COMMUNITY DIVERSITY PROGRAMS
The Foundation has been active in sponsoring programs that promote education, understanding, and diversity. To this end, the Foundation has been the main sponsor of an annual Days of Remembrance Event for Greater Prescott. In 2009, the event was held before a capacity crowd of 1,150 people at Yavapai College Performance Hall, with the featured speaker being Liesl Joseph Loeb, a survivor of the Voyage of the St. Louis, was the featured speaker. In 2010 Yavapai College campus was host to approximately 1,450 people who bore witness to the testimony of Leon Leyson, the youngest of the Schindler’s Jews.
In May and June of 2008, the Foundation along with other community organizations sponsored the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibit: “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. This award-winning exhibit commemorates and studies the contemporary meaning of the Nazi book burnings of May 10, 1933. The exhibit was on display at the Art Gallery at the Yavapai College Performance Hall on the campus of Yavapai College. More than 3,000 people from twenty different states and nine different countries visited the exhibit.