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Save the Children benefit at Riverside Yacht Club

WHAT: Members
of the Fairfield County community are invited to an evening reception at
the Riverside Yacht Club featuring an informal interview between NBC “TODAY”
host Willie Geist
and Mark Kennedy Shriver — son of the founder of the Peace Corps, Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.  The April 24 reception, hosted by the Greenwich Leadership Council of
Save the Children, will
benefit Westport-based Save the Children’s efforts to give disadvantaged
children a healthy start and
the opportunity to learn, starting in the early years.

Geist, who is also the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” will talk with Shriver
about his father’s legacy, as both the founder of the Peace Corps and the architect of the U.S.
War on Poverty, initiated
by President Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago.  Shriver, who is the senior
vice president of Strategic
Initiatives at Save the Children, will also discuss his own mission to help
improve the lives of children in the United States and all over the world.

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served before the program. 

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Tickets to the benefit range from $125 to $500, and include a signed copy of
Shriver’s new book, “A
Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver.”  Seating is limited,
but there are a number
of tickets still available.  To register for the event, visit www.savethechildren.org/April24event



For further information, email Sarah McLoughlin, director of events at Save the
Children, at Smclough@savechildren.org

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WHO: Save
the Children Senior Vice President of Stategic Initiatives Mark Kennedy
Shriver, NBC ‘Today’ host
and MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Greenwich Leadership Council of
Save the Children,
Save the Children



WHEN: Thursday,
April 24, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.



WHERE: Riverside
Yacht Club, 102 Club Road, Riverside, CT 06878



BACKGROUND:  Save the Children is the leading, independent
organization that creates lasting change for children in need in the
United States and around the world. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/savethechildren, and on Facebook, facebook.com/savethechildren.

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