CHARLES AND LYNN SHUSTERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION TO CELEBRATE VALENTINES DAY THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE AT TULSA DAY CENTER FOR HOMELESS

Tulsa-based Foundation Heeds President Obama’s Call to Serve Our Neighborhoods

Tulsa, OK— February 10, 2009 – Team members of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF) will demonstrate their love of Tulsa this Valentine’s Day through community service at the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless. The group, including philanthropists Lynn Schusterman and Stacy Schusterman, will serve lunch, including roses and candy, to the clients and will present a gift of four new computers.

The computers will be used in conjunction with the Schusterman-supported Tulsa Community Voice Mail (CVM) system, which provides voicemail service to over 500 Tulsans in crisis or transition. Through this program, individuals receive a personal phone number to use when applying for housing, employment and arranging for health and social services. With the computers, users can now access the CVM blog which provides links to services and programs designed to assist the Day Center clients in their efforts to achieve personal goals.

Now in its fifth year, the event involves the cooperation of a number of individuals and organizations in the Tulsa community, including the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma which will prepare the food and QuikTrip, a locally headquartered company that will donate the dessert. Coca Cola is providing bottled drinks for the lunch. Staff from the Schusterman Family Interests Group will join the Foundation team in serving lunch. Additionally, 45 middle-school students from Tulsa’s KIPP College Preparatory School will be helping out that day, including a performance by the KIPP choir. Two members of the CLSFF team, Rhonda Youngblood and Randy K. Macon, currently teach a class on philanthropy at the school.

Advocates of community service, the CLSFF team is encouraged by President Obama’s focus on volunteerism and is excited by this opportunity to roll up their sleeves and improve the quality of life for those in the community.

“Everyone on our team is involved in service work, but it is not every day that, as a team, we get to leave the office and give back in such a special way to our hometown,” said Lynn Schusterman, Chair of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. “Besides the lunch, we are proud to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Valentine’s Day Luncheon with the gift of computers for the Center to use as part of the Community Voice Mail program. We see this as an important step in helping others secure for themselves essential resources like employment, health care, and social services.”

The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation staff in Washington, DC, will join their Tulsa- based colleagues in service on Thursday by serving meals at the DC Central Kitchen, also a Community Voice Mail program site.

About the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation

The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF) was established in 1987 as a private foundation dedicated to helping the Jewish people flourish by supporting programs throughout the world that spread the joy of Jewish living, giving and learning. The Foundation also provides assistance to non-sectarian charitable organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, especially in the areas of education, child advocacy and community service. www.schusterman.org