Bob Barker Company and the Bob Barker Foundation congratulate Dennis Gaddy for being honored with the President's Lifetime Achievement Award. The President's Lifetime Achievement Award, also known as the President's Call to Service Award, is bestowed upon those who complete 4,000 hours of volunteer service work.
Dennis is a member of the Bob Barker Foundation Advisory Board. He is also the founder and Executive Director of Community Success Initiative (CSI), a non-profit corporation founded in May 2004 and developed to help men and women transitioning from jail or prison, or who otherwise find themselves entangled in the criminal justice system.
A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the Campbell University School of Law, Dennis spent 20 years building a sales career. However, due to some poor decisions and choices, Dennis spent five years, eight months in the NC Department of Corrections. Rather than being overcome by either success or failure, Dennis studied both, and learned positive insights from the past. He learned the value of using the past as a place of reference, but not residence. CSI was birthed from this experience.
Along with his duties at CSI, Dennis serves as Criminal Justice Chair for the North Carolina NAACP. He also serves on a national reentry subcommittee for the Center for State Government's National Reentry Resource Center. Dennis is a member of the North Carolina Committee for Racial and Ethnic Disparities (NC-CRED) and was recently appointed to sit on Governor Cooper’s Statewide Reentry Collaborative. Dennis is also entrepreneur with Gaddy Success Enterprises.
Dennis has been married for 39 years and he and his wife have two adult daughters, and two grandchildren.
Please join us as we celebrate Dennis on his incredible achievement.
Dennis Gaddy was surprised with his Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Gaddy receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Gaddy and Kurtis Taylor, Executive Director of the Bob Barker Foundation
