Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear

Sharon M. Draper, National Teacher of the Year, Author, Blended. Mrs. Draper is a professional educator, an accomplished writer and former National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award and a New York Times bestselling author. Draper has been honored at the White House six times, and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington, D.C. and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival.

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Preston Brown grew up in Cincinnati. Brown started his professional football career with the National Football League as a lineman with the Buffalo Bills. This season he signed with his hometown team, The Cincinnati Bengals. Mr. Brown joined the show via telephone from the Bengals locker room to discuss his philanthropic work. He maintains that through his non-profit foundation, Preston’s Playbook, he working to support future educators. Additionally, Preston’s Playbook has held free football camps for local youth, and provided personal computers to future educators.

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Mr. Newton joined the show to talk about his work to support Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Newton explained that every year, almost 16,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer and almost one quarter of them will not survive their disease. Evan is using his celebrity to shed a light on childhood cancers. He says a shirt, featuring his silhouette, will be sold. All profits from the sale of the special-edition shirts will be donated to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

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As an on-air guest, Mr. Dunlap spoke about his non-profit, The Carlos Dunlap Foundation. He says the organization focuses on literacy, anti-bullying, homelessness and education. Most recently, according to Dunlap, his foundation sponsored a student-writing contest. Five local students attending Winton Hills Academy won the contest. They are now published authors. The winning book, Misunderstood Micah has an anti-bullying theme. Dunlap says as the winners, the students will receive $500 and copies of their book will be signed and donated to schools and libraries nationwide.

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Sharon M. Draper, National Teacher of the Year, Author, Blended. Mrs. Draper is a professional educator, an accomplished writer and former National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award and a New York Times bestselling author. Draper has been honored at the White House six times, and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington, D.C. and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival.

As an on-air guest, Mr. Dunlap spoke about his non-profit, The Carlos Dunlap Foundation. He says the organization focuses on literacy, anti-bullying, homelessness and education. Most recently, according to Dunlap, his foundation sponsored a student-writing contest. Five local students attending Winton Hills Academy won the contest. They are now published authors. The winning book, Misunderstood Micah has an anti-bullying theme. Dunlap says as the winners, the students will receive $500 and copies of their book will be signed and donated to schools and libraries nationwide.

Preston Brown grew up in Cincinnati. Brown started his professional football career with the National Football League as a lineman with the Buffalo Bills. This season he signed with his hometown team, The Cincinnati Bengals. Mr. Brown joined the show via telephone from the Bengals locker room to discuss his philanthropic work. He maintains that through his non-profit foundation, Preston’s Playbook, he working to support future educators. Additionally, Preston’s Playbook has held free football camps for local youth, and provided personal computers to future educators.

While on Sunday Morning Magazine, Super Bowl Champ and former New England Patriot, Malcolm Mitchell admitted he struggled with reading. He says he was reading on a Junior High level in college. Today, Mitchell is a voracious reader. He even wrote a children’s book called The Magician’s Hat. To combat illiteracy, Mr. Mitchell started his own non-profit, Read with Malcolm. He spoke on-air about an upcoming reading contest that his foundation is organizing called the READBowl. He says the goal of the contest is to increase reading minutes among students in school.

Suzy DeYoung joined the show to talk about an exciting new event that her non-profit, La Soupe is introducing called, WASTEd And The City. DeYoung says on October 9th from 6:00-8:30pm, For $75, attendees of WASTEd And The City have the opportunity to visit Over-The-Rhine and Downtown restaurants along the streetcar route, to sample tapas and a cocktail prepared with rescued food ingredients provided by La Soupe.

According to Mrs. DeYoung, La Soupe bridges the gap between rampant food waste and hunger in the community by rescuing food that would otherwise be unnecessarily wasted. In turn, the food is used to create nutritious meals for non-profit organizations and food-insecure families.

Mr. Newton joined the show to talk about his work to support Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Newton explained that every year, almost 16,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer and almost one quarter of them will not survive their disease. Evan is using his celebrity to shed a light on childhood cancers. He says a shirt, featuring his silhouette, will be sold. All profits from the sale of the special-edition shirts will be donated to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.