AHMAD QUAZI Jr (CEO and founder, CAP2015) In 2008, Ahmad Quazi Jr became Director of Global Affairs for the National Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council and gave lectures and speeches at various schools, organizations and centers on the importance of key Global Issues that affect our youth. He was also a speaker at the UNITED NATIONS International Youth Conference where he spoke about one of the branches of his global anti-poverty campaign, Hip-Hop Against Poverty. He also lectured and spoke with many youth advocates on International Youth Day on the significance of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. Under the leadership of Dr Elaine Valdov and Pat Sciarratta and with a key partnership with Charles Fisher, Mr Quazi was able to deliver a very important message to the attendees of the UNITED NATIONS Assembly. He was able to work with Mr Ahmad Kamal, Reverend Jessie Jackson, Arun Gandhi and many other notable individuals. Currently, he continues to speak at conferences and meet with humanitarian leaders and major celebrities to secure their voices and messages for a better future. His passion is to raise the awareness of all relative humanitarian efforts through his campaign. His goal is to find practical solutions to support and implement the 8 Millennium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2015.

Ahmad Quazi Jr always wanted to use his relationships and resources to find practical methods to serve humanity. With over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry, he knows that information traveling over the entertainment network travels much faster and has greater impact than other methods. For this reason, he will use all of relationships to spread the messages of humanity through his various entertainment networks in hopes of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015. We feel that the power of celebrity voices, if channeled and directed properly, can ultimately raise the voices of the people to a point where the world leaders will have to listen. That’s the only way we can truly advocate global change. We are extremely grateful to many friends and partners at the United Nations who have welcomed our initiatives and have given us the opportunity to work with them to support the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Without their help, endorsement and support over the last couple of years, we would not have been able to accomplish what we have. It is a great honor and a privilege for us to work hand in hand with the United Nations humanitarian campaigns in a mutual effort to combat global poverty.

 

 

Charles Fisher (HHSYC) commitment to the community spans over 29 years and includes the creation in 1978 of Youth Enterprise and Associates, a private non-profit organization providing a variety of services to address juvenile delinquency prevention, teen-pregnancy, substance abuse, and literacy awareness. From 1992-1997 he served as the executive director for LL Cool J's Camp Cool J Foundation and during that period he worked as an entertainment consultant to the White House and helped launch President Clinton’s AmeriCorps program.

• In July of 2001 he founded the National Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council (www.HHSYC.org), a non-profit organization founded in Queens and located in New York City. In its first 5 years the agency has positioned itself to become an effective voice for youth on a host of issues that confront them daily. Their goal is to "change the game" by improving the image and unity within the multi-billion dollar Hip-Hop industry and use its positive influence for the social, political and economic empowerment of our youths and young adults. The Youth Council continues to receive numerous honors for its work including proclamations and awards from U.S. Congressional Representatives Tom DeLay (Majority Leader -TX), Gregory Meeks (NY) and Henry Howard (GA); NYS Senate Minority Leader Malcolm A. Smith; NYC Council member Leroy Comrie; the NYS Assembly; NY City Council; Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin; Dekalb County, GA CEO Vernon Jones; Philadelphia Mayor and Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez.

• 2006 — Partnered with 2 United Nations Intergovernmental Agencies, CISRI-ISP and the World Sports Alliance, to combat Poverty, build youth centers and develop programs that address the Millennium Development Goals.

• 2007-2009— Partnered with the United Nations Millennium Campaign to solicit the support of millions for their “STAND UP & SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY” initiative to break the Guinness World Record each year.

 

 

Martin N. Danenberg began teaching in 1967 and ended his career in 2000.  Soon after retiring, he started the educational campaign in the field of GED and later included English language acquisition for immigrants and high school dropout prevention into that campaign.  He was called “profesor” (the Spanish word for teacher) by close Salvadoran friends and that name has stuck.  He was given the nickname “El Quijote del GED” by the Salvadoran newspaper La Tribuna Hispana. 
  
He provided information in 2001 to the office of ex-Governor Jeb Bush about GED that led to a major change in the regulations of Florida GED (helping thousands more pass each year). He also started a campaign to bring the Spanish and French GED exams to Spanish and French speaking countries. Recently he was appointed educator of the government of El Salvador providing a new educational initiative and speaking in Consulates of El Salvador in Brentwood, New York, New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
 
He has promoted the GED using elected officials, including President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, State Assemblyman Jose Peralta of Queens, New York, and President Antonio Saca of El Salvador who hold the OPT or Official Practice Test to promote education. He met with school officials including Chancellor Joel Klein of New York City, Manny Rivera former state-secretary for higher education in Albany, GED administrators in Virginia and Puerto Rico, the principal of Patchogue-Medford High School, and the adult education director in Central Islip School District. Recently he has provided GED information to Organizing for America (the new Barack Obama Campaign).