BUILD Boston's 3rd Annual Gala

BUILD Greater
Boston’s “BUILDFest” Gala to honor Michael Bronner, Founder of UPromise and
Digitas.

3rd Annual Gala,
with Senator Ed Markey as Honorary Event Chair, will feature a Student Business
Expo, Live Music, an Open Bar, Dinner, Dancing, and Fun!

BUILD Greater Boston (www.buildinboston.org),
a not-for-profit organization
that uses entrepreneurship to excite and
propel disengaged, low-income students through high school to college success, will honor Michael Bronner at
its 3rd Annual Fall Fundraising
Gala, “BUILDFest.” The event will be held on Tuesday, December 3, at the Westin Copley Place, 10
Huntington Avenue, Boston.

At the event, BUILD will be honoring Bronner
with its annual BUILDer Award for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship. Bronner is the founder of Digitas and UPromise and co-founder—with his sons—of his
third company, UNREAL, which aims to “get the
junk out of junk food,” says Bronner.

“I have dedicated much of my life to
entrepreneurship, and I have seen the profound impact that the entrepreneurial spirit
has on young people’s confidence about themselves
and their future, so I am thrilled to be honored by BUILD,” says Bronner. “BUILD is an innovative and
exciting organization that is dramatically improving
outcomes and college access rates among urban students in Boston
and beyond. Their work needs to be strongly supported and widely
replicated.”

Also being honored at the event as BUILD “Friend
of the Year” is Dennis Kunian, long-time BUILD
supporter and mentor to students. “What makes being a mentor at BUILD so rewarding is the dramatic impact you
can have on kids in a very short period of time,”
says Dennis. “There is an almost immediate and constant sense of gratification that what I am doing
really matters.”

Proceeds from the gala will support BUILD’s
mission to make college accessible to at-risk
urban youth in Boston Public Schools. “BUILD is so grateful to our donors, sponsors and supporters, whose
generosity enables us to help Boston high
school youth graduate and go on to success in college,” says Ayele Shakur, Regional Executive Director. If you
can’t make the event but you still want to support BUILD’s mission, please
visit the website, www.build.org/donatenow.