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Whitney J. Daniel succeeds McCray as Executive Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc.
April 1, 2011 West Palm Beach, Florida – Whitney J. Daniel has been tapped to succeed Tony R. McCray, Jr. as the Executive Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc. Mr. Daniel has spent the last fourteen years in the Non-Profit Sector as an innovative Community Builder and Re-Developer who specializes in finding ways to transcend racial, cultural and socio-economic barriers while raising capital for both civic and private entities. Mr. Daniel has a knack for predicting and discovering unforeseen trends in corporate value. “We are happy to add someone of Mr. Daniel’s caliber to our growing team said Rachid Elbekraoui, Chairman of the Board. We look forward to his leadership to help take the Foundation to the next level.”
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IBIS Partners LLC hired by ZGlove
February 1, 2011 Beverly Hills, California - IBIS Partners LLC has been retained to raise capital for ZGlove (www.thezglove.com), the privately held designer and manufacturer of high performance arm and leg compression sleeves. “While there are many arm and leg sleeves on the market, none have the functions, design and comfort to wear as The ZGlove Sleeves,” stated Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS Partners LLC.
The ZGlove Sleeves are designed with the patent pending Z-Band which extends from the wrist and can be worn on any finger increasing coverage to the sensitive portion of the back of hand where tendons are covered with relatively thin muscle and skin protection. The light yet durable Micropoly and Lycra blend fabric has a four-way stretch for a comfortable second skin fit. A mild graduating compression removes lactic acids and warms muscles faster, decreases cramping, prevents DVT’s ( Deep Vein Thrombosis) and controls swelling.
The ZGlove Sleeves double layered design is reversible and comes in several sizes, styles and more than 20 colors. An antibacterial to keep garment smelling fresh, Quick Dry and Wicking moisture, as well as functions of SPF 50+ have been built into the fabric and will never wash out. This is especially important, as over exposure to the deadly UV rays of the sun can lead to the most deadly form of skin cancer melanoma. According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer accounts for more than 50% of all cancers and more than one million cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed this year killing more than 8,000 in the US alone.
The company’s Founder and President, Kenneth Hollis has been co-designing the ZGlove Arm and Leg sleeves for over 10 years. According to Mr. Hollis, “ZGlove sleeves where created as a preventive medicine protective garment that increases ones performance. We have a remarkable new product that combines protection, increased performance and a cutting edge style for the athletic apparel industry. Injuries are a part of life we can’t avoid totally. The only small injury is the one that’s not yours. Protect yourself at all times as simple cuts or tears to the skin can lead to STAPH infections that can turn deadly within days.”
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Gulf Coast REAP Summit to be held March 17-19, 2011
The Gulf Coast Regional Equity to Achieve Prosperity (REAP) Summit will be held March 17 – 19, 2011 at the Pensacola Beach Hilton in Pensacola, Florida. The white sand beaches of Pensacola are a strategic midpoint between the BP Oil Spill impacted communities of New Orleans and Panama City, Florida. Our vision is for a stakeholder driven consensus-building format that adopts a socio-economic development blueprint embracing the regional equity strategies of PolicyLink, Inc., led by Founder and CEO, Angela Blackwell.
“Designing a Blueprint for Gulf Coast Recovery, Redevelopment, & Recommitment” is the theme of this strategic planning event. The IBIS Community Development Corporation, The IBIS Foundation Inc., Community Transformation Leadership Network (CTLN), and the Escambia-Pensacola Human Relations Commission are the lead facilitators in the design of a regional action plan with multiple local sites that address the socio-economic needs primarily along the Gulf Coast.
The summit strategy is to forge coalitions of housing, education, economic development, health, environmental, and technology groups that will address the impact of issues related to Gulf Coast regional competitiveness and sustainability. A toolkit of cutting edge community transformation resources will provide as a sustainable benefit for summit attendees. A committed cadre of local, regional, and national talent is being assembled to ensure productive dialogue between local, state, and federal governmental officials, policy makers, chambers of commerce and other business leaders, foundations, faith-based and neighborhood partners to develop a blueprint for success. This approach will be enhanced by a steering committee lead by the following collaborators:
• IBIS Partners LLC
• Gulf Coast Equity Coalition Fund
• Alabama Minority Business Development Center
• Florida Black Chamber of Commerce
• Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce
• Computer Minded, Inc. of Atlanta
• University of West Florida
• Unity in the Family Ministry of Pensacola, Florida
• Belmont & De Villiers Neighborhood Association of Pensacola, Florida
• Family Advocacy and neighborhood Services, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Lewis Place Historical Preservation, Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri
• Kingdom International Economic Development Corporation, New Haven, CT
The IBIS Community Development Corporation is a non-profit organization. We are seeking additional collaborators for this upcoming event, as well as our other conferences, as part of the REAP Summit series. To get involved please call Executive Director, Tony R. McCray, Jr. at 1-866-206-8439 or visit our web site at www.ibispartners.com for more information on upcoming events.
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Mariella Z. Daniel named Executive Director of the IBIS Institute Inc.
January 2, 2011 West Palm Beach, Florida - Mariella Z. Daniel has been named the Executive Director of the IBIS Institute Inc., the newly launched think tank and public policy arm of the IBIS Organization. Mrs. Daniel has an impressive dossier as an entrepreneur, administrator and instructor. She is a Linguist and the founder and former Executive Director of the International Institute of Language. Additionally, she has worked for the American Cancer Society. The Italian born Mrs. Daniel was educated in Switzerland where she earned a degree in Business Administration from the Zurich College of Business.
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McCray Named Executive Director of the IBIS Community Development Corporation
December 29, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida - Today IBIS Partners LLC formed the IBIS Community Development Corporation. Tony R. McCray, Jr. has been tapped to lead the newly created non-profit as Executive Director. In accepting this new challenge, McCray will relinquish his current post as the Executive Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc. and become a Director of its board. Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS Partners LLC and Chairman of the Board of the IBIS CDC stated “we are very pleased with the progress to date of the IBIS Foundation Inc. under McCray’s leadership and we look forward to establishing our new CDC as a national leader. The CDC will provide the IBIS Organization with the missing link in our Fourth Sector strategy as a community developer.”
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McCray Named EBO Program Manager of Maritime Park
August 31, 2010 Pensacola, Florida - Tony R. McCray, Jr., Governmental Affairs Director for IBIS Partners LLC, was appointed as Program Manager of the Pensacola, Florida Community Maritime Park Equal Business Opportunity (EBO) Program. The Community Maritime Park is $52,000,000 Hurricane Ivan disaster recovery project on the bay of this northwest Florida city. The Escambia-Pensacola Human Relations Commission (EPHRC), which is led by its Executive Director, Dr. Calvin Avant, competed for the minority business assistance contract and was named the new managers by Scott Davison, Vice President of Development for the Maritime Park Development Partners (MPDP).
When the project was approved to receive $40,000,000 of Tax Increment Finance (TIF) support through the City of Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), Avant and McCray were directly involved in persuading the voters to approve the investment. The project was held up as a significant building block for Pensacola’s Downtown and Westside neighborhoods to attract public and private sector reinvestment that would create jobs and business opportunities for the city’s Black population. Buoyed by promises and commitments for a “Covenant with the Community”, the African-American voting precincts led the charge for the approval of the investment.
The EPHRC is collaborating with the IBIS Community Development Corporation to convene the 2011 Gulf Coast Regional Equity to Achieve Prosperity (REAP) Summit at the Pensacola Beach Hilton on March 17th – 19th. The goal of the conference is to facilitate the adoption of a Gulf Coast Blueprint for recovery and development on behalf of communities impacted by the BP Oil Spill, 2004-2005 hurricanes, and the generational poverty.
Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS Partners LLC stated, “The Maritime Park Project is an excellent example of public and private investment linked to a process of making development projects accountable to the tax-payers that approved the financing.” McCray added, “Maritime Park has the potential of becoming a $250 million catalyst for a Pensacola renaissance in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods serving as a model of Gulf Coast resilience!” The agreement managed by McCray and the EPHRC team commits its developer, MPDP, to Black, Hispanic, Asian participation in contracts and jobs commensurate with their respective percentages in the City of Pensacola population.
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Louis Gossett, Jr. becomes a Director and Spokesperson for the IBIS Foundation Inc.
September 15, 2010 Hollywood, California - Oscar winning actor, Louis Gossett, Jr. was named a Director and the Spokesperson of the IBIS Foundation Inc. Gregory S. Daniel, Vice Chairman of the IBIS Foundation Inc. stated “we are both thrilled and honored that Mr. Gossett has agreed to serve in these capacities. His leadership and activism on the Foundation’s initiatives will shine new light on many problems plaguing our country today and we look forward to working with Mr. Gossett for many years to come.”
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Connie Coopersmith joins IBIS Partners LLC
July 26, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida – Connie Coopersmith has joined IBIS Partners LLC as the Director of Marketing & Public Relations. She was also appointed a Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc. “Ms. Coopersmith brings incomparable skill sets and invaluable high level relationships to both the investment bank and the Foundation said Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS Partners LLC. She has proven to be indispensible to President Clinton and is uniquely qualified lead our efforts in this area. I could not have found a better fit for our organization.”
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IBIS Foundation Inc. to create REAP Summit Series
July 24, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida - Tony R. McCray Jr., Executive Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc. announced today that the Foundation has created the Regional Equity to Achieve Prosperity (REAP) Summit Series. These regional conferences will be hosted quarterly throughout the United States. Through these REAP Summits, the Ibis Foundation Inc. proposes to establish a new 21st century approach to comprehensive community building and transformation through strategic partnerships which reflect consensus built strategies for sustainable economic prosperity and wealth creation. A White Paper is developed and published by the Ibis Foundation Inc. from each Summit, which outlines the issues of the region, along with a detailed plan for addressing and correcting those issues. The Ibis Foundation helps facilitate and coordinate the action plan that is then executed by the regional stakeholders, NGO’s and the appropriate governmental agencies, and we remain engaged throughout the entire process. The Foundation has selected Pensacola Florida, Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, Detroit, Michigan and Oakland, California as potential venues.
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IBIS presents at MBEC event
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IBIS Names McCray Governmental Affairs Director and Executive Director
June 16, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida - Tony R. McCray, Jr. of Pensacola, Florida has been named the Governmental Affairs Director of IBIS Partners LLC and the Executive Director of the IBIS Foundation Inc. IBIS Partners LLC is an investment banking boutique based in West Palm Beach, Florida where McCray spent 16 years serving in both the private and public sector. McCray will spearhead the Ibis’ community based initiatives which currently includes the Gulf Coast Equity Coalition Fund (GCECF), and the Gulf Coast Regional Equity to Achieve Prosperity (REAP) Summit Series. The Gulf Coast Equity Coalition Fund has been set up to aid those affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by serving as a partner and funder of comprehensive short and long term economic sustainability. McCray is a community economic development specialist that brings over 35 years experience in public-private sector partnerships to IBIS Partners LLC. Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS, describes McCray as “a consensus builder whose expertise embraces the art of networking to connect the dots of multiple relationships and organizations. He is a great addition to the team.”
Mr. McCray has founded and directed several community development corporations (CDC’s) in Florida; a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funded community design center, and two State of Florida community development programs under Governor Graham. He has also served as Director of two programs funded by the US Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency - the National Center for Entrepreneurial Development (NEDC) at the Florida A&M School of Business and the West Palm Beach Minority Business Development Center. His rural development experience includes the Directorship of the Comprehensive Community Initiative (CCI) program for the Palm Beach Community Foundation which evolved into the Glades Community Development Corporation.
He recently served as the Special Projects Director for Rebuild Northwest Florida following Hurricane Ivan’s devastation of Pensacola. Following the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast he also assisted in the promotion and organizing of the Gulf Coast Tri-State Chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors which served as the organization to design, promote, and coordinate the 2007 Gulf Coast REAP Summit.
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IBIS Partners LLC hired by Aqua Biologics Inc.
February 23, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida - Today IBIS Partners LLC signed a definitive agreement with Aqua Biologics Inc., a privately held technology company based in Boca Raton, Florida to arrange financing for the commercialization of its products including the AquaSphere ®, a state-of-the-art aquaculture product. In a separate agreement, IBIS will also provide marketing and additional support functions to the company. Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS Partners LLC said “we believe in this technology and look forward to bringing the game-changing AquaSphere ® to the world.”
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IBIS Capital Partners LLC rebrands as IBIS Partners LLC
January 22, 2010 West Palm Beach, Florida – Today IBIS Capital Partners LLC unveiled its new name and logo as IBIS Partners LLC. Founder and Managing Partner, Gregory S. Daniel stated “the change is designed to illustrate the tremendous growth, expertise and direction of the firm. Over the past year, with the addition of new Partners we have grown to much more than just a source for capital and we now offer a wide array of other complimentary products and services.”
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IBIS Capital Partners LLC Secures $100 Million for Palm Beach Convention Center Hotel
November 3, 2008 West Palm Beach, Florida - IBIS Capital Partners LLC is pleased to announce that it has raised a total $100 Million in a combination of debt and equity financing for the construction of the Palm Beach County Convention Center Hotel. Gregory S. Daniel, Managing Partner of IBIS stated “today is truly a great day for the city of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County. As both a resident and a business owner, I am excited by the prospects of providing the financing necessary to finally complete the badly needed construction of the hotel, which will finally give our convention center the rooms it needs to better compete with other convention destinations. We look forward to working with Ocean Properties Ltd., the developer of the project”
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