Date: May 21st 2010

Hi family and friends,

I hope this message finds you all well. As many of you know, I will be joining a nonprofit organization called Year Up after I graduate from Harvard next week. Year Up is a great fit with my passions as they work to provide the technical & professional skills, resources, and experience to empower urban young adults to reach their true potential. I’m very excited to be working in the National Capital Region (i.e. Washington D.C.) as a Site Leader, rotating through a number of program and operations roles in preparation for becoming an executive leader within the organization.

In addition to providing a quick update, I’m also writing because Year Up is in a heated competition to win $200,000 from American Express. I would greatly appreciate it if you would cast your vote for Year Up and ask those in your network to do the same. They are in second place and need 1,500 votes by Sunday May 23rd to close in on the lead. Learn more and vote for Year Up: http://www.yearup.org/vote/

To all of you, thanks for your ongoing support and friendship/mentorship.

Best,

Justin


p.s. - If you have a Facebook profile, don’t bother filling out a full registration on the AMEX page, just click on the “Facebook Connect” link on the registration page for quick voting.

Justin R. Steele
Harvard Business School | Harvard Kennedy School
MBA/MPA Candidate | Class of 2010
M: H: 617 395 8064
jsteele@mba2010.hbs.edu