fashion for a cause – The Denver Post, 9/30/2010
- Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show Kickoff (PDF) – The Cherry Hills Villager, 8/5/2010
- Be Beautiful, Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show (PDF) – Colorado Expression, 2/2010
- Be Beautiful, Be Yourself (PDF) – Colorado Expression, 2/10/2010
Video
2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show Ambassador Katherine Vollbracht Winfield
2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show Tribute to Tim Shriver
2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show
Tribute to Katherine Vollbracht Winfield, 2010 Be Beautiful Be Yourself Ambassador
Entertainment Tonight – DeOndra Dixon and Jamie Foxx for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation
9News – Famous Connections to Down Syndrome
Click here to read a special message from the Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus
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