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Reaching back to help others left behind; Entrepreneur creates annual awards ceremony gala to recognize children in foster care
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New York Amsterdam News
01-12-2004
Xavier Artis was never supposed to make it.
The 37-year-old creative philanthropist and entrepreneur was branded a
"special education" student as a child. He hadn't learned his ABC's until
he was 17, and he didn't learn to read until he was 28.
"I was supposed to be a statistic," he says solemnly. However he was able
to overcome these setbacks to become the CEO of his own marketing firm and
partner wit...
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National Foster Care Month Campaign Launched For May; Hundreds of Ways to 'Change a Lifetime' for Youth Living in Foster Care
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