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Black Tie Dinner board seeki ng
2010 beneficiary applicants
Applicant orientation is Monday;
applications due by Feb. 26
TAMMYENASH I Senior Editor
nash@dallasvoice.com
Applications are now available for nonprofit
organizations interested in becoming beneficiaries
of the 2010 Black Tie Dinner.
Black Tie Co-Chairs Ron Guillard and Nan
Arnold said this week that beneficiary applica-
tions are available online at BlackTie.org, and that
an optional orientation session for potential ben-
eficiaries will be held Monday, Feb. 15, at 6:30 p.m.
in the Seminar Room on the second level of the
Sheraton Dallas hotel downtown.
Gillard said that the meeting used to be manda-
tory, but that the application process has remained
consistent for several years so that most applicant
organizations have been through it before.
Organizations that have not been beneficiaries
before:, however, can use the orientation seminar
as a chance to ask any questions they have and
get more comfortable with the application
process.
"We would love to have some new organiza-
tions apply to be beneficiaries this year," Guillard
said.
Guillard said that to be selected as a Black Tie
Dinner beneficiary, an organization must have
nonprofit status as determined by the IRS, which
means that the organization can't be politically
oriented. Organizations also must use the major-
ity of their funds to provide direct services, and
they must be able to show direct benefits to the
LGBT communities in North Texas.
Beneficiaries are also required to buy an ad in
the Black Tie Dinner journal and to buy a poster
to promote the dinner's annual car raffle. Cost for
both is $900, Guillard said. Each beneficiary or-
ganization has to sell at least 25 of the $100 raffle
tickets, donate at least 50 volunteer hours to Black
Tie and have at least five tables affiliated with it
at the dinner.
Tables at Black Tie each seat 10, and individual
tickets are $300. That means, total cost for each
table is $3,000.
But, Guillard said, that $3,000 does not come
out of the beneficiary organization's pocket.
"The organization just has to find five people
willing to be in charge of filling one table and to
be affiliated with that particular organization," he
said. "The beneficiary organizations need to be fi-
nancially sound, and they need to show they have
50 people willing to support them."
Completed beneficiary applications must be re-
turned to the Black Tie board by 5 p.m. on Friday,
Feb. 26, and the list of 2010 local beneficiaries will
be announced by March 31, Guillard said.
Each year, Black Tie Dinner gives about half of
its proceeds for the: year to the Human Rights
Campaign Foundation. The other half is divided
between as many as 20 local beneficiaries.
This year's Black Tie Dinner, the 29th annual,
will be held Nov. 6 at the Sheraton Dallas hotel.
Guillard said the Black Tie board is already in the
process of choosing a keynote speaker for the
event, as well as considering candidates for the
Kuchling Humanitarian Award, the Elizabeth
Birch Equality Award and the Media Award.
For more information about the dinner or the
beneficiary application process, or go online to
BlackTie.org. ■
Deaths
William Edward "Bill" Sturgill died Jan. 23 at
Baylor Hospital in Dallas, two days before his
53rd birthday.,
Sturgill was born Jan. 25,1957 in Cleveland,
Ohio. He served in the U.S. Navy as a communi-
cations officer and after
an honorable discharge
from the military, he
moved to Dallas. He also
lived in Chicago and San
Diego before moving
back to Dallas, where he
resided for many years
until his death.
Sturgill and his partner,
Michael Lyons, traveled extensively during their
15 years together, making many lasting friend-
ships along the way. Lyons preceded Sturgill in
death, passing away last May.
Sturgill is survived by his mother, Mary Sturgill
of Medina, Ohio; his brother, Montfort Sturgill of
Atlanta, Ga.; his sister, Ellen Shaw of Medina,
Ohio; three nephews, Robert, Daniel and Shawn;
and two nieces, Mary Ellen and Angela, all of
Medina, Ohio; as well as a host of fiends that will
greatly miss him.
A celebration of Sturgill's life" will be held from
2 p.m. to 5 p.m Saturday, Feb. 13, at Zippers, 3333
N. Fitzhugh Ave. in Dallas.
A memorial service for Ron "Sheri Powers"
Alford will be held on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 3 p.m.
at Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ,
5910 Cedar Springs Road. Alford, 62, died at his
Oklahoma City home on Jan. 26. He had lived
with HIV since the mid-1980s. He suffered a
stroke in November and never fully recovered.
Alford is survived by his companion of 16
years, Mark D. Manning, Ronnie Alford at The
Cove in Dallas, and by one sister. He will be cre-
mated and his remains will be placed in an urn
between his mother and father in Mississippi,
where the family is originally from. ■
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