Kirk Franklin is set to be the keynote speaker at The William L. Carter Foundation’s Community Leadership Luncheon, that will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2017, in Tarrytown, New York.
The event, which is purposed to raise money for the William L. Carter Community Leadership Scholarships which the foundation initiated at its inaugural reception in 2016, and also to help support the foundation’s Inspiration Program, which encompasses a mentoring program, free Jazz clinic, financial literacy program, as well as other programs to support and educate the youth of the Greenburgh community.
Franklin is a pioneer in gap-bridging musicianship, uniting audiences across gospel, hip hop, pop, and R&B. His unprecedented penetration into the mainstream has fortified him to also become a New York Times bestselling author for The Blueprint: A Plan for living Above Life’s Storms.