The 4th Annual T.J. Martell Foundation Los Angeles

Sunday, October 28, 2012
12:00 – 4:00 pm
 
CBS Studios Backlot
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604
 
Family Day Chair
Kevin Weaver, Atlantic Records Group

Family Day, an annual event, was created in 1998 as a way to bring children and their families together for an afternoon filled with fun and games, food and drinks and celebrity guests and performers – all to raise money to continue ground-breaking cancer research. Here on the West Coast, most of the funds we raise support the outstanding work of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, through whose efforts the survival rate of pediatric cancers has risen dramatically.

HONOREES
PJ Bloom Award-Winning Music Supervisor and Publisher 2012 Humanitarian Award Honoree		Robert Earl President & CEO, Planet Hollywood, Intl. 2012 Humanitarian Award Honoree

 
Music industry professionals who have dedicated their time and effort throughout their careers to support philanthropic endeavors are acknowledged and honored at Family Day. This year, we are privileged to honor Robert Earl, President and CEO of Planet Hollywood International, and PJ Bloom, music supervisor behind the Glee franchise and an award-winning independent music publisher. The event is promoted to the public via mass media and guests include families and friends of the honorees, supporters of the Foundation, entertainment leaders and their families, many celebrities and lots of other families. Family Day is celebrated at separate events in all the T.J. Martell Foundation locations and is one of the organization’s most successful fundraisers, having generated over $4 million since its inception.

It began with a promise from a father to his dying son.

In 1973, a high school student named T.J. Martell was battling leukemia. He asked his father, music industry executive Tony Martell, to raise a million dollars for cancer research so that “no one else will have to experience what I am going through.” Although he had no fundraising experience, Tony agreed. Two years later, T.J. died at the age of nineteen, and as Tony explains today, “that put my promise in cement.” Soon after, Tony was joined by many of his musician friends like Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington to hold a fundraiser at Buddy Rich’s nightclub in New York. They raised $50,000 and the T.J. Martell Foundation was born.   Over the years, hundreds of volunteers have worked passionately to help provide more than $250 million for leukemia, cancer and AIDS research. We are proud of our long history and our reputation for innovation in fundraising and the research we support.  The Foundation is headquartered in New York with divisions in Nashville covering the southern region and in Los Angeles covering the west coast.

For more information - http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org/National-About.aspx

Thanks to my guest Ebony Adams of TJ Matell Foundation for telling about this amazing event AND sharing all the great work the fine folks at TJ are doing to fight cancer and improve the lives of those and the families affected...

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Fight to Live is about saving lives - possibly saving your life, or the life of someone you love. With one in two men and one in three women being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, not including the possibility of being diagnosed with other deadly diseases like ALS, Parkinson?s, or Alzheimers, most of us will be looking for a way to beat a deadly disease to live a long and fulfilled life. The Fight to Live Coalition is an effort to bring public awareness and drive FDA reform so that the current advancements in medicine will be available when you need them. Fight to Live is currently calling for support of the Patient Choice Act of 2012, (H.R.6288) that brings earlier access, safely, to promising new treatments that could potentially save thousands of lives. With the right reform, patients should be able to make an informed choice with their physicians when fighting a terminal disease.

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Thanks to my guest Fight to Live founder Carla Woods for explaining what this is all about and inviting us to your informative fundraising event...