21st Annual Celebration of Excellence to Honor Rita and Rick Case

MEDIA ADVISORY

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WHO: Automotive entrepreneurs and philanthropists Rita and Rick Case, Nova Southeastern University President Dr. George Hanbury and members from the South Florida community

WHAT: 2019 President’s Award for Excellence in Community Service, NSU’s Celebration of Excellence gala

WHERE: Rick Case Arena in the Don Taft University Center on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus, 3301 College Ave.

WHEN:   6 p.m. Saturday, February 2 – tentative Run of Show below:

• 6 p.m. – Reception begins
• 6:40 p.m. – Rita and Rick Case, NSU Board of Trustees Chairman Alan Levan  and NSU President Dr. George Hanbury available for interviews in arena press room
• 7:15 p.m. – Event begins
• 8:50 p.m. – Presentation of President’s Award for Excellence in Community Service

 

** Reserved Parking Spaces Have Been Identified For Media Covering Event **

Please contact Joe Donzelli at 954-262-2159 (o), 954-661-7571 (c) or jdonzelli@nova.edu or Valerie Zucker at 305-321-7556 (c) or Valerie@ZuckerLewis.com for additional details

 

 

WHY:     Each year at NSU’s Celebration of Excellence, Dr. Hanbury commends an individual, group or family whose good works are making the world a better place to live.

The award supports NSU’s “community” core value and encourages the ongoing pursuit of community service. Rita and Rick Case created the Rita and Rick Case Endowed Scholarship, which provides undergraduate students and former members of the Boys & Girls Clubs with an opportunity to attend college. So far this academic year, NSU has three scholarship recipients, all alumni of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County.

Mr. Case has served on NSU’s Board of Trustees since 2002.  He has served on the Building and Grounds Committee that has directed the use of more than $100 million representing more than 1 million square feet of structure development and grounds improvement for the university.

With support from Rita and Rick Case, a community of 77 affordable homes (called “A Rick Case Habitat Community”) broke ground in 2018.  The new community will provide home ownership to low-income families in Pompano Beach.  It is the largest project to-date for Habitat for Humanity of Broward County.

Since 1982, more than 100,000 donated bikes have reached children during the holidays in South Florida, Cleveland, and Atlanta, through the “Rick Case Bikes for Kids” program.

Last year, the Cases celebrated the 55th anniversary of the Rick Case Automotive Group dealerships, which includes 16 dealerships in South Florida, Cleveland, and Atlanta – its Honda, Hyundai, Kia, and Volkswagen dealerships in Broward County are the world’s largest.

“It is only fitting that a university started by South Florida entrepreneurs continues to dominate thanks to the time, talent, and treasure of such a successful couple,” said President Hanbury.

 

 

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About Nova Southeastern University (NSU): Located in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, NSU is ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Top 200 National Research Universities and is a dynamic, private research university providing high-quality educational and research programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional degree levels. Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000-square-foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK-12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world-class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida’s largest public library. NSU has campuses in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Miramar, Orlando, Palm Beach, and Tampa, Florida, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico, while maintaining a presence online globally. Classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU is one of only 50 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification, and is also the largest private institution in the United States that meets the U.S. Department of Education’s criteria as a Hispanic-serving Institution. Please visit www.nova.edu for more information about NSU.

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