Ali Sahabi Receives Humanitarian Award

RIVERSIDE, CA– Ali Sahabi, president of the Carona-based developer SE Corp., was honored on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a humanitarian award by the Riverside Clergy Association. Sahabi was chosen for the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award based on his long-standing efforts to give to the community and to help those in need.

“In everything he does, personally and professionally, he gives back to the community,” said Rev. Paul Munford, president of the Riverside Clergy Association.. “He conducts his business keeping in mind the positive impact it will have on the community. On a personal level, he sponsors scholarships awarded through our member churches.”

Sahabi is president of SE Corporation, a land-planning and entitlement firm that in 2007 won the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in Sustainable Communities for its mixed-use development of Dos Lagos in Corona. He is also the founding chairman of the Green Institute for Village Empowerment,  a nonprofit dedicated to the principles of sustainability. GIVE is the founding sponsor of the Green Valley Initiative, a nationally recognized regional economic development movement to promote clean and green technologies in inland Southern California.

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