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Another Honor for Glendora's Vicki Brown

Glendora's Vicki Brown gets award from University of La Verne for her work as CEO of the Sowing Seeds for Life food pantry.

Glendora resident Vicki Brown, who has received numerous regional and local awards for her charity work, was among those receiving an award during a ceremony Tuesday at the University of La Verne honoring the school’s ENACTUS team of outstanding business students.

The La Verne team is headed for the national championships May 21-23 in Kansas City following their recent regional win in Orange County. The winner in Kansas City will advance to the ENACTUS World Cup that will involve students from 38 other countries.

La Verne’s regional victory was its fifth straight and sixth in the seven years the competition has been held. Winners are based on their presentations that show community involvement and what they are doing to make the world a better place.

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ENACTUS, which stands for Entrepreneurial Action US, was formerly known as SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise). The name was changed last Sept. 30. The new name, it is believed, emphasizes the commitment to “using entrepreneurial action as a catalyst for progress.”

Although La Verne’s ENACTUS members emphasize they are a team, one individual singled out Tuesday for a special award was MBA student Sajaad Shah. Getting individual awards from the students were their advisors, Dr. Issam Ghazzawi, associate professors of business management, and Kevin Marshall, professor of law and economics.

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Brown was honored because she is the CEO and founder of the Sowing Seeds for Life food pantry. Other honorees at Tuesday’s ceremony included Clive Houston-Brown of the Pomona Rotary and La Verne Mayor Don Kendrick, who was unable to attend the ceremony.

The ENACTUS motto is “Changing Lives One Life at a Time,” and the La Verne group does that in many ways. The fight against hunger is one of its main objectives. The group has teamed with Campbell Soup in its “Let’s Can Hunger,” drive and has been involved with Sowing Seeds for Life (SSFL) in a variety of ways.

One way is that a group of ENACTUS students conduct a career preparation workshop at the twice-a-month SSFL food pantries held in the parking lot at DPI Labs, 1350 Arrow Highway in La Verne. The students assists the people with such things as creating resumes and searching for jobs and even prepare them for job interviews.

Brown, who is also the president and CEO of DPI Labs, an aerospace manufacturing company, said, “I can’t put into words just how tremendous these young people have been in helping us help the needy. We serve 6,000 people per month, and the ENACTUS students deserve a lot of credit in enabling us to do what we do.”

After Tuesday's ceremony, Brown expressed her appreciation to Dr. Ghazzawi and University President Dr. Devorah Lieberman, who was among those in attendance.

 

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