Wings of Flight Live Auction in Beverly Hills Hotel with Celebrity Artist Michael Bell fea
Wings of Flight Live Auction in Beverly Hills Hotel with Celebrity Artist Michael Bell featured a debut of his "Voices of Violence" video and painting of Georgia Durante valued at $12,000.00 for Trish Steele and Safe Passage, a Domestic Violence Shelter Service in California.
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 469
Actress and shoe fashionista Tori Spelling unveiled more than 20 pairs of celebrity-donate
Actress and shoe fashionista Tori Spelling unveiled more than 20 pairs of celebrity-donated and autographed shoes at a star-studded gala to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sojourn, a Santa Monica, CA-based domestic violence shelter. From October 18th through the 30th, Marshalls, one of the nation's largest off-price retailers, will be auctioning off the famous shoes through an online auction hosted by CharityFolks.com. In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the proceeds of this auction will benefit domestic violence shelters in six cities: Providence, RI; Pittsburgh, PA; Orlando, FL; Milwaukee, WI; Sacramento, CA and Santa Monica, CA.
The auction features autographed shoes donated by celebrities: Madonna, Regis Philbin,
Jay-Z, Tori Spelling, Joey Fatone, Vivica A. Fox, Mariska Hargitay, Rachael Ray, Maria Sharapova, Jaslene: winner of America's Next Top Model, Maria Menounos, Samantha Harris, Tiki Barber, Taylor Twellman: New England Revolution, Robin Givens, Joey Galloway: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Urban Meyer: coach of the Florida Gators, and the women of The View: Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. Several of the celebrities included stories about their shoes.
The celebrity shoes will be displayed in local Marshalls stores with proceeds from the auctions benefiting Sojourn in Santa Monica, CA; Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center in Providence, RI; WEAVE and My Sister's House in Sacramento, CA; Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA; Sojourner Truth House in Milwaukee, WI; and Spouse Abuse Inc./Harbor House in Orlando, FL.
In tandem with this auction, Marshalls will hold its annual Shop 'Til It Stops program from October 18th through the 24th. During this week, Marshalls will donate $1, up to $150,000, for every pair of shoes sold nationally to the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF). For 14 years, Marshalls has been an avid supporter of the FVPF, whose mission is to raise awareness against domestic violence.
Produced for Marshalls
(more)
(less)
Added: 9 months ago
Views: 4,136
A video to raise awareness about domestic violence. The song is Hero - Michael Ball. Pleas
A video to raise awareness about domestic violence. The song is Hero - Michael Ball. Please watch and help fight domestic violence.
(more)
(less)
Added: 1 year ago
Views: 11,327
|
Tim Gaskin: A Lifetime of Challenges Met with a Lifestyle of Hope
Most people would ne
Tim Gaskin: A Lifetime of Challenges Met with a Lifestyle of Hope
Most people would never believe the background of Tim Gaskin to see him now. Creator and Founder of Benefit Magazine, a new publication that raises awareness of charitable non-profits and supports the "lifestyle of giving," he knows first hand how important charities are to helping people get ahead in life.
A third generation San Franciscan, Gaskin, 40, grew up in the city's Castro and Mission districts living in and out of battered women's shelters with his Mother. His father and brothers were alcoholics, himself the victim of their abuse from the disease. By the time he turned 13; Gaskin had had enough, and ran away from home. He was made a ward of the court until he petitioned for and was granted emancipation at the age of fourteen.
Gaskin continued to attend school, being elected Sophomore Class President at Lincoln High School while living on his own. But by his junior year, he had to drop out of school to work full time simply to survive. He began working in fast food restaurants across San Francisco while living in a one room apartment in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood district.
Gaskin worked hard through his teen years, and in his early twenties met Rueben Glickman and Susie Tompkins who owned the old Hamm's Brewery. He was offered a chance to found the Hamm's Café, a new café in the building, and it became a success.
Gaskin's career after that continued to be tied to the food industry, working as a trader in the import meat business, something he continued to do until recently.
"Because I lived on the streets in my youth, there is nothing I haven't seen or been a part of," said Gaskin. "It's hard today to imagine that my life was ever that way."
As his career grew, Gaskin got more involved in community affairs, becoming active in local merchant societies and community-focused publications and television shows. In 2001, he co-founded Gloss Magazine, an alternative lifestyle magazine for San Franciscans and began co-hosting a local cable show called "Inside City Limits" for ComcastSF. The show gave him a platform to raise the profile of the local non-profits he had personally benefited from as a child. Gaskin currently hosts his own cable show, "OUT Spoken," which is the only LGBT entertainment/talk show of its kind in the United States.
In late 2005, Gaskin saw an opportunity to fulfill his long held dream of starting a publication dedicated to the lifestyle of philanthropy and raising the profile of non-profit organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Just like so many challenges in his life, Gaskin overcame the nay-sayers and the critics, launching Benefit Magazine, The Lifestyle of Giving in 2006.
"I came from an impoverished welfare family," said Gaskin. "It was poverty that killed my parents, not the domestic violence or their drug addition. Those were just coping mechanisms to try and deal with the poverty. The charitable organizations that serve San Francisco are out to destroy poverty, and I believe it's my obligation to help them. While my parents chose one way to face poverty, I chose another, and now I'm in a position to give something back."
Gaskin's involvement in the non-profit world is not new to him. For over ten years he has helped raise desperately needed funds for charities struggling to survive.
He served on the board of AEF/BCEF (AIDS Emergency Fund/Breast Cancer Emergency Fund) and while a board member, Gaskin launched This Old Bag (www.thisoldbag.org), a celebrity and designer handbag auction which has included donations from Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Stone, and every star on Desperate Housewives. Since its inception two years ago, the event has raised over $200,000 to help women who are struggling financially while coping with the brutality of their disease.
Gaskin, who has used painting as a creative outlet, has also donated many of his creations to charity fundraisers and was chosen as one of the artists in the Hearts in San Francisco project that benefited the SF General Hospital Foundation. Gaskin was selected by Mayor Gavin Newsom as his pick to be a commissioner on the city's Arts Task Force, a position he still holds.
(more)
(less)
Added: 8 months ago
Views: 1,555
|
