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10.12.07 – Stars will be shining
at redhot gala
10.8.07 – Quintin E. Primo III To
Host Sharing The Light Gala
9.27.07 – computer skills class
graduation ceremony
9.27.07 – Arturo Sandoval
to Perform at redhot gala
9.12.07 – redhot midnight kiss
raises $100,000
8.03.07 – Redhot midnight kiss
announced
events
11.01.07 – redhot cocktails
10.13.07 – redhot gala
Stars Will Be Shining At RedHot Gala
Hollywood's Debbie Allen to attend Sixth Annual Gala Benefiting the Primo Center for Women and Children
Chicago, IL - Academy award winning choreographer Debbie Allen is joining Quintin E. Primo and his wife Diane in the fight against homelessness in America. Allen, who has had a long career in Hollywood as a film director, actor and choreographer, will attend the 6th Annual Red Hot Gala on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at The Murphy Auditorium in Chicago.
Red Hot Gala
Saturday, October 13, 2007
6:30 P.M.
The Murphy Auditorium
50 East Erie Street
Special Performance by Jazz Legend Arturo Sandoval
This year's event entitled "Havana Nights" will feature a special performance by jazz legend Arturo Sandoval, who will have two performances. The first will be during the $2,500-a-seat gala, and then he will also conduct a special post-gala jam session that is open to the public.
In addition to Ms. Allen and Sandoval, Hollywood producer Moctesuma Esparza, who has produced such notable films as "Selena" and "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" will also be in attendance.
The annual gala benefits the Primo Center for Women and Children ("PCWC"), a 120-day transitional shelter located on the west side of Chicago. The gala was created six years ago by mover-and-shakers in the Chicago real estate community, and this year the guest list has expanded to include some of the city's top business professionals. Last year's event raised over $400,000.
Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children and Chairman and CEO of Capri Capital Partners in Chicago, and his wife Diane will be the Co-Masters of Ceremonies for the Cuban-themed event featuring the color and pageantry of Cuba.
About Primo Center for Women and Children
PCWC is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3), 120-day transitional homeless center located in the West Garfield neighborhood of Chicago. PCWC is a national role model, because of its unique living conditions that feature private and semi-private rooms for moms and their kids. Families are assigned and receive counseling, support services, job training and education. For more information you can contact PCWC at www.primocenter.org.
About Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and sooth you with a luscious ballad with equal power and grace
Granted political asylum in July 1990 and US citizenship in 1999, Sandoval and his family now call Miami, Florida home. A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn't take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the World's most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugel horn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer.
Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment world. In 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band, which garnered enthusiastic praise from critics and audiences all over the world. Sandoval was voted Cuba's Best Instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990. For more information go to www.arturosandoval.com .
Quintin E. Primo III To Host MacDella Cooper Foundation's Sharing The Light Gala
New York City Gala Benefits Liberian Orphans and
Abandoned Children
October 8, 2007 - Chicago, IL - Capri Capital Partners, LLC Chairman and CEO Quintin E. Primo III will host the 4th Annual MacDella Cooper Foundation's ("MCF") Sharing the Light Gala at the New York Athletic Club in New York City on Wednesday,
October 10, 2007.
MacDella Cooper Foundation
4th Annual Sharing the Light Gala
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
6:30 P.M.
New York Athletic Club
180 Central Park South at 7 th Avenue, NYC
"We are so pleased to have a person of Quintin's stature to host and address our gala guests," said MacDella Cooper, founder of MCF. "He is honest...to the point...super confident and also very passionate. He speaks with wisdom and is a very successful man who also has a great deal of compassion for the poor, the widowed and orphans."
"MacDella's goals to help children in-need is something that is near-and-dear to my heart," said Primo. "As chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, a homeless shelter for moms and their kids in Chicago, I understand the tragedy of children having nowhere to turn for help. My father, who was the first African-American Suffragan Bishop in the Chicago Diocese of the Episcopal Church, was the person that built my foundation for helping children."
MCF's Gala raises money and awareness about the plight of Liberian orphans and abandoned children. The gala's keynote speaker is Richard Parsons, AOL Time Warner's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
About MacDella Cooper Foundation
MCF is a 501 C 3 international charitable organization devoted to empowering Liberian youth, especially orphans and abandoned children, by providing education and basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter. The Foundation's founder, MacDella Cooper, escaped the Liberian civil war after the disappearance of her father in 1990. She fled to the Ivory Coast, eventually making her way to the United States. She never forgot how much suffering her countrymen endured. From the US, she began to collect donations of food, clothing, personal products and school supplies to ship to families, friends and orphanages in Monrovia. That effort led her to start the MacDella Cooper Foundation in 2004 to give back in an even more meaningful way to her beloved country.
About Capri Capital Partners, LLC
Capri Capital Partners LLC is one of the country's leading institutional real estate investment advisory firms, investing and managing commercial real estate properties and portfolios since 1992. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Capri offers a broad spectrum of equity and debt products to its customers - through separate account and commingled fund vehicles - that include equity, debt and securities investment management services. Diversified assets managed on behalf of its pension fund and other institutional clients with assets under management totaling $4 billion as of July 31, 2007. For more information, please call 312-573-5275 or visit the company's website www.capricapital.com.
Capri Capital Partners, LLC expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in their expectations with regard thereto or change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security relating to Capri Capital Partners, LLC or any of their funds. Any offer or solicitation may be made only through the delivery of a definitive Private Offering Memorandum and all information contained herein is qualified in its entirety by such Memorandum.
Primo Center for Women and Children Holds
Graduation Ceremony for Computer Skills Class
Basic Computer Skills Program Helps Homeless Moms and Kids
plus Garfield area residents
Graduation Ceremony
Thursday, September 27, 2007
6 P.M.
Primo Center for Women and Children
4241 W. Washington Street, Chicago, IL
The Primo Center/Digital Divide Basic Computer Program will graduate its 150th student during ceremonies Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 6 P.M. at the Primo Center for Women and Children (“PCWC”) located at 4241 West Washington Street in Chicago.
The Summer 2007 graduating class of thirty students will push the two-year old program above 150 people that have been helped by the six-week sessions that are held in the center’s Community Technology Lab. Thursday’s graduation ceremonies will feature students in traditional caps and gowns provided by the Primo Center for Women and Children. Funding for the Digital Divide Program came via grants from the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity and the Illinois Department of Education.
“What makes this program different is that it not only provides basic computer skills to families living in the shelter, but also to residents in the Austin and West Garfield neighborhoods,” said Dollie Williams, Executive Director of Primo Center for Women and Children.
“The Digital Divide Program is something we’re very proud of,” said L. Heather Mitchell, Board President of the Primo Center for Women and Children. “Not only does the program provide job training skills to the center’s residents, but it allows us are reach out into our community to help individuals who wouldn’t normally be able to afford this type of training. As a homeless shelter, we believe that homelessness can be prevented if we take the time to give real job skills to people before their needs become too desperate.”
Jazz Legend Arturo Sandoval to Perform at RedHot Gala
Sixth Annual Gala Benefits the Primo Center for Women and Children
Sept. 27, 2007 – Every year the Red Hot Gala prides itself on creating a party unlike any other in Chicago. The sixth annual Red Hot Gala entitled “Havana Nights” on Saturday, October 13, 2007 will be no exception as Jazz Great Arturo Sandoval headlines a night of great entertainment at the Murphy Auditorium at 50 East Erie Street.
The annual gala benefits the Primo Center for Women and Children (“PCWC”), a 120-day transitional shelter located on the west side of Chicago. The gala was created six years ago by mover-and-shakers in the Chicago real estate community, and this year the guest list has expanded to include some of the city’s top business professionals. Last year’s event raised over $400,000.
Sandoval, a protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, has won four Grammies, six Billboard Awards and an Emmy Award.
Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children and Chairman and CEO of Capri Capital Partners in Chicago, is the Master of Ceremonies for the Cuban-themed event featuring the color and pageantry of Cuba.
"The Red Hot Gala is our most important fundraising event benefiting the Primo Center for Women and Children,” said Primo. “Without the support of the Chicago real estate community, PCWC would lack the resources to continue its progressive approach to break the cycle of homelessness for these mothers and their children.”
“The Red Hot Gala is the Chicago business community’s opportunity to really make a difference in the lives of others by raising funding to support the Primo Center for Women and Children’s mission of ending homelessness,” adds Randall K. Rowe, Chairman Green Courte Partners and PCWC Executive Board Member.
RedHot Midnight Kiss Featuring Carmen Electra Raises
Over $100,000 for the Primo Center for Women and Children
Sept. 12, 2007 — Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, has announced that the first annual RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra raised over $100,000 for the 120-day transitional center for homeless mothers and children located in the Austin and Garfield neighborhoods on the west side of Chicago. The August 18, 2007 Red Carpet VIP party was held at Bon V, a west loop nightclub located at 1100 West Randolph.
“It was exciting to have Carmen be involved with raising money for our special families,” said Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children. “In addition to raising some much needed funds for the center, the event that was created by Event Chair Trish Hoffman also created dialogue on the problem of homeless women and children in this country, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in America.”
“I can’t say enough about our RedHot Midnight Kiss Host Committee, which worked day and night to raise $100,000.” said Hoffman, who is also a member of the Primo Center for Women and Children's Board of Directors. “However, just as important is that over 600 people who attended the event were exposed to the seriousness of the homeless problem facing mothers and their children in this country. I am just so pleased that Carmen and a long list of sponsors came on-board to help our effort.”
“It’s very important to help people in need,” said Carmen Electra, who in May released her latest book ‘How To Be Sexy’. “Giving back is something that has been important throughout my career, and that’s why I was so pleased to be associated with the Primo Center for Women and Children.”
RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra is the sister event of the RedHot Gala which raised over $400,000 and celebrates its sixth year in October 2007.
Hollywood's Carmen Electra Comes to Chicago to Help
Raise Money for Primo Center for Women and Children
Aug. 3, 2007 — Actress and author Carmen Electra will be the VIP host of the first annual RedHot Midnight Kiss August 18, 2007 from 9 P.M. to 3 A.M. at the West Loop nightclub Bon V located at 1100 West Randolph Street in Chicago. Proceeds from the event benefit the Primo Center for Women and Children (PCWC), a 120-day transitional shelter for homeless mothers and their children located in the Austin and Garfield neighborhoods on the west side of Chicago.
“We’re so excited to have Carmen be involved with raising money for our special families,” said Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children. “However, in addition to raising funds, we also want this event to create dialogue on the problem of homeless women and children in this country, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in America.”
“It’s very important to help people in need,” said Carmen Electra, who in May released her latest book ‘How To Be Sexy’. “Giving back is something that has been important throughout my career, and that’s why I’m pleased to be associated with the Primo Center for Women and Children.”
RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra is the sister event of the RedHot Gala which raised over $400,000 and celebrates its sixth year in October 2007.
The August 18th event will feature a Red Carpet appearance by Carmen and other VIP guests.
“Our goal is to raise over $200,000 for the Primo Center,” said Trish Hoffman, Co-chair of the event and Primo Center for Women and Children, member of Board of Director’s. “This event was created to raise awareness about the enormous problem this country is facing when it comes to mothers and children being homeless. I am just so pleased that Carmen and a long list of sponsors have come on-board to help our effort.”
About RedHot Midnight Kiss
RedHot Midnight Kiss is the summer fundraising event for the Primo Center for Women and Children. It is the sister event of the RedHot Gala, which is held every October. For more information about RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra, please call Trish Hoffman at (312) 805 4314 or check our website at redhotmidnightkiss.com.
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