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MercurysBall2 ago

https://thegiggleguide.com/trade-show/all-baby-child-inc-abc-kids-expo

All Baby & Child, Inc. was founded in March, 2003 as a non-profit public benefit corporation. The premier event The ABC Kids Expo is a partnership of juvenile products manufacturers and independent specialty store retailers organized for the purpose of promoting the children’s products industry.

The main objectives and purposes of the corporation are to act as a business league that helps organize and put on trade shows to be held for the benefit of juvenile products manufacturers, specialty store retailers, distributors and manufacturers’ representatives of children’s products.

The ABC Kids Expo is a private trade show for the juvenile products industry and is not open to the general public.

1994-2005, Shur was Executive Director of N.I.N.F.R.A https://thegiggleguide.com/related-service/ninfra

Their company link is no longer live but http://allbabyandchildsec.com/Archive%20of%202010%20Site/ninfra.html

In 1973 a group of independent juvenile retailers, realizing the need for an outlet in which they could share ideas with each other, formed the National Independent Nursery Furniture Retailers Association (NINFRA). ..If NINFRA is an organization you are considering as an aid with the growth of your business, please feel free to contact Rafael de Castro, NINFRA's Executive Director, at [email protected] or visit our website, www.ninfra.com

Rafael de Castro, Executive Director at LaFASA : http://archive.is/wip/yvr5H

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Key Accomplishments:

√ Increased Children’s Shelter outcomes/performance by 56% in 2014 and an additional 47% in 2015

√ Created Louisiana's first LGBT specific homeless young adult residential program

√ Increased Youth Oasis fundraising revenue by 300%

√ Participated on the Consumer Product Safety Commission task force for infant bedding, various vendor product development Boards and currently serve as President of the Louisiana Association of Children & Family Agencies

√ Through the use of innovative networking programs, the NINFRA Business Building Conference became the specialty juvenile industries third largest event

Board Member, Youth Oasis Children's Center

Board Member, YMCA

Rafael de Castro, Executive Director, Youth Oasis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjjTVumqDI

MercurysBall2 ago

Board of Directors, Youth Oasis https://www.youthoasis.org/about

Shaena Johnson, Astrea Foundation https://www.astraeafoundation.org/team/shaena-johnson/

THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

MercurysBall2 ago

https://www.youthoasis.org/about

Youth Oasis was founded as Baton Rouge Alliance for Transitional Living in 1998 by members of local social service agencies and universities who saw the need for a transitional living program for young adults aging out of foster care. In 2002, a basic emergency shelter was added to provide support to at-risk youth ages 10-17. The organization become known as Youth Oasis in 2003 and officially changed its name in 2011.

In 2016, the transitional living program was expanded to include services unique to the LGBTQ+ community and branded “Diversity House”. Today, Youth Oasis remains true to its foundation of breaking the cycle of homelessness in our community and state by operating the foster youth shelter, transitional living center, and Diversity House.

Board of Directors:

David Fleshman, Chair - Attorney, Roedel Parsons, Koch, Blache, Balhoff & McCollister

https://www.facebook.com/RoedelParsons/posts/1099910403401301 Roedel Parsons lobbyist Deborah Harkins celebrating the signing of SB432 regarding the Orleans Parish Schools. Pictured from left to right, Dr. Henderson Lewis, Superintendant, OPSB; Deborah Harkins, Roedel Parsons Government Relations; Governor John Bel Edwards; Superintendant RSD Patrick Dobard; Andy Kopplin, Chief of Staff, City of New Orleans and Sen. Karen Carter Peterson.

Karen Carter Peterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carter_Peterson

Karen Carter Peterson (born November 1, 1969) is a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate, having represented the 5th District since 2010. She is also the current Chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Peterson is the first woman to serve in this role.[1] In 2017, Karen Carter Peterson was elected for a four-year term as the Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation at the Democratic National Committee, focused on protecting voting rights and expanding voter participation.[2] The position was previously held by Donna Brazile.

Since 2008, Peterson has served as Democratic National Committeewoman for Louisiana. Peterson previously served in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

..Peterson received endorsements from prominent Republican businessmen Joe Canizaro and Donald T. "Boysie" Bollinger. She was also endorsed by both the Louisiana State Democratic Party and the Orleans Parish branch of the Democratic Party. .. On June 8, 2017, Peterson shouted an obscenity at Representative Dodie Horton of Haughton after Horton asked a group of senators present on the House floor to stop talking so that the budget proceedings being considered could be heard. Peterson later apologized for her verbal attack.

Peterson is a political protégé of Jim Singleton, a former city councilman and the leader of the powerful Black Organization for Leadership Development (BOLD), which has repeatedly aligned itself in opposition to William J. Jefferson and his Progressive Democrats.

Peterson has appointed to her leadership team Stephen Handwerk, the first openly gay man to serve as an officer of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Handwerk writes a weekly column for the Lafayette Daily Advertiser and is the Democratic commentator on FM radio station KPEL in Lafayette.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_G._Bollinger

Donald George Bollinger (April 19, 1915 – May 13, 2000) was the founder of Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, who was from 1986 to 1988 the state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.

Bollinger was a member of Lions International,[3] the Holy Savior Catholic Church in Lockport, and the Catholic men's organization, the Knights of Columbus. Pope Paul VI awarded him the Papal Medal. Bollinger remained active in his Gulf Coast marine businesses until his retirement in 1989