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5400 volunteers working in 59 developing countries around the world. They are working on grassroots self-help projects in forestry, fisheries, education, health and nutrition, agriculture, water sanitation and small enterprise development. Since Peace Corps was established in 1961, more than 100,000 Americans have volunteered to serve in more than 90 developing nations.

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These are the "haves and the "have-nots". The givers and those who taketh away. In response to this delemma which pits selfishness and avarice against generosity and community spirit, there are those which practice what is preached—they put back into their community what they derived from it. Jacquelyn (Jacqui) Burch, corporate relations manager for PepsiCo's world headquarters, is a case in point worth talking about. 
She puts back into her community what she received from it, namely, "positive force".
Burch serves the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. (NANBPW) as the National Corporate Liaison, a member of the National Youth Advisory Council and the 1984 Scholarship Chairman for the East New York of Brooklyn local club. The NANBPW is a minority organization that works through local chapters to train, educate, motivate and inspire black youth and women to attain high levels of professional endeavor.
A member of the NANBPW by age 12, Burch prides herself as being a youth advocate. Although the struggle to keep afloat in the mainstream of corporate activities tends to alienate many from the feelings of down-home-straight-from-the-gut concern, Burch is thoughtful about her being a role model and counselor of black youth.
"I was president of my NANBPW chapter and traveling to conference before I was 17," she says. "The organization helped me build the self-confidence and taught me the speaking techniques, as well as leadership responsibilities". Today, these qualities are prerequsites for success and she is determined to "give our youngsters the information they need to be successful". Her determination has examples.
Burch donates her Saturdays to aid in a variety of NANBPW community service programs. She was instrumental in the club's adoption of 10 year old Fatoumata Diarra of Mali, Africa. And she had been instrumental during her previous position as manager of professional placement for the Pepsi Cola Company, in placing minority interns in a variety of positions throughout the company.
She is also a member of the Business Advisory Council for the School of Business at Central State University, New York Urban League, United Nations Association of the USA, St. Laurence Church in Brooklyn, a visiting professor for the Black Executive Exchange Program of the National Urban League, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Salvation Army's Manhattan Board of Advisors.
Ms. Burch takes her community spirit seriously. It's the source of her corporate ascension. In six years she has made great strides in the private sector human resources field. Before joining PepsCo in 1982, she held personnel positions with the corporate offices of Paramount Pictures, Revlon and J.C. Penney.
In her new position as PepsiCo corporate relations manager, Ms. Burch will be responsible for programming that will increase public awareness of PepsiCo.
It's not often that you find an individual who puts so much into the development of youth. She works so hard to lay down a legacy whether she is in the corporate or community environment, that her life-style is now tailored to helping youth reach their greatest potential. She is also the mother of two children, Antoinette, 13, who is president of the NANBPW's East New York youth chapter, and Anthony, 11. How does she do it all? 
"Just putting back into my community what I received from it," she says. She smiles. "Excuse me, but I've got to get back to work". Ms. Burch is one whose work is never done.

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Two keys to successful marketing is knowing the business and knowing the audience to which marketing efforts are targeted. This requires professional savvy and public sensitivity. Henry H. Brown provides both in his capacity as Vice President of Marketing Development and Affairs for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the world's largest brewer and high ranking member of the Fortune 500 companies.
Throughout his 25-plus years in the Anheuser-Busch family, Mr. Brown has uniquely blended together a comfortable balance of marketing know-how and community sensitivity. The beneficiaries of his efforts have been both his company and his community.
In addition to being one of the country's leading marketing executives, he serves as Anheuser-Busch's goodwill ambassador to major national organizations. He supports organizations throughout the year, and at convention time with the hosting of receptions and banquets. He is responsible to a large degree for the development of the company's well defined marketing posture and has created a wide range of programs on national, regional and local levels. These programs have had a dramatic and positive impact on Black America.
One such program is the Great Kings and Queens of Africa. It is a program that was launched in 1975 to bring to the surface the richness of the ancestral history of Afro-Americans. Another is the "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars" television special which benefits the United Negro College Fund.
Mr. Brown launched the Great Kings and Queens program in 1975 to fill a void in the history of Afro-Americans. As a result, the art series has become one of the most well-known corporate community involvement programs in the country. It, in fact, is the nation's premiere traveling art exhibition.
Mr. Brown was also the trigger point for implementation of the Parade of Stas program which to date has generated more than $15 million for the 42 historically Black colleges and universities of the UNCF.
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