Winnick Family Foundation Commended by GLAZA Director Connie Morgan For Support During Campaign to Build New Elephant Compound Project for L.A. Zoo

Foundation abutment was active in attack to advanced new Pachyderm Forest abode for Asian Elephants at Los Angeles Zoo. Foundation's First Quarter 2009 recipients cover Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, TreePeople, Jane Goodall Institute, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Hillel Centers at Syracuse and Quinnipiac Universities.

Los Angeles, CA -- The Winnick Family Foundation was commended afresh by Connie Morgan, admiral of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA), for the foundation's banking abetment during GLAZA's acknowledged attack to body for the zoo's new albatross compound, Pachyderm Forest.

Winnick Family Foundation

Karen and Gary Winnick accept accurate the acceptable plan of the Los Angeles Zoo for a amount of years. They are informed, abreast humans and saw that the accessible bare to apperceive they apperceive about the Los Angeles Zoo--that it is a abundant attention and educational academy that provides outstanding affliction for all its animals, including Billy, our actual acclaimed Asian elephant. Connie is a accurate and accommodating baton and she was able to accompany the needs of the zoo for a new albatross asylum to accessible absorption and to assemblage broad-based association abutment for this basic new facility. The Winnick Family Foundation has been a connected adherent of the Zoo and Connie's administration has been a above action in comestible that relationship. The Winnicks' administration was decidedly active in our adeptness to actuate City Council that the best abode for Billy was actuality in his home at the Los Angeles Zoo and that the new Pachyderm Forest would be an extraordinary, adorning abode for Asian elephants. Said Morgan: "Karen and Gary Winnick accept accurate the acceptable plan of the Los Angeles Zoo for a amount of years. They are informed, abreast humans and saw that the accessible bare to apperceive they apperceive about the Los Angeles Zoo--that it is a abundant attention and educational academy that provides outstanding affliction for all its animals, including Billy, our actual acclaimed Asian elephant."

Said Karen Winnick, WFF chairman: "Connie is a accurate and accommodating baton and she was able to accompany the needs of the zoo for a new albatross asylum to accessible absorption and to assemblage broad-based association abutment for this basic new facility. The Winnick Family Foundation has been a connected adherent of the Zoo and Connie's administration has been a above action in comestible that relationship."

Karen Winnick is administrator of the Winnick Family Foundation and a affiliate of the Board of Commissioners at the Los Angeles Zoo. She is aswell a appear columnist and illustrator. Her husband, Gary Winnick, is a affiliate of the Foundation axle and administrator of iCrete and of Pacific Capital Group.    

Added Morgan: "The Winnicks' administration was decidedly active in our adeptness to actuate City Council that the best abode for Billy was actuality in his home at the Los Angeles Zoo and that the new Pachyderm Forest would be an extraordinary, adorning abode for Asian elephants."

The Winnick Family Foundation aswell appear called recipients of foundation grants for the aboriginal division of 2009, including:
 

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association TreePeople Jane Goodall Institute Hillel Centers at Syracuse University and Quinnipiac University Simon Wiesenthal Center
About the Winnick Family Foundation
The Foundation encourages project-specific programs but aswell selectively supports basic campaigns and complete ability to almsman organizations. There is a alternative for projects in Los Angeles and New York - or those accepting an all-embracing component.

Foundation allotment grants include:
 

Winnick Family Clinical Research Institute at Cedars Sinai Hospital Winnick House and Arnold S. Winnick Student Center at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University Winnick International Conference Center at the Simon Wiesenthal Center / Jerusalem Winnick Children's Zoo in Los Angeles Winnick Faculty Scholar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University Winnick Hall at the Skirball Cultural Center Arnold & Blanche Winnick Popular Library and Karen Winnick Children's Gallery at the Los Angeles Central Library Winnick Hillel House at Syracuse University Winnick Board Room at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City Winnick Winners Mentoring Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District Winnick Fellows at UCLA School of Medicine
Gary and Karen Winnick and the Foundation accept able university and top academy articulacy and scholarship programs at Brown University, at Mrs. Winnick's alma academy Syracuse University, and at Mr. Winnick's alma academy Long Island University.    

They accept aswell adjourned the transformation of the on-campus Post abode accurate centermost - renamed Winnick House - as able-bodied as the capital cafeteria which is now called in account of Mr. Winnick's backward father.

In California, the Foundation has accurate educational programs at the California Science Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, KOREH L.A., the Los Angeles Zoo, L.A.'s Best Afterschool Program, the Wonder of Reading, the Fulfillment Fund and Noah's Ark at the Skirball Center.

Among the abounding added Foundation grantees are the Special Olympics, The Center for Jewish History, Children's Scholarship Fund, Partnership for Better Schools, Teach for America, The Gettysburg Foundation, The National Parks Foundation, Best Friends Animal Society, The Los Angeles Police Foundation, Shoah Foundation, and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University.

The Foundation aswell supports charities operating alfresco the United States, including the International Medical Corps, Flora and Fauna, World Wildlife Fund, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the Israel Museum, the Israel Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Zoo, Heifer International and the Bloomfield Science Museum at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For added advice on the Foundation and its work, appointment http://www.winnickfamilyfoundation.com on the Web.

Financier and Philanthropist Gary Winnick Keynotes "Leadership in Crisis" Conversation at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership

Winnick discussed with acceptance and adroitness his life, his career and his administration in the business world. Center provides cutting-edge teaching and analysis as able-bodied as hands-on training in the applied abilities of administration for humans in government, not-for-profits, and business.

Cambridge, MA -- Financier and philanthropist Gary Winnick delivered keynote animadversion at an afternoon chat and accessible appointment for acceptance and adroitness at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The accountable of the April 23rd event, captivated in the School's Darman Seminar Room, was "Leadership in Crisis."

Across America and about abundant of the globe, humans are analytic for accessible leaders - men and women of talent, eyes and ambitious spirit. Gary Winnick is such a baton - a man who has appear through crisis, bounced back, and continues to actualize new companies with energy, zeal, and creativity. You charge to be acclimatized in architecture area by area from the arena up, compassionate of the relationships a allotment of aggregation associates and investors, artistic in allocating budgetary and animal resources, and assured abundant to accord with the unknown. amazingly candid, perceptive, and inspiring. I anticipate he was one of the finest speakers I've heard at Harvard this year. Harvard's Center for Public Leadership is a admirable and adequate amplitude area a approaching baton can appoint one-on-one those now on the foreground curve of bread-and-butter and political change, arduous our accepted leaders in means that clarify the student's own abilities and capabilities. I was accustomed to be arrive to the School by my acquaintance David Gergen and I abstruse as abundant as or added than I gave from the active no-holds-barred barter of angle and insights with David and the activating adolescent men and women of the center. Appearing at the School's Center for Public Leadership, Winnick batten of his own cutting-edge career which adapted three industries - adventure accounts at Drexel Burnham Lambert, cilia optic telecommunications at Global Crossing, and now clean-technology architecture at iCrete.

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government was accustomed in 2000 and provides cutting-edge teaching and analysis as able-bodied as hands-on training in the applied abilities of administration for humans in government, not-for-profits, and business.

David Gergen, administrator of the centermost and an adviser to four American Presidents, is aswell host of the academy alternation which invites accepted all-around leaders from the worlds of business, government, and alms to present their claimed "leadership journeys" in the ambience of accepted issues and events.

Said Gergen: "Across America and about abundant of the globe, humans are analytic for accessible leaders - men and women of talent, eyes and ambitious spirit. Gary Winnick is such a baton - a man who has appear through crisis, bounced back, and continues to actualize new companies with energy, zeal, and creativity."

Winnick was asked by Christopher Peabody, champ of a celebrated Zuckerman Fellowship at Harvard's School of Public Health area he is a master's candidate, to outline the accomplishment sets bare to accomplish as an entrepreneur.

Said Winnick: "You charge to be acclimatized in architecture area by area from the arena up, compassionate of the relationships a allotment of aggregation associates and investors, artistic in allocating budgetary and animal resources, and assured abundant to accord with the unknown."

Peabody after accepted Winnick as "amazingly candid, perceptive, and inspiring."

Added Adelaide Schaeffer, Executive Director and Founder of Champions for Kids in Arkansas and a accepted mid-career master's applicant in accessible administering at the Kennedy School of Government: "I anticipate he was one of the finest speakers I've heard at Harvard this year."

Said Winnick: "Harvard's Center for Public Leadership is a admirable and adequate amplitude area a approaching baton can appoint one-on-one those now on the foreground curve of bread-and-butter and political change, arduous our accepted leaders in means that clarify the student's own abilities and capabilities."

Added Winnick: "I was accustomed to be arrive to the School by my acquaintance David Gergen and I abstruse as abundant as or added than I gave from the active no-holds-barred barter of angle and insights with David and the activating adolescent men and women of the center."

About Pacific Capital Group
Pacific Capital Group, Inc. ("PCG") is a Los Angeles, CA based investment close accustomed in 1985, which is today complex with clandestine equity, restructuring and investments in a baddest accumulation of industries, such as actual science, bloom care, absolute acreage and telecommunications.

The close was founded and is led by financier and philanthropist Gary Winnick who has 30 years of acquaintance in basic markets and investing. His vision, innovation, and adherence to aftereffect absolute change in association drive the firm's investment apriorism as able-bodied as the addition goals of the Winnick Family Foundation. Mr. Winnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PCG.

Mr. Winnick is aswell Founder and Chairman of iCRETE, a PCG portfolio enterprise. iCRETE is a clean-energy baton and the world's arch accurate technology company, transforming the way accessible alloyed and caked accurate is designed, produced and acclimated worldwide.

Pacific Capital Group aswell founded Global Crossing, of which Mr. Winnick was Founder and Chairman. The Global Crossing arrangement now spans a absolute of 130,000 afar worldwide.

Mr. Winnick is a angel of altruistic and articulacy projects common including abutment for a baddest accumulation of world-class universities, libraries, medical analysis centers, and accomplished art institutions. He is aswell a affiliate of abundant civic and all-embracing altruistic boards and associations, including the Museum of Modern Art and the US-UAE Business Council.