2024 Donald and Marian Spencer Spirit of America Awards dinner ticket deadline is May 14
There is still time to get tickets for the Ninth Annual Donald and Marian Spencer Spirit of America Awards dinner, presented by the Cincinnatus Association.
The 2024 awards ceremony and dinner honors five Cincinnati-area nonprofits and businesses that exemplify the true spirit of community service and commitment.
Marian Spencer, the first Black president of the Woman’s City Club of Cincinnati and the first Black woman elected to Cincinnati City Council, was a civil rights activist with a "spine of steel" who led local desegregation efforts. Her husband Donald was the first Black member of the Cincinnati Park Board, the first Black broker on the Cincinnati Board of Realtors and the first Black trustee at Ohio University.
The idea for an awards dinner with Marian and Donald Spencer as honorees germinated in late 2014 during a Cincinnatus Association Inclusion panel meeting. The association named it the Donald and Marian Spencer Spirit of America Awards Dinner. Marian granted the association the right to use her and her husband’s names for a commemorative award event that would align with the mission of the Inclusion Panel and their own: to advance diversity, expand inclusion and promote equity in the Greater Cincinnati community.
The 2024 nonprofit honorees include Beech Acres Parenting Center, Findlay Market, Good Samaritan Free Health Center, and SuperSeeds. The for-profit honoree is First Financial Bank.
The awards dinner is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati to celebrate and honor outstanding contributions to the community and acknowledge the honorees' remarkable achievements. WLW-TV anchor/reporter Courtis Fuller will serve as emcee. The Cincinnatus Association is partnering with the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce and The Cincinnati Enquirer for this event.
The online deadline for tickets is Tuesday, May 14. For more information about the Donald and Marian Spencer Spirit of America Awards and to purchase tickets for the event, please visit the Cincinnatus Association's website.
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