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Bank of America Presents Awards in SF

By BY Examiner Staff • November 6, 2007 12:00 am

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation will present the Neighborhood Excellent Inititative Awards tonight.

Award recipients include nonprofits Juma Ventures and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation; “Local Heroes” Milagros Acosta, Peter Carpou, Kevin Kearney, Young Kim and Bill Sorro; and “Student Leaders” Carmen Chiu, Hannah Cutts, Dominique Edwards, Terence Li and Jason Siu.

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