The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) announced today a reconstituted Board of Directors including top representatives from across the industry. Film studios, television networks, talent agencies, labor unions and guilds will have members on the board of EIF, a non-profit organization representing the industry's collective philanthropy.
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry has joined forces with the Callaway Golf Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation as the 2008 ambassador for the Callaway Golf Foundation Women's Cancer Initiative. Read the full press release View the PSA
EIF announced today that the six major studios will include anti-smoking public service announcements produced by the California Health and Human Services Agency on millions of youth-rated DVDs of motion pictures that include scenes with tobacco use. Read the full press release View the PSAs
Chandra Wilson, star of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Tim Daly, star of ABC's Private Practice, have been named the 2008 ambassadors for Lee National Denim Day — one of the country's largest single-day fundraisers for breast cancer, benefiting the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
Stand Up To Cancer (www.standup2cancer.org), a new initiative to raise philanthropic dollars for accelerating ground-breaking research, will launch tomorrow through an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks, entertainment industry executives, celebrities and prominent leaders in cancer research and patient advocacy. Read the full press release
The Hollywood Radio & Television Society (HRTS) has joined Divided We Fail - led by AARP - along with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) and the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) to keep national attention on the two domestic issues that worry Americans most: health care and financial security, it was announced today by Chris Silbermann, President of HRTS. Read the full press release
