{"id":1337,"date":"2000-12-11T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2000-12-11T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2015-05-08T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:09:59","slug":"brendan-fehr-mentioned-in-aol-charity-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/12\/brendan-fehr-mentioned-in-aol-charity-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fehr mentioned in AOL Charity Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jen for this. Here’s the direct link Helping Hands<\/a><\/p>\n

Oprah Winfrey, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Koko The Gorilla Join AOL’s ‘Helping
\nHands (SM)’ Holiday Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hands of Both Gillian Anderson and Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys
\nBring More Than $2000 Each for Charity In First 2 Weeks of the Helping Hands
\nCelebrity Auction<\/p>\n

DULLES, VA — December 7, 2000 – America Online, Inc., the world’s leading
\ninteractive services company, announced that Oprah Winfrey, Catherine
\nZeta-Jones, Michael Keaton, Koko The Gorilla, Amy Smart, Brendan Fehr, Soleil
\nMoon Frye and Charlie Ward of the New York Knicks have joined the AOL Helping
\nHands holiday initiative, an online auction-style event and philanthropic
\ncampaign that launched earlier this month.<\/p>\n

In support of this online philanthropic campaign, more than 60 celebrities
\nincluding Clint Eastwood, Lisa Kudrow, Jewel, Ben Stiller, The Backstreet
\nBoys and Michael Douglas have created original artistic interpretations of
\nthe “Helping Hands” theme, which range from paintings and drawings to
\nsculptures and signed memorabilia. These “handiworks” are currently featured
\nin a special holiday catalog on Shop@AOL, the company’s popular online
\nshopping destination, and offered auction-style through links to eBay, the
\nworld’s leading online trading community. New hands are debuting in the
\ncatalog each week throughout the holiday season, allowing fans to bid on and
\nbuy artwork from their favorite celebrities while supporting a worthy cause.
\nSome of the most recent pieces to be added to the collection include:<\/p>\n

*Oprah Winfrey’s hand on a signed copy of the first edition of O, The Oprah
\nMagazine<\/p>\n

*Catherine Zeta-Jones offers a picture of black and white hands touching<\/p>\n

*Michael Keaton creates a hand with fingers on fire<\/p>\n

*Koko, the first gorilla to master sign language and inter-species
\ncommunications, offers a photo of her waving hand.<\/p>\n

Since launching on November 9th with a star-studded event in Los Angeles,
\nholiday shoppers have been quick to purchase the unique and interesting
\npieces of art offered in the Helping Hands catalog. In just two weeks, the
\nfirst 24 hands up for auction raised thousands of dollars for participating
\ncelebrities’ favorite charities. Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys topped
\nthe list with his hand’s glimpse of an ocean floor, raising $2276 for the
\nCenter for Marine Conservation. Gillian Anderson’s mixed-media piece raised
\n$2150 for Neurofibromatosis, Inc., while George Clooney’s brought in $1725
\nfor Project ALS. Magic Johnson’s basketball raised $1625 for his own Magic
\nJohnson Foundation and illustrator Mary Engelbreit raised over $1000 for
\nFirst Book.<\/p>\n

The Helping Hands catalog is available through December 31st on Shop@AOL (AOL
\nKeyword: Helping Hands and at www.aol.com\/shopping). The catalog also offers
\nlinks to the philanthropy portal Helping.org, where fans can donate money
\nand\/or volunteer time to contributing celebrities’ designated charities. This
\nweek, look for hands from Larry King, Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean, Ryan
\nPhillippe, Big Brother’s Brittany Petros, ER’s Goran Visnjic, Anjelica Huston
\nand Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, among others. About Helping.org
\nChanging the world, one person at a time, is what drives Helping.org, the
\nmost comprehensive philanthropy portal in cyberspace. As the one-stop
\nphilanthropy portal in cyberspace, Helping.org is proud to connect online
\nusers to more than 650,000 charitable organizations. Because it is supported
\nby funding from AOL’s charitable foundation, Helping.org takes nothing out of
\ndonations that are made through it.! ! Helping.org is available to Internet
\nusers at www.helping.org and at AOL Keyword: Helping. With two comprehensive
\ndatabases — one for donations and one for volunteering — the site enables
\nindividuals to get information on, and donate to any of the registered
\ncharities. Helping.org also provides individuals with the tools to research
\nand sign up for volunteer opportunities in their own communities or around
\nthe world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jen for this. Here’s the direct link Helping Hands Oprah Winfrey, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Koko The Gorilla Join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2376,3],"tags":[9,43],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brendan-fehr","category-leading","tag-brendan-fehr","tag-mentioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28443,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/28443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}