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Golisano to be honored at RIT
Golisano to be honored at RIT
Listen to this articlePhilanthropist B. Thomas Golisano will be honored at Rochester Institute of Technology Friday, Oct. 20, as the university acknowledges his contributions, especially those for people with developmental disabilities.
The event Friday afternoon will take place at an exhibit on the Golisano Archives – housed at RIT – that will open to the public the following day. Timothy P. Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics International, will speak at the event about an initiative to which Golisano has contributed $37 million: the Special Olympics’ Healthy Communities initiative.
“As a tireless advocate for the Special Olympics movement,” Shriver said, “Tom and the Golisano Foundation enable and empower communities of care, where the contributions of people with intellectual disabilities are better understood, encouraged and valued by all.” The Healthy Communities initiative seeks to reduce health disparities that people with intellectual disabilities often face related to access to health services.
The archive exhibit will be displayed in the atrium of Golisano Hall, home to the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
Golisano is founder and chairman of Paychex Inc., a payroll, human resources and benefits provider for more than 500,000 companies nationwide.
