Events

Mike is president of Families Set Free, a new nonprofit  that is rescuing slaves from 20,000 brick making slave camps in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. There are over 1,000,000 people in these slave camps, and it is time to free all of them. In the last two years FSF has rescued over 2,000 people, started 400 small businesses, enrolled hundreds of children into school for the first time, and ended over 25,000 years of combined slavery.

Mike’s past activity included 17 years as CEO of the Pocket Testament League, a world-wide nonprofit based in Pennsylvania.  In the business world, Mike was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley Bank (many years ago, in its formative years), and also built  a financial services company that was ranked by INC Magazine as the 34th fastest growing private company in the USA. Mike has an MBA from Rutgers University and is also a CPA.

 

sjDANCEco was established in 2003 to provide professional, contemporary and classic dance to the greater Bay Area. While our annual season is based in San Jose, the company has performed nationwide and internationally.

We provide mentorship programs in schools as well as live “in theater” performances which reach 1000s of students each year. 

We annually celebrate the wealth and diversity of our community with a free Dance Festival, hosting 70 dance companies including all genres of dance from professional to elementary level.

The talk will give an overview of El Camino Health, our commitment to advancing care, the healthcare services we offer, and our robust community involvement and partnership. It is a mix of a historic and comprehensive overview along with focusing on what is new in the past few years and looking ahead.

Omar currently serves as the Chief Growth Officer for El Camino Health, where he focuses on developing and advancing El Camino Health's new business ventures, spotlight clinical programs, and expansion of our outpatient services.

Omar prides himself on identifying creative growth strategies and has spent time spanning two decades across non-profit, academic, and for-profit publicly traded health systems of varying sizes – including three health systems in California. He has led efforts to improve access to care through master planning over $3 billion in infrastructure and expansion of clinical services totaling over $200 million.

Omar earned a master's of health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and has a bachelor's degree in finance from George Mason University. He is committed to a journey of lifelong learning as a serves as a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives and fellow of the Advisory Board – he also serves on local and community boards.

Dinner located at Villa Ragusa in Campbell.  Additional details TBA.

Brenda Birrell is The Global Uplift Project's Program Director. After graduating from Cambridge University, UK, Brenda taught High School Physics. In 1983, she and her husband moved to Los Altos where they raised two daughters. She returned to the education field in 2001 and retired in 2017 so that she could work full time for The Global Uplift Project and help  thousands of children in the developing world every year, instead of hundreds of children in the US. She loves working on all of TGUP's projects, but Save a Girl is the closest to her heart. As well as her work with TGUP, she enjoys traveling, hiking, singing, baking, listening to classical music, and spending time with family and friends.

The presentation will give a summary of The Global Uplift Project's work in the developing world, with emphasis on our Save a Girl Program that is keeping girls in school and able to reach their academic potential. For $2 a year we are providing washable, reusable, sanitary supplies and education that are stopping girls from dropping out of school. Without the kits the girls are sold as child brides, sold into the sex trade or sent to work as low paid domestic servants. You will hear how I discovered the problem, designed a solution, and have now helped more than 50,000 girls. Working with strong support from Rotary District 5170 and DG Savita, we have set up a new sewing center in Cameroon. We also have sewing centers in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal, and are providing thousands of kits to girls in all of these countries.