Financial Advisors and Business Leaders to Meet at Museum of American Finance; MDG Support Coalition Forms to Support 2015 United Nations Millennium Goals
A coalition of financial advisors and business leaders will meet on Wall Street for an event that will memorialize their intentions and show support for the 2015 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

NEW YORK, NY, September 10, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A coalition of financial advisors and business leaders will meet on Wall Street for an event that will memorialize their intentions and show support for the 2015 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The event will take place at the Museum of American Finance, located at 48 Wall Street, New York, NY, on September 22, 2010 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Attendance is by invitation only.

Members of the media and other business leaders interested in attending may contact event organizers Bryan Barnett, who joined AXA Advisors, LLC after spending almost two decades in the banking industry working at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor organizations, or Tina Dhar, a registered financial advisor with the NFL Player's Association and one of only 65 financial planners in the country to be selected to join Lincoln Financial Private Wealth Services (previously with Morgan Stanley for ten years).

The coalition includes Founding Members of the International Association of Financial, Sport and Celebrity Advisers (IAFSCA) and their partners, the Edison Foundation and Money XLive. The coalition has joined forces with the Calvert Foundation (the firm that created socially responsible investing), Motion Picture Corporation of America (recent producers of "Taking Chances" with Kevin Bacon), and Odell, Simms and Lynch (campaign fund raisers for a number of the nation's Presidential candidates and the $350 million dollar Statue of Liberty Campaign).

The coalition has pledged to support four important initiatives:

1. Bring 27,000 financial professionals, athletes, celebrities, entrepreneurs, governmental leaders and concerned citizens into the nation's 27,000 public schools in April 2011 for Financial Literacy Month and in November 2011 for Philanthropy Month, in an effort to raise charitable giving and improve financial literacy;
2. Create eight feature films paired with eight documentaries on the themes of the MDGs, in an effort to raise global awareness;
3. Create a series of socially responsible investments aligned with the MDGs;
4. Commission seven monuments, one on each continent, to memorialize the 2015 Millennium Goals, the first set of standards agreed upon by the world for human dignity.

The coalition has been in discussions with high ranking officials in the Chinese government, the State Department and with Millennium-focused organizations such as the UN Foundation, InterAction and Millennuium's Promise. At the September 22nd event, the coalition will sign what may become an historic document declaring their support for the four initiatives detailed above.

"We are pleased to meet with our key partners and concerned citizens who want to participate with us," says Bryan Barnett, co-host of the coalition meeting at the Museum of American Finance. Tina Dhar, co-host of the event added, "It is inspiring to see billionaires Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates redirect their wealth in an effort eliminate extreme poverty. The coalition members and I wanted to do something as ordinary citizens to support one of the greatest groups of philanthropists in human history. On September 22nd we will answer their call at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street." Barnett and Dhar, both of whom are tenured financial advisors who live and work in the New York City area, are Founding Members of the IAFSCA.

Sarano Kelley, IAFSCA Founder and the host of the VH1 financial literacy docudrama Broke and Famous, said "I am pleased to be joining Bryan, Tina and other business leaders such as Vince Shorb from Money XLive, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, former U.S. Navy Commander Lindsay Kough, Charles Fisher from Hip Hop Summit Youth Council, and a number of people including John Keegan from the Edison Innovation Foundation at this important event. I was so moved by meeting Carlos Slim and knowing that the wealthiest man in the world was waging in his words a war against poverty. We as concerned citizens, along with passionate organizations such as The Hip Hop Caucus - one of the nation's leading organizers of celebrities for social good - are committing our energy and resources to help."

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