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The Endowment campaign – A World of Possibilities – is a joint initiative between the House and the Foundation to secure the long-term future of the House and its educational aims.  The Honourary Chair is Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States.  The World of Possibilities Advisory Group comprises of sixteen senators and congressmen and women, along with fifteen members of Britain’s House of Lords and House of Commons. The Educational Panel comprises scholastic leaders who lend their support to the campaign. US fundraising events include the 2009 Newseum Gala . World of Possibilities UK events will take place upcoming.

 

World of Possibilities Advisory Group

 Honourary Chair

Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States

Ambassador Louis B. Susman, United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s

Congressional Members

Senator Chuck Hagel (ret.), Nebraska

Senator Johnny Isakson, Georgia

Senator John F. Kerry, Massachusetts

Senator Richard Lugar, Indiana

Senator Barbara Mikulski, Maryland

 

Congressman Robert B. Aderholt, Alabama

Congressman Gary Ackerman, New York

Congressman Robert A. Brady, Pennsylvania

Congressman Gene Green, Texas

Congressman Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania

Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa

Congressman Donald Manzullo, Illinois

Congressman Gregory Meeks, New York

Congressman Donald Payne, New Jersey

Congressman Todd R. Platts, Pennsylvania

Congressman Ted Poe, Texas

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida

Congressman Aaron Schock, Illinois

 

 Parliamentary Members

Lord Anderson of Swansea

Lord Hannay of Chiswick

Lord Howe of Aberavon

Lord Jopling

Lord Newby

Lord Owen

Lord Trimble

 

Mr. Graham Allen, MP

The Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, MP

Mr. Brian Donohoe, MP

The Rt. Hon. Elfyn Llywd, MP

 

Emeritus

The Rt. Hon. Michael Howard

The Rt. Hon. Adam Ingram

The Rt. Hon Charles Kennedy

Mr. Bill Olner

 

World of Possibilities Educational Panel

 

Professor H W Brands, University of Texas

Roy E. Goodman, American Philosophical Society

Professor Philip E. Krider, University of Arizona

Edmund Morgan, Yale University

Lady Joan Reid, Benjamin Franklin House

Daniel P. Jordan, Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Dr. Rosalind Remer, Remer & Talbott

Dr. Page Talbott, Remer & Talbott

Professor Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University

 

 

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