11/15/05 Brighter Futures Award Event A Success Family Service of Rhode Island's first annual Brighter Futures Award luncheon held Monday, November 14th, was an overwhelming success! Congratulations to Colonel Dean Esserman, Providence’s police chief, on being the 2005 award recipient! The Brighter Futures Award is being presented annually to an individual or company making an outstanding contribution to the well-being of children in our community. Special thanks to: Our Platinum Signature Sponsors: Bank of America, Cox Communications, GTECH Corporation, New England Gas Company. Our Gold Sponsors: Citizens Bank Foundation, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, NBC 10, The Providence Journal Company. Our Silver Sponsors: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP,  Residential Properties LTD., The Rhode Island Foundation, Sovereign Bank, Sprint Nextel. Our Bronze Sponsors: B.A. Ballou & Company, Inc.; Bank Rhode Island; Blue Cross & Blue Shield of RI; City of Providence, compliments of Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation; Cornish Associates; H. Carr & Sons, Inc; Saul and Susan Kaplan; KPMG LLP; Lifespan; Mellon, Providence, RI; National Grid; Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Piccerelli, Gilstein & Company, LLP; RDW Group Inc.; Roger Williams University; Sansiveri, Kimball & McNamee, LLP; The Washington Trust Company. Thanks also to artist Anne Mimi Sammis, who created a piece that made this year’s Brighter Futures Award truly a work of art. Each year’s award will be an original work by a local artist depicting love and spiritual growth. Ms. Sammis creation is entitled Three Dancing Children. Finally, thanks to all the volunteers, board members and staff who worked tirelessly for months to make this event possible.