Tuesday, September 29, 2009

9:30A.M.

Opening Plenary

The Rev. Reginald T. Jackson, Presiding

Keynote Address

The Rev. Cornell Brooks, Executive Director
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

10:30A.M.

Panel

"The Greening of New Jersey"
The Rev. Wayne Griffith, Facilitator
"How urban areas can become 'green' and how energy and the environment can become assets to urban revitalization"
Representative PSE&G, Public Service Electric and Gas
Commissioner Joseph Fiordalisio, Board of Public Utilities
Representative DEP, Department of Environmental Protection
Representative DCA, Department of Community Affairs

Workshop

"Faith Based Community Development Corporations: Accessing the American Recovery Reinvestment Act"

12:15 PM

American Heart Association Luncheon

Rev. Philip Bonaparte, MD
Vice President Clinical Affairs of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Chief Medical Officer of Horizon NJ Health
Kahlil Carmichael - "The Fitness Doctor"

2:30P.M.

Panel

"Quality Education: Can New Jersey's Public Schools Deliver?"
The Rev. J. Stanley Justice and Mrs. Christy Davis-Jackson, Facilitators

Student's in New Jersey's urban public schools lag behind their counterparts in academic performance. For more than thirty years New Jersey has promised to reform urban public schools to close the learning gap. After thirty years with little or no difference the question is can the urban public schools deliver a quality education to urban school children?

Mrs. Lucille Davy, Commissioner of Education
Mr. James Harris, President, New Jersey Conference State NAACP
Ms. Barbara Kakishian, President, New Jersey Education Association
Mr. Durrell Bradford, Excellent Education for Everyone
Ms. Karen Thomas, New Jersey Public Charter School Association
Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, 27th Legislative District, Assembly Education Committee

4:00P.M.

Closing and Wrap Up

4:30P.M.

Movie Presentation: "The Cartel"

BMC Board Members and ministers are invited to view this award winning documentary