12 Reasons to Give Calendar
As part of our mission to encourage new philanthropy from high-profile individuals and the general public they influence, GBF created the 12 Reasons to Give 2005 celebrity philanthropy calendar. The calendar honored twelve generous and diverse high-profile individuals within professional sports and entertainment who have demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy. GBF identified the donation of time, talent, and a million or more of charitable dollars as qualifying characteristics for honorees.
More than 100 million people were exposed to these philanthropic role models thanks to Time Warner magazines and other media outlets.
12 Reasons to Give Honorees
Each Honoree was invited to select one charity to benefit from the sale of the calendar. We encourage you to learn more about the beneficiary charities:
A BIG Thank You to our Sponsors and Supporters!
Andre Agassi – benefiting Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation focused on underserved youth in the Las Vegas area
Leonardo DiCaprio – benefiting TreePeople, an organization that inspires the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest
Amy Grant – benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, America's 4th-largest health-care charity. All patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family's ability to pay.
Angelina Jolie – benefiting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists over 20 million refugees in approximately 120 countries.
Sarah McLachlan – benefiting the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach program dedicated to the advancement of music education for young people in Canada, and in particular, to benefit youth in underserved communiies.
Alonzo Mourning – benefiting Alonzo Mourning Charities supporting foster-care and underserved children in the Miami area
Edward Norton – benefiting the BP Solar Neighbors program with The Enterprise Foundation, helping low-income homeowners reduce their energy bills through solar power
Rosie O’Donnell – benefiting Rosie’s Broadway Kids providing theatre arts opportunities to children in New York public schools
Christopher Reeve – benefiting the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which focuses on research and improving the quality of life for individuals living with paralysis
David Robinson – benefiting the Carver Academy a charter school in San Antonio serving primarily low-income African-American and Hispanic students in the culturally diverse east-side.
Russell Simmons – benefiting Rush Philanthropic Arts providing disadvantaged urban youth with significant exposure and access to the arts, as well as providing exhibition opportunities to underrepresented artists and artists of color.
Sting – benefiting The Rainforest Foundation working with Indigenous people to protect the rainforest and its inhabitants.
The 12 Reasons to Give calendar could not have been accomplished without the hard work, inspiration, and dedication of the professional staff at Blanchard Press.
Time Warner, Inc. graciously donated advertising space in Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Time, and Life. Thanks to the magazines' approximately 78 million readers The Giving Back Fund was able to appropriately recognize our 12 Honorees for their continued generosity and successfully share our message about the importance of giving back.
A Special Thanks To The Following Individuals for Their Heroic Support of the Project:
Katie Brodnik, Steve Dodge, Michael Klingensmith, Maria Lehman, Ken Picerne, Mitch Rosenberg, Bob Sutherland, John Sutherland, David Vogan, and our 12 Honorees and their amazing colleagues, assistants, attorneys, publicists, friends, and families who collaborated with us to make this project possible
Printing and design for the calendar were underwritten by The Picerne Group, an international investment firm with offices in San Juan Capistrano, California and Tokyo, Japan. 100% of the net proceeds from sales of the calendar were distributed to the 12 charities selected by the Honorees.