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Here are links to the charities I am part of. Please help & support them if you can.
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Hearts Giving Hope provides Music & Arts therapy for underprivileged and abused kids around Los Angeles & Orange County.
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Me helping out as the emcee for the annual fundraiser in Oct. ‘06. Yes, I was dressed as a Milkman, it was a costume fundraiser; not that it mattered.
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also known as Santa Monica Feed the Homeless
We feed between 3,500 to 5,000 homeless every year on Thanksgiving. Check out our promotional video, I am at toward the end at 4:07 dressed as "Howdy the Clown".
According to the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty there are 2.3 to 3.5 million homeless in the U.S.; approximately 80,000 each night in Los Angeles alone. We got Thanksgiving covered, please pick a night.
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I also am a member of the Red Cross Disaster Services Human Resource. I get called out to help in disasters. Santa Monica is the chapter that I associated with when I moved out from Texas.
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