On October 20th RDI will host its inaugural awards ceremony and dinner at 3 West Club in New York City. Heroes of Democracy will honor three individuals who have been relentlessly fighting for democracy. This year the recipients will be Daria , Nse Ufot and Irshad Manji.

We are offering the following levels of sponsorship for this event:

Sponsorship: $10,000

1 Table, Mentions in our newsletter, Half -page display in our dinner brochure, Mentions at the awards dinner

Sponsorship: $25,000

1 Table, Mentions in our newsletter, Full -page display in our dinner brochure, Branding on all awards collateral, Dinner with Garry Kasparov (outside of this event), Mentions at the awards dinner, Priority Access to all RDI events, Priority seating

*Please email us at heroes@rdi.org if you are interested in becoming a sponsor.

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Daria Kaleniuk: Daria is co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, a powerful national organization that has shaped Ukraine's anti-corruption legislation and efforts. Daria's organization ensured that Ukraine’s newly elected parliament designed strong anti-corruption legislation, including the laws on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, High Anti-corruption Court, open property registers and electronic asset declarations.

Nse Ufot: Nse Ufot's life and career have been dedicated to working on various civil, human, and workers rights issues; as the Executive Director of the New Georgia Project, she is proud to lead the organization to its goal of strengthening the state's democracy by registering and engaging roughly 1,000,000 eligible, but unregistered African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans.

Irshad Manji: Oprah Winfrey has given Irshad Manji the first Chutzpah Award for boldness, while The New York Times has dubbed her "Osama Bin Laden's Worst Nightmare." Manji is the internationally bestselling author of two books critiquing fundamentalism in her faith of Islam. Since then, she became concerned by another form intolerance: the intolerance of differing viewpoints on high school and college campuses in America. In response, Manji has written Don't Label Me, a book described by Chris Rock as "genius" for making the case that that true diversity must embrace diversity of thought. In that spirit, Manji is the Founder of Moral Courage College, which equips people to have hard conversations without fear of censorship or scorn. She is also the Director for Courage, Curiosity, and Character at Let Grow, a nonprofit that builds intellectual independence and emotional resilience in kids. A prize-winning professor, Irshad Manji currently lectures with Oxford University's Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights.