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Black Tie International:
T. J. Martell Foundation
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Charlie Daniels, Colbie Caillat and Kenny Loggins.
Photo courtesy of Steve Prue |
T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION RAISES
$1.45 MILLION
FOR CANCER AND AIDS
RESEARCH
AT 35TH ANNUAL
AWARDS GALA
New York, NY – (October
28, 2010) –
The T.J. Martell
Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS
Research
celebrated its
35th Annual
Awards Gala on
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at the
New York Marriott Marquis and raised a total of
$1.45 million. Artists
Colbie Caillat,
Enrique Iglesias,
3 Doors Down,
Erin McCarley,
Kenny Loggins
and
Charlie Daniels
performed for the crowd of music and
entertainment leaders, business and media
executives, and celebrities; other attendees
included radio host
Stephanie Miller,
country artist
Jaron and the Long Road to
Love, Sam Tsui,
Kelli Tomashoff, Dalal Bruchmann and
Jackson Kelly.
Wendy Dio, the wife of
legendary heavy metal singer
Ronnie James Dio
who recently succumbed to cancer, made a
generous donation of $100,000 for a stomach
cancer research program in her late husband’s
name at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; she
also urged the audience to be vigilant about
cancer screenings and checkups.
The Foundation was proud
to present the Humanitarian of the Year Awards
to brothers Monte and Avery Lipman, President &
CEO of Universal Republic Records and
Co-President & COO of Universal Republic Records
respectively; the Lifetime Artistic Achievement
Award to Kenny Loggins; the Lifetime
Entertainment Achievement Award to Charlie
Daniels; and the Lifetime Scientific Achievement
Award to Harold L. Moses, MD, Director Emeritus
of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The event included a live
and silent auction, which raised a combined
$122,000 for cancer and AIDS research; several
items, like lunch with fashion guru Tim Gunn,
are also being auctioned now at
CharityFolks.com.
The T.J. Martell
Foundation is proud to partner with
Wines That Rock,
who was on hand conducting a wine tasting and
distribute door prizes to several lucky winners.
Visit
www.wines-that-rock.com/tjmartell
to purchase wine and have a portion of the
proceeds benefit cancer and AIDS research.
Join us on
www.TJMartellFoundation.org,
www.Facebook.com
and
www.twitter.com.
A BOUT
THE T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION
The T.J. Martell
Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS
Research was founded in 1975 by music industry
executive Tony Martell and his colleagues in
loving memory of his son, T.J., who died of
leukemia. It is the music industry’s
largest foundation that funds
innovative medical research focused on finding
cures for leukemia, cancer and AIDS, and has
provided over $240 million dollars for research.
Funded
research hospitals
include T.J. Martell Memorial Laboratories at
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Harvard School of
Public Health, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
Columbia-Presbyterian Cancer Center,
Massachusetts General Cancer Center,
The Mayo Clinic, and Emory University.
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