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Celebrity Singoff

 

IHN Celebrity Singoff

The Interfaith Homeless Network (IHN) is a transitional day and overnight shelter program for homeless families with children and adolescents. In partnership with 50 area congregations, IHN offers food, transportation, life skills classes, case management, supportive and follow-up services and links to jobs and housing. IHN's goal is to end family homelessness by helping homeless families become stable, employed, housed and self-sufficient.

Who:  Interfaith Homeless Network (IHN)

What:  Celebrity Sing Off

When:  Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 7 PM

Where:  Lindsay Street Hall

Why:  To keep homeless families together and support IHN’s efforts to transition homeless families with children and adolescents to stability, employment, housing and self-sufficiency.

Come and enjoy an evening of fun while helping to end family homelessness.  Champagne and desserts served.

Singoff Sponsors!

Thank you to our sponsors and our participants!

Congratulations to Mike Griffin (Voter's Choice) and Adam Fall (Judge's Choice)!

Get Tickets to the Singoff!
Want to go to the Singoff? Tickets are only $20 per person! Preorder yours when you vote! (It all goes in one cart!)
Closed for 2011!
AMANDA BUCHANAN– Founding owner of Fleetwood Development

Amanda Buchanan is a founding owner of Fleetwood Development. She has 10 years of experience in commercial real estate as a developer of the historic Fleetwood property in downtown Chattanooga as well as having an active role in the management of several family-owned businesses and investments. Mrs. Buchanan is on the board of the Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Children's Advocacy Board, and is also on the Community Advisory Board of WTCI. She is active in the Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee. She enjoys traveling with her family.

Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
JANIS JOPLIN
DR. ADAM FALL – Director of the Hospitalist Group at Erlanger Hospital

Dr. Adam Fall is best described as an 80’s power ballad in a lab coat.  As the director of the hospitalist group at Erlanger Medical Center, Dr. Fall can be found humming on his way to conference rooms and patient rooms alike.  Adam has been singing since he was a young child, performing solos with the adult choir at his church and even singing on live TV at the age of four.  Though he decided on a career in medicine, he is never far from music, performing in weddings, concerts, churches and other venues on a regular basis.  His voice has also been captured on CD in various recordings and his voice always stands out from the crowd – how many men, after all, can belt a Whitney Houston song and sing along with Journey’s leading man?  When he's not singing, Adam loves to read, shop for furniture, and play with his German Shepherd Cartouche.

Closed for 2011!
MIKE GRIFFIN – Senior Vice President of Business Banking at First Tennessee Bank.
Michael Griffin, an executive with First Tennessee and president of the Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association, is the 2010 recipient of the Tennessee Association of Community Leadership (TACL) Servant Leadership Award. Mr. Griffin, who is senior vice president of business banking at First Tennessee, was a member of the Leadership Chattanooga team that helped launch the “Take Root” program. Mr. Griffin is a member of the Leadership Chattanooga curriculum and selection committees. He has served as chair of the community education committee and helped assemble a Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association in Action Series on the impact of Volkswagen’s coming to Chattanooga. Mr. Griffin also serves on the boards of the Downtown Council of the Chattanooga Chamber, Chattanooga Hamilton Place Rotary Club, and the UTC Alumni Council.
Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
JAMES TAYLOR
JIM BREXLER - CEO Erlanger Hospital

Jim Brexler joined Erlanger Health System as President and CEO on March 1, 2004, after being selected by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority Board of Trustees following a nationwide search.

Brexler was formerly a Vice Chancellor of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center where he served from 1999 to 2004 as the chief executive officer of the Health Care Services Division (Louisiana's statewide public hospital system composed of nine hospitals and associated clinics). He recently was awarded the Tennessee Grassroots Champion Award by the American Hospital Association. This was to recognize him for his exceptional leadership in generating grassroots and community activity in support of a hospital’s mission. Dr. Brexler served as chairman of the THA board of directors in 2009-2010 and currently serves as immediate past chairman. He also has chaired the association’s insurance reform task force, patient safety council and THA Solutions Group board of directors.

Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
GARTH BROOKS
RACHAEL WELCH – Manager of Business Support for the Tennessee Valley Authority

Rachael Welch joined the Tennessee Valley Authority in 2002 as a Web Developer in Information Technology, and currently servers as Manager, Business Support. With this role, Welch is responsible for the marketing and communications of IT, as well as workforce and training plans. Welch is a graduating member of the Leadership Chattanooga class of 2011 and is serving her third year as Officer of Chattanooga Friends. Welch is an active community leader, and has served in a myriad of positions, including the March of Dimes Mission Family of 2008, Family Teams Chair for the March for Babies, co-chair of the Ronald McDonald House 2010 Share-a-Night campaign, and Chattanooga Heart Ball design committee member, as well as serving as marketing lead for multiple non-profit fundraising campaigns. Additionally, Welch holds the Day of Caring Coordinator role for the Greater Chattanooga Area Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), is serving her eighth year on the CFC Leadership Team, and has organized and led TVA in annual March of Dimes and T.C. Thompson events. Welch's story of her premature twins has been featured locally, and she continues to speak on behalf Chattanooga area non-profit agencies. Welch is a graduate of Covenant College, has been married for 12 years to her husband Chris, and has three children, Eli, and twins Zeke and Emmie.

Closed for 2011!
 

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To write this "jolting firsthand report," Kozol spent months among the homeless, whose depressing stories, interwoven with his commentaries, tell of infant deaths, malnutrition, hunger, loss of dignity and desperation. "This powerful volume," PW maintained, " forces one to ask: 'What are our national priorities?' "